Notable Residents
Pamela Colman Smith (1878—1951), artist, illustrator, and writer, best known for designing the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of divinatory tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite, lived in Bude, and died here on 18 September 1951. Step-brothers George Mills, the author of children's books, and Arthur F. H. Mills, the crime and adventure novelist, were born in Bude, where their grandfather Arthur Mills, MP, lived nearby at Efford Down House. Stanley Lucas was a supercentenarian who served as a Bude town councillor. Rennie Montague Bere was a British mountaineer, naturalist and nature conservationist who lived in a nearby cottage in his retirement; among his books are The Book of Bude and Stratton and The Nature of Cornwall. Sir Laurence Dudley Stamp, one of the leading British geographers of the 20th century, lived in Bude in his retirement.
American singer-songwriter Tori Amos has a home and studio here. Phil Vickery, World Cup winning England rugby player and former World Squash Rackets Champion Jonah Barrington both came from Bude.
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