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1816-1911
• 83 St George's Road
• St Helen's Road
1864-1943
Brewer, industrialist and landowner. Chairman of Kemp Town Brewery. Born and died in Brighton. He bought the Maresfield Estate near Uckfield in September 1924 for £61,714. It has been confiscated by the government from Count Alexander Münster in 1915 under the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy laws. Abbey soon sold some properties to tenants and others, then he and later his executors sold the estate in numerous building plots from 1933 onwards. He bought Sedgwick Park, Horsham in 1932, and this was his residence at the time of his death; he also bought Condover Hall in Shropshire in the 1930s but never lived there. He left £787,648 4s 10d (equivalent to £25m in current terms).Image: portrait by Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley (Brighton & Hove Museums and Art Galleries)
• 83 St George's Road
• St Helen's Road
(d 1886)
Widow of James Scarlett, first Baron Abinger (1794-1844), chief baron of the treasury. Image: portrait by Frances Elizabeth Grace [Brighton & Hove Museums and Art Galleries]
1784-1838
1904-1977
Composer, notably of more than 4o film scores and best known for the Warsaw Concerto featured in the film Dangerous Moonlight (1941), lived in Brighton from 1960 until his death.1792-1849
Became Queen Adelaide on the accession to the throne of her husband William IV in 1830.• Royal Pavilion, Old Steine
• Queen's Park
1803-1890
Born in Hanover, son of the city's chief rabbi. Through his acquaintance with Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, seventh son of George III and Viceroy of the Kingdom of Hanover, he was recommended to apply for the post of Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, to which he was elected in 1844. He was a founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty and Better Protection of Children (NSPCC). It was during his rabbinate that Jewish emancipation was substantially achieved in the United Kingdom.1805-1882
Thriller and adventure story writer.1819-1861
Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840.• Albert Road
1842-1907
Born in Sunderland and grew up in Chingford, Essex. Educated at Harrow School, where he was a keen footballer. He first captained England in 1875, having been involved in arranging the earliest international matches from 1870 as secretary of the Football Association, in which role he also instituted the FA Cup. He played cricket for Essex and then edited James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual from 1871 to 1900 and the Cricket newspaper for a similar period. He died in Brighton.
Princess of Wales and consort of the future Edward VII.• Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Dyke Road
1908-1990
Actress who made around 50 films on both sides of the Atlantic from 1931. She appeared in 26 films in the first five years of the decade, taking the lead in most of them. She was under contract to MGM from 1933 but returned to England in 1938 after suing the studio for replacing her in The Citadel. Later in her career she appeared on television panel shows and advertising magazine programmes in the early days of ITV. She lived on the seafront at Hove.1810-1877
1893-1982
Famous as the partner of Bud Flanagan and a member of the Crazy Gang, made 12 comedy films in that context between 1932 and 1946, with a final 13th Crazy Gang film outing in 1960. Okay for Sound (1937), which had run successfully on stage at the Brighton Hippodrome the previous year, is the only film on which he had a writing credit. He and Flanagan also appeared in the classic documentary Listen to Britain (1942).
Actor who made his stage début in 1899 and thereafter toured extensively in the United States and South Africa between appearances in the West End and on Broadway. His first film part, in Caesar and Cleopatra, did not come until 1945 at the age of 65 and was uncredited. He was credited in the three other films he made between then and 1951. The son of a butcher and farmer, in early childhood he lived at 24 Market Street. He was educated privately in London. In later life he lived at Haywards Heath.• 8 Clifton Terrace, Brighton [later family home]
The family were prominent landowners in the Hangleton/Aldrington area.AMHERST, Jeffrey 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797) (right in a painting by Joshua Reynolds) was commander-in-chief of the army and, following successes in the French and Indian War in North American, was the first British governor-general of the colonies that became Canada.
AMHERST, William Pitt, 1st Earl Amherst of Arracan (1773-1857) (below right), nephew of Jeffrey Amherst,
led a diplomatic delegation to China in 1816 and is believed to have provided illustrations of Chinese buildings that influenced the Prince Regent in the decoration of the Royal Pavilion (see Old Steine).1843-1935
1Walford (1919): 27
1793-1869
Declared an outlaw on two writs in 1851 (for non-attendance to answer civil actions for debt and thereby was removed from the protection of the law). He was photographed by the pioneers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson in the 1840s.1807-1853
• 15 Devonshire Place [residence 1845-1853]
1777-1863
Third (second surviving) son of William Attree. Solicitor. In 1825 he bought the land that became Queen's Park and built a house there, where he died.1749-1810
• 8-9 Ship Street
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