Editing Frome (section)

== Notable people ==

{{See also|Category:People from Frome}}
* [[Benjamin Baker (engineer)|Benjamin Baker]], builder of the [[Forth Bridge]], was born in Frome in 1840<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Life And Times of Benjamin Baker |url=http://www.benjaminbaker.org.uk/life-and-times-of-benjamin-baker.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120053946/http://www.benjaminbaker.org.uk/life-and-times-of-benjamin-baker.html |archive-date=20 November 2010 |access-date=6 February 2010 |publisher=rook lane arts |df=dmy-all}}</ref> and is commemorated by a Frome Society for Local Study plaque.<ref name="x147"/>
* Charles Ball, founder of the [[Ball & Welch]] department store chain in Australia, was born in Frome in 1822.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography – Charles Ball – People Australia |url=http://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/ball-charles-16294 |access-date=2019-04-03 |website=peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403150058/http://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/ball-charles-16294 |archive-date=3 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The [[Formula One]] racing driver and 2009 world champion [[Jenson Button]] was born in Frome in 1980. He went to Selwood Middle School, now Selwood Academy,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Selwood Academy |url=https://www.selwood.somerset.sch.uk/ |access-date=2019-04-03 |website=www.selwood.somerset.sch.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403150751/https://www.selwood.somerset.sch.uk/ |archive-date=3 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> in Frome. A street, Jenson Avenue, has been named after him,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Baker |first=Andrew |date=19 October 2009 |title=Jenson Button's home town of Frome to immortalise Formula 1 World Champion |work=Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/jenson-button/6366853/Jenson-Buttons-home-town-of-Frome-to-immortalise-Formula-1-World-Champion.html |url-status=live |access-date=21 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023195322/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/jenson-button/6366853/Jenson-Buttons-home-town-of-Frome-to-immortalise-Formula-1-World-Champion.html |archive-date=23 October 2009 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> as has a new bridge over the [[River Frome, Somerset|River Frome]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 February 2010 |title=Press Release: Jenson Button to visit Frome |url=http://www.frome-tc.gov.uk/Core/FromeTownCouncil/UserFiles/Files/PressReleaseJensontoVisitFrome.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5ng9qIKjY?url=http://www.frome-tc.gov.uk/Core/FromeTownCouncil/UserFiles/Files/PressReleaseJensontoVisitFrome.pdf |archive-date=20 February 2010 |access-date=15 February 2010 |publisher=Frome Town Council |df=dmy-all}}</ref> In May 2010, Button was awarded [[Freedom of the City|freedom of the town]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 May 2010 |title=Jenson Button awarded the Freedom of Frome |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8658951.stm |access-date=4 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531064316/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8658951.stm |archive-date=31 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Cara Dillon]], Irish folk singer, and her husband, musician and record producer [[Sam Lakeman]], have lived in Frome since 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2007 Frome Festival news |url=http://www.fromefestival.co.uk/2007/news/celebrated_neighbours_07.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528092644/http://www.fromefestival.co.uk/2007/news/celebrated_neighbours_07.html |archive-date=28 May 2009 |access-date=22 February 2009}}</ref>
* The cricketer [[Colin Dredge]] was born in Frome in 1954.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Colin Dredge |work=Cricinfo |url=http://www.cricinfo.com/columns/content/player/11937.html |access-date=6 February 2010}}</ref>
* [[Edward Cockey]] (1781–1860) established an iron foundry and brought gas to Frome.  He was born, worked and died in Frome.
* [[Edward Cruttwell]] (1857–1933), English civil engineer, was born in Frome.
* [[Maud Cruttwell]], (1859–1939), English artist, art historian, writer and biographer, was born in Frome.
* [[Eadred]] (or Edred) (923–955), King of England between 944 and 955, died in Frome on 23 November of that year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kings and Queens of England |url=http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224170442/http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/KingsQueensofBritain/ |archive-date=24 February 2012 |access-date=1 March 2012 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis]] (1941–2021, born in Bradenton, Florida), [[saxophonist]], composer and arranger, lived in Frome.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 July 2009 |title=Frome Festival's community spirit |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8131000/8131461.stm |url-status=live |access-date=6 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018164302/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8131000/8131461.stm |archive-date=18 October 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Eva Elwes]] (1876–1950), actress and playwright, born in Frome.
* [[Anna Friel]], actress.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 August 2013 |title=Frome Spring, the revolution that transformed a Somerset town |url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3838987.ece |access-date=3 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504002810/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article3838987.ece |archive-date=4 May 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Wilfred Dolby Fuller]] (1893–1947), English recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]], worked as a local policeman and died in Frome.
* The philosopher [[Joseph Glanvill]] was Vicar of Frome from 1662 to 1666.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joseph Glanville |url=http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/glanvill.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607174142/http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/glanvill.html |archive-date=7 June 2011 |access-date=6 February 2010 |publisher=The Galileo Project |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Danny Goffey]], drummer with the band [[Supergrass]], lives in Frome.<ref name=guardianlowe/><ref name=independentlowe/>
* [[Clara Grant]] (1867–1949), educational pioneer and social reformer, lived in Frome in her youth.<ref name=ODNB>{{cite ODNB | url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-70411 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/70411 | date=2004 | last1=Morse | first1=Elizabeth J. | title=Grant, Clara Ellen (1867–1949), headmistress and settlement worker }}</ref>
* [[Guy Green (filmmaker)|Guy Green]], film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer, who won an [[Academy Award|Oscar]] for ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]'' in the last category, was born at 4 Portway in Frome in 1913.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guy Mervin Charles Green |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/96028?docPos=3 |access-date=21 April 2010 |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscriber-only access)}}</ref>
* [[Alice Seeley Harris]], pioneering documentary photographer, missionary and human rights activist, was born in Frome in 1870. Commemorated by Frome Society for Local Study plaque.
* [[John Harris (critic)|John Harris]], journalist, writer and critic, lives in Frome.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=John |date=2019-05-05 |title=Don't look to national politics for hope: you'll find it thriving in local councils {{!}} John Harris |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/05/national-politics-hope-councils-councillors-local-elections |access-date=2019-05-05 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505185246/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/05/national-politics-hope-councils-councillors-local-elections |archive-date=5 May 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Charlie Higson]] of ''[[The Fast Show]]'' was born in Frome in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charlie Higson: Summary |url=http://www.tv.com/charlie-higson/person/57921/summary.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604054415/http://www.tv.com/charlie-higson/person/57921/summary.html |archive-date=4 June 2011 |access-date=6 February 2010 |publisher=TV.com |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Gary Joyce]] (born 1964), cricketer<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/10/10327/List_A_Matches.html List A Matches played by Gary Joyce]</ref>
* [[Simon King (broadcaster)|Simon King]], naturalist and broadcaster, has a business in the town.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Simon King Wildlife |url=https://www.simonkingwildlife.com/ |access-date=2019-04-02 |website=Simon King Wildlife |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402102227/https://www.simonkingwildlife.com/ |archive-date=2 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[David Lassman]], author, journalist and scriptwriter has lived in Frome since 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frome Community Education Tutors retrieved 18 June 2019 |url=https://fromecommed.org.uk/tutors/id/david-lassman |access-date=18 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105213045/http://fromecommed.org.uk/tutors/id/david-lassman |archive-date=5 January 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Actor [[James Laurenson]] lives in the town.<ref name="celebip">{{Cite web |title=Celebrities I to P |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2005/01/21/somerset_celebrities_i_to_p_feature.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228020745/http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2005/01/21/somerset_celebrities_i_to_p_feature.shtml |archive-date=28 February 2010 |access-date=6 February 2010 |publisher=BBC |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
* [[Pearl Lowe]], English fashion and textiles designer, lives in Frome.<ref name=guardianlowe>{{cite web |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,,2121933,00.html |title=My wasted years |access-date=17 January 2008 |last=Freeman |first=Hadley |author-link=Hadley Freeman |date=9 July 2007 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref name=independentlowe>{{Cite web |url=http://money.independent.co.uk/property/homes/article2904121.ece |title=Pearl Lowe: 'I'm over life in London' |last=Williams-Akoto, Tessa |date=29 August 2007 |website=[[The Independent]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228093948/http://money.independent.co.uk/property/homes/article2904121.ece |archive-date=28 December 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=17 January 2008}}</ref>
* [[Lois Maxwell]], who played [[Miss Moneypenny]] in the [[James Bond]] film series from 1962 to 1985, lived in Frome from 1994 to 2001.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 October 2007 |title=Lois Maxwell |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1564693/Lois-Maxwell.html |url-status=live |access-date=6 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605084331/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1564693/Lois-Maxwell.html |archive-date=5 June 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Commemorated by Frome Society for Local Study plaque.
* [[Huey Morgan]], American lead singer/guitarist from [[Fun Lovin' Criminals]] and radio presenter on [[BBC Radio 6 Music]] and [[BBC Radio 2]], lived in Frome until 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bristollivemagazine.com/huey-morgan-full-interview-bristol-jazz-blues-festival-6-8th-march/|title=Huey Morgan Full Interview|publisher=Bristol Live Magazine |date= 2 March 2015|access-date= 13 May 2018}}</ref>
* Sir [[Charles Oatley]], developer of one of the first commercial [[scanning electron microscope]]s, was born at 5 Badcox in Frome in 1904.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sir Charles William Oakley |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/61932?docPos=10 |access-date=21 April 2010 |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscriber-only access)}}</ref> Commemorated by Frome Society for Local Study plaque.
*[[Parfitt Brothers]], architects in Brooklyn, New York
* [[Anthony Powell]], author, died in Frome in 2000.
* [[William Henry Reed|William Henry "Billy" Reed]], violinist, composer and biographer of [[Edward Elgar]], was born in Christ Church Street in Frome in 1875.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Henry Reed |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/38580?docPos=23 |access-date=21 April 2010 |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscriber-only access)}}</ref>
* [[Kate Rew]], author and wild swimmer, lives in the town.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Howell |first=Madeleine |date=2019-05-17 |title=Forget the cold water warnings: wild swimming is a tonic for body and mind |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/come-waters-freezing-wild-swimming-invigorating-workout-body/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
* [[Christina Rossetti]] (poet, and sister of [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]), helped her mother run a day school in Frome in 1853–1854.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christina Rossetti |url=http://www.nndb.com/people/825/000086567 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210052426/http://nndb.com/people/825/000086567/ |archive-date=10 February 2010 |access-date=9 February 2010 |publisher=NNDB Mapper |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Commemorated by Frome Society for Local Study plaque.
* [[Elizabeth Singer Rowe]] (poet and devotional writer, first published by [[John Dunton]]). Commemorated by Frome Society for Local Study plaque.
* [[Henry Thomas Ryall]], royal engraver to [[Queen Victoria]], was born in Frome in 1811.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Thomas Ryall |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/24382?docPos=52 |access-date=21 April 2010 |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscriber-only access)}}</ref>
* [[John Webb Singer]] (1819–1904), bronze art founder and manufacturer of ecclesiastical metalwork, was born, worked and died in Frome.
* [[Emma Sheppard]] (1813–1871) was a writer and workhouse reformer who lived and was buried in Frome.
* [[Thomas Sheppard (MP)|Thomas Sheppard]] (1766–1858) was the first MP for Frome after the [[Reform Act 1832]].
* [[Mavis Tate]], campaigner for women's rights, was Frome's only female MP from 1937 to 1945.
* [[Siobhan Thompson]], sketch comedian and comedy writer, grew up in Frome.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Intrepid Bunnies |series=Dimension 20’s Adventuring Party |series-link=Adventuring Party |network=[[Dropout (media company)|Dropout]] |date=23 February 2021 |season=3 |number=13 |transcript=Transcript |transcript-url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTpTVdV5Jyp2LaQRjYZFTV_Wezs5a1Olije_WgRLSFbrh7J0iO6H0iDEIhFWpBBdN5FEDvHBdPyJbVY/pub}}</ref>
* [[Betty Trask]] (1893–1983), writer of romance novels, lived and died in Frome.
* [[Kathleen Vellacott-Jones]] (1907–1972), journalist, was born in Frome before emigrating to Canada.
* [[Richard Vranch]] of ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK TV series)|Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' was born in Frome in 1959.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Richard Vranch |url=http://connect.in.com/richard-vranch/profile-234475.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723154209/http://connect.in.com/richard-vranch/profile-234475.html |archive-date=23 July 2011 |access-date=7 February 2010 |publisher=In.com}}</ref>
* Sir [[Charles Wilkins]], the first translator of [[Bhagavad Gita]] into English, was born in Frome around 1749.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sir Charles Wilkins |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/29416?docPos=76 |access-date=21 April 2010 |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscriber-only access)}}</ref>
* [[Kerry Wilkinson]], author, went to Oakfield Middle School and [[Frome Community College]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=11 August 2011 |title=Former pupil's novel in iTunes chart spot |url=http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/pupil-s-novel-iTunes-chart-spot/story-13112662-detail/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505082832/http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/pupil-s-novel-iTunes-chart-spot/story-13112662-detail/story.html |archive-date=5 May 2013 |website=Somerset Live |via=Archive.today}}</ref>