we lived in Churt
Who would have thought that over the years so many people of interest would have come to live in an area officially described in 1831 as containing ‘no capitalists, bankers, professional or other educated men’?
So many interesting people have lived in Churt. Here are some of them.
Emslie Horniman
Liberal politician, son of the founder of the Horniman Museum…
Charles Wylie
Member of Sir John Hunt’s successful Everest expedition, 1953. Read his story here …
Lord Nathan of Churt
Labour MP and Under-Secretary of State for War (1945–46) and Minister for Civil Aviation (4 October 1946 – 31 May 1948) His wife was chairman of LCC …
Claude William Kinder
For over thirty years he was engineer-in-chief of the Kaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North China…
Kate o’Mara
Philip Snowden
First Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer…
David Lloyd George
Liberal Prime Minister
James Clarke Hook
Victorian water-colourist and RA member, eminent pre-Raphaelite….
Anthony Caro
Modern British sculptor …
Mark Mayhew
Early Motoring pioneer.
Founding member of the automobile Club of Great Britain …
Ethel Snowden
A pioneering suffragist…
Peter Alliss
Gilbert Murray
Classical scholar, peace activist, and prominent classical scholar, peace activist, and prominent humanist, involved with Oxfam and the League of Nations …
Colonel Ernest Rose
Early automobilist and one of the founders of Glaxo …
Barbara Goalen
One of Britain’s first supermodels …
Percival Murray
Richard Carrington
Prominent 19C Astronomer. Still
well-known for the ‘Carrington effect’….
Admiral James Sir William James
British Naval commander, politician and author …
Philip Brooks
Farm manager and local historian….