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Victorian Personalities of Hull
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| A selection of local personalities born during the Victorian era. | |||
| Born | Died | Name | Bio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1820 | 1887 | Henry Redmore | The Humberside artist Henry Redmore is recognised as one of Britain's greatest marine painters. |
| 1821 | 1891 | Zachariah Charles Pearson | Through his efforts and generosity in donating the land to the City in 1860, Hull had its first public park. |
| 1830 | 1875 | John
Deighton (Gassy Jack) |
He became a sailor, first on British ships, then switched to American ships because, according to Ancient Mariner, of the "better quality and greater quantity of provisions." He served on the clipper ship Invincible from New York to San Francisco, where he left the ship and made for the California gold diggings. |
| 1831 | 1897 | Foster Earle | Major character in the continued development of the cement making process. |
| 1834 | 1923 | John Venn | Hull born mathematician. He is best known for Venn diagrams, pictorially representing the relations between sets. Bookshelf |
| 1836 | 1929 | Rev James Sibree | Architect, missionary, naturalist and author of the books 'Recollections of Hull'. |
| 1841 | 1879 | George Townley Fullam | Master's Mate aboard the CSS Alabama during the American Civil War. A journal of his service aboard the Alabama was published as The Journal Of George Townley Fullam, edited by Charles G. Summersell. |
| 1842 | 1920 | Christopher Pickering | You can't visit West Hull without hearing the Pickering name. A genuine rags to riches tale. |
| 1842 | 1927 | Thomas Jacques Somerscales | Highly regarded international artist who produced a huge painting for the Santiago Congress Building. |
| 1843 | 1902 | William Day Keyworth | Gifted son of sculptor/architect father of same name. Trained in London and had studio there as well as in Hull. Many examples of his work can be seen all over Hull, including notably Sir Michael de la Pole and the figure of William Wilberforce in the front garden of Wilberforce House. Keyworth sculpted the memorial in Westminster Abbey to Rowland Hill, founder of the penny post and the four lions outside Leeds Town Hall. |
| 1843 | 1925 | James Ward | Hull born psychologist and philosopher. He studied for the Congregationalist ministry at Cambridge, but after a one-year scholarship at Göttingen studying physiological psychology under Hermann Lotze, abandoned his religious ministry and continued his studies at Cambridge, where he became a fellow. He established a laboratory for psychological research, and was appointed professor of mental philosophy and logic at Cambridge. |
| 1845 | 1915 | David Parkinson Garbutt | Creator of 'The Avenues Estate', by the age of 13, had his own business buying and selling fish. |
| 1847 | 1930 | Thomas Ferens | Arriving in Hull during 1868 to work for Reckitt's, Thomas Ferens became one of Hull's greatest benefactors. |
| 1850 | 1933 | Charles Carter | Founder member of the Hull Institute of Estate Agents and publisher of the 'Homefinder'. |
| 1853 | 1932 | Digby Willoughby | A tale of corruption and fraudulent dealings in Hull City Council. |
| 1854 | 1941 | Alfred Gelder | Ex Mayor and well know benefactor whose name is well known by all. |
| 1856 | 1940 | Francis Askew | How does a Druid, Baptist and Hull's first Labour politition end up as a Gipsyville school? |
| 1859 | 1937 | Julia Turpin | Famous Hessle Road midwife between the mid 1880's and mid 1930's. Read her story as related by her granddaughter Julie. |
| 1872 | 1949 | Jack Townsend | Founder of Townsend's Wines & Spirits and one-time Captain of Hull Football Club. |
| 1875 | Maurice Phillip | Local poet and director of R.H. Phillip and Son, edible oil processors. | |
| 1876 | 1945 | Thomas Sheppard | Forty years the curator of Hull Museum, he amassed the finest provincial collection in the whole of Europe. |
| 1935 | William Flint | Popular retailers and the first tradesman to open a shop between Park Grove and Dewsbury Street. | |
| 1937 | Frederick Zerny | Founder of Zerny's Hull's well known dry cleaning business in 1892. | |
| 1880 | 1964 | George Rushton | Creditied as being the very first Hull City goal scorer when they played their first game in 1904. |
| 1882 | 1944 | Thomas Stainforth | Assistant curator to Tom Sheppard with an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural history of East Yorkshire. |
| 1886 | 1970 | Ethel Leginska | One of the most talented musicians of the 20th century was born plain 'Ethel Liggins' here in Hull. |
| 1887 | 1957 | Edward Spencer Rylatt | 'Mad Rylatt' was a well-known Hessle Road Skipper and hero of the First World War. |
| 1887 | 1989 | Re. Mother Philomena Hobson | Head of the French Convent School, Park Grove, between 1916 and 1972. |
| 1888 | 1972 | J(oseph) Arthur Rank | Hull born Film magnate who became chairman of many film companies, including Gaumont-British and Cinema-Television, and did much to promote the British film industry, owning a chain of 600 cinemas. Book & Film Gallery |
| 1890 | 1917 | Jack Harrison | Rugby League's only recipient of the Victoria Cross. |
| Cloggie Walsh | Everybody knew him, but did he really exist? Just who was the original Cloggie Walsh? | ||
| 1896 | Edward Milne | Astrophysicist, born in Hull. Assistant director of the Cambridge Solar Physics Observatory (1920-4), he became professor of mathematics at Manchester (1924-8) and Oxford (from 1928). He made notable contributions to the study of cosmic dynamics, and estimated the age of the universe to be c.2 thousand million years. | |
| 1896 | 1985 | Sir Alister Hardy | Nottingham born marine biologist who served on the Discovery expedition in the Antarctic (1924-8), and in 1928 founded the oceanographic department at Hull University, where he was professor of zoology. |
| 1897 | 1989 | Margot Bryant | Margot Bryant was born in Hull in 1897, the daughter of a doctor. She made her professional debut in the chorus line before graduating into musical comedies. |
| 1899 | 1973 | G. Stanley Atkinson | The first Labour Sherrif of Hull and developer of the popular Dorchester Hotel. |
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