Putney () is an affluent district in southwest
London
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, England, in the
London Borough of Wandsworth
Wandsworth () is a London boroughs, London borough in South West (London sub region), South West London, England. It forms part of Inner London and has an estimated population of 329,677 inhabitants. Its main communities are Battersea, Balham, P ...
, southwest of
Charing Cross
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. The area is identified in the
London Plan
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The regio ...
as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
History

Putney is an ancient parish which covered in the
Hundred of Brixton
Brixton Hundred or the Hundred of Brixton was for many centuries a group of parishes (hundred) used for meetings and taxation of their respective great estates in the north east of the county of Surrey, England. Its area has been entirely absorb ...
in the county of
Surrey
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. Its area has been reduced by the loss of
Roehampton
Roehampton is an area in southwest London, sharing its SW15 postcode with neighbouring Putney and Kingston Vale, and takes up a far western strip, running north to south, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It contains a number of large counc ...
to the south-west, an offshoot hamlet that conserved more of its own
clustered historic core.
In 1855 the parish was included in the area of responsibility of the
Metropolitan Board of Works
The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) was the upper tier of local government for London between 1856 and 1889, primarily responsible for upgrading infrastructure. It also had a parks and open spaces committee which set aside and opened up severa ...
and was grouped into the
Wandsworth District. In 1889 the area was removed from Surrey and became part of the
County of London
The County of London was a county of England from 1889 to 1965, corresponding to the area known today as Inner London. It was created as part of the general introduction of elected county government in England, by way of the Local Government A ...
. The Wandsworth District became the
Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth
The Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth was a Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, Metropolitan borough under the London County Council, from 1900 to 1965.
History
The borough was formed from five civil parishes in England, civil parish ...
in 1900. Since 1965 Putney has formed part of the London Borough of Wandsworth in
Greater London
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.
The
benefice
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of the parish remains a perpetual curacy whose patron is the
Dean and Chapter of Worcester Cathedral. The church, founded in the medieval period as a chapel of ease to Wimbledon, was rebuilt in the very early
Tudor period
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and in 1836 was again rebuilt, and the old tower restored, at an expense of £7,000 (which is approximately ) defrayed by subscription, a rate, and a grant of £400 from the Incorporated Society. It has a small
chantry
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# a chantry service, a set of Christian liturgical celebrations for the dead (made up of the Requiem Mass and the Office of the Dead), or
# a chantry chapel, a b ...
chapel (originally erected by native
Nicholas West
Nicholas West (146128 April 1533), was an English bishop and diplomatist, born at Putney in Surrey, and educated at Eton College, Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1486. He also had periods of study at Univers ...
, Bishop of Ely (d. 1533)) removed from the east end of the south aisle, and rebuilt at the east end of the north side, preserving the old style.
In 1684, Thomas Martyn bequeathed lands for the foundation and support of a
charity school
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for 20 boys, sons of watermen; and by a decree of the court of chancery in 1715, the property was vested in trustees. A charitable
almshouse
An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the Middle Ages. They were often built for the poor of a locality, for those who had held ce ...
for 12 men and women, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was erected by Sir Abraham Dawes, who provided it with an endowment.
[
Putney was the birthplace of ]Thomas Cromwell
Thomas Cromwell (; – 28 July 1540) was an English statesman and lawyer who served as List of English chief ministers, chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false cha ...
, made Earl of Essex
Earl of Essex is a title in the Peerage of England which was first created in the 12th century by King Stephen of England. The title has been recreated eight times from its original inception, beginning with a new first Earl upon each new cre ...
by Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his Wives of Henry VIII, six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. ...
; of Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician. His most important work, ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is known for ...
, author of the ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', sometimes shortened to ''Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. The six volumes cover, from 98 to 1590, the peak of the Ro ...
'', who was born in 1737; and also of Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. At ...
, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1945–1951 and Leader of the Labour Party 1935 –1955, born in 1883. John Toland
John Toland (30 November 167011 March 1722) was an Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, which are early expressions ...
, a noted free-thinker
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A freethinker holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and should instead be reached by other meth ...
, died and was buried at Putney in 1722. Robert Wood, under-Secretary of State for the Southern Department
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, who published ''The Ruins of Palmyra'' about the Roman ruins he visited at Baalbek
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in Syria
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, and other archæological works lies here. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
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, died at a house on Putney Heath.
In the 1840s Putney was still a part-wooded, part-agricultural village focussed closest to the Thames, opposite to Fulham, with which it was connected by a wooden bridge. It was street-lit with gas, partly paved, and well supplied with water. In 1840, the College for Civil Engineers relocated to Putney.
Putney had a second place of worship for Independents, and Roehampton
Roehampton is an area in southwest London, sharing its SW15 postcode with neighbouring Putney and Kingston Vale, and takes up a far western strip, running north to south, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It contains a number of large counc ...
achieved separate parish status in 1845. The proprietors of the bridge distributed £31 per annum to watermen
A waterman is a river worker who transfers passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in the United Kingdom and its colonies. Most notable are those on the River Thames and River Medway in England, but other rivers such as the ...
, and watermen's widows and children, and the parish received benefit from Henry Smith's and other charities.[ Putney in 1887 covered .
]
River crossing
Putney appears in the ''Domesday Book
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'' of 1086 as ''Putelei'', although this was "probably a mistake of the Norman scribes". Ultimately the name derives from the Anglo-Saxon
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''Puttan hythe'', meaning Putta's landing place. It was noted that it did not fall into the category of local jurisdictions known as a manor, but obtained 20 shillings from the ferry or market toll
Toll may refer to:
Transportation
* Toll (fee) a fee charged for the use of a road or waterway
** Toll road, a type of road which for which payment is required for passage
** Road pricing, the modern practice of charging for road use
** Road to ...
at Putney belonging to the manor of Mortlake
Mortlake is a suburban district of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the south bank of the River Thames between Kew and Barnes, London, Barnes. Historically it was part of Surrey and until 1965 was in the Municipal Borough of Barnes ...
.
The ferry was mentioned in the household accounts of Edward I
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(reigned 1272–1307): Robert the Ferryman of Putney and other sailors received 3/6d for carrying a great part of the royal family across the Thames and also for taking the king and his family to Westminster
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.
One famous crossing at Putney was that of Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey ( ; – 29 November 1530) was an English statesman and Catholic cardinal. When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the king's almoner. Wolsey's affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling f ...
in 1529 upon his 'disgrace' in falling out of favour with Henry VIII and on ceasing to be the holder of the Great Seal of England. As he was riding up Putney Hill, he was overtaken by one of the royal chamberlains who presented him with a ring as a token of the continuance of his majesty's favour. When the Cardinal had heard these words of the king, he quickly lighted from his mule and knelt down upon both knees, holding up his hands for joy, and said "When I consider the joyful news that you have brought to me, I could do no less than greatly rejoice. Every word pierces so my heart, that the sudden joy surmounted my memory, having no regard or respect to the place; but I thought it my duty, that in the same place where I received this comfort, to laud and praise God upon my knees, and most humbly to render unto my sovereign lord my most hearty thanks for the same".[], Putney, ]British History Online
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The first bridge of any kind between the two parishes of Fulham and Putney was built during the Civil War
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: after the Battle of Brentford in 1642, the Parliamentary forces built a bridge of boats between Fulham and Putney. According to an account from the period:The Lord-Generall hath caused a bridge to be built upon barges and lighters over the Thames, between Fulham and Putney, to convey his army and artillery over into Surry, to follow the King's forces; and he hath ordered that forts shall be erected at each end thereof to guard it; but for the present the seamen, with long boats and shallops, full of ordnance and musketeers, lie there upon the river to secure it.
The first permanent bridge between Fulham and Putney was completed in 1729, and was the second bridge to be built across the Thames in London (after London Bridge
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).
One story runs that "in 1720 Sir Robert Walpole
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was returning from seeing George I George I or 1 may refer to:
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at Kingston
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and being in a hurry to get to the House of Commons rode together with his servant to Putney to take the ferry across to Fulham. The ferry boat was on the opposite side, however and the waterman, who was drinking in the Swan, ignored the calls of Sir Robert and his servant and they were obliged to take another route. Walpole vowed that a bridge would replace the ferry."[George & Michael Dewe, ''The Predecessor of Putney Bridge – Fulham Bridge 1729–1886'' (1986)] The Prince of Wales "was often inconvenienced by the ferry when returning from hunting in Richmond Park and asked Walpole to use his influence by supporting the bridge."[ The bridge was a wooden structure and lasted for 150 years.] However, by 1886, it was no longer strong enough to withstand increasing road traffic, and was replaced by the stone bridge that stands today.
St Mary's Church
The parish church of St Mary the Virgin became the site of the 1647 Putney Debates
The Putney Debates, which took place from 28 October to 8 November 1647, were a series of discussions over the political settlement that should follow Parliament's victory over Charles I in the First English Civil War. The main participants wer ...
. Towards the end of the English Civil War
The English Civil War or Great Rebellion was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Cavaliers, Royalists and Roundhead, Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of th ...
, with the Roundhead
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s looking victorious, some soldiers in the New Model Army
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staged a minor mutiny amid fears that a monarchy would be replaced by a new dictatorship. A number, known as the Levellers
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, complained: "We were not a mere mercenary army hired to serve any arbitrary power of a state, but called forth ... to the defence of the people's just right and liberties".
A manifesto was proposed entitled ''An Agreement of the People
'' An Agreement of the People'' was a series of manifestos, published between 1647 and 1649, for constitutional changes to the English state. Several versions of the ''Agreement'' were published, each adapted to address not only broad concerns b ...
'', and at an open meeting in Putney the officers of the Army Council heard the argument from private soldiers for a transparent, democratic state, without corruption. Proposals included sovereignty for English citizens, Parliamentary seats distributed according to population rather than property ownership, religion made a free choice, equality before the law, conscription abolished and parliamentary elections held every year. While the ideas proved greatly influential, including inspiring much of the language of the United States Declaration of Independence
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, Oliver Cromwell
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would later have the Leveller leaders executed.
The diarist Samuel Pepys
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visited St. Mary's Church on several occasions. During one visit on 28 April 1667, he recorded:"and then back to Putney Church, where I saw the girls of the schools, few of which pretty; and there I come into a pew, and met with little James Pierce, which I was much pleased at, the little rogue being very glad to see me: his master, Reader to the Church. Here was a good sermon and much company, but I sleepy, and a little out of order, for my hat falling down through a hole underneath the pulpit, which, however, after sermon, by a stick, and the help of the clerke, I got up again, and then walked out of the church."
Open spaces and clean air
For centuries, Putney was a place where Londoners came for leisure, to enjoy the open spaces and clean air. Londoners came to Putney to play games. According to John Locke, who writes, in 1679: "The sports of England for a curious stranger to see are horse-racing, hawking, hunting, and bowling; at Putney he may see several persons of quality bowling two or three times a week."
One regular visitor was Queen Elizabeth I
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who frequently visited Putney from 1579 to 1603, often visiting Mr John Lacy. She was said to "honour Lacy with her company more frequently than any of her subjects", often staying for two to three days.[
]
Putney Heath
Charles II reviewed his forces on Putney Heath in 1684; in May 1767, George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland, Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and ...
reviewed the Guards, and the Surrey Volunteers at the same spot in 1799.[Geikie, J. C. (1903). ''The Fascination of London: Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney''. London: A & C Black, p. 85.] According to Samuel Pepys, Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York
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, used to run horses here.
A stone and brick obelisk was erected on Putney Heath in 1770, marking the 110th anniversary of the Great Fire of London
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, to coincide with the invention of the Hartley fire plates by David Hartley (the Younger)
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, near a spot where his fireproof house was built. The obelisk, with ornately detailed foundation stone, is still standing and can be accessed via the car park adjacent to The Telegraph public house, off Wildcroft Road, SW15. The lower part of this house was repeatedly set on fire in the presence, among others, of King George III
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and Queen Charlotte
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, the members of Parliament, the Lord Mayor, and the Aldermen.[Geikie, J. C. (1903). ''The Fascination of London: Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney''. London: A & C Black, p. 84.] Since 1955 the obelisk has been a Grade II listed building. The adjacent Wildcroft Manor was formerly in the ownership of publishing magnate George Newnes
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, builder of Putney Library. In 1895 he was created a baronet
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"of Wildcroft, in the parish of Putney, in the county of London
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.
Many duels were undertaken on Putney Heath. In May 1652, George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos, and Colonel Henry Compton fought with Compton being killed in the encounter. On a Sunday afternoon in May 1798 William Pitt, the then Prime Minister, who lived in Bowling-Green House on the heath, fought a bloodless battle with William Tierney, MP. The house derived its name from the bowling-green formerly attached to it, and for more than sixty years (1690–1750) was the most famous green in the neighbourhood of London. The house had large rooms for public breakfasts and assemblies, was a fashionable place of entertainment, and noted for "deep play." Pitt died in the house in 1806. It was later owned by Henry Lewis Doulton, son of Henry Doulton
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Life
Born in Vauxhall, Henry was the second of the eight ch ...
of pottery fame. It was demolished and an art deco
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style residence rebuilt on the site in 1933. Putney Heath, near the Telegraph pub, was also the venue for the September 1809 duel
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During the 17th and 18th centuries (and earlier), duels were mostly single combats fought with swords (the rapier and later the small sword), but beginning in ...
between Cabinet ministers George Canning
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and Lord Castlereagh
Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh ( ) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Irish-born British st ...
.
Scio House was the last villa on Portsmouth Road abutting the heath: it eventually became a hospital and was known as Scio House Hospital for Officers, Putney. It has since been redeveloped as a gated community of 70 neo-Georgian homes divided between two streets.
Putney Heath is around less the A3 road in size and rises to above sea level. Because of its elevation, from 1796 to 1816 Putney Heath hosted a station in the shutter telegraph chain, which connected the Admiralty in London to its naval ships in Portsmouth
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. One of 10 signal stations with telescopes making observation of the next station's signal, a message could be sent from the Admiralty to Portsmouth within 15 minutes. This was replaced by a semaphore station, which was part of a semaphore line
An optical telegraph is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals (a form of optical communication). There are two main types of such systems; the semaphore telegraph whic ...
that operated between 1822 and 1847.
Putney Heath was for many years a noted rendezvous for highwaymen. In 1795, the notorious highwayman Jeremiah Abershaw – also known as Jerry Avershaw – was caught in the Green Man pub (now owned by Wandsworth
Wandsworth Town () is a district of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Toponymy
Wandsworth takes its name ...
pub company Young's
Young's (Young & Co.'s Brewery Plc) is a British pub chain operating nearly 220 pubs.
The company was founded as a brewery in 1831 by Charles Young and Anthony Bainbridge when they purchased the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth. The company closed ...
,) on the northside of the heath where Putney Hill meets Tibbet's Ride. After execution his body was hung in chains on the heath as a warning to others. An ancient wood fence cattle pound is located opposite the Green Man, adjacent to two huge plane trees, near the bus terminus. This simple wood fence structure, used historically to contain lost livestock, has been listed as a Grade II listed structure since 1983.
A number of fine homes lined Putney Hill and the north face of the heath, west of the Green Man. All had semi-circular carriageway entrances and exits.[Bailey, Keith. ''Old Ordnance Survey Maps, Putney 1913''. South Shields: Godfrey Maps] These included Grantham House, the residence of Lady Grantham; Ripon House, Ashburton House; Exeter House, occupied by the second Marquis of Exeter. George Cokayne
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, author of peerage and baronetage publications, died at Exeter House in 1911. Nearby Gifford House was owned by the J. D. Charrington of brewing fame; and Dover House, was the seat originally of Lord Dover, afterwards of Lord Clifden. It was owned at the turn of the 20th century by the famous US financier JP Morgan
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.
With the development of transport routes for the growing financial sector, the area became highly desirable for City gents in the 1890s and they were initially known as "outsiders". In 1900, social researcher Charles Booth had classified the whole area of Putney Hill and West Hill, leading into Putney Heath, as wealthy or well-to-do. Despite a full array of places of worship, he said it was noted for low church attendance
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The Catholic Church teaches that on Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithf ...
with all denominations "struggling for the souls of pleasure-seeking Putney... the middle class here are as indifferent as the poor elsewhere."[
The village green at the corner of Wildcroft and Telegraph Roads is used by Roehampton Cricket Club and is one of the oldest cricket teams in London, established 1842. The club has played there continuously since 1859 when lord of the manor, Earl Spencer, suggested it as a new site. It has two sides in the highly competitive Fullers Surrey County League and a Sunday side that plays on a more social level. In 1900, a decade after the death of his multi-millionaire father ]Junius Morgan
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In 1864, he established J. S. Morgan & Co. in Lo ...
, JP Morgan gained a fondness for the sport and was made an honorary member. Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton
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, the honorary member who presided at the club dinner in 1910, allowed his two young children to play cowboys and Indians on the cricket green during the week.
The Chelsea Water Company originally owned the reservoir site and allowed construction of the club pavilion on its property. The reservoir site is now owned by Thames Water
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. Cricket matches continued during the war although some games started late or were drawn due to late starts or air raid sirens. Four German V-1 flying bomb
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s struck the area in World War II.[ One destroyed the club's pavilion, opposite the Telegraph pub, in July 1944, near where the covered water reservoir is located. Wildcroft Road, turning into Portsmouth Road and thus the future A3, was a main thoroughfare into SW London and became a stop-off point for American serviceman who alighted from their jeeps to "taste this crazy cricket game"
On the south side of the reservoir, in the triangle of land between Wildcroft Road, Tibbet's Ride and the Green Man, is a large clearing of land. A funfair is set up on the grounds each October, lasting for one week. Ground rent is paid by the touring company to the Wimbledon and Putney Commons Conservators, as part of the income of the charity.
]
Local character
Excluding the ''Putney Exchange'' in a survey by the New Economics Foundation
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NEF was founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) with the aim of working for a "new m ...
of 27 London high streets in 2005, Putney's ranked fifth most "cloned... eaningoffering identikit shopping with little local character".
Demographics
A local directory of Putney in 1932 listed a high proportion of residents as being professional, including doctors and lawyers. The area also was home to significant numbers of retired naval officers.[The Putney Society (2010). ''The Bulletin'', December. p2.]
The 2011 census showed this professional character still present. Looking at a combination of the electoral wards of East Putney, West Putney and Thamesfield (which comprises North Putney), 46% of residents were classified as higher or lower "managerial, administrative & professional" socio-economic status; 6% were retired. Ethnicity in these wards is 81% white, 8% Asian, 5% black, and 4% of mixed or multiple ethnicities. Sixty-five percent of the population was born in the UK. The most identified religion was Christianity at 56%, with 27% declaring no religion, 8% not stating any religion, 5% Muslim and other religions making up the remainder.
The 2011 Census also revealed Thamesfield as having the highest number of Australians and New Zealanders in London, followed by the East Putney ward in second place. Putney is also noted for its high concentration of South African residents; a survey b
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found that Putney had more South African residents than any other region in the UK.
Politics
The Member of Parliament for Putney
Putney () is an affluent district in southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
History
Putney is an ...
is Fleur Anderson
Kathleen Fleur Anderson (born 6 February 1971) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney since 2019. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland sin ...
, who has served as the MP for the constituency since the 2019 general election, as a member of the Labour Party.
Rowing and the Boat Race
Since the second half of the 19th century, Putney has been a significant centre for rowing
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. There are two reasons for this.
First, increasing numbers of steam-powered boats (not to mention the growing levels of sewage being discharged into the river) made leisure rowing on the Thames in central London unpleasant if not impossible. There was much less commercial traffic on the river at Putney (partly because the many buttresses of the original Putney Bridge
Putney Bridge is a Grade II listed bridge over the River Thames in west London, linking Putney on the south side with Fulham to the north. Before the first bridge was built in 1729, a ferry had shuttled between the two banks.
The current for ...
restricted the transit of large river boats) ensuring more suitable water for rowing. The river was also cleaner at Putney.
Secondly, the construction of the London and South Western Railway
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from Waterloo
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* Battle of Waterloo, 1815 battle where Napoleon's French army was defeated by Anglo-allied and Prussian forces
* Waterloo, Belgium
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Australia
* Waterloo, New South Wale ...
to Putney
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History
Putney is an ...
and the District Railway
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to Putney Bridge
Putney Bridge is a Grade II listed bridge over the River Thames in west London, linking Putney on the south side with Fulham to the north. Before the first bridge was built in 1729, a ferry had shuttled between the two banks.
The current for ...
allowed easy commuting.
More than twenty rowing clubs are based on the River Thames
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at Putney Embankment in a landscape which now forms part of a Conservation Area identified by the borough council as "unique in London"; among the largest are London Rowing Club
London Rowing Club (LRC, or colloquially, 'London') is the second-oldest of the non-academic active rowing clubs on the Thames in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1856 by members of the long-disbanded Argonauts Club wishing to compete ...
, Thames Rowing Club
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As of July 2023, Thames had w ...
, Imperial College Boat Club
Imperial College Boat Club is the rowing club for Imperial College and has its boat house on the River Thames on the Putney embankment, London, United Kingdom. The alumni also run a boat club which is known as the Queen's Tower Boat Club and b ...
and Vesta Rowing Club
Vesta Rowing Club is a rowing club based on the Tideway of the River Thames in Putney, London, England. It was founded in 1870.
Vesta organises two head races every year; the Scullers Head and the Veterans Head.
History Foundation
Vesta Rowi ...
. Leander Club
Leander Club, founded in 1818, is one of the oldest rowing clubs in the world, and the oldest non-academic club. It is based in Remenham in Berkshire, England and adjoins Henley-on-Thames. Only three other surviving clubs were founded prior ...
owned a boathouse in Putney from 1867 to 1961. The Putney clubs have produced a plethora of Olympic medallists and Henley winners. Putney Town Rowing Club
Putney Town Rowing Club (PTRC) is a rowing club on the Tideway, the tidal reach of the River Thames in England. Its official British Rowing registered colours are navy and white.
History
The club was founded at The Half Moon, Putney, the Half ...
, although retaining Putney's name, has now moved to Kew
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.
The University Boat Race
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, first contested in 1829 in Henley-on-Thames
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, has had Putney as its starting point since 1845. Since 1856, it has been an annual event, beginning at the University Stone, just upstream from Putney Bridge
Putney Bridge is a Grade II listed bridge over the River Thames in west London, linking Putney on the south side with Fulham to the north. Before the first bridge was built in 1729, a ferry had shuttled between the two banks.
The current for ...
.
Several other important rowing races over the Championship Course
The Championship Course is a stretch of the River Thames between Mortlake and Putney in London, England. It is a well-established course for sport rowing, rowing races, particularly the The Boat Race, Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. The course ...
also either start or finish at the stone, notably the Head of the River Race
The Head of the River Race (HORR) is an against-the-clock ('processional') rowing race held annually on the River Thames in London, England, between eights, other such races being the Schools' Head of the River Race, Women's Head of the River R ...
.
Sculpture
Next to Putney Bridge
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The current for ...
is one of the sites used in the construction of the Thames Tideway Tunnel
The Thames Tideway Tunnel is a deep-level sewer along the tidal section of the River Thames in London, running from Acton in the west to Abbey Mills in the east, where it joins the Lee Tunnel which connects to Beckton Sewage Treatment Wor ...
. With completion of the project, a new embankment has been constructed with a ventilation column with a poem by Dorothea Smartt running along its length.
Putney Sculpture Trail
Alan Thornhill lived and worked in Putney for many years and his studio still remains. The sculpture Load was presented to Putney on Fools Day and occupies a permanent position near the south-west end of Putney Bridge on Lower Richmond Road. A film, launched at Appledore and Chichester Film Festivals in 2008 documents these celebrations. The acquisition of eight further large works formed a permanent new riverside Putney Sculpture Trail in the London Borough of Wandsworth, officially unveiled in September 2008.
Historic links to sculpture and sculptors
Sir Jacob Epstein
Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 21 August 1959) was an American and British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British subject in 1910.
Early in his ...
was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery
Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium in southwest London is located in Putney Vale, surrounded by Putney Heath and Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park. It is located within of parkland. The cemetery was opened in 1891 and the crematorium in 193 ...
on 24 August 1959.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (né Gaudier; 4 October 1891 – 5 June 1915) was a French artist and sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving.
Biography
Henri Gaudier was born in Saint-Jean-de-Braye near Orléans. In 1910, ...
had a studio in Putney in the last year of his life after moving from 454a Fulham Road. Sydney Schiff went to visit Gaudier there in 1914 to buy the "Dancer", which was later presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum
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. Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in France in June 1915.
Plaque
A commemorative plaque was placed at 2 Colinette Road in remembrance of an anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy
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when he visited Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar
(22 December 188726 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial con ...
in hospital.
Transport
Putney is served by mainline South Western Railway
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trains to London Waterloo
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from Putney station and by London Underground
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The Undergro ...
from East Putney. The far west of Putney is also served by Barnes station, a few hundred yards across the boundary, while Putney Bridge tube station
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is across the river in Fulham
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.
Putney is served by bus routes 14, 22, 37, 39, 74, 85, 93, 220
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, 265
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, 270, 378
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, 337
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, 170
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424
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, 430 and 485
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and night buses 14, N22, 37, N74, 85, 93 and 220.
Putney Pier is served by River Bus 6 to/from Blackfriars Millennium Pier, weekday peak periods only (Average 24 boats per week day).
Quotes
Notable residents
Listed in alphabetical order of last name:
* Stefan Abingdon, musician, of the band The Midnight Beast
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*J. R. Ackerley
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, author and literary editor of '' The Listener'' lived at Star and Garter Mansions from 1941 until his death in 1967
* William Adams, locomotive engineer
*Gerry Anderson
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and Jim Henson
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, television puppeteers, at different times leased the same workshop (since demolished) in Rotherwood Road, Putney
*Clement Attlee
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, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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1945–1951 and Leader of the Labour Party 1935 –1955, born in Putney in 1883
* Milicent Bagot, British intelligence officer
*Edvard Beneš
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, second President of Czechoslovakia
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, lived in Gwendolen Avenue during his exile in London from October 1938 to the end of World War II
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*Marc Bolan
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, singer and leader of the band T.Rex lived at 6a Schubert Road, Putney and died in a car crash in near-by Barnes
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*Barnes (name), a family name and a given name (includes lists of people with that name)
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* Barnes, London, England
** Barnes railway station
**Barnes Bridge railway station
** Barnes High Stree ...
*Peter Bonetti
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, Chelsea and Dundee United
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footballer, was born in Putney
* Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
* Peter Brett, American writer
*Pierce Brosnan
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, Irish actor best known for playing James Bond, attended school in Putney
*Dustin Demri-Burns
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He appeared in films as the roles of Danny Sinclair in '' Alan Partr ...
, actor and comedian, attended school in Putney
*Anna Calvi
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, singer and songwriter
* Rosa Nouchette Carey, writer of children's novels, died at her home in Keswick Road, Putney in 1909
*Christopher Chope
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, Conservative MP for Christchurch
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, was born in Putney
*Nick Clegg
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, former Deputy Prime Minister
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(2010–15) and Leader of the Liberal Democrats (2007–15) lived in Putney before moving to California to work at Facebook
* Sir Tom Courtenay, actor
*Thomas Cromwell
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, chief minister for Henry VIII
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and architect of the English Reformation
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, was born in Putney around 1485
*Taio Cruz
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Cruz was discovered in the mid-2000s by American record producer Tricky Stewart, joinin ...
, British R&B singer
*John Deacon
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, former bass guitarist of the band Queen
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* Queen regnant, a female monarch of a kingdom
* Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
* Queen (band), a British rock band
Queen or QUEEN may also refer to:
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, lives in west Putney
* Catherine Maria Fanshawe, poet, died at Putney Heath in 1834
*Jason Flemyng
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, actor, born in Putney
*E. M. Forster
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, author, lived at 22 Werter Road, Putney
*Henry Fuseli
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Many of his successful works depict supernatural experiences, such as '' The Nightmare''. He pr ...
, Swiss-born British artist, professor of painting and keeper of the Royal Academy
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[
*]Constance Garnett
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, translator of ''War and Peace
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'', ''Anna Karenina
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'', ''Crime and Punishment
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*Edward Gibbon
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, historian, born in Putney, had local telephone exchange named in recognition
* Peter Green, singer/guitarist and co founder of the band Fleetwood Mac
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lived on Lytton Grove during his youth
* Maria, Countess of Guilford, resident of Putney Hill, 1825[
*]Kenelm Lee Guinness
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, racing driver, started the KLG spark plug factory in Putney Vale
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and lived in Kingston Hill
*Peter Hain
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, Labour Party MP, lived in Putney in the late-1960s
* Ralph Hill, music critic, lived at 39 Hazlewell Rd in the 1940s until his death in 1950. He founded the Putney Gramophone Society
* Ashley Horne, of the band The Midnight Beast
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*Joan Howson
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(1885–1964) was a British stained glass artist who lived in Deodar Road
*Konnie Huq
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, television presenter of the children's television programme ''Blue Peter
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''
* Penny Irving, actress (appearances include ''The Benny Hill Show
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'' and ''Are You Being Served?
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'')
* General Sir Mike Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, 2003–06, lived, and attended primary school, in Putney
* Arthur Jeff, British statesman and co-founder of Putney School of Art and Design
*Grace Jones
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, singer and actress
*Joe Joyce (boxer)
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, British Boxer, went to Elliott School
*Robin Knox-Johnston
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, yachtsman, born in Putney
*Gunji Koizumi
, known affectionately by colleagues as G.K., was a Japanese Grandmaster (martial arts), master of judo who introduced this martial art to the United Kingdom, , introduced judo to the United Kingdom
* Simon Lane, YouTuber and member of the Yogscast
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*Caroline Langrishe
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Early life
Born in London, Langrishe is the elder daughter of Patrick Nicholas Langrishe (1932–2022), of The Manor House, Sellindge, Kent, a Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars, late ...
, actress lives in Putney
*Simon Le Bon
Simon John Charles Le Bon (born 27 October 1958) is an English singer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the new wave band Duran Duran and its offshoot Arcadia. Le Bon has received three Ivor Novello Awards from the Briti ...
, lead singer of Duran Duran
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, has a home in Upper Richmond Road, with his wife, Yasmin
*Laurie Lee
Laurence Edward Alan Lee, (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire.
His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy '' Cider w ...
, author, lived and worked as a builder's labourer in Putney during the 1930s
* Commander Charles Lightoller, the most senior officer to survive the Titanic disaster
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, lived at 60A Upper Richmond Road
*David Luiz
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, Chelsea F.C.
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and Brazilian international footballer
*James Macpherson
James Macpherson ( Gaelic: ''Seumas MacMhuirich'' or ''Seumas Mac a' Phearsain''; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he ...
, translator and author of the Ossian Poems
*David McKee
David John McKee (2 January 1935 – 6 April 2022), was a British writer and illustrator, chiefly of children's books and animations.
For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was UK nominee for the biennial international Hans Chris ...
, creator of ''Mr Benn
Mr Benn is a character, created by David McKee, who originally appeared in several children's books. The first, ''Mr Benn Red Knight'', was published in 1967, followed by three more; these became the basis for an animated television series of t ...
'', lived at 54 Festing Road ("at 52 Festive Road"), subsequently re-broadcast. Outside engraved paving slab
* Sue McNuff née Handscomb, Olympic rower, was brought up in Putney
*JP Morgan
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, US financier, occupied Dover House, Putney
*George Newnes
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, publishing magnate, lived at Putney
*Sir Sidney Nolan
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of the leading Australian artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of media, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known ...
, one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century, known for his paintings of Ned Kelly
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, who lived at 79 Deodar Road.
*Cpt. Lawrence Oates
Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates (17 March 188017 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died from hypothermia Antarctic explorer, born and raised in Putney
*Edna O'Brien
Josephine Edna O'Brien (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.
O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and soc ...
Irish author of The Country Girls and more lived in Putney in the 1960s
* Dick Pepper (1889–1962), banjo-player and writer, was born in Putney
* Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1839–1910), author of Victorian detective fiction, lived in Putney as an adult
*William Pitt the Younger
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, Prime Minister, lived and died in Bowling-Green House at Putney Heath
*Roy Plomley
Francis Roy Plomley ( ; 20 January 1914 – 28 May 1985) was an English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist. He is best remembered for creating the BBC Radio series ''Desert Island Discs'', which he hosted from its inception in ...
OBE (1914–1985), broadcaster, lived at 91 Deodar Road.
* Sir Richard Pollard, (1505–1542), MP for Taunton (1536) and Devon (1539, 1542), resided chiefly at Putney
* David Rock (architect), former RIBA
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president, lived in West Row, Westleigh Avenue
* Ellen Mary Rope (1855–1934), a British sculptor who lived in Deodar Road
* Margaret Edith Rope (1891–1988) was an English stained-glass artist who lived in Deodar Road
*Justin Rose
Justin Peter Rose (born 30 July 1980) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour and PGA Tour. He is a former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, first reaching that position in 2018.
Rose came to prominen ...
, golfer, has a flat in Putney
*Sir Ronald Ross
Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932) was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the f ...
, discoverer of malaria transmission by mosquitoes, lived and died at Bath House, Putney Hill
*Fred Russell
Fred Russell (August 27, 1906 – January 26, 2003) was an American sportswriter from Tennessee who served as sports editor for the ''Nashville Banner'' newspaper for 68 years (1930–1998). He was a member of the Heisman Trophy Committee, presi ...
, known as the "Father of Modern Ventriloquism", remembered by blue plaque, lived in Lower Richmond Road near Putney Bridge
*Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard. (; ; 29 January 192621 November 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1 ...
, theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, lived at Campion Road for almost 40 years and was honoured by an English Heritage blue plaque in 2020
* Ruth Sanger (1918–2001), Australian expert on blood groups, died in Putney
*Harry Gordon Selfridge
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, founder of Selfridges department store, lived in Putney and died in a flat on Putney Heath in 1947
* Shas Sheehan, Liberal Democrat politician and life peer
* Sophie Simnett, actress
*Freda Skinner
Freda Nellie Skinner (31 January 1911 – 19 July 1993) was a British sculptor and woodcarver who was head of sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art from 1945 to 1971.
Skinner was born in Warlingham, Surrey, where her father, Norman, had a farm; ...
, (1911–1993) sculptor and woodcarver, lived at 79 Deodar Road, Putney
* A.W. Smith, market gardener
* Sir Oswald Stoll, Australian-born British theatre and film magnate, lived at 33 Putney Hill
*Algernon Charles Swinburne
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, poet and Nobel prize nominee, lived and died at The Pines at the foot of Putney Hill
*Daley Thompson
Francis Morgan Ayodélé Thompson, (born 30 July 1958) is an English former decathlete. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times. He was unbeaten in competit ...
, former decathlete
* Gabriel Thomson, actor, attended Elliott School
* Alan Thornhill, sculptor whose nine large works form the permanent Putney Sculpture Trail along the Thames
*Harry Tincknell
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, racing driver
*Fernando Torres
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, former Spanish International footballer, played for Chelsea F.C.
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* Caroline Charlotte Townshend (1878–1944) was a British stained glass artist who lived in Deodar Road
* Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, pioneer aviator and founder of aircraft manufacturer AVRO
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*Dennis Waterman
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, actor grew up in Putney and attended Granard School
*Theodore Watts-Dunton
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, who looked after Swinburne
* Nigel Williams, author
*Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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, author of ''Frankenstein
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'', lived in Putney at Layton House in 1839, and White House in 1843
*Jack Whitehall
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, comedian
* Michael Whitehall, talent agent
*Leonard Woolf
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, husband of Virginia Woolf
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Vir ...
, grew up in Putney
* Tony Wright, film star, lived in Chartfield Avenue
*Peter Zinovieff
Peter Zinovieff (26 January 1933 – 23 June 2021) was a British composer, musician and inventor. In the late 1960s, his company, Electronic Music Studios (EMS), made the VCS3, a synthesizer used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pi ...
, British composer, musician and inventor. founder in 1969 of Electronic Music Studios
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Founders
The founding partners had wide experience in both el ...
(EMS), world famous for some of the most innovative and earliest synthesizers
*Sofka Zinovieff
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Early life
Zinovieff was born in London. Her parents were Peter Zinovieff and Victoria Gala Heber-Percy. Her paternal grandparents were White Russians who had left Soviet Russia ...
, daughter of Peter Zinovieff
Peter Zinovieff (26 January 1933 – 23 June 2021) was a British composer, musician and inventor. In the late 1960s, his company, Electronic Music Studios (EMS), made the VCS3, a synthesizer used by many early progressive rock bands such as Pi ...
, writer, grew up in Putney
Nearest places
Nearby settlements include Hammersmith
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It ...
, Fulham
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, Barnes
Barnes may refer to:
People
*Barnes (name), a family name and a given name (includes lists of people with that name)
Places
United Kingdom
* Barnes, London, England
** Barnes railway station
**Barnes Bridge railway station
** Barnes High Stree ...
, East Sheen
East Sheen, also known as Sheen, is a suburb in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
Its long High Street, high street has shops, offices, restaurants, cafés, pubs and suburban supermarkets and is also the economic ...
, Roehampton
Roehampton is an area in southwest London, sharing its SW15 postcode with neighbouring Putney and Kingston Vale, and takes up a far western strip, running north to south, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It contains a number of large counc ...
, Petersham, Wimbledon
Wimbledon most often refers to:
* Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
* Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships
Wimbledon may also refer to:
Places London
* W ...
, Southfields
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, Earlsfield
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and Wandsworth Town.
See also
*Little Australia
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References
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Areas of London
Districts of London on the River Thames
Districts of the London Borough of Wandsworth
Major centres of London
Former civil parishes in the London Borough of Wandsworth