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John Francis Spenlove

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

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

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

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

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

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, in 1859 in his robes as Lord Chancellor. The portrait is by EU Eddis and hangs in the Guildhall in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.© By kind permission of Abingdon Town Council

Frederick Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford

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

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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Benjamin Tomkins (c.1663-1732) showing off his wealth

The Tomkins Family

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

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

Geoffrey Trease

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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Mary Verney nee Blacknall

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 (1778-1856)

William Watkin Waite

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

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

(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

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

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

Ronald Harry Williams

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

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

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

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