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
Tamasin Day-Lewis at King's College, Cambridge from 1973 until 1976. She writes for "The Daily Telegraph", "Vanity Fair", "Vogue" and "Food Illustrated". She is currently on the Board of Governors at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In October 2012, Day-Lewis and her brother Daniel donated papers belonging to their father to Oxford University, including early drafts of his work and letters from figures such as actor John Gielgud and poets W. H. Auden, Robert Graves and Philip Larkin. In 2011 she collaborated with Hemmerle and created the book "Delicious Jewels" published by Prestel. Tamasin Day-Lewis Lydia Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 17 September