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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H. A. Napper
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
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Transport Trust
The Transport Trust is a charitable institution that aims to increase and channel support for transport preservation, acting as the hub of the transport preservation movement. More about their pla...
6 memorials
Stoke Newington Manor House
The photograph appears under Stoke Newington Manor House on the Hackney Plaques and Local History website. There is no further explanation. Maybe it shows excavations at the site.
1 memorial
Amy Garvey
Campaigner for gender and social justice. Born in Jamaica. 1914 met Garvey, joined the Universal Negro Improvement Association and became a Pan-Africanist campaigner. Moved to the US in 1918 wher...
Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Social Welfare, Jamaica, USA
1 memorial
Desmond Rochfort
Mural artist active in late 1970s - 1983. Worked with Binnington on two murals at Royal Oak.
1 memorial
The International Bonhoeffer Society
A non-profit, ecumenical, and interfaith scholarly organisation which preserves the memory and enhances the knowledge of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his legacy.
1 memorial
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