Horsham - Notable Deceased Residents

Notable Deceased Residents

• John Roland Abbey (1894–1969), book collector.
• George Bax Holmes (1803–1887), palaeontologist
• Robert Blatchford (1851–1943), author and socialist.
• Wilfred Brown (1922–1971), singer
• Henry Burstow (1826–1916), singer and bell-ringer, important to the early twentieth-century folk-song revival, and for his 'Reminiscences of Horsham', published in 1911.
• Samuel Carpenter (1649–1714), First Treasurer and Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania. Born in 1649 in Horsham. His father was John Carpenter, the Sheriff of Horsham, who was murdered while attending his duties in Horsham on August 9, 1671.
• Edward Bainbridge Copnall (1903–1973), artist and president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors lived in Horsham from an early age. One of his works, a sculpture titled 'The Astronomer' was presented to the College of Richard Collyer in the town, by his sister Phyllis Millar and is on display in the upper quadrangle. Other examples of his work are kept by Horsham Museum.
• John Copnall (1928–2007), artist and teacher, a leading English abstract painter and teacher at the London Central School of Art and Design.
• Walter Crane (1845–1915) artist and book illustrator died at Horsham
• Howard Dudley (1820–1864),wrote the first illustrated history of Horsham in 1836
• Walter Dendy Sadler (1854–1923) artist and painter, was brought up in Horsham.
• Frederick Gough MC TD (1901–1977), an army major at the Battle of Arnhem, served as Horsham's Member of Parliament from 1951 to 1964.
• Catherine Howard (c.1520-1542), one of King Henry VIII's wives, lived in Horsham.
• Robert Henry Hurst (1817 – 1905). Liberal Member of Parliament for Horsham from 1865 to 1868, and from 1875 to 1876
• Hammond Innes (1913–1998), author, was born in Clarence Road.
• Thomas Medwin (1788–1869), poet and biographer of Lord Byron and his cousin Percy Bysshe Shelley.
• John Guille Millais (1865–1931), painter, naturalist and author, son of the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais,.
• Raoul Millais (1901–1999), artist, son of John Guille Millais.
• Edward Mote (1797–1874), Writer of the hymn 'My hope is built on nothing less' and was minister of Rehoboth Baptist Church in New Street for 26 years where he is buried.
• John Pilford (1769–1834), Royal Navy officer most noted for his command of the HMS Ajax at the battle of Trafalgar.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was born at Field Place, Warnham two miles from Horsham.
• Lt.-Col. George Styles GC (1928–2006), army bomb-disposal expert, was educated at Collyer's School.
• Eric Thompson (1929–1982), narrator of the British version of The Magic Roundabout, was educated at Collyer's School.
• William Vesey-Fitzgerald (1818–1885), Governor of Bombay, M.P. for Horsham lived at Holbrook.
• Howard Vincent (1849–1908), Conservative Party Member of Parliament, barrister and police official who was born at Slinfold