Subject: Thomas Gray
Born 26/12/1716, 309 years ago
Poet.  Born Cornhill.  Wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and the lesser-known ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ about Horace Walpole's cat. Died Cam...
Subject: Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby
Died 26/12/1847, 178 years ago
Politician. Born in the Hanover Square area. Good friend of Pitt the Younger, being his second in Pitt's duel in 1798. 1809 honoured with the title Earl of Harrowby. Lived at (what is now) 44 Grosv...
Subject: John Heath-Stubbs
Died 26/12/2006, 19 years ago
Poet. Â Born Streatham Manor, Leigham Avenue (though his parents lived in Hampstead) into a wealthy family. Â Partially and progressively blind from age 18. Â Gay. Â Influenced by by classical myths. Â ...
Subject: Claire Hickman
Died 26/12/2004, 21 years ago
From The Times website we learn that Claire Vaughan was born on 10 January 1973. She was the daughter of John Vaughan (1947-1986) and Valerie Carroll Vaughan née Moody (1947-2004). In August 1994...
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