Editing Todmorden (section)

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of people from Todmorden}}
===Science and engineering===
[[John Mitchell Nuttall]] (1890–1958) was a Todmorden-born physicist remembered for the [[Geiger–Nuttall law]].

[[John Ramsbottom (engineer)|John Ramsbottom]] (1814–1897) was a mechanical and railway engineer and inventor from the town.

====Nobel Prize winners====
Todmorden has two [[Nobel Prize]] winners: Prof. [[John Cockcroft|Sir John Cockcroft
]] (Physics) and Prof. [[Geoffrey Wilkinson|Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson]] (Chemistry).  Despite 24 years' difference in their birth dates, both attended Todmorden Grammar School (now [[Todmorden High School]] with the prior grammar school building now demolished) and both had the same science master, Luke Sutcliffe.

===Politics and law===
[[John Fielden]] (1784–1849), land and factory owner in Todmorden and scion of the town's Fielden family, was a Member of Parliament and national leader of the Ten Hours Campaign for factory reform. He created the 10 hour law, making it so that workers did not have to work almost the whole time they were awake. He also helped to build Centre Vale Park, Todmorden.

[[Samuel Fielden]] (1847–1922), socialist, anarchist and labour activist who was one of the eight convicted in the 1886 [[Haymarket affair]] in Chicago. He was sentenced to death along with six other defendants, but after writing to the Illinois Governor asking for clemency his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in November 1887. He spent six years in prison before being pardoned, along with two other co-defendants, in 1893. He died in Colorado in 1922 and is buried in La Veta (Pioneer) Cemetery, Huerfano County, Colorado alongside his wife and two children.

[[Wilfred Judson]], a justice of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]], was born in and spent his early youth in Todmorden.

[[Rebecca Taylor (politician)|Rebecca Taylor]], [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] for [[Yorkshire and the Humber (European Parliament constituency)|Yorkshire and the Humber]] from 8 March 2012 to 2 July 2014.

===Arts and culture===
Travel writer [[Geoff Crowther]] (1944–2021) was an early and long-time editor of [[BIT (alternative information centre)|BIT Travel Guides]], London from 1972 to 1980.<ref>{{cite web|last=Crowther|first=Ashley|date=24 December 2020|title=Before Lonely Planet, BIT Guides Ruled|url=https://www.ashleycrowther.org/post/before-lonely-planet-bit-guides-ruled|access-date=29 April 2021|website=Ashley Crowther|publisher=Ashley Crowther / Ashley Crowther}}</ref> The BIT Travel Guides were some of the first guidebooks to cover the overland [[Hippie trail]] from Europe to Asia and Australia<ref>Paul Collins, [http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2008/08/baboons_are_simply_too_small_for_leopard_bait.html "Baboons Are Simply Too Small for Leopard Bait" (item 10)], ''Slate'', 4 August 2008.</ref> Crowther went on to be a prolific author for [[Lonely Planet]] (1977–1995) and played a key role in the early days of the company. He wrote the first editions of Africa on a Shoestring, South America on a Shoestring and contributed to the first edition of the India on a Shoestring.<ref>{{cite web|last=Wheeler|first=Tony|date=21 April 2021|title=Farewell Geoff Crowther|url=https://tonywheeler.com.au/farewell-geoff-crowther/|access-date=29 April 2021|website=Tony Wheeler}}</ref><ref>Carole Cadwalladr, [https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2007/oct/07/escape.travelbooks "Journey's end for the guidebook gurus?"], ''The Observer'' Travel, 7 October 2007.</ref> In 2016, the British Library in their 2016 exhibition 'Maps & the 20th Century' showcased Crowther's hand drawn travel maps<ref>{{cite web|last=Calder|first=Simon|date=29 April 2021|title=GEOFF CROWTHER: THE LIFE OF 'THE PATRON SAINT OF TRAVELLERS IN THE THIRD WORLD'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/lonely-planet-geoff-crowther-guidebooks-b1838557.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/lonely-planet-geoff-crowther-guidebooks-b1838557.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription|url-status=live|access-date=29 April 2021|work=The Independent}}</ref> and his research journals for the first edition of South America on a Shoestring. He died in Northern New South Wales, Australia on 13 April 2021.

[[Fred Lawless]],  [[Liverpool]] born theatre playwright has a house in Todmorden; he was also a writer for the [[BBC One]] TV series ''[[EastEnders]]'', as well as several other TV and radio programmes.

Todmorden actress [[Claire Benedict]] has appeared in UK TV shows ''[[Waking the Dead (TV series)|Waking the Dead]]'', ''[[Prime Suspect]]'', ''[[Unforgiven (TV series)|Unforgiven]]'', ''[[Holby City]]'', ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]'', ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'', ''[[Grange Hill]]'', ''[[The Bill]]'' and the ''[[Lenny Henry|Lenny Henry Show]]''. She featured in the films ''[[Merisairas]]'' (1996), ''[[Felicia's Journey (film)|Felicia's Journey]]'' (1999) and ''[[Jupiter Ascending]]'' (2015) and has had numerous theatre roles, including work for the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. On BBC radio she is the voice of Precious Ramotswe in ''[[The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency]]''.

Todmorden-born actor [[Dicken Ashworth]] appeared in ''Coronation Street'' and ''Brookside''.

[[Tony Booth (actor)|Tony Booth]], actor, father of [[Cherie Blair]] and father-in-law of former Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], resided in Todmorden.

The Bayes family of artists were prominent in the 19th and 20th&nbsp;centuries. They were: Alfred Bayes (1832–1909), painter; [[Walter Bayes]] (1869–1856), painter; [[Gilbert Bayes]] (1872–1952), sculptor; and [[Jessie Bayes]] (1876–1970), painter (some of her work can be seen at Lumbutts Methodist Church, Lumbutts, Todmorden).

[[William Holt (writer)|William Holt]] (1897–1977) was a writer, painter, political activist, journalist and traveller. William was often seen riding his white horse Trigger around Todmorden and other local areas.

Keyboardist [[Keith Emerson]] (1944–2016), founder member of UK [[progressive rock]] groups [[the Nice]] and [[Emerson, Lake & Palmer]], was born in the town while the family was evacuated from the south coast.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hanson|first=Martyn|title=Hang on to a Dream – The Story of the Nice|year=2002|publisher=Helter Skelter Publishing|isbn=1-900924-43-9}}</ref>

[[John Helliwell]], another Todmorden-born musician, was saxophonist in the band [[Supertramp]].

[[Dale Hibbert]], original bassist with the Smiths, author of ''Boy Interrupted''.

[[Geoff Love]] (1917–1991), the big band leader, was born in Todmorden.

[[John Kettley]] (born 1952), the former BBC weatherman, grew up in Todmorden.

[[Tim Benjamin (composer)|Tim Benjamin]] (born 1975), the composer, lives in Todmorden, and the world premiere of his opera ''Emily'' was given at the town's Hippodrome Theatre in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.todmordennews.co.uk/what-s-on/arts-culture-and-entertainment/review-by-john-clarke-haunting-hypnotic-entrancing-emily-1-5847466|title=Review by John Clarke: Haunting, hypnotic, entrancing Emily|website=www.todmordennews.co.uk}}</ref>

===Sport===
England Test cricketers [[Peter Lever]] (born 1940) and [[Derek Shackleton]] (1924–2007) were originally from Todmorden.

===Other===
[[Harold Shipman]], the [[general practitioner]] (GP) who is believed to have killed over 200 patients in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, claimed at least one of his victims while working as a doctor at the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre between March 1974 and September 1975.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.the-shipman-inquiry.org.uk/6r_page.asp?ID=3401 |title=The Shipman Enquiry |access-date=15 September 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413134928/http://www.the-shipman-inquiry.org.uk/6r_page.asp?ID=3401 |archive-date=13 April 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjy7BAeDwE4  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/yjy7BAeDwE4| archive-date=11 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre |publisher=YouTube |date=5 November 2010 |access-date=20 January 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> His first known victim, 70-year-old Eva Lyons, lived at Keswick Close in the town. Shipman had initially been charged with 15 murders committed around [[Hyde, Greater Manchester|Hyde]], [[Greater Manchester]], between 1995 and 1998 when he went on trial in late 1999, but Lyons was only identified as a victim of Shipman when the inquiry into his crimes was completed in July 2002 by [[Janet Smith (judge)|Dame Janet Smith]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2138888.stm | work=BBC News | title=Shipman's 215 victims | date=13 January 2004 | access-date = 20 January 2014}}</ref> Shipman was found guilty on 31 January 2000 and hanged himself at HM Wakefield Prison on 13 January 2004.