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Acker Bilk
(musician)
Andrew Cross (experimented with
electricity at Fyne Court, Broomfield)
Andy Elson (Balloonist – holder of
world record)
Arthur C Clarke (author) lived in
Taunton
Captain Scott (explorer)
Cecil Sharp (Founded the English Folk
Dance Society)
Charles Dance (actor)
Col John Rouse Merriott Chard VC
(Colonel at Rourkes Drift fort – Zulu Wars)
David Shepherd (artist)
Don MuCullin (photographer)
Dr Robert Dunning (author, historian)
Edward Phelips (a lawyer re: the
Gunpowder Plot)
Elizabeth Goudge (author)
Evelyn Waugh (author) lived in
Somerset
Fay Weldon (author)
Frankie Howerd (actor)
George Williams (founder of YMCA)
Georgie Fame (musician)
Ian Botham (former Somerset / England
cricketer)
Jekyll & Lutyens (designed some
Somerset gardens)
Jenson Button (racing driver)
Jill Dando (TV presenter, journalist)
John Cleese (actor, author)
John Leach (potter)
John Pym (leader of the Opposition)
John Steinbeck (author)
Julia Somerville (newsreader)
Kate O’Mara TV Star (Howards Way etc)
King Alfred
King Arthur
Lord Tedder (Founder of RAF – 1st
World War, lived in Taunton)
Margaret Bonfield (1st woman cabinet
minister – early 20th century)
Margaret Drabble (author)
Martin Pipe (racehorse trainer)
Mary Rand (Olympic Athelete, lived in
Wells)
Marcus Trescothick (Somerset Cricket Player who
helped win the Ashes for England 2005)
Michael Eavis (local farmer &
organiser of Pilton pop festival) lives near
Glastonbury
Micheal Holroyd (author)
Patrick Reyntiens (stained glass
maker)
Penelope Lively (author)
Peter Gabriel (musician)
Rachael Reckitt (artist, engraver)
Robert Blake
Robert Robinson (TV personality)
Robin Bush (author, historian / TV’s
Time Team)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (lived at
Nether Stowey from 1797 to 1799)
Simon King (Wildlife Photographer)
Sir Cameron Macintosh (West End and Broadway
Musicals)
Sir Henry Irvine
Sir John Harvey-Jones (business
consultant)
Sir Ranulph Fiennes (explorer)
Terry Pratchett (author)
TS Elliot (ashes are in East Coker)
Viv Richards (former Somerset
cricketer)
William Rees Mogg (lives in Wells)
William Waldegrave
William Wordsworth (lived in Somerset
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County Council
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Helping
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Offering
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Chamber and it's members.
