Erection date: 1918
Thomas Gray, poet, was born in a house on this site.
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day". {first line of 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’}
1716 - 1771
{Below the relief:}
F. W. Pomeroy, Sc. 1917
EC3, Cornhill, 39
The two plaques closest to the camera both read "39, The Union Discount Company of London plc". Grey's plaque is at the same level, further to the left.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Thomas Gray
Poet.  Born Cornhill.  Wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and the ...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Thomas Gray
Born London. His London work includes the 1906 Lady Justice on the dome of th...
In a house on this site Thomas Hood was born 23rd May 1799. The Corporation of the City of London
Rossetti kept a menagerie in his back garden, much to the annoyance of his neighbours. It included a bull, a white peacock, a kangaroo, a...
Unveiled by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley. Behind this plaque is an interesting detective story, related in Dr Ruth Richardson's book: 'Dicke...
The memorial was unveiled to great acclaim by Brian May and Mercury's mother Jer Bulsara. By about two years later it had disappeared. On...
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