Poet and administrator. Whilst living in the Aldgate, as the ‘Comptroller of the Customs and Subside of Wools, Skins and Tanned Hides’ that Chaucer published ‘A Monks Tale’ and worked on ‘Canterbury Tales’. Dates approximate. Via Facebook Comments has provided: "Chaucer was also a civil servant, diplomat and courtier, closely connected to Edward III and his queen, Philippa of Hainault. His wife's sister married John of Gaunt. His son, Thomas Chaucer, was an envoy to France, MP for Oxfordshire and Speaker of the House of Commons five times in the early 1400s."
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Caxton Hall - head 6 - Chaucer
This could equally well be Caxton (they are both always shown with this headg...
Chaucer and Aldgate
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Henry Buxton Forman
Born Camden Place, Southampton Street, Camberwell. Bibliographer and forger. An authority on the lives and works of Shelley and Keats. He also had a lifelong career in the Post Office and was award...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Evelyn Waugh
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2 memorials
Sir Osbert Sitwell
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3 memorials
Dorothy L Sayers
Writer of detective stories, many featuring Lord Peter Wiimsey. See also her address in Mecklenburgh Square. Born Oxford. Died Witham, Essex.
1 memorial
Georgette Heyer
Novelist. Born at 103 Woodside, Wimbledon. From 1932, she produced one romance novel and one thriller each year. In all she wrote nearly sixty volumes. Died at Guy's Hospital.
1 memorial
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