John Masefield, the Glossary

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1. 92 relations: Abingdon-on-Thames, Alexandra of Denmark, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alison Lurie, Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin, Anne Pedersdotter (play), Art song, Battle of the Somme, Beekeeping, Boars Hill, Bryanston Square, Campden Wonder, Cecil Day-Lewis, Charles Dickens, Charles Ricketts, Cholsey, Coel Hen, Constance Babington Smith, County Antrim, Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom), Duncan Campbell Scott, Edward Elgar, Edward VIII, Elizabeth II, English literature, Folkways Records, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Frederick Keel, Gallipoli campaign, Geoffrey Chaucer, George du Maurier, George V, George VI, Good Friday: A Play in Verse, Gustav Holst, Hamburg, Hans Wiers-Jenssen, Harry Ransom Center, Harvard University, Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, Heinemann (publisher), Herefordshire, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iron-hulled sailing ship, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland (composer), John Keats, John Masefield High School, ... Expand index (42 more) »

2. British Poets Laureate
3. People educated aboard HMS Conway
4. People from Ledbury
5. Presidents of the Society of Authors
6. Writers from Herefordshire

Abingdon-on-Thames

Abingdon-on-Thames, commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.

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Alexandra of Denmark

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of Edward VII.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas nocat, was a French novelist and playwright.

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Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S.

The Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. is a German foundation established in 1931 by the Hamburg merchant Alfred Toepfer.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet. John Masefield and Alfred, Lord Tennyson are British Poets Laureate, Burials at Westminster Abbey and Presidents of the Society of Authors.

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Alison Lurie

Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic.

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Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin

Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (6 February 1865 – 20 September 1939) was an astronomer of French and Huguenot descent who was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland.

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Anne Pedersdotter (play)

Anne Pedersdotter (English version, The Witch, trans. John Masefield) is a play written in 1908 by Norwegian playwright Hans Wiers-Jenssen.

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Art song

An art song is a Western vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.

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Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme; Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire.

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Beekeeping

Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives.

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Boars Hill

Boars Hill is a hamlet southwest of Oxford, straddling the boundary between the civil parishes of Sunningwell and Wootton.

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Bryanston Square

Bryanston Square is an garden square in Marylebone, London.

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Campden Wonder

The Campden Wonder is the name given to events surrounding the return of a man thought to have been murdered in the town of Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England, in the 17th century.

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Cecil Day-Lewis

Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. John Masefield and Cecil Day-Lewis are 20th-century English poets and British Poets Laureate.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. John Masefield and Charles Dickens are Burials at Westminster Abbey and English male novelists.

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Charles Ricketts

Charles de Sousy Ricketts (2 October 1866 – 7 October 1931) was a British artist, illustrator, author and printer, known for his work as a book designer and typographer and for his costume and scenery designs for plays and operas.

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Cholsey

Cholsey is a village and civil parish south of Wallingford in South Oxfordshire.

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Coel Hen

Coel (Old Welsh: Coil), also called Coel Hen (Coel the Old) and King Cole, is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages.

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Constance Babington Smith

Constance Babington Smith MBE, FRSL (15 October 1912 – 31 July 2000) was a British journalist and writer, but is probably best known for her wartime work in imagery intelligence.

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County Antrim

County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic province of Ulster.

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Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom)

The Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) was a department of the British War Office.

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Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 – December 19, 1947) was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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English literature

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.

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Folkways Records

Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Frederick Keel

James Frederick Keel (8 May 18719 August 1954) was an English composer of art songs, baritone singer and academic.

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Gallipoli campaign

The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli (Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. John Masefield and Geoffrey Chaucer are Burials at Westminster Abbey.

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George du Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for work in Punch and a Gothic novel Trilby, featuring the character Svengali.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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Good Friday: A Play in Verse

Good Friday: A Play in Verse is a 1914 work by English poet John Masefield, first published in The Fortnightly Review in December 1915.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hans Wiers-Jenssen

Hans Wiers-Jenssen (25 November 1866 – 25 August 1925) was a Norwegian novelist, playwright, stage producer and theatre historian.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois

Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois was an emergency evacuation hospital serving the French 3rd Army Corps during World War I. It was organised and staffed by British volunteers and served French soldiers.

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Heinemann (publisher)

William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London-based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.

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Hugh MacDiarmid

Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure.

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Iron-hulled sailing ship

Iron-hulled sailing ships represented the final evolution of sailing ships at the end of the age of sail.

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Ivor Gurney

Ivor Bertie Gurney (28 August 1890 – 26 December 1937) was an English poet and composer, particularly of songs.

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John Ireland (composer)

John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 187912 June 1962) was an English composer and teacher of music.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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John Masefield High School

John Masefield High School is a secondary school with an academy status, located in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England.

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King's Gold Medal for Poetry

The King's Gold Medal for Poetry (known as Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry when the monarch is female) is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms.

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Ledbury

Ledbury is a market town and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England, lying east of Hereford, and west of the Malvern Hills.

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Marion Angus

Marion Emily Angus (1865–1946) was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Scots vernacular or Braid Scots, defined by some as a dialect of English and others as a closely related language.

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Master of the King's Music

Master of the King's Music (or Master of the Queen's Music, or earlier Master of the King's Musick) is a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom.

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Moonbow

A moonbow (also known as a moon rainbow or lunar rainbow) is a rainbow produced by moonlight rather than direct sunlight.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark (1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).

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Narrative poetry

Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often using the voices of both a narrator and characters; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.

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ODTAA

ODTAA (1926) by John Masefield is an adventure novel first published in February 1926.

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Order of Merit

The Order of Merit (Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit for the Commonwealth realms, recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or the promotion of culture.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets. John Masefield and Percy Bysshe Shelley are English male novelists.

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Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom

The British Poet Laureate is an honorary position appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister. John Masefield and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom are British Poets Laureate.

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Poetry Association of Scotland

The Poetry Association of Scotland (or PAS), formerly known as the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse, is a public, membership-based literary society founded in 1924 principally by John Masefield (along with other figures such as Marion Angus and Hugh MacDiarmid).

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Poets' Corner

Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.

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Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode

Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode is an ode "So many true Princesses who have gone" written by John Masefield and set to music for choir and orchestra by Sir Edward Elgar for the occasion of the unveiling of Sir Alfred Gilbert's memorial to Queen Alexandra on 8 June 1932 outside Marlborough House in London.

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Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.

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Robert Bridges

Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. John Masefield and Robert Bridges are 20th-century English poets and British Poets Laureate.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. John Masefield and Rudyard Kipling are 20th-century English poets, Burials at Westminster Abbey, English children's writers and English male novelists.

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Ruhleben internment camp

Ruhleben internment camp was a civilian detention camp in Germany during World War I. It was located in Ruhleben, a former Vorwerk manor to the west of Berlin.

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Salome (play)

Salome (French: Salomé) is a one-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde.

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Salt-Water Poems and Ballads

Salt-Water Poems and Ballads is a book of poetry on themes of seafaring and maritime history by John Masefield.

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Sard Harker

Sard Harker (1924) by John Masefield (1878–1967) is an adventure novel first published in October 1924.

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Shakespeare Prize

The Shakespeare Prize was an annual prize for writing or performance awarded to a British citizen by the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation.

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The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors.

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The Box of Delights

The Box of Delights is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield.

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The Everlasting Mercy

Cover of the first edition The Everlasting Mercy is a poem by John Masefield, the UK's second longest serving poet laureate after Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

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The Midnight Folk

The Midnight Folk is a children's fantasy novel by John Masefield first published in 1927.

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The Old Front Line

The Old Front Line is a military history book by English poet John Masefield, first published in 1917.

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The Taking of the Gry

The Taking of the Gry is a novel by John Masefield published in 1934, and set in the fictional Central or South American state of Santa Barbara, also the setting for ODTAA, Sard Harker, and part of The Midnight Folk.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Tragedy of Pompey the Great

The Tragedy of Pompey the Great is a play by John Masefield, based on the later career of the Roman general and politician Pompey the Great and covering the period between 50-48 BCE, from his decision to fight Julius Caesar to his assassination in Egypt.

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Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne (19 October 160519 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric.

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Thomas Nelson (publisher)

Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798, as the namesake of its founder.

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Truth (magazine)

Truth magazine was both a weekly magazine and a monthly reader published from 1881 until 1905 in the United States.

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Warwick

Warwick is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon.

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Warwick School

Warwick School is a public school (British independent boarding and day school) in Warwick, England. John Masefield and Warwick School are People educated at Warwick School.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.

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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt (10 April 177818 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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See also

British Poets Laureate

• Alfred Austin
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Andrew Motion
• Ben Jonson
• Carol Ann Duffy
• Cecil Day-Lewis
• Colley Cibber
• Edmund Spenser
• Gulielmus Peregrinus
• Henry James Pye
• Jasmine Gardosi
• John Betjeman
• John Dryden
• John Kay (Poet Laureate)
• John Masefield
• John Skelton (poet)
• Laurence Eusden
• Nahum Tate
• Nicholas Rowe (writer)
• Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
• Robert Bridges
• Robert Southey
• Samuel Daniel
• Simon Armitage
• Ted Hughes
• Thomas Shadwell
• Thomas Warton
• William Davenant
• William Whitehead (poet)
• William Wordsworth

People educated aboard HMS Conway

• Clive Woodward
• David Brown (Royal Navy officer)
• Edward Dodd (police officer)
• Eric Nevin
• Francis Brooke-Smith
• Iain Duncan Smith
• Ian Edward Fraser
• James Paul Moody
• John Masefield
• Kyrle Bellew
• Lionel Crabb
• Matthew Webb
• Robert Irving (naval officer)
• Simon Golding

People from Ledbury

• Albert Spilsbury
• Charles Wood (footballer, born 1851)
• Conroy Maddox
• Elliott Wood
• Ernie Clements
• George Barrett (anarchist)
• Henry Scott Holland
• James Crosbie Smith
• John Masefield
• Josh Emery
• Melissa Johns
• Richard West (rugby union)
• Robert Biddulph (MP)
• Robin Gardner (cricketer)
• Sivell Lane
• Steve Emery
• Terrick V. H. FitzHugh
• Terry Jenkins
• Tom Jones (trade unionist)
• Will Merrick

Presidents of the Society of Authors

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• George Meredith
• J. M. Barrie
• John Masefield
• P. D. James
• Philip Pullman
• Thomas Hardy
• V. S. Pritchett

Writers from Herefordshire

• Alice Birch
• Ann Cleeves
• Anthony Buckeridge
• Brilliana, Lady Harley
• Constance Peel
• Emma Hutchinson
• Fabian Stedman
• Francis Tebbs Havergal
• Frank Keating (journalist)
• Frederick William Evans
• Gillian Linscott
• Ione Roseveare
• Jeremy Sandford
• John Davies of Hereford
• John Hoskins (poet)
• John Lewis-Stempel
• John Masefield
• Joseph Berington
• Mary Elizabeth Hawker
• Michael Wall (playwright)
• Olive Moore
• Peter Parker (author)
• Richard Hakluyt
• Roger Boyes
• Thomas Coningsby

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Masefield

Also known as J. Masefield, John Edward Masefield, John Masefield Society, Masefield, John, Masefieldian.

, King's Gold Medal for Poetry, Ledbury, Marion Angus, Master of the King's Music, Moonbow, Muriel Spark, Narrative poetry, Northern Ireland, ODTAA, Order of Merit, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poetry Association of Scotland, Poets' Corner, Queen Alexandra's Memorial Ode, Ramsay MacDonald, Robert Bridges, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Ruhleben internment camp, Salome (play), Salt-Water Poems and Ballads, Sard Harker, Shakespeare Prize, Society of Authors, The Box of Delights, The Everlasting Mercy, The Midnight Folk, The Old Front Line, The Taking of the Gry, The Times, The Tragedy of Pompey the Great, Thomas Browne, Thomas Nelson (publisher), Truth (magazine), Warwick, Warwick School, Westminster Abbey, William Hazlitt, Yale University.