Editing Baildon (section)

== Notable people ==
{{see also|:Category:People from Baildon}}

The late journalist and ''[[Countdown (game show)|Countdown]]'' TV game show presenter [[Richard Whiteley]] was a native of Baildon,<ref name="Indep">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-whiteley-295279.html|title=Obituaries – Richard Whiteley|date=28 June 2005|work=The Independent|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112152822/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-whiteley-295279.html|archive-date=12 January 2020|access-date=12 January 2020}}</ref>
and [[Austin Mitchell]], [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Great Grimsby]] from 1977 until 2015, was born in Baildon.<ref name=FOL>{{cite web |title=Tyke life and humour according to Austin |work=Free Online Library |access-date=4 March 2011 |year=2009 |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tyke+life+and+humour+according+to+Austin%3B+Yorkshire-born+MP+Austin...-a0208868127}}</ref> The former wool merchant and RAF Officer [[Geoffrey Ambler]] was born in Baildon in 1904.<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Emily|last=Winterburn|title=Ambler, Geoffrey Hill|id=46570}}</ref>

[[File:Ian Clough Hall - Hallcliffe - geograph.org.uk - 512453.jpg|thumb|The former Ian Clough Hall, Hallcliffe]]

[[Mountaineering|Mountaineer]] [[Ian Clough (mountaineer)|Ian Clough]] was born in Baildon.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Titley |first1=Cris |title=Baildon – step off the beaten track to discover the best of West Yorkshire |url=http://www.yorkshirelife.co.uk/out-about/places/baildon_step_off_the_beaten_track_to_discover_the_best_of_west_yorkshire_1_1568972|website=Yorkshire Life |access-date=20 November 2015 |date=12 March 2012}}</ref>
After he was killed on an expedition to the [[Himalaya]]n mountain [[Annapurna]] in 1970, Ian Clough Hall, a meeting-place and arts venue, was established in Baildon in his memory.
The hall was demolished in late 2023; the site is destined to become a complex of private retirement flats.
In the 1960s, Clough and close friend [[Chris Bonington]] were known to have practised their climbing techniques on Baildon Bank – a {{convert|1,000|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}}, {{convert|50|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}}, ex-quarry rock-face that looks out towards [[Bradford]].
In 1962, Clough and Bonington were the first Britons to successfully scale the treacherous north face of the [[Eiger]] in the [[Swiss Alps]].
Ex-Yorkshire & England cricket captain [[Brian Close]], born in nearby [[Rawdon, West Yorkshire|Rawdon]], settled in the village, and died there in 2015 after a long battle with cancer.<ref name="Tel-BC">{{cite web |title=Brian Close, cricket's lionheart, still chipper as he approaches 80 not out |work=Telegraph |access-date=27 February 2011 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/8341051/Brian-Close-crickets-lionheart-still-chipper-as-he-approaches-80-not-out.html}}</ref>
Ex-[[Yorkshire CCC|Yorkshire]] and England [[cricket]] fast bowler [[Matthew Hoggard]], though originally from [[Pudsey]], lived in Baildon for some years and was a member of Baildon Cricket Club.<ref name="BW-FP">{{cite web |title=Famous People |work=BaildonWiki |access-date=4 March 2011 |url=http://www.baildonwiki.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Famous_People}}</ref><ref name=TO>{{cite web |title=The Big Interview: Matthew Hoggard |work=Times Online |access-date=4 March 2011 |date=30 October 2005 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article584442.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604160744/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article584442.ece |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The explorer [[James Theodore Bent]] (1852–1897) spent his boyhood at Baildon House on Station Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baildonwiki.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Baildon_House|title=Baildon House – BaildonWiki|website=www.baildonwiki.co.uk|accessdate=16 May 2021}}</ref> Family memorials are to be found in St John's church. Geoffrey Brindley, known locally as the [[Jesus Man of Bradford]] lived in Baildon until his death in 2015 and there were plans to erect a statue of him in the town.