Cumbria has its share of famous people, I never quite grasped how much though. He had friends of mine, came and stayed in a few vacation rentals Lake District and we have over who we thought was the most famous speech. I'm going to choose you.
Joss Naylor MBE 1 (1936 -)
Known as the "King of the Fells," Joss Naylor has a champion rider has fallen from almost 50 years. But Naylor, a sheep farmer from Nether Wasdale, was unfit for military service asTeens and passed a series of injuries that have caused most of us would care to live life. At age 30, completed 72 Naylor peaks of the Lake District, a distance of 100 miles, with a total climb of 37,000 feet in less than 24 hours. In 1986 he completely all 214 Wainwrights in a week. At the age of 60 years, has over 60 Lakeland Fells in 36 hours. At age 70, has completed 70 Lakeland Fells, 50 miles and 25,000 m of ascent in less than 21 hours.
Fans walk in his footsteps on JossNaylor Challenge - 30 peaks of the Lake District Ullswater from Pooley Bridge at the home of Joss in Wasdale.
2 Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943)
Beatrix Potter was in many ways the last of Cumbria, but she was born in London. Nubile 40 Beatrix fought until his first on an independent life to do. Finally, self-published 250 copies of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit 'in 1901, had by the publishers, Frederick Warne, and until the end of the following have been noted, haveno less than 28,000 copies printed. Beatrix went on to write another 22 books, and used the proceeds to buy Hill Top Farm, near Hawkshead.
His legacy to the Lake District is their interest in conservation and traditional farming, was a sheep farmer Herdwick local lakes, and bought many acres of farmland. After his death in 1943 he bequeathed 4,000 acres of land to the National Trust, including Penny Hill Farm Cottage in Eskdale. The 2006 film, Miss Potter, Beatrix covers the firstLife, low cottage near Lamplugh Loweswater Millgillhead was one of the sets in the titles!
3 St. Patrick (5 ° c)
Best known as the patron saint of Ireland is known, most sources agree that St. Patrick was a time in Cumbria, was born in the fifth century. The views are, if brought to the Roman fort Birdoswald in the north-east of the neighborhood or the country of the western coastline of Cumbria Ravenglass, the site of another Roman fort divided. Patrick, who was kidnapped into slavery inIreland at the age of sixteen years, escaped his servitude, landed on the Duddon Sands and went to Patterdale - 'St. . Patrick Dale ", near Ullswater, has traveled through Aspatria - 'ash of Patrick' - where the locals took so long to be implemented, that his ashes grew cane in a tree There's also a St. Patrick's well near Glenridding, where the saint baptized the people of the area Ullswater.
4 Helen Skelton (1983 -)
Yes, it's 'Blue Peter' all-action Cumbria woman! Born in EdenValley town of Kirkby Thore, Penrith, between Appleby and began his career in television broadcasting in local radio and Border Helen, before becoming a reporter for the BBC children's news program "Newsround". It 'became a' Blue Peter 'presenter in 2008. It was only the second woman to have done - - Since then, Helen has completed the Namibia Ultra Marathon Kayak is the length of the Amazon, cites his two wins in the Guinness Book of Records. Closer to home, competing in HelenMuncaster Castle, the annual Festival of Fools in 2009. Muncaster Fool famous seventeenth century, the original 'Tom Fool' was actually Thomas Skelton. Perhaps they are related?
5 Fletcher Christian (1764 - 1793)
It is probably safe to say that you're famous, when Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson played everything you have into popular movies. Fletcher Christian was born in Brigham, near Cockermouth, where he went to school with the poet William Wordsworth. Christian hadTrip to India and twice with Captain Bligh in Jamaica, before embarking on the ill-fated trip to Tahiti in the month of April 1789 By the end of the year, 1300 miles west of Tahiti, Christian led the mutiny on the Bounty.
Having married a Tahitian Princess, Christian, eight mutineers, six Tahitian men and eleven Tahitian women landed on Pitcairn Island. Since 1808 only one mutineer was still alive. What has happened to Christian? One said he was killed, another on several occasions said that he died of natural causes,Committed suicide or was murdered. However, rumors persist that he escaped, returned to the Lake District and inspired Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Who knows?
6 Norman Nicholson OBE (1914 - 1987)
Where the river meets the sea Duddon, towering in the form of Black Combe, is the mining town of Millom and the home life of the poet, Norman Nicholson. Nicholson Cumbria connection defines both his reputation and his work, with many of his poems payTribute to the city, the Duddon Valley, and local attractions such as Scafell Pike, Whitehaven, Patterdale, stone circles and the West Coast. His words vividly contrast the reality of the mining town in decline and the timeless majesty of the terrain and the Lake District.
"There is the base and roots of rock
Thirty thousand feet of Cumberland solid. "(To the River Duddon)
7 Stan Laurel (1890 - 1965)
Arthur Stanley Jefferson better known as Stan Laurel is known thatslender half of Laurel and Hardy, was born in Ulverston, Cumbria, where the coast of Morecambe Bay meets West. Laurel spent most of his life in the United States, met Oliver Hardy in 1927 adopted the first "sound" had on the world of cinema. Laurel has 190 films in total, including "Duck Soup", "Pardon Us" and "Saps at Sea." After the sudden death of Oliver Hardy in 1957, Laurel never acted again, although he continued to write. A statue of Stan Laurel in Ulverston was introduced in April '09.
8 LeoneHoulding (1981 -)
Leo Houlding takes a lot of labels. Extreme mountain climber and adventurer, mountain climber, BASE jumper, snowboarding, surfing and skydiving. He grew up in the village of Bolton in Eden Valley, Houlding is now based in the Lake District, but travels the world climbing. He can still remember the events as the Lake of Keswick Mountain Festival will be seen to encourage young people to try to understand what he loves best!
Houlding was the first Briton to climb El Capitan published in 1998, at the age ofof 17 years. In 2007 he accompanied the Altitude Everest Expedition Conrad Anker, which traces the footsteps of George Mallory, this was the first recorded ascent of the north-east ridge of Everest. Houlding is often seen on television these days - the BBC "My right foot", "Top Gear" and "Adrenaline Junkie" with Jack Osbourne.
9 Catherine Parr (1512-1548)
Queen of England from 1543 - 1547 Catherine Parr was Henry VIII, the last six women. Catherine was born in the south of Kendal Castlelakes, and was an excellent example of a strong-willed woman, open and fair in Cumbria. Had been twice before the king caught his eye in 1543 and was forced to marry his widow, though her relationship with Sir Thomas Seymour, brother of the nine days, "Queen Jane Seymour. For three months in 1544 was appointed regent Catherine Henry VIII, while he was away in France and led all the responsibilities of the king.
In 1547 Henry died and Catherine was free,Seymour married her step-daughter, the future Elizabeth I, came to live with them. Unfortunately, the relationship of attractiveness Seymour acid on the young princess, and had to send away a pregnant Catherine Elizabeth. Catherine died five days after the birth of their only daughter in 1548. Seymour and intriguing? Beheaded for treason a year later.
10 William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
William Wordsworth was the way to promote Cumbria Lake District holidays were invented! Aleading figure of the Romantic Movement, wrote poems of Wordsworth inspired strong emotion, but 'remembered in tranquility. "Born and educated in Cockermouth to Penrith and Hawkshead, Wordsworth's Lake District back in 1799, living in Dove Cottage in Grasmere.
Perhaps his most famous words, written about a spring Ullswater, are as follows:
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats over valleys and hills above,
If all of a sudden I saw a lot
A variety of goldDaffodill ... "
Wordsworth loved the Duddon Valley
"... The flow again slide, and glide for ever ..."
He also cited some trees, Lake District, known for being old even then:
"There is a yew tree, the pride of Lorton Vale
What is still single ... "
"... But still worthy of note
These are four fraternal Borrowdale. "
In 1813 he moved to Rydal Mount Wordsworth (also open to the public), Ambleside. William was appointed Poet Laureate in 1843.He died in 1850, and St. Oswald, Grasmere.
There are many holiday homes in the Lake District, which is worth visiting, so you can follow the footsteps of some of these famous of Cumbria. Just follow the link in the resource box.
