South Shields

South Shields is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne, with a population of about 90,000.

Famous residents (past and present)

South Shields is the birthplace of:

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• John Barbour Clothier
• Elinor Brent-Dyer author of the Chalet School stories
• Jack Brymer clarinettist
• Catherine Cookson best-selling novelist
• Will Downey With his brother, pioneer photographer (Hartley Mine disaster; movie shots of Queen Victoria; royal photographers)
• Sir William Fox, three times Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Baron Avro Manhattan Writer
• Eric Idle part of the Monty Python team
• John Simpson Kirkpatrick hero of the Gallipoli campaign in WWI.
• James Kirkup poet
• James Mitchell TV script writer - 'Callan' etc.
• Stanley Mortensen International footballer
• Sir Charles Mark Palmer ship builder
• Dame Flora Robson actress
• Francis Scarfe poet and critic
• Ridley Scott film director and producer
• Ernest Thompson Seton naturalist and writer
• Eileen O'Shaughnessy wife of George Orwell
• Andrew Ernest Stoddart Captain of England at rugby and cricket
• George Frederick Stout philosopher
• Sir Frank Williams Formula One team owner
• John Woodvine RSC actor
• Lord Wright of Durley Lord of Appeal
• Lord Blyton of Biddick Hall, Labour Party politician