page_title: Old Whittington
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Old Whittington / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: St Bartholomew's parish church, Old Whittington, Derbyshire, seen from the southeast. Samuel Pegge was vicar here from 1751. This church burnt down in 1895, and has been replaced by a newer building.
context_page_description: Old Whittington is a village in Derbyshire and 2 miles north of Chesterfield and is 10 miles south-east of Sheffield. The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 4,181. The village lies on the River Rother.
  Population in 1901 was 9416. The parish church of St Bartholomew was restored after its destruction by fire, except for the tower and spire, in 1895. The town manufactured stoneware bottles, other earthenware and bricks. There were also coal mines and ironworks.
context_section_description: Samuel Pegge (1704-1796), antiquary and vicar of Whittington and Heath for many years, was buried here. He was an antiquarian and published a number of books including republishing a very early cookery book, Forme of Cury. 
  Thomas Gascoyne, a record-breaking cyclist who died in World War I, was born here.
  Frederick Swanwick (1810–1885) a civil engineer who assisted George and Robert Stephenson lived in the village. He was responsible for much of the work on railways in the North and Midlands of England. In retirement he gave generously of his time and money to provide education for the increasing population of Whittington, building up schools in each of the three villages of old and New Whittington and Whittington Moor.
  Harry Brearley (1871 – 1948) was an English metallurgist, credited with the invention of "stainless steel." The 1911 census showed he and his family living at Elmwood House om High Street. He bought a house in Walton in 1919 but provided land for Brearley Park that was opened in 1920.
caption: Samuel Pegge's church as it was in 1785 as drawn by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm. This church was destroyed by a fire.
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