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Wikipedia Articles on Harrogate People & Places

These Wikipedia articles are the work of HCS member Linda O'Carroll.

Robert Ackrill

English journalist, newspaper proprietor, founder of newspapers

John Peele Clapham

Justice of the peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Richard Ellis

English builder, property developer, alderman, mayor, and a public benefactor to his town.

John Farrah

British grocer, confectioner, biologist and meteorologist from Harrogate.

John Henry Hirst

English Architect.

William Pope

English Catholic Clergyman.

Otto Schwarz

German travelling Band Leader.

John Smith

Scottish banker and philanthropist.

John Turner

English draper, landlord, and moneylender.

William John Seward Webber

English sculptor.

West Park United Reform Church

St Robert's Church, Pannal

The Harrogate Club

Harrogate War Memorial

William Swinden Barber

English Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts architect.

Frances Darlington

English artist of the New Sculpture movement.

Sydney Robert Elliston

Journalist, vicar, and canon of Ripon Cathedral.

Mary Fisher

First woman Mayor of Harrogate

Thomas Holroyd

English portrait and landscape painter.

Ernest Prestwich

English Architect.

Isaac Thomas Shutt

Architect, farmer, and proprietor of the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate.

Alfred Hill Thompson

English architect in the Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts styles.

Laura Veale

First Yorkshire born woman to become a doctor.

Bramhope Tunnel

Church of St Michael & All Angels, Beckwithshaw

Grove Road Cemetery

Harrogate War Memorial

Mercer Art Gallery

Harrogate Public Art Gallery.

H E and A Bown

An architectural practice in Harrogate.

George Dawson

English builder, property developer and alderman.

Bernard Walter Evans

British landscape painter and watercolourist.

Charles Farrar Forster

First vicar of the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw.

Malcolm Neesam

English historian and writer specialising in the history of Harrogate.

Daniel Schwarz

German trumpeter, and the band leader of the travelling Schwarz Band.

David Simpson

English builder, politician, property developer, contractor & 4 times mayor of Harrogate.

Alfred Hill Thompson

English architect in the Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts styles.

Claude Hamilton Verity

Engineer & Inventor.

Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall

Church of All Saints, Harlow Hill

Harlow Hill Cemetery

Jubilee Memorial, Harrogate

Stray Ferret

Harrogate daily online newspaper.

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