Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbury Tales’. Dates approximate. Via Facebook Comments Pernille Ahlstrom has provided: "Chaucer was also a civil servant, diplomat and courtier, closely connected to Edward III and his queen, Philippa of Hainault. His wife's sister married John of Gaunt. His son, Thomas Chaucer, was an envoy to France, MP for Oxfordshire and Speaker of the House of Commons five times in the early 1400s."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Caxton Hall - head 6 - Chaucer
This could equally well be Caxton (they are both always shown with this headg...
Chaucer and Aldgate
{On a worn notice stuck to the pavement immediately below the wooden structur...
Other Subjects
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, D.B.E., F.R.S.L.
Author. She has won the Booker Prize twice with 'Wolf Hall' (a fictional account of the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell) and 'Bring up the Bodies'. Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in...
1 memorial
Claire Rayner
Nurse, journalist, broadcaster, novelist and 'agony aunt'. Born Claire Berenice Chetwynd in London. Her early life was marred by the cruelty of her parents who put her in a psychiatric hospital wh...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Medicine, TV & Radio, Canada
1 memorial
Caroline DeCamp Benn
Educationalist and writer. Born Cincinnati, Ohio. She came to Britain in 1948 to study at Oxford. There she met Tony Benn, who became her husband. An advocate of comprehensive education, she co-fou...
Person, Education, Literature, Politics & Administration, USA
1 memorial
Doves Press
See Doves Bindery. Our picture shows the only remaining piece of the Doves type, or did until 2015, when some more was retrieved - see Doves Bindery.
2 memorials
Joseph Smith
Translated Pepys's diary (written in one of the versions of shorthand used at the time) in 1819 - 22.
1 memorial
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Frieze of Parnassus - Chaucer
SW7, Kensington Road
The monument, officially titled the Prince Consort National Memorial, celebrates Victorian achievement and Prince Albert's passions and i...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Raymond Montague Burton - Greenwich
SE10, Nelson Road / Greenwich High Road
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing the photographs of the plaques.
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Westminster Abbey
Officially, The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster. According to tradition, there has been a religious establishment on the site since the seventh century. Construction of the present bui...
3 memorials
1 memorial
Sanctuary - king on right - Henry III
SW1, Broad Sanctuary, The Sanctuary, 1-8 Broad Sanctuary
Have we correctly identified this king?
1 subject commemorated
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