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Test your knowledge of Camden Notables. You can probably guess most of the easy ones, but the others may require some online searching. These people all lived in Camden at some stage and feature in the database and on the map.

Easy

  1. Wrote of Martians on the summit of Primrose Hill
  2. Poet Laureate who was ‘Summoned by Bells’
  3. Founder of the Design Museum
  4. Novelist who began his career in a boot-blacking factory
  5. Painter of ‘The Hay Wain’
  6. Architect of King’s Cross railway station
  7. Expounded the theory of evolution in ‘On the Origin of Species’
  8. Originated the ‘Penny Post’
  9. Founder of the French Fifth Republic
  10. Novelist who had ‘A Room with a View’ in Brunswick Square
  11. The founder of psychoanalysis
  12. Horologist who won the ‘longitude’ prize
  13. Author of ‘Das Kapital’
  14. Manager of the Sex Pistols
  15. Architect of Brighton Pavilion and Marble Arch
  16. The only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated
  17. Author of ‘Animal Farm’
  18. Founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union
  19. His affair led to the resignation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
  20. Designed the gothic interiors, wallpapers and furnishings for the Houses of Parliament
  21. Poet who wrote in a caravan in a Camden Town back garden
  22. Publisher of ‘Peter Rabbit’
  23. “Infamy, infamy … they’ve all got it in for me”
  24. He conducted ‘The Proms’ for nearly half a century
  25. The headmistress of St Trinian’s
  26. Architect of Dulwich Picture Gallery

Not so easy

  1. Painter of ‘The Roses of Heliogabalus’
  2. An officially canonised saint
  3. Last Liberal Prime Minister to command a majority government
  4. His dinner menus included boiled elephant trunk, rhinoceros pie, porpoise heads, and stewed mole
  5. Commissioned the world’s first commercial Christmas card
  6. Discovered thallium and invented the radiometer
  7. Composer of ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’
  8. Father of modern plastic surgery
  9. The originator of the ‘primordial soup’ theory
  10. Creator of The Muppets
  11. Businessman who bottled mineral water in Camden Town
  12. Mistress of the future William IV, by whom she had ten children
  13. Builder of Port Sunlight
  14. Planner of New Delhi
  15. Literary hostess who restored Garsington Manor
  16. First Prime Minister and President of Ghana
  17. “Eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest”
  18. The last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group
  19. Author of the original 46 volumes of ‘The Buildings of England‘
  20. Principal architect of the Houses of Parliament
  21. Nobel Prize winning chemist who discovered the noble gases
  22. Music hall comedian and dancer, famous for his ‘Big-Boot Dance’
  23. Important painter who some thought to be Jack the Ripper
  24. Surgeon to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, and ‘The Elephant Man’
  25. Biologist and spiritualist who made a serious study of whether there was life on Mars
  26. Advocate of women’s rights who lived in The (long-gone) Polygon

Difficult

  1. Inventor of the waterbed
  2. Police officer nicknamed ‘Rasher of the Yard’
  3. Sculptor of the figure of Nelson atop Nelson’s Column
  4. Designer of 14 seaside piers
  5. Composer of ‘Home Sweet Home’
  6. Donated ‘The Hay Wain’ to the National Gallery
  7. Priest prosecuted and imprisoned in Holloway for ritualist practices
  8. Designed hotels in Bloomsbury and the dining room on the RMS Titanic
  9. His headstone in Highgate Cemetery simply says “DEAD”
  10. Engineer who developed the world’s first commercially successful steamboat
  11. Taxidermist to London Zoo who stuffed the first giraffe to arrive in England
  12. Perpetrator of the ‘Berners Street hoax’
  13. Inventor of the log-log slide rule
  14. Barrister and MP who claimed he was descended from Jesus Christ and Genghis Khan
  15. Prototype of Hugh Moreland in ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’
  16. Businessman who made a fortune from leasing most of London’s toll gates
  17. First British woman dentist
  18. Sculptor who carved the figure of Albert for the Albert Memorial
  19. “I gotta horse!”
  20. Archaeologist who excavated the mausoleum at Halicarnassus
  21. Compiler of the ‘Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics’
  22. Royal impostor who claimed the title Princess Olive of Cumberland
  23. Classical scholar who deciphered Linear B
  24. He exhibited a 40 foot diameter gas-lit globe in Leicester Square
  25. Secret agent known by the Gestapo as ‘The White Rabbit’
  26. (Possibly) the inventor of the potato crisp