Yattendon

Geography

History

Notable people

• Robert Bridges, who later became Poet Laureate, lived at Yattendon, where he compiled the Yattendon Hymnal, from 1882 until he moved to Boars Hill near Oxford.
• Thomas Carte, noted English historian, once held the rectory and was buried in the church.
• General Sir Miles Dempsey, British Army officer who fought in World War I and World War II.
• Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe, the newspaper magnate who lived at Yattendon Court. From 1925 to 1940, he amalgamated several small farming estates and formed the Yattendon Estate in 1955. It covers nearly of farmland, woodland, grazing and Christmas tree plantations.
• Egon Ronay the restaurant critic, lived in Yattendon until his death in 2010.
• Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of the Natural History Museum who built himself a home at Yattendon Court.
• Ruth Mott, presenter of the BBC's Victorian Kitchen and Wartime Kitchen and Garden series. Technical advisor on the 2001 Robert Altman film Gosford Park.

• Sir Henry Norreys, a Tudor courtier accused of adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn and the father of
• Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, Ambassador to France and father of
• Sir John Norreys, the greatest soldier of Elizabethan England whose memorial is in the parish church