Blue Plaques - Exeter Civic Society

Abraham Cann

1794-1864

Champion of England at Devonshire Wrestling

Agnes Prest

died 1557

Religious martyr, burned at the stake

Arthur Kempe

1812 – 1871

Surgeon and philanthropist

Cecil “Charlie” Brewer and Mary the pigeon

1922-1985

Wartime pigeon breeder whose homing pigeon Mary won the Dickin Medal for bravery

Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870

Novelist

Colonel David Collins

1756 – 1810

First Lieutenant Governor of Tasmania

Dame Georgiana Buller

1926-1953

Pioneer of services for disabled people

David Evans

c. 1764 – 1847

Supporter of universal suffrage

Dr Charles Newton Lovely

1864-1947

Exeter GP and Founding Chairman of Exeter Workmen's Dwellings Company

Dr Margaret Jackson

1964-1982

Pioneer of birth control and fertility medicine

Dr Peter Hennis

1802 – 1833

Hero of Exeter cholera outbreak 1832; killed in duel

Edith Splatt

1911-1945

First Woman Exeter City Councillor

Elsie Knocker, Baroness de T’Serclaes

1884-1978

Nurse on the front line in Pervyse, Belgium 1914-1918

Frederick John Widgery

1861-1942

Landscape painter and Freeman and Alderman of Exeter

General Charles George Gordon

1833 – 1885

Hero of Khartoum

George Gissing

1892-1893

Novelist and Writer

George Harris

1775 – 1810

First Deputy Surveyor General of Tasmania

George Oliver

1781 – 1861

Author and priest

Grace Darling

1815 – 1842

Sea rescue heroine

Harry Hems

1842 – 1916

Ecclesiastical sculptor

Harry Weslake

1897 – 1978

Motor engineer

Ivy Johns

1910-2007

First Labour Woman Mayor of Exeter and champion for the people of Wonford

John and Elizabeth Dickens

1839

Parents of Charles Dickens, the original "Mr Micawber"

John Patch

1723 – 1787

Exeter surgeon

John Simcoe

1752 – 1806

First Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada

Mary Patricia Susan Willcocks

1915-1941

Author, Lecturer and Suffragist

Nicholas Hilliard

1547-1619

Goldsmith and Artist, painter of portrait miniatures at the courts of Elizabeth 1st and James 1st

Rachel Allen

1924-1930

First Labour Woman Exeter City Councillor

Richard ‘Dick’ Pym

1893-1988

The Fisherman Footballer

Richard Douglas Sandford

1891-1918

Submariner, awarded VC in World War 1

Richard Hooker

1554 – 1600

Writer and theologian

Robert Tosswill Veitch

1823 - 1885

Horticulturist and Nurseryman

Sabine Baring-Gould

1834-1924

Writer, folk song collector and parson.

Sir Redvers Buller, VC

1839 – 1908

Soldier and landowner - "He saved Natal"

Sir William Webb Follett

1796 – 1845

Attorney General and Exeter MP

Sisters of the Community of St. Wilfrid

1866 – 2004

Teachers and nuns

Stephen Simpson

1869-1954

Engineer and Inventor

The Devon “Witches”

died 1682 & 1685

Last people in England to be executed for witchcraft

Theodore Bayley Hardy VC, DSO, MC

1863 – 1918

Army chaplain, awarded VC

Thomas Benet

died c. 1531

Protestant religious martyr

Thomas Bodley

1545 – 1613

Founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Thomas Latimer

1803 – 1888

Campaigning journalist

Violet and Dame Irene Vanbrugh

1867-1942 and 1872-1949

Stage and screen actresses

W G Hoskins

1908 – 1992

Historian and the man behind "The House That Moved"

William Kingdon Clifford

1845 – 1879

Mathematician and philosopher

William Miles

1800 – 1881

Authority on animal welfare