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10 unusual facts about Walter Savage Landor


Charles Graves-Sawle

In 1846 Graves-Sawle married Rose Paynter (1818–1914), the friend and inspiration of the poet Walter Savage Landor.

Curse of Kehama

After giving up on the poem for a few years, he returned to it after prompting by the poet Walter Savage Landor encouraged him to complete his work.

Eliza Lynn Linton

Born in Keswick, Cumbria, England, the daughter of the Rev. J. Lynn, vicar of Crosthwaite, and granddaughter of a bishop of Carlisle, she arrived in London in 1845 as the protégé of poet Walter Savage Landor.

Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram

His mother was a lady of brilliance and charm who was friendly with such men as Sydney Smith, Lord Brougham, Walter Savage Landor and Charles Young.

Ipsley Court

In the mid 18th century the property passed to Samuel Savage, whose nephew Walter Savage Landor later restored the buildings and added an apselike structure to the south wing.

Kings Weston House

Poets including Robert Southey and Walter Savage Landor also visited and wrote about the spectacle of the distant views of Wales from Kingsweston Hill and Penpole Point.

Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer

Aylmer's sister Rose Aylmer was the inspiration behind the poem of that name by Walter Savage Landor.

Robert Eyres Landor

Landor was the third son of Dr Walter Landor a physician and his wife Elizabeth Savage, and thereby the brother of Walter Savage Landor.

Roderick the Last of the Goths

This return to writing was promoted by the poet Walter Savage Landor who encouraged Southey to complete the epic along with writing the work "Pelayo, the Restorer of Spain".

Sir Henry Russell, 1st Baronet

Her memory is perpetuated in a poem of that name by Walter Savage Landor.


Julian, Count of Ceuta

The British writers Sir Walter Scott, Walter Savage Landor, and Robert Southey handle the legends associated with these events poetically: Scott in "The Vision of Don Roderick" (1811), Landor in his tragedy Count Julian (1812), and Southey in Roderick, the Last of the Goths (1814).