Notable People
Born in Spondon -
- Anthony Borrington, cricketer
- Michael Knowles, actor
- James Herbert Matthews, member of Canadian parliament
- Robert Priseman, artist
- William Thompson, cricketer
Links to Spondon -
- Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe, lieutenant-general and knight of the realm
- Henry Evans, cricketer
- Richard William Hunt, Keeper of the Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library
- George Porter, cricketer
- Graham Coxon, guitarist with Blur
- Rowena Cade, founder of Minack open-air theatre
- Sir Henry Fowler, Chief Engineer for the London Midland and Scottish Railway
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