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| 74 Rodney Street, Clough's birthplace. |
| Poet Arthur Clough (1819-61) was educated at Rugby School and worked as an examiner in the Education Office. His sister was educationalist and feminist Anne Jemima Clough. Clough wrote lasting poetry, including The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich and Amours de Voyage. The latter was an account of British travellers abroad. During the 2nd World War, Winston Churchill quoted a piece of his poetry on the radio when France fell; '..say not the struggle nought availeth..'. On a trip to Italy at the age of 41 he contracted malaria and died. On his death Matthew Arnold commemorated him by writing Thyrsis, which remembered their time together wandering the Oxfordshire countryside. Clough was born in Liverpool at 74 Rodney Street. |