Personae Vectenses: Isle of Wight Notables

Phillip Armitage

ISBN 10: 1999728327 / ISBN 13: 9781999728328

Published by Beachy Books, United Kingdom, 2019

About this Item

This book is a fascinating collection of short biographies of people who were born on the Isle of Wight or who lived there for some period of their life and had a significant influence on the wider society.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Personae Vectenses: Isle of Wight Notables
• Publisher: Beachy Books, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1999728327
• ISBN 13: 9781999728328
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition First Printing
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is a fascinating collection of short biographies of people who were born on the Isle of Wight or who lived there for some period of their life and had a significant influence on the wider society.

They come from all walks of life ranging from two queens (one is Queen Victoria, of course) to a pirate and a chimney sweep. They cover all periods of history and spheres of influence.

Some were famous but most have been forgotten. Of the 246 whose biographies are included 74 were Island-born including Uffa Fox, Robert Hooke, Sheila Hancock, and Jeremy Irons.

Includes a Location Index of where on the Isle of Wight the notable lived, had influence or was born.

About the Author

Phillip Armitage was born on the Isle of Wight and educated, first at Cowes Secondary Modern and then Newport Grammar School from where he went on to London university. He studied chemistry at Queen Mary College taking his first degree and then a doctorate. He began his teaching career in Falmouth then went on to Rugby and finally at Nailsea in Somerset. Still only thirty two, he became science adviser for Somerset Education Authority before moving to County of Avon as a senior adviser. Later he worked as an Ofsted inspector and re- tired to live in a Victorian rectory just outside Worcester, where he continues to surround himself with books, maps and prints of the Isle of Wight. It was whilst working in Somerset that he published his first book, combining a lifelong interest in historic maps and prints with his Isle of Wight background. Phillip's "A Bibliography of George Brannon's 'Vectis Scenery', 1820- 1857" is about the life and work of the acclaimed Irish-born Isle of Wight artist, printmaker and publisher whose etchings of scenes of the Island in the 1800s were collected and catalogued by Phillip for the first time, and it was Brannon's grandson who became a founder of the Isle of Wight County Press.