Tom Baker in Lincoln

Elm House, Upper Long Leys Road, Lincoln.

'ELM HOUSE

BIRTHPLACE OF

TOM BAKER (1911–1998)

WHO DEVOTED HIS WHOLE LIFE TO THE

STUDY AND PRESERVATION OF

LINCOLNSHIRE'S HISTORY'

George Boole in Lincoln

3 Pottergate, Lincoln.

 

'GEORGE BOOLE

LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.

1815 – 1864

GEORGE BOOLE, FATHER OF MODERN

ALGEBRA, AUTHOR OF "THE LAWS OF THOUGHT"

AND FIRST PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AT

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK, WAS BORN IN

LINCOLN AND ESTABLISHED AN ACADEMY

IN THIS HOUSE C. 1840.'

William Logsdail in Lincoln

19 Minster Yard, Lincoln.

'WILLIAM LOGSDAIL

R.B.C., RSPP

THE ARTIST

WAS BORN IN THIS HOUSE

ON THE 25 MAY 1859.

SON OF GEORGE LOGSDALE

(1827–1905) HEAD VERGER

OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL

1858 – 1902'

William Logsdail spent many years in Venice the last decades of the 19th century, and at the beginning of the 20th century spent two years in Sicily before returning to the United Kingdom. One of his most famous paintings is Saint Martin-in-the-Fields (1888):

 

T. E. Lawrence in Lincoln

33 Steep Hill, Lincoln, with plaque to the viewer's right of the bay window.

'LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

1888 – 1935

ON THIS SITE IN 1925 SOLDIER AND

AUTHOR T E LAWRENCE LODGED

WHILST SERVING AT RAF CRANWELL.

AROUND THIS TIME HE WROTE HIS

BOOK SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

THE LEGENDARY ACCOUNT OF HIS

LEADERSHIP OF ARAB INSURGENCE

AGAINST THE TURKS IN SYRIA

DURING WORLD WAR I.'

My other posts on T. E. Lawrence:

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T. E. Lawrence in Moreton, Dorset
T. E. Lawrence at Clouds Hill, Dorset

Thomas Cooper, Chartist and Writer, Lincoln

Thomas Cooper (1805–1892) by John Cochran.

Thomas Cooper was born in Leicester and died in Lincoln. Above are images from the Thomas Cooper Baptist Church, High Street, Lincoln, whose webpage on Cooper is headed:

'"Persecuted, but not abandoned" (2 Corinthians 4:9)"

Paul Halfyard begins the page with these enthusiastic words:

'Our church is named after one for whom the above text is certainly true: Thomas Cooper – shoemaker, journalist, prisoner, author, agnostic, evangelist, lecturer and champion of the poor and oppressed!'

He continues his brief biography here.

Cooper was buried in Canwick Cemetery just outside the city of Lincoln, the inscription on his grave reading:

'IN MEMORY OF

SUSANNA

THE BELOVED WIFE OF

THOMAS COOPER

(AUTHOR OF THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES

AND LECTURER IN DEFENCE OF CHRISTIANITY)

SHE WAS BORN 7 APRIL 1801

AND DIED 1 FEBY. 1880

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ALSO IN MEMORY OF HER SISTER

LETITIA

THE WIFE OF WM. SWANN

SHE WAS BORN 21 JUNE 1804

AND DIED 19 AUGUST 1879

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ALSO OF THE ABOVE

THOMAS COOPER

WHO DIED 15 JULY 1892

AGED 87 YEARS.'

My thanks to Darron Childs, whose email attachment of the grave greatly aided my finding it.

Below is a link to a great deal of information on Thomas Cooper, including a number of his writings.

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Thomas Cooper and His Works

Lincoln and Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The statue of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), in the grounds of Lincoln Cathedral, England. Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire.

A quiet pub tucked away from the tourist circuit, but less than 100 yards away from the Museum of Lincolnshire Life: The Lord Tennyson pub in Rasen Lane, Lincoln.

The inn sign on the above pub, showing the elderly Poet Laureate.