- Nicholas Of Guildford
Nicholas of Guildford (fl. 1250), English poet, the supposed author of "The Owl and the Nightingale", an English poem of the 13th century. This work, which displays genuine poetical and imaginative qualities, is written in the south-western dialect, and is one of the few 13th-century English poems not devoted entirely to religious topics. The nightingale sitting on a branch covered with blossom sees the owl perched on a bough overgrown with ivy, … - Yvonne Arnaud
Yvonne Arnaud (December 20, 1892 - September 20,1958) was a French-born pianist, singer and actress. From 1905 to 1911 she performed with leading orchestras throughout Europe and America. In 1911 she decided to try the stage instead of the concert hall and obtained the lead role in the musical "The Girl in the Taxi". However, an operation damaged her vocal cords so she switched to acting on stage. - George Abbot
George Abbot (October 19, 1562 - August 5, 1633) was an English divine and Archbishop of Canterbury. He also served as the fourth Chancellor of Trinity College,Dublin between 1612 and 1633. - Edith Cowan
Edith Dircksey Cowan, OBE (August 2 1861–June 9 1932) was an Australian politician, social campaigner and the first woman elected as a representative in an Australian parliament. Edith Brown was born and raised in Glengarry Station near Geraldton, Western Australia on August 2 1861. The second daughter of Kenneth Brown and Mary Eliza Dircksey née Wittenoom, … - Andrew Dismore
Andrew Hartley Dismore BA (Hons) (born September 2, 1954) British politician and solicitor He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Hendon in London. Andrew Dismore was born in Bridlington, North Yorkshire, the son of a hotelier, and educated locally at the Bridlington Grammar School before attending the University of Warwick where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1975,and the London School of Economics where he was awarded his Master of Laws in 1976. - John Russell
John Russell was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques. Born in Guildford, Surrey, he trained under the tutelage of Francis Cotes RA, one of the pioneers of English pastel painting, and – like Cotes – became an admirer of the pastel drawings of Rosalba Carriera. Russell set up his own studio in 1767. Although nominally based in London, Russell travelled extensively around Britain, … - John Marshall
Sir John Hubert Marshall (March 19, 1876 Chester - August 17, 1958 Guildford) was the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928. He was responsible for the excavation that lead to the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, two of the main cities that comprise the Indus Valley Civilization. Marshall was educated at Cambridge. In 1902 he was appointed Director-General of Archaeology within the British Indian administration, … - Jet Black
Jet Black (born Brian John Duffy; 26 August, 1938 in Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English drummer and one of the founder members of punk rock / new wave band The Stranglers. He is of Irish ancestry and currently lives in Gloucestershire. - Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux OBE (born 5 May 1959 in Guildford, Surrey, UK) is a computer game designer and game programmer, responsible for well known "God games" "Populous" and "Black & White", among others, as well as "Business Strategy" games such as "Theme Park" and most recently, "The Movies". In August 1997 Peter left Bullfrog Productions to establish a new development team, Lionhead Studios. - John Butterfill
Sir John Valentine Butterfill FRICS (born February 14, 1941) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bournemouth West. John Butterfill was educated at Caterham School and the College of Estate Management in London. In 1962 he began his career as a valuer with Jones Laing Wootton, before becoming a senior executive with the Hammerson Group in 1964. - Anne Milton
Anne Frances Milton (born November 3, 1955) is a British nurse and politician who has been the Conservative MP for Guildford since 2005. After service on the Health Select Committee, in November 2006 she was appointed Shadow Minister for Tourism. - Jonathan Djanogly
Jonathan Simon Djanogly (born June 3, 1965) is a British politician and solicitor, Conservative Member of Parliament for Huntingdon. Jonathan Djanogly was born in London and comes from a family of enormously wealthy textile manufacturers; he was educated at the University College School, Hampstead, before attending the Oxford Polytechnic where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in law and politics in 1987. He took his law finals at The College of Law, Guildford in 1988. - Sue Doughty
Susan Kathleen Doughty, known as Sue Doughty, (born 13 April 1948) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Guildford (2001-2005). Doughty entered Parliament in the 2001 election, becoming the first non-Conservative MP returned for Guildford since 1906 as well as its first female MP, and left in the 2005 general election, when she lost to the Conservative candidate Anne Milton. - Stuart Wilson
Stuart Wilson (born December 25 1946) is an English actor. Wilson was born in Guildford, Surrey, to an RAF family, and consequently had a varied educational history. Having re-located to London, he trained at RADA, and got his first big break when chosen for the leading role of Johann Strauss II in the 1972 ITV costume drama, "The Strauss Family". He subsequently made many appearances on British television, his credits including: "Space: 1999", "I, … - Alan Brown
Alan Everest Brown (born in Malton, Yorkshire, November 20, 1919 - died in Guildford, Surrey, January 20, 2004) was a British racing driver from England. He participated in 9 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on May 18, 1952 and numerous non-Championship Formula One races. He scored two championship points. - Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, on 1 February 1942) is a British comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team. Jones was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was head boy; he graduated in English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. While there he performed comedy with Michael Palin, … - Nick St Aubyn
Nicholas Francis St Aubyn, known as Nick St Aubyn (born 19 November 1955) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. St Aubyn was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate at the Truro by-election in March 1987 following the death of David Penhaligon MP, when Matthew Taylor comfortably held the seat for the Liberals. He stood again in Truro at the 1987 general election, halving the Liberal majority, … - George Edwards
Sir George Robert Edwards, OM, CBE, FRS, DL (born 9 July 1908 in Highams Park, England; died 2 March 2003 in Guildford, England) was a British aircraft designer and industrialist. Beginning as a design draughtsman, in 1945 he became the Chief Designer of the Vickers-Armstrong team that produced the Viking, Valetta, Varsity, Viscount and Valiant. He later became Managing Director of the company, supervising the development of the Vanguard, VC-10 and TSR-2. - Guildford Pub Bombing
The Guildford pub bombing occurred on 5 October, 1974. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) planted a bomb in the "Horse and Groom" pub on North Street in Guildford which killed five people and injured 65. An IRA active service unit, assumed by many to be the Balcombe Street Gang, manufactured two 6 pound gelignite bombs in London. One was placed in the "Horse and Groom" and the other in the "Seven Stars" pub nearby. - Matthew Church
Matthew John Church (born 3 October, 1975 in Guildford, Surrey) is a former English cricketer who played county cricket for Worcestershire and Gloucestershire in the 1990s. Church played Second XI cricket for Surrey in 1993, as well as appearing for the MCC Young Cricketers, but his first-class debut was for Worcestershire against Nottinghamshire in August 1994: opening the batting with captain Tim Curtis, he scored 22 and 0. Immediately afterwards he made his List A debut, … - Mike Rutherford
Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford (born October 2, 1950 in Guildford, Surrey) is an English musician. Whilst attending Charterhouse School he became a founding member of Genesis, initially as a bassist, 12-string guitarist, and backup vocalist. In later incarnations of Genesis, he assumed the role of lead guitarist. He also fronted Mike + The Mechanics. - William Mitchell
Reverend William Mitchell (born 20 November 1803 in the County of Monaghan, Ireland - died August 3 1870 in Perth, Western Australia, buried at Middle Swan) was a Church of England priest who was the first ordained person to provide religious services in the Swan Valley area of the Swan River Colony. He worked in the Swan Parish for over 20 years before moving to Perth to take up a position working with convicts and prisoners in the Perth Gaol in Beaufort Street. - John Gould
John Gould was an English ornithologist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of Charles Darwin's finches was pivotal in the development of the theory of The Origin of Species. Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Guildford, Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. - David Hemmings
David Hemmings (18 November, 1941 - 3 December, 2003) was an English movie actor and director, whose most famous role was the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blowup" in 1966 (opposite Vanessa Redgrave), one of the films that best represented the spirit of the 1960s. Although initially an attractive leading man, he was increasingly cast as a villain in the latter stages of his career, when his waistline expanded and his looks deteriorated. - Vernon Handley
Dr Vernon Handley, CBE (Born November 11 1930, Enfield, London) is a British conductor. He was a pupil of Sir Adrian Boult. He was born of Welsh parents, into a musical family. While in school he watched the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its studio in Maida Vale where by his own account he learned some of his conducting technique by watching Boult. Later the two corresponded in the early 1950s and met around 1958, … - Pat Doherty
Pat Doherty was born and educated in Glasgow where his parents had migrated to from Donegal in search of work. After working as a site engineer, Doherty returned to Ireland in 1968 and soon became involved in the republican movement. This has frequently led to allegations, which he has always denied, that he was an important member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and at times has served on its ruling body, the Army Council. - Lewis Elton
Lewis R. B. Elton is a German-born British researcher into education, specialising in higher education. Born Ludwig Ehrenberg in Tübingen to the scholars Victor Ehrenberg and Eva Dorothea Sommer, his (Jewish) family moved to Prague in 1929, and from there to England in February 1939, to escape the threat of Nazism. He changed his name to Lewis Elton during the Second World War, after which he obtained British citizenship. - Martin Bicknell
Martin Paul Bicknell (born 14 January 1969 in Guildford, Surrey) is a former English cricketer. He played only four Test matches, but the last two, against South Africa in 2003, came ten years after the first two in the 1993 Ashes series. England had played 114 matches between his appearances, a record. He was considered most unlucky to be constantly overlooked for selection in home test matches when constantly proving himself a prolific wicket taker in county cricket. - Mike Hawthorn
John Michael Hawthorn (April 10, 1929 - January 22, 1959) was a racing driver, born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Ardingly College, West Sussex. Hawthorn made his Formula One debut at the 1952 Belgian Grand Prix, finishing an impressive 4th place. This performance is the best ever grand prix debut by any British world champion. He would later win his first Grand Prix, at only the 9th attempt, when he won the 1953 French Grand Prix at Reims. - Steve Walsh
Steve Walsh (born 1959 - died 1988) was a disc jockey. He died in a car crash in Ibiza, Spain. Walsh began his radio career at the first Soul music Pirate radio station, Radio Invicta. From there he moved on to JFM, where his unique radio style first began to shine through. He then decided that if he was to further his career he would have to be completely legit. An opportunity came up at the new Independent Local Radio station, County Sound in Guildford. - Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn (born 29 January 1943 in Guildford, Surrey) is an award winning English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first presenter to appear on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!". - Peter Cross
Peter Cross (born 1951 in Guildford) is a British illustrator. He first worked as a technical illustrator for Hawker Siddeley. His style features lifelike drawings of British wildlife, in cartoon-like situations. Ostensibly produced for children, they include sufficient visual puns to be of interest to adults. He has also illustrated album sleeves, not least for guitarist Anthony Phillips, … - James Price
James Price was a British chemist and alchemist, who claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When challenged to perform the conversion in front of credible witnesses he instead committed suicide by drinking prussic acid. - Mark Hudson
Mark Hudson (born March 30 1982 in Guildford) is an English footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 5 shirt and is a centre half. Hudson began his career with Fulham but never managed to establish himself in the first team. He spent two months on loan at Oldham Athletic while Iain Dowie was manager there. After Dowie moved to Crystal Palace, Hudson moved back to Fulham where he now began to get small amounts of first team football. - Mark Hudson
Mark Alexander Hudson (born March 30 1982 in Guildford, England) is an English footballer who plays for Crystal Palace in The Championship. He wears the number 5 shirt and is a centre half. Hudson began his career with Fulham but never managed to establish himself in the first team. He spent two months on loan at Oldham Athletic while Iain Dowie was manager there. - Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie is an English actress best known for appearing with Victoria Wood in "Acorn Antiques" and "dinnerladies", and also for appearing in "After You've Gone" and "Kingdom". She was born in Guildford, Surrey and trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Her films have included "Nanny McPhee", "Hilary and Jackie" (playing Iris du Pré) and the 1997 film of "The Borrowers" where she played Homily Clock. - Andrew Latimer
Andrew Latimer (May 17, 1947, Guildford, Surrey) is an English musician and the lone remaining original member of the progressive rock band Camel. He made a music production named camel production which released Camel band's new albums. - Arthur Onslow
Arthur Onslow (1 October 1691, Chelsea - 17 February 1768) was an English politician. He was the elder son of Foot Onslow (d. 1710). Educated at The Royal Grammar School, Guildford and at Wadham College, Oxford, he became a barrister, rising to Recorder of Guildford, and in 1720 entered Parliament as a member for the borough of Guildford. Seven years later he became one of the members for Surrey with the highest majority ever recorded, and he retained this seat until 1761. - Vincent Simone
Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to England when he was 16 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. His professional dancing partner is Flavia Cacace who he met when they were both taking lessons from the same teacher; they were both looking for partners so they decided to have a try-out together and are still dancing together today. The two also teach dancing lessons for beginners to competitors in their spare time. - Ben Mills
Benjamin Collett Mills (born 1 March 1980 in Chatham, Kent, England) is a British singer who shot to fame on the third series of "The X Factor", where he finished in third place. He is currently recording his debut album and has signed a five-album record deal with Sony BMG. His album, "Picture of You", was released on 12 March 2007, the same date as the debut album from "The X Factor" runner up Raymond Quinn.
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