Nottinghamshire Notables

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Nottinghamshire County Page

Notable people associated with Nottinghamshire

The current list of notable people categorised as born and/or living in Nottinghamshire can be viewed here: Nottinghamshire Notables Category Page

Work is ongoing to identify other profiles to be added to this category and new profiles to be created. Helen Flight is working on this but any assistance is greatly appreciated. Any people added to the category must meet the threshold for notability defined here. Notable people added to the category are expected to be deceased (there is a separate process for adding living notables detailed here).

Nottinghamshire notable profiles needing further work

The following profiles are currently not connected to the main tree, any help in connecting them would be much appreciated:

Helen Cresswell- author

William Abednego Thompson- bare knuckle boxer (did not marry and not much info available about his parents and siblings, may not be possible to connect)

Richard Parkes Bonington- romantic painter

Nicholas Hawksmoor- baroque architect

John Barber- gas turbine inventor

William Lee- Inventor of first stocking frame knitting machine

Resources for identifying Nottinghamshire notables

The links below are good resources for identifying other notables from the area who may not be on Wikitree yet:

• People section of Notts Heritage Gateway website
• People section of Nottinghamshire History website
• Wikipedia list of notable people from Nottingham
• List of people given freedom of the City of Nottingham
• List of notable Notts women N.B. this is an extensive list which includes some people who would not meet the wikitree/ wikipedia definition of notable, also some only have quite a minor connection to Nottinghamshire such as they performed here
• Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies and of Celebrated and Remarkable Men of the Country by Corneliius Brown, 1882 [1]