The History of Wandsworth Common

— Ellen Barchard Wilson (nee Barchard, wife of George Fergusson Wilson), Botanical illustrator [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85849205 / https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barchard-31 / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ellen_Barchard_Wilson / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25622077#page/195/mode/1up]

— Scott Barchard [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=barchard&stype=F#/titles]

— Cicely Mary Barker

— H.M. Bateman

— Batstones

— Charlotte Bennett

— Elizabeth Beresford — Wombles

— Walter Besant

— PY Betts — author.

— Ernest Bevin — MP.

— "Bevin's Babes" — memoir of a group of girls who went to Upper Tooting High School for Girls, Trinity Road during WWII.

— The Bevington family (James, Geoffrey, Samuel).

— Geoffrey Bevington's Album (transcript of a talk to FoWC, April 2026).

— The Geoffrey Bevington Album (microsite showing all known photographs by GB).

— Louisa Sarah Bevington — Anarchist essayist, propagandist and poet [Geoffrey Bevington's cousin]

— Jack Black — Queen Victoria's ratcatcher

— Jonathan Black — art historian

— Bolingbroke / St John family — lords of the manor

— Mrs Braddon, Mary Elizabeth Maxwell — author, editor

— Gordon Bradley

— Mr Branson — the man who eats grass

Braxton-Hicks

— Sergeant John Breeze — 11th Hussars — Charge of the Light Brigade

— Mrs Brough

— George Brudenell Bruce

— John Buckmaster and family — including Stanley Owen Buckmaster.

— John Burns — politician

— Andrew Cameron — local politician

— Elizabeth Caon — memorial bench by lake

— Lewis Carroll — logician, author, photographer

— Angela Carter — author

— Irene Caudwell, Job Caudwell — local residents

— Henry Cavendish

— Miss Champion, her father et al

— [forename] Compton-Smith — Plough Green encloser

— Revd John Conder, his wife, and children — headteacher

— Cook sisters

— Charlotte Cooper (nee Lee) — world-famous "Gypsy beauty". And her husband — the pugilist Thomas (or Jack) Cooper.

— AA Corsellis and family — solicitor for local vestry, board of works etc

— John Costeker and family — Plough Green encloser

— Mary Coventry [nee Bevington] — [Geoffrey Bevington's aunt?] — married Millis Coventry, Fernside.

— Thomas Crapper — sanitary engineer — lived in Middleton Rd (renamed Buckmaster Rd in 1937?)

— Alice Crosse —

— Mrs Daubeny

— Davis?

— John Henry Dearle

— Charles Dickens

— George Donald — the Last Shepherd on Wandsworth Common

— Johnson Da Silva — Burntwood House.

— The De Selincourt family

— Hugh Welch Diamond (1809— 21 June 1886) — psychiatrist, photographer

— Dixons — orchids

— Harry Gordon Dorrett & Paul Martin — photographers — 16 Bellevue

— Bartholomew Peter Drouet, Tooting "child farmer" — cholera

— The DuBuisson family

— The Duval family — suffrage activists — names

— J.P. Ede

— Ron Elam — local historian and postcard collector

— Rita Ensing — local historian

— Gus Elen — Music Hall comedian

— [Wikipedia: John Erskine Clarke — clergyman]

— John Erskine Clarke

— Doreen Barbara Mignonette Evans (1916-1982) — Motor-racing driver — Bellevue Garage

Ethelburga, Earconwald [NB see VG Wikipedia articles]

— Edmund Fisher — local boy killed in WWI

— Peter Le Neve Foster (and son Clement) — RSA, photographer etc

— Leonora Kathleen Green (1901-1966) — artist

— Hieronymus Grimm

— Grissell — the sagacious collie / https://www.historyofwandsworthcommon.org/chronicles/05/05-2022.html

— Francis Grose and Samuel Hieronymus Grimm — the former an antiquary — lived North Side — the latter a topographical illustrator who drew fine images of the Common in the mid-C18.

— Thomas Hardy

— Major Rohde Hawkins — architect

— John Helston — poet and novelist

— Octavia Hill — campaigner

— John Hobbs

— Edith Holden — Matron, 3rd London General Hospital

— Holloway Brothers (local builders and developers), Bernard Holloway et al.(September 2022 Chronicles).

— Arthur Hopkins, artist

— Hudson family: Hilda Phoebe Hudson and Ronald Hudson, mathematicians

— Arthur Hughes — Pre-Raphaelite artist

— Robert Hunter, Commons activist, co-founder of National Trust

— HoWC > People > Noel Irving

— Jane Hughes, wife of John Nassau Senior, "the first woman civil servant", social investigator

— Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist

— Robert Inwood, runner

— George Jennings

— Pamela Hansford Johnson — author

— Walter Johnson, teacher, naturalist, local historian, social investigator

— Kalulu [and Henry Morton Stanley]

— Alfredo Antunes Kanthack, microbiologist.

— James and Christopher Kaye (Fernside)

— James Lamb [Charge of the Light Brigade]

— Dan Leno

— Mabel Looms.

— Vernon Lorimer, Australian artist, 3LGH

— "Henry Clay" / "Lord Fitzroy Lennox" — the Battersea Claimant

— David Lloyd-George

— George Lohmann, cricketer [Chronicles August 2022]

— Emily Jane Ward (nee Lord), 13 August 1850 – 15 June 1930, pioneer of childcare education in England: founded Norland Place School and the Norland Institute ("Morland Nannies")

— Henrietta Frances Lord, translator of Ibsen, Theosophist, feminist, socialist.

— James Lord Wandsworth Common activist, barrister, political propagandist, property developer - father of Emily and Henrietta

— Lovegrove family — Bolingbroke Grove

— Mayor of Garratt / Garret etc

— Henry McKellar, the McKellar family, Wandsworth Lodge, Trinity Road, landowner

— Helen Thomas (nee Noble), memoirist, married poet Edward Thomas, loved in, St Anne's Road? Hill?, Patten Road, Nightingale Lane, Atheldene Road (runs? ran? between Garratt Lane and Swaffield Road, etc.

— Albert and Frances (nee Pringle) Mansbridge

— Frances Mansbridge, nee Pringle, co-founder of the Workers Education Association

— Gideon Mantell

— Henry Mayhew

— Meyer, ornithological artist

— Henry Morris

— William Morris

— The Moseley and Nottidge families

— Edward William Mountford and wife

— HoWC > People > Ward Muir

— The Neal/Neale family — nurserymen — contractors

— C.R.W. Nevinson — artist

— Margaret Nevinson — suffragette

— James Newsome — High Sheriff of Surrey, owned Wandsworth Lodge in e.C19

— The Moseley and Nottidge families

— Ward Muir

— Arthur Newton born c.1857 - memoir of growing up in Battersea from a Sean Creighton booklet.

— Paul Oppitz

— Oswald Parsons, bricklayer, fence breaker

— Shirley Passmore — historian of Wandsworth Common — campaigner

— Henry Perkins — brewer, bibliophile, owned Springfield Park

— H.E.B. Bruce Porter — 3rd London General Hospital

— Endymion Porter and descendants — lords of Allfarthing manor

— Beatrix Potter

— Potter family — landowners — Wandsworth Common

— Joseph Prestwich — geologist

— Charles Prichard — head of Clapham Grammar School, astonomer

— Arthur Rackham — artist

— Edwin Rayner Ransome — Quaker — campaigner / https://www.historyofwandsworthcommon.org/chronicles/06/06-2022.html

— ?? Reynolds [JCB's crooked lawyer] [Who's Who of the fight over enclosure]

— The murder of Elizabeth Richards, Clapham Common, 1823 [from Batten/Wollaston, Clapham with its Common and Environs, 1841

— James Anderson Rose (lawyer, art collector, campaigner).

— Who — then — is William Anderson Rose (1820-1881) — "Lord Mayor of London 1862 — M.P. for Southampton 1865-1868 — Colonel of The Royal Militia" — buried Battersea Rise Cemetery?]

— Thomas Rudge — sculptor, inventor

— Bolingbroke / St John family — lords of the manor

— Tom Sayers — pugilist.

— de Selincourts? of Wandsworth Lodge — .

— George Shaw-Lefevre — also his uncle — father — sister et al

— William Wilson Saunders and his son Edward — naturalists

— Pippa Sharp

— George Shearing — jazz musician

— Sophia and Thomas Sheppard — landowners (also Martin Routh) — Magdalen College

— Sydney Stern, Lord Wandsworth [and his brother Edward David Stern].

— Johnson da Silva — Burntwood House.

— Joan Styan — Memories of WWII [one of "Bevan's Girls"]