Malvern, Worcestershire - Notable People

Notable People

In addition to those born in Malvern, notable people came to the town to be cured (mentioned above), to be educated or teach at the many independent schools: see articles on Malvern College, Malvern St James, the merger of St. James School and Malvern College for Girls, and Malvern College Prep. (The Downs), or to work at TRE, RRDE, their merger RRE and its successor organisations leading (as of 2011) to QinetiQ, The Hills have inspired poets and novelists.

• Thomas Attwood, British economist and campaigner for electoral reform, died in Malvern, on 9 March 1859.
• Benedict Carpenter, sculptor and artist, was born in Malvern and educated at Malvern College.
• Nigel Coates, architect and Emeritus professor of the Royal College of Arts grew up in Malvern and was educated at Hanley Castle Grammar School.
• Anne, Charles Darwin's daughter, is buried in the graveyard of Malvern Priory.
• David Davis (1908–1996) BBC radio executive and broadcaster, was born and raised in Malvern.
• Anne Diamond, television journalist and presenter, grew up in Malvern.
• Edward Elgar, composer, taught in Great Malvern. Elgar is buried at St. Wulstan's, Little Malvern.
• Basil Foster (1882–1959), English cricketer who played 34 first-class matches in the early 20th century, was born in Malvern.
• Arthur Troyte Griffith, architect and friend of Elgar
• Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, visited Malvern during his 1936–1941 exile, staying at the Abbey Hotel and attending the Holy Trinity Church.
• Julius Harrison (1885–1963), was a contemporary of Elgar, and Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He was music director at Malvern College and director of the early Elgar Festivals in Malvern. He lived in Pickersleigh Road from most of the 1940s.
• Charles Hastings, founder of the British Medical Association, spent his final years at Hastings House, Barnards Green.
• Graeme Hick, cricketer, currently resides in the Malvern area, and coaches at Malvern College.
• Nigel Kennedy, violinist and composer, and his Polish wife Agnieszka, have a home in Malvern.
• William Langland's allegorical narrative poem Piers Plowman (written c. 1360–1387) begins on the Malvern Hills.
• C. S. Lewis, novelist, was a pupil at the preparatory school Cherbourg House and Malvern College. He boarded at these two establishments between early 1911 and June 1914.
• Jenny Lind, opera singer, lived and died in Malvern, and is buried in Great Malvern cemetery.
• Cher Lloyd, contestant and runner-up on The X Factor (UK).
• Ellen Marriage, Balzac translator, died in Malvern in 1946.
• David Mitchell, author whose works include Cloud Atlas (also a 2012 Hollywood movie)and Black Swan Green, the latter taking place in Malvern. Mitchel was educated at Hanley Castle Grammar School.
• Charles William Dyson Perrins, (1864–1958), art collector, philanthropist and local government office holder.
• Charles Ranken, chess champion, lived in Malvern from 1871 until his death in 1905.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, later President of the USA, stayed at the Aldwyn Tower Hotel while convalescing from an illness at the age of 7.
• George Sayer, biographer of C. S. Lewis.
• Jacqui Smith, former British Home Secretary, was born and raised in Malvern.
• Philip Woodward (born 1919), a British mathematician, who worked on radar and related topics at the government TRE/RRE laboratory in Malvern for forty years, and also made major contributions to horology.