R D Blackmore
Author and market gardener of Teddington
1825 - 1900

Teacher

Richard Dodderidge Blackmore was born in Devon in 1825. He came to live in Hampton Wick in 1854 and worked as a teacher at Wellesley House school in Twickenham. He liked walking to work as it was good for his health but he didn't really enjoy being a teacher.

back to top

This page:
print / email / edit

Writers, Poets and Historians:

• Alexander Herzen
• Alexander Pope
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Bernard Garside
• Captain W. E. Johns
• Charles Dickens
• Edith Somerville
• Edward Ironside
• Edward Lovibond
• Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
• Elizabeth Twining
• Flora Thompson
• Francis Cotterell Hodgson
• Francis Turner Palgrave
• Hannah More
• Henry Fielding
• Henry Ripley
• Horace Walpole
• Joan Whitrow
• Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• Laetitia Matilda Hawkins
• Paul Whitehead
• R C Sherriff
• Richard Cobbett
• Sir Humphrey Lynd
• Sir John Suckling
• Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff
• Sir Richard Steele
• Thomas Traherne
• Voltaire
• Walter de la Mare