Reverend Willoughby Bean

Willoughby Bean was baptised at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, in 1801. The son of Willoughby and Elizabeth, he had ten siblings, Elizabeth, Harriet, John, Charlotte, Henry, Henrietta, Alexander, Anne, Susan and Maria. Their father, a major in the Coldstream Guards had been capture by the French in the Napoleonic wars and was forced to sit out the remainder of the war, in the company of his family, at Amboise in France.

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Bill Foggitt

Bill Foggitt (1913-2004) achieved national fame as an amateur weather forecaster, whose predictions were often more accurate than those of the professionals

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Pathmanathan Ramanathan

Pathmanathan Ramanathan (1932-2006) was a leading Sri Lankan lawyer and judge.

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Edward Shotter

Edward Frank (Ted) Shotter (1933-2019) was Dean of Rochester and a pioneer in the study of medical ethics.

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