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The History of Tettenhall
People of Tettenhall A - I |
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Badger, William |
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Banks,
Edward |
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In 1774 described as “of
this parish and usher (or teacher) to the Charity School”.
Thought to have started a school in the village, where many children
could not read or write, around 1776. |
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Local
poet, early 20th Century. Responsible for poems such as “The
Churchyard at Tettenhall” |
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Blythe, John |
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Brereton,
Sir William |
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Keeper of Tettenhall’s
gate who in 1844 was fined 40 shillings for delaying the Holyhead
mail coach for up to seven minutes each morning! |
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In
1643, the Parliamentary general, whose raid on Wolverhampton
and Tettenhall, damaged St Peter’s Church, stripping lead
off the roof and threatened to remove a famous bronze statue
and melt it down for munitions. |
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Brindley, James |
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Chaceporc,
Peter |
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18th
Century almost legendary canal builder whose new waterway brought
fresh prosperity to Tettenhall. He had a reported habit of going
to bed when a problem occurred and not getting up again until
it was solved. The Swan and the Mermaid pubs were named in honour
of his new waterway. |
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13th
Century Dean of Tettenhall. Fined for hunting the King’s deers! |
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Critchlow, George |
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Congreve,
Thomas |
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19th Century Headmaster of the Church of England School, Tettenhall
Wood for more than 40 years. “A headmaster of the old school
who did so much to make England”. |
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Proposed
as early as 1717 to develop the two Tettenhall waterways, the
Penk and the Smestow with an artificial waterway.
Father of the inventor of the famous Congreve Rocket. |
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Dekyn
Family |
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Notorious
family who lived in Tettenhall at the start of the 15th Century
and did their best to keep the population
of the village down. Henry Dekyn was wanted for killing three
people, his brother John was wanted for murder and their father,
Adam, while armed with a coat of mail, sword and dagger was accused
of beating, ill treating and horribly maiming one John de Barnhurst
of Tetenhalle. The family went to ground and over time suffered
various fates. Henry was killed during a Sheriff’s arrest
but Adam was never found. |
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BCotes, Sir Merton
Russell |
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Duncalfe,
Jack Carpenter |
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Son of a Tettenhall
publican - ‘Gentleman’ Cotes - he
became a famous hotelier and founder of the Russell-Cotes Museum
in Bournemouth. |
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Born
in Codsall who was accused of stealing a bible. He denied this
saying that if it were true his hands would
rot off. They duly did and he died in great misery years later.
His story probably led to the creation of Tettenhall’s
Armless Woman myth about a seamstress who had a similar fate. |
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Fowler, Henry Hartley |
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The first Lord of Wolverhampton, a lawyer who entered politics
and rose to become Secretary of State for the Colonies. He married
the sister of Colonel Thorneycroft of Tettenhall Towers, and
one of their daughters was the Victorian novelist Ellen Thorneycroft
Fowler, author of Fuel of Fire. |
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Hickman, Sir Alfred |
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Member
of Parliament and iron foundry industrialist. His family also
owned Wergs Hall, Wightwick Hall and Tinacre
Hall. |
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Harrison, Richard |
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Had been active
in the King’s garrison at Lichfield during the English
Civil War and was made the Minister at Tettenhall.
But some local residents famously successfully petitioned Oliver Cromwell
to have him removed as a former Royalist supporter. |
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Hinkes, Miss |
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Holyoake,
Francis |
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Theodosia
Strong minded village benefactor who gave two of her fields for
gardens for the poor and land at Tettenhall Wood for a school. |
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Tettenhall
resident, solicitor and founder of a bank, was chairman of the
Wolverhampton Turnpike Trust, the body responsible
for major changes to the route of the old London to Holyhead
Road through the village. The road had been turnpiked in 1749. |
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