List of people from Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live(d) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, or made some important contribution to the town. As a spa town Royal Tunbridge Wells was a popular resort for the upper classes, including members of the British Royal Family.

Notable people from Royal Tunbridge Wells

A

• Jonathan Anders (1971– ), Shropshire cricketer

B

• Luke Baldwin (1990– ), rugby player
• Gary Barden (1955– ), musician
• The Reverend Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), mathematician
• C. A. Bayly (1945–2015), historian
• Jeff Beck (1944– ), musician
• Rachel Beer (1858–1927), newspaper editor
• Compton Bennett (1900–1974), film director
• Golding Bird (1814–1854), medical writer
• Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959), Baptist preacher
• Jo Brand (1957– ), comedian
• William Thomas Brande (1788–1866), chemist
• Gary Brazil (1962– ), football player
• Nick Brown (1950– ), politician
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), author
• Thomas Harrison Burder (1789–1843), physician and author
• Peter Burton (1924–2007), physicist, philosopher, logician

C

• John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845–1914), Governor General of Canada
• Oliver Chris (1978– ), actor
• George Cohen (1939– ), football player
• Paul Condon, Baron Condon (1947– ), police commissioner
• Martin Corry (1973– ), rugby player
• The Reverend Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), missionary and writer
• Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist
• Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1963), military officer

D

• Gerald Charles Dickens (1963–), actor and performer
• Marcus Dillistone (1961–), Royal Premiered film director
• Sir Howard Douglas, Bt. (1776–1861), military officer
• Keith Douglas (1920–1944), poet
• Roy Douglas (1907–2015), classical composer
• Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882–1970), Royal Air Force officer

E

• John Cox Dillman Engleheart (1784–1862), miniature painter

F

• Arthur Fagg (1915–1977), cricketer
• Caroline Fry (1787–1846), writer

G

• Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889), Tunbridge Wells improvement commissioner and Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851^[1]
• Jilly Goolden (1956– ), television personality
• Léon Goossens (1897–1988), oboist
• The Reverend Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), clergyman and writer ↑
• David Gower (1957– ), cricketer
• Sarah Grand (1854–1943), suffragist and "New Woman" writer
• Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), theatrical director

H

• Ker Baillie Hamilton (1804–1889), colonial governor
• Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856), Viceroy of India
• Philip Carteret Hill (1821–1894), Nova Scotia politician
• Katrina Hodge, soldier and Miss England 2009

J

• Louise Jameson (1951– ), actress
• Richard Jones (1790–1855), economist

L

• Danny La Rue (1927–2009), entertainer
• Enid Lakeman (1903–1995), political reformer
• Duncan Lamont (1918–1978), actor
• Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford (1865–1953), Lieutenant-General and father of actor Peter Lawford
• Ron Ledger (1920–2004), politician
• Henry Bilson Legge (1708–1764), politician
• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848–1939), daughter of Queen Victoria

M

• Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (1905–1980), musician
• Khalid Masood (1965–2017), perpetrator of the 2017 attack on Westminster^[2]
• Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew (1929–2016), politician
• Alec McCowen (1925– ), actor
• Victor McLaglen (1886–1959), actor

N

• Richard (Beau) Nash (1674–1762), celebrated dandy and leader of fashion
• William Nicholson (1948– ), writer

O

• Sir Charles Ogle, Bt. (1775–1858), naval officer

P

• Tim Page (1944– ), photojournalist
• Charles Paulet, 3rd Duke of Bolton (1685–1754), politician
• Tim Pears (1956– ), novelist
• Eliza Phillips (1822/3–1916), conservationist and co-founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds^[3]
• Rose Pipette (1986– ), pop singer with The Pipettes

R

• Sir Richard Robinson (1849–1928), businessman and local politician
• Richard Rose (1982– ), footballer

S

• Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851–1925), scientist
• Sarah Sands (1961– ), journalist
• Henry Albert Seymour (1861–1938), secularist, anarchist and gramophone pioneer
• Dominic Sherwood (1990– ), actor
• Slaves, musical band
• Colin Smart (1950– ), rugby player
• Horace Smith (1779–1849), poet and novelist
• Jamie Spence (1963– ), golfer
• Sir Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1811–1888), naval officer
• The Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1835–1926), zoologist
• Gary A. Stevens (1962– ), footballer
• Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1863–1941), photographer

T

• William Temple (1833–1919), recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist
• Bob Todd (1921–1992), comedy actor

V

• Sid Vicious (1957–1979), musician

W

• Virginia Wade (1945– ), tennis player
• H T Waghorn (1842–1930), cricket historian
• Scott Wagstaff (1990– ), footballer
• Charity Wakefield (1981– ), actress
• Arthur Waley (1889–1966), Orientalist
• Nick Wallace (1972– ), writer
• Frank Weare (1896–1971), World War I flying ace
• William Webber (1800–1875), surgeon
• James Whitbourn (1963– ), composer

Z

• Andy Zaltzman, comedian and writer
• Helen Zaltzman, co-host of popular podcast, Answer me this

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