 Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland |
1585 - 1639 |
Writer, Translator & Catholic Recusant |
| Sir John Suckling |
1609 - 1642 |
Poet, born at Whitton |
| Sir Humphrey Lynd |
1579 - 1636 |
A life writing in the cause of religion |
| Thomas Traherne |
1637 - 1674 |
Priest, mystic and poet |
| Joan Whitrow |
c1630 - 1707 |
A Quaker Divine? |
| Sir Richard Steele |
1672 - 1729 |
Man of letters and dramatist |
| Alexander Pope |
1688 - 1744 |
Poet, satirist, letter writer, designer of gardens and grotto maker |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
1689 - 1762 |
Poet and lady of letters |
| Voltaire |
1694 - 1728 |
Visits Pope at Twickenham |
| Horace Walpole |
1717 - 1797 |
Writer of gothic novels and resident of Strawberry Hill |
| Henry Fielding |
1707-1754 |
Novelist & lawyer |
| Edward Lovibond |
1724 - 1775 |
A minor poet |
| Paul Whitehead |
1710 - 1774 |
Poet and satirist |
| Laetitia Matilda Hawkins |
1759 - 1835 |
Nineteenth century local gossip |
| Hannah More |
1745 - 1833 |
Pietistic friend of the Garricks, Dr Johnson and Horace Walpole |
| Edward Ironside |
c1736-1803 |
Historian of Twickenham |
| Elizabeth Twining |
1805 - 1889 |
Philanthropist, painter and writer |
| Charles Dickens |
1812 - 1870 |
Visitor to Twickenham in 1838 |
| Francis Turner Palgrave |
1824 - 1897 |
Author, poet and anthologist |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
1809 - 1892 |
Comes to live in Montpelier Row |
| Alexander Herzen |
1812 - 1870 |
Russian political author |
| R D Blackmore |
1825 - 1900 |
Author and market gardener of Teddington |
| Edith Somerville |
1858 - 1949 |
Some Anglo-Irish connexions with Twickenham and Whitton |
| Francis Cotterell Hodgson |
1837 - 1919 |
Chronicler of Twickenham people |
| Richard Cobbett |
1841 - 1877 |
Author of Memorials of Twickenham |
| Henry Ripley |
1843 - 1902 |
Schoolmaster, musician and historian |
| Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff |
1829 - 1906 |
Diplomat and man of letters |
| R C Sherriff |
1896 - 1975 |
Playright |
| Flora Thompson |
1876 - 1947 |
Author of the Larkrise to Candleford trilogy |
| Captain W. E. Johns |
1893 - 1968 |
Bomber pilot, illustrator, aviation writer and author of Biggles books |
| Bernard Garside |
1898 - 1963 |
Historian and schoolmaster |
| Walter de la Mare |
1873 - 1956 |
At Southend House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham |
