Frances O’Connor
Actor and film director born in Wantage in 1967 and raised in Perth, Western Australia, known for Mansfield Park, A.I. and The…
Notable People
Stories from Wantage, Grove and the villages, from the wantage.com archive.
Mother Maribel of Wantage
Slade-trained artist who joined the Wantage sisters in 1914, led them as Mother General 1940–53 and carved the convent's Stations of the…
Robert Loyd-Lindsay VC, Lord Wantage
Crimean War VC, co-founder of the British Red Cross and builder of the Lockinge estate, who gave Wantage its statue of King…
Sir John Hobbis Harris
Wantage-born missionary and campaigner who, with his wife Alice, exposed atrocities in the Congo Free State and later led the Anti-Slavery Society.
Alice FitzWarin (Alice Whittington)
Daughter of Sir Ivo FitzWarin, lord of a Wantage manor, who married Richard 'Dick' Whittington in 1402.
William John Butler, Vicar of Wantage
Vicar of Wantage 1847–1880 who founded the Community of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary's School, and later became Dean of…
Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham
Philosopher and bishop born at The Priory, Wantage, in 1692, author of the Fifteen Sermons and The Analogy of Religion.
Sir John Betjeman
Poet Laureate who lived at Uffington (1934–45), Farnborough (1945–51) and The Mead in Wantage from 1951, and wrote about the Vale.
King Alfred the Great
The West Saxon king born at the royal estate of Wantage in 849, remembered today by the marble statue in the Market…