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Stewart Symes
1882–1962British Army officer and colonial governor (1882–1962)
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Famous people · Wateringbury, Kent
5 famous people call Wateringbury their birthplace
Stewart Symes, the British Army officer and colonial governor, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. The cricketer Herbert Leney ranks second, ahead of Jack Hubble. More than half were born in the Victorian era, 4 in all. Over 50 years of births, the list goes from Alfred Fremlin (1832) to Stewart Symes (1882).
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Stewart Symes
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1832
Alfred Fremlin
Youngest
1882
Stewart Symes
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Wateringbury
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#3Through the years
When Wateringbury’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1880s, at 2.
SportsMilitaryPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Wateringbury is known for
3 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Wateringbury
2 more names, born between 1832 and 1850.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Maidstone has the most on record: 136.
Maidstone · 5 miRobert Fisk & 135 more
Larkfield · 3 miBarry Hawkins & 5 moreGFKings Hill · 1 miGeorge Willoughby Fraser & 2 moreCFHadlow · 4 miColin Fairservice & 2 more
Plaxtol · 5 miWalter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley & 2 moreJLCoxheath · 4 miJohn Larking & 1 more
Paddock Wood · 5 miFrederick E. Morgan & 1 moreTWYalding · 2 miTony WestonQuestions about famous people from Wateringbury
Who is the most famous person from Wateringbury?
Stewart Symes (British Army officer and colonial governor (1882–1962)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Herbert Leney and Jack Hubble.
How many famous people were born in Wateringbury?
5 people born in Wateringbury have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Wateringbury known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 5. That is 60% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Wateringbury?
Alfred Fremlin, born in 1832. The youngest on the list was born in 1882.
Who counts as from Wateringbury?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Wateringbury’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 (6)
- Stewart Symes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Hubble: William G Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Fisk: Alan Liefting, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Hawkins: DerHexer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick E. Morgan: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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