Notable Residents
See also: List of people from Hastings- Johann Jacob Löwenthal Hungarian Jewish professional chess master, one of the most famous chessmasters of his age, died here in 1876.
- Henry Rider Haggard Author of King Solomon's Mines and She. In 1918 Rider Haggard came to live at North Lodge, Maze Hill, the house built across the road at the entrance to old St Leonards. This remained his home until 1923.
- Robert Tressell - author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists lived at 241 London Road from 1907.
- Elsie Bowerman - suffragette, first women called to the Bar (and to appear in the Old Bailey) and Titanic survivor. On her retirement she bought a house in Silchester Road where she stayed at weekends. She died in 1973 at the age of 83.
- Anthony Crosland, politician
- George Bristow, taxidermist. Bristow was the man at the centre of the Hastings Rarities affair, a case of serial ornithological fraud that took place over at least the first two decades of the twentieth century. His business address was 15 Silchester Road.
- Fred Judge FRPS was the founder of the national picture postcard manufacturer Judges Postcards and International exhibiter of photographic prints.
- Prince Rainier of Monaco attended Summerfields School in St Leonards.
- Sheila Kaye-Smith - Prolific authoress whose novels are set in the Sussex countryside around Hastings and Rye. She was born in St Leonards, the daughter of a local doctor and lived in Dane Road until her marriage in 1924.
- George Monger VC - joined the 23rd Regiment, later the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, as a drummer boy and was sent out to India where he won his VC during the Siege of Lucknow in 1857. At the age of seventeen he was one of the youngest recipients of this award. After leaving the army, he came to Hastings with his wife and family and lived in Tower Road, St Leonards where he died in 1887.
- Roy Porter -Historian of medicine and psychiatry
Read more about this topic: St Leonards-on-Sea
Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or residents:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)