Andrew Motion Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London; his mother was Catherine Gillian Bakewell (known as Gillian) and his father Andrew Richard Michael Motion (known as Richard). The family
Lewis and Harriet Hayden House Boston. Hayden had been the first to suggest to John A. Andrew that he run for governor; on Thanksgiving Day in 1862 Governor Andrew was to come down from Beacon Hill and have turkey dinner at the Haydens. The Lewis and Harriet Hayden House is a site along the Black Heritage Trail. It is a private residence. It is also featured on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. The house is a Boston African-American historic site located on the Black Heritage Trail in Beacon Hill. The National Park Services wrote: The historic buildings along today's Black Heritage Trail were the homes,