George Vancouver

George Vancouver

male, deceased (1798)
From King's Lynn, Canadian, Royal Navy, From Norfolk, explorer, Explorer of North America
Captain George Vancouver RN (June 22, 1757 - May 12, 1798) was an officer of the Royal Navy, best known for his exploration of North America,...
Martin Brundle

Martin Brundle

male, 50 years old
BRDC Gold Star winner, From King's Lynn, racecar driver, 24 Hours of Le Mans, King's Lynn, International Race of Champions driver…From Norfolk
Martin Brundle (born June 1, 1959 in King's Lynn, Norfolk) is an English motor racing driver known chiefly as the man who ran Ayrton Senna close in...
Roger Meddows-Taylor

Roger Meddows-Taylor

male, 60 years old
Queen, From King's Lynn, Yoshiki Hayashi, Virginia Wolf, Radio Ga Ga, A Kind of Magic…King's Lynn, From Norfolk
Roger Taylor (born Roger Meddows-Taylor on July 26, 1949 in King's Lynn, Norfolk), is a multi-instrumentalist best known as the percussionist and...
Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe

female, 639 years old
Anglican, Women of medieval England, From King's Lynn, English women writer, Women writer, Hermit…From Norfolk
Margery Kempe is known for writing "The Book of Margery Kempe", a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language....
Thomas Baines

Thomas Baines

male, deceased (1875)
James Chapman, Eighth Frontier War, Explorations in South-West Africa, Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Xhosa wars, South West Africa…From King's Lynn, King's Lynn, From Norfolk
(John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 - 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Born in...
John Mason

John Mason

male, deceased (1635)
From King's Lynn, King's Lynn, from Newfoundland and Labrador, colony, kennebec river, governor…From New Hampshire
Captain John Mason (1586 - 1635) was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. He was a sailor, explorer, cartographer and colonizer and appointed the...
John Capgrave

John Capgrave

male, deceased (1464)
From King's Lynn, Theologian, augustinian, chronicle, theology, University of Cambridge…From Norfolk, King's Lynn
John Capgrave (1393-1464) was an English historian and theologian. He was born in King's Lynn in Norfolk, became an Augustinian friar and, at...
Alan Of Lynn

Alan Of Lynn

male, 709 years old
From King's Lynn, Theologian, Carmelites, fifteenth century, King's Lynn, Alumni of the University of Cambridge…From Norfolk, lynn
Alan of Lynn (c. 1348- after 1423), or Alanus de Lynna, a famous theologian of the first half of the fifteenth century. He flourished about 1420....
G. G. Coulton

G. G. Coulton

male, deceased (1947)
anti-catholic, medieval history, Middle Ages, From King's Lynn, From Norfolk, Fellow of the British Academy…King's Lynn
George Gordon Coulton was a British historian, known for numerous works on medieval history. He was known also as a keen controversialist. He was...
Guy Dawber

Guy Dawber

male, deceased (1938)
Stow-on-the-Wold, riba, Arts and Crafts Movement artist, Moreton-in-Marsh, batsford, Royal Institute of British Architect…From King's Lynn, King's Lynn, From Norfolk
Sir Edward Guy Dawber (King's Lynn, 1861 - London, 1938) was an English architect working in the late Arts and Crafts style whose work is...