3782427 Edward the Confessor by Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936); (add.info.: Edward the Confessor by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The accompanying verse reads \'Edward the Confessor / Slept under the dresser. / When that began to pall, / He slept in the hall.\' Penultimate Anglo-Saxon king of England, c. 1003 ? 5 January 1066. English writer, 29 May 1874 ? 14 June 1936 Taken from Biography for Beginners, ed. E Clerihew, published by T Werner Laurie in London, 1905.); Lebrecht History.