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Ivor Gurney
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Born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Born on 28th of August 1890
Died in City, London
Died on 26th of December 1937

Born 1890. Died 1937 - Composer and poet.

Studied at the Royal College of Music, London. Published two volumes of poetry Severn and Somme (1917) and War’s Embers (1919) while in hospital recovering from gassing and shell-shock. Published 5 Elizabethan Songs (1920), considered his best work. Confined to an asylum from 1922. Died of tuberculosis in the City of London Mental Hospital.

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