Charles Benjamin Incledon
Prospect Place, Brighton (now known as St Peter’s Place), is a Regency Terrace of 4-storey townhouses built in the early 1820s by surveyor, Thomas Budgen. Prospect Place had a great uninterrupted view to the south…
Thomas Henry Statham: Railway Engineer
Thomas Henry Statham was born in Liverpool in 1810, son of the Liverpool Town Clerk, who had four sons and six daughters. Statham’s brothers all took up a career in the law or the church,…
Lydia Batchelor
How to avoid the workhouse through housework Lydia Simmonds, daughter of a farm labourer from Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, at age 14, started her working life as a domestic servant in Brighton. Her first job was likely…
Henry Kipping: surgeon and apothecary
In the days when Henry Kipping was making a living as a surgeon, Brighton was beginning to shed its reputation as ‘a poor fishing town’ to assume its new identity as a Georgian health resort….
Hannah Masters
It is generally agreed that before the health resort of Dr Russell and the fashionable era of the Prince Regent, Brighton was not much of a place. John Warburton, an antiquary who visited Brighton in…
Matthew John Tierney 1776-1845
Sir Matthew John Tierney is well known for his work as Royal Physician, and locally for his introduction of a smallpox vaccination scheme for Brighton. This post looks at some aspects of his life that…
John William Lashford
It is a unusual to be able to tell the story of a 19th century child, especially using his own words. John William Lashford sadly lived only until he was 19, and his life and…
Richard Lemmon Gregory – librarian
Richard Lemmon Gregory (1767-1851), was neither a wealthy man nor a great property owner, but he was described enthusiastically by J.G Bishop [i]Brighton Herald 17th May 1851 No.2356 as ‘a Brighton character’ and two quality…
Marion and Margaret Fletcher
From 1881 until 1891, Marion Fletcher and her daughter Margaret lived in this house on Upper Wellington Road, Brighton. The plans of the house, drawn up by local architect, Samuel Denman were commissioned by a…
Frederick Chatfield
This anonymous monument stands immediately south of St Peter’s Church, Brighton. It is a familiar landmark to Brightonians, but the details of its dedication, once on engraved panels, were stolen in the 1990s. The Chatfield…