Notable residents of Yattendon include: •
Henry Charles Beeching (1859 – 1919); clergyman, writer and poet; Rector of Yattendon 1885-1900 •
Robert Bridges, who later became
Poet Laureate, lived at Yattendon until 1882, where he compiled the
Yattendon Hymnal. •
Thomas Carte, noted English historian, once held the
rectory and was buried in the church. •
General Sir Miles Dempsey, British Army officer who fought in
World War I and
World War II. •
Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe, the newspaper magnate who lived at Yattendon Court. From 1925 to 1940, he amalgamated several small farming estates and formed the
Yattendon Estate in 1955. It covers nearly of farmland, woodland, grazing and Christmas tree plantations. •
Ruth Mott, cook and TV presenter, was born in the village. She was a technical advisor on the 2001
Robert Altman film
Gosford Park. •
Egon Ronay the restaurant critic, lived in Yattendon until his death in 2010. •
Alfred Waterhouse, the
architect of the
Natural History Museum who built himself a home at Yattendon Court (not the present building). The fortified
manor house,
Yattendon Castle was home of: •
Sir Henry Norreys, a
Tudor courtier accused of adultery with Queen
Anne Boleyn and the father of •
Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, Ambassador to
France and father of • Sir
John Norreys, the greatest soldier of
Elizabethan England whose
memorial is in the
parish church. ==References==