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Famous People Connected to Northumberland
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Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown!
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- Thomas Addison, a physician born at Longbenton in 1793
- George Airy, an astronomer and geophysicist born at Alnwick in 1802
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- Thomas Bewick born in Ovingham, Northumberland (1753 - 1828) - English wood engraver.
- Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, landscape and garden designer born at Kirkharle in 1715
- Josephine Butler, social reformer born at Milfield in 1828. Died 1906.
- Basil Bunting, a poet born at Scotswood-on-Tyne in (1900-1985)
- Eric Burdon, singer and leader of The Animals and War born at Walker-on-Tyne in 1941
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- Grace Darling, a heroine born at Bamburgh in 1815, died 1842. English lighthouse keeper's daughter, famed for participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838.
- Bryan Donkin, an engineer and industrialist born at Sandhoe in 1768
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- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962) was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.
- Daniel Gooch, an engineer and politician born at Bedlington in 1816
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Prime Minister born at the family seat of Howick Hall in 1764
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- Saint Hilda, (614 -680), grand-niece of St Edwin of Northumbria, was the abbess of Whitby monastery where both monks and nuns lived and worked, and a key figure in the conversion of England to Christianity. Her feast day is November 17.
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- Henry 'Hotspur' Percy (1365–1403), borders warlord and rebel
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- John Rushworth (1793–1860), an historian born at Acklington Park, Warkworth
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- Robert Stephenson - born in Willington Quay, Northumberland (1803 - 1859) - Scottish mechanical and structural engineer. Returned from Colombia to manage his father’s locomotive engine-works in Newcastle upon Tyne. Famous for his Britannia Tubular Bridge (1850), bridges at Conway (1848), Montreal (1859) and Royal Border Bridge at Berwick (1850). Was MP from 1847 for many years. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
- Percival Stockdale, (1736-1811) poet and abolitionist
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (London, 5 April 1837 – London, 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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- William Turner, ornithologist and botanist born at Morpeth in 1508 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Turner_(naturalist)
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