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John Betjeman was born in London on 28 August 1906. He was educated at Marlborough and Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1931 his first book of poems, 'Mount Zion', was published by an old Oxford friend, Edward James. His second book was 'Ghastly Good Taste', a commentary on architecture, published in 1934. He was knighted in 1969 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1972. John Betjeman died on 19 May 1984 at his home in Trebetherick, Cornwall and was buried at the nearby church of St Enodoc.

Church crawling; the old churches; the churchyards; from churchyards; the outside of the church; the bells; Bristol; the interior today; Uffington; on leaving Wantage 1972; hymn; the interior in 1860; the church in Georgian times; verses turned in aid of a public subscription (1952) towards a the restoration of the church of St. Katherine, Chiselhampton, Oxon; the church of the 15th century; the church before the 15th century; septuagesima; diary of a church mouse; Christmas; the newer churches; St. Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, London; undenominational; St Endellion; Sunday afternoon service in St. Enoch Church, Cornwall; the church of St. Protus and St. Hyacinth at Blisland, Cornwall; the church of St. John the Baptist at Mildenhall, WIltshire; in praise of the Victorians; St. Mark's, Swindon; on hearing the full peal of ten bells from Christ Church, Swindon, Wilts; the city churches; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Old St. Pancras Church; Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, mcmvii; Holy Trinity, Sloan Street; St. Barnabas Church; St. Barnabas Church, Oxford; St. Mary the Virgin Church; Nonconformist architecture; Calvinistic Evensong; our Padre; blame the vicar.