Alice Nutter
One of the 11 men and women found guilty of causing harm by witchcraft in the Pendle witch trials of 1612, unique among the accused in being a respectable wealthy widow.
Malcolm Saville
English author best known for the Lone Pine series of children’s books, published between 1943 and 1978.
Norah Wilmot
First British woman racehorse trainer to officially train a winning horse. Her historic win came with her filly Pat, at Brighton in August 1966, just one day after she became one of the first two women to be granted a training licence by the Jockey Club.
John Holker
Jacobite soldier, industrialist, and one of the world’s first industrial espionage agents.
Thomas Linley
English tenor, musician and composer whose musically talented children were described as “a Nest of Nightingales”.
Henry Ernest Milner
English civil engineer and landscape architect
Violet Alford
Internationally recognised authority on folk dancing and its related music and folk customs.
John Greenwood
John Greenwood (1788–1851) was the keeper of a toll-gate in Pendleton on the Manchester to Liverpool turnpike, who In 1824 inaugurated the United Kingdom’s first omnibus service.
Florence Nagle
Trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist
Robert Southey
Robert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s poet laureate for 30 years, from 1813 until his death in 1843.
