Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. This was the Swan and Hoop pub, where his father worked as a stableman and later managed the inn. Baptised at St Botolphs. 1815-16 trained at Guy’s Hospital and qualified as a surgeon-apothecary, but his interests lay in literature and poetry. Died of consumption in Rome where he is buried in the Protestant Cemetery.
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John Keats
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John Keats and Charles Lamb - bench
Created by sculptor Tim Shutter. The Keats quotation is from his poem 'Ode o...
John Keats birthplace
In a house on this site, the "Swan & Hoop", John Keats, poet, was born, 1...
John Keats - Enfield
The house which stood on this site was built in the late 17th century. Later ...
John Keats - NW3
John Keats, poet, lived in this house. B: 1795. D: 1821. {Almost hidden in t...
Keats and Stephens
On this site, poet & apothecary John Keats, & his friend, the poet, a...
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Hampstead War Memorial
From the inscriptions it seems that the obelisk was created as a WW1 memorial...
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Louis MacNeice
Poet. Born Belfast, Northern Ireland at 2 Brookhill Avenue. Joined the BBC in 1941 as scriptwriter and producer and it was with the BBC, checking out the sound effects down a mineshaft, that he c...
1 memorial
John Maxwell Edmonds
Poet and classical scholar. Â Born Gloucestershire. Â Died Cambridge. Â In 1918-9 he published a few epitaphs for use on graves and memorials, including: When you go home, tell them of us and say, Fo...
9 memorials
1 memorial
Helena Pare Lydia Mott
Born as Helena Pare Lydia Turner. In or shortly after 1894 married Joseph Mott, a sculptor, ceramicist and collector of ceramics who was Art Director with the Doulton factory. He is probably the ar...
1 memorial
Geoffrey Dearmer
Poet, writer and radio broadcaster.  Born 59 South Lambeth Road, son of Percy and Mabel. Served in WW1. Wrote 'The Turkish Trench Dog'.  Died at home in Kent where he had moved on the death of his ...
1 memorial
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