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Poet Laureate Appointment

Great Britain · Arts / Poetry. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1785–1984Date range
3Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1785

Thomas Warton1785

Arts / Poetry

Appointed Poet Laureate

1843

William Wordsworth6 April 1843

Arts / Poetry

Appointed Poet Laureate

1984

Ted Hughes19 December 1984

Arts / Poetry

Appointed Poet Laureate

Names involved

Ted HughesThomas WartonWilliam Wordsworth

Provenance

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