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Person    | Male  Born 27/4/1840  Died 31/12/1918

Rossiter W. Raymond

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Rossiter W. Raymond

Born Rossiter Worthington Raymond, an American mining engineer, legal scholar and author, amongst other skills. Best known for the last few lines of his poem 'Death is only a horizon'. However the words were, according to , first recorded in a prayer written by William Penn, who died over 100 years before Raymond was born.

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Reginald & Daphne Goy

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William Bell Scott

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Thomas Middleton

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Ugo Foscolo

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