Little Shelford historical people

This section about historical people with Little Shelford links include:

Tom Bacon who created the fuel cell for the Apollo 11 moon rocket at his home in Little Shelford.

Arthur Dunn was one of the last amateurs to captain the England football team.

Edward Maitland, from Little Shelford,  was on the first airship flight across the Atlantic in 1919.

Sid Dockerill won the DCM (distinguished conduct medal) twice during World War One for leading a bayonet charge on The Somme.

The grave of a Little Shelford soldier has become a shrine in India.

Thomas Blossom, who was one of the founding fathers of America, was born in Little Shelford in 1580.

James Meade was the winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences.

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See old photos of Little Shelford people across history here.

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The historical people featured in this section include:​

• William Alabaster, who was Chaplain to James 1st and died in Little Shelford

• Tom Bacon, who invented a fuel cell used on Apollo 11 on its moon mission

• Thomas Blossom, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America born in Little Shelford

• Beris Burton-Fanning, a nurse burnt to death during the First World War buried in Little Shelford churchyard

• James Coward, the Australian spitfire ace who lived in Little Shelford

• John Craxton, the painter who spent time in Little Shelford in World War Two

• Sir Charles Daniel, controller of the Royal Navy who lived in Little Shelford

• Sid Dockerill,  won the Military Medal Medal and then the Distinguished Conduct Medal twice in World War One

• Arthur Dunn, who captained the England football team

• Anne Fettiplace, 12x great grandmother of an American president born in Little Shelford

• Lawrence Johnston, who designed the gardens at Hidcote

• Thomas Babbington Macaulay, former Secretary of War who went to school in Little Shelford

• Edward Maitland, who was on the first flight over the Atlantic in 1919

• Richard Marsh, who trained racehorses for two kings

• James Meade, who won the Nobel prize for Economics

• Ernest Meadows, killed in the Battle of Arras in World War One

• Ian Ponsford, a spitfire pilot in WW2 born in Little Shelford

• Sir Gordon Sutherland , former director of the National Physics Laboratory buried in Little Shelford

• TheauraJohn Tany, a 17th century prophet

• The Wale family, the village grandees for over 400 years

• John Pares Wilson won the Military Cross in World War One

• Henry Wriothesley, patron of William Shakespeare who lived in the Manor House

• Thomas Wriothesley, witness at the execution of Charles 1st

• Arthur Melbourne- Cooper - film-maker

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Read about modern-day well-known people in Little Shelford