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==Notable people== Member of Parliament [[Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey|Sir Nathaniel Bacon]] (1546?β1622), second son of [[Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper)|Sir Nicholas Bacon]] and half-brother of [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]], was buried in Stiffkey church. The village is remembered as the [[parish]] whose [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]], [[Harold Davidson]], faced charges of immorality and was defrocked in 1932.<ref name=Sti>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gm_kkDGEOfsC&dq=stiffkey+domesday+book&pg=PA139 Google books] Retrieved 3 October 2014.</ref> He was a popular priest in the area and the villagers asked his family to allow him to be buried in Stiffkey when he died, rather than in the family tomb in [[Sholing]], where he was born.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} They have cared for his grave for many years. (He died, rather improbably, after he was mauled by a lion.) The author [[Henry Williamson]] bought a farm in Stiffkey. ''The Story of a Norfolk Farm'' (1941) is his account of his first years of farming here.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/THE-STORY-OF-NORFOLK-FARM/dp/B0007J7RKA The Story of a Norfolk Farm] Retrieved 3 October 2014.</ref> On 11 May 1978, the author, soldier and politician [[Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa|Aubrey Buxton]] was created a [[life peer]] as ''Baron Buxton of Alsa, of Stiffkey in the County of Norfolk''. He died there in 2009. Singer [[Dennis Lotis]] resided in Stiffkey until his death.<ref name=edp>{{cite web|url=http://www.edp24.co.uk/what-s-on/legend_lotis_bows_out_in_style_1_702973|title=Legend Lotis bows out in style|work=Eastern Daily Press|date=6 August 2005 |access-date=25 December 2014}}</ref> The British explorer and secret agent [[Frederick Marshman Bailey]] (1882β1967) spent his final years in Stiffkey.
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