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ART | 1888-1957 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born sculptor whose work reached the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. Webb worked in bronze, clay and plaster, exhibiting at major institutions in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Paris. A ceramic model of the Holy Family made in 1949 remains at Southwell Minster. Her place in the countdown is also a reminder that artistic reputations can fade even after national recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MILITARY & PUBLIC SERVICE | 1783-1860 | Born: Rutland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars who survived an extraordinary military career. Educated at Uppingham School, Harris fought through the Peninsular campaign and was present at Leipzig before being severely wounded at Waterloo, where his right arm was amputated. He later became Chief Magistrate of Gibraltar and served Queen Victoria as a Groom of the Privy Chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n ATHLETICS | 1890-1969 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One of Stamford’s earliest Olympic medallists. Hibbins was a leading cross-country runner, winning English national titles in 1911 and 1912 before representing Great Britain at the Stockholm Olympics. His 15th place in the individual cross-country race contributed to Britain’s team bronze, in an Olympic discipline that disappeared after 1924.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TELEVISION, VOICE & AUDIO | Born 1968 | Born: Rutland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Rutland-born performer whose career has travelled from 1990s Nickelodeon television to major video games and award-winning audiobooks. Quirk became a cult figure as the English referee on GUTS and Global GUTS, then built an extensive voice career in games including Skyrim, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Destiny and Hogwarts Legacy. Her audiobook work has earned multiple Audie Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n STAGE & SCREEN | Born 1976 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born actor best known to millions as pathologist Dr Max DeBryn in Endeavour. Bradshaw grew up in Essendine and trained professionally before building a stage and television career that included The Grimleys, Heartbeat, Primeval and Four Lives. His role in Endeavour creates a neat local link with Stamford-born Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THEATRE & WRITING | Born 1968 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A playwright with a sharp eye for class, manners and the moment polite conversation turns dangerous. Stamford-born Betts began as an actor before establishing himself as a dramatist. Plays including The Unconquered, Muswell Hill, Invincible and Caroline’s Kitchen have been staged widely in Britain and overseas, with The Unconquered winning the Critics’ Award for Theatre in Scotland for Best New Play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POLITICS & SOCIAL REFORM | 1834-1914 | Born: Uppingham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Uppingham-born businessman who became Mayor of Sheffield and later a Liberal MP. Langley built a successful timber business before devoting decades to civic life. He was an early advocate of old-age pensions, supported railway clerks and labour organisation, and was mayor when Sheffield achieved city status in 1893.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CHILDREN’S LITERATURE & ART | Born 1964 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An illustrator and author who has introduced generations of children to art and classical music. His Katie books allow their young heroine to step inside famous paintings, while the Ella Bella Ballerina series opens up the world of dance. Mayhew also paints live during orchestral performances, combining storytelling, music and illustration in concert halls around Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LITERATURE & BIOGRAPHY | Born 1948 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born journalist and biographer who has spent his career uncovering the lives behind famous names. After work as a foreign correspondent, Lycett wrote major biographies of Ian Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins. His work is known for placing celebrated writers inside the political, family and historical worlds that shaped them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DIPLOMACY & MILITARY SERVICE | 1917-2012 | Born: Oakham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Oakham-born soldier and diplomat whose career stretched from the Battle of Kohima to the Vietnam War and the United Nations. Moreton won the Military Cross during the Second World War, entered the Diplomatic Service in 1946 and later served as British Ambassador to South Vietnam and High Commissioner to Malta. Before war redirected his life, he had also been an accomplished middle-distance runner at Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HISTORY & ANTIQUARIANISM | 1692-1743 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford antiquary who understood the value of recording the past before it disappeared. Peck’s 1727 history of Stamford, Academia Tertia Anglicana, explored the town’s remarkable medieval claim to have briefly hosted a rival university. His later collections preserved rare inscriptions, documents and biographical material that modern historians can still consult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LANGUAGES, GEOGRAPHY & SCHOLARSHIP | 1780-1867 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A remarkable linguist and scholar whose work connected Britain with the eastern Mediterranean. Renouard spent time in Constantinople and Smyrna, mastered Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew as well as European and classical languages, and became Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He also worked with the British and Foreign Bible Society and the Royal Geographical Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RELIGION & FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE | 1663-1741 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford minister imprisoned for publishing what he believed. Emlyn rejected orthodox Trinitarian teaching and set out his argument in a 1702 book. Prosecuted for blasphemy, he spent more than two years in prison rather than recant. He later became an important early voice in the development of Unitarian thought in Britain and Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COLONISATION & EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY | 1601-1630 | Born: Probably Clipsham; baptised in Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A wealthy Rutland heir whose money and commitment helped launch the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Johnson was the largest individual investor in the Massachusetts Bay Company and sailed with John Winthrop’s fleet in 1630 with his wife, Lady Arbella. Both died soon after arrival, but Johnson played a part in choosing the site that became Boston. His story is significant, while also belonging to the difficult history of English settlement on Indigenous land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MEDIEVAL HISTORY & WARFARE | 1336-1375 | Born: Essendine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A medieval knight born and baptised at Essendine who rebuilt the reputation of a family disgraced in the reign of Edward II. Despenser fought alongside the Black Prince at Poitiers, became a baron and a Knight of the Garter, and campaigned in France and Italy. His image survives at Tewkesbury Abbey in the famous Kneeling Knight sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NATURAL HISTORY & TRAVEL | 1880-1959 | Born: Uppingham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Uppingham-born naturalist, photographer and writer whose fieldwork took her through Vietnam and parts of Africa. Over several decades Vassal supplied specimens to London’s Natural History Museum and produced books and photographs documenting landscapes, communities, medicine and family life. Her work must be viewed within its colonial setting, but her curiosity, stamina and scientific discipline remain striking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RELIGION & EDUCATION | 1857-1914 | Born: Cottesmore<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The daughter of Cottesmore’s Anglican rector who converted to Roman Catholicism and eventually became worldwide leader of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Stuart rose through the organisation to become Superior General in 1911, travelling widely and championing education that developed character and individuality rather than simple conformity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RELIGION & BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP | 1819-1905 | Born: Whitwell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Whitwell-born theologian and bishop who helped lead one of Victorian Britain’s most important biblical projects. Ellicott chaired the New Testament company responsible for the Revised Version of 1881, using improved manuscript evidence and scholarship to update the King James tradition. He also served for decades as Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BUSINESS & RETAIL | Born 1963 | Born: Rutland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Rutland schoolboy who rose to senior leadership in Tesco.com, Dixons, Apple, Monsoon Accessorize and Dunelm. Browett helped build Tesco’s online grocery business into a major operation, later led Dixons Retail and in 2012 briefly became Apple’s senior vice-president of retail. The Apple appointment was short-lived, but his wider career shows unusual resilience at the top of British retail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY | Born 1967 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Stamford-born entrepreneur who helped turn online financial comparison into a mass-market habit. Nixon co-founded the business that became Moneysupermarket.com, allowing consumers to compare mortgages, insurance, credit cards and other products in one place. Its 2007 flotation made him one of Britain’s wealthiest young entrepreneurs and helped reshape how people shop for financial services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA | Born 1990 | Born: Oakham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Oakham-born soprano who has taken on some of musical theatre’s most demanding roles. Hall has performed Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, Cosette and Fantine in Les Miserables, Maria in West Side Story and Johanna in Sweeney Todd. Her appearance in the 25th-anniversary Les Miserables concert at London’s O2 carried an Oakham voice to an international audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EXPLORATION & WRITING | Born 1953 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born explorer and writer whose life has been shaped by deserts. A former Parachute Regiment soldier who later served with the Territorial SAS, Asher learned Arabic and Swahili, lived among nomadic communities and crossed immense distances in the Sahara. His books combine travel, military history and biography, and his Channel 4 investigation of Bravo Two Zero challenged parts of the famous published account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AVIATION & ADVENTURE | Born 1962 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born aviator who recreated the epic long-distance journeys of aviation’s golden age in open-cockpit biplanes. Her expeditions included Cape Town to Goodwood and Britain to Australia in the Spirit of Artemis. The flights demanded complex permissions, weather judgement and mechanical resilience, while also attracting debate about how expedition achievements and team contributions were presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FOOTBALL | Born 1979 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A striker whose route to the Premier League began in non-league football while he worked in a supermarket. Derby County signed the Stamford-born Christie in 1998, and in May 2001 he scored the only goal at Old Trafford to secure Derby’s Premier League survival against champions Manchester United. Injuries shortened his career, but that goal remains part of Derby folklore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ORNITHOLOGY & MEDICINE | 1870-1948 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford surgeon who became one of Britain’s leading ornithologists. Lowe served as a wartime doctor, travelled widely and built major bird collections before taking charge of the bird department at the Natural History Museum in 1919. He later became president of the British Ornithologists’ Union and helped shape the study, classification and protection of birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PHOTOGRAPHY & JOURNALISM | Born 1964 | Born: Oakham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n An Oakham-born photojournalist whose career has taken him into conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Cambodia, Congo and beyond. Knight co-founded VII Photo Agency in 2001 and later helped establish the VII Foundation and VII Academy. His work is defined less by spectacle than by the people who live with the consequences of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WEATHER & NATURAL SCIENCE | 1722-1809 | Born: Lyndon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Rutland squire whose weather diary became a source for modern climate history. Barker began systematic observations at Lyndon when he was around 11 and continued for more than 60 years, recording temperature, pressure, rainfall, wind and the natural world. Those long records now help researchers reconstruct the climate of 18th-century Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ART & DESIGN | 1859-1941 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford artist who refused to stay inside one discipline. Dawson painted, etched, designed jewellery and worked in silver, enamel and architectural metalwork, becoming closely associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and helped found the Artificers’ Guild, demonstrating how fine art and practical design could enrich one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n THEATRE | Born 1964 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Stamford-born director who helped turn War Horse into a global theatrical phenomenon. Morris co-directed the National Theatre production with Marianne Elliott, working with Handspring Puppet Company to place life-sized horse puppets at the emotional centre of the story. The production transferred to the West End and Broadway, and Morris and Elliott won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ARCHAEOLOGY | 1913-2001 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A civil engineer who became one of the great interpreters of Roman Britain. Wartime work and bomb damage drew Webster towards archaeology, where his engineering discipline proved invaluable. He directed major excavations, trained generations of archaeologists and wrote influential books including The Roman Imperial Army. His work helped move Romano-British archaeology towards rigorous study of whole landscapes and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NURSING & EDUCATION | 1887-1959 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford nurse and reformer who argued that nursing belonged inside the university. Carter attacked authoritarian training and insisted that modern nurses needed research, intellectual development and professional judgement. Her work helped pave the way for the University of Edinburgh’s Nursing Studies Unit, widely recognised as Europe’s first academic department of nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PUBLIC ART | Born 1945 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A sculptor who took modern art out of galleries and placed it in streets, squares and riversides. Taylor’s large-scale public works include Timepiece beside the Thames near Tower Bridge and Octo in Milton Keynes. Her steel arcs, circles and geometric forms helped define a generation of British public sculpture and earned her a CBE for services to art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SQUASH | Born 1979 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born squash champion who recovered from a devastating knee injury to reach world number four. Bailey won the World Junior Championship in 1997, later became British champion and played in England teams that won the Women’s World Team Championship twice. Her comeback from surgery is as impressive as the titles themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ASTRONOMY, MATHEMATICS & SURVEYING | 1619-1668 | Born: North Luffenham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A self-taught Rutland astronomer whose almanacs carried scientific tables into thousands of homes. Wing mastered mathematics, astronomy and surveying without university training, co-authored Urania Practica and produced Astronomia Britannica on Copernican principles. His annual almanac Olympia Domata reportedly sold on a huge scale, while future Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed respected his calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CYCLING | Born 2003 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born track cyclist who won Olympic silver before his 21st birthday. Lowe rode the opening leg of Britain’s men’s team sprint at Paris 2024 alongside Hamish Turnbull and Jack Carlin. The trio reached the final and took silver behind a world-record-paced Netherlands team, giving Stamford another Olympic medallist more than a century after Frederick Hibbins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WRITING & TELEVISION | Born 1971 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Stamford teenager whose private diaries became an acclaimed book and international television series. Earl’s My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary grew from notebooks she began in 1989 and was adapted for E4 as My Mad Fat Diary, starring Sharon Rooney with a young Jodie Comer. Her work addresses mental health, body image, friendship and sexuality with humour rather than reducing its heroine to a diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MUSIC | Born 1947 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born saxophonist whose sound became central to progressive-rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Influenced by jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Jackson sometimes played two saxophones at once and used amplification and effects to create a distinctive wall of reeds. He later applied musical technology to collaborative work with people with profound disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n POLITICS, AGRICULTURE & THE TURF | 1840-1923 | Born: Ryhall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Ryhall-born racing figure and politician whose horse Hermit won one of the most dramatic Derbies in history. Chaplin later spent decades in Parliament and served in the Cabinet as President of the Board of Agriculture and President of the Local Government Board. His life combined the glamour of the Victorian turf with a long political career championing agricultural interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CHEMISTRY | Born 1945 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford-born organic chemist celebrated internationally for constructing some of nature’s most complicated molecules. Ley’s research group completed the synthesis of more than 140 natural target compounds and pioneered flow chemistry and automated methods. He became Professor of Organic Chemistry at Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EDUCATION & PHILANTHROPY | 1540-1625 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Stamford clergyman whose educational legacy remains visible every morning at Oakham and Uppingham schools. Johnson founded both grammar schools in 1584 and also created hospitals or almshouses, supported poor scholars and re-endowed Oakham’s Hospital of St John and St Anne. More than four centuries later, his two schools remain nationally known institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ROYAL COURT & ADVENTURE | 1619-1682 | Born: Oakham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Few lives in the countdown are stranger. Born in Oakham and unusually small as a child, Hudson was famously presented to Queen Henrietta Maria after emerging from a pie at a banquet. He became a court celebrity, Royalist captain and duellist, then was captured by Barbary corsairs and enslaved in North Africa. Behind the extraordinary anecdotes is the story of a man repeatedly trying to control an identity that others treated as entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RELIGION & STATECRAFT | c.1310-1376 | Born: Probably Langham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Rutland-born monk who climbed to the highest offices of medieval church and state. After the Black Death devastated Westminster Abbey, Langham restored its finances and rose from abbot to Treasurer and Chancellor of England, then Archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal. His bequest helped rebuild Westminster Abbey’s nave, and his tomb remains the Abbey’s oldest monument to an ecclesiastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SCIENCE FICTION | Born 1960 | Born: Oakham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One of Britain’s leading writers of large-scale science fiction. Oakham-born Hamilton built his reputation through the Greg Mandel novels before expanding into the vast Night’s Dawn trilogy, the Commonwealth Saga, the Salvation sequence and other works spanning planets, centuries and entire civilisations. His books have sold in the millions and been translated widely, an appropriately enormous literary legacy from England’s smallest historic county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n INVENTION & ENTERTAINMENT | Born 1979 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Stamford plumber who turned practical engineering into global entertainment. Furze’s YouTube projects have included jet-powered bicycles, a motorway-speed mobility scooter, a hoverbike, record-breaking motorcycles and an extraordinary underground bunker and tunnel system beneath his home. With more than 13 million subscribers, he has made engineering look inventive, physical and accessible – while never losing the manic energy of a shed-based experimenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MUSIC & POPULAR CULTURE | Born 1985 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Born in Stamford, Roberts became famous at 16 through Popstars: The Rivals and went on to become a member of Girls Aloud, one of Britain’s most successful 21st-century pop groups. Twenty consecutive top-ten singles and a BRIT Award were only part of the story. Roberts later challenged cruel public commentary about her appearance, created cosmetics for pale skin, campaigned on sunbed risks, released the acclaimed solo album Cinderella’s Eyes and won The Masked Singer UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PHYSICS & INVENTION | 1855-1944 | Born: Wing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Rutland physicist who used almost impossibly fine quartz fibres to measure tiny forces, refined experiments on the gravitational constant and even detected heat from the Moon and stars. Boys also invented sensitive instruments, pioneered high-speed photography and became famous for public lectures on soap films. His classic book Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them showed how serious physics could be revealed through beautiful everyday phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RELIGION & POLITICAL THOUGHT | c.1550-1633 | Born: Tolethorpe Hall, Little Casterton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Rutland radical whose ideas about religious independence travelled far beyond his birthplace. Browne argued that churches should be voluntary communities choosing their own ministers rather than institutions governed by bishops or the state. His followers became known as Brownists, and the wider separatist tradition he helped pioneer influenced movements that later crossed the Atlantic. The twist is that Browne himself eventually returned to the Church of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHAEOLOGY | 1879-1940 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb; Harry Burton gave the discovery its visual memory. Born in Stamford, Burton became an expert archaeological photographer and in 1922 was lent by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to Carter’s excavation. Working in dark, cramped chambers with glass plates, mirrors and improvised lighting, he documented objects before they moved and created images that travelled around the world. His photographs remain one of archaeology’s most important visual records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CRIME FICTION & TELEVISION | 1930-2017 | Born: Stamford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stamford-born Colin Dexter created one of the most enduring detectives in British popular culture. Educated at Stamford School and Cambridge, he worked as a classics teacher until hereditary deafness prompted a career change. A rain-soaked family holiday in North Wales inspired his first crime novel, Last Bus to Woodstock, published in 1975. Twelve more Inspector Morse novels followed. The ITV series starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately began in 1987 and turned Morse into an international phenomenon, later spawning Lewis and Endeavour. Dexter even appeared in tiny cameos on screen, Hitchcock-style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AVIATION, HORSES & LITERATURE | 1902-1986 | Born: Ashwell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pride’s greatest Rutland and Stamford legend was born Beryl Clutterbuck at Ashwell in 1902 and grew up in British East Africa. She became a racehorse trainer while still very young, then a commercial bush pilot operating across difficult terrain. In September 1936 she took off from England alone in a Percival Vega Gull and flew west across the Atlantic against the prevailing winds. Engine trouble forced her down in Nova Scotia, but she had become the first person to fly solo and non-stop from England to North America. Her memoir West with the Night later became a classic of aviation and travel writing. Horse trainer, pilot, record-breaker and writer: Beryl Markham earns the number-one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN PRIDE MAGAZINES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n49. Sir Thomas Noel Harris<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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48. Frederick Hibbins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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47. Moira Quirk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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46. James Bradshaw<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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45. Torben Betts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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44. J. Batty Langley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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43. James Mayhew<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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42. Andrew Lycett<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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41. Sir John Moreton<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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40. Francis Peck<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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39. George Cecil Renouard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
38. Thomas Emlyn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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37. Isaac Johnson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
36. Edward le Despenser<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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35. Gabrielle Maud Vassal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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34. Janet Erskine Stuart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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33. Charles Ellicott<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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32. John Browett<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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31. Simon Nixon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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30. Katie Hall<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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29. Michael Asher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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28. Tracey Curtis-Taylor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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27. Malcolm Christie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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26. Percy Lowe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Historic](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/26-percy-lowe-stamford-ornithologist.jpg\")
25. Gary Knight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Gary](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/25-gary-knight-oakham-photojournalist.jpg\")
24. Thomas Barker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Lyndon](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/24-thomas-barker-lyndon-hall-rutland.jpg\")
23. Nelson Dawson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Historic](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/23-nelson-dawson-stamford-artist.jpg\")
22. Tom Morris<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/22-tom-morris-stamford-war-horse-director.jpg\")
21. Graham Webster<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Graham](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/21-graham-webster-stamford-archaeologist.jpg\")
20. Gladys Beaumont Carter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
19. Wendy Taylor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Wendy](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/19-wendy-taylor-timepiece-sculpture-814x571.jpg\")
18. Tania Bailey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Tania](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/18-tania-bailey-stamford-squash.jpg\")
17. Vincent Wing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Engraved](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/17-vincent-wing-north-luffenham-astronomer.jpg\")
16. Ed Lowe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Stamford-born](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/16-ed-lowe-stamford-olympic-cyclist.jpg\")
15. Rae Earl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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14. David Jackson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/14-david-jackson-stamford-saxophonist.jpg\")
13. Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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12. Professor Steven V. Ley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Professor](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/12-steven-v-ley-stamford-chemist.jpg\")
11. Archdeacon Robert Johnson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Statue](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/11-archdeacon-robert-johnson-stamford.jpg\")
10. Sir Jeffrey Hudson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Sir](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/10-sir-jeffrey-hudson-queen-henrietta-maria.jpg\")
9. Simon de Langham<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Tomb](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/09-simon-de-langham-westminster-tomb.jpg\")
8. Peter F. Hamilton<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Peter](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/08-peter-f-hamilton-oakham-author.jpg\")
7. Colin Furze<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Colin](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/07-colin-furze-stamford-inventor.jpg\")
6. Nicola Roberts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Nicola](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/06-nicola-roberts-stamford-girls-aloud.jpg\")
5. Sir Charles Vernon Boys<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Portrait](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/05-sir-charles-vernon-boys-rutland-physicist.jpg\")
4. Robert Browne<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Historic](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/04-robert-browne-tolethorpe-rutland.jpg\")
3. Harry Burton<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Harry](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/03-harry-burton-stamford-tutankhamun-photographer.jpg\")
2. Colin Dexter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Colin](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/02-colin-dexter-stamford-inspector-morse-author-814x571.jpg\")
1. Beryl Markham<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
![\"Beryl](\"https:\/\/www.pridemagazines.co.uk\/rutland-and-stamford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/09\/01-beryl-markham-rutland-aviator.jpg\")