The Cloudesley area has been home to many famous or otherwise interesting residents over the years. The list here is a work in progress - please let us know if you are aware of anyone else you think should be added. They may have lived in your house! Further details are available for some of the residents which you can access by clicking on the entry.
Cloudesley People
George Linnaeus Banks, 1821-81, Writer etc, 33 Cloudesley Square
Isobella Banks, 1821-64, Poet and Novelist, 33 Cloudesley Square
Glynn Boyd Harte, 1948-2003, Artist, 28 Cloudesley Square
Caroline Boyd Harte, nee Bullock, 1947- , Artist, 28 Cloudesley Square
Tony Blair, 1953-, Politician, 1 Richmond Crescent
Henry Butter, 1794-1885, Etymologist, 54 Cloudesley Terrace
Henry Tracey Coxwell, 1819-1900, Balloonist, 16 Cloudesley Square
William Hayman Cummings, 1831-1915, Musician and author, son of Edward Manly Cummings, Virger at St Pauls, both at Cloudesley Cottage, Cloudesley Square
Thomas Edwards, 1779-1858, Welsh-English Dictionary, 10 Cloudesley Square
John Thomas Emmett, 1823-1898, Victorian Gothic architect and son of John Emmett (builder of most of Cloudesley Estate), 1 Cloudesley Square
Roland Gift, 1961 - , Musician and Actor; lead singer with Fine Young Cannibals, 20 Cloudesley Square
John Abraham Heraud, 1799-1887, Author, critic, playwright and poet, 2 Cloudesley Terrace
Anne Howeson, Artist, Cloudesley Road, (see article here)
Lady Olga Maitland, 1944-, Politician, Cloudesley Street
Colin Pearson, 1923-2007, Potter, Cloudesley Road (click here for photo of studio)
Clive Ponting, 1946-2020, Whistleblower, Richmond Avenue then Cloudesley Road
Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1792–1864, Watercolour Artist, 5 Cloudesley St & 26 Batchelor St (blue plaque)
Robert Kent Thomas, 1816-1884, painter, engraver, lithographer, 25 Cloudesley Square
Edward Watts, 1978-, award winning filmmaker, and guardian at Holy Trinity Church
Warwick Williams, 1846-?, Composer, 1 Cloudesley Square