page_title: Knutsford
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Knutsford / Notable people / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: 1832 portrait of English writer and biographer Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65)
context_page_description: Knutsford is a town in Cheshire, England, 14 miles south-west of Manchester and 9 miles north-west of Macclesfield. The population at the 2011 Census was 13,191.
context_section_description: Edmund Sharpe (1809 in Knutsford – 1877) an English architect, architectural historian, railway engineer and sanitary reformer 
  Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) an English novelist, biographer and short story writer, grew up in Knutsford
  Evelyn Gleeson (1855 in Knutsford – 1944) an English embroidery, carpet and tapestry designer
  Sir Henry Royce, 1st Baronet OBE (1863–1933) an English engineer, car designer and joint founder of the Rolls-Royce company. Lived in Knutsford 1898-1912
  Brigadier-General Sir Ernest Makins KBE CB DSO (1869–1959) a British military officer, statesman and Conservative MP for Knutsford 1922-1945
  Frank Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman GCVO OBE PC (1880 in Knutsford – 1962) a British Conservative politician and judge.
  Sir Edward Peel KBE, DSO, MC (1884 in Knutsford – 1961) a British army officer, businessman, amateur sportsman and big-game fisherman. Lived mainly in Egypt
caption: Elizabeth Gaskell in 1832
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