LONDON’S GREATEST MEN
Below is a short selection of London men who have added to their city’s prestige. Going back to the fourteenth century, we find Chaucer, who was born in Thames street, and, later, Spenser, a native of East Smithfield. Then there was John Milton, morn in the parish of Bread street, off Cheapside; Thomas a Becket, whose effigy graced the first seal of the City of London; and Miles Coverdale, of Threadneedle street, who made the first translation of the Bible. From Cheapside we have the poet, Robert Herrick; while Mirhael Faraday, scientist and electrician of world renown, came from Newington. Old Broad street boasts of Cardinal Newman, author of “Lead, Kindly Light.’ John Keats, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Gray were all natives of London.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 2
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127LONDON’S GREATEST MEN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 2
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