Famous Residents
The town was home to West End actress Margaret Rawlings, who lived at Rocketer Farm, and actor David Jason, who now lives two miles away in Ellesborough. It has been known to be a stopping off point for the Prime Minister due to its proximity to Chequers. The eminent physician Sir Thomas Barlow, who attended Queen Victoria on her deathbed, owned Boswells (a large country house to the South of Wendover) until his death in 1945 and the actor John Junkin lived in Wendover until his death in 2006.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“Many famous feet have trod
Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed
The strength they have against the strength they need;
And famous lips interrogated God
Concerning franchise in eternity....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)