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Charles Chubb (1772–1845) was an English
locksmith who became a successful lock and safe manufacturer. Apprenticed as a blacksmith Chubb, with his brother Jeremiah, developed a competition-winning security deadlock leading to important Government contracts which enabled them to build an integrated manufacturing plant. They repeated their success with a new design of security safe.
Early life
Chubb was born in
Fordingbridge,
Hampshire, to weaver, Charles Chubb and Mary Hannah, known as Anna. Various sources give a range of birth years from 1772 to 1779. One sources quotes a birth date of 16 January 1772, but does not cite the original record.[1]
He was apprenticed to a blacksmith, then started making and selling ship's ironmongery in
Winchester with his younger brother,
Jeremiah. They moved the business to Daniel Street,
Portsea, Portsmouth in 1804. Jeremiah patented the
detector lock in February 1818. The lock design enabled an owner to see that an attempt had been made to pick it. The detector mechanism operates and the lock jams in the locked position. To make the lock work again the owner had to use a special regulating key supplied with the lock.
Here they improved on the
detector lock, originally patented in 1818 by Jeremiah, and the foundations of the Chubb company were laid.
He soon moved to
London and then to
Wolverhampton, where he employed 200 workers. In 1835, he patented a process intended to render
safes burglar-proof and fireproof, and subsequently established a large safe-factory in London. He died on 16 May 1845, and was succeeded in the business by his son,
John Chubb (1816–1872), who patented various improvements in the products of the firm and largely increased its output. The factories were combined under one roof in a model plant and the business grew to enormous proportions, now
Chubb Locks.
George Armstrong (1822–1901) - Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, Great Western Railway, 1864-1897.[7]
Joseph Armstrong (1816–1877) - Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, Great Western Railway, 1854–1864.[8]
Rod Arnold -
footballer,
goalkeeper, who spent the majority of his career at
Mansfield Town. With 513 first-team appearances for Mansfield (440 in the
league),[9] he is the holder of the club's all-time appearance record.(B)
Lindsey Ashford - crime novelist and journalist. First woman to graduate from Queens' College, Cambridge in its 550 year history and first woman to graduate with Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology.[11]
Bill Asprey (b. 1936) - footballer (defender) and coach.[12](B)
Diane BaileyMBE - golfer. Represented Great Britain and Ireland in
Curtis Cup fixtures in 1962 and 1972 and captained the team in 1984, 1986 and 1988.[20]
Professor
Chris Baines - environmentalist, gardener, naturalist, television presenter and author.[21]
Dickie Baugh (1864–1929) -
footballer, (right back) who spent the majority of his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, for whom he played in three FA Cup finals (one as captain).[30](B)
Sir
William Maddock Bayliss (1860–1924) - physiologist. Co-discoverer of the peptide hormone secretin and peristalsis of the intestines. It was the first discovered hormone.[33]
Miles Beevor (1900–1994) - solicitor, pilot and businessman.[35]
Clinton Bennett -
British American scholar of religions and participant in interfaith dialogue specializing in the study of
Islam and Muslim-non-Muslim encounter.[36](B)
Kenneth Benton,
CMG (1909–1999) -
MI6 officer and diplomat from 1937-68.[38] Following retirement, Benton began a second career as writer of
spy and
crime thrillers.(B)
Bibio - Professional name of British music producer, Stephen Wilkinson.[43]
William Bidlake (1861–1938) - architect, a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement in Birmingham and Director of the School of Architecture at Birmingham School of Art from 1919 until 1924.[44](B)
William Chappell (1907–1994) - dancer, noted ballet designer, director. Appeared as Elihu/The Three Messengers in excerpts from de Valois' ballet Job (November 11, 1936) with
Robert Helpmann, and the Vic-Wells Ballet Company produced and choreographed by
Ninette de Valois - . This was the second broadcast of ballet on television following the official start of the BBC high definition television service on November 2, 1936.[62][63](B)
Leon Coates (b. 1937) - composer, performer and academic.[70](B)
B. L. Coombes (1893 – 1974) - born Bertie Lewis Coombes Giffiths, he was a writer who spent most of his working life in the
coal mines of the
South Wales coalfield, which provided the subject matter for much of his writing.[71](B)
Stan Cullis (1916–2001) - footballer (defender) and football manager most notably with
Wolves and has a stand named after him at their
Molineux Stadium.[81]
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) - despite living in
Worcester, he was an ardent Wolverhampton Wanderers fan and may have travelled to home games on his bicycle. Elgar bought two Wolverhampton-produced Royal Sunbeam bicycles in 1903, which he named Mr Phoebus, and visited the
Sunbeam Works in Upper Villiers Street for 'tuning'.[98]
Major
Roland ElcockVCMM (1899–1944) - as a corporal he was the recipient of the
Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to
British and
Commonwealth forces.[99](B)
Fiona Elliot - table tennis. In 1990 she became the first woman for 20 years to hold the national singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles simultaneously.[20](B)
Sir
Geoff Hampton - head teacher, transformed the fortunes of the first school in Britain which had been deemed by OFSTED inspectors as "failing".[127](B)
Henry John Hayward (1865–1945) - Wolverhampton-born New Zealand theatrical company manager and cinema chain proprietor.[136](B)
Sir
Jack Hayward,
OBE - son of Wolverhampton factory owners, self-made millionaire, benefactor of many charities, fighter pilot in the Second World War, President of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.[137](B)
Kenny Hibbitt -
footballer,
midfielder. During his time at
Molineux, he won 2 League Cups (
1974 and
1980, scoring in the 1974 final) and played in the
1972 UEFA Cup Final. In total, he played 544 games for Wolves, scoring 114 goals; the second most appearances a player has made in Wolves history.[142]
James Higginson (1885–1940) - cricketer who played one first-class game, he scored no runs in his only innings (but maintained an infinite batting average on account of remaining not out), and took no wickets or catches.[146]
Stuart Jeffries - jourmalist and author. Feature writer and columnist on
The Guardian. Author of Mrs Slocombe's Pussy: Growing Up in front of the Telly (2000).[162](B)
Jackery Jones (1877–1945) -
footballer,
full back, who played over 300 games in the
Football League for
Wolverhampton Wanderers. He is a member of the club's Hall of Fame. He made his first team debut in 1901, the first of 111 consecutive appearances. Playing as a full-back, he missed only a handful of games during that decade, setting a club record of 5 ever-present seasons in the process. He was part of Wolves'
1908 FA Cup triumph.[166]
William Highfield JonesJP (7 January 1829-25 March 1903) was a successful
industrialist, local politician, author and
benefactor who, with two of his brothers, built one of the largest businesses in Wolverhampton, Jones Brothers & Co. He became an alderman and the twenty-fifth Mayor of Wolverhamton. The Jones brothers are the only family to have provided three Mayors of Wolverhampton.[169][170](B)
Stuart Lampitt - cricketer, right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He took 370 List A wickets in all for Worcestershire, a record for the county.[179]
Margery Lawrence (1889–1969) - (pseudonym of Mrs. Arthur E. Towle) was an English Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction and detective fiction author who specialized in ghost stories.[184]
Bob LilleyMMBEM (1914–1981) - founding member of the British
Special Air Service. A member of the
Coldstream Guards, Lilley was one of the first four men selected by
Colonel David Stirling to be a founder member of L Detachment 1st SAS in Middle East HQ Cairo 1940. He took part in many special forces operations and missions behind enemy lines in Libya against Italian and German forces during World War II.[193]
Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863–1940) - often known as A. E. H. Love, he was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of
elasticity and a mathematical model of surface waves known as
Love waves.[196]
Des Lyttle - footballer (defender), football manager and coach.[197]
M
Macka B - born Christopher MacFarlane, in Wolverhampton, reggae artist, performer and activist.[198]
Alan Lindsay MackayFRS - crystallographer. He has made important scientific contributions related to the structure of materials and predicted
quasicrystals in 1981.[199]
Sir
Charles Arthur Mander, 2nd Baronet
JP,
DL,
TD (1884–1951) - public servant, philanthropist, and manufacturer, as managing director of
Mander Brothers, the family paint, varnish and inks business established in 1773.[201]
Sir
Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd Baronet (1921–2006) - industrialist, property developer, landowner and farmer. He was known as Marcus Mander to his family and friends.[202]
Dee Palmer - (formerly David Palmer[226]) is an English composer, arranger,[227] and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the
rock group
Jethro Tull.[228]
Dora Penny (1874–1964) - was the daughter of the Rector of Wolverhampton and a good friend of
Edward Elgar and his family. She became immortalised as 'Dorabella' in the tenth of the
Enigma Variations. Her autobiography 'Memories of a Variation' was penned under her married name of Mrs Richard Powell.[237]
Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark (born Pauline Welch, 1931) - educationalist, a Conservative politician and a member of the British House of Lords. She was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England.[239]
Shaun Perry - rugby union footballer, usual position scrum half.[240]
William Regal 1968, ring name of Darren Kenneth Matthews WWE/WCW/ECW wrestler, commentator and general manager. Also King Regal, Lord Steven Regal, Roy Regal, Steve Regal and Steven William Regal. Member of
The Blue Bloods.[citation needed]
Mark Rhodes -Mark Thomas Rhodes (born 11 September 1981) is an English singer and television presenter. Mostly famous for
TMi,
Copycats and
Pop Idol 2.[257]
John Richards -
internationalfootballer, who played as a
striker for
Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he broke the club's goalscoring record ending with 194 goals. During a fourteen-year association with Wolves he won two
League Cups and also played in
the very first UEFA Cup Final in 1972. After retiring as a player, Richards went into local government in Wolverhampton; later returning to Wolves as managing director in 1994, a post he held until 2000.[258]
Pauline Richards - athlete, appeared as Rocket in
Gladiators.[259]
Percy Stallard (1909–2001) - racing cyclist, founder of the
British League of Racing Cyclists and, as organiser of the 1942 Wolverhampton-Llangollen race, the father of massed-start cycle racing on public roads in Britain.[287]
Stevens family - Joe Stevens, father of Harry, George, Albert John (‘Jack’), and Joe Stevens Junior, engineers, Stevens Screw Company Ltd and later A J Stevens & Co (
AJS) motorcycles.[292]
Kristian Thomas - a British artistic gymnast. He comes from Wolverhampton and is a member of the Earls gymnastics club. He is coached by Michelle Bradley and Alexei Popov. Educated at St Edmund's Catholic School, Wolverhampton.[302]
Colonel Stephen John Thompson (1875–1955) - mechanical engineer and maufacturer, High Sheriff and later Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Staffordshire, President of the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1942).[303]
Hugh Vallance (1905–1973) - footballer, centre forward. Held the club record for number of goals scored in a season at Brighton & Hove Albion, the record eventually broken three years after his death.[311]
Sir
Charles Pelham Villiers (1802–1898)-
member of Parliament for sixty-three years, holding the record for being the longest serving MP in Parliamentary history. A statue of him stands in West Park in Wolverhampton.[313]
W
George Wallis, FSA (1811–1891) artist, museum curator and art educator, was the first Keeper of Fine Art Collection at South Kensington Museum (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).[314]
Paul Willis - social scientist, and well known as a major contemporary figure in sociology and cultural studies.[326]
'Mad Marty' Wilson - professional poker player. His biggest win came in 1998, when he won $171,000.[327]
Tony Wilson - boxer, British light heavyweight champion, represented Great Britain in the
1984 Summer Olympics.[328]
William Wood (1671–1730) lived at The Deanery, a large house in Wolverhampton. He was given a contract as a
mintmaster to strike an issue of
Irish coinage from 1722 to 1724. William Wood's coinage was extremely unpopular as a result of the publication of
Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters and were recalled.[329]
Billy Wright (1924–1994) - captain of England and Wolverhampton Wanderers and for a long period of time the most capped English football player.[330]
^Andrew, Christopher; et al., eds. (2003). The Role of the Intelligence Services in the Second World War. London: Institute of Contemporary British History. p. 39.
ISBN1-871348-84-6. {{
cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |editor= (
help)
^Penman, Robert (1993). Jordan, Stephanie and Allen, Dave (ed.). Parallel Lines: Media Representations of Dance (Arts Council Series), Chapter 5 Ballet and Contemporary Dance on British Television. London: John Libbey & Company Ltd. p. 105.
ISBN0-86196-371-7.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (
link)
^Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Soccerdata.
ISBN1-899468-67-6.
^Matthews, Tony (2001). The Wolves Who's Who. Britespot.
ISBN1-904103-01-4.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{
cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (
help)
^
abJoyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData (Tony Brown). p. 189.
ISBN978-1-899468-67-6. Cite error: The named reference "Joyce" was defined multiple times with different content (see the
help page).
^"Old Gold". www.thewolvessite.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^"Alex Newport". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
^"Laura Newton". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
^"John Nicholls". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
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Charles Chubb (1772–1845) was an English
locksmith who became a successful lock and safe manufacturer. Apprenticed as a blacksmith Chubb, with his brother Jeremiah, developed a competition-winning security deadlock leading to important Government contracts which enabled them to build an integrated manufacturing plant. They repeated their success with a new design of security safe.
Early life
Chubb was born in
Fordingbridge,
Hampshire, to weaver, Charles Chubb and Mary Hannah, known as Anna. Various sources give a range of birth years from 1772 to 1779. One sources quotes a birth date of 16 January 1772, but does not cite the original record.[1]
He was apprenticed to a blacksmith, then started making and selling ship's ironmongery in
Winchester with his younger brother,
Jeremiah. They moved the business to Daniel Street,
Portsea, Portsmouth in 1804. Jeremiah patented the
detector lock in February 1818. The lock design enabled an owner to see that an attempt had been made to pick it. The detector mechanism operates and the lock jams in the locked position. To make the lock work again the owner had to use a special regulating key supplied with the lock.
Here they improved on the
detector lock, originally patented in 1818 by Jeremiah, and the foundations of the Chubb company were laid.
He soon moved to
London and then to
Wolverhampton, where he employed 200 workers. In 1835, he patented a process intended to render
safes burglar-proof and fireproof, and subsequently established a large safe-factory in London. He died on 16 May 1845, and was succeeded in the business by his son,
John Chubb (1816–1872), who patented various improvements in the products of the firm and largely increased its output. The factories were combined under one roof in a model plant and the business grew to enormous proportions, now
Chubb Locks.
George Armstrong (1822–1901) - Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, Great Western Railway, 1864-1897.[7]
Joseph Armstrong (1816–1877) - Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, Great Western Railway, 1854–1864.[8]
Rod Arnold -
footballer,
goalkeeper, who spent the majority of his career at
Mansfield Town. With 513 first-team appearances for Mansfield (440 in the
league),[9] he is the holder of the club's all-time appearance record.(B)
Lindsey Ashford - crime novelist and journalist. First woman to graduate from Queens' College, Cambridge in its 550 year history and first woman to graduate with Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology.[11]
Bill Asprey (b. 1936) - footballer (defender) and coach.[12](B)
Diane BaileyMBE - golfer. Represented Great Britain and Ireland in
Curtis Cup fixtures in 1962 and 1972 and captained the team in 1984, 1986 and 1988.[20]
Professor
Chris Baines - environmentalist, gardener, naturalist, television presenter and author.[21]
Dickie Baugh (1864–1929) -
footballer, (right back) who spent the majority of his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers, for whom he played in three FA Cup finals (one as captain).[30](B)
Sir
William Maddock Bayliss (1860–1924) - physiologist. Co-discoverer of the peptide hormone secretin and peristalsis of the intestines. It was the first discovered hormone.[33]
Miles Beevor (1900–1994) - solicitor, pilot and businessman.[35]
Clinton Bennett -
British American scholar of religions and participant in interfaith dialogue specializing in the study of
Islam and Muslim-non-Muslim encounter.[36](B)
Kenneth Benton,
CMG (1909–1999) -
MI6 officer and diplomat from 1937-68.[38] Following retirement, Benton began a second career as writer of
spy and
crime thrillers.(B)
Bibio - Professional name of British music producer, Stephen Wilkinson.[43]
William Bidlake (1861–1938) - architect, a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement in Birmingham and Director of the School of Architecture at Birmingham School of Art from 1919 until 1924.[44](B)
William Chappell (1907–1994) - dancer, noted ballet designer, director. Appeared as Elihu/The Three Messengers in excerpts from de Valois' ballet Job (November 11, 1936) with
Robert Helpmann, and the Vic-Wells Ballet Company produced and choreographed by
Ninette de Valois - . This was the second broadcast of ballet on television following the official start of the BBC high definition television service on November 2, 1936.[62][63](B)
Leon Coates (b. 1937) - composer, performer and academic.[70](B)
B. L. Coombes (1893 – 1974) - born Bertie Lewis Coombes Giffiths, he was a writer who spent most of his working life in the
coal mines of the
South Wales coalfield, which provided the subject matter for much of his writing.[71](B)
Stan Cullis (1916–2001) - footballer (defender) and football manager most notably with
Wolves and has a stand named after him at their
Molineux Stadium.[81]
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) - despite living in
Worcester, he was an ardent Wolverhampton Wanderers fan and may have travelled to home games on his bicycle. Elgar bought two Wolverhampton-produced Royal Sunbeam bicycles in 1903, which he named Mr Phoebus, and visited the
Sunbeam Works in Upper Villiers Street for 'tuning'.[98]
Major
Roland ElcockVCMM (1899–1944) - as a corporal he was the recipient of the
Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to
British and
Commonwealth forces.[99](B)
Fiona Elliot - table tennis. In 1990 she became the first woman for 20 years to hold the national singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles simultaneously.[20](B)
Sir
Geoff Hampton - head teacher, transformed the fortunes of the first school in Britain which had been deemed by OFSTED inspectors as "failing".[127](B)
Henry John Hayward (1865–1945) - Wolverhampton-born New Zealand theatrical company manager and cinema chain proprietor.[136](B)
Sir
Jack Hayward,
OBE - son of Wolverhampton factory owners, self-made millionaire, benefactor of many charities, fighter pilot in the Second World War, President of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.[137](B)
Kenny Hibbitt -
footballer,
midfielder. During his time at
Molineux, he won 2 League Cups (
1974 and
1980, scoring in the 1974 final) and played in the
1972 UEFA Cup Final. In total, he played 544 games for Wolves, scoring 114 goals; the second most appearances a player has made in Wolves history.[142]
James Higginson (1885–1940) - cricketer who played one first-class game, he scored no runs in his only innings (but maintained an infinite batting average on account of remaining not out), and took no wickets or catches.[146]
Stuart Jeffries - jourmalist and author. Feature writer and columnist on
The Guardian. Author of Mrs Slocombe's Pussy: Growing Up in front of the Telly (2000).[162](B)
Jackery Jones (1877–1945) -
footballer,
full back, who played over 300 games in the
Football League for
Wolverhampton Wanderers. He is a member of the club's Hall of Fame. He made his first team debut in 1901, the first of 111 consecutive appearances. Playing as a full-back, he missed only a handful of games during that decade, setting a club record of 5 ever-present seasons in the process. He was part of Wolves'
1908 FA Cup triumph.[166]
William Highfield JonesJP (7 January 1829-25 March 1903) was a successful
industrialist, local politician, author and
benefactor who, with two of his brothers, built one of the largest businesses in Wolverhampton, Jones Brothers & Co. He became an alderman and the twenty-fifth Mayor of Wolverhamton. The Jones brothers are the only family to have provided three Mayors of Wolverhampton.[169][170](B)
Stuart Lampitt - cricketer, right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He took 370 List A wickets in all for Worcestershire, a record for the county.[179]
Margery Lawrence (1889–1969) - (pseudonym of Mrs. Arthur E. Towle) was an English Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction and detective fiction author who specialized in ghost stories.[184]
Bob LilleyMMBEM (1914–1981) - founding member of the British
Special Air Service. A member of the
Coldstream Guards, Lilley was one of the first four men selected by
Colonel David Stirling to be a founder member of L Detachment 1st SAS in Middle East HQ Cairo 1940. He took part in many special forces operations and missions behind enemy lines in Libya against Italian and German forces during World War II.[193]
Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863–1940) - often known as A. E. H. Love, he was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of
elasticity and a mathematical model of surface waves known as
Love waves.[196]
Des Lyttle - footballer (defender), football manager and coach.[197]
M
Macka B - born Christopher MacFarlane, in Wolverhampton, reggae artist, performer and activist.[198]
Alan Lindsay MackayFRS - crystallographer. He has made important scientific contributions related to the structure of materials and predicted
quasicrystals in 1981.[199]
Sir
Charles Arthur Mander, 2nd Baronet
JP,
DL,
TD (1884–1951) - public servant, philanthropist, and manufacturer, as managing director of
Mander Brothers, the family paint, varnish and inks business established in 1773.[201]
Sir
Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd Baronet (1921–2006) - industrialist, property developer, landowner and farmer. He was known as Marcus Mander to his family and friends.[202]
Dee Palmer - (formerly David Palmer[226]) is an English composer, arranger,[227] and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the
rock group
Jethro Tull.[228]
Dora Penny (1874–1964) - was the daughter of the Rector of Wolverhampton and a good friend of
Edward Elgar and his family. She became immortalised as 'Dorabella' in the tenth of the
Enigma Variations. Her autobiography 'Memories of a Variation' was penned under her married name of Mrs Richard Powell.[237]
Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark (born Pauline Welch, 1931) - educationalist, a Conservative politician and a member of the British House of Lords. She was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England.[239]
Shaun Perry - rugby union footballer, usual position scrum half.[240]
William Regal 1968, ring name of Darren Kenneth Matthews WWE/WCW/ECW wrestler, commentator and general manager. Also King Regal, Lord Steven Regal, Roy Regal, Steve Regal and Steven William Regal. Member of
The Blue Bloods.[citation needed]
Mark Rhodes -Mark Thomas Rhodes (born 11 September 1981) is an English singer and television presenter. Mostly famous for
TMi,
Copycats and
Pop Idol 2.[257]
John Richards -
internationalfootballer, who played as a
striker for
Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he broke the club's goalscoring record ending with 194 goals. During a fourteen-year association with Wolves he won two
League Cups and also played in
the very first UEFA Cup Final in 1972. After retiring as a player, Richards went into local government in Wolverhampton; later returning to Wolves as managing director in 1994, a post he held until 2000.[258]
Pauline Richards - athlete, appeared as Rocket in
Gladiators.[259]
Percy Stallard (1909–2001) - racing cyclist, founder of the
British League of Racing Cyclists and, as organiser of the 1942 Wolverhampton-Llangollen race, the father of massed-start cycle racing on public roads in Britain.[287]
Stevens family - Joe Stevens, father of Harry, George, Albert John (‘Jack’), and Joe Stevens Junior, engineers, Stevens Screw Company Ltd and later A J Stevens & Co (
AJS) motorcycles.[292]
Kristian Thomas - a British artistic gymnast. He comes from Wolverhampton and is a member of the Earls gymnastics club. He is coached by Michelle Bradley and Alexei Popov. Educated at St Edmund's Catholic School, Wolverhampton.[302]
Colonel Stephen John Thompson (1875–1955) - mechanical engineer and maufacturer, High Sheriff and later Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Staffordshire, President of the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1942).[303]
Hugh Vallance (1905–1973) - footballer, centre forward. Held the club record for number of goals scored in a season at Brighton & Hove Albion, the record eventually broken three years after his death.[311]
Sir
Charles Pelham Villiers (1802–1898)-
member of Parliament for sixty-three years, holding the record for being the longest serving MP in Parliamentary history. A statue of him stands in West Park in Wolverhampton.[313]
W
George Wallis, FSA (1811–1891) artist, museum curator and art educator, was the first Keeper of Fine Art Collection at South Kensington Museum (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).[314]
Paul Willis - social scientist, and well known as a major contemporary figure in sociology and cultural studies.[326]
'Mad Marty' Wilson - professional poker player. His biggest win came in 1998, when he won $171,000.[327]
Tony Wilson - boxer, British light heavyweight champion, represented Great Britain in the
1984 Summer Olympics.[328]
William Wood (1671–1730) lived at The Deanery, a large house in Wolverhampton. He was given a contract as a
mintmaster to strike an issue of
Irish coinage from 1722 to 1724. William Wood's coinage was extremely unpopular as a result of the publication of
Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters and were recalled.[329]
Billy Wright (1924–1994) - captain of England and Wolverhampton Wanderers and for a long period of time the most capped English football player.[330]
^Andrew, Christopher; et al., eds. (2003). The Role of the Intelligence Services in the Second World War. London: Institute of Contemporary British History. p. 39.
ISBN1-871348-84-6. {{
cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |editor= (
help)
^Penman, Robert (1993). Jordan, Stephanie and Allen, Dave (ed.). Parallel Lines: Media Representations of Dance (Arts Council Series), Chapter 5 Ballet and Contemporary Dance on British Television. London: John Libbey & Company Ltd. p. 105.
ISBN0-86196-371-7.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (
link)
^Joyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Soccerdata.
ISBN1-899468-67-6.
^Matthews, Tony (2001). The Wolves Who's Who. Britespot.
ISBN1-904103-01-4.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{
cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (
help)
^
abJoyce, Michael (2004). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: SoccerData (Tony Brown). p. 189.
ISBN978-1-899468-67-6. Cite error: The named reference "Joyce" was defined multiple times with different content (see the
help page).
^"Old Gold". www.thewolvessite.co.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^"Alex Newport". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
^"Laura Newton". www.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
^"John Nicholls". www.englandstats.com. Retrieved 15 March 2013.