- Philip Webb
Philip Speakman Webb (12 January, 1831 - 17 April 1915) was an English architect - sometimes called the 'Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture'. Born in Oxford, Webb studied at Aynho in Northamptonshire and was then articled to firms of builder-architects in Wolverhampton and Reading, Berkshire. He then moved to London where he eventually became a junior assistant for G. E. Street. While there he met William Morris in 1856 and then started his own practice in 1858. - John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale (January 24, 1818 - August 6, 1866), English divine and scholar, was born in London, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he was affected by the Oxford Movement, and helped to found the Cambridge Camden Society (afterwards known as the Ecclesiological Society). Though he took orders in 1841, ill-health prevented his settling in England until 1846, when he became warden of Sackville College, an alms-house at East Grinstead, … - Richard Baker
Sir Richard Baker (1568 - February 18, 1645), author of the "Chronicle of the Kings of England" and other works, was probably born at Sissinghurst in Kent, the grandson of Sir John Baker, the first Chancellor of the Exchequer. He entered Hart Hall, Oxford, as a commoner in 1584. He left the university without taking a degree, studied law in London and afterwards travelled in mainland Europe. In 1593 he was chosen member of parliament for Arundel, … - Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves (born April 18, 1961) is an English actress best known for her work as Daphne Moon on "Frasier". Born in Ilford, Essex, England and growing up in East Grinstead, Leeves trained as a ballet dancer and worked as a model, until she made her first film appearance as a topless angel in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life". - Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith (born April 16, 1924) is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. For over twenty years he was Chairman of the Churchill Chapter of the Primrose League. At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras South, a previously Labour-held marginal seat. He was defeated at the 1964 general election, … - Richard Fairbrass
Richard Peter John Fairbrass (born 22 September 1953) is a British singer and television presenter. - Richard Leman
Richard Alexander Leman (born July 13, 1959 in East Grinstead) is a former field hockey player, who was a member of the gold medal winning British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years earlier, at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he secured the bronze medal with his team. Between 1973 and 1977, he was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, where he captained the school's First XI hockey team. - Stuart Lewis-Evans
Stuart Lewis-Evans (b. 20 April 1930, Luton, Bedfordshire - d. 25 October 1958, East Grinstead, Sussex) was a Formula One driver from England. He participated in 14 Grands Prix, debuting on 19 May 1957. He achieved two podiums, and scored a total of 16 championship points. He also achieved 2 pole positions. In his short career Stuart Lewis-Evans made a disproportionately large impact on the world of F1. Despite his small stature and slight frame, … - Neil Turk
Neil Richard Keith Turk (born April 28, 1983, Cuckfield) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed specialist batsman with occasional right-arm medium-pace bowling. Turk received an official berth in the Sussex squad in 2005, though his debut for the county's second XI came in July 2002, and his debut for the first XI in September at Essex where he scored 36, which remained his highest List A score. At the end of the 2006 season, Turk was released from Sussex, … - Sarah Kennedy
Sarah Mary Kennedy MBE is a British TV and radio broadcaster, born July 8 1950 in East Grinstead, West Sussex. She has presented her own daily early morning radio show, "The Dawn Patrol", on BBC Radio 2 since 1993. Kennedy was honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005, when she was awarded the MBE for services to broadcasting. - Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet (8 May 1735 - 15 October 1811) was a notable English portrait painter and later a politician. The third son of architect George Dance the Elder, Dance (he added the 'Holland' suffix later in life) studied art under Francis Hayman, and like many contemporaries also studied in Italy. There he met Angelica Kauffmann, and painted several historic and classical paintings. On his return to England, he became a successful portrait painter. - Thomas Dutton
Sir Thomas Dutton (1421 - 1459) was an English knight. His family owned an estate, Dutton Hall, that was originally located in Cheshire, England. It is now located in Sussex, the original building having been moved there in the 1930s. The building is now a private school, Stoke Brunswick, at Ashurst Wood, just south of East Grinstead. Sir Thomas Dutton married Ann Touchet, daughter of James Touchet, Lord Audley 5th Baron of Audley and Heliegh Castle. - Charles Sackville 6th Earl of Dorset
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (24 January 1638 - 29 January 1706) was an English poet and courtier, son of the 5th Earl of Dorset (1622-1677). His mother was the former Lady Frances Cranfield, sister and heiress of the 3rd Earl of Middlesex, to whose estates he succeeded in 1674, being created Baron Cranfield, of Cranfield in the County of Middlesex, and Earl of Middlesex in 1675. - Paul Putner
Paul Putner is an English comedian and actor. He was born in East Grinstead in March 1966. He studied at LAMDA where he won, amongst other prizes, the Laurence Olivier prize for comedy acting. He has been married to the cabaret performer, Matty Mitford for 8 years. His first TV role saw Putner in the long-running ITV murder mystery series, "Midsomer Murders", as a gofer-type policeman who would deliver messages to DCI Barnaby. - Anne Pratt
Anne Pratt was a botanical illustrator from Strood, Kent. She was one of the best known English botanical illustrators of the Victorian age. She was the second of three daughters of Robert Pratt (1777–1819), a grocer, and Sara Bundock (1780–1845). Due to poor health and a 'stiff knee' in childhood she missed out on 'outdoor activities' and was encouraged to occupy herself by drawing. Anne Pratt was educated at Eastgate House, Rochester, … - Earl Of Cranbrook
Earl of Cranbrook, in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1892 for the prominent Conservative politician the Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy. He notably held office as Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for India. Gathorne-Hardy had already been created Viscount Cranbrook, of Hemsted in the County of Kent, in 1878, and was made Baron Medway, … - Charles Gordon 10th Marquess of Huntly
Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly was a Scottish peer and Tory (1818-30) then Whig (1830 onwards) politician, styled Lord Strathavon from 1794-1836, then Earl of Aboyne from 1836-53. Huntly was the eldest son of the 5th Earl of Aboyne (later Marquess of Huntly) and his wife, Catherine. - Alfred Gathorne-Hardy
Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy (27 February 1845-11 November 1918), was a British Conservative Member of Parliament. Gathorne-Hardy was the third son of Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, and Jane Orr. Born Alfred Hardy, he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Gathorne in 1878 like the rest of his family. The same year he was elected to the House of Commons for Canterbury, a seat he held until 1880, when the constituency was suspended. - William Thomas Berger
William Thomas Berger (1815 - 1899), was a Christian starch manufacturer in London and owner of Samuel Berger & Co., a patent rice starch manufacturer, who became the first home (England) director of the China Inland Mission with James Hudson Taylor in 1865. At this time the headquarters of the mission agency was located at Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, England. - David Pole
David Graham Pole (11 December 1877 - 26 November 1952) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Derbyshire from 1929 to 1931. His parents were John Pole, a ship's captain, and Rossina Graham, both from Shetland. - Thomas Pelham 1st Baron Pelham
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton Bt (1653 - 23 February 1712) was a moderate English Whig politician and Member of Parliament for several constituencies. Pelham was born in Laughton, Sussex, the son of Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet and Lucy Pelham. Pelham was educated at Tonbridge Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. He sat for East Grinstead from October 1678 till August 1679. In October 1679, he was returned for Lewes, … - Mary Wimbush
Mary Wimbush (March 19 1924 in Kenton, Middlesex - October 31 2005) was an English actress, whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s. Active across film, television, theatre and radio, she was perhaps best known for her role as the character of Julia Pargetter in BBC Radio 4's popular soap opera "The Archers", a part she played from 1992 until her death. Wimbush's father was a schoolmaster and her mother had trained at RADA, … - Johnny Waldron
Johnny Waldron, born in East Grinstead, Sussex on 12th January 1951, also known as "Big Bad" Johnny Waldron was a Light Heavyweight professional boxer based in Great Britain and Germany during the 1970s and early 1980s. After being refused a boxing license by the British Boxing Board of Control, on the grounds of his damaged eye, he turned to unlicensed boxing where he famously twice encountered Lenny McLean, winning both fights by virtue of a Knockout in the first round. - Richard Boyle 2nd Viscount Shannon
Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon PC (1675 - December 20, 1740) was a British military officer and statesman. Born in Westminster, Middlesex, Boyle inherited the title of Viscount Shannon from his paternal grandfather, Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon, in 1699. On July 7, 1702, he married Mary Sackville, who died twelve years later, bearing no children. He entered the House of Commons in 1708 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Arundel, … - Charles Jenkinson 3rd Earl of Liverpool
Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool, PC (May 29 1784 – October 3 1851) was a British politician. Liverpool was the son of Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool by his second wife Catherine Bisshopp, and the younger half-brother of Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. During the Napoleonic Wars he notably served as a volunteer in the Austrian Army at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. - Charles Rose Ellis 1st Baron Seaford
Charles Rose Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford (19 December 1771 - 1 July 1845), was a British politician. Ellis was elected to the House of Commons for Heytesbury in 1793, a seat he held until 1796, and then represented Seaford from 1796 to 1806 and from 1812 to 1826 and East Grinstead from 1807 to 1812. In 1826 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Seaford, of Seaford in the County of Sussex. Lord Seaford married the Hon. - Sir Thomas Littleton 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Littleton, 2nd Baronet was an English MP, the son of Adam Littleton and Audrey Poyntz. He represented the borough of Wenlock in the Short and Long Parliaments, being turned out of the last in 1644. He inherited the baronetcy in 1647, and sat for Wenlock again in the Cavalier Parliament. He was subsequently member for East Grinstead and Yarmouth (Isle of Wight), dying a month after his election to the last seat. - Cyril Wyche
Sir Cyril Wyche, FRS, DCL, MA, BA (1632 - ?1707) was an English lawyer and politician. He was born in Constantinople, Turkey, where his father, Sir Peter Wyche, was the English Ambassador. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford with Bachelor of Arts in 1653. He received his Master of Arts (MA) in 1655 and his Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) in 1665. Between the time he received his MA and his DCL, he was knighted (1660). - Richard Lumley 2nd Earl of Scarbrough
Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough, KG, PC (November 30 1686 - January 29 1740) was a British, Whig politician, known as Lord Lumley from 1710-21. The second son of the 1st Earl of Scarbrough, Lumley was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1708, he entered Parliament as MP for East Grinstead and took over from his recently deceased, elder brother as MP for Arundel in 1710. - Will Ingwersen
Will Ingwersen, nurseryman and alpine specialist of renown. Will won numerous gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show and wrote or co-authored many books which can still be found in second hand shops - in some cases at a premium. An occasional broadcaster on shows such as the BBC's Gardeners' Question Time, Will is remembered for his contribution to alpine and rock gardening. - Evelyn Emmet Baroness Emmet of Amberley
Evelyn Violet Elizabeth Emmet, Baroness Emmet of Amberley (18 March 1899 - 10 October 1980) was a British Conservative Party politician. Emmet was the daughter of the diplomat Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell, and was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was a member of London County Council from 1925 to 1934, of West Sussex County Council from 1946 to 1967, and of the Conservative Women's National Advisory Committee 1951 to 1954. - George Goschen 2nd Viscount Goschen
George Joachim Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen GCSI GCIE CBE VD PC (15 October 1866 - 24 July 1952) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for East Grinstead from 1895 to 1906 and as Governor of Madras from 1924 to 1929. - Henry Cautley 1st Baron Cautley
Henry Struther Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley KC (9 December 1863-21 September 1946), known as Sir Henry Cautley, 1st Baronet, from 1924 to 1936, was a British barrister, judge and Conservative politician. Cautley was the son of Henry Cautley and his wife Mary Ellen (née Strother). He was educated at Charterhouse School and King's College, Cambridge, and was later called to the Bar, Middle Temple. - William Sadler Franks
William Sadler Franks (April 26 1851 - June 19 1935) was a British astronomer. He published a catalogue of the colors of 3890 stars. In 1910 he was hired by F. J. Hanbury (of the Allan and Hanbury firm) to work as an observer at Hanbury's private Brockhurst Observatory at East Grinstead in Sussex. He continued his studies of the colors of stars there, and also made micrometer measurements of double stars. - Robert Cuninghame 1st Baron Rossmore
Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore (d. 6 August 1801), was an Irish soldier and politician. Cuninghame was the son of Colonel David Cuninghame. He was a General in the Army and a Colonel in the 5th Dragons and fought at an early age at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of Ireland from 1793 to 1793. Cuninghame also sat as a Member of the Irish House of Commons for Tulsk from 1751 to 1760, … - East Grinstead
- Richard Leman
Richard is the England Hockey representative on the GB Board. He was appointed in 2005 and was very involved with the discussions that ended up with the Business and Performance agreement being signed by England, Scotland and Wales. - Hazel
Well Hello...I live in East Grinstead, near Gatwick. I love music, and having a good time. I like socialising and meeting new people. I like Art, Photography, and Music, good food and lots more. - Jodie
I have blonde hair and blue eyes and im 5 ft 4. im almost 17 and go to Sackville School 6th form in East Grinstead and am studying 4 my a levels. i love all ma girlies n my sexual boyfriend alex x x x x x x x x x x x x x ! ! - Sophie
well this is "me". . i'm sophie . 17 . going to plumpton college to do horse management . i care too much . i can be very harsh when i want to be . i love the people close to me these three people are my best friends and love them to bits.<<br> . nats . lottie . soraya i also have the most perfect boyfriend scott who is so amazing to me. he cares alot and i wouldnt give him up for anything!!!
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