[Sussex] Name a famous Sussex person.

[The Wookiee]

Vera Lynn ?

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Carol Cleveland, the seventh Python, lives in Shoreham.
Cate Blanchette lived in Brighton for 10 years

Yes l was introduced to Carol Cleveland in the Rottingdean Club several years ago, an elderly lady now. Still very glamourous though.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Seen here on Brighton Beach a couple of days back

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Same mum?

 

[Gwylan]

If you're looking at people who were born and who lived in Sussex, there are dozens and dozens

Literature
EF Benson of Mapp and Lucia fame lived in Rye
William Blake wrote Jerusalem here
James Joyce wrote part of Finnegans Wake in Bognor
Israel Zangwill lived in East Preston
George Orwell went to school in Eastbourne
Evelyn Waugh went to Lancing College
AA MIlne lived in Ashdown Forest and set Winnie the Pooh there
Virginia Woolf lived in Rodmell


Politics
Theresa May was born in Eastbourne
Charles Parnell lived and died in Hove (Kitty O'Shea died in Littlehampton)
Napoleon III came after he was booted out of France
Marguerite Steinheil of death by blow job fame died in Hove
Winston Churchill went to school in Hove
Harold Macmillan lived at Horsted Keynes
Jim Callaghan and Dennis Healey both retired to Sussex

.... and those are just off the top of my head

 

[Nobby]

Has anyone mentioned the Duke of Sussex yet?

 

[Stato]

If you're looking at people who were born and who lived in Sussex, there are dozens and dozens

Literature
EF Benson of Mapp and Lucia fame lived in Rye

At Lamb House - Had previously been the home of US author Henry James. The village of Tilling in the Mapp & Lucia books is a disguised Rye and the character 'Quaint Irene' is based on Benson's Rye neighbour Radclyffe Hall, author of 'The Well of Loneliness'.

I've just started reading Wendy Cook's biography of her husband Peter and found that, as a very small boy, Peter was sent away to St Bedes, the independent school below Beachy Head.

 

[Happy Exile]

If you're looking at people who were born and who lived in Sussex, there are dozens and dozens

Literature
EF Benson of Mapp and Lucia fame lived in Rye
William Blake wrote Jerusalem here
James Joyce wrote part of Finnegans Wake in Bognor
Israel Zangwill lived in East Preston
George Orwell went to school in Eastbourne
Evelyn Waugh went to Lancing College
AA MIlne lived in Ashdown Forest and set Winnie the Pooh there
Virginia Woolf lived in Rodmell


Politics
Theresa May was born in Eastbourne
Charles Parnell lived and died in Hove (Kitty O'Shea died in Littlehampton)
Napoleon III came after he was booted out of France
Marguerite Steinheil of death by blow job fame died in Hove
Winston Churchill went to school in Hove
Harold Macmillan lived at Horsted Keynes
Jim Callaghan and Dennis Healey both retired to Sussex

.... and those are just off the top of my head

Camilla Parker-Bowles-Wales-Windsor grew up in Plumpton, was baptised in Firle and went to school in Ditchling (and I think, occasionally to some of the school's premises in Lewes too).

 

[Clive Walker]

the duke and duchess of sussex

 

[Gwylan]

At Lamb House - Had previously been the home of US author Henry James. The village of Tilling in the Mapp & Lucia books is a disguised Rye and the character 'Quaint Irene' is based on Benson's Rye neighbour Radclyffe Hall, author of 'The Well of Loneliness'.

I've just started reading Wendy Cook's biography of her husband Peter and found that, as a very small boy, Peter was sent away to St Bedes, the independent school below Beachy Head.

I didn't know that Radclyffe Hall lived in Rye. I'd forgotten that Henry James lived there. It must have been quite a place in the early part of last century.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

If you're looking at people who were born and who lived in Sussex, there are dozens and dozens

Literature
EF Benson of Mapp and Lucia fame lived in Rye
William Blake wrote Jerusalem here
James Joyce wrote part of Finnegans Wake in Bognor
Israel Zangwill lived in East Preston
George Orwell went to school in Eastbourne
Evelyn Waugh went to Lancing College
AA MIlne lived in Ashdown Forest and set Winnie the Pooh there
Virginia Woolf lived in Rodmell


Politics
Theresa May was born in Eastbourne
Charles Parnell lived and died in Hove (Kitty O'Shea died in Littlehampton)
Napoleon III came after he was booted out of France
Marguerite Steinheil of death by blow job fame died in Hove
Winston Churchill went to school in Hove
Harold Macmillan lived at Horsted Keynes
Jim Callaghan and Dennis Healey both retired to Sussex

.... and those are just off the top of my head

Know all! lol.

 

[PeterT]

Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle moved to Sussex where he remained until his death. And his creation, Sherlock Holmes, also retired here in the world of fiction.

Laurence, Lord Olivier resided in Brighton and it was the birthplace of Jordan, the real Jordan: the punk one from the Seventies.

I went to school with his daughter in Brighton

 

[PeterT]

Winston Churchill went to school in Hove, there’s a plaque in one of the Lansdownes
John Constable lived in Brighton, near Western Road, there’s a blue plaque
Ralph Vaughan Williams was married at All Saints Church in Hove, lived in Rottingdean
Rudyard Kipling, of course
Spike Milligan is buried in Winchelsea
The cartographer Everest, after whom the mountain is named, is buried at St. Andrew’s church in Hove
Former Pakistan prime minister lived here for a while while playing cricket locally

 

[nicko31]

Simon Calder, Crawley boy

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Steve Coogan, mum still lives at Ovendene l think.

 

[Normal Rob]

Catherine Howard

 

[junior]

Russell Bishop.

 

[BrightonCottager]

CLR James - Trini cricket writer and radical.

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[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Ho Chi Minh worked as a pastry chef on the Newhaven-Dieppe ferry

 

[Diocletian]

Ray Brookes actor born in Brighton.
Was in Eastenders and Big Deal.
Used to see him in Waitrose Western Road

 

[jcdenton08]

Chris Ellison (Burnside)
Jenna Russell (West End star, sang the Red Dwarf theme)
Samantha Womack (nee Janus, lived near BHASVIC)