Harry Cole

Harry Cole

Born 48A Lower Road, Rotherhithe. Married and joined the Met Police in 1952. Served as a police constable at Carter Street Station for 29 years, until he retired in 1983. He was a well-known and po...

Person, Armed Forces, Literature

1 memorial
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet and critic. Born and brought up in Ottery St Mary, Devon. Pupil at Christ's Hospital, 1781-91, where he became friends with Charles Lamb. Died London. Buried in the chapel of Highgate School....

Person, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous

5 memorials
Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins

Writer of thriller novels such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone. Born 11 New Cavendish Street. A great friend of Charles Dickens, to the extent that they grew beards together. Died at home in 8...

Person, Literature

2 memorials
William Combe

William Combe

Writer. Chiefly remembered as the author of 'The Three Tours of Dr Syntax', a comic poem which satirised William Gilpin. 

Person, Literature

1 memorial
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett

Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett

Novelist. Born at 2 Onslow Gardens, Pinner, Middlesex. her early life was marred by the deaths of four of her siblings. Her first novel 'Dolores' was published in 1911. In 1919 she met the writer M...

Person, Literature

1 memorial
Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly

Literary critic and writer.  Born Coventry and was brought up in South Africa and Ireland as well as England.  Educated, with George Orwell and Cecil Beaton, at a school in Eastbourne.  Edited Hori...

Person, Literature, Ireland, South Africa

1 memorial
Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not being his mother-tongue. Born into a noble Polish family in what is now Ukraine. Working on ships he came to Britain in 1...

Person, Literature, Poland, Ukraine

2 memorials
Dr. Keningale Robert Cook, LL.D

Dr. Keningale Robert Cook, LL.D

Keningale Robert Cook was born on 26 September 1845 in Smallbridge, Rochdale, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), a son of Robert Keningale Cook (1812-1891) and Ellen Cook née Nield (1823-1909). H...

Person, Benefactor, Literature, Poetry

1 memorial
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