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In
1608 John
Milton,
author of Paradise Lost, was born at Cheapside. In 1674 he
was buried in Cripplegate.
John
Milton
Samuel
Pepys was born in Salisbury Court near Fleet Street in 1633.
Most
famous for his diary which he
began on 1st January 1660 and continued until 31st May 1669. In
it he depicted life in the capital during the turbulent years after
the restoration of the monarchy with Charles II and the disasters
of the Great Plague and Great Fire of London. He died in London
in 1703 and is buried in the City.
Samuel
Pepys
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Diary (1665)
The
author of Robinson Crusoe Daniel
Defoe, was born in the city in 1660. In 1731 he died
in Moorfields, where he had been hiding from his creditors. He is
buried at Bunhill
Fields in Finsbury.
Daniel
Defoe
Famous
London cemeteries
In
1668 the poet
William D'Avenant
died in London. He had succeeded Ben Jonson in 1638 as the second
unofficial Poet
Laureate
and
he was succeeded in the now official post by John Dryden. He is
buried in Westminster
Abbey.
Famous
people buried at Westminster Abbey
Poets
laureate
In
1671 the poet Colley
Cibber
was born in London. He succeeded Laurence Eusden in 1730 as Poet
Laureate
and
on his death in the capital in 1757 was succeeded by William Whitehead.
Colley
Cibber
Poets
laureate
The
poet Alexander
Pope was born in London in 1688. He died in 1744 at Twickenham
where he is buried.
Alexander
Pope
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which
is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday.
Miscellanies (1727)
The
author of The Pilgrim's Progress John
Bunyan died in London in 1688. He is buried at Bunhill
Fields in Finsbury.
John
Bunyan
Famous
London cemeteries
The
writer Aphra
Behn died in London in 1689. She is regarded as the first ever
woman writer to earn a living from her craft. She is buried in Westminster
Abbey.
Aphra
Behn
Famous
people buried at Westminster Abbey
The
poet Thomas Shadwell died in London
in 1692 having been Poet
Laureate
since 1689 when he had succeeded John Dryden. He was succeeded by
Nahum Tate. Shadwell is buried in Westminster
Abbey.
Thomas
Shadwell
Famous
people buried at Westminster Abbey
Poets
laureate
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