464 Woolwich Celebrities. 



PAYNE, THOS. ; author of " The Age of Reason," kept a stay- 

 maker's shop in High Street. 



PEPYS, SAMUEL ; diarist, lived for a time here during the Plague 

 and Fire of London, 16651666. 



PETRIE, W. M. FLINDERS ; Egyptologist, born at Maryon Road, 

 Charlton, 1853. 



PETTE, PHINEAS, Master shipwright, and friend of Prince Henry, 

 1606. 



PROCTOR, R. A. ; astronomer, lived at Brook Hill Road, Woolwich, 

 about 1873. 



PULTENAY, SIR JOHN, Lord Mayor of London four times, and Lord 

 of Woolwich, 13271349. Is supposed to have lived at the 

 Towel House, nucleus of the Royal Arsenal. 



, EDWARD ; poet, married Wordsworth's daughter, and 

 lived at Nightingale Vale about 1835. 



RALEIGH, SIR WALTER ; fitted Naval expedition here, temp. Eliza- 

 beth and James I. 



REEVES, SIMS ; singer, born at R.A. Barracks, 1818. 



ROPER, MARGARET ; heroic daughter of Sir Thomas More, lived at 

 Well Hall, Eltham, and died, 1577. 



RUPERT, PRINCE ; fortified Woolwich against the Dutch in 1667. 



SALOMONS, SIR D., M.P. for Greenwich (including Woolwich) ; 

 vindicator of Jewish liberties. 



SANDBY, PAUL ; famous artist, drawing master at R.M.A., 1768 

 1797. 



SCOTT, REV. ALEX. ; philosopher and lecturer, first Principal of 

 Owens College, Manchester, was previously, from 1830 to 1846, 

 Presbyterian minister at Woolwich. 



SCHALCH, ANDREW ; first master-founder at Royal Gun Factories, 

 1716 ; died at Charlton, 1776. 



SHOVEL, SIR CLOUDESLEY, resided at May Place, Crayford. 

 SIEMENS, Sir W. ; electrician and author. 1883. 

 TOPLEY, WILLIAM, F.R.S. ; geologist, born here. 



VANBRUGH, SIR JOHN ; lived at Greenwich, and built Gun Factories, 

 etc., at Woolwich, 1717. 



WORDSWORTH, WM. ; poet, lived occasionally at Nightingale Vale, 

 with his daughter, Rotha Quillinan, and her husband, about 

 1835. 



