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Characters MPs
A list of some of the key people who played a part in Wallingford's history, with links to further information.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Anthony Bacon |
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John Bacon, justice, was constable of
Wallingford during the first half of the reign of Edward II, and served the
king's half-brother Edmund of Kent from 1320
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Poet and founder in 1990 of 'HQ Poetry
Magazine', a third of which is dedicated to the haiqu.
He was born and went to school in Wallingford. He has had two books of poetry
published: Surviving Love (2005) and Poems and Translations
(1987), and co-edited an anthology called The Acorn Book of Contemporary
Haiki, (2000). He now lives in Swindon.
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Lady Evelyn Barbirolli (1911-2008) Born Eveyln Rothwell in Wallingford, daughter of R. H. Rothwell, a tea dealer, she was a virtuoso oboe player. She married conductor John Barbirolli in 1939 - he died in 1970. In 1931 she joined the Covent Garden Opera touring orchestra, and also worked with the Scottish Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra. She then became a soloist, with many works being dedicated to her. She also wrote books on oboe technique.
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Sir Robert Barker (c.1732–1789) Sir Robert Barker was an army officer for the East India Company. He became MP for Wallingford in 1774, but does not seem to have spoken in parliament. |
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Edward Barry (1759–1822) Edward Barry was a religious and medical writer. He was given
responsiblity for the churches of St Mary-le-More and St Leonard, Wallingford.
Barry was generous to charity within Wallingford. His sermons and lectures drew
large audiences, and many were published, as were his "Theological,
Philosophical and Moral Essays" and books on medical philosophy. He also
campaigned against bull-baiting and wrote a "Letter on the Practice of
Boxing". He died in Wallingford and his funeral was very well attended.
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John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (c. 1371-1410) John was the first of the four illegitimate children of John of Gaunt and Gaunt's mistress Katherine Swynford, later his wife. John of Gaunt had his nephew Richard II declare the Beaufort children legitimate in 1390. Gaunt married their mother in January 1396. Despite being the grandchildren of Edward III, and next in the line of succession after the Lancasters, their father's legitimate children, Henry IV ensured that they were barred from the succession to the throne. In 1397 he was created Marquess of Dorset, and during that year he was made a Knight of the Garter and made castlellan of Wallingford. His marquessate was rescinded in 1399 after the accession of Henry IV, and afterwards he was merely Earl of Somerset. In 1404 he was Constable of England.
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John Beaufort |
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Sir William Bereford ( -1326) Bereford was a justice who owned a fishery below Shillingford Bridge, in the honour of Wallingford. He was connected with Piers Gaveston and an executor of Gaveston's will.
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Walter Bigg (1606-1659) Established the Bigg Charity, which still functions, and was
founder of Wallingford
School in 1659,
with an endowment of £10 per annum, initially to pay for 6 boys, a school
master and a school building. He was a Master of the Merchant Taylors Company,
and later Lord Mayor of London (1653-54) and Alderman of Cripplegate
(1657-1658).
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Justice William Blackstone (1723-1780) Lawyer, notary and author of Commentaries on the Laws of
England (1765-1769), which were influential in the writing of the American
Constitution. He moved to Wallingford in 1749 to work as a notary. He lived in
Wallingford at Castle
Priory which he bought in 1759,
and contributed towards a spire for St Peter's Church. He also established the
turnpikes on many local roads to improve transport links. He was vehmently
anti-Catholic. His grandson, William
Seymour Blackstone was an MP for Wallingford.
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Sir William Blackstone |
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William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881) He was grandson of Justice William Blackstone. Having previously accused a successful candidate of bribery in 1831, he was elected Conservative MP for Wallingford in 1832, and served until 1852, when the constituency refused to re-adopt him. He defended the Corn Laws, and was one of the rebels who opposed Robert Peel over Free Trade in 1846, causing the fall of the government. Like his grandfather, he was staunchly anti-Roman Catholic. He lived at Castle Priory but decided to build a still-grander house, Howbery Park, across the Thames in Crowmarsh Gifford. However, he fell into debt, largely because of the costs of building this new home, and spent time in the debtors prison at Oxford in 1854. His debt problems also contributed to the end of his political career. He died in Brighton, never having lived at Howbery Park.
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William Seymour Blackstone |
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Thomas Blagge (1613-1660) Colonel Blagge, originally from Suffolk, was a supporter of Charles I, operating a foot regiment from Wallingford Castle (of which he was Governor) during the Civil War from 1642. He was (in 1646) the last to surrender a major English stronghold to Cromwell's forces. He was a supporter of Charles II but died 6 months after the restoration of the monarchy. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Charles Bradley (1789–1871) Charles Bradley was a clergyman born in Essex, but who spent most of his first twenty-five years in Wallingford, before moving to Clapham. He published many volumes of sermons.A Series of Practical Sermons by Rev. Charles Bradley
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Charlie Brooker (1971-) Comedy writer from Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, who went to
Wallingford School. He has written for the TV shows “Brass Eye”, “Nathan
Barley”, “Spoons”, “The 11 O'Clock Show”, and created a website called
“TVGoHome” which was also a TV programme. He also writes columns entitled
“Screen Burn” and “Supposing…” for “The Guardian” newspaper.
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A book by Charlie Brooker |
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Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet (c. 1610-1669) Richard Browne was a parliamentarian during the civil war, but was imprisoned for a period (after being accused of conspiracy with the Scots) in 1648, including time spent in Wallingford Castle. He was subsequently Lord Mayor of London.
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Writer and performance poet. She won
the Coventry Poetry Prize for “Homecoming”. She has appeared on BBC Radio
4’s “Broadcasting House” and . She lives in Wallingford.
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John Buckley (1945– ) John Buckley, born in Leeds 1945, is a sculptor whose most important public sculpture is "Untitled 1986", better known as "The Shark House" or the "Headington Shark" in Headington, Oxford. The Shark was erected on the 41st anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Buckley made the shark out of fibreglass on the farm near Wallingford where he was based. John Buckley is a Patron of MAG (Mines Advisory Group). http://www.johnbuckleysculptor.co.uk/
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The Headington Shark |
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Edwina Jane Burbury (c1818–1870) Edwina Jane Burbury (née Hicks) was a writer - her first
work, "How to Spend a Week Happily" was published in 1848. Florence
Sackville (1853) was her best known work. She died in Wallingford.
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Bartholomew Burghersh ( -1369) Bartholomew Burghersh, the younger, third Lord Burghersh was the eldest son of Bartholomew Burghersh the elder. He accompanied Edward III to Flanders 1339 and Brittany in 1342–3. Burghersh was part of Edward the Black Prince's retinue at Crécy in 1346 and involved in the siege of Calais in 1347 the battle of Poitiers (1356). The Black Prince made him constable of Wallingford Castle in 1351.
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