Poet. Born Cornhill. Wrote ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ and the lesser-known ‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes’ about Horace Walpole's cat. Died Cambridge.
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Thomas Gray
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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray, poet, was born in a house on this site. "The curfew tolls the kn...
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Joanna Baillie
Poet and dramatist, born Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Moved into Bolton House with her mother and sister in 1791 and lived there until her death. Buried at nearby St John's church, Church Row.
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David Jones
Painter and poet. Born Walter David Michael Jones.As a painter he worked chiefly in watercolour, painting portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engra...
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Ted Hughes
Born 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire. Appointed Poet Laureate in 1984.
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Sir William Empson
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Francis Thompson
Poet and cricket lover, author of 'The Hound of Heaven'. Born Preston, Lancashire into the middle classes. Went through a period as a down-and-out and opium addict before being discovered as a poet...
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