Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. From the age of 14 she determined to meet Eliot and when she left school she told her headmistress tht she wanted to become Eliot's secretary, which she did. Married him in 1957. Every Sunday night he left a love letter by her bed. She was Eliot's most important editor and literary executor, and donated the annual £15,000 prize money for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Died at her London home. Telegraph obit.
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Valerie Eliot
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TS Eliot tree
Russell Square Gardens Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembranc...
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Leslie George Rowley
Former cadet of the Air Training Corps - 296th (Stoke Newington) Squadron. Died in WW2. Sergeant Leslie George Rowley, aged 19, (Rear Gunner) killed in operation over marshalling yard at Tergnier,...
War dead, WW2
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Brian Poole
Singer. Born in Dagenham. He became lead singer with the Tremeloes (originally Tremoloes), and had several hit singles in the 1960s including 'Twist and Shout' and 'Do You Love Me'. The group split...
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Philip Seary
Philip H. Seary was born on 12 August 1959, the elder son of Stanley H. Seary and Maureen A. Seary née Yeo. His brother, Andrew K. Seary was born in 1962 and both births were registered in the Swin...
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Robert Harold Trenter
From the parish of St Thomas in Bethnal Green and killed in WW1, a lance corporal aged 17.
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