Person    | Male  Born 1882  Died 1937

John Drinkwater

Categories: Poetry, Theatre

Poet and playwright. Born Leytonstone.

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John Drinkwater

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Captain J. O. Cooper

The poem is part of ‘Riddles’, R.F.C. by John Drinkwater, 1918.

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Hugo Manning

Hugo Manning

Poet.  Born as Lazarus Perkoff at "123 Oxford Street in Mile End Road"  according to UCL Archives.  His parents were Polish Jews so we believe the Mile End bit.  Spent 1938 - 43 in Argentina.  On h...

Person, Poetry, Africa, Argentina, South America

1 memorial
Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew

Poet. Charlotte Mary Mew was born Bloomsbury in the building with the plaque. Those who appreciated her poetry included Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon and Virginia Woolf. In February 1890 her fam...

Person, Poetry

1 memorial
Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé

French symbolist poet. Born Paris, died Valvins, France.

Person, Poetry, France

1 memorial
Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson

Poet and cricket lover, author of 'The Hound of Heaven'. Born Preston, Lancashire into the middle classes. Went through a period as a down-and-out and opium addict before being discovered as a poet...

Person, Jack the Ripper suspects, Poetry

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

Poet, writer and school inspector.  Born at Laleham-on-Thames, Middlesex, son of Thomas Arnold. He won the Newdigate prize in 1843 with a poem on Cromwell. Appointed a lay inspector of schools in 1...

Person, Education, Poetry, France, Germany, Netherlands

2 memorials