Weston Hall near Brackley .Northamptonshire  [Photo.peter Blencowe. blencowe families association]                                                                      Famous people who have connection to Northamptonshire. 

There are many people who have become well known over the years with connection with Northamptonshire.

actors. landed gentry.business people.

Mary Leapor1722-1746 daughter of Anne Sharman and Phillip Leapor [gardener]from Marston st Lawrence near Brackley . She worked as a kitchen maid at Weston Hall . Susanna Jennens nee Blencowe employed her in the hall and helped her get on with her poetry.



















Years later one of the Gulliver family worked at the hall.

The Greene family who owned Greens Norton .Northamptonshire. 

Among those who descended from the family was Nancy Regan , nee Davis. the first lady of US.

 George Clooney , US actor. His ancestors left England and moved to the USA for a better life. it was his mothers family that he descends from the Greene family from greens norton northamptonshire. also the from the fitzwilliam family of milton malsor . both of these villages are within a 10 miles radius of northampton.

Catherine Parr who was married four times. her third husband was King Henry VIII.Her mother was Maud Greene she married William Parr from Horton Northampton . the family had lived at Boughton and Greens Norton Northants.They was related to Diana Princess of Wales.

Diana princess of wales[spencer] family from althorp Northamptonshire.

she died 1997 august 31 st. in a car crash in paris.

she is remembered. 2014 . it is 17 years since she died.

at the time she was in paris . my youngest daughter , jenny and I was in lille northern france for the day. on returning home we woke to hear the news on the tv she had been killed in a car crash in a tunnel under the seine in paris.


Matt Smith[ dr who] attended Northampton School for boys  Billing Road Northampton

Brian [Monty ] Toms. artist.

Henry Bird . artist 1909-2000


Francis Crick. [ DNA] he also attended Northampton school for boys . Billing Road Northampton

He died in USA.There is a memorial to him in Abington Street Northampton.his father also managed the boot and shoe factory. his mother was a school teacher.

His grandfather Walter Drawbridge Crick managed a boot and shoe factory I st giles street , then in Hazelwood Road Northampton.

 Walter Crick wrote to Charles Darwin about nature. many people had written to Charles Darwin. he always replied. George Gulliver . doctor from Banbury also wrote to Charles Darwin . his letters are with Cambridge college.

 Winifred Ivy Clarke 1901 from Hartwell  married W.H Crick 1897-1970 one of Francis Crick relations.

Her great great great grandfather Thomas Clarke born 1788 in Stone, Hartwell Buckinghamshire


Althan Blackwell . his family came from Harpole Northampton and his father James took the family to Edgbaston and had a business.

 James married twice , first to Jane . they had three children , she died and he married again to Harriet Tingle , they had one daughter, Elizabeth Tingle Blackwell. she became a music teacher. they lived at 118 Bristol Road Birmingham and Harriett was left a widow and living on her own means with one lady servant.

Althan Blackwell married Agnes Reading , sister of Mr N Reading who owned a silver Jewelry factory workshop in the Jewerly Quarter of Birmingham.They employed between 200-300 people , mainly women.

His brother Fred William Blackwell became a doctor and joined a GP to work in East End of London.

In 2014 four rare items belonging to Pc Edward Watkins who found Jack the Ripper 4th victim Catherine Eddowes was sold and the amount raised was £17.670 .The sale was held at Humbert auctioneers ltd Towcester Northants as recorded in the Chronicle and Echo newspaper.

 He died in Poole Dorset where his brother Althans owned a flat

Elizabeth Woodville from Grafton Regis Northamptonshire. Grandmother of  King Henry VIII








Diana[ Spencer] Princess of Wales

the family have been in the area for 100`of years.

Diana `s first grandson. Prince George of Cambridge born july 22nd 2013. so the connection to Northamptonshire and the crown continues.one day he will be king of England. his 21st great grandmother was Dorothy Golafre whose ancestors came from Blakesley near Towcester Northamptonshire


Margaret Thatcher nee Roberts.1925-2013. her father Alfred Roberts was born in Ringstead Northamptonshire. 

His father Ben Ebenezer Roberts 1857 -1925 also born in the village.He was listed as a shoemaker. The earliest i could find a record of was William Roberts = Elizabeth Jacks 1767-1836. Margaret Thatchers 4 th great grandfather. It seems that William Roberts came from North Wales and was a cattle/ sheep drover. He had connections with the Portas. Bosworth Starmer Spencer Dicks, Manning families in and around Northamptonshire.

 info. ancestry.co.uk







Grafton Regis Northamptonshire . Elizabeth Woodville married King Edward IV

There daughter Elizabeth married King Henry VII. Their grandson was King Henry VIII

 DIANA Princess of Wales . Althorp . Northamptonshire the family home of the Spencer family.Her grandson is PRINCE GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE, Future King of ENGLAND


ELIZABETH WOODVILLE  married KING EDWARD IV. Their daughter ELIZABETH married KING HENRY VII. Their grandson was King Henry VIII.

 
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