Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. From the age of 14 she determined to meet Eliot and when she left school she told her headmistress tht she wanted to become Eliot's secretary, which she did. Married him in 1957. Every Sunday night he left a love letter by her bed. She was Eliot's most important editor and literary executor, and donated the annual £15,000 prize money for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Died at her London home. Telegraph obit.
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Valerie Eliot
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TS Eliot tree
Russell Square Gardens Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembranc...
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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Frankie Vaughan
Singer. Born Frank Fruim Abelson at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. Known as 'Mr Moonlight' because of his signature tune 'Give Me The Moonlight'. He had some success with cover versions of American ...
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Samuel Gurney Snr
Banker and philanthropist. Born near Norwich. Father of Samuel and of Catherine who married Edward, the son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton. Died Paris, returning, ill, from a stay in Nice.
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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Harold Wilson
London Historians: "Harold Wilson was the second son of the reverend. Serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Middlesex Regiment, he lost his life at the battle of Spion Kop ..." Spion Kop is near L...
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Alfred Barnes
Labour and Co-operative politician. President of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919. Minister of Transport, 1945-51. Born North Woolwich. Lost a leg in a fairground accident...
3 memorials
Edward Gummer
Had served in the Yorks & Lancaster Regiment. At the time of his death was an in-pensioner at Chelsea Hospital. Killed in a bomb attack on the north east wing of the Hospital.
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
W. Chas. Potter
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
1 memorial
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