Robert Bridges
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British writer (1844-1930)
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- 82
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- Collected Essay, Papers &c. of Robert Bridges
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Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, and educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He went on to study medicine in London at St Bartholomew's Hospital, intending to practice until the age of forty and then retire to write poetry. He practised as a casualty physician at his teaching hospital (where he made a series <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Bridg
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Kent
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Award
- Order of Merit
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- Robert Bridges.jpg
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- name in native language
- Robert Bridges
- writing language
- English language
- date of death
- 1930-04-21
- date of birth
- 1844-01-01
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Commons category
- Robert Bridges
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Works in European collections
8 objects attributed to Robert Bridges, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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