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My name is Trudy Kirk. I have lived in Gosport my entire life and in Alverstoke since 1980 with my husband and two sons. My second son, Greg Kirk
is a World Champion skeleton bobsleigh athlete. He is currently British number 2 and is going to the Olympics in Italy, Turin 2006 and onto Vancouver 2010 in Canada. I would like to nominate my son for the title of 'famous people from Gosport'. He currently lives in Bath and travels the world competing, but is regularly in the national press and European television (Eurosport and European sport channels) for his achievments.
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Here's one for your famous persons list .... Kevin Eldon - his real name is Kevin Robinson. For some more info: go to the BBC web site and search BBC for Kevin Eldon |
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- I would like to nominate my wife Doreen Haggard she wrote a book on the Bourkes Parakeet and had it published in 1997 by TFH Kingdom books it sold very well indeed all over the world. You can find proof of this if you go to amazon web site and type in either Dorren Haggard or Bourkes Parakeet...Many thanks Andy Haggard |
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- Major-General Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom, RE, KCB, Bart. He was a leading light in the first Ordnance Survey of Ireland and later became under-secretary of Ireland (1853-68). The day-to-day head of the British administration in Dublin Castle. He was knighted for his services in the late 1860s. In his final years he returned to Hampshire. My interest in him stems from my research work on the OS of Ireland and he was a key person in my PhD thesis. I propose to publish his private papers (which are in Dublin) and write a biography of this remarkable man who was such a friend to Ireland for more than 50 years. Nominated by Dr Patrick McWilliams |
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Richard Dawson -( Actor - Hogan’s Heroes) According to Lloyd John’s Mother he lived on that housing estate by San Diego Rd. and was a bus conductor for the Provincial Bus Company prior to marrying Diana Dors- Nominated by Lloyd John British Columbia, Canada. Lynn adds - His real name was Colin Emm,he lived in Durley Rd, I can't remember what number. |
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Nat Gonella (Jazz Musician) Nominated by Gerry Williams, Nat Gonella Square is the in the area of the Town Hall and the is a memorial at the corner of Gordon Road and Bury Road. |
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Jack Hargreaves - (TV Presenter country programmes) Lloyd John and his mate ran into him on Staplers Reach (off Rowner Road) one day. He was loading some stuff into the back of his car, he said that he lived there. Nominated by Lloyd John British Columbia, Canada |
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Mike Hugg (of Manfred Mann band of the 60’s) son of the jewellers in the High Street, Gosport. Nominated by Janet Cook |
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Trevor Jesty (cricketer) Nominated by Ian Jeffery, I had just got off of the bus from Southampton, back from work. I was walking to Bury Cross and I saw someone I though I knew, say at school, fortunately, I realised who he was before I reached him. |
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- I am seeking information about my ancestor James Holroyd, friend of William Wales, the mathematician and astronomer. He died in Gosport in November 1785, leaving his "charts and other instruments of navigation" to one of Wm. Wales' sons. It is therefore safe to assume that he was a sailor or connected with matters nautical in some way, perhaps as an instructor at a naval school. I should be most grateful for any suggested leads! James Holroyd. Chester. (Added 28th October 2007) |
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-Around 1810 - 1816 Abraham FAURE born 1795 and from Stellenbosch in South Africa went to study for the ministry in Gosport under Dr David Bogue, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. At the age of 27, he was appointed minister to the congregation of the great church at Cape Town. His missionary zeal in a country of people dispersed over large territories, dominated education reform in the widest sense. In a packed long life, he started a seminary for training new ministers, founded schools and colleges at all levels of learning, established libraries and provided South Africa with national and local newspapers. Apart from all this, were his weekly thundering sermons in church. His work had a lasting effect on South Africa. Could you tell me anything about Dr David Bogue and his school for the ministry in Gosport, and/or refer me to sources of information? Would there still be records of personnel, pupils and subjects taught? There was a new urge for missionary work at the end of the 18th century, with much activity by the London Missionary Society. There was scope for this in South Africa. Abraham's father, who was a prominent figure in the Cape, gave his sons a sound education. Two were destined for the ministry, and Abraham was sent to Gosport. Later, when Napolen had been defeated in Russia, Abraham continued his education at the Utrecht university in the free again Netherlands. Apart from his great interest in education and libraries, he did much to promote missionary work in the expanding occupied new territories in north-eastern South Africa. Tony Faure Netherlands (20/1/08) |
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