Kenneth Grahame

Date 7 November 1996
Type Blue Plaque
Subject Person
Plaque RBWM
Location Herries School, Dean Lane, Cookham, SL6 9BD — View on Google Maps
Status Current
Reference PQ-0014
Volume Blue Plaques
Collection Plaques

Summary

The author who wrote the classic ‘Wind in the Willows‘, a children’s classic, published in 1908.
Name:Kenneth Grahame
Born:8 Mar 1859
Place:Edinburgh
Died:6 Jul 1932
Profession:Writer
Educated:St Edward’s School in Oxford.
Famous for:The author who wrote the classic ‘Wind in the Willows‘, the children’s classic, published in 1908. Grahame moved to Cookham Dean village with his siblings after his mother died of scarlet fever; his father remained in Edinburgh and took to drink.
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Images

Image: public domain.

Curator's Notes

There is another blue plaque at 16 Phillimore Place, London.
See the inspiration for his books on “The Short Wind in the Willows Walk“

Herries School, Dean Lane, Cookham, SL6 9BD. The blue plaque is on his house, Mayfield, which is now Herries School.

Curator's References

Commemorative plaques on the RBWM website.

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