NOTABLE MEMBERS OF OTHER FAMILIES

 


Sir George Allen KCIE (1831- ), co-founder of Cooper Allen & Co, Cawnpore, India, as also of the Pioneer newspaper; patron of a young Rudyard Kipling.

Reverend Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845): Author, aka Thomas Ingoldsby.

Professor Aylward Manley Blackman (1883-1956): Archaeologist.

Sir Edward Augustus Bond KCB LLD (1815-1898): Principal Librarian of the British Library.

Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930): Poet Laureate.

Kathleen Byron (1923-2009): Actress and star of film and television.

Sir Robert Chichele (died 1439), twice Mayor of London, Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Master of the Grocers' Company,

Sir Henry Cole KCB (1808-1882): Civil Servant, Museum Director, he introduced the first commercial Christmas Card.

Sir William Russell Flint, artist (1880-1969)

Charles Frederic Gerhardt (1816-1856): Chemist, inventor of Aspirin.

Sir Charles Halle (1819-1895): Pianist, Conductor and founder of the Halle Symphonic Orchestra.

Air Commodore Thomas Edward Barham Howe CBE AFC (1886-1970)

Colonel Frederick Mercer Hunter CB CSI (1844-1898), Governor of British Somalia, Acting Resident in Aden, author.

Dr Geoffrey Lehmann MBE (1904-1994), he established the Herbertspur Christian Hospital, India.

Wilma Norman-Neruda, Lady Halle (1838-1911): Violinist.

Harriet Theodora Constanze Noll, aka T C HANO (1920-2003): Artist.

Ludvig Norman (1831-1885): Swedish Composer, Conductor and Painist.

Reverend George Penrose Woollcombe (1867-1951): Founder and headmaster of Ashbury College, Ottawa, Canada.

 

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