page_title: Norton-sub-Hamdon
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Norton-sub-Hamdon / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Paddy Ashdown at the Financial Times Summer Party, June 2011.
context_page_description: Norton-sub-Hamdon is a village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of the English county of Somerset, situated five miles west of Yeovil. The village has a population of 743.
  The village of Chiselborough is 0.5 miles to the south, and the village of Stoke-sub-Hamdon 1 mile to the north.
context_section_description: John James Henry Sturmey (1857–1930), known as Henry Sturmey, is best remembered as the inventor with James Archer of the Sturmey-Archer three-speed hub for bicycles, but he was a technical editor and journalist heavily involved as a pioneer of the cycling and automotive industries. Born at Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, he died aged 72 at his home in Coventry on 8 January
  Samuel Lawrence (16 August 1879 – 25 October 1959) was a Canadian politician and trade unionist. He was born in the Somerset village of Norton-sub-Hamdon to William Lawrence and Ann Geard on 16 August 1879, he emigrated to Canada, settling in Hamilton, Ontario with his family in 1912. In  1934 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Hamilton East
  The village was home to Paddy Ashdown, former local MP and ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats. He was knighted in 2000 and became a life peer as Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon in the County of Somerset in the House of Lords after retiring from the Commons in 2001.
caption: Paddy Ashdown
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