Person    | Male  Born 15/3/1959 

Ben Okri

Categories: Literature, Poetry

Countries: Nigeria

Poet and novelist. Born Nigeria but spent his early childhood in London. Returned to England to study in the late 1970s. His 1991 novel 'The Famished Road' won the Booker Prize.

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Ben Okri

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Memorial Gates

Designed by Liam O'Connor as a reduced-scale version of Lutyens' monument at ...

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Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell

Journalist. Born Elizabeth Dilys Powell at Lloyd's Bank, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Although she claimed to have little knowledge of cinema, she was the well-respected film critic for the Sunday Times...

Person, Cinema, Journalism / Publishing, Literature

1 memorial
John Forster

John Forster

Writer and literary adviser. Born Newcastle upon Tyne. Came to London in 1828 to attend University College and to enter Inner Temple.  A good friend of Charles Dickens he published his biography in...

Person, Literature

2 memorials
Dick Whittington's cat

Dick Whittington's cat

See Dick Whittington. The picture is the charming logo adopted by the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill.

Animal, Literature, Theatre

1 memorial
Second Lieutenant Philip Edward Thomas

Second Lieutenant Philip Edward Thomas

Novelist and poet. Born Philip Edward Thomas in Lambeth. He worked as a journalist and book-reviewer, and wrote a novel 'The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans'. He is referred to as a war poet, although littl...

Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Poetry, France

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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D. W. West

D. W. West

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Rifleman David William West was born in New Cross and his birth was registered in Greenwich in the 4th quarter of 1894. He was the on...

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
E. Hourne
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
H. M. Tyler

H. M. Tyler

Name on one of the main panels of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
R. B. Brown

R. B. Brown

Killed in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
D. F. Emery

D. F. Emery

Surbiton man killed serving in WW2.

Person

War dead, WW2
1 memorial