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It is suggested that perhaps Gray found inspiration for his poem by visiting the grave-site of his aunt, Mary Antrobus. The aunt was buried at the graveyard by the St. Giles' churchyard, which he and his mother would visit.
A memorial to poet Thomas Gray is in the east aisle of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, below that to John Milton. The monument of various coloured marbles is by John Bacon and was erected (1778) by Gray's friend and biographer the poet William Mason (whose memorial is adjacent).
Thomas Gray, by John Giles Eccardt, 1747–48, National Portrait Gallery, London Gray's life was surrounded by loss and death, and many people whom he knew died painfully and alone. In 1749, several events occurred that caused Gray stress.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. By Thomas Gray. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight,
After his death, on 30 July 1771 aged 54, he was buried in St Giles’ Churchyard in Stoke Poges; the scene of his greatest work. Gray's Monument. The monument was commissioned by John Penn to form part of the vista from his new mansion at Stoke Park.
The poem's speaker calmly mulls over death while standing in a rural graveyard in the evening. Taking stock of the graves, he reflects that death comes for everyone in the end, and notes that the elaborate tombs of the rich won't bring their occupants back from the dead.
From 1725-1734 Thomas Gray attended Eton, where he met Richard West and Horace Walpole, son of the powerful Whig minister, Sir Robert Walpole. In 1734, Gray entered Peterhouse College, Cambridge University.
