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* [[Angus Ogilvy]] (1928 – 2004), businessman, lived at [[Thatched House Lodge]] in [[Richmond Park]]<ref name= Ogilvy>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/29/newsid_2758000/2758983.stm | title=1964: Royal baby for leap year day | publisher=[[BBC News]] | accessdate=8 October 2012 | date=9 February 1964}}</ref> |
* [[Angus Ogilvy]] (1928 – 2004), businessman, lived at [[Thatched House Lodge]] in [[Richmond Park]]<ref name= Ogilvy>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/29/newsid_2758000/2758983.stm | title=1964: Royal baby for leap year day | publisher=[[BBC News]] | accessdate=8 October 2012 | date=9 February 1964}}</ref> |
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* [[James Goldsmith]] (1933 – 1997), billionaire financier, whose family lived at Ormeley Lodge<ref name="Observer"/> |
* [[James Goldsmith]] (1933 – 1997), billionaire financier, whose family lived at Ormeley Lodge<ref name="Observer"/> |
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* Sir [[Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata|Ratan Tata]] (1871 – 1918), a [[Parsi people|Parsee]] and a major industrialist in [[India]], who bought [[York House, Twickenham]] in 1906 and lived there until 1914, when he returned to India. His widow Navajbai decided to sell the house and its contents in 1924<ref name="Tata Archives">{{cite web | url=http://www.tatacentralarchives.com/history/biographies/22%20Navajbai%20Tata.htm | title=Navajbai Tata (1877 - 1965) | publisher=Tata Central Archives | accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref> |
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*[[Thomas Twining (merchant)|Thomas Twining]] (1675 - 1741) was a merchant, and the founder of the tea company [[Twinings]]. In about 1722 he bought a property later known as Dial House, next door to the church of [[St Mary's, Twickenham]], where he either rebuilt, or converted and extended the buildings already there. The sundial on the façade carries the date 1726, possibly the time when the new building was finished. After Twining died in 1741, he was buried at St Mary's, next to his house where there is a memorial to him at the north-east corner of the church.<ref>Lynn F. Pearson, ''Discovering Famous Graves'' (2008, ISBN 0747806195), p. 82</ref> |
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* [[Thomas Griffiths Wainewright]] (1794 – 1847), poisoner and [[penal transportation|transported]] [[convict]], was born in Richmond<ref name=ADB>{{cite web |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020509b.htm |title=Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths (1794 - 1847) |accessdate=28 September 2007 |author=V. W. Hodgman |work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], Volume 2 |publisher=[[Melbourne University Press|MUP]] |year=1967 |pages=558–559}}</ref> |
* [[Thomas Griffiths Wainewright]] (1794 – 1847), poisoner and [[penal transportation|transported]] [[convict]], was born in Richmond<ref name=ADB>{{cite web |url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020509b.htm |title=Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths (1794 - 1847) |accessdate=28 September 2007 |author=V. W. Hodgman |work=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], Volume 2 |publisher=[[Melbourne University Press|MUP]] |year=1967 |pages=558–559}}</ref> |
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This is a categorised list of those who were born in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough.
Living people
Actors, entertainers and musicians
- Anastacia, singer/songwriter, lives in Richmond[1]
- Joss Ackland, actor, lived in Barnes[2]
- Richard Ashcroft, The Verve singer and songwriter[3]
- Rick Astley, musician, lives in Richmond[4]
- David Attenborough, naturalist and film director has a house in Richmond[5]
- Richard Attenborough, actor, film director and his wife Sheila Sim, actress, lived for many years on Richmond Green[6]
- Helen Baxendale, actress, lives in Richmond[7]
- Brian Blessed, actor, has lived at Clarence House, 2 The Vineyard, in Richmond[8]
- Rob Brydon, comedian, lives in Strawberry Hill[9]
- Rod Burton, children's TV presenter and musician[citation needed]
- Richard Clarke (radio personality), The Big Top 40 Show host[citation needed]
- Georgina Chapman, actress and fashion designer[citation needed]
- Justin Lee Collins, comedian and television presenter, lives in Kew[10]
- Ronald Colman, actor[citation needed]
- Omid Djalili, comedian, lives in Richmond[11]
- The Fades, indie rock band[citation needed]
- Philip Glenister, actor, lives in Sheen[12]
- Beth Goddard, actress, lives in Sheen[12]
- Oliver Golding, former child actor and current LTA junior tennis player, has lived in Twickenham[13]
- Richard E Grant, actor, lives in Richmond[14]
- Peter Green, Fleetwood Mac former lead singer[citation needed]
- Jerry Hall, actress and model, lives in Downe House, Richmond Hill[15][16]
- John Hannah, actor and his wife Joanna Roth, actress, live in Richmond with their two children[17]
- Keeley Hawes, actress, lives in Twickenham[18]
- Amanda Holden, actress[citation needed]
- Guy Hollingworth, magician[citation needed]
- Jane Horrocks, actress[citation needed]
- Eddie Izzard, comedian[citation needed]
- Mick Jagger, rock musician, Rolling Stones, lived at Downe House, Richmond Hill when he was married to Jerry Hall[15]
- Angelina Jolie, actress, bought, with Brad Pitt, a family home in Richmond in 2012[19]
- Milton Jones, comedian, was born and brought up in Kew[20]
- Mollie King, singer of girl group The Saturdays[21]
- Gabby Logan, TV presenter, and her husband Kenny Logan, rugby player, live in Kew[22]
- Matthew Macfadyen, actor, lives in Twickenham[18]
- Hayley Mills, actress, lived at The Wick on Richmond Hill [1]
- Juliet Mills, actress, lived at The Wick on Richmond Hill [2]
- Kylie Minogue, singer, songwriter and actress[citation needed]
- Trevor Peacock, actor[citation needed]
- Robert Pattinson, actor[citation needed]
- Brad Pitt, actor, bought, with Angelina Jolie, a family home in Richmond in 2012[19]
- Ben Shephard, TV presenter, lives in Richmond[23]
- Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, lives at The Wick on Richmond Hill[24] and previously lived at Chapel House, Twickenham, now called 15 Montpelier Row
- Sam Walters, artistic director of the Orange Tree Theatre[citation needed]
- Ronnie Wood, rock musician, guitarist, lived at The Wick on Richmond Hill[24]
Business people
- Ben Goldsmith, financier and environmentalist, son of James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Goldsmith, was brought up at Ormeley Lodge[25]
Politicians and statesmen
- Zac Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park, son of James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Goldsmith, was brought up at Ormeley Lodge[25]
- John Turner, Prime Minister of Canada, was born in Richmond[26]
Royals
- Princess Alexandra, granddaughter of George V and first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, lives at Thatched House Lodge in Richmond Park[27]
Scholars, scientists and engineers
- Tim Berners-Lee, physicist and inventor of the World Wide Web, grew up in East Sheen[28]
Socialites
- Lady Annabel Goldsmith, lives in Ormeley Lodge, a Georgian mansion on the edge of Richmond Park where she brought up her children[25][29]
Sportsmen and sportswomen
- Lawrence Dallaglio, rugby player, lives in Richmond[30]
- Mo Farah, Olympian long-distance runner, has a home in Teddington[31]
- Peter Jaffe, sailor and Olympic silver medallist, was born in Richmond[32]
Writers and artists
- Jason Bradbury, children's writer and TV presenter, lives in Twickenham[33]
- Jemima Khan, writer and campaigner, daughter of James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Goldsmith, was brought up at Ormeley Lodge[25]
Historical figures
Actors, entertainers and musicians
- Rosemary Ackland (1951–2002), actress, lived in Barnes[2]
- Malcolm Arnold (1921 – 2006), composer, lived at Denbigh Gardens and at Sheen Road, Richmond[34]
- Johann Christian Bach (1735 – 1782), composer, had a house in Richmond in the 1770s, but it is not known where. He was music master to the royal household at Kew[34]
- Syd Barrett (1946 - 2006), former lead singer with Pink Floyd, shared a flat in Richmond with Rick Wright[35]
- Mary Hayley Bell (1911 – 2005), actress, writer and dramatist, lived at The Wick on Richmond Hill[24][36]
- Sir Noel Coward (1899 – 1973), actor, playwright and songwriter, was born at 131 Waldegrave Road, Teddington[34][37]
- Richard Dimbleby (1913 – 1965), radio broadcaster, was born in the borough[38]
- David Garrick (1717 – 1779), lived at Garrick's Villa, Hampton Court Road, Hampton[37]
- Gustav Holst (1874 – 1934), composer, lived at 31 Gretna Road, Richmond between 1903 and 1908. He and his family moved to 10 The Terrace on the riverfront at Barnes in 1908, where they remained until 1913[34]
- Celia Johnson (1908 – 1982), actress. There is a blue plaque at 46 Richmond Hill, Richmond, where she was born[37][39]
- Edmund Kean (1787 – 1833), actor, had a house next door to the King's Theatre in Richmond where he was actor-manager, and died there[40][41]
- Phil Lynott (1949 – 1986), Irish rock guitarist and leader of Thin Lizzy, lived in Kew[42]
- Sir John Mills (1908 – 2005), actor, lived at The Wick on Richmond Hill[36]
- Rudolph Nureyev (1938 – 1993), ballet dancer, briefly owned a house in Richmond[43]
- William Christian Sellé (1813 – 1898), doctor of music and Musician in Ordinary to Queen Victoria for 44 years, lived at Old Palace Terrace, Richmond[44]
- John Templeton (1802 – 1886), opera singer, lived at 114 High Street, Hampton Hill[45]
- Rick Wright (1943 – 2008), English pianist, keyboardist and songwriter, shared a flat in Richmond with fellow Pink Floyd member Syd Barratt[35]
Architects
- Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716 – 1783), is commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque at Wilderness House, Hampton Court Palace, where he lived from 1764 – when he was appointed Chief Gardener at the palace – until his death in 1783[46]
- Sir Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723), lived at The Old Court House, Hampton Court Green. The site is marked by a blue plaque[37]
Business people
- Angus Ogilvy (1928 – 2004), businessman, lived at Thatched House Lodge in Richmond Park[27]
- James Goldsmith (1933 – 1997), billionaire financier, whose family lived at Ormeley Lodge[25]
- Sir Ratan Tata (1871 – 1918), a Parsee and a major industrialist in India, who bought York House, Twickenham in 1906 and lived there until 1914, when he returned to India. His widow Navajbai decided to sell the house and its contents in 1924[47]
- Thomas Twining (1675 - 1741) was a merchant, and the founder of the tea company Twinings. In about 1722 he bought a property later known as Dial House, next door to the church of St Mary's, Twickenham, where he either rebuilt, or converted and extended the buildings already there. The sundial on the façade carries the date 1726, possibly the time when the new building was finished. After Twining died in 1741, he was buried at St Mary's, next to his house where there is a memorial to him at the north-east corner of the church.[48]
Criminals and sinners
- Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794 – 1847), poisoner and transported convict, was born in Richmond[49]
Politicians and statesmen
- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757-1844), British Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804, was given White Lodge, Richmond Park, as a home near London, by George III in 1801.[51]He was created Viscount Sidmouth in 1805, is commemorated in the name Sidmouth Wood at Richmond Park, and was buried in St. Mary-the-Virgin churchyard in Mortlake [3][52]
- Edwin Chadwick, social reformer (1800 – 1890), died at Park Cottage, East Sheen[53]
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845), British Prime Minister from 1831 to 1834, rented Sheen House from the Marquess of Ailesbury during his premiership, for use as a country house near London[54]
- Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond (1913 – 1993) lived in Kew[55]
- Henry Du Pre Labouchere (1831 - 1912), Liberal MP and journalist, lived at Pope's Villa, Cross Deep, Twickenham. The site is marked by a blue plaque[37]
- Samuel Molyneux (1689 – 1728), Member of Parliament, and an amateur astronomer, who was married to Lady Elizabeth Diana Capel, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Essex, inherited Kew House on the death of Lady Capel of Tewkesbury.[56] Molyneux set up an observatory at the house and collaborated there with James Bradley in innovative designs for reflecting telescopes.[56] Kew House which later, as the White House, became the home of Prince Frederick and Princess Augusta, was pulled down in 1802 when George II's short-lived gothic "castellated palace" was built[57]
- One of Henry VIII's closest friends, Henry Norris, lived at Kew Farm,[58] which was later owned by Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.[59] This large palatial house on the Thames riverbank predated the royal palaces of Kew Palace and the White House. Excavations at Kew Gardens in 2009 revealed a wall that may have belonged to the property[60]
- Bernardo O'Higgins (1778 - 1842) general, statesman and liberator of Chile, lived and studied at Clarence House, 2 The Vineyard, Richmond in his late teens. The site is marked by a blue plaque[8][37][61]
- Sir Christopher Packe (1593? – 1682), Lord Mayor of London, lived in Mortlake in about 1655-60[62]
- Sir Henry Parker (1808 – 1881), Premier of New South Wales acquired Stawell House, East Sheen, on his return to England in 1868, and his family continued there until 1935[62]
- Lyon Playfair (1818-1898), professor of chemistry and Liberal MP, lived at 26 Castelnau Villas (98 Castelnau), Barnes in 1851, when taking part in organising the Great Exhibition[62]
- Sir John Power, 1st Baronet, (1870 – 1950), British businessman and Conservative MP for Wimbledon, lived at 1 Queen's Ride, Barnes, 1908-19[62]
- Sir Hugh Portman, 4th Baronet (died 1632), MP for Taunton, lived in a house opposite Kew Palace[63]
- Sir John Puckering (1544 — 1596), lawyer, politician, Speaker of the English House of Commons, and Lord Keeper from 1592 until his death, lived in Kew[63]
- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (1792 – 1878), UK prime minister, lived at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park[50]
- Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester was granted lands at Kew in 1517. When he died in 1526 he left his Kew estates to his third wife, Eleanor, with the remainder to his son George. In 1538 Sir George Somerset sold the house for £200 to Thomas Cromwell, who resold it for the same amount to Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. Brandon had probably already inhabited Kew during the life of his wife Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VII and widow of Louis XII[64]
- Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, usually known as Lord Castlereagh (1769 – 1822), British Foreign Secretary, rented Temple Grove, East Sheen, from Lord Palmerston's trustees, from 1802 to 1806. His wife's mother, the Countess of Buckinghamshire, was then living next door, at The Firs[62]
- John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713 – 1792), Prime Minister of Great Britain (1762–1763), botanist and honorary director of Kew Gardens, 1754-72, succeeded Princess Amelia as Ranger of Richmond Park and used White Lodge as an occasional residence from 1761 until his death in 1792[62]
Royals
- The Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, spent her last years (1837 - 1849) at Bushy House, Teddington[65]
- Anne of Bohemia, Richard II's queen, died at Shene (now called Richmond) in 1377[65]
- Anne of Cleves, divorced wife of Henry VIII,[65] was granted Richmond Palace in 1540 and entertained the king and his daughters there on several occasions
- Queen Anne lived at Hampton Court Palace and continued William and Mary's decoration and completion of its state apartments[66]
- Charles I lived at Richmond Palace and at Hampton Court while the plague raged in London. He was held prisoner at Hampton Court in 1647[65]
- Charles II lived at Hampton Court in 1665 to escape the plague in London[65]
- Queen Charlotte, queen of George III, died at the Dutch House, Kew in 1818[65]
- Edward I of England[65]
- Edward III died at Shene (now called Richmond) in 1394[65]
- Edward VII (1841-1910) and Queen Alexandra (1844-1925). As Prince of Wales Edward was resident at White Lodge with his tutors in 1858.[65] The Prince and Princess used the house as a weekend residence, 1867-68[54]
- Edward VIII (1894-1972) was born at White Lodge – the home of his maternal grandparents, the Duke and Duchess of Teck[65]
- Elizabeth I was held prisoner at Richmond Palace during her sister Mary I's reign. She lived in the palace as Queen and died there in 1603[65]
- Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV's queen, made the royal manor of Shene her chief residence and held it until it was reclaimed from her by Henry VII in 1486[65]
- Frederick, Prince of Wales and Princess Augusta lived at the White House in Kew[65]
- George I commissioned the completion of six rooms at Hampton Court Palace to the design of John Vanbrugh.[67]
- George II lived at Ormonde House[68][69]
- The future George III, as Prince of Wales, purchased Richmond Lodge in Old Deer Park in 1721 where he lived after his marriage to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. On the death of the Dowager Princess of Wales (Princess Augusta), the king moved into the White House at Kew[65]
- George V[citation needed]
- George VI (1895-1952) and Queen Elizabeth as Duke and Duchess of York lived at White Lodge, Richmond Park, after their marriage in 1923[54][65]
- Henrietta Maria, the widowed mother of Charles II, lived briefly at Richmond Palace in 1660[65]
- Henry I resided for a short time in 1125 at the King’s House within the Manor of Sceanes (Shene, now called Richmond)[65]
- Henry V[citation needed]
- Henry VI was born at Hampton Court[65]
- Henry VII rebuilt the royal manor of Shene as Richmond Palace and died there in 1509[65]
- Henry VIII married Catherine Parr – his sixth wife – at Hampton Court[65]
- Henry, Prince of Wales, lived in Richmond from 1604 until his premature death in 1612. His improvements to the Palace included a picture gallery for the royal collection[65]
- Queen Isabella, widow of Edward II of England[65]
- James I[citation needed]
- James Francis Edward, the future "Old Pretender", was brought to Richmond Palace in 1688 with his wet-nurse after his father, James II, had ordered the reconstruction of part of the palace as the royal nursery[65]
- Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, gave birth to the future Edward VI at Hampton Court Palace and died two weeks later at Richmond Palace[65]
- Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours (1814 – 1896) lived at Bushy House[70]
- The future Louis Philippe I, Duc d’Orleans, who was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, went into exile in 1793 and, before his return to France in 1815 on the fall of Napoleon, lived mostly in Twickenham. He and his two younger brothers lived in relative poverty from 1800 to 1807 at Highshot House, Crown Road; the house was demolished in 1927. From 1815 to 1817 Louis Philippe leased a house on the Twickenham riverside and gave it the name Orleans House. The house was demolished in 1926 but the octagon and some outbuildings survived and are now the Orleans House Gallery [4]. After the 1848 revolution, many members of Louis Philippe's large family were forced into exile and took residences in the Richmond area[70]
- Mary I and her consort, Philip II of Spain, spent their honeymoon at Hampton Court and Richmond[65]
- Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII and widowed Queen of France, married Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, secretly in France. On their return to England they stayed at Kew, according to John Leland's Cygnea Cantio ("Swan Song") where he refers to Kew as "Cheva"[65][64][71]
- Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1857), last surviving child of George III, and widow of the second Duke of Gloucester, lived at White Lodge from 1844 till her death. She was Ranger of Richmond Park from 1850 to 1857[62]
- Mary of Teck (1867-1953), consort of George V, lived at White Lodge, Richmond Park with her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, until her marriage in 1893. The couple's engagement took place at Sheen Lodge on 3 May 1893.[65][62]
- Richard II's principal royal residence was in Shene (now called Richmond)[65]
- Victoria and Prince Albert stayed at White Lodge for a while in 1861 after the death of the Queen's mother and a few months before Albert's death on 14 December[65]
- William III and Mary II, rebuilt parts of Hampton Court Palace[66]
- William IV spent most of his early life at Richmond and at Kew Palace, where he was educated by private tutors[72]
- William, Duke of Gloucester, son of the future Queen Anne and Prince George of Hanover, was born at Hampton Court in 1689[65]
Scholars, scientists and engineers
- Kenneth Clark, Baron Clark (1903 – 1983), art historian, author, museum director and broadcaster, lived at Old Palace Place on Richmond Green[73]
- John Dee (1527–1608 or 1609), mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, alchemist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I, lived at Mortlake from 1565 to 1595 except for the six years between 1583 and 1589 when he was travelling in Europe.[74] His house no longer exists but it became the Royal Tapestry Works and at the end of the 18th century was a girls' school[74]
- James Henry Greathead (1844 - 1896), railway engineer and pioneer of tunnelling, lived at St Mary's Grove, Barnes. The site is marked by a blue plaque[37]
- Sir Richard Owen (1804 – 1892), biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist, was granted Sheen Cottage in Richmond Park by Queen Victoria in 1852. He died there and is buried at Ham. His family continued to live at Sheen Cottage until 1921[62]
- John Partridge (astrologer) (1644 - c. 1714) was born at East Sheen and apprenticed to a local shoemaker. He died in Mortlake and is buried there[62]
- Albert Frederick Pollard (1869 - 1948), historian and founder of the Historical Association[62]
- Sir John Russell Reynolds, 1st Baronet (1828 – 1896), British neurologist and physician, President of Royal College of Physicians, 1893-95, occupied Rose Cottage, Barnes Green, as a weekend cottage from about 1862 to 1870[62]
- Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), mathematician and philosopher, grew up at Pembroke Lodge between 1876 and 1894[50][75]
- Stephen Peter Rigaud(1774 – 1839), mathematical historian and astronomer, lived at 21 Richmond Green][73]
Social reformers
Beard and Ewart's Hampton home is now Hampton library (the extension on the left is modern)
Blue Plaque on Hampton Library to John Beard and William Ewart
- John Beard (c1717 - 1791), tenor singer and William Ewart (1798 - 1791), promoter of public libraries, lived at what is now Hampton Branch Library, Rose Hill, Hampton. The site is marked by a blue plaque[37]
- Sir Edwin Chadwick (1801 - 1890), public heath reformer, lived at 5 Montague Road, Richmond. The site is marked by a blue plaque[37]
Spiritual leaders
- John Henry Newman, later Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890), spent some of his early years at Grey Court, Ham Street, Ham. The site is marked by a blue plaque.[37]
- Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Wolsey (1473 – 1530), lived at Hampton Court[65]and at Richmond Lodge on a site near the Kew Observatory [68]
Sportsmen and sportswomen
- David Barttelot (1821 – 1852), English cricketer[76]
Warriors and explorers
- Sir Richard Burton (1821 – 1890), 19th-century explorer, lived at Maids of Honour Row in Richmond while attending the Richmond Academy, which was situated in a mansion at the corner of the Little Green and Duke Street[77]
- Nancy Wake (1912 – 2011), who fought with the French Resistance in World War II, lived in Richmond's Royal Star and Garter Home from 2003 until her death in August 2011[78]
- Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet (1757 – 1830), Admiral of the Fleet, who married Henrietta Goddard, niece of Henry Hope of Sheen House, in 1792, lived at Sheen House from 1806 onwards[62]
- Young Bingham Hutchinson (1806 – 1870), 19th-century Royal Navy officer and settler in South Australia[79]
Writers and artists
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837 - 1915), novelist, lived and died at Lichfield House in Sheen Road, Richmond[80]
- Joan Carlile, one of the very first women to practise painting professionally, is believed to have lived at Petersham Lodge in Richmond Park during the Commonwealth period with her husband Lodowick, keeper/deputy ranger at the park.[81]Petersham Lodge was demolished in 1835.[82]
- Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), poet and courtier, was appointed Yeoman of the King’s Chamber in 1368 and served at Shene (now called Richmond)[65]
- Walter De La Mare (1873 - 1956), poet, lived at South End House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham. The site is marked by a blue plaque[37]
- Stephen Duck (1705?–1756), poet, lived in Kew[63]
- George Eliot (1819 – 1880), novelist, lived in Clarence Row, East Sheen[83]
- Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754), novelist, lived at Milbourne House, Barnes Green[37] in about 1750, when writing Amelia. He later moved to Ealing[54]
- The artist Spencer Gore (1878 – 1914) painted a series of thirty-two landscapes in Richmond Park during the last months of his life.[84] His painting "From a Window in Cambrian Road, Richmond"[5] shows the view from a top-floor window at the rear of 6 Cambrian Road, near the park's Cambrian Gate entrance, where he and his family moved to in 1913.[85][86] This may be the last picture Gore worked on before his early death from pneumonia[86]
- Augustin Heckel (1690 – 1770), a German-born artist, lived in Richmond from 1746 until his death. His "A West View of Richmond etc. in Surrey from the Star and Garter on the Hill", published in 1752, became widely known after being engraved by Charles Grignion the Elder[87][88]
- Arthur Hughes (1832 – 1915), Pre-Raphaelite painter, lived and died at Eastside House, 22 Kew Green, Kew.[89] The site is marked by a blue plaque[37]
- Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 – 1723), portrait painter. His remains were interred in the church of St Mary's, Twickenham. He had been a churchwarden there when the 14th century nave collapsed in 1713 and was active in the plans for the church's reconstruction by John James (architect)).[90][91] The site of the house Kneller built in 1709 in Whitton, near Twickenham, is now occupied by the mid-19th century Kneller Hall, home of the Royal Military School of Music
- Sir Peter Lely (1618 – 1680), portrait painter, had a house on the north side of Kew Green[63]
- Sidney Richard Percy (1821 - 1886), landscape painter, lived with his father at 32 Castelnau Villas (92 Castelnau), Barnes, form 1845 to 1856[62]
- Henry William Pickersgill (1782 - 1875), portrait painter, lived at Nassau House, Barnes Green, from about 1854 to 1857. He is buried in Barnes Cemetery with his wife who died in 1857[62]
- French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903) lived at 10 Kew Green, which is marked by a blue plaque.[92] During his stay he painted "Kew Gardens - Path to the Great Glasshouse (1892) [6] and "Kew Greens" (1892) [7] His son, the engraver Ludovic Rodo Pissarro lived at 21 Peldon Avenue, Richmond (latter destroyed during the Blitz), from 1919 to 1921[93]
- Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744), poet, lived in Twickenham.[94] He lies in St Mary's, Twickenham under a stone slab engraved simply with the letter P, near a bronze memorial plate[95]
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792), artist, lived from 1772 to 1792 at The Wick House which was built for him by Sir William Chambers in 1772.[87]
- James Saunders (playwright) (1925 — 2004), lived in East Twickenham[96]
- Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1947), artist, lived at 39 Westmorland Road, Barnes. The site is marked by a blue plaque[37]
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816), playwright, poet, theatre owner and MP, owned Downe House, Richmond Hill[97] He took a house on Barnes Terrace in 1810 when his son Tom was living at Milbourne House[62]
- Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892), poet, lived at Chapel House, Twickenham, now 15 Montpelier Row, Twickenham.[98] His son Hallam Tennyson, second Governor-General of Australia, was christened at St Mary's, Twickenham in 1852[99]
- James Thomson (1700 - 1748), poet, who wrote the lyrics to "Rule Britannia!", lived in a cottage (now part of the Royal Hospital) in Kew Foot Road, Richmond from 1736 until his death in 1748. The site is marked by a blue plaque.[37][87][100] There is a memorial to him in Richmond Park[101]
- J M W Turner (1775 – 1851), artist, built Solus Lodge in Sandycoombe Road, St Margarets. The house survives as Sandycoombe Lodge.[102] The site is marked by a blue plaque.[37]
- Horace Walpole (1717 – 1797), art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician built and lived at Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham[103]
- Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941), novelist, and her husband Leonard Woolf (1880 – 1969), founder of Hogarth Press, lived at 34 Paradise Road, Richmond. The site is marked by a blue plaque.[37]
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