- John Brown
John Brown (born 1887 - deceased) was a contract bridge player and author. His best-known book is "Winning Defence" (1952). Brown was the head ("County Captain") of the Lincolnshire Contract Bridge Association for several years starting in 1947. - Carmel
Carmel (born Carmel McCourt, 24 November 1958 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England) is a British female singer, her eponymous band Carmel uniting bassist Jim Parris, and drummer Gerry Darby. - Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 - 29 March 1788) was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. Despite their closeness, Charles and his brother did not always agree on questions relating to their beliefs. In particular, Charles was strongly opposed to the idea of a breach with the Church of England into which they had been ordained. Charles Wesley is chiefly remembered for the many hymns he wrote. - John Cotton
The Reverend John Cotton (December 4, 1585 - December 23, 1652) was a highly regarded principal among the New England Puritan ministers, who also included John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, Increase Mather (who became his son-in-law), John Davenport, and Thomas Shepard. He was the grandfather of Cotton Mather, who was named after him. Born in England, he was educated at Derby School, in buildings which are now the Derby Heritage Centre, and attended Cambridge University, … - Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders RN (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was one of the most accomplished navigators and cartographers of his age. In a career that spanned just over twenty years, he sailed with Captain William Bligh, circumnavigated Australia and encouraged the use of that name for the continent, survived shipwreck and disaster only to be imprisoned as a spy, … - Abi Titmuss
Abigail Evelyn Titmuss, best known as Abi Titmuss, (born 8 February, 1976 in Ruskington, Lincolnshire), is an English television personality, glamour model and occasional actress. - Jim Broadbent
James Broadbent (born May 24, 1949) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning English theatre, film and television actor. - Paul Roberts
Christopher Paul Roberts (12 October 1951 - 9 June 1977) was an English cricketer who played one first-class and one List A game for Worcestershire in 1974. Born in Cleethorpes, Roberts played for Worcestershire's second team many times between 1971 and 1973, as well as appearing twice for Lincolnshire in the Minor Counties Championship. - Edward Leigh
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, and was first elected in 1983. He has served as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee since 2001. He was educated at The Oratory School, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle (a French school in London) and University College, Durham where he read History and was president of the Durham Union Society. - Richard Watson
Richard Watson (1781-1833) was a British Methodist theologian who was one of the most important figures in 19th century Methodism. Watson was born in Lincolnshire and entered the Methodist itinerancy in 1796, serving as President of Conference in Britain in 1826 and as secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society from 1821 to 1825. In Britain, he was a leading opponent of slavery. Watson was a gifted writer and theologian. - Bob Evans
Robert "Bob" Evans (born June 11, 1947 in Waddington, Lincolnshire) is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in 11 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 1, 1975. He scored no championship points. He also competed in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. Evans followed the usual route through to Formula One, via Formula Ford, Formula 3 and Formula 5000 where he was British champion in 1974. - Pinch
Pinch (born Andrew Pinching on 5 September, 1965 in Grantham, Lincolnshire) is the current drummer in punk band The Damned. He has been with the band since 1999. He attended the King's School in Grantham, where he was a founder member of the English Dogs. Pinch is currently employed by House of Blues Inc. and works as a stage manager for one of its venues. He is married to neo-burlesque performer Mimi LeMeaux. Pinch is an abbreviation of his real name, … - David Jackson
David Nicholas George Jackson (born 15 April, 1947 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) nicknamed Jaxon, is a British progressive rock saxophonist, flautist, and composer. He is best known for his work with the band Van der Graaf Generator, of which he was a member for most of the 1970s and for their 2005 reunion. In September 2006, however, it was announced that VdGG would be continuing without Jackson. - Shona McIsaac
Shona McIsaac (born 3 April 1960, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a British politician, and since 1997, she has been the Labour Member of Parliament for the North East Lincolnshire & North Lincolnshire (Yorkshire and Humber Region) constituency of Cleethorpes. - Hereward The Wake
Hereward the Wake, known in his own times as Hereward the Outlaw or Hereward the Exile, was an 11th century leader in the Kingdom of England who led resistance to the Norman Conquest, and was consequently labelled an outlaw. He was an Anglo-Saxon. According to legend, Hereward's base was the Isle of Ely and he roamed the The Fens that surround what is now Lincolnshire, leading popular opposition to William I of England. - William Stukeley
The Rev. Dr. William Stukeley F.R.S., F.R.C.P., F.S.A. (November 7, 1687-March 3, 1765) was an English antiquary who pioneered the archaeological investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury and was one of the founders of field archaeology. He was born at Holbeach in Lincolnshire (where a Primary School now takes his name - on the site of Stukeley Hall), the son of a lawyer. After taking his M.B. degree at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, … - Darren
DARREN (born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England) is a singer-songwriter. He was a nominated for a 2006 Outmusic Award. DARREN had feature interviews in the June 2006 pride issues of the international publications "Genre" and "Instinct" - George Stubbs
George Stubbs (born in Liverpool on August 25, 1724 - died in London July 10, 1806) was a British painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Stubbs was the son of a currier. Information on his life up to age thirty-five is sparse, relying almost entirely on notes made by fellow artist Ozias Humphry towards the end of Stubbs's life. Stubbs was briefly apprenticed to a Lancashire painter and engraver named Hamlet Winstanley, … - Mark Simmonds
Mark Jonathon Mortlock Simmonds (born 12 April 1964, Worksop) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire, and was first elected in 2001, succeeding Richard Body. He was re-elected in 2005 with an increased majority. Mark Simmonds is currently Shadow International Development Minister. - William Hutchinson
William Hutchinson (August 14, 1586 - 1642) was a prominent merchant and judge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the founders of Rhode Island. Hutchinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. His parents were Edward Hutchinson (1564-1631) and Susanna Wheelright (1564-1645). On August 9, 1612 he married Anne Marbury (1591-1643), the daughter of Rev. Francis Marbury (1555-1611) and Bridget Dryden (1563-1645). - Henry Hallam
Henry Hallam (July 9, 1777 - January 21, 1859) was an English historian. The only son of John Hallam, canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1799. Called to the bar, he practised for some years on the Oxford circuit; but his tastes were literary, and when, on his father's death in 1812, he inherited a small estate in Lincolnshire, he gave himself up wholly to academic study. - Paul Hudson
Paul David Hudson is a weather presenter for BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, in the UK. He went to the Brontë Middle School (now being knocked down for housing) and Oakbank School in Keighley. He has a first-class degree in Geophysics and Planetary Physics from the University of Newcastle. He can be seen on both editions of the regional news programme Look North, from Leeds (serving North, … - Joe Brown
Joe Brown (born Joseph Roger Brown, 13 May 1941, in Swarby, Lincolnshire) is a popular British entertainer of the 1960s and beyond. - Stephen Hilder
Stephen Hilder was a 20-year-old officer cadet at the defence academy at Shrivenham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom who on 2003-06-04 fell 4,000 metres to his death when, during a skydiving stunt, both his main parachute and his reserve parachute failed. The police initially reported that his parachute had been sabotaged, with the straps for his reserve parachute having been cut. A 10 month search for a murderer with a motive ensued, with two of Hilders friends, … - Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. Her Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work. Jennings was born in Lincolnshire, but her family moved to Oxford when she was six. There she later attended St Anne's College. After graduation, she became a librarian. She is not generally regarded as an innovator. Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin, … - Peter Levy
Peter Levy (born September 5 1955, Farnborough) is a British television and radio presenter, currently host of the BBC regional news programme "Look North", broadcast from Hull to East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. He hails from the South West, and came to Yorkshire in his late teens. - Geoff Capes
Geoff Capes (born 23 August 1949 in Spalding, Lincolnshire) is a former British shot put champion, and former two-time winner of the World's Strongest Man title. Capes stood 6'7" and weighed 23 stones (325 lbs) at his peak condition. - Eric Smith
Eric Martin Smith (28 December 1908 - 13 August 1951) was a British Conservative Party politician. At the 1950 general election, he was returned as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Grantham constituency in Lincolnshire. He replaced the independent MP William Denis Kendall, who had been first elected in a war-time by-election, but did not stand in 1950. Smith's death in August 1951 at the age of 42 did not trigger a by-election. - Soham Murders
The Soham murders were a high profile murder case of two ten year old girls Holly Marie Wells (born October 4 1991-c.August 4 2002) and Jessica Aimee Chapman (born September 1 1991-c.August 4 2002) in Soham. The murders were committed by Ian Huntley (born 31 January 1974 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England) in August 2002. - Francis Hill
Sir Francis Hill (1899-1980) was a leading historian of Lincoln and Lincolnshire, and the 3rd Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. He also served as a Councillor, Alderman and Mayor of Lincoln. - George Bass
George Bass, British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia (1771 - 1803), was born at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford Lincolnshire and was educated at Boston Grammar School. He trained in medicine at the hospital at Boston, Lincolnshire, qualifying in 1789, and in 1794 he joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon. He arrived in Sydney in New South Wales on the "Reliance", in which Matthew Flinders had also sailed, in February 1795. - Colin Dexter
Norman Colin Dexter, OBE, (born 29 September 1930 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) is the English author of the Inspector Morse novels. - Robert Webb
Robert Webb, born 29 September, 1972 in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England, is an English comedian, actor and writer, and one half of Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell. - Bill Newton Dunn
William "Bill" Newton Dunn (born 3 October 1941 in Greywell, Hampshire) is a British politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands for the Liberal Democrats. He was a Conservative Party MEP from 1979 to 1994 for Lincolnshire. After a spell out of the Parliament, he was re-elected a Conservative MEP for the East Midlands in 1999. - Augustine Webster
Saint Augustine Webster was an English Catholic martyr. He was educated at Cambridge University. He became the prior of Our Lady of Melwood, a Carthusian house at Epworth, on the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire, in 1531. He was imprisoned on the orders of Thomas Cromwell when he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy and was hanged, beheaded and quartered at Tyburn on May 4 1534. He was canonised in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales - John Hartley
Colonel John Cabourn Hartley (born 15 November 1874 in Lincoln, England; died 8 March 1963 in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club between 1895 and 1897 and Sussex County Cricket Club between 1895 and 1898. He then went on to play for the Marylebone Cricket Club in first-class fixtures until 1926. Hartley also played Test cricket for England on their tour to South Africa in 1905-06. - Darren Drysdale
Darren Drysdale is a Football League referee, and former corporal in the RAF at Cranwell. He was born on 18 February, 1971, and hails from Waddington in Lincolnshire. - Ian Roberts
Ian G. Roberts (born October 23, 1957 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985 and taught at the Universities of Geneva (1985-1993), Bangor (1991-1996) and Stuttgart (1996-2000) before taking up his present position at Cambridge in 2000. He is a fellow of Downing College. - Anne Askew
Anne Askew (Ayscough) (1521 - 16 July 1546) was an English poet and member of the Reformed Church who was persecuted as a heretic. She is the only woman on record to have been tortured in the Tower of London, before being burned at the stake. Born at Stallingborough into a notable family of Lincolnshire, she was forced by her father, Sir William Askew (Ayscough), to marry the Catholic Thomas Kyme when she was just 15, as a substitute for her sister who had died. - John Whitgift
John Whitgift (c. 1530-February 29, 1604) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 until his death. He was the eldest son of Henry Whitgift, a merchant, of Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, where he was born. His date of birth was probably somewhere between 1530 and 1533. His early education was entrusted to his uncle, Robert Whitgift, abbot of the neighbouring monastery of Wellow, by whose advice he was afterwards sent to St Anthony's School, London.
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