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Famous Stopfordians

Sir Edmund Shaa ( - 1487) John Bradshaw 1602 - 1659 Samuel Oldknow 1756 - 1828 Admiral Sir George Back 1796 - 1878 Richard Cobden 1804 - 1865 Sir Joseph Whitworth 1801 - 1887 Fred Perry 1909 - 1995 Sir Frederic Calland Williams 1911 - 1977 more recent: Joan Bakewell: TV presenter John Blakeley, sculpture Peter Boardman, mountainer killed climbing Mount Everest Judith Chalmers, TV presenter Katie Derham, newsreader David Dickinson, TV presenter James Goddard, commonwealth Games swimmer Frank Hayes, cricketer James Hickman, Olympic swimmer Christopher Ishwerwood, writer Will Mellor, actor Joe Mercer, jockey Steve Smith , rugby player and former England captain Graeme Smith, Olympic swimmer Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. acress Mike Yarwood, comedian Diana Wilkinson - Olympic swimmer (broke 19 swimming records at 13, and was the first British woman to swim 200 yards in under a minute. And from Coronation Street 'Les Battersby' - Bruce Jones 'Jack Duckworth' - Bill Tarmey 'Shelley Unwin' - Sally Lindsay