Thomas Tyldesley
Supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the English Civil War.
English, Male, Soldier
English
English, Male, Painter
Thomas Gainsborough
Portrait and landscape painter, founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
English, Female, Writer
Enid Blyton
English children’s writer whose books have been among the world’s best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.
Actor, English, Female
Dorothy Dene
English stage actor and a protégé of Frederic Leighton, for whom she modelled for several of his paintings.
English painter, knighted in 1878.
English, Female, Ghost, Landowner, Philanthropist
Dorothy Legh
Born Dorothy Egerton (1565–1639), also known as Dorothy Brereton, Lady of the Manor of Worsley, was a coal owner and benefactor of Ellenbrook Chapel near her home in Worsley, Lancashire.
English, Female, Landowner
Diana Beaumont
Eldest illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall near Wakefield in Yorkshire.
English, Statute
Statute of Silence 1581
Act of Parliament introducing a series of increasingly gruesome punishments for speaking or publishing anything that Queen Elizabeth I did not wish to hear.
English, Lancashire, Landowner, Male
William Hulton
Landowner who lived at Hulton Hall in Lancashire, notorious for his part in the Peterloo Massacre.
English, Male, Painter
Roger Hampson
Painter, printmaker, teacher and a member of the group of post-war northern artists who developed the realist tradition established by L S Lowry and Harry Rutherford.
