Betjeman, John 
1906 - 1984. 
English poet and essayist. 

He was the originator of a peculiarly English light verse, nostalgic, and delighting in Victorian and Edwardian architecture. His Collected Poems appeared 1968 and a verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells, 1960. Knighted 1969. He became poet laureate 1972.