British Poet Laureates
Name the British Poet Laureates since 1599.
You may give your answers in any order.
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- Appointed
- Name
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- by Henry VII
- Bernard André
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- 1513/1514 by Henry VIII
- John Skelton
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- by Elizabeth I
- Edmund Spenser
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- 1599 by Elizabeth I
- Samuel Daniel
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- 1616 by James I
- Ben Jonson
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- 1638 by Charles I
- William Davenant
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- 1668 by Charles II
- John Dryden
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- 1689 by William III and Mary II
- Thomas Shadwell
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- 1692 by William III and Mary II
- Nahum Tate
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- 1715 by George I
- Nicholas Rowe
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- 1718 by George I
- Laurence Eusden
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- 1730 by George II
- Colley Cibber
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- 1757 by George II
- William Whitehead
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- Appointed
- Name
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- 1785 by George III
- Thomas Warton
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- 1790 by George III
- Henry James Pye
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- 1813 by George III
- Robert Southey
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- 1843 by Victoria
- William Wordsworth
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- 1850 by Victoria
- Alfred Tennyson
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- 1896 by Victoria
- Alfred Austin
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- 1913 by George V
- Robert Bridges
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- 1930 by George V
- John Masefield
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- 1968 by Elizabeth II
- Cecil Day-Lewis
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- 1972 by Elizabeth II
- John Betjeman
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- 1984 by Elizabeth II
- Ted Hughes
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- 1 May 1999 by Elizabeth II
- Andrew Motion
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- 1 May, 2009 by Elizabeth II
- Carol Ann Duffy
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Source / copyright information
- en.wikipedia.org/ ... ted_Kingdom#1599_to_present
