
What is recorded here
This white commemorative plaque records: In this house Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770 poet was born Recorded plaque organisation: City and County of Bristol.
Thomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger who is remembered for his early death by suicide at the age of seventeen and his creation of the fictitious medieval priest Rowley, through which he wrote many poems.
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