Poet, sculptor and performance artist. Born London.
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Brian Catling
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Tower of London execution site
Catling wrote the poem as well as creating the sculpture. Doesn't that cushio...
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Shropshire Lad
A cycle of sixty-three poems by A. E. Housman. Published in 1896, most were written when Housman was unwell and depressed. The poems, nostalgic and evocative of the English "blue remembered hills",...
2 memorials
John Maxwell Edmonds
Poet and classical scholar. Born Gloucestershire. Died Cambridge. In 1918-9 he published a few epitaphs for use on graves and memorials, including: When you go home, tell them of us and say, Fo...
9 memorials
John Ruskin
Author, poet, artist and art critic. Born at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square. His first prose work was published in 1834 when he was only 15. He was a friend of Turner and became his executor. I...
3 memorials
Edgar A Bowring
There is much of interest in this man's life. Born the son of a career diplomat who served for a time as Governor of Hong Kong, his mother was poisoned with arsenic whilst in Hong Kong and died in ...
1 memorial
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset
Poet and politician. Probably born in Essex. Lived in Bow Street. Died at Bath.
1 memorial
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Henry Fawcett
Economist, politician and educational reformer. Born Salisbury. Blinded in a shooting accident as a young man. The first blind MP. As Postmaster General (1880-4) he developed the parcel post and in...
Person, Economist, Education, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare
5 memorials
Samuel Knight
Architect. Born Exeter. Knight was a captain in the Bloomsbury Rifles, which probably has something to do with the commission he was given to design their Drill Hall in 1882-3. Later he became an H...
1 memorial
Arthur Waley
N6, Southwood Lane, 50
English Heritage Arthur Waley, 1889 - 1966, poet, translator and orientalist, lived and died here.
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