Notable People From Woodbridge and Melton

Many people who have lived in Woodbridge and Melton of national importance and a few are of international renowned.   They are listed below and article on each of then can be displayed by clicking on their name.  Pamphlets on those marked by a red asterisk are available for purchase. 

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1. Bernard Barton - Quaker Poet
2. Thomas Churchyard - Artist
3. Robert Beal - Lawyer
4. Thomas & John Clarkson - Abolitionists
5. Raymond Faulkner - Egyptologist
6. Edward FitzGerald - Translator
7. John Grout - International Horse Dealer
8. Norman Heatley - Unsung hero of penicillin production
9. Sir Ian Jacob - Military Advisor to the WW2 Cabinet and Director General of the BBC.
10. Edwin Lankester and Sir Ray Lankester - Public Health Reformer  and Decipherer of the Past 
11. Francis Light - Founder of a Colony
12. The Lockwoods - Builders and Brewers
13. The Pulham Family - Cement artists
14. The Redstone Family - Historians and archivists
15. Thomas Seckford - Tudor Worthy, Benefactor and patron of cartography
16. Searles Valentine Wood Snr & Jnr- Palaeontologists and a pioneer in the study of glacial drift

The people on the second list owned large estates in Woodbridge or Melton

1. The Carthews of the Abbey at Woodbridge - Lords of the Manor of Woodbridge Late Priory
2. The Pytches of Pytches Road and the subsequent development of their estate

The people on the third list

1. Alice Driver - Martyr
2. The Fosdike family - Bell ringers, firemen and builders
3. John Fox - Tudor Adventurer
4. Isaac Johnson - Surveyor and Artist
5. The Loder family - Printers and Booksellers
6. John Moore - Artist
7. George Rowe - Artist
8. Elizabeth Warren - Religious Pamphleteer