- Axel Scheffler
Axel Scheffler (born Hamburg, 1957) is a book illustrator best known for his cartoon-like pictures for children's books, particularly "The Gruffalo" and "The Gruffalo's Child" written by Julia Donaldson. - Michael Searles
Regency architect Michael Searles (1750-1813) was famous as an English commercial architect of large houses, particularly in London. His most notable achievement is perhaps The Paragon in Blackheath. Searles was the son of a Greenwich surveyor, also named Michael Searles (c.1722-1799), who served (from 1765) as surveyor to Morden College in Blackheath. - Emily Davison
Emily Wilding Davison (1872 - June 8 1913) was an activist for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She killed herself by throwing herself under King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby. Davison was born in Blackheath, London, and had a university education, having studied first at Royal Holloway College in London. She later studied English Language and Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and obtained first-class honours in her final exams, … - Frank Watson Dyson
Sir Frank Watson Dyson (January 8 1868 - May 25 1939) was an English astronomer. He won scholarships to Heath Grammar School, Halifax and Cambridge University, where he studied mathematics and astronomy. He was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1905 to 1910, and Astronomer Royal (and director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory) from 1910 to 1933. In 1928, he introduced a new free-pendulum clock in the Observatory. - George Smith
George Smith (1782-1869) was an English architect and surveyor of the early 19th century, with strong connections with central and south-east London. Working from Mercers' Hall (Smith was official surveyor of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, the South East Rail Company and Morden College) in Cheapside in the City of London, his works included: * his own home, "Brooklands" in Brooklands Park, Blackheath (1825) * "Bellefield" (No. - Sophie Aldred
Sophie Aldred (born 20 August 1962) is an English actress and television presenter, best known for her portrayal of the Doctor's assistant Ace in the television series "Doctor Who". She was born in Greenwich, and raised in Blackheath, London. Having attended Blackheath High School, she studied drama at the University of Manchester, before embarking on a career in children's theatre. In 1987, she was cast as Ace in "Doctor Who". - Donald McGill
Donald Fraser Gould McGill, (January 28 1875 - October 13 1962) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with a whole genre of saucy seaside postcards that were sold mostly in small shops in British coastal towns. The cards feature an array of attractive young women, fat old ladies, drunken middle aged men, honeymoon couples and vicars. He has been called 'the king of the saucy postcard', … - John Cator
John Cator (1728 - 26 February 1806) was a wealthy timber merchant and landowner responsible for the layout of much of the areas around Blackheath, London and Beckenham London, both of which were in the County of Kent during the late 18th century. The son of a Herefordshire timber merchant and Quaker, Cator joined the family business which had relocated to a new London base at Mould Strand Wharf (now the Bankside site of the Tate Modern art gallery) in Southwark, … - Jack Cade
Jack Cade (possibly named John Mortimer) was the leader of a popular revolt in the 1450 Kent rebellion which took place in the time of King Henry VI in England. Some sources suggest Cade was of Irish origin but raised in Sussex where he is alleged to have murdered a woman in 1449. He escaped to France but returned to live in Kent under an assumed name. - John Gilbert
Sir John Gilbert (July 1, 1817-October 5, 1897), was a British artist. He was born in Blackheath, London, and taught himself to paint. Skilled in several media, he gained the nickname, "the Scott of painting". He was best-known for the illustrations and woodcuts he produced for the "Illustrated London News". Gilbert was initially apprenticed to a firm of estate agents, but taught himself art by copying prints. He was unable to enter the Royal Academy Schools, … - John Morden
Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet (13 August 1623 - 6 September 1708) was a successful English merchant and philanthropist who also served briefly as an MP. He established Morden College in Blackheath, south-east London as a home for retired merchants; as a charity, it continues to provide residential care over 300 years later. Born in London, the son of a goldsmith (George Morden), Morden was apprenticed to Sir William Soame, … - Walter Napleton Stone
Walter Napleton Stone (December 7, 1891 - November 30, 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was born in Blackheath, London. - Jon Hiseman
Phillip John 'Jon' Hiseman (born June 21, 1944 in Blackheath, London) is an English drummer. In the mid 1960s he also played in sessions such as an early Arthur Brown single (Devil's Grip). Jon Hiseman replaced Ginger Baker in Graham Bond Organization and he also was in the seminal UK unit Colosseum. Later after Colosseum split, he reformed Colosseum II featuring Don Airey and Gary Moore. - Lindi St Clair
Lindi St Clair (real name Marian June, born August 1952, London) is a late 20th century British prostitute. She was also known as Miss Whiplash, and has used other similar aliases. For many years, from the mid seventies until her bankruptcy in 1992, she offered her services from her own large three storey house at Eardley Crescent, in Earls Court London. An extremely successful dominatrix, she once owned a Rolls Royce and had her own yacht, … - William Lindley
William Lindley (b. September 7, 1808 in London - d. May 22, 1900 in Blackheath, London), was a famous English engineer who together with his sons designed water and sewerage systems for over 30 cities across Europe. As a young engineer he worked together with Marc Isambard Brunel and Francis Giles. In 1833 he went to Germany as Giles' assistant to design and build a railway line for Hamburg. - Samuel Brown
Sir Samuel Brown was an English engineer who developed an internal combustion engine. In patents dated 1823 and 1826, Brown proposed to fill a closed chamber with a gas flame, and so expel the air; then he condensed the flame by injecting water, and operated an air engine by exhausting into the partial vacuum so obtained. The idea was evidently suggested by James Watt's condensing steam engine, flame being employed instead of steam to obtain a vacuum. - Stephen Groombridge
Stephen Groombridge (January 7 1755, Goudhurst - March 30 1832, Blackheath) was a British astronomer. In 1806, using a transit circle, he began compiling a star catalogue of stars down to about eighth or ninth magnitude. He spent ten years making observations and another ten years doing reductions of the data (correcting for refraction, instrument error and clock error). In 1827 he suffered a "severe attack of paralysis" from which he never fully recovered. - Nick Ferrari
Nick Ferrari is a radio presenter who currently hosts the weekday breakfast show from 0700-1000 UTC (and BST in summer) on the London-based talk and phone-in radio station LBC 97.3. He has two sons, and lives in Blackheath, London. - Francis Dodd
Francis Edgar Dodd (29 November 1874 - 7 March 1949) was a notable British portrait and landscape artist and print-maker. Born in Holyhead, north Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister, Dodd trained at the Glasgow School of Art, winning the Haldene Scholarship in 1893 and travelling around France, Italy and later Spain. He settled in Manchester (1895-1905), becoming friends with Charles Holden, before moving to London. - Julian Rathbone
Julian Rathbone, English novelist, born 10th February 1935, Blackheath, London. He has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize. Julian Rathbone attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of Bamber Gascoigne and Sylvia Plath. After university he entered into a career as an English teacher. - Peter Martin Duncan
Peter Martin Duncan (April 20, 1824 - May 28, 1891) was an English palaeontologist. Duncan was born in Twickenham, and was educated partly at the local grammar school and partly in Switzerland. Having entered the medical department of King's College London in 1842, he obtained the degree of M.B.(Lond.) in 1846, and then acted for a short time as assistant to a doctor at Rochester. Subsequently he practised at Colchester (1848 - 1860), … - George Wood
George Edward Charles Wood (born August 22, 1893, Blackheath, London, died March 18, 1971, Christchurch, Dorset) was an English cricketer who played in 3 Tests in 1924. - Ruth Williams Khama
Ruth Williams, Lady Khama (1923 - 22 May 2002) was the wife of Botswana's first president, Sir Seretse Khama. Lady Khama was a former WAAF ambulance driver from Blackheath, London. She met Seretse Khama while he was attending law school in England and she was working as a clerk at Lloyd's of London. Their marriage in 1948 provoked discomfort in both South Africa and, initially, Botswana, and they lived as exiles in England until 1956. They then moved to Botswana. - Frank Mitchell
Frank Mitchell (born 13 August 1872 in Market Weighton, Yorkshire, England; died 11 October 1935 in Blackheath, London, England) was a cricketer. - Thomas Flamank
Thomas Flamank (executed June 24, 1497) was a lawyer from Cornwall who together with Michael An Gof led the Cornish Rebellion against taxes in 1497. The Cornish believed their distance from Scotland - on whom the war taxes were to be used against - were too far from Cornwall to concern them, so refused to pay. Having stirred up the people of St. Keverne, Cornwall, into open rebellion, … - Percy Royds
Admiral Sir Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds CB CMG ADC (5 April 1874 - 25 March 1955) was a British admiral and politician. Royds was born in Rochdale, the son of Ernest Royds and the older brother of Charles Royds, also later an admiral. He was educated at Eastman's School in Southsea, a naval school, and joined HMS "Britannia", Dartmouth as a Naval Cadet in 1887. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1895 and joined HMS "Excellent" as a gunnery officer. - Marshall Hall
George William Louis Marshall Hall was an English-born musician, conductor and poet, active in Australia. Later in life he hyphenated his last two names and was known as George William Louis Marshall-Hall or George W. L. Marshall-Hall. Hall was the son of a surgeon and grandson of Marshall Hall the distinguished physiologist, was born in London. He was educated at Mr Creak's school, The Wick, Brighton, and the Blackheath proprietary school. - Michael An Gof
Michael Joseph (better known as Michael An Gof, where "An Gof" is Cornish for "blacksmith"; died 24 June 1497) and Thomas Flamank (a Bodmin landowner's son and London lawyer) were the leaders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497. The rebels marched on London to protest at King Henry VII's levying a tax to pay for an invasion of Scotland in retaliation for the Scots' support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck. - Sid Brews
Sydney F. "Sid" Brews (May 29,1899 - 1972) was a prominent South African golfer. Brews was born in Blackheath, London, England. He turned pro in 1914. He who won the South African Open title a total of eight times between 1925 and 1952, when he became the tournament's oldest-ever champion aged 53. He also won the South African PGA Championship six times. His brother Jock Brews won the South African Open four times. He enjoyed considerable success outside of South Africa. - John Shuter
John Shuter (born 9 February 1855 Thornton Heath, Surrey, England; died 5 July 1920, Blackheath, Kent, England) was a cricketer who played for England and Surrey in the late 19th century. He is best remembered for captaining Surrey to a string of wins in the County Championship around the time it became official in 1890, aided by the bowler George Lohmann and back up by John Sharpe and William Lockwood. Shuter first led Surrey to the County Championship in 1887. - Fenner Brockway Baron Brockway
Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway (November 1 1888 - 28 April 1988) was a British anti-war activist and politician. - Walter Willson Cobbett
Walter Willson Cobbett was a British businessman and amateur violinist, and editor/author of "Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music". He also endowed the Cobbett Medal for services to Chamber Music. Walter Cobbett was born in 1847 in Blackheath, England. He became an active supporter of music, and commissioned numerous works of chamber music from emerging and leading British composers of his time, including chamber works by Benjamin Britten, Frank Bridge, … - Andrew Snape Hamond
Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, 1st Baronet (17 December 1738 - 12 September 1828) was a British naval officer and British Governor of Nova Scotia from 1781 to 1782. Richard Hughes had preceded him in that position. Born in Blackheath, London, England, the son of Robert Hamond and Susannah Snape, he joined the Royal Navy in 1753 and served during the Seven Years' War. In 1765, he was made a Commander and a Captain in 1770. In 1783, Hamond was appointed a Baronet. - George Engleheart
George Engleheart (born in October 1752 at Kew; died 1829 in Blackheath), English portrait miniature painter and great rival of Richard Cosway. He received his artistic training first under George Barret, R.A., and then under Sir Joshua Reynolds. He started on his own account in 1773, and exhibited in that year at the Royal Academy. He continued the active pursuit of his profession down to 1813, when he retired, and his fee-book, still in existence, … - Tommy Smart
Tommy Smart (born Blackheath, England on 20 September, 1896) was a football defender who made his name at Aston Villa and also made five appearance for England at international level. Tommy played for a few football teams before his long spell with Aston Villa in 1920. Those clubs were Rowley Regis Schools, Blackheath Town, Army football, Halesowen Town. After making 452 appearances for Aston Villa, in which has credited Tommy as Aston Villa's 7th most capped player. - Edward Charles Frome
Edward Charles Frome (7 January 1802 - 2 November 1890) was a prominent surveyor and early South Australian. Born in Gibraltar, and orphaned early in his life, he was educated in Blackheath, London, England, where he became a close friend of Benjamin Disraeli. He received his commission in the Royal Engineers in 1825. He was involved in the Rideau Canal construction in Canada in 1827-33. - Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland KG, (13 January 1477 - 19 May 1527) was the eldest son of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland and Maud Herbert. His maternal grandparents were William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1423-1469) and his wife Anne Devereaux. Edward IV of England made him a Knight Bachelor in 1481. In 1495 he was made a Knight of the Garter. He fought against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath, London in 1497. - Andrew Burnaby
Andrew Burnaby, a clergyman and traveler, was born in Ashfordby, Leicestershire, England, around 1732. He was the eldest son and namesake of Reverend Andrew Burnaby, a well-to-do clergyman of the Church of England. The younger Burnaby attended Westminster School in 1748, and then Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1754 and his Master's degree in 1757. He spent 1759 and 1760 traveling though the American colonies. - Peter W. Barlow
Peter William Barlow (1 February 1809-19 May 1885) was an English civil engineer, born at Woolwich, particularly associated with bridges (he designed the first Lambeth Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London), the design of tunnels and the development of tunnelling techniques, namely his patent in 1864 for the cylindrical tunnelling shield used by James Greathead in the construction of his tunnel under the Thames. - David Hillier
David Hillier (born December 18 1969) is an English former footballer. Hillier was born in Blackheath, London and had played schoolboy football for his region before joining Arsenal in January 1984 as an associated schoolboy. He later became a trainee and turned professional in February 1988; Hillier captained the Arsenal side which beat Doncaster Rovers in the 1988 FA Youth Cup final. He progressed to the club's reserve side, winning the Football Combination in 1989-90, …
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