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Indeed, some of Gustav Holst's music received its first performance at the Rotunda; the famous composer was born in Cheltenham.

His son Matthew, the poet, was born in Laleham in 1822, and spent the early years of his life here.

Born in Cambridge in 1882, Sir John Berry 'Jack' Hobbs was undoubtedly the world's greatest cricket batsman of his time.

The artist Thomas Gainsborough was born here in a former 16th-century inn, and he lived and worked here for a number of years.

James Watt, the great engineer who pioneered the steam engine, was born here.

Richard later married Warwick's daughter Anne, and their son Edward was born at Middleham in 1473; he also died here in 1484.

Next door (beyond the lamp bracket) is where two of Thomas Gainsborough's daughters were born in 1750 and 1751.

Robert Owen, the social reformer, was born here and died here in 1858. The Bear Hotel seen here was one of the principal hostelries and dated from the 18th century.

Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII, was born here in 1457.

Cookham will forever be associated with the artist Stanley Spencer who was born in Cookham in 1891 and died in 1959.

Sir Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the Bessemer conversion process for manufacturing steel, was born here.

Its claim to fame are the Siamese twins pictured on the village sign (not visible on the photograph); known as Eliza and Mary, they were born joined at the shoulder and hip and lived together like this

It is said that he chose the village as his home when he noticed a tombstone in the churchyard which reads: 'Mary Ann South, born 1825, died 1895.

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as a result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

Harold G Turner Born in nearby Ardingly in 1885, Harold Turner became a well-known architect, particularly after his successful Gidea Park project in Essex in 1910.

Locally named the Pepperpot, it was erected in 1850 on Hoad Hill to commemorate Ulverston-born Sir John Barrow, a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society.

Arthur Vernon, Architect and Mayor The career of Arthur Vernon, architect and JP, born in 1846, is a good example of Wycombe's new class of industrialists and professionals.

The success of these cables owed much to the scientific genius of William Thompson, born in College Square, Belfast and now Lord Kelvin.

.` In 1962 Mrs C Nicholls, born in 1872, recalled walking to St John`s School, Bradmore Green from Hooley: `We used to walk up to the Star [near Star Lane], turn left over the railway bridge