[Sussex] Name a famous Sussex person.

[Weststander]

I thought Robert Smith was from Redhill in Surrey?

James Herbert was a Sussex chap I think?

RS moved to Crawley when he was 6. I know folk who remember him at school.

 

[Weststander]

Carl Cox (Horsham?)

Lives in Dyke Road Avenue.

 

[Eric the meek]

Ho Chi Minh - Newhaven.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Smith is from Crawley - and a QPR fan. He was probably born in Redhill (East Surrey hospital)?

Robert Smith was born in Blackpool, moved to Horley and then to Crawley aged 6. The Cure are a Sussex band as formed in Crawley.

 

[Blue3]

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Virginia Wolf lived and died in Sussex as a result of drowning in the River Ouse

 

[Blue3]

Ho Chi Minh - Newhaven.

He apparently worked on the cross channel ferry in the galley as a sous chef

 

[BN9 BHA]

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Virginia Wolf lived and died in Sussex as a result of drowning in the River Ouse

In Rodmell near Lewes

 

[Official Old Man]

The Bachelors. Who?, I hear you ask
Dec Cluskey, John Stokes and the late Con Cluskey.
I was support disco at a wedding in Rodmell back around 2002. Initial thoughts were 'oh my god' but they put on a show that had the entire floor full. Great guys and really friendly. They done the wedding as a favour because they lived locally. Dec still lives in Eastbourne.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer lived in Goring when he was a youth.
He is buried in Lancing cemetery.

 

[BS34 Seagull]

The Bachelors. Who?, I hear you ask
Dec Cluskey, John Stokes and the late Con Cluskey.
I was support disco at a wedding in Rodmell back around 2002. Initial thoughts were 'oh my god' but they put on a show that had the entire floor full. Great guys and really friendly. They done the wedding as a favour because they lived locally. Dec still lives in Eastbourne.

You missed an opportunity there. You last sentence should have been ‘Dec still lives in Eastbourne, I believe’

I’m old enough to still have an original 45 single in the loft.

 

[Madafwo]

Rob Kazinsky - Actor that appeared in Eastenders, Pacific Rim and True Blood among others went to school at Westdene Primary School together.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Adam Webster born in West Wittering.
Russell Martin.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Smith is from Crawley - and a QPR fan. He was probably born in Redhill (East Surrey hospital)?

That's right, I had a friend who knew him at school. The Cure or whatever they were at the time, played a school concert.

 

[clapham_gull]

Robert Smith was born in Blackpool, moved to Horley and then to Crawley aged 6. The Cure are a Sussex band as formed in Crawley.

Very much lives in an East Sussex village and one of his neighbour is another rock legend.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer lived in Goring when he was a youth.
He is buried in Lancing cemetery.

I had the privilege of burying him, superb eulogy by Jim Davidson


Enoch Powell’s parents are buried in Durrington Cemetery.

 

[Weststander]

Gracie Fields had a large home built in Telscombe Cliffs, but largely lived in Capri where she settled for good.

 

[Weststander]

(Covered previously?)

Jeff Beck lived in Wadhurst.

 

[Iron Butterfly]

Brendan Behan lived in Kemptown

 

[The Clamp]

Brendan Behan lived in Kemptown

His brother Brian lived on the houseboat “Enstone” in Shoreham in the 70’s.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Arthur Benjamin Sugarman- Ben Sherman.
Born and founded the business in Brighton