Category: Famous People

For most of the 20th century, the name Dennis was associated with fire engines, dust carts and buses. Dennis vehicles based on the Woodbridge Road, to the north of Guildford, was the town’s largest employer and responsible for the creation of an entire residential area known as Dennisville. High Street shop and Rodboro factory The…

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice throught the Looking glass is buried in Guildford. He also owned a house, Chestnuts by the Castle Grounds. Two statues commemorate his association with the town and Guildford Museum possesses a number of artefacts associated with the author. Alice in Wonderland was published in…

George Abbot (1562-1633) is arguably Guildford’s most famous son. He was born and educated in the town, became Archbishop of Canterbury of translator of the King James I Authorised Version of the Bible in 1611. Note only did he achieve success and fame but he left his mark on the town in the form of…

Despite Alan Turing’s important historical links with Bletchley and Wilmslow, the codebreaker had enduring links with Guildford. The computing pioneer lived from the age of 15, at the family home in Ennismore Avenue, near Stoke Park and, until his death in 1954. Although his work took him to other parts of the country but he…