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Notable Residents Guide; Who were/are the famous in each Berks town/village
Topic Started: 7 Jan 2013, 10:21 AM (9,767 Views)
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Who famous lives or lived in your part of the woods?

Here's a few to start from the next post, I hope to add to it periodically ... try to keep it true to 'Local Issues' - Reading and district, Berkshire and Thames Valley.

Of course, if you come across good lists also copy them onto here! But you can't auto-suggest yourselves !!! :P :D




Edited by daib0, 24 Jan 2013, 11:29 AM.
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TILEHURST


• Bryan Adams, musician, lived in Tilehurst in the 1960s while his father was stationed in the UK

• Jacqueline Bisset, actress, grew up in Tilehurst in a 17th century county cottage, where she now lives part of the year

• Kenneth Branagh, actor, attended Meadway School in the 1970s

• Mike Oldfield, musician, grew up in Tilehurst

•Ayrton Senna, Formula 1 driver, lived on the Pottery Road estate in the 1980s




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NEWBURY



Notable people - a number of notable people have originated from, worked, lived or died in Newbury:


• Richard Adams – author

• Roger Attfield – thoroughbred horse trainer

• Francis Baily – (1774–1844) - astronomer

• Captain Collet Barker (1784–1831) - early Australian explorer

• Michael Bond – creator of Paddington Bear

• Harry Bowl - (1914-?) footballer

• Bruno Brookes – radio and television presenter

• Keith Chegwin – television presenter

• Miles or Myles Coverdale (1488–1569) – bishop, co-author of the 1st English Bible

• Emma Crosby – television presenter

• George Dangerfield - (1904-1986) – journalist and author

• Sebastian Faulks – author

• Gerald Finzi - (1901-1956) – important English classical (late-romantic) composer and founder of the Newbury String Players

• Jill Fraser - (1946-2006) - The Watermill, Bagnor, Newbury (post town) theatre owner and director

• Christopher Hall - artist and former Mayor of Newbury

• James Hanson, Lord Hanson (1922-2004) - haulier, later venture capitalist

• Alec Hopkins – actor who played the young Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• Sir Michael Hordern - (1911-1995) - actor

• Tom Hynes - bass guitarist of metal band Malefice

• John Kendrick - (1573-1624) – philanthropic patron of the town and of Reading

• William Marshal "The Marshal" seen as first Lord Marshal - (1147–1219) medieval knight who served four Kings, in early life given up as a hostage at 'Newbury Castle'

• George Melly - (1926-2007) jazz musician and writer

• Jack O'Newbury - (1489-1557) – cloth merchant & patron

• William of Newbury – 12th century Abbot of Abingdon

• James Palumbo, Lord Palumbo - property developer, art collector, ex-chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain

• Jacqueline du Pré - (1945-1987) – one of the best twentieth century Cello players (but born in the Channel Islands)

• Hannah Richings – member of UK pop group S Club 8

• "Lord" George Sanger - (1825-1911) – circus owner born in Newbury who gave the Queen Victoria statue to the town in 1902

• John Septimus Roe - (1797-1878) – the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia

• Hannah Snell – (1723-1792) – female soldier

• Edward C. ('Ted') Titchmarsh (1899-1963) – leading 20th century theoretical mathematician

• Theo Walcott – footballer, originally for A.F.C. Newbury

• Sir Frank Williams – grand prix motor racing manager, founded the WilliamsF1 team

• Simon Channing-Williams - (1945-2009)- film producer

• Rt Hon Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lord Lloyd Webber - composer



Nobles killed at the First Battle of Newbury

• Earl of Carnarvon – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury, owner of Highclere Castle in 2012 famed for Downton Abbey in the Hampshire part of the post town, remains with his descendants

• Earl of Sunderland – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury

• Lord Falkland – killed at the 1st battle of Newbury




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READING





Dr. Anthony Addington (1730–1790; royal physician)

Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844; former Prime Minister; donor of land for Royal Berkshire Hospital)

John Alcock (1715–1806; organist and composer)

Sir George Alexander (1858–1918; actor and theatre manager)

Sir Hugh Percy Allen (1869–1946; university professor and conductor)

Len Andrews (1888–1969; footballer)

Jamie Ashdown (b1980; footballer)

Sir Arthur Aston (1590–1649; governor during the Siege of Reading in 1643)

Jane Austen (1775–1817; author)


Douglas Bader (1910–1982; aviator, patient at the Royal Berkshire Hospital after his crash at nearby Woodley)

Ken Barrington (1930–1991; cricketer)

Luke Beaven (b1989; cricketer)

Eliza Bennett (b1992; actress)

Jacqueline Bisset (b1944; actress)

Daniel Blagrave (1603–1668; former Member of Parliament and regicide)

John Blagrave (c1561–1611; early mathematician)

Michael Bond (b1926; author; creator of Paddington Bear)

Adam Boulton (b1959; political editor)

Felix Bowness (1922–2009; jockey in hit BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!)

Sir Kenneth Branagh (b1960; actor)

Angela Browning (b1946; politician)

Richard Burns (1971–2005; rally driver)

Deon Burton (b1976; footballer)

Christopher Butler (1902–1986; Roman Catholic bishop and theologian

Sir Clifford Charles Butler (1922–1999; physicist, co-discoverer of hyperons and mesons)

David Byron (1947–1985; original lead vocalist with rock group Uriah Heep)


William Cadogan, Earl Cadogan (1675–1726; commander-in-chief of the British Army)

John Cennick (1718–1755; early Methodist and Moravian evangelist and hymnwriter)

Percy Chapman (1900–1961; cricketer, captain of the victorious England 1926 Ashes team)

William Macbride Childs (1869–1939; historian, instrumental in creation of the University of Reading, first Vice-Chancellor)

Alexander Ross Clarke (1828–1914; geodesist; director of the measurement department of the Ordnance Survey)

Alma Cogan (1932–1966; popular singer of the 1950s)


Simon Doonan (b1952; creative director of Barneys department store in New York)

Natalie Dormer (b1982; actress)

Evelyn Dunbar (1906–1960; war artist)

Tony Durant (b1928; former Member of Parliament for Reading)


Peter Emery (b1926; former Member of Parliament for Reading)

Henry of Essex (?-c1170; royal standard bearer and loser of the trial by combat on De Montfort Island)


Hugh Cook Faringdon (?-1539; churchman; last Abbot of Reading Abbey)

Michael Foot (1913–2010; politician)

Justin Fletcher (b. 1970), children's TV personality


Ricky Gervais (b. 1961; comedian)

Jane Griffiths (b. 1954; former Member of Parliament for Reading)


Lambert Beverly Halstead (1933–1991; paleontologist and popularizer of science)

Bernard Laurence Hieatt (1909-1930 Motorcycle sidecar champion & world record holder)

John Howard Hinton (1791–1873; author and Baptist minister)

Ernest Hives (1886–1965; aero-engine designer and industrialist)

Richard Howitt (b 1961 - Labour MEP for the East of England was born in Reading)

Joseph Huntley (1775-?; innovative biscuit maker; founder of Huntley & Palmers)


Rufus Isaacs, Marquess of Reading (1860–1935; lawyer, politician, former Member of Parliament for Reading)


Dan Jones (b1981; writer, historian, and journalist)

John Kendrick (1573–1624; merchant and mayor

Miranda Krestovnikoff (b. 1973, biologist and presenter of the Coast TV series)

Jeremy Kyle (b. 1965) radio and television presenter


William Laud (1573–1645; former Archbishop of Canterbury)

David Lean (1908–1991; film director and producer)

John Michael Hubert Lee (b1927; former Member of Parliament for Reading)

Nikolai Liakhoff (1897-?; pioneer of guide dog training)


Sir John Madejski (b1941; entrepreneur and philanthropist)

Ken Major (1928–2009; architect and molinologist)

William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (1146–1219; Earl Marshal and Regent of England)

Henry Marten (1602–1680; regicide, Parliamentarian Governor of Reading)

Peter May (1929–1994; cricketer)

Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855; author, poet and playwright)

Sam Mendes (b1965; director)

James Merrick (1720–1769; poet and scholar)

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (née Catherine "Kate" Middleton) (born 1982; duchess, married to Prince William)

Ian Mikardo (1908–1993; former Member of Parliament for Reading)

Sir Francis Moore (1558–1621; lawyer, former Member of Parliament for Reading)

Hayden Mullins (b1979; footballer)


Arthur Negus (1903–1985; broadcaster and antiques expert)

John Newbery (1713–1767; publisher and bookseller)


Cormac Murphy O'Connor (b1932; Archbishop of Westminster, Head of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain)

Mike Oldfield (b1953; composer and artist)


George Palmer (1818–1897; biscuit manufacturer, entrepreneur and politician; proprietor of Huntley & Palmers)

George William Palmer (1851–1913; son of George Palmer, also a politician and proprietor of Huntley & Palmers)

Sir Constantine Henry Phipps,(1656-1723), Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Dick Poole (cyclist; first man to cycle from Land's End to John o'Groats in under two days)

Rev Dr John Pordage (1607–1681; priest and mystic, vicar of St Laurence's)

Fred Potts VC (1892–1943; holder of the Victoria Cross)

Stuart Price (b1977; Electronic musician)


Martin Salter (b1954; former Member of Parliament for Reading West)

Lawrie Sanchez (b1959; footballer and manager)

Ayrton Senna (1960–1994; racing driver, Formula One champion)

Richard Sheepshanks (1794–1855; astronomer)

Yasmina Siadatan (b1981; businesswoman)

Charles Simeon (1759–1836; English evangelical clergyman)

Sir John Simeon (1756–1824; former Member of Parliament for Reading

George Blackall Simonds (1843–1929; sculptor and brewer)

William Blackall Simonds (1761–1834; brewer and banker)

Goldwin Smith (1823–1910; historian and journalist)

Sir John Soane (1753–1837; architect)

Michael Sprott (b1975; professional heavyweight boxer)

Sir Frank Stenton (1880–1967; Professor and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading)

Matilda Stanley (1818–1908; Queen of the Gypsies)

Dennis Stokes (1911-1998; Cricketer who captained Berkshire and played first-class cricket for the Minor Counties)


William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877; early photographer)

Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795–1854; judge and author)

Chris Tarrant (b1946; radio broadcaster and host of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?)

Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975; novelist)

Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900–1993; ichthyologist)


Gerard Folliott Vaughan (1923–2003; psychiatrist and former Member of Parliament for Reading East)


Kevin Warwick (b1954; scientist)

Neil Webb (b1963; footballer)

Sir Thomas White (1492–1567; merchant, founder of St John's College at Oxford University)

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900; poet and playwright, author of The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and prisoner in Reading Gaol)

Doug "The Anarchist" Williams (b1972; wrestler)

Rob Wilson (b1965; Member of Parliament for Reading East)

Anna Winslet (b1972; actress)

Beth Winslet (b1978; actress)

Kate Winslet (b1975; actress)

Lucy Worsley (b1973; historian and television personality)



see this page to click onto individual biographies ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_from_Reading,_Berkshire
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Surprised you missed out Henley David. Perhaps you were leaving it for me.

There are many celebrities who lived in Henley and the surround villages so here goes. Some have died but most were alive in my lifetime. I'll probably forget loads and have to add them as they spring to mind.

George Cole - Actor

Celia Johnson - Actress

Robert Morley - Actor

Joe Brown - Musician

George Harrison - Musician

Mike Hurst - Musician

Boris Johnson - Politician

Robert Hardy - Actor

Ian Fleming - Author

George Orwell - Author

David Tomlinson - Actor

Lucy Fleming - Actress

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Had to come in Keith mate dear Dusty Springfield , loved her to bits, believe she is buried there to.
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Only a couple out of them I can claim to have been near/seen etc.

Walcott - went to school with him
Kate Middleton - Bucklebury is like 5 minutes from my old house and used to go there quite often. Never knew her but a friend I went to school with used to work with her
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Has noone mentioned Uri Geller?

Chris Tarrant grew up in Lower Earley, his mum is still in Reading if she's still alive.

Didn't realise Sam Mendes was
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7 Jan 2013, 12:13 PM
Had to come in Keith mate dear Dusty Springfield , loved her to bits, believe she is buried there to.
How could I forget Dusty?

Yes, her grave is in the cemetery at St Marys church, the one by the bridge.
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Pea
7 Jan 2013, 02:33 PM
Has noone mentioned Uri Geller?

Chris Tarrant grew up in Lower Earley, his mum is still in Reading if she's still alive.

Didn't realise Sam Mendes was
There is probably a very good reason why no-one mentioned Uri Geller ;) :D
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