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1816-1911
ABBEY, William Henry
1864-1943
Mayor of Brighton 1875-76. The Abbey family took over the Bristol Brewery from William Hallett, later changed the name to Kemp Town Brewery (eventually sold to Charringtons in 1954).
William Henry Abbey. Brewer, industrialist and landowner.Born in Brighton, the son of Henry Abbey. Chairman of Kemp Town Brewery. He bought the Maresfield Estate near Uckfield in September 1924 for £61,714. It has been confiscated by the government from Count Alexander Münster in 1915 under the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy laws. Abbey soon sold some properties to tenants and others, then he and later his executors sold the estate in numerous building plots from 1933 onwards. He bought Sedgwick Park, Horsham in 1932, and this was his residence at the time of his death; he also bought Condover Hall in Shropshire in the 1930s but never lived there. He left £787,648 4s 10d (equivalent to £25m in current terms).
Image: portrait by Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley (Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust)
• Abbey Road
PERSONAL
• 17-19 Abbey Road
• 83 St George's Road
• St Helen's Road
(d 1886)
Widow of James Scarlett, first Baron Abinger (1794-1844), chief baron of the treasury. Image: portrait by Frances Elizabeth Grace [Brighton & Hove Museums and Art Galleries]
† Abinger House, 142 King's Road [residence 1851-1886]
1784-1838
Younger daughter of barrister John Abmuty and Maria Elizabeth Kershaw, her mother being co-heiress of Alexander Kershaw, a deputy-lieutenant of Lancashire. She married attorney James Charles Michell at Clifton, Bristol in 1811. She added to the endowment of the Percy almshouses. She died at Brighton on New Year's Eve and was buried here on 5 January 1839.
• 68 Great East Street [residence]
1904-1977
ComposerNotable for more than 40 film scores and best known for the Warsaw Concerto featured in the film Dangerous Moonlight (1941), lived in Brighton from 1960 until his death.
• 5 Chichester Terrace
1792-1849
Monarchical consort.Became Queen Adelaide on the accession to the throne of her husband William IV in 1830.
• Adelaide Crescent
• Queen's Park
PERSONAL
• Royal Pavilion, Old Steine
1803-1890
Rabbi.Born in Hanover, son of the city's chief rabbi. Through his acquaintance with Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, seventh son of George III and Viceroy of the Kingdom of Hanover, he was recommended to apply for the post of Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, to which he was elected in 1844. He was a founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty and Better Protection of Children (NSPCC). It was during his rabbinate that Jewish emancipation was substantially achieved in the United Kingdom.
• 36 First Avenue [residence 1880-1890]
1805-1882
AuthorThriller and adventure story writer, born in Manchester. After trying the law and publishing, his novel Rookwood set him on the career in which he wrote 39 historical and gothic novels, including Ovingdean Grange (1860)—see Greenways, Ovingdean.
• Ainsworth Avenue
• Ainsworth Close
PERSONAL
• 5 Arundel Terrace [residence 1854-1867]
1819-1861
Monarchical consort.Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840.
• Prince Albert Street
• Albert Road
1842-1907
Sportsman, writer.Born in Sunderland and grew up in Chingford, Essex. Educated at Harrow School, where he was a keen footballer. He first captained England in 1875, having been involved in arranging the earliest international matches from 1870 as secretary of the Football Association, in which role he also instituted the FA Cup. He played cricket for Essex and then edited James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual from 1871 to 1900 and the Cricket newspaper for a similar period. He died in Brighton.
• 7 Arundel Road [residence c1903-1907)
Princess of Wales and consort of the future Edward VII.• Alexandra Villas
† Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Dyke Road
1908-1990
Actress.She made around 50 films on both sides of the Atlantic from 1931. She appeared in 26 films in the first five years of the decade, taking the lead in most of them. She was under contract to MGM from 1933 but returned to England in 1938 after suing the studio for replacing her in The Citadel. Later in her career she appeared on television panel shows and advertising magazine programmes in the early days of ITV. She lived on the seafront at Hove, marked by a plaque.
• Courtenay Tye, Courtenay Terrace
1810-1877
• 20 Brunswick Square [residence 1848-1854]
• 42 Brunswick Square [residence 1856-1861]
1893-1982
Variety artist.Famous as the partner of Bud Flanagan and a member of the Crazy Gang, made 12 comedy films in that context between 1932 and 1946, with a final 13th Crazy Gang film outing in 1960. Okay for Sound (1937), which had run successfully on stage at the Brighton Hippodrome the previous year, is the only film on which he had a writing credit. He and Flanagan also appeared in the classic documentary Listen to Britain (1942).
• 21 Park Crescent Place [childhood home]
1879-1975
ActorBorn in Pulborough, the son of a butcher and farmer, in early childhood he lived at 24 Market Street, Brighton. He was educated privately in London. He made his stage début in 1899 and thereafter toured extensively in the United States and South Africa between appearances in the West End and on Broadway. His first film part, in Caesar and Cleopatra, did not come until 1945 at the age of 65 and was uncredited. He was credited in the three other films he made between then and 1951. In later life he lived at Haywards Heath and died in Cuckfield.
• 24 Market Street [childhood home]
• 8 Clifton Terrace, Brighton [later family home]
AMHERST, Jeffrey 1st Baron Amherst
1717-1797
AMHERST, William Pitt, 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan
1773-1857
AMHERST, Hugh, 4th Earl Amherst
1856-1927
The family were prominent landowners in the Hangleton/Aldrington area.Jeffrey Amherst 1st Baron Amherst. Soldier [right].
He was commander-in-chief of the army and, following successes in the French and Indian War in North American, was the first British governor-general of the colonies that became Canada.
Image: Portrait by Joshua Reynolds.
William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan. Diplomat [below right].
A nephew of Jeffrey Amherst,
who led a diplomatic delegation to China in 1816 and is believed to have provided illustrations of Chinese buildings that influenced the Prince Regent in the decoration of the Royal Pavilion.Hugh Amherst, 4th Earl Amherst. Soldier.
He joined the Coldstream Guards in 1875 and served in the Nile campaigns of 1884-1885. He married Hon Eleanor Clementina St Aubyn.
1843-1935
Senior partner in the Angier shipping line, founded by his father, and a member of the Committee of Lloyds register. He was formerly captain in the Middlesex Yeomanry and lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. He stood for parliament twice: in Orkney and Shetland in 1902 and at Gateshead in 19061. He was vice=president of the Brighton Tariff Reform League (1916).
• Hill Crest, Dyke Road Avenue [residence 1910-1916]
1Walford (1919): 27
1793-1869
Outlaw.Declared an outlaw on two writs in 1851 (for non-attendance to answer civil actions for debt and thereby was removed from the protection of the law)1. He was photographed [right] by the pioneers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson in the 1840s.
• 35 Albany Villas
1The Law Times vol 17, 1851: 79
1822-1903
Born in Crescentino, Piedmont, he studied at Milan Conservatory. He worked for some years in the Americas, then settled in London, while still touring as a conductor in Europe and America. He was the first to conduct Gounod's Faust. Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. He was Adelina Patti's favourite conductor. From 1885 he remained in England, working as a conductor in theatres, at Covent Garden and for concerts in parks, retiring in 1894. He died at Hove and is buried in plot RA15 in Hove Cemetery.• 14 Gwydyr Mansions, Holland Road [1903, deathplace]
1807-1853
Born in London, son of an engraver and chaser in the Covent Garden area, he became a pupil of Augustus Pugin and travelled widely in Europe and the Middle East, producing extensive portfolios of drawings of architecture and ruins. He never practised as an architect but published several books about classical architecture. He returned to Brighton by 1842 and died here. His wife, Mary Pickersgill, daughter of a Royal Academician, was also an artist. [Not to be confused with another oriental traveller, Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell.]
• 27½ East Street [residence and/or studio]
• 15 Devonshire Place [residence 1845-1850]
• 19 Charlotte Street [residence 1852]
• Clarence Square [final residence]
1749-1810
ATTREE, Thomas
1777-1863
Born in Ditchling, he founded the law firm with his name in 1773. He became the first clerk and treasurer to the town Commissioners in that year and later acted for the Prince of Wales. He acquired the lordship of the manor of Atlingworth.
Thomas Attree. Solicitor. [right]Third (second surviving) son of William Attree. In 1825 he bought the land that became Queen's Park and built a house there, where he died.
• Attree Road
PERSONAL (William)
• 8-9 Ship Street
PERSONAL (Thomas)
• Queen's Park
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