List of people from Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live(d) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, or made some important contribution to the town. As a spa town Royal Tunbridge Wells was a popular resort for the upper classes, including members of the British Royal Family.
Notable people from Royal Tunbridge Wells
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A
- Jonathan Anders (1971– ), Shropshire cricketer
B
- Luke Baldwin (1990– ), rugby player
- Gary Barden (1955– ), musician
- The Reverend Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), mathematician
- C. A. Bayly (1945–2015), historian
- Jeff Beck (1944– ), musician
- Rachel Beer (1858–1927), newspaper editor
- Compton Bennett (1900–1974), film director
- Golding Bird (1814–1854), medical writer
- Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959), Baptist preacher
- Jo Brand (1957– ), comedian
- William Thomas Brande (1788–1866), chemist
- Gary Brazil (1962– ), football player
- Nick Brown (1950– ), politician
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), author
- Thomas Harrison Burder (1789–1843), physician and author
- Peter Burton (1924–2007), physicist, philosopher, logician
C
- John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845–1914), Governor General of Canada
- Oliver Chris (1978– ), actor
- George Cohen (1939– ), football player
- Paul Condon, Baron Condon (1947– ), police commissioner
- Martin Corry (1973– ), rugby player
- The Reverend Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), missionary and writer
- Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist
- Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1963), military officer
D
- Gerald Charles Dickens (1963–), actor and performer
- Marcus Dillistone (1961–), Royal Premiered film director
- Sir Howard Douglas, Bt. (1776–1861), military officer
- Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
- Roy Douglas (1907–2015), classical composer
- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), Royal Air Force officer
E
- John Cox Dillman Engleheart (1784–1862), miniature painter
F
- Arthur Fagg (1915–1977), cricketer
- Caroline Fry (1787–1846), writer
G
- Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889), Tunbridge Wells improvement commissioner and Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851[1]
- Jilly Goolden (1956– ), television personality
- Léon Goossens (1897–1988), oboist
- The Reverend Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), clergyman and writer ↑
- David Gower (1957– ), cricketer
- Sarah Grand (1854–1943), suffragist and "New Woman" writer
- Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), theatrical director
H
- Ker Baillie Hamilton (1804–1889), colonial governor
- Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856), Viceroy of India
- Philip Carteret Hill (1821–1894), Nova Scotia politician
- Katrina Hodge, soldier and Miss England 2009
J
- Louise Jameson (1951– ), actress
- Richard Jones (1790–1855), economist
L
- Danny La Rue (1927–2009), entertainer
- Enid Lakeman (1903–1995), political reformer
- Duncan Lamont (1918–1978), actor
- Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford (1865–1953), Lieutenant-General and father of actor Peter Lawford
- Ron Ledger (1920–2004), politician
- Henry Bilson Legge (1708–1764), politician
- Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939), daughter of Queen Victoria
M
- Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (1905–1980), musician
- Khalid Masood (1965–2017), perpetrator of the 2017 attack on Westminster[2]
- Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew (1929–2016), politician
- Alec McCowen (1925– ), actor
- Victor McLaglen (1886–1959), actor
N
- Richard (Beau) Nash (1674–1762), celebrated dandy and leader of fashion
- William Nicholson (1948– ), writer
O
- Sir Charles Ogle, Bt. (1775–1858), naval officer
P
- Tim Page (1944– ), photojournalist
- Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton (1685–1754), politician
- Tim Pears (1956– ), novelist
- Eliza Phillips (1822/3–1916), conservationist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds[3]
- Rose Pipette (1986– ), pop singer with The Pipettes
R
- Sir Richard Robinson (1849–1928), businessman and local politician
- Richard Rose (1982– ), footballer
S
- Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851–1925), scientist
- Sarah Sands (1961– ), journalist
- Henry Albert Seymour (1861–1938), secularist, anarchist and gramophone pioneer
- Dominic Sherwood (1990– ), actor
- Slaves, musical band
- Colin Smart (1950– ), rugby player
- Horace Smith (1779–1849), poet and novelist
- Jamie Spence (1963– ), golfer
- Sir Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1811–1888), naval officer
- The Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1835–1926), zoologist
- Gary A. Stevens (1962– ), footballer
- Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1863–1941), photographer
T
- William Temple (1833–1919), recipient of the Victoria Cross
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist
- Bob Todd (1921–1992), comedy actor
V
- Sid Vicious (1957–1979), musician
W
- Virginia Wade (1945– ), tennis player
- H T Waghorn (1842–1930), cricket historian
- Scott Wagstaff (1990– ), footballer
- Charity Wakefield (1981– ), actress
- Arthur Waley (1889–1966), Orientalist
- Nick Wallace (1972– ), writer
- Frank Weare (1896–1971), World War I flying ace
- William Webber (1800–1875), surgeon
- James Whitbourn (1963– ), composer
Z
- Andy Zaltzman, comedian and writer
- Helen Zaltzman, co-host of popular podcast, Answer me this
References
- ^ "Thomas Gibson & Thomas Field Gibson". Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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- ^ Jonathan Burt. "Phillips [née Barron], Eliza [known as Mrs Edward Phillips] (1822/3–1916)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 19 October 2012.