Famous People
I did a search with Google for 'famous people stockport' most of what turned up was identified as "celebrities" so I have ignored them! Most of my list is derived (pinched) from the list on the Council's site. Okay so it is not a long list - just think of it as very select. All dates are Common Era (CE).
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John Bradshaw 1602-59 |
John Bradshaw was the judge who pronounced the death sentence on Charles I in 1649. Born in Marple, he was baptised at Stockport Parish Church, where the word 'traitor' has been mysteriously added against his name in the Parish Register |
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Sir Joseph Whitworth 1803-87 |
Sir Joseph Whitworth was a pioneer of precision engineering, inventor of the standard screw thread. The son of a local reedmaker, he was born in a tiny house off Hillgate in Stockport town centre. In spite of his humble origins and the absence of a university education, he had gained a reputation as 'britain's greatest mechanician' by the time of the Great Exhibition in 1887. Whitworth's family connections with the borough were of long-standing and when he amassed his fortune he ensured that these would continue: Stockport College of Further and Higher Education, one of the country's largest, has its origins in a legacy from Sir Joseph. |
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Fred Perry 1909-95 |
Fred Perry won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon three times in succession from 1934 to 1936 and later founded an international sports fashion empire. |
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Peter Boardman 1952-82 |
Mountaineer, killed climbing Mount Everest climbing with Joe Tasker, the Boardman-Tasker Award for Mountain Literature is dedicated to their memory, |
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Christopher Isherwood 1904-86 |
Born in Disley, author of Goodbye to Berlin. |
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