Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965), poet and Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge

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Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965), poet and Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge

26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965

Educated at Merton College, Oxford, and Harvard University. Poet and critic. Director of Faber & Faber. Elected Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College in 1939. Nobel Laureate, 1948. He bequeathed to the College the manuscripts of The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding.