Person    | Male  Born 1659  Died 24/4/1731

Daniel Defoe

Novelist. Born in the parish of Cripplegate, as Daniel Foe, adding the "de" latter, for effect. Published "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719, considered by some to be the first novel in English.

His grave with monument is in Bunhill Fields. However visiting Hackney Museum Londonist "was surprised to find the original tombstone of Daniel Defoe. I'd assumed his memorial in Bunhill Fields was an original, but it was only erected in 1870, 140 years after his death."

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Daniel Defoe

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Bunhill burial ground - 5

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Daniel Defoe

LCC Daniel Defoe (1661 - 1731) lived in a house on this site.

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