POETS LAUREATE
| Ben Jonson | 1619 - 1637 |
| Sir William Davenant | 1638 - 1668 |
| John Dryden | 1668 – 1688 |
| Thomas Shadwell | 1688 – 1692 |
| Nahum Tate | 1692 – 1715 |
| Nicholas Rowe | 1715 – 1718 |
| Laurence Eusden | 1718 – 1730 |
| Colly Cibber | 1730 - 1757 |
| William Whitehead | 1757 – 1785 |
| Thomas Warton | 1785 – 1790 |
| Henry James Pye | 1790 – 1813 |
| Robert Southey | 1813 – 1843 |
| William Wordsworth | 1843 – 1850 |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1850 – 1892 |
| Alfred Austin | 1896 – 1913 |
| Robert Bridges | 1913 – 1930 |
| John Masefield | 1930 – 1967 |
| Cecil Day - Lewis | 1968 – 1972 |
| Sir John Betjeman | 1972 – 1984 |
| Ted Hughes | (1984- ) |
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