London and Harrow are full of memories.
You can see Shakespeare's bust outside the Guildhall, which has a free art Gallery, near Bank station.
My travel blog reached 3666 readers yesterday. Mrs Beeton was in Hatch End and a plque to her is outside Lattakia restaurant. 513 Uxbridge Road.
W.S. Gilbert (b. 1836, lived and died at Grim’s Dyke, Harrow 1890-1911), now a hotel, with good food.
William Heath Robinson (1872, lived in Pinner 1908-1918), and a museum featuring his work is in Pinner Park opposite Pinner station.
Ballantyne, Scottish author of The Coral Island and many children's books lived in Pinner, but retired to Rome for his health and died and was buried there.
Leefe Robinson (1895, d. Stanmore 1918), is comemorated in the Leefe Robinson pub, opposite the cemetery extension where he is buried.
The Mayor of Harrow lays a wreath on his grave, which is photographed in local newspapers, on remembrance day, November 11th.
Terence “Jet” Harris (b. Kingsbury 1939),
Jane Asher (b. Willesden 1946), and
Jane March (b. Edgware 1973).
Up near Harrow school are heritage plaques to writers.
Anne Frank's father lived in Edgware, after WW2, with his second wife and stepdaughter who wrote a book.
Writers, poets, and philosophers
- George Barlow (1847–1913–4), English poet[485]
- Edward William Barnard (1791–1828), English poet[486]
- Bernard Bosanquet (1848–1923), philosopher
- Beriah Botfield (1807–1863), bibliographer and Conservative MP for Ludlow (1840–1847; 1857–1863)[152]
- Harry Bucknall (1965–), British travel writer
- Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864–1935), theologian and scholar[487]
- Arthur Hugh Montagu Butler (1873–1943), House of Lords Librarian (1914–1922)[175]
- George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824), poet, commonly known as Lord Byron[488]
- Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884), poet
- Francis Chenevix Trench (1805–1886), author and divine
- Wilfred Rowland Childe (1890–1952), poet
- Charles Travis Clay (1885–1978), House of Lords Librarian (1922–1956)[323]
- Sir Jock Colville (1915–1987), Diarist at 10 Downing Street
- William John Courthope (1842–1917), English writer and historian of poetry[489]
- Richard Curtis (1956–), scriptwriter & film director
- Alain de Botton (1969–), author
- John Dennis (1658–1734), English dramatist[490]
- George Brisbane Scott Douglas (1856–1935), Scottish poet and writer[491]
- Henry Drury (1778–1841), English classical scholar and friend of Lord Byron[492]
- Julian Fane (1927–2009), author[493]
- Michael Farr (1953–), British expert on The Adventures of Tintin and its creator Hergé
- Alastair Fothergill (1960–), British producer
- Walter Frith (1856–1941), novelist[494]
- John Galsworthy (1867–1933), dramatist and Nobel Prize–winning novelist
- William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne (1868–1942), president of the Irish Literary Society who was disinherited due to his Irish nationalist leanings
- Thomas Gisborne (1758–1846), English poet of the Clapham Sect[495]
- John Strickland Goodall (1908–1996), British author and watercolour painter known for his Boston Globe–Horn Book Award-winning The Adventures of Paddy Pork
- Augustus Hare (1834–1903), author[496]
- Tony Harman (1912–1999), English farmer and author (Seventy Summers)[497]
- L. P. Hartley (1895–1972), author
- William Harness (1790–1869), English cleric and man of letters[498]
- Carey Harrison (1944–), English novelist and dramatist
- Walter Headlam (1866–1908), poet and classical scholar[499]
- Edward Heron-Allen (1861–1943), English polymath and translator of the works of Omar Khayyam[178]
- Theodore Hook (1788–1841), author
- Adam Jacot de Boinod (1960–), British author known for his works about unusual words and his work in the first series of QI[500]
- Harold H. Joachim (1868–1938), British philosopher[501]
- Ion Keith-Falconer (1856–1887), Scottish Arabic language scholar[502]
- Hugh Kingsmill (1899–1949), British writer of science/crime fiction[503]
- Rowley Lascelles (1771–1841), archivist[504]
- Walter Leaf (1852–1927), classical scholar[505]
- Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh (1791–1850), British landowner and poet[506]
- Thomas Leveritt (1976–), English author and artist
- Sir Arnold Lunn (1888–1974), skiing pioneer & writer
- Richard Warburton Lytton (1745–1810), English bibliophile and landowner
- Benjamin Heath Malkin (1769–1842), British writer known for his connection to William Blake[507]
- Francis Albert Marshall (1840–1889), British playwright[508]
- Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872–1940), bibliographer[509]
- Herman Charles Merivale (1839–1906), dramatist and poet
- E. H. W. Meyerstein (1889–1952), poet and writer
- George Mills (1896–1972), British children's author[510]
- Charles Henry Monro (1835–1908), English author[511]
- Sir John Mortimer (1923–2009), dramatist and author
- Thomas Mortimer (1730–1810), English writer on economics
- J. B. Morton (1893–1979), English writer under the Beachcomber pen name
- Nathaniel Newnham-Davis (1854–1917), British author on food and wine[512]
- Roden Noel (1834–1894), English poet
- Marco Pallis (1895–1989), Greek-British author on Tibetan Buddhism
- William Henley Pearson-Jervis (1813–1883), English cleric and ecclesiastical historian of France[513]
- Major-General Thomas Pilcher (1858–1928), British Army officer removed from command in disgrace during the Battle of the Somme[514]
- Henry Francis Pelham (1846–1907), scholar[515]
- John Thomas Perceval (1803–1876), writer and campaigner
- Marmaduke Pickthall (1875–1936), Islamic and Middle-Eastern scholar
- Bryan Procter alias "Barry Cornwall" (1787–1874), English poet and Commissioner in Lunacy[516]
- Robert Hebert Quick (1831–1891), English educator and leader in Whig history[517]
- Hastings Rashdall (1858–1924), English philosopher and pioneer of ideal utilitarianism[49]
- Sir Terence Rattigan (1911–1977), dramatist
- Ian Scott-Kilvert (1917–1989), British editor and translator
- Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (1955–), British writer
- William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan MP (1751–1816), Irish playwright (The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Duenna, and A Trip to Scarborough) and politician[518]
- Walter Sichel (1855–1933), English biographer and lawyer[519]
- William Sotheby (1757–1833), English poet and translator[520]
- William Robert Spencer (1769–1834), English poet from the Spencer family[521]
- Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford (1825–1869), British Nobleman & man of letters
- John Addington Symonds (1840–1893), poet and literary critic[522]
- Yorick Smythies (1917–1980), philosopher[523]
- R. C. Trevelyan (1872–1951), poet[524]
- Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English Victorian era novelist
- Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810–1892), English writer who lived in Italy[525] (Chronicles of Barsetshire)[526]
- Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955), English writer[527]
- Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet (1788–1846), Anglo-Irish poet and landowner[528]
- Peter Williams (1914–1995), author, editor and critic of ballet
- Robert Aris Willmott (1809–1863), English cleric and author[285]
- Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer, 1885–1960), novelist
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