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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 (9,769 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




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Lyford Grange nr Wantage.Lived in the Grange in the fifties(Grange Farm)where the house had ten berooms severeal large downstair rooms,two hallways and secret compartments in the walls.Edward Campion was an English Cathlic Martyr who on the run hid in Lyford Grange from the Anglican's in 1581 but was captured taken to London,tortured then hung,drawn and quartered.In St Johns Cathlic church next door to the prison,just inside the door is lots of literature about him.

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7 Jan 2013, 06:31 PM
TWYFORD




The actor Dennis Price was born in Twyford.

The Home Secretary and MP for Maidenhead Theresa May lives near Twyford, which is part of her constituency.

she lives in sonning david i think :unsure:
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7 Jan 2013, 06:29 PM
WINDSOR




Other than HM Queen Elizabeth II and other British Royal Family members, Windsor has many notable residents both former and current.

Actress Anna Friel spent several years living in Windsor, but moved away in 2007

Australian pop singer Natalie Imbruglia owns a house on White Lilies Island in the Clewer village area of Windsor but does not currently live there

Actor Michael Caine lived at the Old Mill House at the end of Mill Lane, Windsor during the 1960s and '70s. The house was subsequently sold to guitarist Jimmy Page of the rock band Led Zeppelin, who sold the property in 2004

Actor Kris Marshall used to live in the Clewer area from 2000 to 2009

Dhani Harrison- English musician, son of George Harrison, was born in Windsor

Comedian Freddie Starr – Lived in Windsor in the 1970s in the St Leonard's Hill area

Pop Star Lisa Scott-Lee – Formerly of the teen band Steps and now a solo performer

Margaret Oliphant – 19th century novelist and historical writer; lived at Clarence Crescent. Today the house is named "Oliphant House"

Ranulph Fiennes – Adventurer, explorer and author was born in Windsor

Actor Alex Pettyfer – Starred in I Am Number Four and Beastly

Actress Sue Holderness – Played Marlene in the long running UK TV sit-com Only Fools and Horses and in The Green Green Grass

Sir Sydney Camm – Inventor of the World War II fighter aircraft the Hawker Hurricane lived at 10 Alma Road

Zinzan Brooke – New Zealand rugby union international, who formerly played amateur rugby for Windsor Rugby Football Club. A current Windsor resident

Hugh Thomas – historian, was born in Windsor

Alexander Prior - composer/conductor
Billy Connolly lived in a house called "GruntFuttock Hall " on Drift Rd Windsor
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WOKINGHAM


Notable people

Anna Watkins, gold medallist at the 2012 London Olympics and bronze medallist at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in the women's double sculls

Luke Bedford, composer

Thomas Bradley, chaplain to King Charles I

Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet of London

Tom Burrows, cricketer

The Cooper Temple Clause, post-hardcore punk band

Captain Martin Crieff (Cabin Pressure (radio series))

Claude Duval, highwayman who owned a house in the town

Dick Francis, writer

Thomas Godwin, Bishop of Bath and Wells, born and died in Wokingham

Nicholas Hoult, actor

Stephen Hughes, footballer, born in Wokingham

Steven Lewington, professional wrestler formerly known as "The British Babe", now wrestling as "DJ Gabriel" with WWE

Frederick Lucas, founder of The Tablet

Henry Lucas, founder of the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge University

Sir Henry Marten, Judge of the Admiralty Court

Bonnie Norris, youngest woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

John Dawson Read, singer-songwriter

Leslie Sears, cricketer

Russell Slade, football manager

Anne Snelgrove, MP

Bill Stone, veteran of both world wars lived in Sindlesham

William Talman, architect and landscape designer

Nathan Tyson, footballer, went to Forest School

John Walter III, local benefactor and proprietor of The Times newspaper

Will Young, singer
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Waltham St Lawrence


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The manor is mentioned as early as AD 940 but its continuous appearance in historical records may be said to begin with its sale by Ethelred the Unready in 1006. His widow, Queen Emma, bestowed it upon Ælfwine, the Bishop of Winchester. The Domesday Book records: "The King holds Waltham in demesne" and it remained a royal manor until 1189 when Godfrey de Luci, Bishop of Winchester, purchased it from the Crown. It was retained by the bishops of Winchester until the Reformation.

Bishop Ponet of Winchester surrendered the manor of Waltham to King Edward VI in 1551, and the King donated it to Sir Henry Neville, one of the gentlemen of his Privy Chamber, but Queen Mary returned it to Bishop John White of Winchester. King Edward's grant was confirmed (and Queen Mary’s annulled) by an Act of Parliament in the first year of Queen Elizabeth I. Billingbear House was built by Sir Henry Neville in 1567, and this Elizabethan mansion existed as the home of the Nevilles until it was pulled down after a fire in the early 20th century. His son was the early-17th-century diplomat, Sir Henry Neville, junior.
The parish register records that:
"September 17th, 1667, King Charles 2nd, with his brother James Duke of Yorke, Prince Rupert Duke of Cumberland, James Duke of Monmouth and many more of the nobles dined at Bellingbeare in the great Parlour". At that time, Richard Neville was Lord of the Manor.

Henry Neville, the last heir of this branch of the family, who had assumed the name of Grey, as heir of his maternal grandfather, Baron Grey of Werke, died in 1740. On the death of his widow, who afterwards had married as her second husband the Earl of Portsmouth, the manor of Waltham St. Lawrence was inherited by Richard Aldworth of Stanlake, whose father had married the daughter and heir of Colonel Richard Neville. Mr. Aldworth, on his accession to this property, took the name of Neville.


Other Notable People

Robert Gibbings, wood engraver, author and publisher

John Newbery, publisher


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ALDERMASTON



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The history of the Lords of the Manor of Aldermaston Court can be traced to Achard D'Aldermaston, who was born in 1036. Six families have had lordship of the Aldermaston estate. In the 11th century, Henry I gave Aldermaston to Robert Achard (or Hachard) of Sparsholt. In the mid-12th century, the Achard family founded the church of St Mary the Virgin. In 1292, Edward I granted the right for the lord of the manor to hold a market in the village. Another charter was granted by Henry IV, with evidence that the market existed until approximately 1900. The Achards also established an annual fair to observe the feast of St. Thomas the Martyr on 7 July.

Aldermaston was held by the Achard family until the 14th century, when it passed through marriage to Thomas De La Mare of Nunney Castle, Somerset. The De La Mare family governed Aldermaston for approximately 120 years, until Elizabeth de la Mare—whose male relatives predeceased her—married into the Forster family. In about 1636, the Forsters built a large manor house to the east of the church. The house incorporated parts of an earlier (15th century) house, including the chimney stacks. The Forsters' house was fronted by two porches, separated by a central section with seven bays. The porches had ornate Solomonic columns, similar to those at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford. The interior of the house featured a number of mythical statues, as well as artwork by Gaspard Dughet, portraits of William Congreve and Godfrey Kneller, and Tintoretto's Esther Before Ahasuerus. The house's Jacobean garden featured patterns of groves and avenues of oak, yew, Spanish chestnut and lime trees.

The 17th-century Aldermaston House, showing the building's proximity to the parish church:

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In the early 18th century the Forsters oversaw the building of almshouses in Church Road. Built by R Dixon in 1706, the houses became known as "Dixon's Cottages". The manor passed through the Forster family until 1752, when the Forster lineage ended and the estate was inherited by Ralph Congreve, the husband of the last Forster's grand-niece.

On Ralph's death a second-cousin of dramatist William Congreve inherited the manor. The Congreve Family owned the estate at the time of the 1830 Swing Riots. The rioters marched across Aldermaston, wrecking twenty-three agricultural machines. Workers were so frightened by the riots that they left their machinery in the open in an attempt to limit additional damage. Around the same time, the River Kennet (along the north side of the estate) was made navigable between Reading and Newbury.

In 1843, the manor house was destroyed by fire, news of which was carried in The Illustrated London News. The estate passed into the Court of Chancery and was purchased by Daniel Higford Davall Burr. In 1848, Burr commissioned the building of a neoclassical mansion to the south west of the original building. Burr saved the 17th-century manor's wooden staircase, though all that remains of the building is a staircase to the cellar (which is now home to a colony of bats). By 1851 the new building was complete, costing £20,000 and having a Tudor-like appearance.

Aldermaston Manor was built in the 1840s:

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Joseph Nash's 1849 lithograph of the staircase at Aldermaston Manor:

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Burr held the estate until his death 50 years later, when was inherited by his son, who sold it in 1893.




Other Notable People


Thomas Allibone, Lord of the Manor (1953–1985)

Alan Caiger-Smith, the studio potter, founded Aldermaston Pottery

Duncan Grant, painter, lived in the village with Paul Roche for the last few years of his life, and died in the village

Felix Pole, Lord of the Manor (1939–1953)

Paul Roche, poet, lived in the village





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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
Ahhh Uri Geller! The man who used to turn up to matches and donate his special powers to the team....who always seemed to lose whenever he did! The man was a liability!!
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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
Ahhh Uri Geller! The man who used to turn up to matches and donate his special powers to the team....who always seemed to lose whenever he did! The man was a liability!!
He should be putting his super powers to repell the flood waters in Sonning,so us penshioners can get about .
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HUNGERFORD

Notable people

Ivarr the Boneless, Danish Viking invader

John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, son of King Edward III. In the late 14th century, John of Gaunt was medieval lord of the manor and he granted the people the lucrative fishing rights on the River Kennet.

Sir Robert de Hungerford, a Baron Hungerford and a 14th century statesman. The noble family of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford originated from the town (c. 1450–1450), although after three generations the title passed to Mary, Baroness Hungerford who married Sir Edward (afterwards Lord) Hasting and the family seat moved to Heytesbury in Wiltshire.

Charlie Austin, Footballer for Burnley

Samuel Chandler, Nonconformist divine

Christopher Derrick, author

Rodney Desmeules, footballer for Swindon Town FC, Town Councillor

William Greatrakes, connected with the authorship of the Letters of Junius

Thomas Hayward (literary editor) (d. 1779?), editor of The British Muse (1738) and lawyer in Hungerford

Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, RAF Chief of the Air Staff during most of World War II

Robert Snooks, last highwayman to be hanged in England, born in Hungerford 1761

James E. Talmage, (1862 – 1933) LDS Church leader, writer and theologian. Author of Jesus the Christ
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ASCOT

Ascot is a village or small town in the east of Berkshire, England, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of London. It is most notable as the location of Ascot Racecourse, home of the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting. The region is split into three distinct areas: Ascot itself, North Ascot and South Ascot.



Notable residents

Chris Evans, radio and TV presenter, lives in Sunninghill

Sarah Harding, singer, Girls Aloud, born in Ascot

John Lennon and Ringo Starr of The Beatles, lived at Tittenhurst Park, Ascot

Marti Pellow, singer Wet Wet Wet lives in Ascot


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