Person    | Male  Born 18/1/1882  Died 31/1/1956

A. A. Milne

Author. Born Alan Alexander Milne at Henley House, Mortimer Road, Kilburn. Best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin, named after his son. 

1925 Milne bought Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest. Though still living in London, the family would spend weekends, Easter, and summer holidays there. That's where the Pooh stories were set. Milne retired there in 1955 and died there.

Londonist have posted AA Milne's London - one in an irregular series of various people's London - always interesting.

The real Christopher Robin (1920-96) recorded some of his father's songs, set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson, and was bullied at school for this. He was very close to his father and on his death he did not see his mother for the rest of her life, 15 years. Sad though this is it compares favourably with the 'afterlife' of other juvenile literary muses: see Sir J. M. Barrie for the Llewelyn Davies boys and Kenneth Grahame for his son Alastair.

Milne left the rights to the Pooh books to four beneficiaries: his family, the Royal Literary Fund, Westminster School and the Garrick Club. The copyright on the various publications begins running out in 2027.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
A. A. Milne

Commemorated ati

A. A. Milne - NW6

His grand-daughter Clare was present at the unveiling, which was done by two ...

Read More

A. A. Milne - SW3

A .A. Milne, 1882 - 1956, author, lived here. Greater London Council

Read More

Other Subjects

Josephine Trotman

Josephine Trotman

One of the 11 "children of England" present on 7th July 1933 when The Princess Royal laid a foundation stone for a nurses home for the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

Person, Children

1 memorial
Geoffrey Looker

Geoffrey Looker

Killed, aged 5, in the Downhills shelter WW2 tragedy, 19 September 1940.

Person, Children

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Lady Eleanor Keane

Lady Eleanor Keane

Pioneer in youth work. Born Eleanor Lucy Hicks-Beach, eldest daughter of 1st Earl St Aldwyn. On Valentine's day 1907, just 2 months before laying the foundation stone, she married the Irishman Sir ...

Person, Children, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Harvey Hinds

Harvey Hinds

Harvey William Hinds, politician, clergyman and youth campaigner. Labour Southwark Councillor. Champion of Burgess Park and education, leisure and recreation. Elected to the Greater London Council ...

Person, Children, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Religion

1 memorial
Peter Pan

Peter Pan

The character first appeared in print in Barrie's 1902 novel 'The Little White Bird'. Barrie had huge success with the 'Peter Pan' play, first presented on stage in 1904 at the Duke of York's Theat...

Fiction, Children, Fictional, Seriously Famous, Theatre

4 memorials