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FAMOUS PEOPLE
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Here is a collection of famous people who are connected to the Cotswolds and includes Prince Charles, Winston Churchill,
Elizabeth Hurley, William Morris, John Sargent, William Shakespeare and Kate Winslet.
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Charles Prince of Wales |
Prince Charles's country home is called Highgrove which is located a few miles from the old market town of Tetbury.
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Edward Elgar |
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Edward William Elgar was born on 2nd June 1857 in a small cottage in the village of Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, England. He was the fourth of seven children born to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann.
The outbreak of the First World War was to alter the world. And for Elgar it was also the beginning of a time of change. Elgar wrote: "...everything good and nice and clean and fresh and sweet is far away - never to return". Although he was too old to be a soldier he composed many patriotic works in support of the war effort. The central section of his Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 was taken and, with words added, became "Land of Hope and Glory". Other works composed by Elgar during the war period included Sospiri, The Starlight Express (based on a story by Algernon Blackwood), Polonia (symphonic prelude), Une Voix dans le Dèsert, The Spirit of England and The Sanguine Fan.
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Elizabeth Hurley |
Actress with a home in the village of Barnsley, 4 miles North East of Cirencester.
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Gustav Holst |
A British composer who was born in Cheltenham, England in 1874 and died in London in 1934. Holst was a composer of many choral part-songs, song cycles, operas and orchestral pieces. He is perhaps best known for his orchestral suite composed during the years 1914–1916, entitled The Planets. He was a friend of Edward Elgar.
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J. Arthur Gibbs |
Author born 25 November 1867 at Westminster, London and educated at Oxford. He died at the age of 31 on 13 May 1899 at Marylebone, London. He lived at the Manor House in the Hamlet of Ablington, near Bibury, and is famous for his book 'A Cotswold Village'. This is a truly classical work on life in the Cotswolds and his persuit of country sports and activities.
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Jeremy Clarkson |
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Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born April 11, 1960, in Doncaster) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun, but is most associated with the BBC motoring programme Top Gear, which he presents, first doing so from 1989 until 1999, and then again from 2002. The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion," according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views. He was once described by Tony Parsons in the Daily Mirror as a "dazzling hero of political incorrectness".
Jeremy Clarkson lives between Chipping Norton and Chadlington in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
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Jilly Cooper |
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Jilly Cooper,author, journalist and broadcaster lives in the southern Cotswold village of Bisley, near Stroud.
The huge success of her first novel Riders, published in 1985 and reaching number one in the best sellers list in its first week, was entirely due, she says, to her move to Bisley. 'I was trying to write Riders in London and failing miserably, because it was set in the country. Then there was the fact that we were so broke that the bank said we would have to sell our lovely house here. It was quite and incentive to write better and more quickly,' she said.
She went on to write the blockbusters Rivals and Polo, and then Appassionata about an orchestra, set in the west country and including many references to Stroud. Other novels include The Man who Made Husbands Jealous and Score!. As well as the best sellers Jilly Cooper has written countless popular non-fiction books, including Women and Superwomen (1974), How to Survive Christmas (1986) and The Common Years (1982) about her dog walking exploits on the commons of south west London. She has also written a series of romantic novels and many children's books.
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John Singer Sargent |
Leading American portrait painter in the Edwardian period. Stayed in Broadway and painted his most famous painting there.
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Kate Winslet |
Kate Winslet and her movie director husband, Sam Mendes, live at Church Westcote Manor in the village of Westcote, made up of Church Westcote and Nether Westcote located 3.5 miles South East of Stow-on-the-Wold.
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Laurie Lee |
Poet and author Laurie Lee is one of only a handful of people of whom it can truly be said: he was a legend in his own lifetime. An immensely gentle and kind man, with a great sense of humour and a tremendous appreciation of beauty, his works are read, enjoyed and admired the world over.
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Mitford Sisters |
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Unity, Pam, Diana, Nancy and Jessica lived at the Victorian Gothic Mansion, Batsford Park, between 1916 and 1919 (famous for its Arboretum) near Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. The sixth sister, Deborah was born at Asthall Manor at the village of Swinebrook in Oxfordshire.
The Mitford sisters were remarkable, in every sense of the word: funny, glamorous, intelligent, beautiful, and quirky. But their individual fates were quite different. Debo became a duchess. Jessica became a Communist. Diana married a fascist and was thrown in jail for most of WWII. Unity developed an unhealthy obsession with Hitler. And, of course, Nancy became a successful novelist. In this eye-opening look at the most eccentric of families, biographer Mary Lovell captures the unique spirit that was a hallmark of their times.
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Sir Winston Churchill |
Winston Churchill born a grandson of Duke of Marlborough - but his father Randolph was younger son, so no money. Born and brought up at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
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William Morris 1834 - 1896 |
Well know designer and founder of the Arts and Crafts movement. Studied in Oxford and lived at Kelmscott Manor in the Cotswolds from 1871 until his death.
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William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 |
The most famous of all Playwrights and Poets. Born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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