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William Bell Scott

Born Edinburgh. Painter and poet, closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. His work was championed by the Rossettis, Christina and Dante Gabriel. He achieved fame when he was commissioned to do...

Person, Art, Poetry, Scotland

Lord Byron

Born Holles Street, baptised at St Marylebone church in the same year. Spent the first 10 years of his life in Aberdeen with his mother. On the death of a great-uncle in 1798 he succeeded to the ti...

Person, Poetry, Seriously Famous, Greece, Scotland

Canon Richard Watson Dixon

Born Islington. Ecclesiastical historian and poet. At Pembroke College, Oxford, he became one of the ‘Birmingham Group’ along with William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. He was considered for Poe...

Person, History, Poetry, Religion

Rohit Sapra

Person, Poetry

John Ruskin

Author, poet, artist and art critic. Born at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square. His first prose work was published in 1834 when he was only 15. He was a friend of Turner and became his executor. I...

Person, Art, Literature, Poetry