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

Thomas Trapham
Thomas Trapham was born in Maidstone. He probably came to Abingdon in about 1630 after marrying a member of the locally prominent…

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.…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

The Williams Family
Abingdon, now in Oxfordshire, but in Berkshire until 1974, was where many of the Williams family lived, worked and died throughout…

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

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