Upper Norwood

(1807–1867), American and British playwright and mainly Shakespearean actor lived at 5 Hamlet Road from 1861 to 1862 with his wife Margaret Gill. A blue plaque unveiled in 2007 commemorates Aldridge as the "African Roscius".

Ira Aldridge

(1765–1838), pupil of Mozart and organist at St Paul's Cathedral, lived in Roselawn, a large house on Beulah Hill near the junction with Hermitage Road. He played host to the composer Felix Mendelssohn in 1829 and 1832.

Thomas Attwood

Admiral Sir KCB (1796–1869), Royal Navy officer; Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station; credited with adopting a policy of non-intervention that helped defuse the San Juan Boundary Dispute of 1859 between Britain and the United States of America.

Robert Lambert Baynes

(1888–1959), the author of American noir detective novels lived as a boy in the area especially at Mount Cyra, 110, Auckland Road, from 1900 to 1905. The house now has a Blue Plaque.^[10]

Raymond Chandler

(1864–1960), one of the great Gothic Revival architects of the 20th century, lived at The Priory, 67 Beulah Hill (now demolished). His son Nicholas Comper (1897–1939) was an aviator who designed the Comper Swift monoplane in the back garden.^[11]

Sir John Ninian Comper

(1857–1934), composer, and his wife Caroline Alice Elgar (1848–1920) lived at Oaklands, Fountain Road in 1889, soon after they were married, so that they could be near the Crystal Palace Concerts.

Edward Elgar

(1915–1987), archaeologist and museum curator, was born in Upper Norwood.

Bernard Fagg

Sir (1829–1920), chief justice of the Straits Settlements, lived in Upper Norwood from his retirement in 1896 to his death in 1920.

Theodore Ford

(1805–1865), captain of HMS Beagle, second governor of New Zealand, and inventor of the weather forecast, lived during the last years of his life at Lyndhurst House, 140 Church Road and is buried in front of All Saints' Church.

Robert FitzRoy

(1891–1968), first-class cricketer, who played for the MCC.

Walter Franklin

Simon Friend, multi-instrumentalist in the alternative rock band founded in 1988.

The Levellers

(1807–1894), sculptor of the famous dinosaurs in the park, lived at Fossil Villa, 22 Belvedere Road.

Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

(1882–1971), philosopher, and his wife the writer Elsie Finnimore Buckley (1882–1959) lived at 35 Central Hill, soon after they were married in 1920.

Anthony Ludovici

(1873–1958), philosopher, who was the father (with Bertrand Russell) of analytic philosophy.

G. E. Moore

(1742/3–1825), an 18th-century courtesan who became involved in political intrigue, lived at Norwood House off Central Hill. The house is now part of The Cedars School and The Laurels School.

Mary Nesbitt

(1891–1957), clergyman, first-class cricketer and international hockey player.

Charles Patteson

(1803–1865), famed designer of the Crystal Palace, lived in a house called Rockhills at the top of Westwood Hill.

Joseph Paxton

(1830–1903), the impressionist painter, moved with his family to the area upon the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.

Camille Pissarro

(b.1965), far-right political activist, lived in Gipsy Hill and grew up on the Central Hill Estate.

Troy Southgate

(1834–1892) highly influential English Particular Baptist minister known as the Prince of Preachers was Pastor of Metropolitan Tabernacle from 1854 to 1892 and lived in Upper Norwood at Westwood on Beulah Hill from 1880 until his death. The namesake of Spurgeon Road.^[12]

Charles Spurgeon

(1840–1929), suffragette and Shakespearean scholar, organized cultural groups in Upper Norwood in the 1880s.

Charlotte Carmichael Stopes

(1880–1958), daughter of the above, a botanist and birth-control advocate who opened the first birth control clinic in Britain.

Marie Stopes

(1843–1923), a Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London lived at Grange Mount, a house situated at the junction of Grange Road and Beulah Hill.

Sir William Treloar

Sir (1824–1895), Lord Mayor of London 1879–1880, lived at Essex Lodge on Central Hill.

Francis Wyatt Truscott

Sir (1857–1941), son of the above, also Lord Mayor of London 1908–1909, lived at Emilena House, Central Hill.

George Wyatt Truscott

(1840–1902), French novelist, lived in exile at the Queen's Hotel on Church Road, here from October 1898 to June 1899.

Émile Zola

(East London Line services from 2010)

Crystal Palace railway station

Gipsy Hill railway station

West Norwood railway station

Norwood Junction railway station

Thornton Heath railway station

Alan R. Warwick; The Phoenix Suburb: A South London Social History; Publisher: Crystal Palace Foundation;  0-904034-01-1 / 0904034011

ISBN

Brewer's Britain and Ireland, compiled by John Ayto and Ian Crofton, , 2005, ISBN 0-304-35385-X

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Upper Norwood Library – Independent Public Library

Virtual Norwood

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