Group    From 1890  To 1895

Rhymers' Club

Categories: Poetry

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The Rhymers' Club met at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese where they read their poems aloud, criticised each other's work and published together. Members included: Yeats, Arthur Symons, Richard Le Gallienne, Ernest Dowson.

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Rhymers' Club

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Wine Office Court

The Rhymers' Club is not specifically mentioned on the plaque but Ye Olde Che...

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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
Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Poet and writer. Born Anna Letitia Aikin at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. She had a successful career at a time when women rarely were professional writers. Her writing includes essays, poems ...

Person, Literature, Poetry

1 memorial
Walter de la Mare

Walter de la Mare

Poet and writer. Born 83 Maryon Road, Charlton. Best known poem "The Listeners" ("Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door ....).  Lived at: Bovill Road, Forest Hil...

Person, Poetry

5 memorials
Michelangelo

Michelangelo

Sculptor, painter, architect and poet.

Person, Architecture, Art, Engineering, Poetry, Sculpture, Seriously Famous, Italy

4 memorials
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham

Statesman and poet. Born at the family home Wallingford House (where the Old Admirality Building now is). A baby when his father, the 1st Duke, was assassinated, he was brought up alongside Charles...

Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration

2 memorials

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Henry Hallam

Henry Hallam

Historian best known for his books on European history and English constitutional history.

Person, History

1 memorial
Hirobumi Ito

Hirobumi Ito

Became a student at UCL in 1863. The picture source gives details of his assasination by a Korean nationalist. Picture source gives details of this.

Person, Education, Japan

1 memorial
Charles Mann

Charles Mann

Co-church warden of St Botolph Without Aldersgate in 1868.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
F. W. Anderton

F. W. Anderton

Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
Thos. G. Baron

Thos. G. Baron

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial