Wallingford History Gateway
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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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Ælfhelm (fl. 996)
In 996 Ælfhelm, a citizen of Wallingford saw a vision of Æthelwold (c904–984, abbot of Abingdon and bishop of Winchester) which instructed him to visit his tomb to be cured of blindness. This was taken as evidence for Æthelwold canonisation.
Æthelred
the Unready (978-1016)
http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=person&id=EthelredtheUnready
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A526187
Abraham of Wallingford (13th C )
Abraham of Wallingford or Abraham of Berkhamstead a rich Jew and financier who owned property in both towns, and was a close acquaintance of Richard of Cornwall. Simon de Montfort accused him of financial misdeeds. In 1254 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. According to Matthew Paris, he had kept a picture of the Virgin and Child in his toilet in a place that meant it would be desecrated, and when his wife Floria cleaned the picture, he suffocated her. Richard intervened on his behalf despite the fact that the community of Jews offered to pay to keep him in prison. Richard was given ownership of the Jews in 1255, and Abraham was described as his personal Jew.
King Alfred the Great (849-899)
Born in Wantage, Alfred became king in 871. He is credited
with the plan for a series of burh defensive towns as protection against the
Viking invaders, including Wallingford, which were built in the late 9th century. The earthen defensive walls which remain were part of the plan.
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hpr1050.htm
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/alfred.html
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/KingAlfred/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/alfred_king.shtml
Arthur, Prince of Wales (1486-1502)
Arthur Tudor was the eldest son of Henry VII of England, and was granted the Honour of Wallingford, including the castle in 1490. He married the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon in 1501, but he died of a fever the following year, allowing his brother Henry, later become King Henry VIII, to become castellan.
Sir John Aubrey (1739–1826)
Sir John Aubrey, was born on 4 June 1739 at Boarstall, Buckinghamshire. He first entered parliament as MP for Wallingford in 1768. His maiden speech defended radical John Wilkes and he later argued for curtailing parliamentary privilege. After election for Aylesbury, he was returned for Wallingford in 1780, and supported Edmund Burke's attack on sinecures.Anthony Bacon (1558–1601)
Anthony Bacon was a spy and politician. He grew up with his brother, Sir Francis Bacon (philosopher, statesman and scientist, and it has been suggested that he collaborated with Francis on early essays. He spied for his uncle William Cecil (Lord Burghley), Sir Francis Walsingham and later for Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, favourite of Elizabeth I, for who he ran an international intelligence network. Essex nominated him as MP for Wallingford in 1593.
John Bacon (c.1250–c.1323)
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.
Kevin Bailey (1954-)
Poet and founder
of 'HQ
Poetry Magazine' in 1990, a third of which is dedicated to the haiqu. He was born and went to school in
HQ Poetry
Magazine
http://www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com/hq/index.htm
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 has also written books on oboe technique.
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.
Edward Barry (1759–1822)
Edward Barry was a religious and medical writer. He was responsible 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 "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.
Essays by Edward Barry
Coalitions and Compromises!: An Appeal to the Electors of Great-Britain, on ... By Edward Barry
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (c. 1371-1410)
John was the first of the four illegitimate children of John of Gaunt, and his 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.
Sir William Bereford ( -1326)
Bereford was a justice who owned a fishery below Shillingford Bridge, in honour of Wallingford. He was connected with Piers Gaveston and an executor of Gaveston's will.
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. He was a Master of the Merchant Taylors Company, and later Lord Mayor of London (1653-54) and Alderman of Cripplegate (1657-1658).
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 had built in 1759, and contributed towards a spire for St Peter's
Church. His grandson, William Seymour
Blackstone was an MP for Wallingford.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/blackstone/blackstone.htm
http://68.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BL/BLACKSTONE_SIR_WILLIAM.htm
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/wblackstone.html
Blackstone on Judges: Blackstone as Judge. Wilfid Prest,
University of Adelaide School of Law
http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n4/prest114.html
Full text of Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769)
http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/blackstone/
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, he 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.
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.
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.
Charlie
Brooker (1971-)
Comedy writer from Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, who
went to
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/brooker/0,14946,1280131,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/b/brooker_charlie.shtml
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.
http://www.myspace.com/alisonbrumfitt
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.
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.
Florence Sackville by EJ Burbury
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.
Percy Cane (1881–1976)
Stephen Percival Cane was a garden designer and writer. He Cane owned and published the magazines My Garden Illustrated and Garden Design. He died in Wallingford.
Gerard de Canville ( -1214)
Gerard de Canville was a supporter of John, who appointed him keeper of the honour of Wallingford. Because de Canville backed John in the rebellion of 1193 while Richard I was at the crusades, he lost his estates when Richard returned in 1194. When John became king Canville was regranted Lincoln Castle.
Sir Nicholas Carew (c. 1496-1539)
Carew was made a gentleman of the privy chamber in 1518, and in 1520 accompanied Henry VIII to meet François I of France at the Field of Cloth of Gold. In June 1521 Carew was granted the reversion of the office of constable of Wallingford Castle, together with the stewardship of Wallingford along with other titles held by Sir Thomas Lovell. However in 1538 he was arrested on a charge of treason and executed 3 months later.
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
Thomas Chaucer (1367-1434)
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
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 previously married to Richard II.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
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
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.
Married Matilda, the daughter of Robert
D'Oilly in 1084 and so gained ownership of Wallingford Castle on D'Oilly's death.
Oliver Cromwell (1599 - 1658)
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
Michael Davie (1924-2005)
Michael Davie was a senior editor of The Observer and editor of The Melbourne Age. He worked on the Observer for 35 years. He died in Wallingford.
Hugh the younger Despenser (1286-1326)
Hugh the younger Despenser became royal chamberlain in 1318. As a royal courtier, he became a favourite of Edward II, despite the opposition of Edward’s wife
Queen Isabella and the barons, and a reputation for extreme cruelty. He was given Wallingford Castle along with many other titles. When Isobella and Roger de Mortimer seized power from Edward, Wallingford was regained, and Isobella issued a declaration from the castle putting a price on Hugh’s head in 1326. Hugh was later arrested, tried and executed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_the_younger_Despenser
Thomas Digges (1546-1595)
A mathematican and astronomer who became MP for Wallingford in 1572. He is credited with developing the reflecting telescope. He championed the ideas of planetary motion of Copernicus. He described the earth thus: "This ball every 24
hours by naturall, uniforme and wonderful slie and smooth motion rouleth rounde,
making with his Periode our naturall daye, whereby it seems to us that the huge
infinite immoveable Globe should sway and tourne about." He also wrote on platonic and
Archimedean solids.
http://www.chocky.demon.co.uk/oas/diggeshistory.html
http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Digges.html
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (1810-1869)
He was son of another Charles Wentworth , proprietor and editor of The Athenaeum. The younger Charles was chairmanof the
council of the Society of Arts, and played a key role in the Royal Horticultural Society
and other bodies. In 1841 he co-founded The Gardeners' Chronicle. He was
a major promoter of the Great Exhibition in 1851 and 1862, but declined a
knighthood offered as a result. He became MP for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wentworth_Dilke,_1st_Baronet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gardeners'_Chronicle
Joanna Drew (1929–2003)
Joanna Drew, director of the Hayward Gallery in London and champion of modern art, was born in India. She lived in Wallingford.
Edmund Dunch (1657-1719)
MP for Wallingford, 1715-1719. Dunch was one of the Kit-Kat Club, a group with strong political and literary associations, committed to the furtherance of Whig objectives. His family came from Little Wittenham (his father Hungerford Dunch (1639-1680)was an MP), where he is buried. He was known as a Whig, a wit and a gambler. Many of Edmund’s forebears had been parliamentarians, particularly in William Dunch (1508-1597), auditor to the Mint for Henry VIII and Edward IV, represented Wallingford (1563), and was High Sheriff of Berkshire (1569-1570). It was William who bought the manor of Little Wittenham in 1552, which was the family seat. His son Sir Edmund Dunch represented Wallingford in 1571 and was High Sheriff of Berkshire (1586-1587). His son Sir William Dunch (1578-1611) represented Wallingford in 1603. He married Mary Cromwell in 1599, the daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell and aunt to Oliver Cromwell. It is believed that the variant name for Wittenham Clumps (Mother Dunch’s Buttocks) is associated with her. William’s brother Samuel (1592-1666) represented Wallingford in 1620. William’s son Edward (1603-1678) was governor of Wallingford Castle, and later became Baron Burnel, though he lost this title at the Restoration (this being the only title conferred by the Protector and not confirmed by Charles II. He too represented Wallingford in 1627 and 1640, and was High Sheriff of Berkshire. Edward’s son Hungerford Dunch (1639-1680) was returned for Wallingford in 1660 but elected for Cricklade. Hungerford’s son was Edmund Dunch (1657-1719).
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/edunch4.html
Ealdred of Abingdon (-1071)
Ealdred, also called Brihtwine, was a monk and provost at Abingdon before becoming abbot in 1066; he was later implicated in the conspiracy of Bishop Æthelwine of Durham, and was deposed and died in 1071 while in the custody of Bishop Walkelin of Winchester, following imprisonment at Wallingford Castle.
Edmund of Almain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (1249-1300)
Edmund was the second and only surviving son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall and his wife Sanchia of Provence. In 1264, after his father's capture at the Battle of Lewes, Edmund was held prisoner with his father at Kenilworth Castle, being released in September 1265. Following Richard's death in 1272, Edmund was recognised as his heir, and so gained ownership of Wallingford Castle. In May 1296, Edward I entrusted prisoners captured in the Scottish campaign to Edmund's castles at Wallingford and Berkhampsted. He gave rents of £40 to support St Nicholas's College at Wallingford Castle.
Edward I (1239-1307)
Edward was the son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. Edward defeated Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, having previously been imprisoned (in 1264)by de Montfort at Wallingford Castle and Kenilworth Castle – de Montfort threatening to fire him out of Wallingford castle on a siege catapult. His eldest son later became Edward II.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page61.asp
Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376)
Edward was the eldest son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, and father to Richard II. Edward, a military leader, died one year before his father and so never ruled as king (becoming the first English Prince of Wales to suffer that fate). Edward was created Duke of Cornwall in 1337 (the first creation of an English duke), (following an act in 1335 that formally tied the the duchy of Cornwall and the associated Honour of Wallingford to the eldest son of the king) and finally invested as Prince of Wales in 1343. Edward had been raised with his cousin Joan of Kent and married her in 1361. When in England, Edward's chief residence was at Wallingford Castle.
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)
The future Henry II married
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the cast-off wife of King Louis VII of France, 18th May
1152. Their eight children included Richard Coeur de Lion (king from 1189-1199), John Lackland (king from 1199-1216), and Prince William, Count of Poitiers, who died at Wallingford Castle aged 2 in 1156. In 1173, she incited her sons
to rebel against their father, giving them military support. When the revolt
failed Eleanor was put in prison, and not released until Henry died in 1189.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/henryii_character_01.shtml
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Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671)
Supporter of Oliver Cromwell. He forced the surrender of Thomas Blagge in 1646 at Wallingford Castle through a siege during the Civil War.
http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/fairfax.htm
http://www.fairfax.org.uk/MAIN/ARTICLES/RESEARCH/Fairfax/ffxregiment.HTM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/fairfax_thomas.shtml
Robert de Ferrers (1239-1279)
De Ferrers was the 6th earl of Derby – imprisoned at Wallingford in 1269 by Henry de Alemain. Until released by Lord Edward. He rebelled against King Henry III and was arrested and imprisoned first in the Tower of London, then in Windsor Castle and Wallingford Castle, and his lands and earldom were forfeited, including Tutbury Castle which still belongs to the Duchy of Lancaster.
Sir Hugh Fish (1923-1999)
Hugh Fish was a pioneer of water and environmental management who helped clean up the River Thames. Born in Yorkshire, he initially worked monitoring rivers in Essex, before becoming Chief Purification Officer, for the Thames Conservancy in 1969. He then joined Thames Water Authority as its Director of Scientific Services in 1974 before becoming its Chief Executive 1978. In 1984 he left to become Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council, where he worked until 1988. Knighted in 1987, he was made President, Institute of Fisheries Management 1987-99, while also Chairman of Water Engineering Ltd 1988-91. He lived in Wallingford and died there 27 May 1999.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990612/ai_n14228482
Brien FitzCount (c1090-1149)
Lord Of Abergavenny, and supporter of Empress
Matilda, daughter of Henry I. He married another Matilda, generally thought to be the daughter of Robert
D'Oilly. In 1127, Henry I had instructed FitzCount to go with his daughter Matilda when she married Geoffrey D'Anjou in France. He fortified Wallingford Castle in 1139, and opposed King
Stephen's forces here. He also built a prison, known as Cloere Brien, to imprison William Martel, one of Stephen's supporters.
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/bfitzcount.html
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Henry FitzGerald (-c1170)
An administrator for King
Stephen, believed to have been given the title of Constable of Wallingford Castle sometime after 1154.
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/bfitzcount.html
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Sir John Fortescue of Salden (c. 1531 –1607)
John Fortescue was the third Chancellor of the Exchequer of England, serving from 1589 until 1603. He was returned as MP for Wallingford in 1558 and 1572. Fortescue also held the position of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1601 to his death.
Jeremiah Learnoult Garrett (1764–1806?)
Garrett was a dissenting minister, briefly at Wallingford.
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. Discontent was already simmering. 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, and utterly discomfited his rivals. 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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/edward_ii_king.shtml
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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.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336588/bio
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grey
Guy of Warwick (Gui de Warewick) also known as Guy of Wallingford, was son of Siward or Seguard of Wallingford, born around 843. He is celebrated in a romantic poem Gui de Warewic, which describes his battle with the Danish giant Colbrand which appears to be based in fact, and other stories which are more clearly fiction. 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.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_legends/england/coventry_warwick/article_4.shtml
Helen Hatton (1860-1904)
Magazine illustrator, who married her collaborator William Henry Margetson. She was the daughter of Joseph Hatton, editor of The Gentleman's Magazine.
Edith P. Hayllar (1860-1948)
Artist who lived at Castle Priory, Wallingford from the age of 15: daughter of James
Hayllar.
http://www.lemaze-studio.com/product_pages/artists_h/hayllar_jessica.htm
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=1312
James Hayllar (1828-1920)
Genre painter who lived at Castle Priory, Wallingford 1875-1899, and included Wallingford in many of his paintings, such as "Picture Gallery At The Hall", "Musical Honours" and "First Born At The Cottage" which is thought to feature two of his children. His children Edith,
Jessica, Mary and and Kate were also artists. His wife, Edith Phoebe Cavell (1827-1899) was aunt to Edith Cavell (1865-1915), a nurse who was shot by firing squad by German forces during the first world war.
http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Hayl_J.htm
http://www.lemaze-studio.com/product_pages/artists_h/hayllar_james.htm
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/thecentreofattraction.asp
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=1312
Jessica Hayllar (1858-1940)
Artist who lived at Castle Priory, Wallingford: daughter of James
Hayllar. Many of her works show Wallingford.
http://www.artclub.fsworld.co.uk/Wallyarts/Jessicah.htm
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=2553
Kate Hayllar (fl. 1883-1900)
Artist, lived at Castle Priory, Wallingford daughter of James
Hayllar.
http://www.artclub.fsworld.co.uk/Wallyarts/kateh.htm
Mary Hayllar (1863-1950) (fl.
1880-5)
Artist, lived at Castle Priory, Wallingford: daughter of James
Hayllar.
http://www.artclub.fsworld.co.uk/Wallyarts/maryh.htm
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=1904
John Kirby Hedges (1811-1901)
The Hedges family bought Wallingford Castle from the Crown in 1817, and in 1837 John Allnat Hedges built a gothic-style house on the site. John Kirby Hedges, a JP, wrote a very detailed two-volume history of Wallingford. The Hedges Solicitors firm, based in Wallingford had a Hedges family member as a senior partner from 1789 until 1982.
Henry II (1132-1189)
Henry, Duke of Anjou was the son of Empress
Matilda, and fought to keep Wallingford Castle in the hands of her supporters, before agreeing a deal with King Stephen that would allow him to suceed to the throne of Stephen's death. In gratitude to Wallingford for supporting his cause, he gave the town its charter in 1155.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/henry_ii_king.shtml
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page62.asp
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hpr68.htm
Henry III (1216-1272)
Henry III, who came to the throne at the age of 10 after the death of his father, King John gave Wallingford Castle to his brother, Richard of Cornwall. Henry III issued a charter in 1218 which changed the date of Wallingford's market.
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hpr131.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/henry_iii_king.shtml
Henry IV (1367 –1413)
King of England and France and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence the other name by which he was known, "Henry (of) Bolingbroke". His father, John of Gaunt, was the third and oldest surviving son of Edward III. He also had four half-siblings by Katherine Swynford, including John Beaufort, his father's longtime mistress and eventual third wife. During 1399, Henry Bolingbroke began a military campaign while Richard II was in Ireland, seized power and imprisoned him on his return, and became king. He took control of Wallingford Castle during this time, passing it to Thomas Chaucer. Amongst Henry ’s sons was the future Henry V.
Henry of Almain (1235–1271)
Henry of Almain was so called because of his father's German connections, was the son of Richard of Cornwall and king of the Romans. As a nephew of both Henry III and Simon de Montfort he wavered between the two at the beginning of the Barons' War, but finally took the royalist side and was among the prisoners taken by Montfort at Lewes (1264), was held at Wallingford Castle and later released.
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire (1587–1669)
Thomas was the second son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Catherine Knyvet. He was born in Saffron Walden, Essex. He became Member of Parliament for Wiltshire in 1614. In 1621 He was appointed castellan of Wallingford in 1616. He was created Baron Howard of Charlton, Wiltshire and in 1625 he was created Earl of Berkshire.
Hubert de Burgh (c1165-1243)
Hubert de Burgh was Earl of Kent, Justiciar of England and Ireland, and held much influence while John and Henry III were kings. He was King John's chamberlain when the latter became king in 1199, and was given many castles, including Wallingford in 1202. When John captured his nephew Arthur of Brittany, niece Eleanor and their allies in 1202, de Burgh was made their jailor. According to William Shakespeare’s play "King John" the king ordered de Burgh to blind Arthur, but de Burgh refused, but this story is not widely believed. Henry III made de Burgh Earl of Kent, but he was later imprisoned.
http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/people/de_burgh.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_de_Burgh
William Hucks (-1740)
Represented Wallingford in Parliament on several occasions , despite his election being challenged on grounds of bribery in 1715, and was a well-known brewer
of the 18th century. He was brewer to King George I. He was also a lessee of the
castle, and had a farmhouse on the site of the former priory. He lived at Calleva House on the High Street. In 1739 he was robbed by Dick Turpin.
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp02302&rNo=1&role=sit
Hugh I de Audley (c.1250-c1336)
He was imprisoned in Wallingford Castle in 1322 with Maurice de Berkeley by Edward II for opposing the Despensers, but escaped in 1323. He was the father of Hugh de Audley, who married Margaret de Clare, widow of Piers Gaveston, and it is believed this meant he avoided the fate of other rebels.
The Very Rev. William Ralph Inge (1860-1954)
Inge was an author, Anglican prelate, professor of divinity at Cambridge
and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London from 1911 to 1934. Known as the "Gloomy Dean" in part for his pessimistic columns in the “Evening Standard", he published many books on religion, especially on mysticism . Amongst the quotations he is known for; “A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.”; “Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.” In 1934 he moved to Brightwell Manor, near Wallingford, where he lived out the rest of his life, writing books such as "A Rustic Moralist" (1937)and "The End of an Age" (1949).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ralph_Inge
http://www.ccel.org/i/inge/light/
Isabella of France (c.1295 –1358)
Isabella was the Queen consort of Edward II of England. She was born in Paris sometime between 1288 and 1296, the daughter of King Philip IV of France and Queen Jeanne of Navarre, Isabella and Edward II had four children, including Edward, later Edward III and John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall. She asked Edward II to banish his favourite Hugh le Despenser the younger, but Edward only did this temporarily. She became castellan of Wallingford in 1317. She returned to France and then gathered an army to oppose Edward, in alliance with Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, who had become her lover. In 1326 Isabella and Mortimer landed in Suffolk with an army. King Edward offered a reward for their deaths. Isabella responded by offering twice as much money for the head of Hugh the younger Despenser (this reward was issued from Wallingford Castle). Edward's few allies deserted him without a battle; the Despensers were killed, and Edward himself was captured and forced to abdicate in favour of his eldest son, Edward III of England. Since the young king was only fourteen when he was crowned in 1327, Isabella and Mortimer ruled as regents in his place. However when Edward III became 18 he had Isabella and Mortimer taken prisoner and Mortimer was executed for treason. Isabella was allowed to live in Castle Rising in Norfolk.
Isabella of Valois (1389 –1409)
On 31 October, 1396, when Isabella (daughter of King Charles VI of France) was six, she was married to the widower Richard II. In 1399 Isabella was moved to Wallingford Castle for protection while Richard went on a campaign in Ireland. When, on his return to England, Richard II was imprisoned and murdered, Isabella was ordered by new king Henry IV to move out of Windsor. Henry wanted her to marry his son (later Henry V), but she refused and was allowed to go back to France (her sister Katherine of Valois later married Henry V). Isabella later married Charles of Valois. She died in childbirth at the age of 20. Charles of Valois was later held captive in Wallingford Castle.
David Jenkins (1582-1663)
David was a Welsh judge and Royalist during the English Civil War. He was involved in raising money for the siege of Gloucester and he also indicted several prominent parliamentarians for high treason. Jenkins was captured by the parliamentarians in December 1645 in Hereford and imprisoned in the Tower of London, Newgate Prison and latterly in Wallingford (1648)-1652 and Windsor Castles. Whilst in prison in the 1640s, Jenkins wrote a number of political tracts which were collectively published in 1648 as: The Works of the Eminent and Learned Judge Jenkins upon divers Statutes concerning the King's Prerogative and the Liberty of the Subject. Jenkins was brought before parliament in April 1647, but argued that it had no power to try him in the absence of the king. While in prison at Wallingford he wrote to Charles telling him to sign the Treaty of Newport. In 1650 Jenkins was amongst other prisoners that the Rump Parliament considered executing. Jenkins was eventually released in 1657 prior to the restoration of the monarchy.
Joan of Kent (1328-1385)
Joan, "The Fair Maid of Kent", married Edward the Black Prince in 1361 (her third marriage). Their son was Richard II. Joan of Kent died at Wallingford, it is suggested of a broken heart. Sir John Holland, an adult son of her first marriage to Thomas Holland, was campaigning with Richard in Scotland, when a quarrel broke out between him and Hugh Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, a favourite of the new Queen Anne of Bohemia. Stafford was killed, and John Holland sought sanctuary at the shrine of St John of Beverley. On the King’s return, Holland was condemned to death. Joan pleaded with her son for four days to spare his half-brother. On the fifth day, she died at Wallingford Castle. Richard relented, and pardoned Holland (though he was then sent on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land).
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Joan%20of%20Kent
http://www.montaguemillennium.com/familyresearch/h_1385_joan.htm
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/J/JoanK1ent.asp
http://www.answers.com/topic/joan-of-kent
Joan of Kent’s will.
http://home.earthlink.net/~plantagenet60/plantagenet06.htm
Joan of Navarre (1368–1437)
Joan of Navarre was the second consort of Henry IV and Queen of England. When Henry went to France in 1415, she was allowed to use Wallingford Castle as a residence.
King John (1167-1216)
Son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitane. As an Earl, in Archbishop of Rouen while Richard I was at the crusades. He installed a garrison of Welsh mercenaries to protect the castle, but was forced to surrender it when it became clear Richard would be returning. When he became King, John was a frequent visitor to Wallingford, and extended the castle. The barons came to Wallingford to present their grievances.
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon28.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/john_i_king.shtml
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hpr130.htm
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316 –1336)
John of Eltham was the son of Edward II and Isabella of France. When created Earl of Cornwall in 1328 he became castellan of Wallingford Castle. John of Fordun claims that he was killed by his brother Edward III.
Prior from 1191 of the Holy Trinity Priory at Wallingford, John de Wallingford or John de Cella (as Wallingford was a cell of St Albans). In 1195 he was elected abbot of St. Albans and remained there until his death. He studied in Paris, and was considered a great grammarian, poet and physicist. His document "flod at London brigge" predicted the high water mark of the Thames, and is credited as the first of its type. His Chronica Joannis Wallingford covers evens from 449 to 1036, including the St Brice's Day massacre of the Danes.
Chronicles of John Wallingford.
The Church Historians of England Volume 2 Part 2 Stevenson J. pp (523-631) (1854)
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John of Wallingford, infirmarius at St Albans, also wrote chronicles covering a later period. His chronicles appear in the same manuscript, as John, abbot of St Albans (Cotton MS.Juius D viii). Historian Matthew Paris adapted the work of the abbot and was a friend of the infirmarius, and produced an illustration of the latter.
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/controller/subjectidsearch?id=8541
Katherine of Valois (1401–1437)
Katherine, daughter of King Charles VI of France, married Henry V in
a move aimed at bringing peace, after her sister, Isabella of Valois, widow of Richard II had refused to marry him. After Henry died in 1422, Katherine was given
Wallingford, where she is reputed to have been wooed by Owen
Tudor. Although it is not certain that they married, they had four children together.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/medbritishqueens/p/catherinevalois.htm
http://tudorhistory.org/topics/owen.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hprc.htm#J1438
Sir Douglas King (1919–1998)
Educated at Wallingford School - was Director of Operations, Northern Ireland from 1973-1975 for the British Army under Harold Wilson's government.
Sir Francis Knollys (c. 1511–1596)
Francis who entered the service of Henry VIII before 1540, became a Member of Parliament in 1542 and was knighted in 1547 while serving with the English army in Scotland. He became custodian of Wallingford Castle in 1551 under Edward VI. As a strong Protestant, he retired to Germany soon after Mary became queen, returning to England to become a privy councillor, vice-chamberlain of the royal household and a Member of Parliament under Queen Elizabeth. In 1568 was sent to Carlisle to take charge of Mary, Queen of Scots, who had just fled from Scotland; afterwards he was in charge of the queen at Bolton Castle and then at Tutbury Castle. He gave up the position of guardian just after his wife's death in January 1569. He was one Elizabeth’s commissioners for the trials of Mary Queen of Scots, of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anthony Babington. He was treasurer of the royal household from 1572 until his death on 19 July 1596. He received many grants of land from the queen, and was chief steward of the city of Oxford and made a Knight of the Garter in 1593. Sir Francis's eldest son Henry (d. 1583) became castellan in 1578. Sir Francis Knollys's second son William (c. 1547–1632) became castellan of Wallingford Castle in 1584 as Henry had no heirs. He served as a member of parliament and a soldier during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, being knighted in 1586 and becoming in a 1596 a privy councilor and comptroller of the royal household; in 1602 he was made treasurer of the household. Sir William enjoyed the favor of the new king James I, whom he had visited in Scotland in 1585, and was made Baron Knollys in 1603 and Viscount Wallingford in 1616. But in this latter year his fortunes suffered a temporary reverse when a relative by marriage was tried for murder. Richard Knollys, (1546-1590), the fifth son of Sir Francis became MP for Wallingford in 1584.
Walter Langton ( -1321)
Walter Langton, administrator and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. was a supporter of Edward I. When Edward died, and Piers Gaveston, and after arrest on his way to organise Edward's funeral he was imprisoned at Wallingford.
George Dunlop Leslie (1836-1921)
Artist, lived at Riverside, St Leonard's Lane, Wallingford from 1884-1901. His sister, Mary, an artist, lived next door at Cromwell Lodge. His son Peter Leslie (1877-1953)
was also an artist. Mary Leslie
(1833-1907) Artist, lived at Cromwell Lodge, St Leonard's Lane, Wallingford, next door to her brother George Dunlop Leslie. John London (1485/6–1543)
John London was appointed dean of St Nicholas’s College, Wallingford in 1536, and master of St John's Hospital there in 1541, on 1 September 1542 he was made dean of the new cathedral at Oxford. He was a Catholic and involved in persecution of Lutherans in Oxford, and was responsible for dissolution of monastic houses in Oxford, Reading, Warwickshire, and Northamptonshire on behalf of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister. However, his Catholic faith later put him in conflict with Henry’s Reformation, especially after the downfall of Thomas Cromwell. He conspired against Thomas Cramner, the Archibishop of Canterbury alleging with heresy, but in 1543 Henry then decided to support Cramner, and London was convicted of perjury, and sent to Fleet Prison, where he soon died.
Francis Lovell, Viscount Lovell (1454-1487) Was a supporter of Richard III. Richard made him Lord Chamberlain when he became king, and gave him Wallingford Castle in 1485. He fought for Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field the same year, and then tried to organise a rebellion against the new king Henry VII. He disappeared after the Battle of Stoke Field in 1487. Sir Thomas Lovell (c.1449–1524) Sir Thomas Lovell was administrator and speaker of the House of Commons, and treasurer of the king's chamber and chancellor of the exchequer. In 1507, after he had helped secure a new borough charter, the town council of Wallingford ordered that he be prayed for in each of the town's parish churches every Sunday for the rest of his life. He also held the role of Constable of Wallingford Castle. Sir William Lower (c.1610–1662) Sir William Lower was a playwright and wrote “The Phoenix in her Flames” in 1639. In 1640 he was a lieutenant in the earl of Northumberland’s army. In June 1644, as a lieutenant-colonel in King Charles’s army and lieutenant-governor of Wallingford, he was instructed to levy a weekly tax of £50 on Reading to support the garrison at Wallingford. Reading refused to pay and so Lower kidnapped the mayor as a hostage. Eventually the tax was reduced. Lower was knighted in 1645, but captured and imprisoned by parliamentary forces in 1646. He was later released and beegan to translate various French works into English, and also wrote “The Enchanted Lovers”. Sir Richard Malins (1805–1882), ) Sir Richard Malins was a lawyer at Temple and Lincoln's Inn in Londo, but showed "undue loquicity" according to a Times obituary, which notes that his decisions were frequently reversed on appeal. He was elected as a Conservative MP for Wallingford in July 1852, standing as a supporter of agricultural protection, and held the seat until July 1865, when he was defeated by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke. Malins spoke frequently in parliament, including his opposition to the Divorce Bill of 1857. He took two bills through parliament into law: the Infants' Marriage Settlements Act, in 1855, and the Married Women's Reversionary Property Act in 1857; these are known as 'Malins's acts'. Barbara Hastings Mallowan (1908–1993) Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (1904–1978) British archaeologist who made major contributions as an excavator and educator. While working at an excavation at Ur, he met the novelist Agatha Christie, who he later married. They lived at Winterbrook House on the Reading Road out of Wallingford. From 1932 to 1938, Mallowan, while working for the British Museum, excavated on several relatively little known archaeological sites which included Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, and Tell Brak. Mallowan also worked in the Near East, primarily at the Nimrud site. Later he became Professor of West Asiatic Archaeology at the University of London. He wrote several books on his archaeological experience. When Christie died, he married his mistress, Barbara Parker, also an archaeologist. Margaret of Anjou (1429-1482) Margaret, the Queen of Henry VI,
was the fifth child of René Count of Anjou, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, and was born at William Henry Margetson (1861-1940) Painter, illustrator and designer, who lived in Wallingford, having moved to Blewbury in 1914. His wife, born Helen Hatton, was also an artist. Thomas Marshall (d. 1539)
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/leslie_george_dunlop.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/paintingflowers/artists/leslie.shtml
http://www.artclub.fsworld.co.uk/Wallyarts/gdleslie.htm
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=2066
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Lovell%2C_Viscount_Lovell
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/FrancisLovell(1VLovell).htm
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/tmbc2/lovell.htm
http://www.britannia.com/bios/manjou.html
http://tudorhistory.org/people/anjou/
http://en.easyart.com/art-prints/artists/William-Henry-Margetson-4857.html
http://www.artinaclick.com/artist/bio.asp?fk_artist=7250
http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=3157
Empress Matilda (1101-1169)
Mother of Henry II, cousin of King
Stephen, against whom she fought a civil war for the English throne, to which she had a strong claim as Henry I's only surviving child. When Stephen was captured in 1141 she was declared Queen or "Lady of the English", she is said to have treated Londoners in a haughty way, and Stephen's supporters rose again. Her
supporters included Brien FitzCount who was based
at Wallingford Castle. She famously escaped from imprisonment at Oxford Castle and fled across a snowbound landscape to Wallingford in 1141.
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hpr162.htm
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon25a.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/matilda_queen.shtml
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/matilda.html
http://www.yorkist.com/bios/scroll15.html
Matilda la Leche fl. 1232
Matilda la Leche (la leche) indicating she was a medical practitioner, of Wallingford was assessed for taxes in 1232. This makes her one of the earliest female doctors to be recorded in the UK.
Maurice of Berkeley (1271-1326)
Maurice III 'The Magnanimous' De Berkeley 7th Lord Berkeley took part with Audely and Mortimer in the rebellion directed against Edward II's favourites, the Despensers. In 1322 he was tricked into to going to meet the King at Cirencester with a promise of safe conduct, but was seized and committed to prison in the castle of Wallingford, and all his property seized by the King. Maurice remained in prison at Wallingford, although several attempts were made to rescue him, until May 1326, when he died there. His remains were at first interred at Wallingford, but later moved.
James McClure (1939–2006)
James H. McClure was born in South Africa where he worked as a journalist. He came to England in 1965 and worked for the Oxford Times, but later became a writer of crime fiction. His first novel,The Steam Pig, won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1971. Many of his novels featured Afrikaner Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and Zulu Detective Sergeant Mickey Zondi. He lived in Wallingford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._McClure
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 –1265)
In 1238 Montfort married Eleanor, daughter of King John and Isabella and sister of Henry III. Montfort led the barons in opposition to Henry III, and gained control of Wallingford Castle, where in 1264 he imprisoned both Henry and Prince Edward, later to be Edward I. Edward was transferred to Kenilworth Castle, and later escaped. Montfort was killed at the Battle of Evesham by Edward’s forces.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/overview_middleages_04.shtml
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/NORmontfort.htm
Mark Morrell and his brother James (c. 1773-1855), brewers, were born in Wallingford. Their father Mark Morrell (1737–1787) was a subtenant of mills at Wallingford, as was his father. Mark Morrell senior had been a part-time brewer, but as Wallingford was already dominated by the Wells family brewery, they moved Oxford, setting up the Morrells Brewery that ran in the city until 1998.
Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287 –1330)
Plotted with Queen Isabella, his over, against her husband, Edward II and the influence of Hugh the younger Despsenser and his father. He ordered an unsuccesful attack on Wallingford Castle in 1323 to rescue Maurice of Berkeley. Isabella, to whom Edward II given Wallingford Castle, later made Mortimer constable of the Castle. Mortimer is thought to have been responsible for Edward’s death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Mortimer,_1st_Earl_of_March
http://www.mortimer.co.uk/family/medieval.htm
Grey Neville (1681–1723)
Grey Neville, uncle of Richard Neville Aldworth ,was elected MP for Wallingford in 1708. He supported the act for naturalizing foreign protestants in 1708 and voted for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell (a clergyman who opposed toleration of religious dissenters).
Richard Neville Aldworth (1717–1793)
Richard Neville Aldworth (1717–1793), nephew of Grey Neville, was returned as MP for Wallingford in 1754. From September 1762 he acted as the Duke of Bedford's secretary at peace negotiations in Paris with France.
Nigel D'Oilly (D'Oyley) (-1119 )
Nigel was the younger brother of Robert D’Oilly (generally assumed to have built Wallingford Castle), and he was briefly castellan of Wallingford as well as the Lord of Oxford Castle.
Henry Norreys (1491-1536)
Henry Norreys helped Henry VIII in his struggles with Cardinal
Wolsey and in his attempts to get Anne Boleyn accepted. He was made Constable of
Wallingford Castle in 1535. However, he (with others) was accused of having an improper relationship with Anne Boleyn, and both were executed.
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/hnorreys.html
John Davies Ormond (1832–1917)
A New Zealand politician whose positions included Superintendent of Hawke's Bay, Minister of Public Works and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council. Coming from Wallingford (where he was born) at the age of 15, he established a homestead called Wallingford in 1847, in Central Hawke's Bay, which became a major farming station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Davies_Ormond
Ann Packer (1942-)
Attended Wallingford Grammar School. She won a gold medal in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo in the 800 m (setting an Olympic record of 2min 1.1sec.), having already won a silver medal in the 400 m at the same Games.
http://www.times-olympics.co.uk/historyheroes/stgbo10.html
George Parker, 2nd earl of Macclesfield (c. 1697-1764)
Viscount Parker was member of parliament for Wallingford from 1722 to 1727, but is better known as an astronomer. In 1722 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he spent most of his time in astronomical observations at his Oxfordshire seat, Shirburn Castle, which had been bought by his father in 1716; here he built an observatory and a chemical laboratory. Parker played a part in changing from the old to the new style of dates, which came into operation in 1752. His action in this matter, however, was somewhat unpopular, as the opinion was fairly general that he had robbed the people of eleven days. From 1752 until his death 1764 he was president of the Royal Society, and he made some observations on the great earthquake of 1755.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Parker,_2nd_Earl_of_Macclesfield
Thomas Parry (~1515-1560)
He was a servant to Elizabeth as a princess and as Queen, and was treasurer of the household. He was involved in Thomas Seymour's attempts to marry Elizabeth, but she remained loyal to Parry, even though his testimony led to Seymour's execution and threatened Elizabeth. Parry was MP for Wallingford 3 times between 1547 and 1555, and owned the bells of St Nicholas's College. He lived in Wallingford.
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasParry.htm
Paul of Caen (d. 1093)
Paul of Caen, abbot of St Albans, rebuilt the abbey and enhanced its endowments and wealth. He recovered lands lost under his predecessors. He also established dependent cells, ruled by priors from St Albans, at Wallingford, Tynemouth, Belvoir, Hertford and Binham,
Philip d'Aubigny ((d. 1236)
Philip d'Aubigny was knight and royal councillor. He was supported John and was a witness for John of the signing of Magna Carta. He fought for John's army at the battle of Leicester. From 1227 to 1229 he was sheriff of Berkshire and keeper of the honour of Wallingford.
George Pigot, Baron Pigot (1719-1777)
George Pigot, Baron Pigot was governor of
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Sir Robert Pigot (1720-1796)
Robert Pigot, born in
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Edmund Plowden (1518-1585)
MP for Wallingford
1553-1555. In 1554, during the reign of the Catholic Mary Tudor he led 38 MPs
in a revolt against the reintroduction of the heresy laws, which was aimed at
persecuting Protestants. Proceedings for contempt against him were dropped.
Under Elizabeth I, his political progress was curtailed by his being a
Catholic, as she offered him the post of Lord Chancellor on condition of
becoming an Anglican. He defended Catholics using his legal knowledge.
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/eplowden.html
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/EdmundPlowden.htm
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/tvp/tvp5.htm
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1442-1491)
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer. After annulment of a marriage to Margaret Beaufort, he married Elizabeth of York, younger sister to Edward IV. In 1463 the dukedom was restored and John received the title. He also received Wallingford Castle and the honour of Wallingford in 1465.
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1396-1450)
William de la Pole, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Suffolk was an important English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, and later Lord Chamberlain of England. As a character he appears William Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 1 and Henry VI, part 2. He negotiated the marriage of Henry VI to Margaret of Anjou in 1444. This earned him elevation to Marquess. He married Alice Chaucer, daughter of Thomas Chaucer, granddaughter of poet Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1434 he became constable of Wallingford Castle. He became Minister of the Crown and with Margaret of Anjou, ran the country. However, when the country lost power to France, he fell from favour, and was accused of building warlike munitions at the castle in support of the French. He was arrested in 1450 and banished for five years, but on his journey to France his ship was intercepted, and he was executed. His son John became John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk in 1463.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_la_Pole,_1st_Duke_of_Suffolk
Pandeli Ralli (1845-1928)
In 1880 became the last MP for Wallingford before the constituency was abolished (in 1883). He responded to local concerns over agricultural depression.Ralph of Norwich (1491-1536)
Ralph of Norwich, was a royal representative in Ireland. In 1217 Norwich became dean of the royal chapel at Wallingford. He is described by chronicler Matthew Paris as 'a witty man, of sumptuous habits, and from his youth more skilled in the affairs of the king's court than in the learning of the schools.'
Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester (1172-1232).)
Ranulph, otherwise known as Ranulph IV de Meschines was an Anglo-Norman baron and crusader, and supporter of
King John. Under Henry III
he resisted the policy of Hubert De Burgh to resume of sheriffdoms and royal castles, and was made castellan of Wallingford Castle. When he died his heart was buried at Wallingford Castle, while his body was buried at St Werburg's, Chester, Cheshire..
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Sir Carew Reynell (c.1563–1624)
Sir Carew Reynell was a gentleman pensioner of Elizabeth and James, a quasi-military role. He had the patronage of the 2nd Earl of Essex, and in 1599 after leading a company to Ireland was knighted by the Earl and given responsible for Duncannon Castle and its fort. Though imprisoned for his connections with the Earl of Essex, he was cleared of involvement in Essex's rebellion. He became MP for Wallingford in 1614.
Richard Fitz Roy (-1246)
Richard Fitz Roy, also known as Richard of Chilham, was the illegitimate son of King John. His mother was John's cousin, a daughter of Hamelin de Warenne and Isabella de Warenne, Countess of Surrey. He served in his father's army as a captain during the baronial revolt. In 1216 he was made constable of Wallingford Castle by King John and appears to have held the post until 1227.
Richard of Cornwall (1209-1272)
Prince Richard, Earl of Cornwall & Holy Roman Emperor, held the castle for
much of the reign of his brother, brother of Henry III. He was first given the honour of Wallingford in 1229, but forced to surrender it in 1231, on grounds that he was allied to challenger for the throne, Richard Marshal, through marriage to his sister Isabella Marshal. However, following negotiation and an effective victory over 1232 and
spent a large amount of money on entertaining and rebuilding the castle, building the outer two baileys. Then,
when he almost drowned at sea, he swore to spend all his money on the church. He
is quoted as having said, "Would that it had pleased God that I had
expended all that I have laid out in the Castle of Wallingford in as wise and
salutary a manner". He was richer than his brother, having been granted a tax on all Jews. In 1242 he transferred a community of Jews from Berkhamsted to Wallingford along with their loan chest. He would later intervene on behalf of Abraham of Wallingford, accused of sacrilege. In 1243, he celebrated his second marriage, to Sanchia, at Wallingford. His son, Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall
inherited Wallingford.
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/rplantagenet_eofc.html
http://homepages.tesco.net/~k.wasley/Richcorn.htm
Richard of Wallingford (1292?-1336)
Richard of Wallingford, the Father of English
Trigonometry, came to St. Alban's Abbey in 1314 after his degree at Oxford. He was Deacon in 1316 and a Priest in 1317. In 1317, he returned to Oxford for further
study. In 1327, the Abbot died and Richard returned to St. Alban's Abbey and was
elected Abbot. In 1328, he began to show symptoms of a disease which was thought
to be leprosy and which would have caused his banishment from normal life, but
his abilities were so appreciated by the Church and the King, that he was
allowed to continue as Abbot until his death. He started construction of a great
astronomical clock which was completed about 20 years after his death by William
of Walsham. It was the first clock to be clearly described, in his Tractatus
Horologii Astronomici of 1327. He introduced a new and improved type of
escapement, but it was too complex to ever be copied elsewhere, though Leonardo
da Vinci re-invented a similar escapement. The clock was destroyed during
the Dissolution in 1539.
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/rwallingford.html
http://www.nicholaswhyte.info/row.htm
http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/images/9586251.jpg
Robert D'Oilly (D'Oyley)( -1091)
A trusted supporter of William
the Conqueror, Robert married Ealdgyth, daughter of Wigod,
and was instructed to built a fortified castle at Wallingford in 1067, which he
completed in 1071. It is reported that "He was so powerful a man in his time, that no one durst oppose him". He also built Oxford Castle. His brother Nigel was lord of both castles. Robert's daugher Edith married Wigan of Wallingford, a nephew of Brien FitzCount.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/normans/after_04.shtml
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090–1147)
Robert of Gloucester was an illegitimate son of Henry I, He came to Brien FitzCount in October 1139 at Wallingford to seek his support in opposing King Stephen.
Moses Roper (b. 1815)
Roper escaped from slavery in North Carolina, and came to England, and attended a boarding school in Wallingford. He went on to write an account of his life, and toured around the UK giving lectures, including one in Wallingford.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/roper/roper.html
Paul Rotha (1907-1984)
Documentary film maker. He wrote the film books Film Till Now and Documentary Film. He died at Wallingford.
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446796/
Claude Rowbotham (1864-1949)
Watercolour landscape painter and etcher. He lived at Riverview in Wallingford from 1893, and had a floating studio on the Thames. He later moved to Ipsden, and later still to Falmouth.
http://www.artnet.de/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=48671A21DB16286F
Sir Arnold Savage (1358–1410)
Sir Arnold Savage, administrator and speaker of the House of Commons was a trustee in two manors of the honour of Wallingford. He died at the Black Prince's manor of Wallingford.
William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1350-1399)
William was a close supporter of Richard II. He was made Earl of Wiltshire in Richard's 1397 effusion of titles, and was briefly castellan of Wallingford Castle. He was executed by Henry IV on his invasion and usurpation in 1399.
Edward Stennett (1627-1707)
Seventh-Day Baptist dissenter who lived on the grounds of the destroyed castle from around 1670. Edward Stennett was granted a licence under the Act of Indulgence in 1672 to hold religious meetings in Wallingford in his own house. He continued to hold meetings after the Act was revoked, and faced legal action at Newbury Assizes but the case fell through. However, he was later imprisoned for around 6 years. Edward was buried in Wallingford. His son, Joseph Stennett (1663-1713), educated at Wallingford Grammar School, was also an active dissenter.
http://www.blue-hare.com/stennett/edward/edwardl.html
http://www.blue-hare.com/stennett/joseph/josephl.html
King Stephen (1096-1154)
He became king in 1135 following the death of his uncle, Henry
I. He fought a civil war against Empress Matilda
(Henry I's daughter) involving attacks on her supporters at Wallingford
Castle from 1139 onwards. He finally agreed a truce known as the Treaty of Wallingford which allowed Matilda's son Henry to become Henry II on Stephen's death.
http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronology/timelinestephen.htm
http://dragon_azure.tripod.com/UoA/Stephen_Time.html
King Stephen - a Good Bloke
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A748190
Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890-1973)
Stern was born in Bertha Gladys Stern in London, and died at St Mary's Hospital in Wallingford. She wrote many novels and some plays. She also wrote a fictionalized biography of Robert Louis Stevenson. In 1919 she married Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth, a New Zealand
journalist, whom she had met through their friend, Noël Coward. They were later
divorced. Amongst her quoted lines are "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone"; "One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow"; Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute" and "Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die". She lived at Mill Brook Cottage, Blewbury.
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah/gbstern.htm
Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury (-1072)
Stigand submitted to William the Conqueror at Wallingford, and assisted at his coronation. In 1070 he was deposed by the papal legates and was imprisoned at Winchester, where he died, probably in 1072.
Sweyn (Swein) 'Forkbeard' (c960-1014)
Svein Otto Haraldsson took part in raids on England, followed
by invasions following the St Brice's Day Massacre in which King Ethelred II (Aethelred
the Unready) ordered the slaughter of all Danes - Sweyn Forkbeard's sister
Gunnhilde and her children were said to be among those who died. He launched
many attacks in Southern England including the burning of Wallingford in 1006. He returned in 1013, by which time the town was apparently rebuilt, and the town submitted to him.
After Ethelred died, Sweyn's son Cnut became king.
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon16.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/sweyn-i-of-denmark
Sir Francis Sykes (1732-1804)
MP for Wallingford from 1782 until his death
– lived at Basildon Park although he died before the building was
complete – was a “nabob” who amassed a fortune in India while
employed by the East India Company. In the section of famine, Piggot’s Political Directory says “One individual, Sir Francis Sykes, originally a
shoe-black (happy for the poor inhabitants of
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-basildonpark-history-sykes.htm
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/basildon_park.html
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/old-books/Dictionaries/PiggotPolitical/entry00100.html
Thomas Tanner (1674–1735)
Thomas Tanner was bishop of St Asaph and an antiquary. He put together an important collection of books and manuscripts, much of badly damaged when a barge transporting it from Norwich to Oxford sank near Wallingford in 1731. What survived was given to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Simon Watson Taylor (1923-2005)
Born in Wallingford, Watson Taylor was an actor, airsteward, surrealist, and translator. He is particularly known for his translations from French of the plays of Alfred Jarry. He was secretary for the Surrealist Group and a key player in Pataphysics: "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments."
Richard Tonson (1717–1772)
Richard Tonson inherited a publishing business, but his brother Jacob was more active. Richard was elected MP for Wallingford in 1747.
Owen Tudor (c1400-1461)
Husband of Katherine of Valois.
He is said to have wooed her at Wallingford Castle, following the death of Henry
V. Their son Edmund Tudor, the Earl of Richmond, married Margaret
Beaufort, and their son in turn became Henry VII, the first Tudor king. However, after the death of Katherine, Owen was imprisoned at Wallingford Castle in 1438, and though subsequently released, he was later beheaded.
http://tudorhistory.org/topics/owen.html
http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hprt.htm#J1820
Sir Brian Tuke ( -1545)
Sir Brian Tuke, administrator, was clerk of the spicery for Henry VII, and in 1506 he was appointed feodary of Wallingford. Under Henry VIII he became clerk of the council at Calais and in 1528 was appointed treasurer of the chamber.
Jethro Tull (1674-1741)
Born in Basildon, he farmed his father's land near Wallingford from 1699-1709. In 1701 he invented the seed drill, at Howbery farm at Crowmarsh, which was a mechanical device towed by a horse
which not only made sowing seeds easier than by hand but which was more
efficient in their spreading. His major advance in the technique was the
introduction of sowing seeds in three rows simultaneously. He was determined to
make agricultural methods easier whilst at the same time increasing yields. His
original seed drill was manufactured from pieces of an old pipe organ that he
had dismantled. His house in The Street, Crowmarsh Gifford, remains and is marked by a blue plaque. He is buried in Basildon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tull_jethro.shtml
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jtull.html
Sir Stephen Tumin (1930-2001)
Sir Stephen Tumin, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales, 1987-95, was High Steward of Wallingford 1995-2001.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/tull_jethro.shtml
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jtull.html
Thomas Tusser (c.1524–1580)
Thomas Tusser, writer on agriculture and poet. Tusser was sent as a singing boy to St. Nicholas's College at Wallingford Castle. According to his poem on the subject, the College ‘abhord of sillie boies’. He later joined the choir of St Paul's Cathedral, London. As a farmer in Suffolk he wrote "A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie".
Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry By Thomas Tusser
Joseph Tyso (1774–1852)
Joseph Tyso was a Baptist minister and plantsman. In 1817 he became pastor of St Peter's Church in Wallingford, where he remained for 30 years. He wrote many religious tracts dealing particularly with biblical interpretations of the millennium. Tyso grew and improved plants of the genera Anemone and Ranunculus, and ran a florists and then a nursery. He wrote "Ranunculuses Grown and Sold by Rev. J. Tyso" and "The Ranunculus, how to Grow it" (1847) with his son Carey Tyso (1816–1882) who also lived and died in Wallingford.
An elucidation of the prophecies, being an exposition of the books of Daniel and the Revelation By Joseph Tyso
Aubrey De Vere (c1340 - d 1400)
Follower of Edward the Black Prince - made Constable of
Wallingford Castle in 1375. He surrendered this for the constableship of Hadleigh Castle in 1378. He was chamberlain of the Royal Household. He was the 10th Earl of Oxford, and third son of John De Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford (1312-1360).
http://genealogy.patp.us/vere-de.shtml
Stanley Vickers (1837-1872)
Son of John Vickers, a partner in Vickers distillers, he was a captain commanding the 5th Kent Artillery Volunteers. He became Conservative MP for Wallingford in 1868,
Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester (1104 –1166)
Waleran was born in 1104, the eldest of twin sons of Robert de Beaumont, count of Meulan, who was also to become earl of Leicester in 1107. On their father's death in June 1118, the boys came into the wardship of Henry I. in 1120 Waleran succeeded to the county of Meulan upriver on the Seine from the Norman border, and the principal family Norman honors of Beaumont and Pont Audemer. In 1122 Waleran was drawn into a conspiracy with Amaury de Montfort, count of Evreux, in support of the claimant to Normandy, William Clito, son of Robert Curthose. Henry I defeated the uprising and Waleran's lands were seized and in 1126 he was imprisoned first at Rouen, then at Bridgnorth in Shropshire and finally at Wallingford Castle. He was released in 1129. He resumed an active role at court and he and his twin brother were both present at Henry's deathbed. He was betrothed to King Stephen's infant daughter, Matilda, and received the city and county of Worcester. In September he commanded the army of Norman magnates which repelled the invasion by Geoffrey of Anjou, husband of the Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I. Robert of Gloucester attacked Waleran's English base at Worcester in 1139. He was later forced to surrender to the Empress Matilda.
Walter of Bronescombe (c.1220–1280)
Walter of Bronescombe also known as Walter de Exonia was born in Exeter and later became bishop of Exeter, was born in Exeter. Between 1245 and 1257 he was given a prebend in the chapel of St Nicholas at Wallingford Castle.
Walter de Coutances ( -1207)
Walter, bishop of Lincoln and archbishop of Rouen, began his career in the chancery of Henry II and performed many diplomatic and administrative duties. He was put in charge of Wallingford Castle by Richard I when Richard was on his third crusade to Palestine from 1190-1194. However, Richard’s brother John (later King John), besieged the castle in 1193 and ejected Walter. The castle was later reclaimed by the Earl of Leicester on behalf of Richard.
Rex Warner (1905-1986)
Reginal Ernest Warner - writer and translator - he wrote the novel "The Aerodrome" (1941) and translated Greek and Roman classical texts. He died in Wallingford at his home, Anchor House, in St Leonard's Lane.
http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/warner.htm
Peter Cathcart Wason(1924-2003)
Wason was a cognitive psychologist, and Reader in Psycholinguistics, University College London from 1970 to 1982. He demonstrated "cognitive biases" or illogical reasoning in the way people think, using tests such as the “Wason selection test” and the “THOG” test., challenging the orthodoxy of the time established by Piaget. He published several books on thinking and reasoning. He died in Wallingford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cathcart_Wason
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Edward Wells (1821-1910)
Wells began work in the Wells Brewery in 1842, became Conservative MP for Wallingford in 1872, and High Steward in 1890. He lived in both Stone Hall, which he extended, and Brewery House (now Wallingford House). Wells lost the 1880 election to Liberal candidate Walter Wren by 41 votes, but Wells challenged the result, alleging bribery. While bribery was not upheld, the election was rerun with new candidates and Mr Ralli for the Liberals beat Mr Hanbury by 19 votes. Wells Brewery opened in 1720 and closed in 1928. His ancestors included Edward Wells (1685-ca1750) fellmonger, Edward Wells (1714-1748) alderman and mayor, and Edward Wells (1748-1811) banker and brewer, and Edward Wells (1771-1826).
Errol Ivor White (1901–1985)
Errol White was a palaeontologist. In 1922 White was appointed to the staff of the British Museum (Natural History), working in the fossil fish section. From 1932 his principal interest centred on the taxonomy, ecology, and stratigraphy of the primitive fish faunas from the Devonian system. In 1955 White was appointed keeper of geology (changed to palaeontology in 1956), and he presided over a considerable expansion of his department between 1955 and 1966. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1964 to 1967. He died in Wallingford.
Wigod ( -1071)
Possible descendent of Athelstan. He was thane of Wallingford, and other land in the area, and welcomed William the Conqueror to Wallingford in 1066. He was the father of
Ealdgyth, who married Robert D'Oilly, and of Tokig,
who died supporting William the Conqueror in battle
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/normans/after_03.shtml
Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873)
"Samuel Wilberforce" - Soapy Sam - Bishop of Oxford – who took part in a debate on evolution with Thomas Huxley - purchased the parsonage of St Peters in Wood Street.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jrlucas/legend.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1860wilberforce-darwin.html
Richard Wilder (1805-1866)
Son of an Ipsden ironmonger, he set up the Wallingford-based family iron foundry business which has left its hallmarks all over South Oxfordshire. His son, also Richard Wilder (1839-1922), carried on the business, became Mayor of Wallingford and lived at Wharf House, which he renamed St Lucian's. His grandson, Tim Wilder, who still lives at St Lucians, has produced an archive of the firm. The business was family-owned until 1998. Amongst its castings were the arches in the Corn Mar
