Notable Residents
The birthplace of Walter Raleigh is a couple of miles to the north, at Hayes Barton, near East Budleigh and the town is the location for the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh by Sir John Everett Millais. A blue plaque affixed to The Octagon commemorates Millais' stay in the town. Other notable people associated with Budleigh Salterton include Henry John Carter, broadcasters Sue Lawley and Andrew Marr, ISSF 2006 World Shooting Champion Richard Phillips, Sally McNally, puppeteer of Muffin the Mule, the poet M. R. Peacocke, actress Belinda Lee, and writer Hilary Mantel author of Wolf Hall. . The actor Reg Varney, died in a nursing home here in 2008. Children's book author George Mills (writer) died here in 1972 while living at Grey Friars.
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