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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War dead, WW1
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Councillor Enos Smith
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. In a 1914 document published by the West Ham Public Libraries Committee we found reference to Smith being Chair and losing h...
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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Scholar and Humanist. Born at Langham Chambers, near Oxford Circus. Although qualified as a doctor, he decided to follow an academic career. He lectured at Cambridge and in 1896 published 'The Gree...
1 memorial
William Alfred Gunner
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Thomas Dyer
Thomas James Dyer was the son of Thomas James Dyer (1898-1983) and Miriam Rebecca Dyer née Loomes (1898-1984). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1920 in the Islington registration dist...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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