page_title: Bromsgrove
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Bromsgrove / Notable residents / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: St Peter's Catholic Church, Bromsgrove: grave of Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield, 1870–1904), the mother of J. R. R. Tolkien.
context_page_description: Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England about 16 miles north-east of Worcester and 13 miles south-west of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001. Bromsgrove is the main town in the larger Bromsgrove District. In the Middle Ages it was a small market town; primarily producing cloth through the early modern period. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it became a major centre for nail making.
context_section_description: Benjamin Bomford, farmer
  George Cadbury, creator of Cadbury chocolates.
  Sir Thomas Frederick Chavasse (1854–1913) surgeon, member of the Chavasse family, buried in Bromsgrove. His daughter Gladys (1893–1962) was engaged to her cousin Noel Chavasse VC and Bar, MC
  John Corbett, the Salt King, lived in Bromsgrove prior to building Chateau Impney.
  Alfred Edward Housman, classical scholar and poet.
  Clemence Housman, sister of Alfred, author and suffragette
  Laurence Housman, brother of Alfred, illustrator, playwright, writer and left-wing political activist
  John Lisseter Humphreys, Governor of North Borneo
  Benjamin Maund, botanist and chemist, publisher and bookseller
  Mabel Tolkien (1870–1904), mother of J. R. R. Tolkien, buried in Bromsgrove
  Elijah Walton, artist, lived in Lickey, died there in 1880
caption: Grave of Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield, 1870–1904), mother of J. R. R. Tolkien, in Bromsgrove
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