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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Mary Tourtel

Mary Tourtel

Author and artist. Born Mary Caldwell. She studied art and became a children's book illustrator. Her husband Herbert Tourtel, was news editor of the Daily Express. In 1920 the newspaper was looking...

Person, Art, Children, Literature

1 memorial
Dr. Frederick James Furnivall

Dr. Frederick James Furnivall

Born Egham, Surrey. Scholar and editor. He became honorary secretary of the philological society in 1853, where he laid the foundations for the Oxford English Dictionary. He founded a number of soc...

Person, Literature

1 memorial
Dick Whittington

Dick Whittington

Born in Pauntley, Gloucestershire, second son of a wealthy man. Thrice Lord Mayor of London: 1397, 1406 and 1420 (actually four times but two were consecutive). Three times Master of the Mercers' C...

Person, Literature, Lord Mayor, Politics & Administration, Theatre

8 memorials
Francis Bret Harte

Francis Bret Harte

American writer, best know for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born New York. Came to London in 1885 via Germany and Glasgow. Buried at Frimley, Surrey. Some sources, contradicti...

Person, Literature, Poetry, USA

1 memorial
Rosamond Lehmann

Rosamond Lehmann

Novelist. Born Rosamond Nina Lehmann in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. An associate of the Bloomsbury Group, she achieved great success with her first novel 'Dusty Answer' in 1927. Her subsequent wor...

Person, Literature

1 memorial

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W. Reading

W. Reading

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

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
W. E. Evans

W. E. Evans

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

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
A. Britten

A. Britten

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

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
T. Jones
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
J. Barrell
War dead, WW1
1 memorial