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Putney

Putney (/ˈpʌtni/) is an affluent district of south London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, five miles (eight kilometres) southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.[2]

For other places with the same name, see Putney (disambiguation).

Sculpture[edit]

Putney Sculpture Trail[edit]

Alan Thornhill lived and worked in Putney for many years and his studio still remains. The sculpture Load[49] was presented to Putney[50] 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[51] 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[edit]

Sir Jacob Epstein was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery on 24 August 1959.[52]


Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 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. Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in France in June 1915.[53]

musician, of the band The Midnight Beast

Stefan Abingdon

author and literary editor of The Listener lived at Star and Garter Mansions from 1941 until his death in 1967

J. R. Ackerley

locomotive engineer[57]

William Adams

and Jim Henson, television puppeteers, at different times leased the same workshop (since demolished) in Rotherwood Road, Putney

Gerry Anderson

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1945–1951 and Leader of the Labour Party 1935 –1955, born in Putney in 1883[58]

Clement Attlee

second President of Czechoslovakia, lived in Gwendolen Avenue during his exile in London from October 1938 to the end of World War II

Edvard Beneš

singer and leader of the band T.Rex lived at 6a Schubert Road, Putney and died in a car crash in near-by Barnes[59]

Marc Bolan

Chelsea and Dundee United footballer, was born in Putney

Peter Bonetti

British entrepreneur

Sir Richard Branson

American writer

Peter Brett

Irish actor best known for playing James Bond, attended school in Putney[60]

Pierce Brosnan

actor and comedian, attended school in Putney

Dustin Demri-Burns

singer and songwriter

Anna Calvi

writer of children's novels, died at her home in Keswick Road, Putney in 1909[61]

Rosa Nouchette Carey

Conservative MP for Christchurch, was born in Putney

Christopher Chope

former Deputy Prime Minister (2010–15) and Leader of the Liberal Democrats (2007–15) lived in Putney before moving to California to work at Facebook[62]

Nick Clegg

actor

Sir Tom Courtenay

chief minister for Henry VIII and architect of the English Reformation, was born in Putney around 1485

Thomas Cromwell

British R&B singer

Taio Cruz

former bass guitarist of the band Queen, lives in west Putney

John Deacon

poet, died at Putney Heath in 1834

Catherine Maria Fanshawe

actor, born in Putney

Jason Flemyng

author, lived at 22 Werter Road, Putney

E. M. Forster

Swiss-born British artist, professor of painting and keeper of the Royal Academy[15]

Henry Fuseli

translator of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, and other Russian literary works

Constance Garnett

historian, born in Putney, had local telephone exchange named in recognition

Edward Gibbon

singer/guitarist and co founder of the band Fleetwood Mac lived on Lytton Grove during his youth

Peter Green

resident of Putney Hill, 1825[15]

Maria, Countess of Guilford

racing driver, started the KLG spark plug factory in Putney Vale and lived in Kingston Hill

Kenelm Lee Guinness

Labour Party MP, lived in Putney in the late-1960s

Peter Hain

music critic, lived at 39 Hazlewell Rd in the 1940s until his death in 1950. He founded the Putney Gramophone Society[63]

Ralph Hill

of the band The Midnight Beast

Ashley Horne

(1885–1964) was a British stained glass artist who lived in Deodar Road

Joan Howson

television presenter of the children's television programme Blue Peter

Konnie Huq

actress (appearances include The Benny Hill Show and Are You Being Served?)

Penny Irving

Chief of the General Staff, 2003–06, lived, and attended primary school, in Putney[64]

General Sir Mike Jackson

British statesman and co-founder of Putney School of Art and Design

Arthur Jeff

singer and actress

Grace Jones

British Boxer, went to Elliott School

Joe Joyce (boxer)

yachtsman, born in Putney

Robin Knox-Johnston

introduced judo to the United Kingdom

Gunji Koizumi

YouTuber and member of the Yogscast

Simon Lane

actress lives in Putney

Caroline Langrishe

lead singer of Duran Duran, has a home in Upper Richmond Road,[65] with his wife, Yasmin

Simon Le Bon

author, lived and worked as a builder's labourer in Putney during the 1930s

Laurie Lee

the most senior officer to survive the Titanic disaster, lived at 60A Upper Richmond Road[45]

Commander Charles Lightoller

Chelsea F.C. and Brazilian international footballer

David Luiz

translator and author of the Ossian Poems

James Macpherson

creator of Mr Benn, lived at 54 Festing Road ("at 52 Festive Road"), subsequently re-broadcast. Outside engraved paving slab[66]

David McKee

née Handscomb, Olympic rower,[67] was brought up in Putney

Sue McNuff

US financier, occupied Dover House, Putney[68]

JP Morgan

publishing magnate, lived at Putney

George Newnes

Sir , one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century, known for his paintings of Ned Kelly, who lived at 79 Deodar Road.[69]

Sidney Nolan

Cpt. Antarctic explorer, born and raised in Putney

Lawrence Oates

Irish author of The Country Girls and more lived in Putney in the 1960s[70]

Edna O'Brien

(1889–1962), banjo-player and writer, was born in Putney

Dick Pepper

(1839–1910), author of Victorian detective fiction, lived in Putney as an adult

Catherine Louisa Pirkis

Prime Minister, lived and died in Bowling-Green House at Putney Heath[22]

William Pitt the Younger

OBE (1914–1985), broadcaster, lived at 91 Deodar Road.

Roy Plomley

(1505–1542), MP for Taunton (1536) and Devon (1539, 1542), resided chiefly at Putney

Sir Richard Pollard

former RIBA president, lived in West Row, Westleigh Avenue

David Rock (architect)

(1855–1934), a British sculptor who lived in Deodar Road

Ellen Mary Rope

(1891–1988) was an English stained-glass artist who lived in Deodar Road

Margaret Edith Rope

golfer, has a flat in Putney[71]

Justin Rose

discoverer of malaria transmission by mosquitoes, lived and died at Bath House, Putney Hill[72]

Sir Ronald Ross

known as the "Father of Modern Ventriloquism", remembered by blue plaque, lived in Lower Richmond Road near Putney Bridge

Fred Russell

theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate, lived at Campion Road for almost 40 years and was honoured by an English Heritage blue plaque in 2020[73]

Abdus Salam

founder of Selfridges department store, lived in Putney and died in a flat on Putney Heath in 1947

Harry Gordon Selfridge

Liberal Democrat politician and life peer

Shas Sheehan

actress

Sophie Simnett

(1911–1993) sculptor and woodcarver, lived at 79 Deodar Road, Putney[74]

Freda Skinner

market gardener[75]

A.W. Smith

Australian-born British theatre and film magnate, lived at 33 Putney Hill[45]

Sir Oswald Stoll

poet and Nobel prize nominee, lived and died at The Pines at the foot of Putney Hill[76]

Algernon Charles Swinburne

former decathlete

Daley Thompson

actor, attended Elliott School

Gabriel Thomson

sculptor whose nine large works form the permanent Putney Sculpture Trail along the Thames

Alan Thornhill

racing driver

Harry Tincknell

former Spanish International footballer, played for Chelsea F.C.

Fernando Torres

(1878–1944) was a British stained glass artist who lived in Deodar Road

Caroline Charlotte Townshend

Sir , pioneer aviator and founder of aircraft manufacturer AVRO

Alliott Verdon-Roe

actor grew up in Putney and attended Granard School

Dennis Waterman

who looked after Swinburne

Theodore Watts-Dunton

author

Nigel Williams

author of Frankenstein, lived in Putney at Layton House in 1839, and White House in 1843

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

comedian

Jack Whitehall

talent agent

Michael Whitehall

husband of Virginia Woolf, grew up in Putney

Leonard Woolf

film star, lived in Chartfield Avenue

Tony Wright

writer, grew up in Putney

Sofka Zinovieff

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