Born Rossiter Worthington Raymond, an American mining engineer, legal scholar and author, amongst other skills. Best known for the last few lines of his poem 'Death is only a horizon'. However the words were, according to Wikipedia, first recorded in a prayer written by William Penn, who died over 100 years before Raymond was born.
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Rossiter W. Raymond
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Reginald & Daphne Goy
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Richard Le Gallienne
Poet and essayist. Born in Liverpool. A member of The Rhymers' Club.Died in Menton, south of France.
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Cecile Nobrega
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Edmund Spenser
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Siegfried Sassoon
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Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, France
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Mrs Laurence Evans
Laurence Evans was a theatrical agent with many famous clients including Laurence Olivier. Evans's fourth and last wife, Mary Campion, remained his wife for 42 years, until his death in 2002.
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John Thornton
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Roger Waters
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War dead, WW1
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