Beaconsfield - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

With good access to London (and latterly Heathrow Airport and the motorway system) and having substantial estates and houses, Beaconsfield has been home to many luminaries over the centuries.


  • Enid Blyton (1897 – 1968) writer, who lived for most of her life in Green Hedges — a large house that has since been demolished but there is an Enid Blyton Room nearby at The Red Lion pub in Knotty Green, where there is a gallery of pictures and a library of books, donated by The Enid Blyton Society There is a model of her house at Bekonscot Model Village.
  • Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) statesman and the founder of political conservatism, lived in the Gregories estate just outside Beaconsfield
  • G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) writer, is buried in Beaconsfield
  • James Corden (born 1978) actor and TV presenter, lived in Beaconsfield until 2009
  • Beverley Craven (born 1963) singer, has lived in Beaconsfield since 2003
  • Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice between 1868 and 1880 was created Earl of Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria in 1876
  • Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) poet, moved to Beaconsfield with his family in 1912
  • Barry Gibb (born 1946) singer with the Bee Gees
  • Dame Wendy Hiller (1912 – 2003) actress, moved to Beaconsfield with her husband Ronald Gow in the early 1940s and lived there until her death
  • Peter Jones (born 1966) entrepreneur and star of Dragon's Den lives in Beaconsfield with his wife and children
  • Albert Ernest Kitson (1868 – 1937) geologist and naturalist, moved to Beaconsfield in 1930 and died there in 1937
  • Anne Main (born 1957) MP for St Albans, Hertfordshire, is from Beaconsfield originally
  • Airey Neave (1916 – 1979) politician, grew up in Beaconsfield
  • Sir Gore Ouseley (1770 – 1844) ambassador, orientalist and High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, died in Beaconsfield
  • Swaraj Paul (born 1931) business magnate and philanthropist, lives in Beaconsfield
  • Sir Terry Pratchett (born 1948) writer, was born and brought up in Beaconsfield
  • Piers Paul Read (born 1941) novelist and non-fiction author, was born in Beaconsfield
  • Peter Rogers (1916 – 2009) Carry On Films producer, lived for many years in Beaconsfield because of its proximity to Pinewood Studios
  • Alison Uttley (1884 – 1976) writer, moved to Beaconsfield during the Second World War
  • Edmund Waller (1606 – 1687) poet, lived at Hall Barn in Beaconsfield

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