THEY LIVED IN LEEDS
These brief biographical sketches are part of a series published monthly in the magazine ‘North Leeds Life’, from 2009 onwards, under the general title ‘They lived in Leeds’, by Eveleigh Bradford, a former librarian of the Society. The subjects are an eclectic mix of fairly well-known and lesser known figures from Leeds’s past. New names will be added as the series continues.
| Airey | Sir Edwin | 1878-1955 | Building Contractor, Entrepreneur and Inventor |
| Allbutt | Sir Thomas Clifford | 1836-1925 | Physician and Scholar |
| Appleyard | John Wormald | 1831-1894 | Stonemason and Sculptor |
| Armistead | Wilson | 1819–1868 | Anti-Slavery Campaigner and Writer |
| Arthington | Robert | 1823-1900 | The Millionaire Miser |
| Aspdin | Joseph | 1778-1855 | Inventor of Portland Cement |
| Austin | Alfred | 1835-1913 | Poet Laureate, Political Journalist, Critic |
| Baines | Edward (Junior) | 1800-1890 | Press Baron, Politician, Educationist |
| Baker | Robert | 1803-1880 | Surgeon, Campaigner for the Poor |
| Barran | John | 1821-1905 | Pioneer Industrialist and Leeds Benefactor |
| Barrett | Wilson | 1846-1904 | Actor, Theatre Manager, Playwright |
| Bedford | James Edward | 1856-1925 | Chemist and Lord Mayor |
| Bell | Florence | 1913-2000 | Pioneering Scientist and unsung heroine of DNA |
| Benson | Ivy | 1913-1993 | And her All Girls Band |
| Bodington | Nathan | 1848-1911 | Scholar and University Administrator |
| Bogg | Edmund | 1851-1931 | Writer, Countryman, Rambler, Bohemian |
| Bowen | Owen(Samuel) | 1873-1967 | Artist |
| Boyle | Humphrey Bellamy | 1794-1864 | Freethinker and Activist for Reform |
| Boyne | William | 1814-1893 | Collector, Writer, Antiquarian |
| Bragg | William Henry | 1862-1942 | Physicist and Nobel Laureate |
| Bray | George | 1841-1905 | Inventor and Business Tycoon |
| Brett | Arthur and Charlie | Fish and Chips - Headingley | |
| Brooke | Benjamin | 1793-1851 | Village Schoolmaster and Overseer of the Poor |
| Brooks | Owen | 1863-1947 | Pioneer Photographer, Founder Cottage Road Cinema |
| Brown | Jane Elizabeth | 1847-1921 | Founder of the Victoria Home, Headingley |
| Buckton | Catherine Mary | 1826-1904 | Campaigner and Writer |
| Butterworth | William | 1769-1834 | Engraver, Writer, Artist and Slave Ship Sailor |
| Carr | Henry Marvell | 1894-1970 | War Artist and Portrait Painter |
| Clapham | Tommy | 1817-1895 | Showman and Entrepreneur (Revised version) |
| Clark | Hannah | 1779-1861 | Landlady of the 'Original Oak' Inn |
| Cohen | Leonora | 1873-1978 | JP, OBE, Militant Suffragette |
| Cooke | Alf | 1842-1902 | The Queen's printer |
| Corson | George | 1829-1910 | Architect |
| Craven Green | Eliza | 1803-1866 | Poet, Writer, Actress |
| Dalwood | Hubert | 1924-1976 | Sculptor |
| Dyson | John | 1845-1916 | Watchmaker and Jeweller |
| Eddison | Annie | 1841-1905 | Pioneering Campaigner for Women's Education |
| England | Thomas | 1797-1877 | Corn Factor - and his Castle |
| Fairbairn | (Sir) Peter | 1799-1861 | Engineer |
| Fox | Samson | 1838-1903 | Inventor, Industrialist, Benefactor |
| Fulford | Frank Harris | 1868-1943 | Businessman, Musician, Patron of the Arts |
| Gott | Benjamin | 1762-1840 | Merchant, Indusrialist, Patron of the Arts |
| Grimshaw | Atkinson | 1836-1893 | Artist |
| Groocock | Edward (Junior) | 1797-1877 | Grocer (Headingley) |
| Harvey | Thomas | 1812-1884 | Anti-Slavery Campaigner and Philanthropist |
| Hawkshaw | Sir John | 1811-1891 | Civil Engineer |
| Hayward | George | 1797-1854 | Road Surveyor - Lord Cardigan's Yorkshire Steward |
| Hayward | George (Jonas) Whitaker | 1839-1870 | Explorer and Geographer |
| Heaton | Ellen | 1816-1894 | Art Collector, Patron, and Benefactor |
| Hepworth | Joseph | 1834-1911 | From Mill Boy to Lord Mayor |
| Hey | William FRS | 1736-1819 | ‘The Father of Leeds Surgery’ |
| Hole | James | 1820-1895 | Writer and Activist for Social Reform |
| Husler | Ann | 1803-1874 | Quarry owner and stone merchant, Weetwood |
| Ibbetson | Julius Caesar | 1759-1817 | Artist |
| Inchbold | John William | 1830-1888 | Painter and Poet |
| Jackson | George Holbrook | 1874-1948 | Journalist, Writer and Publisher |
| Jenkinson | Charles | 1887-1949 | Priest, Socialist, Housing Reformer |
| Kennedy | Geoffrey Anketell Studdert | 1883-1929 | Woodbine Willie' - Priest, Poet, Preacher |
| Kennedy | Thomas Stuart | 1841-1894 | Engineer, Mountaineer, Music Lover |
| Kidson | Frank | 1855-1926 | Folksong Collector and Antiquarian, Artist and Writer |
| Kitson | Robert Hawthorn | 1873-1947 | Artist, Patron, Exile |
| Kitson | James | 1807-1885 | Pioneering Engineer and Industrialist - A Model of Self-Help |
| Kitson Clark | Ina (nee Georgina Bidder) | 1864-1954 | Campaigner, Activist, Artist |
| Kramer | Jacob | 1892-1962 | Artist |
| Le Prince | Louis Aime Augustin | 1841-1890 | Artist, Inventor, Film Pioneer |
| Leather | John Wignall | 1810-1887 | Civil Engineer |
| Lorand | Professor Laszlo | 1923-2018 | Biochemist |
| Lubelski | David | 1849-1903 | Clothing Manufacturer and Campaigner |
| Lupton | Francis Martineau | 1848-1921 | Businessman and Housing Reformer |
| Marsden | Henry Rowland | 1823-1876 | Industrialist, Inventor, Philanthropist – ‘The Poor Man’s Friend’ |
| Marshall | James Garth | 1802-1873 | Industrialist, politician, reformer, landowner |
| Marshall | John | 1765-1845 | A Pioneer Millocrat |
| Marshall | Jane (Nee Pollard) | 1770-1847 | Lifelong friend of Dorothy Wordsworth |
| May | Philip William (Phil) | 1864-1903 | Artist in black-and-white, Caricaturist, Humorist |
| Moynihan | Berkeley George Andrew | 1865-1936 | Surgeon |
| Neilson | Lilian Adelaide | 1848-1880 | One of the Greatest Actresses of her Time |
| North | John Thomas (Colonel) | 1842-1896 | Millionaire Adventurer - Donor of Kirkstall Abbey |
| Oastler | Richard | 1789-1861 | Radical activist and campaigner - 'The Factory King' |
| Oates | Frank | 1840-1875 | Traveller and Naturalist |
| Oates | Lawrence Grace | 1880-1912 | Soldier and Antarctic Explorer |
| Osburn | William | 1793-1875 | Merchant, Egyptologist, Writer |
| Pechey-Phipson | Mary Edith | 1845-1908 | Pioneering Doctor and Campaigner |
| Powolny | (Ernst) Adolf | 1839-1915 | Chef and Restaurateur |
| Ramsden | Edward Archibald | 1835-1916 | Musical Entrepreneur |
| Ransome | Arthur Mitchell | 1884-1967 | Author, War Correspondent, Journalist - and Secret Agent |
| Ratcliffe | Dorothy Una | 1887-1967 | Writer, Poet, Traveller, Collector |
| Reid | Thomas Wemyss | 1842-1905 | Journalist, Biographer, Novelist |
| Robins | Percy Donald (Don) | 1899-1948 | Priest with a mission |
| Roebuck | William Denison | 1851-1919 | Naturalist, Collector, Writer |
| Ryder | Sue (Margaret Susan) | 1924-2000 | Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Lady Cheshire - Humanitarian and Aid worker |
| Sadler | Michael Ernest | 1861-1943 | University Vice-Chancellor, Educationist, Art Collector |
| Scarr | Archibold Witham | 1827-1904 | From Barrow-boy to Mayor of Leeds |
| Schofield | Snowden | 1870-1949 | Founder of an Iconic Leeds Business |
| Schwanfelder | Charles Henry | 1774-1837 | Artist |
| Scott | Will (William Matthew) | 1893-1964 | Caricaturist, author and playwright |
| Smeaton | John, FRS | 1724-1792 | ‘The Father of Civil Engineering’ |
| Smiles | Samuel | 1812-1904 | Surgeon, Journalist, Reformer, Writer |
| Smith | Samuel | 1862-1927 | Tanner and Brewer |
| Spark | Frederick Robert | 1831-1919 | Journalist and first Secretary of the Leeds Musical Festivals |
| Stewart | Agnes Logan | 1820-1886 | Sister of Mercy |
| Stiles Allen | Lilian | 1890-1982 | Concert Soprano and Teacher |
| Teasdale | Washington | 1830-1903 | Civil Engineer, Pioneering Photographer and Astronomer |
| Thackrah | Charles Turner | 1795-1833 | Doctor, Researcher, Reformer |
| Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | Writer, Poet, Scholar, Philologist |
| Tomasso | Vincenzo Luigi | 1862-1944 | Musician and barrel-organ maker |
| Vesta Victoria | Victoria Lawrence | 1873-1951 | 'Queen of the Music Hall' |
| Watson | Joseph | 1836-1922 | 'Soapy Joe' |
| Watson | Victor Hugo | 1878-1943 | Master printer – the man behind John Waddingtons |
| Wilson | Lucy | 1834-1891 | Campaigner for Women's Rights and Civil Liberties |
| Wilson | Benjamin | 1721-1788 | Artist and Scientist |
| Winn | Rowland | 1871-1959 | An Early Motor-car Enthusiast |
| Wooler | Geoffrey | 1911-2010 | Pioneering Heart Surgeon |
Headingley People
Articles by Janet Douglas, published in North Leeds Life in the period 2007-2009. Eve took over the series in 2009 so more Headingley people can be found in the upper list.
| Alamayu | 1861-1879 | Prince of Abyssinia | |
| Baines | Sir Edward | 1800-1890 | |
| Beckett | Lucy | 1864-1891 | |
| Harding | Thomas Col. T. Walter |
1812-1895 1843-1927 |
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| Hope Shaw | John | 1792-1864 | |
| Leigh | Blanche Legat | 1870-1945 | Cookery Books |
| Lupton | Elinor | 1886-1979 | |
| Pickersgill | Joseph | 1849-1920 | Bookmaker to the Prince of Wales |
| Stiles-Allen | Lilian | 1890-1982 | |
| Sutcliffe | Frank Meadow | 1853-1941 | the Whitby Photographer |
More Leeds People
This section contains short biographies contributed by various members of the Thoresby Society for our website. The name of the author is given at the end of each biography.
| Airey | John Robinson | 1868-1937 | Mathematician and Educationalist |
| Ramsden | Jean Mary neé Batley | 1926-2012 | A Pioneer in Cemetery Management |