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=== Public service === * [[John Shert]] (c.1544β1582) Catholic priest and martyr,<ref>[http://www.dioceseofshrewsbury.org/about-us/saints-and-martyrs/blessed-john-shert Blessed John Shert, Diocese of Shrewsbury] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124091853/http://www.dioceseofshrewsbury.org/about-us/saints-and-martyrs/blessed-john-shert |date=24 January 2013 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> executed in the reign of [[Elizabeth I]], beatified 1889. * [[Edward Fitton, the younger|Sir Edward Fitton]] (1548?β1606), MP who took part in the Elizabethan [[plantations of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Fitton, Edward |volume= 19 |last= Dunlop |first= Robert |author-link= Robert Dunlop (historian) |pages= 81-82 |year= 1889 | short=1}}</ref> * [[David Simpson (priest)|Rev David Simpson]] (1745β1799) Anglican priest<ref>[https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FSimpson St John's Library, Papers of David Simpson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226182249/https://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FSimpson |date=26 December 2017 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> who spent most of his career in Macclesfield * [[Edward Hawkins (numismatist)|Edward Hawkins]] (1780β1867), numismatist and antiquary; Keeper of Antiquities at the [[British Museum]].<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Hawkins, Edward (1780-1867) |volume= 25 |last= Wroth |first= Warwick William |author-link= Warwick William Wroth |pages= 207-208 |year= 1891 | short=1}}</ref> * [[William Buckley (convict)|William Buckley]], (1780β1856) escaped convict,<ref>[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buckley-william-1844 Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (MUP), 1966, Buckley, William (1780β1856)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319073118/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buckley-william-1844 |date=19 March 2012 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> survived among Australian aborigines between 1803 and 1835, raised here.<ref>Morgan, J. (1852). ''The life and adventures of William Buckley''. United States: Kessinger Legacy Reprints.</ref> * [[J. C. Ryle|John Charles Ryle]] (1816β1900) was the first<ref>{{cite DNBSupp |wstitle=Ryle,_John_Charles |short=x}}</ref> Anglican [[Bishop of Liverpool]] * [[Thomas Mottershead (trade unionist)|Thomas Mottershead]] (c.1825 β 1884) British trade unionist and socialist activist * [[Herbert Philips]] (c.1835β1905) philanthropist<ref>[http://medlockvalley.org.uk/MedlockValley/Medlock_Valley_Places/Philips_Park/ Manchester City Council Internet/Intranet Team, Medlock Valley Places] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227121942/http://medlockvalley.org.uk/MedlockValley/Medlock_Valley_Places/Philips_Park/ |date=27 December 2017 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> and justice of the peace * [[Samuel Rowe (colonial administrator)|Sir Samuel Rowe]] (1835β1888) doctor and colonial administrator of [[Sierra Leone]], the [[Gambia]] and [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] * [[Arthur Smith Woodward]], (1864β1944) palaeontologist<ref>[http://www2.clarku.edu/~Piltdown/map_report_finds/earliest_english.html The Earliest Englishman, by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218154646/http://www2.clarku.edu/~Piltdown/map_report_finds/earliest_english.html |date=18 February 2018 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> specialised in fossil fish, born and educated here * [[Richard Crosse (British Army officer)|Richard Crosse]] (1888β1970) distinguished British Army officer * [[Vera Brittain]] (1893β1970) nurse, feminist and pacifist, wrote ''[[Testament of Youth]]'', <ref name="guardian1">{{Cite news |last=Bostridge |first=Mark |date=2003-08-30 |title=The making of a peacenik |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/aug/30/featuresreviews.guardianreview18 |access-date= |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> lived locally as a child * [[Edward Brittain]] (1895 in Macclesfield β 1918) British Army officer,<ref name="guardian1" /> fought and died in [[World War I|WW1]] and was immortalised by his sister [[Vera Brittain]] in ''[[Testament of Youth]]'' * [[Alec Stokes]], (1919β2003) scientist<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wright |first=Pearce |date=2003-02-15 |title=Alexander Stokes |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/feb/15/obituaries.genetics |access-date= |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> worked on [[X-ray crystallography]] and [[DNA]] was born here. * [[Emma Arbuthnot|Mrs Justice Arbuthnot]] (born 1959), has served as a High Court judge for England and Wales since 2021. * [[Christine Tacon|Christine Mary Tacon]] (born 1959) the United Kingdom's [[Groceries Code Adjudicator]]<ref>[https://www.gov.uk/government/people/christine-tacon#biography Groceries Code Adjudicator, Christine Tacon CBE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227235342/https://www.gov.uk/government/people/christine-tacon#biography |date=27 December 2017 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> * [[Tony Pollard (archaeologist)|Tony Pollard]] (born 1965) archaeologist,<ref>[https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/battlefieldarchaeology/staffprofiles/ The University of Glasgow, Centre for Battlefield Archaeology Staff Profiles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227235336/https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/battlefieldarchaeology/staffprofiles/ |date=27 December 2017 }} retrieved December 2017</ref> specialising in the archaeology of conflict
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