Famous people born in Chelsea
Page 2 of 6
Lewis Howard Latimer
Lewis Howard Latimer was an American inventor and draftsman.....
Source: Wikipedia
Henry Seymour Conway
Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway was a British general and statesman. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career in the War of the Austrian Succession. He held various political offices including Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Leader of the House of Commons and Secretary of State for the Northern Department. He eventually rose to the position of CommanderinChief of the Forces.....
Source: Wikipedia
Christopher Robin Milne
Christopher Robin Milne was the son of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his fathers WinniethePooh stories and in two books of poems.....
Source: Wikipedia
Alexander Cadogan
Sir Alexander Montagu George Cadogan OM GCMG KCB was a British diplomat and civil servant. He was Permanent UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs from 1938 to 1946. His long tenure of the Permanent Secretarys office makes him one of the central figures of British policy before and during the Second World War. His diaries are a source of great value and give a sharp sense of the man and his life. Like most senior officials at the Foreign Office, he was bitterly critical of the appeasement policies....
Source: Wikipedia
Norman Cota
Norman Daniel Dutch Cota, Sr. was a senior United States Army officer who fought during World War II. Cota was heavily involved in the planning and execution of the invasion of Normandy, in June 1944, codenamed Operation Neptune, and the subsequent Battle of Normandy. He is famous for rallying demoralized troops on Omaha Beach, by engaging in combat with them and personally leading their first successful breakout, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions there.....
Source: Wikipedia
Ernest Thesiger
Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, CBE was an English stage and film actor. He is especially wellremembered for his performance as Doctor Septimus Pretorius in James Whales film Bride of Frankenstein .....
Source: Wikipedia
Douglas Hogg
Douglas Martin Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham PC QC is a British politician and barrister. A member of the Conservative Party he served in the Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1995 to 1997, and was a Member of Parliament from 1979 to 2010.....
Source: Wikipedia
Albert DeSalvo
Albert Henry DeSalvo was a criminal in Boston, Massachusetts, who confessed to being the Boston Strangler, the murderer of thirteen women in the Boston area from 1962 to 1964. DeSalvo was not imprisoned for these murders, however, but for a series of rapes. His murder confession has been disputed and debate continues as to which crimes DeSalvo had actually committed.....
Source: Wikipedia
Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler is a name given to the murderer of 13 women in the Boston area, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, in the early 1960s. The crimes were attributed to Albert DeSalvo based on his confession, details revealed in court during a separate case, and DNA evidence linking him to the last murder victim. Since then, parties investigating the crimes have suggested that the murders were committed by more than one person.....
Source: Wikipedia
Ethel Whibley
Ethel Whibley, ne Birnie Philip , was the sisterinlaw of James McNeill Whistler. Ethel was a secretary to Whistler who used Ethel as a model for a number of fulllength portraits painted during the period 1888 to the mid1890s. Her sister Beatrice married James McNeill Whistler in 1888, following the death of her first husband Edward William Godwin. In 1896 Ethel married the writer Charles Whibley. Her sister Rosalind Birnie Philip subsequently acted as secretary to Whistler and was appointed Wh....
Source: Wikipedia
