Thomas Gray grey plaque

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# The Birthplace of Melancholy Standing on Cornhill in the heart of the City of London, you're standing at the very threshold where Thomas Gray entered the world in 1716, born into a prosperous mercantile household in this bustling mercantile quarter. This precise address—now lost to London's relen...

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39 Cornhill

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Thomas Gray poet was born in a house on this site "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" 1716-1771