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People in History

Discover the notable figures who shaped Redhill and the surrounding area. Search by name or browse by category to learn about the people of our community.

Alec Harley Reeves

engineering

The Redhill inventor you've probably never heard of made modern digital communication possible

Eleanour Rohde

arts

A prolific garden writer and broadcaster who lived in Croydon Road, Reigate

Eliza Cook

arts

Did one of Victorian Britain's much loved poets once live in Redhill?

Fanny Woodhams

politics

Redhill's Millicent Fanny Woodhams was an artist, teacher and pioneering suffragist

Jack Sutton

engineering

Jack was a Victorian electrical engineer who managed the electricity supply at the Gatton Estate

James Henry Pullen

arts

James Pullen, known as 'the genius of Earlswood', created extraordinary models in the Victorian age

Joan Cather

politics

A woman who endured force feeding in her fight for equal voting rights for women

John Hassell

arts

A prolific Georgian watercolourist who meticulously documented the Surrey landscape

Lottie Stephens

civic

A woman of astonishing energy who shaped modern Merstham

Richard Carrington

science

Richard Carrington's Redhill Observatory witnessed a remarkable astronomical discovery

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