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Lady with purple robe. When Thomas Parr lived at Wymering Manor, woke up one night at the sight of an apparition at the foot of his bed. He was her cousin, died in 1917. Dressed to a purple robe, the spirit spoke to him in a friendly and down-to-fact talk about their past religious experiences, and other family members died. Suddenly, the ghost said, “Well, dear Tommy I must go now, we expect Aunt Em. ” In the morning, Parr received a telegram with the news that her Aunt Em had died during the night.

paneled room. . The call “paneled room” perhaps the most feared of the manor. The paneled room used as a bedroom in the south eastern corner of the mansion, as Metcalf was using the toilet, one day He was surprised by the distinct impression of a hand on his shoulder. He turned quickly to find someone there. Others have felt an oppressive air in this room, instilling a strong sense of escape. When the building served as a hostel, its director and his wife expressed fears unexplained room.

Other paranormal events reported in the mansion are the visitors who claim to have heard the murmurings of the children, seen strange apparitions and seen items move house on their own will. A dramatic drop in temperature and the accounts of “spiritual energies” unusual or intimidating been reported. Images of the film and video captured two orbs and other strange light anomalies.

often credited as the best comedian of all time, Peter Sellers was born into a wealthy English family acting in Southsea, Portsmouth, England 1925. His mother and father worked in a theater company in charge of his grandmother. As a child, vendors have begun to lose their parents as the first son was stillborn. He joined the Royal Air Force and served during World War II. After the war he met Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine who would become his future colleagues in the radio broadcast of the BBC “The Goon Show”.

In 1784, he found work in Portsmouth Dockyard, and – although still largely self -. extended his talents to managing the project specification, design and construction

Buckingham, George Villiers, first duke of (vil’yurz, bŭk’ing-um) [key], 1592-1628, English courtier and favorite of the king.

While organizing a second campaign was stabbed to death in Portsmouth August 23, 1628 by John Felton, an officer of the military who were wounded before the military adventure. Felton was hanged in November and Buckingham was buried in Westminster Abbey. His grave bears an inscription in Latin translation: “The enigma of the world” and also one of the courtiers in the history real winner

The romantic aspects of the professional figure of the Duke widely. the historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers. The Duke of Buckingham died leaving his wife Katherine Manners, daughter of Mary and her son George, 1628.

Jonas Hanway (1712-1786) Born in Portsmouth and Umbrella Pioneer.

English traveler and philanthropist, was born in Portsmouth in 1712. While still a child, his father, victuals, died and the family moved to London. In 172 9 Jonah was apprenticed to a merchant in Lisbon. In 1743, after spending some time in business for himself in London, became a partner with Mr Dingley, a merchant of St. Petersburg, and in this way was to go to Russia and Persia. Leaving St. Petersburg September 10, 1743, and passing south of Moscow, Tsaritsyn and Astrakhan, he embarked on the Caspian Sea, 22 November and arrived on December 18 ASTRABAN. Here his goods were confiscated by Mohammad Hassan Beg, and only after great privations that he reached the camp of Nadir Shah, under whose protection he recovered most (85%) of their property. The return journey was hampered by the disease (Recht), attacks by pirates, and “six weeks of quarantine. And only reappeared in St. Petersburg in January 1, 1745

Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805)
(Nelson and his mistress Emma lived for a time in Portsmouth )
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB (September 29, 1758 -. 21 October 1805) was a British admiral famous for his participation in the Napoleonic wars, particularly in the Battle of Trafalgar, a decisive victory in the war of Great Britain, during which he lost his life [1] Nelson was noted for his great ability to inspire and bring out the best of his men, to the point that won a name . “Nelson Touch”
His actions during these wars meant that before and after his death he was revered like few military figures have been throughout British history.

During the 18th century, when he had been married for a while, Nelson became famous for his affair with Emma, ​​Lady Hamilton, wife of British ambassador to Naples and became her lover Nelson, back in the UK to live openly with him, sometimes at Portsmouth before shipping <-! NextPage -> a war and eventually had a daughter, Horatia. It was the public awareness of this problem that prompted the Navy to send Nelson back to the sea after being recalled. By his death in 1805, Nelson became a national hero and received a state funeral. To date, his memory lives on in many monuments, the most notable This is Nelson’s Column in London, located in the center of Trafalgar Square

John Books (1766 -. 1839)
John Pounds was born in Portsmouth June 17, 1766 His father was a sawyer and the Royal Arsenal which was twelve, his father arranged for him to be. apprentice carpenter. Three years later, John fell into a dry dock and was crippled for life .

It is possible to work as a carpenter, John became a shoemaker and in 1803 had his own shop St. Mary Street, Portsmouth. While working in the shop, John began to teach local children to read. His reputation as a teacher grew and soon had over 40 students attending their classes. Unlike other schools, John does not charge a fee for teaching the poor of Portsmouth. Like reading and arithmetic, John gave lessons in the manufacture of cooking, carpentry and shoemaking. John Pounds died in 1839.

Charles Dickens was born in Landport, Portsmouth in Hampshire, the second of eight children of John Dickens (1786-1851), an employee in the payroll office of the Navy at Portsmouth, and his wife Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow, 1889-1863) February 7, 1812. When I ‘had five, the family moved to Chatham, Kent. In 1822, when he was ten, the family moved to 16, Bayham Street, Camden Town in London.

Charles Dickens published more a dozen major novels, many short stories (including some of Christmas stories on the theme), a handful of plays and several books of fiction novels. Dickens was originally serialized weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in format Book standard.
The road shows were very popular, and after three visits to the British Isles, Dickens gave his first public reading in American theater in New York, December 2, 1867.

On June 9, 1870, died at his home in Gad Hill Place after suffering a stroke after a full, interesting and varied. He was mourned by all his readers. Jeremiah Chubb (1793-1860) and Charles Chubb (1779-1846)
The brothers lived and worked in Portsmouth and are famous Chubb Locksmiths.

The name of Chubb world famous for the invention of the lock detector lock and for the production of high quality locks on the safety lever in the circulation for a period of 140 years. lock detector was patented in 1818 by Jeremiah Chubb of Portsmouth, England, who won the reward offered by the Government of an accident that could not be opened by anyone but its own key. It is known that after the appearance of the lock detector, a convict on a prison ship Portsmouth Arsenal which was the profession lockmaker, announced in London had been employed in the manufacture and repair of locks, said he had collected with ease some of the best locks, and it could take Chubb lock with the same ease. improvements locking were made later in several patents by Jeremiah Chubb and his brother Charles.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859)
Brunel, perhaps most prodigious Engineer time and many of his works, which challenged and inspired their colleagues during this period have survived until today, and some are still in use.

Portsmoiuth was born in 1806. the son of a distinguished French engineer, Sir Marc Brunel, who had come to England at the time of the French Revolution Unlike most of the time engineers, Isambard Brunel received a good education and practical training – partly in France -. Before going into the office of his father and take full control of Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel when he was only 20

At the age of 26, was appointed engineer of the Great newly formed Western Railway and acted with characteristic boldness and energy. civil engineering major on the line between London and Bristol, are used by high-speed trains of today and testify to his genius, and finally developed over 1200 km of railways, including lines in Ireland, Italy and Bengal. Each of the three ships is a major milestone in naval architecture.

Other works of Brunel including ports , viaducts, tunnels and buildings of the hospital and the extraordinary pre-fabricated, with air conditioning and drainage systems for use in the Crimean War. Inevitably, in a career so prolific, there are failures and disappointment, as the atmospheric railway, but admitted his mistakes. In fact, he himself suffered financially supporting their businesses with their money.

own Brunel suffered several years of poor health, with kidney problems, before succumbing to a stroke at the age of 53 years. Brunel was said to smoke up to 40 cigarettes a day and at least four hours of sleep each night Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

George Meredith (1828-1909)
famous novelist and poet who was born in Portsmouth Partnership poems />
Modern Love Poem, 1862. author of several novels such as Diana of the Crossways, 1885, that first brought him popular acclaim
George Vicat Cole
(1833-1893) George Vicat Cole
(usually known as Vicat Cole) is a painter of landscapes century important work in the mid-19th century. According to the realistic mood of the time he painted naturalistic English landscape scenes without attempting deeper meanings or looking for rustic ideals. His specialty was the effect of the atmosphere and light.

Cole was born in Portsmouth, and was in the studio of his father, George Cole (1810-1883), a leading painter of landscapes, animals and portraits arose as Vice-President Society of British artists. As a young man, Cole copied prints of works by Turner, Constable and Cox, and paintings of these men had a strong influence on him.

William Lionel Wylie (1851 -1931)

famous marine artist who lived and died in Portsmouth. Wylie was born into an artistic family in 1851. rather bohemian family spent their summers on the coast of northern France. Wylie, said the boat trip on the Thames London full of his way to Boulogne. When I was about 12 he went to art school in London and started in 1866 at the Royal Academy. In 1869 he won the Medal Gold for Turner landscape. In 1870, one of the first pictures he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London was the monument, a panoramic view of the city and the river and began working as an illustrator for Maritime Affairs for the magazine Graphic. I needed to reproduce details precisely in black and white, and this discipline, no doubt influenced him when he began making prints in 1880. Wyllie first known recorded in 1884, is the work, brightness, dirt and wealth in a rising tide. It was commissioned by Robert Dunthorne print editorial. Wyllie Thames pictures have to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1889. In 1907, when he became the Royal Academy, who had moved house at the entrance of Portsmouth Harbour. He had become largely marine painting subjects and history. However, he continued his impressions of London and the Thames,
the end of his life.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Doyles were a prosperous economy the Irish Catholic family, who had an important position in the world of art. Charles Altamont Doyle, Arthur’s father, a chronic alcoholic, was the only member of his family, in addition to being the parent of a bright child, never achieved anything worth mentioning. At the age of twenty years, Charles had married Mary Foley,
Mary Doyle had a passion for books and was a master storyteller. His son Arthur wrote about his mother’s gift of “sinking her voice to a whisper shocked” when he came to the climax of a story. There was little money in the family and harmony even less because of the excesses of his father, and behavior. Description Arthur erratic move the beneficent influence of his mother is also mobile described in his biography: “In my childhood, as far as I can remember anything at all, the stories she told me to life stresses clear that the dark events of my life. “
Arthur came to his ninth birthday, wealthy members of the Doyle family offered to pay for his studies. He cried all the way to England, where for seven years had to go to a Jesuit boarding school. Arthur hated bigotry surrounding his studies and rebelled against corporal punishment, which was frequent and brutal in most English schools of the time incredibly.

During this stressful year, a few minutes of happiness Arthur had when he wrote to his mother, a habit that lasted the rest of his life, and also in sports, especially cricket, which was very good.

The young medical student met a number of future authors who also attended the university, such as James Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson. But the man who most impressed and influenced, was not obviously one of his professors, Dr. Joseph Bell NextPage .