Editing Rednal (section)

== Notable people ==
{{more citations needed section|date=April 2013}}

*[[John Henry Newman|John Henry, Cardinal Newman]] was buried in the small Roman Catholic cemetery at Rednal, by the Oratory country house. Father [[Ambrose St John|Ambrose St. John]], his companion of 32 years, also buried at Rednal in the same grave.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-10-06|title=John Henry Newman's last act of friendship {{!}} Mark Vernon|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/oct/06/john-henry-newman-burial-friendship|access-date=2021-10-09|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>

* The scholar and author of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] lived at Fern Cottage in Rednal at the age of 12, when his mother died there in 1904. The young Tolkien walked widely on the hills of the Lickeys with his brother and later recalled: {{cquote|When I think of my mother's death ... worn out with persecution, poverty, and, largely consequent, disease, in the effort to hand on to us small boys the faith, and remember the tiny bedroom she shared with us in rented rooms in a postman's cottage at Rednal, where she died alone, too ill for [[viaticum]], I find it very hard and bitter, when my children stray away.}} Later in his youth he and his younger brother often stayed at 'The Retreat' with Father Francis, a large retreat house with grounds in Rednal, maintained by the Birmingham Oratory on the rural edge of the city. 

*In his novel ''[[The Rotters' Club (novel)|The Rotters' Club]]'', author [[Jonathan Coe]] uses 1970s southwest Birmingham as a background, including scenes set in and around Rednal, and in particular in Cofton Park; and a major plot line takes place at the Longbridge Motor Works.

*[[Rick Price (bassist)|Rick Price]], guitarist in [[The Move]] and [[Wizzard]], grew up in Rednal.