Category: People
June 27, 2016|Naval connections | Notable people
Captain James Robert Mosse
James Robert Mosse was born in 1745 and died in 1801. He was a military hero who was killed at the Battle of Copenhagen during the Napoleonic Wars and is remembered on a memorial stone in St Nicholas Churchyard, Wickham. James married Ann Grace Kinchin, daughter of the Reverend Stephen Kinchin, of Stoke Charity on 16 March 1780 at Deane, Hampshire. They lived…
Find Out More »June 12, 2016|First World War | Local People | Military connections | Wartime Wickham
Gallipoli – The Wickham Connection
The eight-month campaign which took place between 25 April 1915 – 9 January 1916 on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire. It was one of the Allies’ great disasters of the Great War. As the war began, fighting was primarily on two fronts – the Western and Eastern Fronts. In November 1914, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty,…
Find Out More »March 20, 2016|Local People | Personal memories
Alfred Stubbington – Market Gardener
Born in 1888, Alfred had a piece published in The Grower’s Gazette in 1949 in which he described the history of Hundred Acres hamlet. Alfred Stubbington was a market gardener of Wickham Parish, an industry important to the area in days gone by. In 1949, he had published the following article in The Growers Gazette: On or about the…
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February 19, 2016|Notable people
Sir Henry Alexander Wickham
Sir Henry Alexander Wickham took rubber seeds from Brazil to Kew from where the Indonesian rubber production industry was founded. He is buried in St Nicholas Churchyard. Read the story of Henry Wickham.
Find Out More »February 9, 2016|Local People | Notable people
Dame Dorothy Mary Donaldson – First Female Lord Mayor of London
Dame Dorothy Mary Donaldson, nurse, arbitrator, administrator, philanthropist and highly respected politician, philanthropist, was born August 29 1921 and died October 4 2003 aged 82. Born Dorothy Mary Warwick – although she preferred to be called Mary – in Wickham, in what is now Warwick Lane shopping arcade, she was the daughter of an ironmonger and his school-teacher wife. She attended…
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February 3, 2016|Notable people
William of Wykeham – Chancellor of England
Born in 1324 near Wickham Village of humble yet honourable parents, William rose to become the most powerful man in England after the King. William of Wykeham
Find Out More »January 7, 2016|Notable people
Henry Lutterloh – The Spy of Wickham
A resident of Wickham who was tried, along with Francis de la Motte, at the Old Sessions House in 1784 on a charge of High Treason. The story of Henry Lutterloh
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