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Percy Cane (1881–1976)

Gerard de Canville ( -1214)

Sir Nicholas Carew (c. 1496-1539)

Sir Nicholas Carew

Nancy Carline (1909-2004)

Painter. Born Nancy Higgins in London, married artist Richard Carline in 1950. She did scenery painting for Sadler’s Wells. Later she focused on land- and townscapes, and was influenced by Claude, Corot and Bonnard. When Richard Carline died in 1980 she moved from Hampstead to Oxford. She died in Wallingford.

Sir Edward Chamberlayne (1480–1543)

Sir Edward Chamberlayne represented Wallingford in parliament in 1529. In 1530 he was appointed to assess the value of Cardinal Wolsey's possessions in Oxfordshire after his death.

Charles I (1600 - 1649)

Charles and his forces fought and lost a civil war against Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarians. Charles I's soldiers were billeted in the town in 1626. He came to Wallingford after the second battle of Naseby. Wallingford Castle was the last stronghold to surrender to Cromwell's forces. Charles was executed in 1649 on a charge of treason.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/charles_i_king.shtml
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page76.asp
http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/charles1.htm

Charles I

Son of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of the Canterbury Tales, he was appointed Constable of Wallingford Castle by Henry IV in 1399. He was buried in Ewelme. His daughter, Alice, was also a constable of the castle.
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/tchaucer.html
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jhsy/chaucer-ppp-tc.html

Thomas and Alice Chaucer's grave at Ewelme

Charles of Valois, Duke of Orléans (1394–1465)

Charles de Valois was one of the many French noblemen wounded in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Captured and taken to England as a hostage, he remained in captivity for the next twenty-five years, at various places including Wallingford Castle. During this period Charles wrote poetry, including melancholy works which seem to be commenting on the captivity itself, such as "Le Foret de Longue Attente". Charles was married to Isabella de Valois, who had been the consort of Richard II.

Charles of Valois

Writer of detective crime novels, such as the Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot stories and the play "The Mousetrap" . She said that "If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody," and "I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble." She lived at Winterbrook House in Wallingford, which she purchased with her husband Max Mallowan in 1934, and was President of the local amateur dramatics group The Sinodun Players from 1951 to her death. She is buried in Cholsey.
http://www25.brinkster.com/agathachristie/agatha_christies_biography.asp
http://elibrary.fultus.com/mergedProjects/Christie,%20Agatha%20(1890-1976)/agatha_christie(1890-1976).htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/features/famous_oxfordshire/agatha_christie.shtml
http://archive.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/2001/09/05/54496.html
Agatha Christie’s fictional village
http://herbertholeman.com/Agatha/mead.php
Photos of Winterbrook House http://www.agathachristie.pl/pic/album/b16.jpg
http://www.zhbluzern.ch/veranstaltungen/2003/images/agatha_christie_and_max_winterbrook.jpg

Agatha Christie

Sir Roger Clarendon (c.1350–1402)

Sir Roger Clarendon was the son of Edward the Black Prince and his mistress Edith Willesford. In October 1398 he was arrested and imprisoned at Wallingford after injuring Sir William Drayton in a fight. When Drayton died, Clarendon was charged with murder, but escaped. He later supported a conspiracy against Henry IV, and was arrested and charged with spreading rumours that Richard II was alive. He was executed.

Peter William Clayden (1827–1902)

Peter Clayden author and journalist was born at Wallingford educated at a private school in the town. He wrote for Edinburgh Review, The Fortnightly, and the Cornhill Magazine, and later the Daily News. He was a Liberal who supported the North in the American civil war. His books included "England under Lord Beaconsfield" (1880) and Five Years of Liberal and Six Years of Conservative Government (1880).
England under Lord Beaconsfield by Peter William Clayden

John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene (-1665)

Clotworthy was an Anglo-Irish politician. During the Irish Confederate Wars he unsuccessfully negotiated with Royalist commander Ormond for the surrender of Dublin to the Parliamentary forces in 1646. He was accused in the following year of having betrayed the Parliamentarian cause, and also of embezzlement; in consequence of these charges he fled to the Continent, but returned to parliament in June 1648. On December 12 in that year he was arrested, and remained in prison (including at Wallingford Castle) for nearly three years.

Sir John Clotworthy

Miles Crispin ( -1107)

Married Matilda, the daughter of Robert D'Oilly in 1084 and so gained ownership of Wallingford Castle on D'Oilly's death.

He was a radical parliamentarian who fought and won a civil war against Charles I. Wallingford Castle was the last of Charles's English strongholds to fall, and Cromwell ordered its destruction in 1652.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/cromwell_oliver.shtml

Oliver Cromwell