| 1989 |
Randolph Sutton (1888-1960) |
Music Hall Star, was born here. He recorded songs with particularly infectious tunes
(for example Good 'Eavens, Mrs. Evans, My Canary has Circles under his Eyes)
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29 Anglesea Place |
| 1990 |
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
Poet, lived here (1836-37). "Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa," Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829) etc.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
|
Penrose Cottage, Harley Place |
| 1992 |
Dr W.G Grace (1848-1915) |
Father figure of cricket, lived here (1894-96). His huge stature and characteristic beard made his presence felt immediately as he walked upon each
cricket ground.
The number of years he played the game and the records he achieved was a marvel of the game in the 19th century
|
15 Victoria Square |
| 1992 |
E.H Young (1880-1946) |
Novelist, lived here (1907-18). All the novels share a trenchant observation of Clifton’s inhabitants and have been compared with
Jane Austen’s or more recently Barbara Pym’s writing.
|
2 Saville Place |
| 1995 |
Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1852-1936) |
Psychologist, First Vice Chancellor University of Bristol,
lived here (1886-1903). He wrote a textbook on animal biology and published a number of papers on local geology.
He decided that he could make a more significant contribution to knowledge in the study
of psychology, and began to direct his research effort to the field of what he called "mental evolution", the borderline between intelligence and instinct,
where he developed his reputation in experimental psychology and animal behaviour
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14/16 Canynge Road |
| 1996 |
Hannah More (1745-1833) |
Author, playwright, educationalist lived here (1829-33).
This evangelical philanthropist provides an indispensable link between the Georgian and Victorian periods.
Born in Fishponds, just before the last Jacobite rebellion, she lived to see the beginnings of the railway age. In her youth she was the friend of
David Garrick, Samual Johnson and Horace Walpole.
At the age of seventeen she wrote a play, The Search after Happiness, for the girls at the school where she taught, to perform.
She herself was closely involved with the Theatre Royal Bristol and became a particular friend of the actor William Powell.
In middle age she was closely connected with William Wilberforce and his fellow
Evangelicals in the Clapham sect.
As well as working among the poor, Hannah More continued her connections with polite society, and produced a series of conduct books,
of which the most famous was Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799).
In her retirement she welcomed two promising children to her home in Somerset, William Ewart
Gladstone and Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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4 Windsor Terrace |
| 1996 |
Cecil Powell (1903-1969) |
Physicist, Nobel Laureate, lived here (1954-69).
At the University of Bristol from 1927 to 1969, first as Research Assistant to AM Tyndall, then appointed lecturer, and, in 1948, established as Melville
Wills Professor of Physics.
He contributed numerous papers to learned societies on the discharge of electricity in gases, and on the development of photographic methods in
nuclear physics. He was a co-author of Nuclear Physics in Photographs (1947) and
The Study of Elementary Particles by the Photographic Method (1959).
Prof. Powell was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949: he was awarded the Hughes Medal in the same year and the Royal Medal in 1961.
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12 Goldney Avenue |
| 1996 |
Clifton Spa Pump Room |
Part of the Clifton Grand Spa Hydropathic Institution
(opened in 1898) |
on side of Avon Gorge Hotel.
Entrance to baths |
| 1997 |
Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) |
Scientist, lived here. He established the Pneumatic Institution for Inhalation Gas Therapy in Clifton in 1798.
The influence of its work on gases and vapours was to prove seminal in the development of inhalation anaesthesia.
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11 Hope Square |
| 1998 |
John Addington Symonds (1840-93) |
Poet, critic, historian of the Renaissance, lived here
(1865-71).
His many writings include travel books, Sketches in Italy and Greece (1874) and
Italian Byways (1883); literary essays, Introduction to the Study of Dante (1872) and
Studies of Greek Poets (1873–76); biographies of Shelley (1878), Sir Philip Sidney (1886), Ben Jonson (1886),
and Michelangelo (1893); a masterly translation of the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1888); and several volumes of verse, notably
Many Moods (1878) and Animi Figura The Renaissance in Italy
(7 vol., 1875–86), is a classic collection of sketches in cultural history.
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7 Victoria Square |
| 1998 |
Samuel Jackson (1794-1869) |
Painter, lived here (1843-69) |
8 Canynge Square |
| 2000 |
Susanna Winkworth (1820-84) & Catherine Winkworth (1827-78) |
Susanna (Philanthropist)/ Catherine (Hymnologist),
lived here
(1862-74) |
31 Cornwallis Crescent |
| 2000 |
Sir George Oatley (1863-1950) |
Architect (designed Wills Building,
Bristol Baptist College, Wills Hall), lived here (1902-34) |
Bishops House, Clifton Hill |
| 2002 |
Paule Vezelay (Marjorie Watson-Williams) (1892-1984) |
First woman abstract artist, lived here (1939-42) |
2 Rodney Place |
| 2003 |
Eliza Walker Dunbar (1849-1925) |
Pioneer doctor, lived here (1882-1925) |
9 Oakfield Road |
| 2003 |
Ellen Sharples (1769-1849) & Rolinda Sharples (1793-1838) |
Artists, lived here (1821-32) |
37 Canynge Road |
| 2004 |
Gertrude Hermes(1901-83) |
Wood Engraver & Sculptor, died here (1983) |
5 Sion Hill |
Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society (CHIS)
