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Person    | Male  Born 1835  Died 2/6/1898

Eric Mackay

Categories: Poetry

Eric Mackay

The is worth a read - it's short and not kind; describing him as a "minor' poet, and using terms such as "sponging", "execrable", "laziness and lack of scruples" and repeating the rumour of an incestuous relationship with his half-sister.

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ATC 296 (Stoke Newington) WW2

At the War Memorials Register we learn that, since we visited, laminated sign...

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