Abingdon People – Page 3 – Abingdon on Thames Town Council

Monday April 3rd, 2017

The Tomkins were a large family who were particularly prominent in Abingdon from the mid-seventeenth to the late nineteenth…

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…

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.…

Thursday August 18th, 2016

William Blacknall came to Abingdon in the mid-sixteenth century and made a fortune in local industries, operating corn and…

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…

Thursday July 24th, 2014

At the intersection of the Oxford and Radley roads in Abingdon is a group of buildings – church, cloister, presbytery,…

Thursday December 10th, 2015

(Note that there are numerous spellings of Wellesbourne's name) When, in February 1538, Henry VIII’s ministers dissolved…

Wednesday August 27th, 2014

John George Timothy West – known informally as Timothy West and professionally as JGT West – was a well-known local architect…

Sunday May 25th, 2014

Ronald Harry Williams (1909 – 1993), always known as Ron, was a well-known Abingdon tradesman. He was educated at Culham…

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…

Wednesday August 21st, 2013

George Winship was Abingdon's Inspector of Nuisances and Borough Surveyor for forty-one years and brought Abingdon into the…

Thursday January 23rd, 2014

William Woodforde, the first Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for the Berkshire Combined Sanitary District, which covered…