Oxford DNB Linking to External Resources May 2016
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Oxford DNB linking to external resources May 2016 The May 2016 update of the Oxford DNB adds links from Dictionary articles to online biographical resources provided by the following institutions: 1. English Heritage Blue Plaques 2. Poetry Archive, archive recordings of poets reading aloud their work 3. BBC archive film footage 4. BBC archive radio recordings 5. British Library, ‘Discovering Literature’ 6. Westminster Abbey, poets’ corner 7. Westminster Abbey, other burials and monuments 8. Queen Victoria’s Journals 1. Blue Plaques, English Heritage—links from 850 ODNB biographies, including: Harold Abrahams John Betjeman Thomas Arne Nye Bevan Matthew Arnold William Blake Herbert Asquith Enid Blyton Nancy Astor Elizabeth Bowen Clement Attlee Winifred Holtby Robert Paden-Powell Vera Brittain Walter Bagehot Benjamin Britten John Logie Baird Ford Madox Ford Stanley Baldwin Lancelot Brown Thomas Barnardo Isambard Kingdom Brunel Henrietta Barnett Fanny Burney Elizabeth Barrett Browning Giovanni Canal James Barrie Cato Street Conspirators Joseph Bazalgette Edith Cavell Aubrey Beardsley Ernst Chain Harry Beck Neville Chamberlain Hilaire Belloc Raymond Chandler Hector Berlioz Tobias Smollett Annie Besant Agatha Christie 1 Winston Churchill Arthur Conan Doyle William Wilberforce John Constable Wells Coates Learie Constantine Wilkie Collins Noel Coward Ivy Compton-Burnett Thomas Daniel Charles Darwin Mohammed Jinnah Francisco de Miranda Amy Johnson Thomas de Quincey Celia Johnson Daniel Defoe Samuel Johnson Frederic Delius James Joyce Charles Dickens John Keats Benjamin Disraeli John Maynard Keynes Edward Elgar Rudyard Kipling George Eliot Melanie Klein TS Eliot Peter Kropotkin Friedrich Engels Lillie Langtry Michael Faraday D.H. Lawrence Millicent Garrett Fawcett TE Lawrence Ian Fleming Edward Lear Alexander Fleming Vivien Leigh EM Forster John Lennon Benjamin Franklin Louis MacNeice Rosalind Franklin Katherine Mansfield Sigmund Freud Guilielmo Marconi Mahatma Gandhi Eleanor Marx Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Karl Marx Elizabeth Gaskell Nellie Melba William Gladstone Felix Mendelssohn WG Grace John Stuart Mill Graham Greene John Everett Millais Joyce Grenfell Lee Miller Joseph Grimaldi A.A. Milne Radclyffe Hall Henry Moore Thomas Hardy Ottoline Morrell William Hazlitt Horatio Nelson Ambrose Heal Isaac Newton Jimi Hendrix Vita Sackville west Octavia Hill George Orwell Rowland Hill Emmeline Pankhurst Alfred Hitchcock Sylvia Pankhurst Luke Howard Mervyn Peake Aldous Huxley Samuel Pepys Henry James Nikolaus Pevsner Humphrey Jennings Frank Pick Jerome K Jerome Sylvia Plath 2 J.B. Priestley Leslie Stephen Eleanor Rathbone Bram Stoker Eric Ravilious Marie Stopes William Morris Lytton Strachey Joshua Reynolds Violet Szabo Jean Rhys Rabindranath Tagore Paul Robeson AJP Taylor William Heath Robinson Ellen Terry Sax Rohmer Dylan Thomas Isaac Rosenberg Alan Turing Christina Rossetti Marie Tussaud Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ralph Vaughan Williams John Ruskin William Walton Dorothy L Sayers Evelyn Waugh Robert Falcon Scott Chaim Weizmann George Gilbert Scott Henry Wellcome Giles Gilbert Scott H.G. Wells Mary Seacole John Wesley George Bernard Shaw William Wilberforce Mary Shelley Oscar Wilde Percy Bysshe Shelley Kenneth Williams Walter Sickert P.G. Wodehouse Duleep Singh Virginia Woolf Edith Sitwell Christopher Wren Stevie Smith W.B. Yeats 2. Poetry Archive, archive voice recordings Dannie Abse Ursula Fanthorpe W.H. Auden David Gascoyne Pat Beer W.S. Graham Hillaire Belloc Robert Graves John Betjeman Thom Gunn Edmund Blunden F.W. Harvey George Mackay Brown John Heath Stubbs Basil Bunting Adrian Henri Charles Causley Ted Hughes Austin Clarke Mick Imlah Roald Dahl Elizabeth Jennings C. Day Lewis Patrick Kavanagh Walter de la Mare Philip Larkin T.S. Eliot Laurie Lee D.J. Enright Christopher Logue Gavin Ewart Hugh MacDiarmid 3 Louis MacNeice Edgell Rickword E.A. Markham Siegfried Sassoon Spike Milligan Vernon Scannell Adrian Mitchell C. H. Sisson Edwin Morgan Edith Sitwell Norman Nicholson Stephen Spender Harold Pinter Stevie Smith Ruth Pitter R. S. Thomas Sylvia Plath Dylan Thomas Peter Porter Sylvia Townsend Warner Ezra Pound Alfred Tennyson Kathleen Raine 3. BBC archive film footage Aldous Huxley John Wolfenden Andrew Huxley John Wyndham John Betjeman Justin Fashanu Anthony Burgess Keith Waterhouse Barbara Hepworth Kingsley Amis Beryl Bainbridge Lawrence Durrell Christopher Isherwood Ludovic Kennedy Daphne Du Maurier Malcolm Muggeridge Diana Mosley Norman St John Stevas Elizabeth Frink Patrick Moore EM Forster P.G. Wodehouse Ernest Walton Rebecca West Henry Moore Robert Graves Henry Moore Simon Raven Hew Wheldon Somerset Maugham J. G. Ballard Sutton Hoo burial J.R.R. Tolkien T.H. White Jacob Epstein Viscount Alanbrooke John Fowles William Golding John Martin 4. BBC archive radio recordings Edward VIII, duke of Windsor Agatha Christie Eleanor Higginson Angela Carter Elizabeth Bowen Anthony Eden Enid Blyton Brian Epstein Ginger Lacey H.G. Wells Harold MacMillan 4 Ian Fleming J. B. Priestley John Snagge Leo Abse Lord Beaverbrook Lord Haw Haw Max Malloran Muriel Matters Neville Chamberlain Nye Bevan Raymond Chandler Stafford Cripps Sylvia Pankhurst Tom Driberg Wallis Windsor, duchess of Windsor Walter Monkton William Beveridge Winston Churchill 5. British Library, ‘Discovering Literature’ Jane Austen Thomas Hardy William Blake Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte Christina Rossetti Emily Bronte Percy Bysshe Shelley Elizabeth Barrett Browning Mary Shelley Robert Burns Robert Louis Stevenson George Byron Alfred Tennyson Lewis Carroll William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge H.G. Wells John Keats Oscar Wilde George Eliot Anthony Trollope Elizabeth Gaskell 6. Westminster Abbey, poets’ corner Addison, Joseph Atkyns, Robert Aldington, (Edward Godfree) Richard Auden, WH Anstey, Christopher Austen, Jane Arnold, Matthew Beaumont, Francis Arnold, Thomas Beaumont, John Ashcroft, Peggy Benson, William Atkyns, Edward Betjeman, John 5 Blake, William Hardy, Thomas Blunden, Edmund Herrick, Richard Binyon, Laurence Hopkins, Gerard Manley Booth, Barton Housman, AE Bronte, Anne Hubbard, Edward Bronte, Charlotte Hughes, Ted Bronte, Emily Irving, Henry Brooke, Rupert James, Henry Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Johnson, Samuel Browning, Robert Jones, David Burney, Charles Jonson, Ben Burney, Frances Keats John Burns, Robert Keble, John Butler, Samuel Kingsley, Charles Byron, George Kipling, Rudyard Caedmon Lawrence, DH Camden, William Lear, Edward Campbell, John, second duke of Argyll Lewis, CS Campbell, Thomas Lind, Jenny Carroll, Lewis Macaulay, Thomas Cary, Henry Francis Marlowe, Christopher Chaucer, Geoffrey Masefield, John Clare, John Mason, William Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Maurice, Frederick Denison Cowley, Abraham Milton, John Cumberland, Richard Moray, Robert Davenant, William Murray, Gilbert Denham, John Nichols, Robert Dickens, Charles Owen, Wilfred Drayton, Michael Philips, John Dryden, John Pope, Alexander Eliot, TS Prior, Matthew Evans, Mary Ann Read, Herbert Fox, Adam Reith, John Garrick, David Roberts, John Gaskell, Elizabeth Rogers, Nathaniel Gay, John Rosenberg Isaac Gibson, Wilfrid William Rowe, Nicholas Goldsmith, Oliver Ruskin, John Gordon, Adam Lindsay Sassoon, Siegfried Graves, Robert Scott, Walter Gray, Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Grenfell, Julian Shakespeare, William Gurney, Ivor Shelley, Percy B Handel, George Sorley, Charles 6 Southey, Robert Thomas, Dylan Spenser, Edmund Thomas, Edward St Denis, Charles de Thomson, James Stapylton, Robert Triplet, Thomas Tennyson, Alfred Trollope, Anthony Thackeray, William Wilde, Oscar Thirlwall, Connop Wordsworth, William 7. Westminster Abbey, other burials and monuments Abbot, Charles, first Baron Colchester (1757–1829), speaker of the House of Commons Abbott, Eric Symes (1906–1983), dean of Westminster Adam, Robert (1728–1792), architect Agar, Charles, first earl of Normanton (1736–1809), Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin Agard, Arthur (1535/6–1615), archivist and antiquary Aglionby, William (1641–1705), diplomat and writer on art Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861–1936), army officer Amelia [Emily], Princess (1711–1786), daughter of George II André, John (1750–1780), army officer and spy Anne (1665–1714), queen of Great Britain and Ireland Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark] (1574–1619), queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, consort of James VI and I Anne [Anne of Bohemia] (1366–1394), queen of England, first consort of Richard II Anne [Anne of Cleves] (1515–1557), queen of England, fourth consort of Henry VIII Anne [née Anne Hyde], duchess of York (1637–1671), first wife of James II Anne [née Anne Neville] (1456–1485), queen of England, consort of Richard III Apsley, Sir Allen (1616–1683), royalist army officer and politician Arnold, Samuel (1740–1802), composer Aspinwall, Edward (1678–1732), religious controversialist Atterbury, Francis (1663–1732), bishop of Rochester, politician, and Jacobite conspirator Attlee, Clement Richard, first Earl Attlee (1883–1967), prime minister Augusta [Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha], princess of Wales (1719–1772), consort of Frederick Lewis, prince of Wales Ayrton, Edmund (1734–1808), composer and musician Ayton, Sir Robert (1570–1638), poet and courtier Baker, John (1660–1716), naval officer and politician Baker, Sir Herbert (1862–1946), architect and author Baltzar, Thomas (c.1630–1663), violinist Barking, Richard of (d. 1246), abbot of Westminster and royal councillor Barnard, William (1696/7–1768), Church of Ireland bishop of Derry Barrow, Isaac