The most important (deceased) person associated with East Dulwich

[macroban]

Discussion of Target Arms brought this man to mind:

R.V.Jones

He would be my nomination.

[*Bob*]

Nah.. Enid Blyton.

[Louisa]

Charles Dickens lived on the Friern estate, and based Pickwick Papers on characters he met in the village. He has to be nominated.

[snorky]

Bon Scott

[Ladygooner]

Boris Karloff

[Brendan]

Does Bon Scott count? A Scot who grew up in Australia and just happened to drown in his own vomit in our blessed borough.

He is way up there on cool value though.

[James]

Dick Emery!

[*Bob*]

I suppose it depends on your definition of 'important'.

If you define it as being one of the greatest authors the country has produced, it ought to be Dickens.

If you define it as someone who was awful, but you liked them, it ought to be Emery.

[Jah Lush]

James, you are awful but I like you. Lord Byron, Edward Alleyn, Raymond Chandler.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Didn't Gustav Holst used to live/teach here as well?

[spadetownboy]

heres a good one for you ronnie biggs used to be a regular in the cherry tree as it was then,now more fondly referred to as the vale,infact the said same establishment was where the great train robbers congregated to celebrate their ill gotten gains.

[spadetownboy]

oscar wilde

[eccentric]

eh CS Forrester, underhill road, blue plaque

[Lucyl]

Who is CS Forrester?

[EDDW]

Lucyl Wrote:

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> Who is CS Forrester?

Wrote a series of historical novels in the 50's. Mostly famous for naval series featuring Hornblower. A better author of naval histories is P O'Brian. Excellent writing, historical accuracy and, as a bonus, an intriguing personal biography involving deceit, divorce and an imagined life.

[helen]

It has to be Eva May Davies she lived in East Dulwich,:))

[eccentric]

It would appear, spadetownboy, big time bank blaggers love ED. Michelle Hogg although not deceased,.... "Michelle Hogg, 31, from Woolwich, south-east London, was the first person arrested by Kent police over the ?53m robbery of the Securitas depot in Tonbridge"

former pupil of St John's and St Clement's on North Cross Road.

[Parker's Folly]

Lord Haw Haw aka William Joyce

[Brendan]

spadetownboy Wrote:

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> oscar wilde

Did he really live here?

[Jah Lush]

Yeah, come on do tell. What association has Oscar Wilde got with Dulwich coz I'm damned if I know.

[LostThePlot]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Does Bon Scott count? A Scot who grew up in

> Australia and just happened to drown in his own

> vomit in our blessed borough.

Where abouts?

[Brendan]

Overhill Road I think.

[citizenED]

In a car parked outside 67 Overhill Road, according to this site www.crabsodyinblue.com

citizen

[spadetownboy]

on his release from prison wilde stayed in goose green with friends for several months while he got his affairs in order prior to leaving for france to commence his period of self imposed exile.

[Louisa]

Mad Frankie Frazer (former ED resident, now often found around pubs in Peckham and Bermondsey)

Famously associated with the south London brothers the Richardsons.