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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.
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Jeremiah Learnoult Garrett (1764–1806?) Garrett was a dissenting minister, briefly at Wallingford.
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Piers Gaveston (c1284-1312) Favourite (and rumoured lover) of Edward
II, who gave him Wallingford Castle in 1307
- held lavish entertainments at Wallingford Castle, demanding the
attendance of various barons, who were already discontented with his position.
At a tournament to celebrate his marriage with the king's niece Margaret de
Clare, the new-made earl, with a party of knights, challenged a troop, which
included the Earls of Hereford, Warenne, and Arundel. He amused himself and the
king by devising nicknames for the earls. Thomas of Lancaster was the old pig or
the play-actor, Aymer of Pembroke was Joseph the Jew, Gilbert of Gloucester was
the cuckoo, and Guy of Warwick was the black dog of Arden. "If he call me
dog," said Warwick on hearing of the insult, "I will take care to bite
him." He was exiled in 1308 and 1311, but returned both times. While on his
way to safe custody at Wallingford Castle, he was captured by Warwick and later
killed by Lancaster's men.
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Dulcie Gray (1919-) Dulcie Gray, born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey in Malaya,
1919, was sent by her father to St Anthony’s School in Wallingford. She
married Michael Denison, whom she appeared with frequently on stage, TV and
film. She appeared in "The Little Foxes" as Alexandra, and
"Brighton Rock." Her films included Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945),
A Place of One's Own (1945), and They Were Sisters (1945), her first lead. With
husband Michael, she later appeared in My Brother Jonathan (1948), The Glass
Mountain (1949) and Angels One Five (1953). She appeared in 26 stage productions
with her husband, including "Candida" and "An Ideal
Husband". Dulcie also wrote 24 books, mainly crime novels. She and Michael
appeared in the TV series "Howard’s Way" (1985), and she then worked
in the theatre again after his death in 1988.
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Dulcie Gray and Michael Denison, from Denison's book Overture and Beginners |
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Richard Grey (1458-1483) Son of John Grey and Elizabeth Woodville, later Queen Consort
to King Edward IV of England, and thus half-brother to Edward, Prince of Wales
(who became Edward V). He was made constable of Wallingford Castle in 1482. He
was arrested by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) in 1483 for his
part in an attempted coup, and he was executed at Pontefract Castle.
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Guy of Warwick (Gui de Warewick) also known as Guy of
Wallingford, was son of Siward or Seguard of Wallingford, born around 843. The
story of Guy of Warwick appears in the 13th-century Anglo-Norman poem Gui
de Warewic, and then in Middle English in both 14th- and 15th-century
versions. His victory over Colbrand at Winchester is supposed to have led to the
end of Anelaph and Gonelaph’s attacks on Aethelstan. Some place Guy of Warwick
both as an ancestor of Wigod
of Wallingford and of Mary Arden, William Shakespeare’s mother, though this is
contentious.
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