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On 22nd
November 2013, the fiftieth anniversary of his death in 1963,
a memorial stone was unveiled to writer, scholar and poet C.S.
Lewis in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey. The greenish marble
stone was designed by Wayne Hart and is in the central part of
the area at the base of a pillar. A conference was also held
at St Margaret's Westminster as part of the memorial project.
He was born in Belfast on 29th November 1898 a son of Albert
and Florence. He was educated in England with his brother
Warren. During the Great War he was wounded at the battle of
Arras. He was a Fellow and Tutor of English Literature at
Oxford university and later Chair of Medieval and Renaissance
literature at Cambridge. Today he is perhaps best known for
his seven Chronicles of Narnia. He also wrote science fiction
and was a friend of J.R.R. Tolkien. During the Second World
War he gave many radio broadcasts, later published as Mere
Christianity, together with other books based on his talks. In
1956 he married Mrs Joy Gresham, who died a few years later.
The drama 'Shadowlands' portrayed this part of his life. He
was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford.
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