Articles with the tag: Blue Plaques

Sir Terry Frost

Sir Terry Frost

Jun 6, 2013 | People

Leamington has nurtured a number of artists who have gone on to enhance their reputations and enjoy popular acclaim.Thomas Baker, Fred Whitehead and Charlie Johnson-Payne all had considerable reputations. Terry Frost was one of the most significant British abstract...
Herbert Edward Cox – Artist

Herbert Edward Cox – Artist

Mar 7, 2013 | People

Herbert Edward Cox, was born in Coventry in 1870, the fifth of seven children born to James and Sarah Cox of Stoney Stanton Road. He attended the Grammar School, and after the death of his father in 1887, still living in the family home, he trained to paint at the...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Feb 16, 2013 | People

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. In July 1853 he was appointed US consul in Liverpool by President Franklin Pierce, and during the ensuing 5½ years in England spent 2 periods in Leamington, in 1855 and 1857. At the end of his term...

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