Second wife and widow of the poet T.S. Eliot. Born Esmé Valerie Fletcher. From the age of 14 she determined to meet Eliot and when she left school she told her headmistress tht she wanted to become Eliot's secretary, which she did. Married him in 1957. Every Sunday night he left a love letter by her bed. She was Eliot's most important editor and literary executor, and donated the annual £15,000 prize money for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Died at her London home. .
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Valerie Eliot
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TS Eliot tree
Russell Square Gardens Taxus baccata 'Fastigiata' or Irish Yew in remembranc...
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Pte. P. S. Mepsted
Died in WW1 serving in the 22nd Battalion, The London Regiment.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Esther Malka Cohen
Killed as a result of a 13 October 1940 air raid on Coronation Avenue. Esher Malka Cohen was born in 1885 in Poland. The census return form completed by her husband on 19 June 1921 shows her as ...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Unknown warrior
The idea of a ceremonial burial for an unknown soldier came from a WW1Â Army padre, Rev. David Railton. Â The French and the British acted on the idea in 1920 and over the years many other countries ...
1 memorial
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