Notable People
Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter from 1505 to his death in 1519, was born to a family of minor gentry who lived in the village of Ancoats. Bishop Oldham was a notable patron of education; he founded Manchester Grammar School and was a major benefactor of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Richard Buxton, an impoverished shoemaker from Ancoats, published a botanical guide to the plants to be found around Manchester in 1849.
John Sibbit (3 April 1895 – 5 August 1950) was a British track cyclist who won a silver medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Among the entertainers linked to Ancoats are stand-up comedian Bernard Manning, born here in 1930, and the actor John Henshaw who played Ken, the pub landlord in the TV series Early Doors, among many other roles, was brought up in Ancoats' Little Italy.
Lesley Ann Downey, the youngest victim of the Moors murders was from Ancoats. She was lured from a fairground on 26 December 1964 by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and murdered at their house in Hattersley before her body was buried on Saddleworth Moor, where it was discovered on 16 October 1965.
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