Robert Laurence Binyon, CH was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1891. He worked for the British Museum from 1893 until his retirement in 1933. In 1904 he married the historian Cicely Margaret Powell, with whom he had three daughters, including the artist Nicolete Gray.
Drawing of Laurence Binyon by William Strang, 1901
Binyon's birthplace, 1 High Street, Lancaster
Laurence Binyon, 1898, drypoint by William Strang
Laurence Binyon
"For the Fallen" is a poem written by Laurence Binyon. It was first published in The Times in September 1914. It was also published in Binyon's book "The Winnowing FanĀ : Poems On The Great War" by Elkin Mathews, London, 1914.
"For the Fallen" inscription on the Stirling War Memorial in Scotland
War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand
CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen"
"For The Fallen" plaque with The Rumps promontory beyond