J. R. ACKERLEY 1896–1967
Writer and editor.
(SIR) MALCOLM ARNOLD 1921–2006
Composer, whose works included symphonies and music for brass bands.
JOHN BENSUSAN-BUTT 1911–1997
Artist and historian. Lived in the Minories, Colchester.
ELIZABETH BOWEN (CBE) 1899–1973
Irish novelist and short-story writer loosely associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
(LORD) BENJAMIN BRITTEN (OF ALDEBURGH, OM, CH) 1913–1976
Composer, conductor and pianist. Co-founder of the Aldeburgh Festival. Partner of Peter Pears.
EDWARD CLODD 1840–1930
Banker, writer and anthropologist with a large circle of scientific and literary friends.
GEORGE CRABBE 1754–1832
Clergyman, poet (The Borough) and surgeon.
ERIC CROZIER 1914–1994
Theatre director and opera librettist associated with Benjamin Britten, with whom he co-founded the Aldeburgh Festival. Married mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans OBE in 1941.
EDWARD FITZGERALD 1809–1883
Poet and writer. Translator of the Rubáiyát.
E. M. (EDWARD MORGAN) FORSTER 1879–1970
Writer and librettist.
DAVID GASCOYNE 1916–2001
Surrealist poet.
(SIR) PETER HALL (CBE) 1930–
Theatre and film director. Directed Akenfield, based on Ronald Blythe’s Portrait of an English Village.
MAGGI HAMBLING 1945–
Painter and sculptor.
JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON 1941–
Writer. Author of Gerontius, an imagined reconstruction of Sir Edward Elgar’s journey along the Amazon in 1923.
GUSTAV HOLST 1874–1934
Composer.
IMOGEN HOLST 1907–1984
Composer, conductor, musicologist and encourager of amateur musicians. A close friend of Benjamin Britten and the daughter of Gustav Holst.
KURT HUTTON 1893–1960.
Pioneering German-born photographer.
M.R. (MONTAGUE RHODES) JAMES 1862–1936
Scholar of medieval history and writer of ghost stories.
Poet and literary editor, founder of New Writing and the London Magazine.
ARTHUR LETT-HAINES 1894–1978
Surrealist sculptor and painter. With Cedric Morris established the East Anglian School of Painting, first at Dedham and later at Benton End, Hadleigh.
ALUN LEWIS 1915–1944
Welsh poet, known particularly for his war poetry.
HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN 1920–1981
American-Australian pianist, writer and human-rights campaigner.
(SIR) CEDRIC MORRIS 1889–1982
Welsh painter and plantsman. See also Arthur Lett-Haines, above.
JOHN NASH (CBE RA) 1893–1977
Artist and engraver. Lived with his wife Christine at Bottengoms, Wormingford.
CONRAD NOEL 1869–1942
Priest of the Church of England, Vicar of Thaxted.
Founding member of the British Socialist Party and a friend of Gustav Holst.
GLENCAIRN STUART OGILVIE
Scottish writer, barrister and eccentric architect.
MERVYN PEAKE 1911–1968
Writer, artist, illustrator and poet.
(SIR) PETER PEARS (CBE) 1910–1986
Tenor. Partner of Benjamin Britten, with whom he co-founded the Aldeburgh Festival and established a long-standing recital partnership. Created many roles in Britten’s operas, including Peter Grimes and Captain Vere (Billy Budd).
WILLIAM PLOMER 1903–1973
South African and British writer and literary editor.
In later years was to write librettos for Britten.
MARY POTTER 1900–1981
Artist and close friend of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Lived at the Red House in Aldeburgh, before exchanging Aldeburgh houses with Britten and Pears.
REX PYKE 1940–
Film editor and producer of drama and documentary.
VIKRAM SETH 1952–
Indian novelist and poet.
MARTIN SHAW (OBE FRCM) 1875–1958
Prolific composer, conductor and producer.
PEGGY SOMERVILLE 1918–1975
Child prodigy and Impressionist painter.
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER 1893–1978
Novelist, poet and translator.
CHRISTINE WESTON 1905–1989
British Indian writer, author of Indigo.