page_title: Marlborough, Wiltshire
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Marlborough, Wiltshire / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Savernake Cottage Hospital, Marlborough, Wiltshire: facade and floor plan. Wood engraving by J. Walmsley after himself, 1873, after Sir G.G. Scott. Iconographic Collections Keywords: John Walmsley; George Gilbert Scott
context_page_description: Marlborough is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath. The town is on the River Kennet, 24 miles north of Salisbury and 10 miles south-southeast of Swindon.
context_section_description: Bo Bruce, singer
  David Brudenell-Bruce, Earl of Cardigan, 31st hereditary warden of Savernake Forest
  William Golding, Nobel Prize winner; author of Lord of the Flies; grew up in the town; lived in a house on the green and educated at the former Marlborough Grammar School, where his father was a science master
  Charles Hancock, painter
  Phil Harding, Time Team archaeologist, educated in the town
  John Ivimey (1868–1961), organist and composer, lived in Marlborough
  Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children Fund; taught at St. Peter's Junior School then located at the western end of the High Street (now the Town Library); said to have been inspired to action by the rural poverty she saw amongst her pupils
  Leonard Jennings, first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer
  Edward Thompson, second Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and Northeastern Railway or L.N.E.R.
caption: The Savernake Cottage Hospital, opened on London Road, Marlborough, in 1866
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