famous emsworth people
Sir Peter Blake - Yachtsman, buried at nearby Warblington Church.
Nicholas Lyndhurst - Actor, best known for playing Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses.
Denise Black - Actress, best known for playing Denise Osbourne in the ITV1 soap Coronation Street and Hazel in Queer As Folk in 1999/2000.
Tim Gudgin (born November
1929) is a
British radio presenter and voiceover artist. He is
best known for announcing the
football results on the BBC sports programme
Final Score. He was educated at the independent
Whitgift School in
South Croydon, London, but did not go to university.
He succeeded
Len Martin after his death in 1995. He had
previously worked on the programme announcing the
rugby and
racing results. He retired
on 19 November 2011.
Match of the Day presenter
Gary Lineker described Gudgin as "one of the most
familiar voices in sport" and "a quintessential part of
Saturday afternoons in this country".
Gudgin has broadcast with the
BBC since 1952. His voice has been heard on the
BBC Radio 4 quiz
Quote... Unquote,
Housewives' Choice,
Top of the Form and
Friday Night is Music Night, amongst others.
Interviewed in November 2011 Gudgin said, "I did an
in-vision commercial for Square Deal
Surf which bought me the first house I ever had
without a mortgage, so that was well worth it."
Gudgin is a
Crystal Palace supporter and lives in
Emsworth, Hampshire.
Sir Mark Evelyn Heath - Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad (1975–1978), the first British Ambassador to Holy See (1982–1985) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government (1985–1988).
Lt-Gen Sir Brian Horrocks (1895-1985) - the prominent WWII general, commander of XXX Corps at Arnhem, retired from the army after the war as a result of wounds received during the earlier Tunisian campaign. Described by Eisenhower as “the outstanding British general under Montgomery,” he was Black Rod in the House of Lords 1949-63, writer of military histories, and more widely known for presenting several TV war documentaries.
His home in Emsworth was the Poor House adjacent to St James’s church. When his daughter married John Herbert, son of A P Herbert, he gave the couple his cottage on the Town Millpond. In wartime, General Montgomery used to refer to him as “Jorrocks,” a nod to the good-natured sporty character in R S Surtees’ Victorian stories – and he was similarly known for his affability in Emsworth. Read an extract from Lt-General Horrocks' autobiography HERE
Lee Spencer - Musician, music theorist and record producer.
Malcolm Waldron -Footballer, former Southampton, Burnley and Portsmouth player.
William Whitcher - Former Hampshire cricketer.
George Wilder - Former Hampshire and Sussex cricketer whose name is inscribed on a stone at Emsworth Post Office dated 1906.
P.G. Wodehouse - Writer - see PG Wodehouse in Emsworth and Wodehouse’s Emsworth portrait (1919)
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