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WILLIAM BOOTH |
William Booth was born in 1829 in Sneinton, Nottingham.
In 1865, he founded The Christian Revival Society which was renamed The Salvation Army in 1878, known for
being one of the biggest distributors of humanitarian aid in the world.
He died in Hadley Wood, London, aged 83.
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JESSE BOOT |
Jesse Boot was born in Hockley, Nottingham in 1850. He transformed the Boots Company, founded by his father, John Boot, into a national retailer which branded itself as "Chemists to the Nation".
Boot was a great benefactor to the City of Nottingham. He donated land for the new University College at Highfields, now the University of Nottingham, which opened in 1928 and was presented with the Freedom of the City of Nottingham in 1920.
Boot was knighted in 1909, created a Baronet in 1916, and in the New Year's Honours of 1929 was elevated to the peerage as Baron Trent of Nottingham in the County of Nottingham.
John died in 1956, leaving a company known around the world. Boots has continued to grow and grow, and still shares a close friendship with Nottingham and its people.
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GEORGE GREEN |
George Green was a Mathematician and Physicist who wrote "An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism".
He was born in 1793 in Sneinton, Nottingham, which is where he spent most of his life.
Green's life story is remarkable in that he was almost entirely self-taught, having only had about one year of formal schooling as a child between the ages of 8 and 9.
He entered Cambridge University as an Undergraduate in 1833 aged 40 and graduated in 1837.
After graduation Green stayed on at Cambridge, writing on Optics, Acoustics and Hydrodynamics. However, in 1840 he became ill and returned to Nottingham where he died the following year.
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D.H.LAWRENCE |
David Herbert Lawrence, born in 1885 in Eastwood, was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories,
poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters.
Lawrence's unsettling opinions earned him many enemies and he endured hardships, official persecution, censorship and misrepresentation of his creative work
throughout the second half of his life.
His works were heavily autobiographical and the experiences of his early years in Nottinghamshire continued to exert a profound influence throughout his life.
During his last years Lawrence spent much of his time in Italy making only brief visits to England, the last in 1926.
He died on 2 March 1930 at Vence in the south of France.
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LORD BYRON |
Lord Byron was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism who lived for a short time at Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Among Lord Byron's best-known works are the narrative
poems "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and
"Don Juan", the latter remaining incomplete on his death in 1824.
He is regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely
read.
He is buried at the Church of St. Mary
Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
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BRIAN CLOUGH |
Brian Clough was Manager of Nottingham Forest F.C. between 1975 and 1993.
He had a successful playing career scoring 251 goals in 275 games for Middlesborough and Sunderland.
As a Manager he won 594 out of 1319 matches.
Clough led Nottingham Forest to promotion into the First Division in 1977, his 2nd full season in charge of the club. They were crowned First Division Champions in their first season after being promoted and went on to win the European Cup on two occasions (1978-79 & 1979-80) as well as winning the League Cup four times.
During the 1977-88 he became the first Manager to pay £1 Million for a player when he signed 24-year-old Trevor Francis from Birmingham City.
He retired in 1993 after 18 years in charge of Forest and received an OBE in 1991. He died in 2004 at the age of 69.
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TORVILL & DEAN |
Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean, both from Nottingham, won four straight Ice-Dancing World Championships between 1981 and 1984 and became the highest scoring figure skaters of all time (for a single programme) receiving 12 perfect 6.0s, including artistic impression scores of 6.0 from every judge at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
They turned professional following the 1984 Olympics, regaining amateur status briefly ten years later in 1994 to compete in the Olympics once again, winning a Bronze Medal.
The pair retired from competitive skating for good in 1999 and were awarded the OBE.
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