Sonning - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

Notable former and current village inhabitants include:

  • The Bishops of Ramsbury & Sonning, including SS Oda the Severe and Bertwald of Ramsbury
  • The Bishops of Salisbury
  • U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, before D-Day
  • Neil Hamilton Fairley, Australian physician and soldier
  • Anthony Farindon, 17th century Royalist preacher
  • Isabella of Valois, Queen of King Richard II of England
  • Uri Geller, the illusionist
  • Laurence Halstead, 17th century cloth merchant and partner of philanthropist, John Kendrick
  • Glenn Hoddle, football manager and former footballer
  • William Holman Hunt, the Pre-Raphaelite artist, in his later life at The Acre
  • Ric Lee, drummer for the 1970s group Ten Years After
  • Jon Lord, composer and founder member of the 1970s group Deep Purple
  • Right Honourable Theresa May, the local MP
  • Jimmy Page, lead guitarist of the rock group Led Zeppelin
  • Hugh Pearson, Victorian vicar of Sonning, later a Canon at Windsor
  • Sir Terence Rattigan, dramatist, briefly at The Red House during 1945–47 — there is a blue plaque
  • Sir Thomas Rich, 17th century merchant, money-lender to the King and benefactor to both Sonning and Gloucester
  • Dick Turpin, reputedly, at his aunt's house, now called Turpins
  • Admiral Villeneuve, subsequent to his defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar
  • Robert Wright, 17th century Bishop of Lichfield & Coventry and vicar of Sonning

The following recipients of the Victoria Cross are buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church:

  • Edmund John Phipps-Hornby
  • Llewellyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies
  • David Byron- lead singer of uriah heep,lived in sonning

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