Thomas ' early poetry was noted for its verbal density, alliteration, sprung rhythm and internal rhyme, and he was described by some critics as having being influenced by English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Thomas was very conscious of the impact of spoken or intoned verse and explored the potentialities of sound and rhythm, in a manner reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

* Carrion Comfort derives its title and many of its themes from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 ) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, Essex, ( now in Greater London ) as the first of nine children to Manley and Catherine ( Smith ) Hopkins.

Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote many of his poems in six-foot iambic and sprung rhythm lines.

* 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet ( b. 1844 )

* 1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet ( d. 1889 )

Notable poets in this genre include John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Antonio Machado.

The British poet Gerard Manley Hopkins claimed to have discovered this previously unnamed poetic rhythm in the natural patterns of English in folk songs, spoken poetry, Shakespeare, Milton, et al.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844-1889 )

* Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit and poet.

He was a friend of Thomas Hardy, Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

* June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet ( b. 1844 )

* July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet ( d. 1889 )

William Allingham – Henry C. Beeching – Oliver Madox Brown – Olive Custance – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Lord Alfred Douglas – Evelyn Douglas – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – Norman Gale – Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Herbert P. Horne – Lionel Johnson – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Maurice Hewlett – Edward Cracroft Lefroy – Arran and Isla Leigh – Amy Levy – John William Mackail – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Fiona MacLeod – Frank T. Marzials – Théophile Julius Henry Marzials – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Cosmo Monkhouse – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Roden Noël – John Payne – Victor Plarr – A. Mary F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – Christina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – Francis Thompson – John Todhunter – Herbert Trench – John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats

*" The Unity of Incarnation: a study of Gerard Manley Hopkins ".

Spring and Fall ( 1880 ) by Gerard Manley Hopkins rendered in scriptio continua ( 20 characters per line ):

Spring and Fall ( 1880 ) by Gerard Manley Hopkins rendered in normal punctuation:

These include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister Charles Clarke.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit poet, lived there.

* Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet

The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was baptised in the church as an infant in August 1844.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The first name of philanthropist Johns Hopkins is the surname of his great-grandmother, Margaret Johns, who married Gerard Hopkins.

Some see the beginnings of true Anglo-Welsh poetry in the work of poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 89 ), Edward Thomas ( 1878 – 1917 ), and Wilfred Owen ( 1893 – 1918 ).

( See also Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 – 89 ), Edward Thomas ( 1878 – 1917 ) and Joseph Keating ( 1871 – 1934 ).

* Stuart married Frances Cornelia Baldwin ( 1815 – 1888 ), and with her had 8 children: Briscoe Baldwin Stuart ( 1837 – 1859 ), Alexander H. H. Stuart Jr. ( 1846 – 1867 ), Archibald Gerard Stuart ( 1858 – 1888 ), Eleanor Augusta Stuart ( 1838 – 1878 ), Frances Peyton Stuart ( born 1842 ), Mary Stuart ( born 1844 ), Susan Baldwin Stuart ( 1848 – 1867 ), and Margaret Briscoe Stuart ( 1855 – 1932 ).

The company was founded by Charles Gerard Conn ( b. Phelps, New York 29 January 1844 ; d. Los Angeles, California 5 January 1931 ).

* 8 June — Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Jesuit poet and scholar ( born 1844 ).

* Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 1844 — 1889 )

* 1915 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright ( d. 1997 )

* 1947 – Gerard Schwarz, American conductor

* 1867 – James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat ( d. 1951 )

* 2011 – Gerard Smith, American musician ( Tv on the Radio ) ( b. 1974 )

* 1992 – Gerard K. O ' Neill, American physicist ( b. 1927 )

* 1918 – Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer ( d. 1995 )

* Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis ( Leiden, 1709 ), on which his pupil and assistant, Gerard van Swieten ( 1700 – 1772 ) published a commentary in 5 vols.

Various linguists have seen these North Eurasian languages as part of: < ul >< li > a Ural – Altaic language family ( popular until 1960s )</ li >< li > a Uralic and an Altaic family ( Anna V. Dybo | Dybo, Roy Andrew Miller | Miller, Nicholas Poppe | Poppe )</ li >< li > separate Uralic, Turkic languages | Turkic and Mongolian language | Mongolian families ( Gerard Clauson | Clauson, Gerhard Doerfer | Doerfer, Stefan Georg | Georg )</ li >< li > a Eurasiatic or Nostratic macrofamily ( Joseph Greenberg | Greenberg, Sergei Starostin | Starostin, Allan Bomhard | Bomhard )</ li ></ ul >

* 1923 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer ( d. 2006 )

* 1927 – Gerard K. O ' Neill, American physicist ( d. 1992 )

* 1988 – Steeve Gerard Fankà, Cameroonian footballer

* 1987 – Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

* Ronan, Gerard The Irish Zorro: the Extraordinary Adventures of William Lamport ( 1615 – 1659 )

* 1985 – Gerard Aafjes, Dutch footballer

Jean-Michel Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, New York after the death of his brother Max, was the second of four children of Matilda Andrades ( July 28, 1934 – November 17, 2008 ) and Gerard Basquiat ( born 1930 ).

* 1914 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver ( d. 1990 )

* De Staat ( 1972 – 76 ) ( text by Plato ) for 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 4 oboes ( 3rd, 4th + English horn ), 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass trombone, 2 harps, 2 electric guitars, 4 violas, bass guitar, 2 pianos ( also transcribed for two pianos in 1992 by Cees van Zeeland and Gerard Bouwhuis )

* 1977 – Danny Gerard, American actor

* 1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch physician ( d. 1772 )

* 1946 – Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer ( d. 1995 )