Russell Square Gardens
Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembrance of T. S. Eliot. Planted here by His Excellency Dr. L. M. Singhvi, High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom in the presence of The Worshipful Mayor of Camden, Cllr. S. N. Deshmukh and Mrs Valerie Eliot, 10th May 1996.
WC1, Russell Square
The tree is just inside the entrance to the garden at the south-east corner.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Poet and publisher. Born Saint Louis, Missouri as Thomas Stearns Eliot. His w...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
TS Eliot tree
Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. Fro...
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he ...
We were alerted to the existence of this tree, and its vandalisation, in June 2016, by an article in Marchmont News, from where comes the...
The Cultural Section of the Italian Embassy is at 39 Belgrave Square. That may explain the location of this statue. Discovering London ha...
2013: We are grateful to Sue Sinton Smith for this update: This tree is a memorial to two people. Jake Slee was the original drummer w...
This Chestnut tree was planted by the London County Council to commemorate the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2nd June 1...
When we first saw the plaque it was in the pavement close to the tree but is now affixed to a nearby pillar.
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