PROMINENT HEATONIANS

The following are some of the many people associated with Heaton whose lives or achievements are considered to be nationally or internationally significant. Click on their name to find out more about them.

Gladstone ADAMS

(1880-1966)

Photographer and inventor

Lord William ARMSTRONG

(1810-1900)

engineer and landowner

Sir Ove ARUP

(1895-1988)

structural engineer

Francis ‘Tom’ BACON

(1904-1992)

physicist and engineer

Neil BARTLETT

(1932-2008)

chemist

Lucien Emile BOULLEMIER

(1877-1949)

ceramic artist and footballer

Chas CHANDLER

(1938-1996)

musician

Jack COMMON

(1903-1968)

writer

Julia DARLING

(1956-2005)

writer

James Douglas EDGAR

(1885-1920)

golfer

Arthur Edward GEORGE

(1875-1951)

aviator and motor racer

Wilfred Augustine HANDLEY

(1901-1975)

inventor and entrepreneur

Florence Nightingale HARRISON-BELL

(1865-1948)

campaigner and social reformer

William ‘Billy’ HOGG

(1879-1937)

footballer

John Henry HOLMES

(1857-1935)

electrical engineer and inventor

Charles HUTTON

(1737-1823)

mathematician

Dorothy LAWSON nee Constable

(c1580-1632)

Catholic recusant

Edward LAWSON

(1873-1955)

soldier

Alfred Kingsley LAWRENCE

(1893-1975)

artist

Kate Elizabeth OGG

(1887-1919)

teacher and nurse

Sir Vincent Litchfield RAVEN

(1858-1934)

railway engineer

Edith STONEY

(1869-1938)

mathematician and medical physicist

Gerard STONEY

(1863-1942)

engineer

Mårten TRIEWALD

(1691-1747)

scientist and engineer

Elsie TU nee Hume

(1913-2012)

politician and campaigner for social justice

Colin VEITCH

(1881-1938)

footballer, actor, politician

George William WALLER

(1855-1900)

cyclist

Alexander WILKIE

(1850-1928)

trades unionist and member of parliament

A further list of people associated with Heaton about whom we’ve written will soon appear here.