page_title: Bollington
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Bollington / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: James Chadwick
context_page_description: Bollington is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, to the east of Prestbury. In the Middle Ages it was part of the Earl of Chester's manor of Macclesfield, and the ancient parish of Prestbury. In 2011, it had a population of 8,310.
  Bollington is on the River Dean and the Macclesfield Canal, on the south-western edge of the Peak District. Rising above the town on Kerridge Hill is White Nancy, a monument built to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.
context_section_description: Samuel Greg (Jnr) (1804–1876) an English industrialist and philanthropist, in 1832 he took over management of Lowerhouse Mill in Bollington and used it as a basis for social experimentation.
  John Ryle (1817–1887) born and died in Bollington. Emigrated to the United States in 1839 and became known as the "father of the United States silk industry" and was the Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey from 1869 to 1870
  William Collard Smith (1830 in Bollington – 1894) emigrated to Australia in 1852, became a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Minister of Education 1880 to 1881.
  Emma Brooke (1844–1926) a British novelist and a campaigner for the rights of women, brought up in Bollington
  Jack Plant (born 1870 in Bollington) an English international footballer, played professionally for Bury, and earned one cap for England in 1900
  Sir James Chadwick CH, FRS (1891 in Bollington – 1974) Nobel Prize-winning physicist who proved the existence of neutrons, educated at Bollington Cross School.
  Terry Waite CBE (born 1939 in Bollington) was held hostage for four years in Lebanon, and who has devoted his life to humanitarian causes, lived for a very short time in Bollington; his father was one of the town's policemen.
  David Dickinson (born 1941) antiques expert and television presenter, lives in Bollington.
  Angie Lewin (born 1963 in Bollington) designer of prints and screens, brought up in Bollington.
  James Bailey (born 1988) professional footballer, brought up in Bollington.
  Libby Clegg, MBE (born 1990) blind athlete, born and lived in Bollington until moving to Scotland at age 11.
  Ben Amos (born 1990) an English professional footballer   who plays as a goalkeeper for Charlton Athletic, lived for some years in Bollington
caption: Sir James Chadwick, 1945
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