Famous / Infamous

From politicians to musicians, Hertfordshire has had its share of famous people. However, there’s a darker side, and the county has also known cebrated cases of murderers and highwaymen.

A possible member of Hemel Hempstead Movie Makers
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Cardinal Wolsey
An Important Political and Religious Figure One of many dignitaries and noteworthy people to have lived in the Parish of Cheshunt, ...
Cliff Richard
A superstar from Cheshunt
David Tree
David Tree (born 15 July 1915 as David Tree Parsons in London — died 4 November 2009 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire) David was an English stage and ...
Geoffey Chaucer
Possible connections with Berkhampsted
John Loudon McAdam
The road-builder's connection with Hoddesdon
Lady Anne Grimston
The Myth and the Truth
Last highwayman hung in Hemel Hempstead
The last man convicted of highway robbery executed in 1802
Letters from anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce to Abel Smith
Letters from William Wilberforce to Abel Smith, 1822-30 Abel Smith of Woodhall Park, Watton-at-Stone, is 33 when the aging Wilberforce writes ...
Murders at Borham House and the Execution of Thomas Simmons
At the southern end of the High Street, a house called Borham House used to stand next door to what ...
Nicholas Breakspear : England's only pope
Pope Adrian IV (also known as Hadrian IV) was born in Hertfordshire, as Nicholas Breakspear. He is the only Englishman ...
Peter the Wild Boy
Tales of feral children brought up in the wild have long been popular. While the best known are fictional (from ...
Ray Dexter and The Invaders
Local 60's band
Richard Cromwell
The Lord Protector in Cheshunt
ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
Hertfordshire's own Pierrepoint
Sir George Faudel-Phillips (Bart) - 1840 to 1922
A great benefactor of Hertford
Sir Hedworth Meux and the Cedars Park Cats
From Lowewood Museum
St. Mary's Church, Hertingfordbury
The Witch in the Graveyard
STARS OF '65-ON STAGE
at The Ritz Potters Bar
The Beat Scene Club
at the Wolsey Hall Cheshunt (1964-1966)
The Red Lion Pub
Woolmer Green

People

A Day in the Life of a Hertfordshire Mercury Reporter c.1959
A father and son massacred in the New Hebrides
A Hard Life But a Happy One
A heroine who loved life (and more)
A Local Naval Hero
A SHOOTING IN WATTON - AT - STONE
A Short Personal Profile
A warning to Journalists who break the rules
Annie Swan, Suffragette
Audrey Collins OBE, Cricketer
Audrey Peattie, 1950's NHS Pathology Technician
August 1914: Watford businessman escapes Western Front by train
Æthelflæd, Warrior Queen of the Mercians, 10th Century
Barbara Follett, Member of Parliament
Boudicca and her daughters, 30- 61 AD; the Terrorist – or freedom fighter?
Charles John Brewster Ray
Children of Hertfordshire
Christina of Markyate, Religious Visionary.
Cissi Pratt - Memories of St Ippolyts and Gosmore
Coleman connections
Cuffley Take Care
Dame Elizabeth Fuller, Education Pioneer.
Dame Ellen Terry, Actor
Dame Juliana Berners, Writer
Dame Margaret Tuke, Academic/Educator
Decorated Will
Delarivier Manley, Journalist
Denise Cook/Kelly
Dolly Shepherd, The Pioneering Edwardian Lady Parachutist
Dr Gladys Margaret Proudlock Dunbar
Dr Mary Groves Rowe MBE
Dr Miall-Smith, The Welwyn Garden City Doctor
E. Margaret Burnside, Midwifery Inspector
Elisabeth Hudson, Disability Campaigner
Elizabeth Baker, Playwright and Suffragette.
Elizabeth Impey, Suffragette
Emily Davies, Suffragette & Founder of Britain’s First Women’s College.
Family search
First Jump from Dreaded Balloon
George Eliot, Author
George Hill, last person executed in Hertford
Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
Hatfield Mayor Lynne Sparks (2015-2016 Term)
Henry Kingham, 1817-1882, Watford Grocer, Origins
Hertford County Constabulary
Herts Characters
Herts Hidden Heroines Project
Hilary Ratcliffe OBE, Gender Equality Campaigner
I was born at The Hoo on the Sixth of September, 1941!
In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 1)
In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 2)
Jane Hawking Jones, Educator & Author
Jane Wenham, The Accused Witch!
Judy Fryd CBE, Harpenden, campaigner & founder of Mencap.
Katherine Ferrers: The Wicked Lady - or was she?
Katherine Warington and Winifred Brenchley - Scientist
Kitty Hart-Moxon, Survivor
Lady Constance Lytton
Lady Constance Lytton, Suffragette
Lady Fanshawe - a Brave and Persistent Wife
Lavinia and William de Lautour
Lisa Buckingham OBE
Liz Hobbs MBE, Watersking Champion, Businesswoman
Looking for Katy Phillips
Looking for relatives of F/Lt Richard PICTON
Lorna Paulin, Hertfordshire County Librarian.
Louisa Puller, Suffragette
Lucy Shepherd, Explorer
Margaret & Annie Johnson - The First Hertfordshire Women Police Officers.
Margaret Murray, Egyptologist
Margaret Tyrwhitt Drake's Reference Book
Martine Wright, Paralympian & Campaigner
Mary Stout, Campaigner!
Maternity ww2
Mayor Lynne Sparks Speaks!
Micci Gorrod, Founder & Artistic Director of The Conscious Creative.
Mum's Story
Musical Memory Box
My early memories
My great-grandmother Annie Sears
P.C. Francis William Harmsworth ("Bill")
Peggy Hodges OBE, Aeronautical Engineer
Reba Younge, Educator, Anti-Racism Campaigner
Regina 4AD
Researching Gorham Ancestry in England
ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
Ruth Osborne, The Accused Witch!
Syeda Momotaz Rahim, Community Activist
The Amazing Dolly Shepherd!
The ATA Girls (Air Transport Auxiliary) World War Two
The Edwardian Parachute Queen
The Mysterious Condition of Rev. Henry Etough
The Reverend Samuel Briercliffe in Africa
The Timmins Family of Aldenham
Thomas Kingham, 1854-1919, paternity of Whitehouse children, DNA
Ursula Bloom, Music Maker For Silent Films
Victoria Farmer, Aviator
Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks 1895-1970
Wartime Nursing Memories
Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
African & Caribbean people in Herts before 1830
Armed Forces
Artists and Illustrators
Businesses
Doctors and Nurses
Ebenezer Howard
Edward Lawrence - A Hertfordshire Man Remembers
Famous / Infamous
George Paul: A Life in Hertford
Gypsies, Travellers and Showmen
Hertfordshire Centenarians
John Gravestock
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer
Local Folk
My Story
Nobility
Novelists, playwrights and poets
Politicians
Radcliffe Family and Hitchin Priory
Royalty
Scientists and Inventors
Servants
Sportspeople
Ted Humphreys BEM

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