Earley - Notable People

Notable People

  • Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (1757–1844; Speaker 1789, Prime Minister 1801, donated land for and endowed Earley St Peters Church, owned Erleigh Court)
  • The Marquis of Blandford, later George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough (acquired Whiteknights estate Earley Whiteknights 1798)
  • Sir Owen Buckingham, Lord Mayor of London; owner of Erlegh Court 1708 to 1720
  • DC Ian Coward QPM for gallantry, 1942–1971, Shot and killed on duty with Thames Valley Police, buried St Peter's Church Earley
  • Thomas de Erleigh (Keeper of the Kings Deer Windsor Forest: owner of Erleigh Court to 1320)
  • Sir Francis Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet (1808–1878; first Jewish Barrister and QC, MP for Reading, owner of Whiteknights)
  • Sir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet (1778–1859; financier, owner of Whiteknights Estate, first Jewish Baronet)
  • William Heelas (1867–1937; shopkeeper, lived in Hungerford Lodge Wokingham Road)
  • Baron Hirst (1863–1943; lived at Foxhill Whiteknights Estate, founder with Gustav Byng a company selling electrical appliances which was transformed into GEC, Hirst was MD of GEC in 1900 and Chairman in 1910)
  • Solomon Joel (1865–1931; businessman owner of Maiden Erlegh estate from 1903)
  • General Sir Richard Denis Kelly KCB (1815–1897, Colonel 34th Cumberland Regiment, born in Ceylon wounded and taken prisoner at Sebastapol, lived in 'Shrublands' Earley, buried in St Peter's Churchyard Earley)
  • John Scott, 1st Lord Eldon (1751–1838; Lord Chancellor in Addington Government, benefactor to the Royal Berkshire Hospital)
  • William Scott, Lord Stowell (1745–1836; Tory; MP for Oxford University, lived at Erleigh Court from 1828 died there on 28th Jan 1836)
  • Alfred Waterhouse (1813–1905; architect, designer and owner of Foxhill on Whiteknights Estate, first chairman of Governors at Leighton Park School, designed Wokingham and Reading town Halls)

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