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Staffordshires
Greatest
Here is my top ten Staffordshire People
1) RJ Mitchell
- the Spitfire & freedom!
2) Dr. Samuel Johnson - the first dictionary
3) Sir Robert Peel - inventing the police
4) Josiah Wedgwood
- grand pottery
5) Sir Henry Doulton - toilets
6) Sir Stanley
Matthews - wizard of the wing and a real gentleman
7) Robbie Williams
- music
8) Peter D Wright - pies
9) Mike Wolfe - first
elected mayor of stoke
10) The Trent Vale Poet - pure genius
Scott Conroy
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As a school boy at Longton High School in the 1950s I recall all
the house names were named after prominent local people.
They were Hugh
Bourne (all the first formers were in Bourne house) and I see he has already
been nominated.
Astbury. I've no idea what he did.
Bennett.
Already nominated.
Brindley James. (My House) Mate of Wedgwood, built
canals.
Mitchell Reginald. I think he would be my choice. He won the
war for us!!!!
Lodge. Invented the Sparkplug Wedgwood. say no more.
I think the winner should come from one of these.
Regards
Mike Smith
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great
staffordians
I nominate Sir Oliver Lodge - rather an important figure
for your project. Here's a page I found with some stuff on him:
http://www.netcentral.co.uk/steveb/focus/003.htm
James Leggett
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staffordians
Reginald Mitchell is the greatest Briton. If he hadn't
invented the Spitfire we would have lost sovereignty of Britain and the British
way of life long ago.
David |
great
staffordians
I understand you are researching GREAT STAFFORDSHIRE PEOPLE in
the wake of the GREAT BRITONS countdown.
I would suggest the late Patrick
Fyffe, who played Dame Hilda Bracket in the duo Hinge and Bracket. He died
on 11 May 2002 after a fairly long illness. He was a truly amazing natural talent
- very witty, a fine singer and actor, a great spontaneous mimic, and he was born
in Stafford.
Dame Hilda made her last panto appearance here in Stafford
in the 2000/2001 Christmas season, when they were both interviewed on BBC Radio
Stoke. By a strange coincidence, Hinge and Bracket played virtually their last
public performance here in November 2001.
A couple of weeks later Patrick
became very poorly, and had to pull out of their panto in Devon. H & B were a
unique act on stage, TV and radio, and a large part of their success was down
to Patrick's uncanny knack of timing deadly funny one liners as if they were throw
away remarks. You can see I think he was great!
I hope that's useful,
and look forward to hearing more about the list in the future. Good luck with
your research - how about adding the great Port Vale player Roy Sproson
to the list, alongside Sir Stan?!
Dan Shaw |
great
staffordians
How about James Bateman?
James was a local businessman
in Biddulph, Staffs. and developed Biddulph Grange Gardens - now a national trust
site. I'm interested in him as he lived at the house now owned by my father-in-law
and this has some of his early gardening attempts in the grounds.
Janet
Weaver
Staffordshire University |
great
staffordians
I suggest for your consideration:- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Izaak
Walton, Robert Plot, Admiral George Anson, Josiah Wedgwood, James Brindley, Dr
Samuel Johnson, Sir Stanley Mathews, Robert Peel, Robert de Toeni, Ralph Stafford,
Samuel Erdeswick, Thomas Anson, Robert Devereux earl of Essex, Admiral Sir Richard
Leveson, Walter Chetwynd, John Leveson-Gower, Ralph Toft, John Wilkinson, William
Horton, Stebbing Shaw, Mathew Boulton, Lancelot Brown, St Chad, Ethelfleda, Baron
Harrowby, William Salt, Peter de Wint
Dave wilkinson
Stafford
Blimey! We haven't even heard of half of these folk. Can any help us
by writing something short on one or some of them to help us? - ST |
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some Staffordshire greats (from someone who lives in York but visits
Staffordshire regularly, as a result of the work of some of these people !)
1. Peter D Wright (Chairman of local Pie company/confectioners suppliying
the Potters and now the world with superb pies)
2. Glenn, Sue and Robert
(of the Hole in the Wall Oatcake Shop in
Hanley)
3. The Trent Vale Poet (a frequent promotor of all things Stoke!)
4. Gordon Banks (for his work with Stoke City and Staffs charities
since)
5. Sir Stanley Matthews (of course)
6. Phil Taylor
(darts World Champ x8 times - born in Stoke!)
Doug Napier
YORK
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Great
People
No mention yet of Captain Edward John Smith? Famous for
the Titanic Disaster but a good captain before that.
Alice
Longton |
writer
Dr. Johnson (think his christian name was Samuel). He wrote the
1st ever English dictionary.
Paul Meaden
Cannock |
stafford's
greats
Sidney Barnes England Cricketer - Izaak Walton of angling fame
- Sheridan playwrite - John Rudge former manager Port Vale F.C
A.E.Silvester |
Dr.
William Palmer - "The Prince of Poisoners"
Palmer was hanged in Stafford on June 14th 1856 - a scandal that
shocked the nation - his effigy stood in the Chamber of Horrors, Madame Tussaud's,
London for 127 years. It's believed he poisoned eleven people.
His
history is on the Staffordshire
Learning Net Web
site
Mr. David Lewis
Gnosall
Great?
Hmm... what does everyone else think? - ST
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trent
vale poet
seen the tvp on many occasions always wonderfull in my view the best poet in the
country a genius
mark bailey
stoke england |
a
Titanic man
Captain
Smith- Famous last words "What iceberg?"
Matthew Barrett
South staffs
Stafford |
beer
What does all this mean anyway? What do you mean by "great"?
Rich? famous? Holy? Powerful?
Surely someone who is great must be so because
they are A FORCE FOR GOOD. How many of your nominations can say that?
jon
manchester |
beer
We owe a great deal of thankes to those amazing (but anonymous)
Benedictine monks who discovered that Burton water is brilliant for brewing beer.
I nominate the 11th century abbot who had a to do all that tasting in order to
find out this blessed fact
camra-man
Hanley |
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city manager
The rules say you can have someone who "influenced greatly"
the life of the area, so I nominate Lou Macari. he may be Scots but he lived here
even when not managing Stoke. As
a manager he was very hard but fair, and (Waddington aside) possibly the best
and most determined of all the club's managers. What's more there are still 15,00
people who go up to that place on the hill every saturday who would love to see
him back.
jim o'haggis
hartshill |
| saint
I don't know anyhting about him, but there are so many churches
around the middle of staffordshire dedicated to St Chad that I guess he should
be remembered too? id love to know more about who he was.
june
Tamworth |
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- of course!
Richard is of course talking through his hat. Even just a brief
bit of thinking time enables me to say - stan matthews, david garrick (the actor),
erasmus darwin, rj mitchell, josiah wedgwood, izaak walton - loads!
You
need to read some history my friend.
paul
burton |
celebs
I can't believe Nick Hancock! he is nothing but a big mouth TV
presenter. What makes him great?
I think all "celebrities" should
be banned
Mike
Stone |
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very tiny list!
Great?... from staffordshire?
please....!
Dr Johnson has a statue in Lichfield.... and wrote the first definitive
Dictionary. But he's the only "great" we ever had.
Richard
Burton |
robbie
It's stupid of people
to make fun of Robbie Williams. Anybody who signed British Music's biggest ever
record deal (18m pounds) deserves a little respect.
And what about Nick hancock...
stoke city supporter too! Anybody who can make me laugh like that has got to be
in the running.
Andy
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