SOME FAMOUS NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH THE VILLAGE

Sheffield Airey Neave; entomologist

Airey Middleton Neave; Colditz escaper; politician

Henry “Chips” Channon; interwar politician and socialite

Paul Channon; Chips Channon’s son and Conservative Cabinet Minister

Sarah Miles; actress

Daniel Sutton; pioneer of smallpox inoculation

Henry Aloysius Petre; ‘father’ of the RAAF

Kay Petre; Henry’s wife and 1930’s racing driver

Mildred Mary Petre; pioneer racing driver and round-the-world pilot

William Byrd; English composer and major influence on English music

Dorothy Wadham; founder of Wadham College Oxford

Charles Kortright; English cricketer and “the fastest bowler in the game”

Charles Campbell Sherrin; Victorian/Edwardian architect

Dorothea and Madeleine Rock suffragettes