History Makers

If you would like more details about the History Makers of Bath Exhibition please email  info@bathcelebrities.co.uk or call (01225) 332213.

To discover more information about the History Makers click on their names.

King Edgar (973) – Sponsored by Bath Abbey

Adelard of Bath (c.1080–1150)

Bishop Fitzjocelyn (1141–1191) – Sponsored by St John’s Hospital

Richard Beau Nash (1674–1761) – Sponsored by Bath Building Society

Ralph Allen (1693-1764) – Sponsored by Nash Partnership

Dr William Oliver (1695–1764) – Sponsored by Thermae Bath Spa

John Wood the Elder (1704–1754) – Sponsored by Ashford Homes (South Western) Ltd

Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) – Sponsored by Wessex Water

William (Johnstone) Pulteney (1729–1805)

Admiral Arthur Phillip (1738–1814) – Sponsored by Sitec Group

William Herschel (1738–1822) – Sponsored by Dr and Mrs Alastair Chalmers

on behalf of the Bath Photographic Society and Bath Cantata Group (BCG)

Richard Sheridan (1751–1816)

George Stothert (1755–1818) – Sponsored by Rotork

William Beckford (1760–1844)

William Smith (1769–1839)

Thomas Musgrave (1774–1854)

Jane Austen (1775–1817) – Sponsored by The Jane Austen Centre

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) – Sponsored by The Royal High School Bath

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859) – Sponsored by Megacon & TSL

Sir Isaac Pitman (1813–1897)

William Sweetland (1822–1910)

Major Charles Davis (1827–1902) – Sponsored by The Abbey Hotel

Bobby Crocker (1840)

William Harbutt (1844–1921) – Sponsored by Savills UK

Fred Weatherly (1848–1929)

William Friese-Greene (1855–1921)

Sidney Horstmann (1881–1962)

Arnold Ridley OBE (1896–1984) – Sponsored by Hall & Woodhouse, Bath