Mary Webb

Mary Webb

female, deceased (1927)
English women writer, Romantic fiction writer, English, Fromshropshire, shropshire
Mary Webb (March 25, 1881 - October 8, 1927), was an English romantic novelist of the early 20th century, whose novels are set chiefly in the...
Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter

male, deceased (1691)
Theologian, puritan, English clergy, Puritanism, English, Religious writer…Fromshropshire
Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615 - December 8, 1691) was an English Puritan church leader, theologian and controversialist, called by Dean Stanley...

John Hartley

male, deceased (1935)
All Comer's Final, Gentlemans Singles title, Alice Margaret Lascelles, Fromshropshire, queen mary, Wimbledon Championships…Tong, Shropshire, shropshire
John Thorneycroft Hartley (January 9, 1849 - August 21, 1935) was a tennis player from England, and the only clergyman to win Wimbledon. Born in...
Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

male, deceased (1918)
Wikisource Futility, Wikisource Strange Meeting, World War I, Recipient of the Military Cross, World War I poet, english poetry…Fromshropshire, from the United Kingdom
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18 1893 - November 4 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First...
Agnes Hunt

Agnes Hunt

female, deceased (1948)
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, RRC, shropshire, Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire, World War I, Member of the Royal Red Cross…Fromshropshire
Dame Agnes Gwendoline Hunt DBE RRC (31 December 1866-24 July 1948) is generally recognized as the first orthopaedic nurse. She was born in...
Matthew Webb

Matthew Webb

male, deceased (1883)
tragedy, Sailor, British, cunard, calais, stunt performer…shropshire, Fromshropshire
Captain Matthew Webb (19 January 1848 - 24 July 1883) was the first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids. On 25...
Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym

female, deceased (1980)
novelist, World War II, Excellent Women, shropshire, Anthropologist, booker prize…Fromshropshire
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist.
Billy Jones

Billy Jones

male, 22 years old
William "Billy" Jones, Preston North End F.C. player, preston north end, Fromshropshire, footballer born 1987, Crewe Alexandra
William "Billy" Jones (born March 24, 1987 in Shrewsbury, England) is an English footballer, currently awaiting his first season playing for...
Edmund Plowden

Edmund Plowden

male, deceased (1585)
serjeants-at-law, From Oxfordshire, From berkshire, English, Legal academic, Lord Chancellor…Fromshropshire, shropshire
Edmund Plowden (1518 Plowden Hall, Lydbury, Shropshire, England - 6 February 1585 London, England), son of Humphrey Plowden (1490-1557) and...

Robert Johnson

male, deceased (1582)
executed under the Tudors, Catholic martyr of the Early Modern era, Tudor clergy, Fromshropshire, Martyred priest, martyr…shropshire
Blessed Robert Johnson, a Shropshire native, was a Catholic priest and martyr during the reign of Elizabeth I. He joined the German College in Rome...