h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Mel... about the delay in adding you to the list... Will do it as soon as i've got web access again...

to see that this thread is still carrying on... as well as the other threads from this page actually...< I'm going to have a lot of catching up to do but, on the plus side, soon this group will gain wordwide exposure... Well, really it will be a mention on my website but hey it's a start...

Anyway, talk soon... and carry on with the celebs listing... something will definitely be done from [and thanks to] all your hard work....

Oh and happy new year...


loup

Some famous people who lived in Great Baddow:

William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw) lived in Great Baddow up to 1939 before going to Germany.

Mr Watney, of Watney's Red Barrel fame (for those who remember that).

Mr D Cecil Gibbs (soap powder, toothpaste).

Mr E K Cole, one of the first manufacturers of television sets in the 50's. His company was EKCO.

It is believed that Simon Ward's family (actor) lived in Great Baddow for a while.

King Harold - He was reputated to have stopped on the way to Hastings at Waltham Abbey. There is also a legend that King Harold was burried at Waltham Abbey.

Where I lived in Harold Hill, there there as a pub called The Conqueror.


Kat

Writers from Essex:

Martina Cole born and brought up in South Essex.

Digby Fairweather writer and musician in Southend and tours with his own Jazz band.

Elizabeth Lord lives in Billericay


Kat

Does anyone know of any famous Essex snooker players?

Kat

Steve Davis, aka The Romford Robot, is an Essex boy through and through.

Thanks Blues Shark for the information.

Kat

Here are some Essex celebrities:


Television chef Jamie Oliver lives in Clavering, Essex,
Johnny Herbert, Formula 1 Motor Racing driver (Won the European Grand Prix - 26/9/99) - Romford
Billy Bragg, musician - Barking
Bobby Moore, England Football Team, Captain 1966 - Barking
Dudley Moore, actor - Dagenham, Essex
Philip David, Director and actor (Sometimes credited as Phil David, Phil Davis) Grays, Essex
Ross Kemp, actor (best noted for his hard man role as `Grant Mitchell' in BBC Eastenders
Trevor Brooking, West Ham United and England footballer - Barking
William Morris, socialist craftsman and poet - Walthamstow
The sixties band `Procol Harem', came from Southend, Essex as did the seventies one-hit band, the `Kursaal Flyers

Kat

How could omit such greats as Denise van Outen, Steve Davies and Richard Digence. Actually, now I come to think of it, I can see why.

Aaah Essex. I was away for four years and now I'm back I have to say that it's....er...well..uninspiring really.

Not to worry though, there's always a way out.

Oh yeah, Dick Turpin?

Scientists and Inventors

Dr William Gilberd (1544-1603) - scientist (1544-1603)
William Gilberd (or Gilbert) was the pioneer of the study of magnetism in England. He lived in Trinity Street, Colchester.

Lionel Lukin, Inventor of the Lifeboat and Rain Gauge - (1742-1834)
Lionel Lukin, born in Little Dunmow, invented the lifeboat and the rain gauge.

Guglielmo Marconi, father of the wireless (1874-1937)
Marconi put into practice the principles of radio. His first factory was in Chelmsford and the first public broadcast was made from the county town.

John Ray - (1627-1705)
Braintree-educated John Ray is known as the

Ronnie O'Sullivan

BORN 5th December 1975
BIRTHPLACE Chigwell, England
TURNED PRO 1992
EARNINGS 01/02 £479,000
RANKING 1
HIGHEST RANKING 1
Achievements

2001 - Embassy World Championship
1993, 1997, 2001 - UK Championship
1994 - British Open
1995 - B&H Masters
2003 - European Open
2004 - Welsh Masters
1996 - Asian Classic
1998, 2000, 2002 - Regal Masters
1998 - Liverpool Victoria Charity Challenge
1999, 2000 - China Open
2001, 2003 - Citywest Irish Masters
1998, 2000 - Regal Scottish Open
2000 - TSN Champions Cup
2001, 2002 - Matchroom Premier League

Graham Gooch
Full Name: Graham Alan Gooch
Born: 23 July 1953, Whipps Cross, Leytonstone, Essex
Major Teams: Essex, Western Province, England.
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Commentator, Coach

The physicist Lord Rayliegh was born as John Rayliegh at Langford Grove in 1842. In 1904, he was the first Englishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of argon. In 1919 he died at Witham

The last Anglo Saxon King Harold II was buried at Waltham Abbey after his defeat at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

The author of "The Magus" and "The French Lieutenant's Woman" John Fowles, was born in 1926 at Leigh-on-Sea.

Joan of Navarre died in 1437 at Havering-atte-Bower. She had become the second wife of Henry IV in 1403 and was Queen until his death in 1413. They had no children.

Alan Davies is one of the best-known actors on British television.
Born in Essex, he got his first break as a stand-up comedian aged 22 at the Black Cat Cabaret in Stoke Newington. His best known acting role is in the title role of Jonathan Creek, and he has also appeared as a regular in BBC2's comedy quiz show, QI, hosted by Stephen Fry.
Alan is also a big fan of the Essex County Cricket team and avidly watches them

Bill Burton (1907-1995) - popular artist who launched a thousand (and more) sunsets (1907-1995)
Bill Burton is probably best known for his seascapes. "Eventide" adorned the wall of the flat above the corner shop in television's Coronation Street.

John Constable (1776-1837) - artist who painted the Hay Wain (1776-1837)
Constable was born in East Bergholt on the Essex-Suffolk border and went to school in Dedham.

Patrick Fisher - maritime artist (1930 - 1987)
Paddy Fisher was born in Parkeston, near Harwich, and went on to record his local area in oils. A press review of an exhibition after his death said: "Patrick Fisher was to Harwich what Constable was to Flatford and Dedham, perhaps more so."

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) - portrait painter (1727-1788)
Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, a Suffolk town just five miles from the Essex border. He is best known as a portrait painter.

Sir Alfred Munnings - horse artist and hater of modern art (1878-1959)
Munnings' work was owned by, among others, the Duchess of Windsor, The Astor family and Bing Crosby. His wife's dog was sneaked into the Queen's wedding at Westminster Abbey in a specially-made handbag.

Music


Busted - Band
One of the band members is James Bourne from Southend.

Vince Clarke (1961- ) - musician

Keith Flint (1971 - ) - musician (1971 - )
Manic Keith is frontman for the band Prodigy.

Liam Howlett (1971 - ) - musician (1971 - )
Liam is the musical force behind the band Prodigy.

Jay Kay, frontman of jazz-funk band Jamiroquai (1971-)
Jay Kay fronts jazz-funk outfit Jamiroquai - and was born in Colchester.

Dr Feelgood
The feelgood factor is as strong as ever for this south Essex band.

Tina Cousins - singer
Former model turned singer who has appeared on the Brit Awards and had top 20 hits.

Blur - Britpop band
Chart-topping band which has connections with Colchester.

Sade - solo artist
Information on the singer who grew up in Clacton.

Scott Robinson - Singer with pop band 5ive.

Alison Moyet - Singer and part of pop group Yazoo.

Depeche Mode - Basildon based group

Doreen Waddell - Vocalist with Soul II Soul

Public Life

Tony Benn - MP (1925 - )
Left-wing Parliamentary veteran Tony Benn, who gave up the hereditary title Viscount Stansgate to sit in the Commons, relaxes at the family home near Maldon.

Lady Thatcher - former Prime Minister (1920-)
Lady Thatcher's first job meant she spent two years living in Colchester - and she cut her political teeth with the Conservatives there.

Mary Whitehouse - clean-up campaigner (1910 - 2001)
Mrs Whitehouse was known nationally for her controversial efforts to keep television and radio free from sex, violence and swearing.

Baroness Williams (1930- ) - veteran politician (1930 - )
Baroness Williams of Crosby now sits in the House of Lords for the Liberal Democrats, but once looked after cows on an Essex farm.

Teresa Gorman Billericay MP 1997-2001
Teresa Gorman was the outspoken MP for Billericay from 1997 to 2001.