Famous Wessaxens

It is hoped that we may be able to open an actual Wessex Hall of Fame in Chard, Somerset in 2007. Whilst not on the scale of the Walhalla in Bavaria it will commemorate the lives of famous Wessaxens. We would appreciate any assistance from the living listed below, or relatives of the deceased. We are hoping to collect possesions, and or writings of those enrolled in the Hall. So if you know any of those listed or have anyinformation please contact cerdic@wessex.me.uk

Berkshire	Chris Tarrant \| Edward III \| Edward Pusey \| Elizabeth Taylor \| Geraldine McEwan \| Henry VI \| Howard Davies \| Humphrey Lyttelton \| Humphrey Lyttleton \| Kate Winslett \| Louis Mountbatten \| Michael Bond \| Peter Osgood \| Raj Persaud \| Ranulph Fiennes \| Richard Blackmore \| Ricky Gervais \| Sam Mendes \| Sir Donald Francis Tovey \| Sir John Herschel \| Stanley Spencer \| Sydney Camm \| Thomas Hughes \| Tina Brown \| Will Young \| William Laud \|
Devon	Agatha Christie \| Alfred Wallis \| Beryl Cook \| Charles Babbage \| Charles Kingsley \| Chris Martin \| Cliff Bastin \| David Owen \| Edward Calvert \| Edward Wood \| Francis Drake \| Francis Chichester \| Franics Hayman \| Frederick Jane \| George Passmore \| Guy Burgess \| Hannah Cowley \| John Bowring \| John Churchill Marlborough \| John Gay \| John Hawkins \| John Surman \| Joseph Glanvill \| Michael Foot \| Peter Cook \| R S Hawker \| Redvers Buller \| Richard Burton \| Robert Falcon Scott \| Samuel Taylor Coleridge \| Sir Donald Sinden \| Sir Edmund Leach \| Sir Joshua Reynolds \| Sir Rex Richards \| Sue Barker \| Thomas Bodley \| Walter Raleigh \| Wayne Sleep \| William Bligh \| William Carpenter \| William Clifford \| William Cory \| William Gifford \| William Jessop \| William Temple \|
Dorset	Anthony Blunt \| Anthony Shaftesbury \| Christopher Chataway \| James Thornhill \| John Gould \| John Le Carre \| Matthew Prior \| Percy Gilchrist \| Radclyffe Hall \| Richard van der Riet Woolley \| Samuel Hood \| Thomas Bell \| Thomas Hardy \| Thomas Peacock \| Thomas Sydenham \| Verney Cameron \| Virginia Wade \| William Talbot \|
Gloucestershire	Anna Ford \| Arthur 'Bomber' Harris \| Beatrice Webb \| Brian Jones \| Charles Hyne \| Charles Wheatstone \| David Hemery \| Dennis Potter \| Dick King-Smith \| Eddie the Eagle Edwards \| Edith How-Martyn \| Edward Jenner \| Edward Codrington \| Edward Wilson \| Ernest Wilson \| Fitzroy Raglan \| Frederic Bartlett \| Frederick Handley Page \| Frederick Sanger \| George Whitefield \| Gustav Holst \| Henry Green \| Herbert Howells \| Ivor Gurney \| James Bradley \| Jimmy Young \| John Biddle \| John Keble \| John Taylor \| Laurie Lee \| Mark Phillips \| Matthew Hale \| Ralph Vaughan Williams \| Richard O'Brien \| Robert Hardy \| Rowland Biffen \| Simon Pegg \| Sir Bernard Charles Lovell \| Sir Ralph Richardson \| W E Henley \| Wilfrid Hyde-White \| William Hadow \| William Tyndale \|
Hampshire	Allen Jones \| Amanda Holden \| Benny Hill \| Charles Clarke \| Charles Dickens \| Charlie Dimmock \| Clare Balding \| Claude Grahame-White \| Craig David \| Cyril Garbett \| Edward Abraham \| Edward Hargraves \| George Balfour \| George Kenneth Younger \| George Meredith \| George Wither \| Henry III \| Howard Brenton \| Howard Jones \| Ian McEwan \| Isambard Kingdom Brunel \| Jane Austen \| Jim Callaghan \| John Arlott \| John Everett Millais \| John Gilpin \| John Gurdon \| John Jellicoe \| John Stonehouse \| Keith Harris \| Ken Russell \| Lancelot Hogben \| Liz Hurley \| Martin Freeman \| Mary Warnock \| Nicholas Lyndhurst \| Olivia Manning \| Pam Gems \| Peter Sellers \| Samuel Gardiner \| Simon Gray \| Terry Hands \| Thomas Warton \| Walter Besant \| Wayne Bridge \| William Gilbert \| William Petty \|
Kent	Alec McCowen \| Alfred Deller \| Alfred E Coppard \| Alfred Whitehead \| Anna Atkins \| Aphra Behn \| Brenda Blethyn \| Cecil Powell \| Christopher Marlowe \| Christopher Smart \| Dame Antoinette Sibley \| David Frost \| David Gower \| David Harvey \| David Jenkins \| Derek Barton \| Edward Heath \| Edwin Arnold \| F Tennyson Jesse \| Fiona Phillips \| Francis Walsingham \| Frank Muir \| Freddie Laker \| Frederick Forsyth \| Geoffrey Rootes \| George Gipps \| George Grote \| George Young \| Gertrude Hermes \| Graeme Clark \| H G Wells \| Hattie Jacques \| Henry Hardinge \| Jack Dee \| James Wolfe \| Jodie Kidd \| John Wallis \| Joseph R Ackerley \| Joss Stone \| Katherine Hamnett \| Kathleen Courtney \| Keith Richards \| Kelly Holmes \| Lionel Johnson \| M R James \| Mackenize Crook \| Malcolm Campbell \| Mary Quant \| Michael Powell \| Mick Jagger \| Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) \| Orlando Bloom \| Quentin Blake \| Richard Bennett \| Robert Bridges \| Siegfried Sassoon \| Sir Eric Rideal \| Sir Henry Tizard \| Sir Philip Sidney \| Stanley Hooker \| Stephen Hales \| Steve Backley \| Thom Gunn \| Trevor Howard \| Tyrone Guthrie \| Vita Sackville-West \| Wally Hammond \| William Harvey \| William Hazlitt \| William Penney \| William Pitt (The Younger) \| Zandra Rhodes \|
Oxfordshire	Alec Jeffreys \| Alfred the Great \| Basil Blackwell \| Charles Abbot Colchester \| David Cameron \| Deborah Warner \| Dorothy Richardson \| Dorothy Sayers \| Edward the Confessor \| Fred Clarke \| Geoffrey Burbidge \| Herbert Giles \| Hugh Laurie \| Humphrey Searle \| Jacqueline du Pre \| Jessica Mitford John \| John Holt \| John Marston \| Joseph Butler \| Lennox Berkeley \| Lester Piggott \| Lord Randolph Henry Churchill \| Martin Amis \| Matthew Pinsent \| Mike Hailwood \| Orlando Gibbons \| P D James \| Patrick Steptoe \| Philip Webb \| Richard the Lionheart \| Sir Alan Hodgkin \| Stephen Hawking \| Thomas Harriot \| Tim Henman \| Warren Hastings \| William Smith \| Winston Churchill \| \|
Somerset	Arthur C Clarke \| Auberon Waugh \| Benjamin Baker \| Edward Harper \| Elizabeth Goudge \| Ernest Bevin \| Harold Gilman \| Hartley Coleridge \| Henry Fielding \| Jenny Agutter \| Jenson Button \| Jill Dando \| John Cleese \| John Harding \| John Pym \| Keith Floyd \| Mary Rand \| Peter Haggett \| Richard Chorley \| Robert Blake \| Roger Bacon \| Sir Henry Irving \| Thomas Young \| William Dampier \|
Sussex	Alan Minter \| Allison Fisher \| Angela Carter \| Angus Wilson \| Anita Roddick \| Aubrey Beardsley \| Cecil Hurst \| Charles B Cochran \| Clara Butt \| Clementina Black \| David Garnett \| David Hare \| Edward Hall \| Emma Bunton \| Eric Gill \| Frederick Hopkins \| Frederick Soddy \| Gilbert Ryle \| Hammond Innes \| James Hannington \| Jamie Theakston \| Jo Brand \| John Fuller \| John Nye \| Katie Price \| Leo Sayer \| Margery Ashby \| Max Miller \| Natasha Kaplinsky \| Nigel Kennedy \| Patrick Hamilton \| Paul Scofield \| Percy Bysshe Shelley \| Piers Morgan \| Richard Alston \| Richard Challoner \| Richard Cobden \| Rumer Godden \| Simon Cowell \| Simon Fuller \| Sir Martin Ryle \| Sophia Jex-Blake \| Steve Ovett \| Suggs \| Thomas Gage \| Tony Crosland \| Tony Hawks \| Wilfrid Blunt \| William Collins \| William Thorpe \|
Wiltshire	Billie Piper \| Christopher Hinton \| Christopher Wren \| Desmond Morris \| Diana Dors \| Douglas Hurd \| Edward Clarendon \| James Blunt \| Johnny Francome \| Joseph Addison \| Melinda Messenger \| Michael Crawford \| Richard Jefferies \| Robert Morley \| Sir Isaac Pitman \| Thomas Hancock \| Thomas Hobbes \| Thomas Willis \| Will Carling \| William Beckford \|

The Walhalla, Hall of Fame and Honour is a hall of fame located on the Danube River 10 km from Regensburg, in Bavaria, Germany.

It was the idea of 20 year old crown prince Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1807, at a time when German states were defeated and occupied by Napoleon. It should provide a place for the commemoration of great figures and events from Ethnic German history, covering (then) 1800 years, with the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in the year 9 marking the beginning.

Even though the Valhalla of Norse mythology is the home for those slain gloriously in battle, the Walhalla was intended not only for warriors but also for scientists, writers, clerics, and expressedly for females also.

Decades before the German Empire was founded in 1871, 'German' was taken in the sense of Germanic, since Gothic, Langobardic, Anglo-Saxon and Swiss German figures are included, as well as persons who gained their fame mainly in other countries or for non-German governments.

For the coronation of king Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1825, already 60 busts were finished. In 1826 he commissioned the temple above the Danube near Regensburg, modelled after the Parthenon in Athens. On the Walhalla's inauguration on 18 October 1842, there were 96 busts, plus 64 plaques for those persons or events of which no portrait was available to model a sculpture after. As of German tongue was the main criterion for the original 160 persons representing 1800 years, the king included persons from modern-day Sweden, Austria, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland and the Baltic States in his selection.

As successor to the King, the government of Bavaria decides on additions. Proposals can be made by anybody, but only persons who are dead for at least 20 years are eligible. Only 31 busts were added since on an irregular basis, for a total of 191 of which 12 are female.

The following Anglo-Saxons are included:
Alfred the Great - first King of England
Egbert of Wessex (-839), considered the first de facto King of England, grandfather of Alfred the Great
Plus: Wilhelm III. of Orange – King of England, Scotland, and Ireland

My name is Nick Xylas, and I was chairman of Wessex Society from 1999 to 2003, when I moved to South Carolina, USA in order to marry my American sweetheart. But I have not forgotten my roots, and so I decided to produce a website dedicated to the region that I was born and raised in. However I have now donated my writings for the www.wessex.me.uk website. This page is one of the pages that I compiled. The page is under construction as it is hoped to put both pictures and click throughs to other websites ( for full details about each Wessaxen listed).

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