The Town has been home to a number of interesting and successful people the list will grow as time passes here are a few, the scientist Robert Boyle, writer Douglas Adams who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when staying with his mother in Grove Lane and artist Sir James Thornhill who was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition lived just south of the town in Thornhill House.
The origin of Scammell Lorries lies in Donhead St Mary were George Scammell was born in 1817 to a Wiltshire family of millers By the late 1860s George, now in his fifties and with no children of his own, looked to his nephew, Alfred Thomas Scammell, to join the business as heir apparent the business became Scammell & Nephew Ltd. Alfred was living with his parents in West Mill Stalbridge aged 11 in 1861.
Robert Avis a war veteran of the Crimea, was buried with full military honours in Stalbridge 1909.
Lovelace Brothers Bicycle Manufacturers in Stalbridge and Henstridge 1880's.
Irene Jones died in 1993 writer of the Stalbridge Inheritance Series, to quote local historian Hilary Townsend, Irene was "a model for anyone interested in Dorset’s local history"
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The origin of Scammell Lorries lies in Donhead St Mary were George Scammell was born in 1817 to a Wiltshire family of millers By the late 1860s George, now in his fifties and with no children of his own, looked to his nephew, Alfred Thomas Scammell, to join the business as heir apparent the business became Scammell & Nephew Ltd. Alfred was living with his parents in West Mill Stalbridge aged 11 in 1861.
Robert Avis a war veteran of the Crimea, was buried with full military honours in Stalbridge 1909.
Lovelace Brothers Bicycle Manufacturers in Stalbridge and Henstridge 1880's.
Irene Jones died in 1993 writer of the Stalbridge Inheritance Series, to quote local historian Hilary Townsend, Irene was "a model for anyone interested in Dorset’s local history"
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