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|   L/Cpl James Hewitson V.C.- Coniston, Cumbria
in Grave of a Famous Person Lance Corporal James Hewitson was awarded his V.C. for his action during the First Great World War in 1918. posted by:  flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 4/21/2012 last visited: never |
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| William Gershom Collingwood (1854 - 1932) in Grave of a Famous Person William G Collingwood lived at Lanehead about a mile from Brantwood, John Ruskin's home, and was Ruskin's secretary from 1881 onwards, and was to become after John Ruskin, Coniston's most notable resident. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 2/20/2008 last visited: 4/22/2010 |
 view galleryE0 km | John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) in Grave of a Famous Person John Ruskin was one of the greatest figures of the Victorian age, poet, artist, critic, social revolutionary and conservationist. A man ahead of his time promoting 'green' and social issues. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 2/17/2008 last visited: 4/22/2010 |
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| Donald Campbell C.B.E. World Water Speed Record Holder, Coniston, Cumbria in Grave of a Famous Person Donald Campbell C.B.E. set and held World the Water Speed Record with Bluebird his jet powered boat, on Coniston Water, during winter 1967. His body and wreckage were not found until 2001, on the lake bed. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 7/19/2006 last visited: 7/27/2008 |
 view galleryNE0.2 km | Oscar Theodor Gnosspelius (1878-1953) in Grave of a Famous Person Oscar Gnosspelius is remembered by Arthur Ransome's readers as 'Squashy Hat' in the book Pigeon Post, which is dedicated to Oscar Gnosspelius. More importantly he designed and flew the first plane to take off from a body of water, in the UK. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 9/8/2007 last visited: 4/22/2010 |
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| Josefina de Vasconcellos MBE (1904-2005) in Grave of a Famous Person Josefina de Vasconcellos was England's oldest living sculptor. Born in Moseley on 26 October 1904, and only died on 20 July 2005. Josefina divided her time between London and Langdale. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 7/21/2010 last visited: 8/22/2010 |
 view galleryN8 km | William Irwin 1822-89, Chapel Stile, Cumbria, UK in Grave of a Famous Person The grave of Cumbria’s foremost country fiddler. posted by: bill&ben location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 8/29/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryN8.2 km | G. M. Trevelyan OM, CBE, FRS, FBA, Chapel Stile, Cumbria, UK in Grave of a Famous Person The grave of one of England’s foremost historians posted by: bill&ben location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 8/29/2010 last visited: never |
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| Arthur Ransome in Grave of a Famous Person Arthur Ransome was a children's author who lived in the Lake District after working as a foreign correspondent in Russia. He married Trotksy's secretary. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 3/14/2008 last visited: 4/14/2011 |
 view galleryNE9.8 km | Kurt Schwitters Creator of Merz, Ambleside, Cumbria in Grave of a Famous Person Kurt Schwitters, born in Hanover, headstone in Ambleside, Lake District. Creator of MERZ (collage) form of art.
There is scarcely an artist working with materials other than paint who does not refer to Schwitters in some way. In his bold and wide-ranging experiments he can be seen as the grandfather of Pop Art, Happenings, Concept Art, Fluxus, multimedia art and post-modernism. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 7/16/2006 last visited: 4/16/2010 |
 view galleryNE9.8 km | W E Forster in Grave of a Famous Person William Edward Forster was a Liberal MP who brought in the first education reform acts in 1867-68. He lived between 1818 and 1886. His gravestone is right next to Charlotte Mason's, another education reformer whose ideas are still used today. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 2/16/2012 last visited: 4/18/2012 |
 view galleryNE9.8 km | Charlotte Maria Shaw Mason, Ambleside, Cumbria, UK in Grave of a Famous Person Charlotte Mason was a pioneer in education and founder of the Parent’s National Education Union. posted by: bill&ben location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 9/5/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryE9.8 km | M. J. B. Baddeley (1843–1906) in Grave of a Famous Person M. J. B. Baddeley wrote early holiday guides for visitors to popular areas of Britain. The clock between Windermere and Bowness is dedicated to him. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 8/9/2010 last visited: 4/17/2012 |
 view galleryE9.8 km | Thomas Hayton Mawson 1861 - 1933 in Grave of a Famous Person T H Mawson was a celebrated landscape architect. He was the first to coin that phrase as he designed houses and landscaped many gardens. Thomas was the eldest of three brothers. All are buried here. There are no headstones, nor inscription. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 3/30/2010 last visited: 4/17/2012 |
 view galleryE10 km | Henry William Schneider (1817 – 1887) in Grave of a Famous Person Henry William Schneider was a Victorian industrialist who through his endeavours helped turn Barrow-in-Furness from a fishing village to an industrial town. It is fitting that there iron railings around his grave. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 8/6/2010 last visited: 4/17/2012 |
 view galleryE10 km | Bishop of Llandaff, Richard Watson in Grave of a Famous Person Richard Watson was educated at Heversham Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He went on to be Bishop of Llandaff, after a professorship in chemistry, then religion. He was inventor of the cylinder method of charcoal production. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 9/4/2011 last visited: never |
 view galleryN11.3 km | William Archibald Spooner in Grave of a Famous Person Reverend WA Spooner was an Oxford don, responsible for introducing the word spoonerism in to the English idiom. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 8/26/2009 last visited: 8/21/2011 |
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| Will Ritson, Wasdale, Cumbria in Grave of a Famous Person Will Ritson was the notorious landlord of the Huntsman's Inn, now Wasdale Head Inn, and self proclaimed "Biggest Liar in the World" for his tall tales. His fame continues at an annual Biggest Liar competition at the Bridge Inn, Santon Bridge. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 12/20/2010 last visited: never |
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| George Romney in Grave of a Famous Person George Romney the world renowned portrait painter was born in Beckside Dalton in Furness on the 15th of June 1734.
His grave can be found in St.Mary's parish church Dalton,Cumbria England. posted by: fellsmanhiker location: United Kingdom date approved: 2/20/2008 last visited: 3/12/2008 |
 view galleryN25.7 km | Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole CBE (1884-1941), St John’s Churchyard, Keswick, Cumbria, UK in Grave of a Famous Person The grave of Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, a foremost English novelist. posted by: bill&ben location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 4/21/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryN27 km | Robert Southey, St Kentigern’s Church, Great Crosthwaite, Cumbria, UK in Grave of a Famous Person The grave and memorial of the Poet Laureate Robert Southey at St Kentigern’s Church posted by: bill&ben location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 8/29/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryN27.2 km | Canon Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley,St Kentigern’s Church, Great Crosthwaite, Cumbria UK in Grave of a Famous Person The grave of one of the founder of the National Trust and the founder of the Keswick School of Industrial Art posted by: bill&ben location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 8/27/2010 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE38.8 km | Edith Caroline Rivett, Aughton, Lancashire in Grave of a Famous Person Edith Caroline Rivett was a prolific detective crime authoress. She used many pseudonyms. Carol Carnac, E C R Lorac, Carol Rivett, Mary le Bourne. Her work has a dedicated following although no longer in print. posted by: flipflopnick location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 12/24/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryN42.3 km | Mary Harrison (Maid of Buttermere), St Kentigern’s Church, Caldbeck, in Grave of a Famous Person The final resting place of Mary Harrison, known throughout Britain as the Maid of Buttermere. posted by: bill&ben location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 9/12/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryN42.3 km | John Peel, St Kentigern’s Churchyard, Caldbeck, Cumbria in Grave of a Famous Person The grave of the huntsman, John Peel, immortalized in song. posted by: bill&ben location: Northwest England, United Kingdom date approved: 9/16/2012 last visited: never |
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