John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds, 1840‒1893, author, poet and critic, lived here 1851‒1877

John Addington Symonds, a notable 19th-century author, poet, and critic, lived at this site from 1851 to 1877, during a formative period of his literary and intellectual development. His time here coincided with his education at the University of Oxford and the early years of his influential career in literary criticism and historiography.