- Osyth
Osyth or Osith (died 653 AD) was an English saint. She is primarily commemorated in the village of St. Osyth, Essex, near Colchester. Alternative spellings of her name include Sythe, Othith and Ositha. Born in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire (at that time part of Mercia), she was the daughter of Frithwald, a sub-king of Mercia in Surrey, and was the niece of St Edith and Saint Edburga of Bicester. - Bob Russell
Robert Edward Russell, known as Bob Russell, (born 31 March 1946, London) is a British politician. He has been Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Colchester since 1997 (re-elected 2001 and 2005). He was the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport 2002-2005, but the portfolio is now held by Don Foster. Russell is currently a member of the LibDem's Shadow Defence team. Russell has a majority of 6,277 votes. - Mark Yeates
Mark Yeates (born January 11 1985) is an Irish footballer who plays for Colchester United. He can operate either as a striker or a winger. He has three Under-21 caps for the Republic of Ireland. His late father Stephen played for Shelbourne, Shamrock Rovers (2 goals in 11 appearances in 1989-90), Athlone Town and Kilkenny City. - John White
John White (born 25 July, 1986, Colchester) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Colchester. - Neil Danns
Neil Danns (born November 23, 1982, in Liverpool, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Championship side Birmingham City. - Boudica
Boudica (also spelled Boudicca, formerly better known as Boadicea) (d. 60/61) was a queen of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni people of Norfolk in Eastern Britain who led a major uprising of the tribes against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire. Her husband, Prasutagus, the Icenian king, who had ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, had left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman Emperor in his will, … - Liam Chilvers
Liam Chilvers (born Chelmsford, November 6, 1981) is a professional footballer with Preston North End. - Alex James
Alex James (born Steven Alexander James, 21 November 1968, in Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, England) is the bass player in the band Blur, and one of the members of Fat Les. The only member of Blur not to come from Colchester, James met future bandmate Graham Coxon at Goldsmiths College, where the two were studying, and was introduced to Damon Albarn and Dave Rowntree, who at the time were part of a band called Circus. - Sam Stockley
Samuel Joshua "Sam" Stockley is an English football defender, currently playing for Wycombe Wanderers in Football League Two. Stockley began his career as a trainee at Southampton but was unable to break into the first team. He moved to Barnet during the 1996/97 season and went on to make over 200 appearances for the club before moving to Oxford United for a fee of £150,000 prior to the 2001/02 season. - Charles Lucas
Sir Charles Lucas (1613-1648) was an English soldier, a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. He was the son of Sir Thomas Lucas of Colchester, Essex. His elder brother was Sir John Lucas, and his youngest sister the future Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. As a young man he served in the Netherlands under the command of his brother, and in the "Bishops' Wars" he commanded a troop of horses in King Charles I's army. In 1639 he was knighted. - Philip Morant
Philip Morant was an English clergyman, author and historian who lived in the 18th century. He attended Abingdon School but came from Colchester, Essex, UK. There is now a school named after him (The Philip Morant School and College), in Prettygate, an area near the town Colchester, his place of birth. Morant wrote "The History and Antiquities of Colchester ", … - George Jackson
Sir George Jackson (1725 - 1822), British politician, sat as a Member of Parliament (MP) at various times for Weymouth, Melcombe Regis, and Colchester. In addition he was Judge Advocate of the Fleet and was a friend and patron of Lt James Cook (later Captain). Cook named both Point Jackson in New Zealand, and Port Jackson in New South Wales after him. - Garry Richards
Garry Richards (born June 11 1986) is a footballer, currently playing for Colchester United. On the 30th January 2007 he scored his first career goal against Preston North End which was the only goal in 1-0 win for Colchester. On February 9, 2007, Richards signed for Brentford on a one month loan. This was later extended to the end of the 2006/7 season. However, due to a hip injury sustained in the game against Cheltenham, … - John Nash
John Nash (11 April 1893 - 23 September1977) was an English painter, illustrator, and engraver. Nash was born in London in 1893, the younger brother of Paul Nash. Educated at Wellington College, he exhibited from 1913, and fought in World War I from 1916 to 1918, working as an official war artist from 1918. From 1924 to 1929 he taught at the The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (Oxford), and from 1934 to 1940 taught at the Royal College of Art (London), … - Charlotte Atkins
Charlotte Jean Scott Atkins (born 24 September 1950) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands. The daughter of Ron Atkins, the former left wing Labour MP for Preston North, Atkins was educated at the Colchester County High School, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics. She joined the Labour Party in 1965. - Cole Skuse
Cole Skuse (born 29 March 1986 in Bristol) is an English footballer, currently playing for Bristol City in the Football League Championship. As an academy graduate, Skuse made his senior debut as a substitute at Colchester on 19 February 2005. He signed his first professional contract, a two-year deal, in April 2005. He then signed a new deal in January 2006, this time a four-year contract keeping him tied to the club until the summer of 2009. - Andrew Murrison
Dr Andrew William Murrison (born 24 April 1961, Colchester) is a doctor and politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for Westbury. - Joe Keith
Joe Keith (born October 1 1978) is a professional football player currently playing for A.F.C. Hornchurch. Keith's main position is left wing, but he can also play at left full back and left wing back. Keith started his career at West Ham as a trainee, but failed to make a senior appearance. He joined Colchester in 1999 and went on to make over 200 appearances for the club in six seasons. After a brief loan spell with Bristol City, … - Lyman Trumbull
Lyman Trumbull (October 12, 1813 - June 25, 1896) was a United States Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War. Trumbull was born in Colchester, Connecticut. He attended Bacon Academy and was a school teacher from 1829 to 1833. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar and practiced in Greenville, Georgia until moving to Belleville, Illinois in 1837. By 1840, he was serving in the Illinois State House and was Secretary of State from 1841 to 1843. - John Grant
John Grant (born Bolton, Lancashire, 1933) is a British author who writes under the pen name "Jonathan Gash". He is the author of the Lovejoy series of novels. Grant is a doctor by training and worked as a general practitioner and pathologist. He served in the British Army and attained the rank of Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was head of bacteriology at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the University of London between 1971 and 1988. - David Gregory
David Gregory (born 23 January 1970 in Colchester) is a retired English football midfielder. - Dave Rowntree
David Alexander De Horne Rowntree, commonly known as Dave Rowntree, (born 8 May, 1964 in Colchester, England) is best known as the drummer in the band Blur. - William Gilbert
William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd (Colchester, England, May 24, 1544 - London, England, November 30, 1603) was an English physician and a natural philosopher. He was an early Copernican, and passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. After gaining his MD from Cambridge in 1569, and a short spell as bursar of St John's College, Cambridge, … - Scott McGleish
Scott McGleish (born February 10, 1974 in Barnet) is an English footballer, currently playing for Wycombe Wanderers. During his career the lower league journeyman has had spells at Edgware Town, Charlton Athletic, Leyton Orient, Peterborough, Colchester, Cambridge United (on loan) and Barnet. He joined Wycombe Wanderers on 25th January 2007 for an undisclosed from Northampton Town, signing a two year contract.1 - Graham Napier
Graham Napier (born January 6, 1980) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Born in Colchester, Napier has played first-class cricket for his home county of Essex since the outset of his senior career in 1997. Between 1997 and 1999 Napier played in four Youth Test matches in England against Zimbabwe, South Africa (twice) and Australia's respective under-19 teams. - Chris Wright
Chris Wright (born September 27, 1986 in Colchester, England) is an English footballer, who plays for Boston United. Initially a member of the youth program at Arsenal, his first call-up was in a Carling Cup quarter-final against Manchester United, for which he was named as one of the substitutes, but didn't play during the match. Wright was released by Arsenal in the summer of 2005 and signed by Boston on a free transfer. - Darren Styles
Darren Styles, born Darren Mew (1975 in Colchester, Essex) is a British DJ, Record Producer and Song Writer, currently having success touring at vastly popular events such as Hardcore Heaven and Hardcore Paradise. Forms half of the successful hardcore duo Styles & Breeze (with Mark Breeze). Darren Styles has worked and featured on many Hardcore albums throughout his career as a DJ. =Early Career= Encouraged from quite an early age by his father, … - Tony Caig
Antony Caig (born April 11, 1974 in Cleator Moor, Cumbria) is an English football goalkeeper who is currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Gretna. Caig made his name playing for Carlisle United from 1992 to 1998, the highlight of this time being the penalty saves in the LDV Vans Trophy at Wembley against Colchester in 1997. - Kevin Ball
Kevin Ball (born Hastings, England, United Kingdom on 12 November, 1964) is a former professional footballer and now coach. Between 6 March and 8 May, 2006 Ball acted as Sunderland caretaker manager for the last ten games of the 2005-06 season following the sacking of Mick McCarthy, taking five points from these games. Although Ball expressed his interest in the manager's job on a full-time basis, … - Matthew Hopkins
Matthew Hopkins, d. 1647, was an English witchhunter whose career flourished in the time of the English Civil War. He held, or claimed to hold, the office of "Witch-finder General", though this was not a title ever bestowed by the Puritan Parliament, conducting witch-hunts in the counties of Suffolk, Essex, Norfolk and other eastern counties of England. Matthew Hopkins, born in Great Wenham, Suffolk, was a lawyer or lawyer's clerk, the son of James Hopkins, … - Andrew Phillips
Andrew Phillips is a historian from the ancient borough of Colchester in Essex in the East of England. He is a lecturer in history at the Colchester Institute. He is a contributor of historical columns to the Essex County Standard and he is the author of "Colchester: A History" (ISBN 1-86077-304-4). He is the facilitator of the Colchester Recalled oral history project. - Steve Foley
Steve Foley (June 21, 1953- September 3, 2006) in Clacton, Essex) is a professional football coach, formerly an employee of Norwich City F.C. before the termination of his contract on May 4, 2006. This prompted a move to rivals Ipswich Town. Foley first joined Norwich in 1996, appointed by then manager Mike Walker as reserve team coach. The two had worked together at Colchester, where Foley played professionally, scoring 54 goals in 283 league appearances for The U's. - Keith Scott
Keith Scott (b. 10 June 1967 in Westminster) is a former professional footballer. He was a striker who played professionally for Lincoln City, Swindon Town, Stoke City, Norwich City, Bournemouth, Watford, Wycombe Wanderers, Reading and Colchester United before returning to non-league football. He played up front for Dover Athletic, using his height and strength to great advantage in h lower leagues, heading many a goal in front of the River End faithful. - Kris Renton
Kris Renton (born July 12th 1990) is a young Scottish footballer who plays as a striker for Norwich City. Having been spotted playing in the summer of 2006 in Scotland playing for Musselburgh Windsor by Academy scout Karl Brady, Renton began the 2006/07 season in the youth team. He spent some time away though, being named in the Ireland Under 17s for a European Under 17 Championship qualifying tournament in Baku in Autumn 2006, … - Togodumnus
Togodumnus (d. AD 43) was a historical king of the British Catuvellauni tribe at the time of the Roman conquest. He can probably be identified with the legendary British king Guiderius. Togodumnus is known only from Dio Cassius's "Roman History", according to which he was a son of Cunobelinus. He probably succeeded his father to the kingship of the Catuvellauni, who were the dominant kingdom in the south-east of Britain at this time. - Mark Warren
Mark Warren is a central defender for King's Lynn F.C.. Mark was signed from Fisher Athletic, despite being offered a contract for the coming season. He started out with Leyton Orient and also played for Oxford (on loan), Notts County, Colchester and Southend. He has made over 250 football league appearances and is captain of King's Lynn. - Alec Chamberlain
Alec Francis Roy Chamberlain (born June 20 1964) is a former English goalkeeper currently employed by Watford as the club's goalkeeping coach. He made 790 appearances during his 25-year playing career. - Stephan Shakespeare
Stephan Shakespeare (born 1957 in Germany as Stephan Kukowski) is the founder and Chief Innovations Officer of the high-profile British Internet-based market research and opinion polls company YouGov. His other business interests include Internet television channel 18 Doughty Street. Kukowski (as he then was) came to the UK at the age of five and was educated at Christ's Hospital near London. - Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher. - Adrian Coote
Adrian Coote (b. 30 September 1978 in Belton, nr Great Yarmouth) is a former professional footballer. Coote, a striker, came through the youth system at Norwich City, for whom he scored 3 goals in 61 appearances. While at Carrow Road, he won full international caps with Northern Ireland. Coote was unable to establish himself in Norwich's first team and left during the 2001-02 season to join Colchester United. Coote was not a success at Colchester either, …
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