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Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
1891–1965English lawyer and politician (1891-1965)
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Famous people · Plaxtol, Kent
3 famous people call Plaxtol their birthplace
Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, the English lawyer and politician, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. Close behind are Arthur Fielder and Edward Baker. The neighbour with the longest list is Tonbridge, 4 mi away: 53, led by Cecil Frank Powell. From Edward Baker to Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, the births on the list run from 1846 to 1891.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1846
Edward Baker
Youngest
1891
Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Plaxtol
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Known for
What Plaxtol is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Tonbridge has the most people on record, 53 of them.
Questions about famous people from Plaxtol
Who is the most famous person from Plaxtol?
Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (English lawyer and politician (1891-1965)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Arthur Fielder and Edward Baker.
How many famous people were born in Plaxtol?
3 people born in Plaxtol have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Plaxtol known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Plaxtol?
Edward Baker, born in 1846. The youngest on the list was born in 1891.
Who counts as from Plaxtol?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Plaxtol’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Frank Powell: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stewart Symes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge: After Francis Holl / Eden Upton Eddis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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