Historical figures in East Sussex
The atlas holds 6 people and 8 moments here, from 1737 to 1963. The most recorded lives are Arthur Conan Doyle, P. L. Travers and John F. Kennedy. Among them Writers, Educators and Military Leaders, across the Interwar Period and the Cold War.
Notable people
Alan Turing
in 1922
1 moment here
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…
Arthur Conan Doyle
from 1907 to 1930
2 moments here
Scottish-born British physician and writer best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,…
George Frideric Handel
in 1737
1 moment here
German-British Baroque composer. Born in Halle, he worked in Hamburg, travelled in Italy, served as Kapellmeister at Hanover, and settled in England.…
John F. Kennedy
in 1963
1 moment here
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American naval officer, journalist, congressman, senator, and the 35th president of the United States.…
P. L. Travers
from 1930 to 1933
2 moments here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Rudyard Kipling
in 1902
1 moment here
English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Bombay, Kipling spent his childhood in India and England, worked as a journalist…
Moments
- 1737 Spa treatment at Tunbridge Wells George Frideric Handel
- 1902 Settlement at Bateman's Rudyard Kipling
- 1907 Move to Little Windlesham Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1922 Hazelhurst Preparatory School Alan Turing
- 1930 Cottage near Mayfield P. L. Travers
- 1930 Death at Windlesham Manor Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1933 Writing Mary Poppins in Sussex P. L. Travers
- 1963 Met Macmillan at Birch Grove John F. Kennedy