History - Abingdon on Thames Town Council (original) (raw)
The Ackling Family
Friday February 6th, 2015
Our grandfather, William Ackling, was well known in Abingdon from the 1890s to the 1940s as the proprietor of the ironmonger’s…
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John Alder – ‘the lucky cooper’
Tuesday December 22nd, 2015
On the front of No 39 Stert Street – Mason the draper’s – there is a blue plaque commemorating the achievement of one…
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St Aethelwold
Tuesday May 27th, 2014
Aethelwold, Abbot of Abingdon from 954 to 963 and thereafter Bishop of Winchester, was one of the three men who brought England…
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(Image in the Public Domain)Alexander of Abingdon
Friday September 24th, 2021
About the turn of the fourteenth century a group of artisans and artificers working at and around the royal court…
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Aelfric of Abingdon
Tuesday September 2nd, 2014
Aelfric of Abingdon, future Archbishop of Canterbury, started his career as a monk of Abingdon Abbey. It was a time when…
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Roger Amyce
Saturday May 4th, 2013
Roger Amyce was a man of importance in Abingdon in the mid-sixteenth century. In 1547, as a middle-ranking civil servant,…
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George Argyle and the beginnings of the Argyle Dairy
Wednesday June 24th, 2020
The Argyle family have lived in the Abingdon area for a long time. In 1775 Richard Argyle of nearby Sutton Wick married Ann…
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Agnes Baker
Monday September 16th, 2013
Agnes Charlotte Baker is one of Abingdon’s foremost historians. For twenty years she worked with Arthur Preston to extract…
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The Beesley and Barrett families
Tuesday April 1st, 2014
From 1883 until 2001 the clothing business of Beesley's was a respected family firm serving Abingdon and the surrounding…
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James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon
Tuesday February 10th, 2015
James Bertie, who would be the first Earl of Abingdon, was born in 1653. He was a younger son of the second Earl of Lindsey,…
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Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon
Thursday February 19th, 2015
Willoughby Bertie became fourth Earl of Abingdon on the death of his father, also Willoughby, in 1760 and was made High Steward…
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The Blacknall family
Monday January 30th, 2017
The sixteenth century was a period of economic upheaval which provided great opportunities to the able and ambitious. The…
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The Bostock family
Monday December 2nd, 2013
The Bostocks were a prominent Abingdon family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They are believed to have originated…
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The Bowles Family
Wednesday July 27th, 2022
The Bowles family was widespread in Berkshire and the branch centred in Longworth and Charney Basset seems to have been affluent.…
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Sir George Bowyer
Wednesday July 23rd, 2014
At the intersection of the Oxford and Radley roads in Abingdon is a group of buildings – church, cloister, presbytery,…
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The Braunche family
Wednesday September 4th, 2013
The Braunches were a leading family in Abingdon through several generations. A John Branch (d. 1488) worked from 1438 as…
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Mary Buckland, nee Morland
Tuesday February 10th, 2015
Mary Morland exemplifies the limited possibilities of a woman of her time to make a career in scientific research. She was…
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Agnes Leonora Challenor
Thursday March 5th, 2020
Agnes Leonora Challenor, née Duncan, was born in Wales on 19 March 1882, the eldest of eight children. Her parents were…
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Bromley Challenor
Wednesday September 29th, 2021
Bromley Challenor was born in 1821 in Teddington, Middlesex. He arrived in Abingdon sometime in the late 1840s having worked…
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Bromley Challenor junior
Friday November 1st, 2024
Bromley Challenor junior was born on 14 March 1851 in Abingdon, the eldest child of Bromley Challenor senior and Mary Anne…
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John Creemer Clarke
Thursday June 1st, 2017
Although he came to play a significant role in many aspects of Abingdon life, John Creemer Clarke was not a native of the…
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James Macdonald Cobban
Tuesday February 10th, 2015
James Cobban was headmaster of Abingdon School from 1947 to 1970. He is credited with transforming the school from the rather…
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Oswald Couldrey
Tuesday April 18th, 2017
Oswald Jennings Couldrey is Abingdon’s best-known twentieth-century artist. He was born into a local family of seed merchants…
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Charlotte Cox
Wednesday September 4th, 2013
Charlotte Cox was one of the 229 women whose names are on the Register of Nurses sent to the Military Hospitals in the East…
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Mieneke Cox
Saturday March 29th, 2014
Mieneke Cox was a much loved and highly respected local historian of Abingdon. She was born Jacomina Elsje Elias in Nijmegen…
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The Coxeter Family
Friday June 30th, 2023
The name of Coxeter still appears in large letters over a few shop fronts in Ock Street, but it was once a major…
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The Dayrell Family
Sunday September 19th, 2021
The Dayrells were gentry in Lillingston Dayrell, Buckinghamshire, but a branch of the family became prominent in Abingdon…
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Nathaniel Dodson
Tuesday November 26th, 2019
Nathaniel Dodson, who was vicar of St Helen’s for over forty years, was born in 1787 into a clerical family based in Sussex.…
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Thomas Duffield
Thursday March 31st, 2016
Thomas Duffield, Abingdon’s MP from 1832 to 1844, was born in 1782 at Syston, Lincolnshire, second son of Michael Duffield.…
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St Edmund of Abingdon
Wednesday May 21st, 2014
Edmund of Abingdon, the future scholar, archbishop and saint, was born in about 1175, probably in West St Helen Street, where…
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Faricius (Faritius)
Friday May 9th, 2014
Faricius was one of the two greatest abbots of Abingdon Abbey. Aethelwold, a century and a half before him, was the other. Faricius…
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Henry Forty
Saturday January 21st, 2017
Henry Forty, preacher and occasional religious writer, was the first professional minister to lead the Abingdon Baptist community…
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Sir Ralph Glyn
Sunday November 24th, 2019
Ralph George Campbell Glyn was probably Abingdon’s longest serving MP, holding the seat from 1924 to 1953. He was born…
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Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt
Friday May 20th, 2016
Simon Harcourt was of a gentry family whose seat was at Stanton Harcourt. He was educated at a dissenting academy at Shilton,…
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Peter Heylyn
Monday September 20th, 2021
Peter Heylyn was one of the great intellectuals of his time and one of its most enthusiastic controversialists. He was equally…
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Sir John Holt
Sunday December 22nd, 2013
Sir John Holt, the greatest English lawyer of his age, was chief justice of the court of King’s Bench from 1689 until his…
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Sir Thomas Holt
Thursday August 15th, 2013
Thomas Holt, lawyer, was born about 1616 at Stoke in Oxfordshire and educated at Magdalen Hall in Oxford. About 1640, he…
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Robert Jennings
Wednesday September 13th, 2017
It is not every schoolmaster who can retire to great wealth and a landed estate, but Robert Jennings, Master of Abingdon…
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George Knapp
Tuesday October 9th, 2018
The Knapps were a large but close-knit family originating in Chilton, a village between Abingdon and Newbury, where many…
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William Knollys
Monday June 26th, 2017
The Knollys family, based at Rotherfield Greys near Henley, were pre-eminent in Berkshire and Oxfordshire through much of…
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Gabrielle Lambrick
Wednesday April 6th, 2016
Gabrielle Lambrick (née Jennings) was born in south London, her father a hospital administrator and amateur art connoisseur…
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The Langfords
Tuesday April 23rd, 2013
The Langfords, from the mid−nineteenth to the late twentieth century, are an example of an entrepreneurial family that…
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Henry Langley
Friday August 23rd, 2013
Henry Langley was born in 1610, the son of an Abingdon shoemaker. He attended Abingdon School, and matriculated at Pembroke…
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Francis Little
Thursday August 15th, 2013
Francis Little, or Brooke, for he used both names interchangeably, was one of the most significant figures in Abingdon’s…
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Albert Edward Lock
Thursday June 22nd, 2017
Albert Lock spent much of his adult life living in Abingdon where he was a well-known figure and is still remembered by some…
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Edward Loveden Loveden
Thursday November 12th, 2020
Edward Loveden Loveden was a regional magnate, economically powerful and politically influential throughout north Berkshire…
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Archie Kirkman Loyd
Friday June 18th, 2021
Archie Kirkman Loyd was twice MP for the Abingdon Division of Berkshire, from 1895 to 1905 and from 1916 to 1918. Born in…
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John Maberly
Monday February 15th, 2016
John Maberly, Abingdon’s MP from 1818 to 1832, was an entrepreneur and a businessman before he became a politician. Born…
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Sir John Mason
Monday August 19th, 2013
John Mason was an important patron of Abingdon in its transition from a property of the abbey to a chartered borough under…
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The Matthews Family
Thursday September 26th, 2013
The Matthews family has been prominent in Abingdon business and communal affairs, for more than a hundred years. In the…
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The Mayhead family and the Lion Hotel
Thursday February 14th, 2019
My grandfather, Basil Mayhead, was the last owner of the Lion Hotel on the north side of the High Street before it was sold…
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The Mayott family
Sunday November 24th, 2013
The Mayotts were a leading family in Abingdon for more than two hundred years. Roger Mayott arrived from Horton in Staffordshire…
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Thomas Medlycott
Sunday June 5th, 2016
Thomas Medlycott was recorder of Abingdon, 1675-86 and 1687-9. He had been born in London in 1628, son of James Medlicott…
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Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe
Tuesday November 12th, 2019
Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, Abingdon’s MP from 1796 to 1807, was an excellent example of what at the time were called nabobs.…
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Benjamin Morland
Monday November 30th, 2015
Benjamin Morland was an Abingdon solicitor who has left an enduring memorial in the Old Gaol, which was built probably at…
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George Bowes Morland
Monday July 28th, 2014
George Bowes Morland was a prominent citizen of Abingdon, and active in the affairs both of the town and of the county of…
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John Morton
Sunday February 17th, 2019
John Morton was Abingdon’s MP from 1747 until 1770 and its recorder from 1753 until his death in 1780. Like several of…
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Airey Neave
Saturday September 3rd, 2016
Airey Neave was the last but one MP for the Berkshire county constituency of Abingdon which was abolished in 1983. Neave…
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John Thomas Norris
Tuesday December 22nd, 2015
John Thomas Norris was Abingdon’s MP from 1857 until 1865. He was particularly helpful to the town in opposing the threatened…
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Father John Paul O’Toole
Wednesday July 23rd, 2014
At the intersection of the Oxford and Radley roads in Abingdon is a group of buildings – church, cloister, presbytery,…
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Arthur Charles Hyde Parker
Wednesday June 18th, 2014
Arthur Charles Hyde Parker was a prominent and well-respected Abingdon resident. He worked for the Morland Brewery as a chemical…
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Richard Parsons
Monday May 24th, 2021
Standing on the steps of the County Hall looking towards St Nicholas’s Church today, it is easy to imagine that the grand…
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John Pendarves
Monday August 19th, 2013
John Pendarves, minister of religion, was a Cornishman, born in 1623. He took his BA degree in Oxford just as the Civil War…
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Thomasine Pendarves
Monday August 19th, 2013
Thomasine Newcomen was born in Dartmouth, Devon, in 1618 into a pious and affluent family. In or before 1647, she married…
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The Peyman family – stonemasons and builders
Monday March 25th, 2019
The Peyman family lived in Abingdon throughout the nineteenth century and were an established family of stonemasons, builders,…
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The Pleydells
Saturday May 4th, 2013
On 10 June 1689 both Harim Pleydell of The Corner House, Ock Street and his third cousin, the Revd Richard Pleydell MA, Headmaster…
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Bruno Pontecorvo
Saturday November 23rd, 2013
The unassuming semi-detached house at 5 Letcombe Avenue was a centre of world-wide attention in October 1950. It was the…
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Elizabeth Poole
Monday August 19th, 2013
The Abingdon prophetess Elizabeth Poole was – almost certainly – born in the London parish of St Gregory by St Paul…
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Archdeacon Alfred Pott
Wednesday September 20th, 2023
Alfred Pott was vicar of St Helen’s, Abingdon, from 1867 to 1875. It was one of six parishes he served in during his fifty-two…
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Arthur Edwin Preston
Monday September 16th, 2013
Arthur Preston was a prosperous chartered accountant who lived in Abingdon for most of his life. He served the Borough Council…
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Harry Redfern
Thursday September 26th, 2013
Henry Redfern – always known as Harry – was an important Edwardian architect with strong Abingdon associations. He was…
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John Richardson
Monday November 30th, 2015
John Richardson was Abingdon’s serjeant-at-mace from 1628 until his death in 1663. His functions included escorting the…
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Thomas Richardson
Tuesday December 22nd, 2015
Thomas Richardson was a prominent Abingdon townsman. He built up a grocery business serving the town and the surrounding…
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Oliver Sansom
Saturday June 25th, 2016
Oliver Sansom, leader of the Quakers in the Vale of White Horse, was born in 1636 in Beedon but of a family based in Charney…
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John Sant
Saturday March 29th, 2014
John Sant was one of the few abbots of Abingdon whose career path led beyond the confines of the Abbey. He became abbot in…
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The Sellwood Families
Thursday October 13th, 2022
Many of the élite families in Abingdon’s history may not have regarded themselves as Abingdon families at all. They were,…
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Thomas Skurray
Thursday May 7th, 2015
Born in Faringdon in 1868, Thomas Skurray was educated at King Alfred’s School in Wantage and Reading School, going on…
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Richard Smyth (or Smith)
Monday August 19th, 2013
Richard Smyth (sometimes spelt Smith), Abingdon’s mayor in 1564, was owed favours by some very powerful people. He first…
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John Francis Spenlove
Friday August 8th, 2014
John Francis Spenlove, Abingdon brewer and politician, was born on 27 March 1769 in Cornhill, London, the son of Francis…
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Edward Stennet
Thursday May 30th, 2013
With Edward Stennett, Abingdon can claim to have been at the origin of a new religious denomination. Many things are uncertain…
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The Stonehouse/Stonhouse family
Friday September 22nd, 2017
The Stonhouse family – as they are now known – of Radley were influential and at times politically powerful in and around…
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William Alder Strange
Sunday August 16th, 2020
William Alder Strange, headmaster of Abingdon School, was a great-nephew of John Alder, ‘the lucky cooper’, whose lottery…
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Sampson Strong
Friday April 6th, 2018
Sampson Strong was the painter who was responsible for many of the portraits which to this day adorn the hall of the Long…
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The Tesdale family
Tuesday September 18th, 2018
The history of Abingdon before the twentieth century is largely a story of family dynasties which rose and declined, cooperated…
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Frederick Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford
Thursday August 9th, 2018
Frederick Thesiger was the most distinguished of Abingdon’s nineteenth century MPs, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor.…
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William Tiptaft
Thursday November 28th, 2013
William Tiptaft, founder of the Abbey Baptist Church in Checker Walk, was born in 1803 near Oakham, Rutland, into a moderately…
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The Tomkins Family
Monday April 3rd, 2017
The Tomkins were a large family who were particularly prominent in Abingdon from the mid-seventeenth to the late nineteenth…
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Thomas Trapham
Wednesday April 6th, 2016
Thomas Trapham was born in Maidstone. He probably came to Abingdon in about 1630 after marrying a member of the locally prominent…
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Geoffrey Trease
Wednesday August 17th, 2016
Geoffrey Trease was one of the most prolific authors of his time with no fewer than 113 books and several plays to his name.…
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E J Trendell (Image used by kind permission of the Abingdon Town Council)
Edwin James Trendell
Tuesday July 11th, 2023
Edwin James Trendell was born in Reading in 1811, son of Thomas Trendell, a pork butcher. The Trendells were a prominent…
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Mary Verney nee Blacknall
Thursday August 18th, 2016
William Blacknall came to Abingdon in the mid-sixteenth century and made a fortune in local industries, operating corn and…
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William Watkin Waite
Saturday December 12th, 2015
W W Waite was an Abingdon artist of the Regency period. Apart from a period of apprenticeship in London as a very young man…
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William Wilkinson Wardell
Thursday July 24th, 2014
At the intersection of the Oxford and Radley roads in Abingdon is a group of buildings – church, cloister, presbytery,…
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John Wellesbourne
Thursday December 10th, 2015
(Note that there are numerous spellings of Wellesbourne's name) When, in February 1538, Henry VIII’s ministers dissolved…
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Marian Wenzel
Thursday November 28th, 2024
Dr Marian Wenzel FSA was an art historian, artist and charity director. She and her husband John Cornish were jointly curators…
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John George Timothy West
Wednesday August 27th, 2014
John George Timothy West – known informally as Timothy West and professionally as JGT West – was a well-known local architect…
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Ronald Harry Williams
Sunday May 25th, 2014
Ronald Harry Williams (1909 – 1993), always known as Ron, was a well-known Abingdon tradesman. He was educated at Culham…
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The Williams Family
Saturday June 7th, 2014
Abingdon, now in Oxfordshire, but in Berkshire until 1974, was where many of the Williams family lived, worked and died throughout…
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George Winship
Wednesday August 21st, 2013
George Winship was Abingdon's Inspector of Nuisances and Borough Surveyor for forty-one years and brought Abingdon into the…
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William Thomas Garrett Woodforde
Thursday January 23rd, 2014
William Woodforde, the first Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for the Berkshire Combined Sanitary District, which covered…
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