Edward Alleyn
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Edward Alleyn was an English actor who was a major figure of the Elizabethan theatre and founder of the College of God's Gift in Dulwich.
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Memorial to Edward Alleyn in Dulwich Village, sculpted by Louise Simson, 2005
Edward Alleyn's gravestone, now much weathered, in Dulwich Village (moved to this position outside church in 1925)
Alleyn's first wife, Joan, 1596; Joan was the step-daughter of Philip Henslowe
John Donne
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John Donne was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cat
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…1592. She died on 28 June 1623. Woodward was buried in the Christ's Chapel of God's Gift. On 3 December that same year he married Constance, daughter of John Donne, the poet and dean of St Paul's, though she was 37 years his junior, and he was older than her father. He had no children. Constance remarried in 1630…
Portrait by Isaac Oliver, 1616
Part of the house where Donne lived in Pyrford
The memorial to John Donne, St Paul's Cathedral
John Donne Memorial by Nigel Boonham, 2012, St Paul's Cathedral Churchyard