Editing Chiswick (section)

=== 20th century ===

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[[File:Arlington Park Mansions - Entrance.jpg|thumb|Arlington Park Mansions, facing [[Turnham Green]], with [[E. M. Forster]] blue plaque]]

In the twentieth century, the novelist [[E. M. Forster]] (1879–1970) lived at 9 Arlington Park Mansions<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7B0weoOofEC&q=e.m.+forster+chiswick&pg=PT423 |title=E. M. Forster: A New Life |publisher=Bloomsbury |last=Moffat |first=Wendy |year=2011|isbn=9781408824276 }}</ref> from 1939 until at least 1961.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.notableabodes.com/person-abode-details/4442/em-forster-author_9-arlington-park-mansions-sutton-lane-chiswick-london |title=E.M. Forster 9 Arlington Park Mansions, Sutton Lane, Chiswick, London |publisher=Notable Abodes |year=2011 |access-date=23 May 2013 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819125735/http://www.notableabodes.com/person-abode-details/4442/em-forster-author_9-arlington-park-mansions-sutton-lane-chiswick-london |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[John Osborne]] (1929–1994) wrote his play ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' on his [[houseboat]] at Cubitts Yacht Basin.<ref name="CBF Writers Trail">{{cite web |title=Writers Trail |url=https://www.chiswickbookfestival.net/chiswick-timeline-writers-trail/ |publisher=Chiswick Book Festival |access-date=10 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605163630/https://www.chiswickbookfestival.net/chiswick-timeline-writers-trail/ |archive-date=5 June 2021 |date=2021}}</ref>

Notable people born before the [[Second World War]] include the cricketers [[Patsy Hendren]] (1899–1962)<ref>{{cite web |title=Patsy Hendren |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/14158.html |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> and [[Jack Robertson (English cricketer)|Jack Robertson]] (1917–1996),<ref>{{cite web |title=Jack Robertson |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19423.html |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> the novelist [[Iris Murdoch]] (1919–1999) who lived on Eastbourne Road,<ref name="W4 Murdoch"/> the theatre and film director [[Peter Brook]] (1925–2022),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/arts/24iht-bookwed.html?_r=0 |work=The New York Times |first=Arnold |last=Aronson |title=Peter Brook: A Biography |date=25 May 2005}}</ref><ref name=Kustow2013>{{cite book |last=Kustow |first=Michael |title=Peter Brook: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JV15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA5|access-date=20 July 2015|date=17 October 2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4088-5228-6|pages=5–7}}</ref> the [[Winchester College]] headmaster [[John Thorn (headmaster)|John Leonard Thorn]] (1925–2023),<ref name="Telegraph Obituary">{{cite news |title=John Thorn, visionary headmaster who steered Winchester through the tumultuous late 1960s and 1970s – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/11/01/john-thorn-headmaster-winchester-repton-sixties/ |access-date=1 November 2023 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=1 November 2023}}</ref> the zoologist and broadcaster [[Aubrey Manning]] (1930–2018),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-rules-life-meet-aubrey |title=OU on the BBC: Rules of Life – Meet Aubrey |publisher=Open University |date=24 October 2005 |access-date=24 May 2013 |archive-date=29 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729143158/http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-rules-life-meet-aubrey |url-status=dead }}</ref> and marine geologist [[Frederick Vine]] (1939–&nbsp;).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Science/021M-C1379X0025XX-0001V0 |title=Oral History of British Science: Vine, Fred |publisher=British Library |access-date=24 May 2013}}</ref> The comic song performer [[Michael Flanders]] (1922–1975) spent the last years of his life in Bedford Park.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31113|title=Flanders, Michael Henry (1922â€"1975), actor and lyricist|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31113}}</ref> The actress [[Sylvia Syms]] (1934–2023), star of films such as ''[[Ice Cold in Alex]]'', lived on Dukes Avenue.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dukes Avenue Resident Sylvia Syms Dies Aged 89: Actress had career in stage, film and TV spanning six decades |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb409.htm |access-date=28 January 2023 |work=Chiswick W4 |date=28 January 2023}}</ref>
[[The Who]] rock musicians [[John Entwistle]] (1944–2002) and [[Pete Townshend]] (1945–&nbsp;) were both born in Chiswick during the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=P_zYB4irg8UC&pg=PA278 |title=Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend |last=Giuliano |first=Geoffrey |page=278 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2002 |isbn=978-0815410706}}</ref> [[Deep Purple]] lead singer [[Ian Gillan]] was born in Chiswick on 19 August 1945.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gillan |first1=Ian |author-link1=Ian Gillan |title=Child in Time: The Life Story of the Singer from Deep Purple |last2=Cohen |first2=David |year=1993 |publisher=Smith Gryphon |isbn=1-85685-048-X |page=2}}</ref><!-- Bluelinks with full references only please, no uncited entries, thanks -->

Those born in Chiswick during the post-war period include the rock musician [[Dave Cousins]],<ref name="Cousins and Donegan">{{cite web |title=Rock Legend to Share Memories of Growing Up in Chiswick |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evgeorgeiv2211.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=14 November 2022 |date=13 November 2022}}</ref> the cricketer [[Mike Selvey]] (1948–&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Selvey |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/20105.html |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> the musician [[Phil Collins]] (1951–&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317163/Phil-Collins-becomes-a-father-again-at-age-of-50.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317163/Phil-Collins-becomes-a-father-again-at-age-of-50.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title= Phil Collins becomes a father again at age of 50 |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Hugh |last=Davies |date=25 April 2001 |access-date=16 August 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the singer [[Kim Wilde]] (1960–&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wilde-life.com/magazines/intro1/index.html |title=Introductory Magazine |publisher=The Official Fan Club for Kim Wilde |access-date=24 May 2013 |pages=4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210141607/http://www.wilde-life.com/magazines/intro1/index.html |archive-date=10 February 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> illustrator [[Clifford Harper]] (1949–&nbsp;), the photographer [[Derek Ridgers]] (1952–&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite book |title=How We Are: Photographing Britain, from the 1840s to the Present |publisher=Tate |last1=Williams |first1=Val |last2=Bright |first2=Susan |year=2007 |pages=219 |isbn=978-1-85437-7142}}</ref> the actress [[Kate Beckinsale]] (1973–&nbsp;),<ref>{{citation|title=Kate Beckinsale's Chiswick Homecoming|publisher=Chiswick W4<!--|access-date=28 June 2016-->|date=8 September 2003|quote=... to return to live in Chiswick. The 30 year old daughter ...}}</ref> the comedian [[Mel Smith]] (1952–2013),<ref>{{cite news |last=Cavendish |first=Dominic |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3653973/Im-hoping-to-cover-my-air-fare.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3653973/Im-hoping-to-cover-my-air-fare.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=I'm hoping to cover my air fare |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=22 July 2006 |access-date=24 May 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and the cricketer [[Dimitri Mascarenhas]] (1977–&nbsp;).<ref>{{cite web |title=Dimitri Mascarenhas |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16932.html |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> <!-- British English, and Bluelinks with full references only please, no uncited entries, thanks -->

Among those who have lived in Chiswick are the novelist [[Anthony Burgess]] (1917–1993), at 24 Glebe Street in the mid-1960s;<ref>{{cite book |last=Biswell |first=Andrew |title=The Real Life of Anthony Burgess |year=2006 |publisher=Picador |page=307 |isbn=978-0-330-48171-7}}</ref> the playwright [[Harold Pinter]] (1930–2008) who lived at 373 Chiswick High Road;<ref name="W4 Murdoch">{{cite web |title=Iris Murdoch Deemed Top Pick for Next Chiswick Blue Plaque |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evchisbookfestival094.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=19 October 2021}}</ref> the pianist and broadcaster [[Sidney Harrison]] (1903–1986) who in the 1960s lived at 57 Hartington Road<ref>''Musical Times'' No 1426, December 1961, p 749 (Front Matter)</ref> and later at 37 The Avenue;<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi-xCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+Young+Person%E2%80%99s+Guide+to+Playing+the+Piano%E2%80%9D+%22Harrison%22&pg=PA534|title=Writers Directory|first=NA|last=NA|date=5 March 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-03650-9 |via=Google Books}}</ref> the musical double act [[Bob and Alf Pearson]], Bob (1907–1985) on Netheravon Road in the 1940s,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bob Pearson (Musician) |url=http://www.notableabodes.com/people-search-results/person-details/135256/bob-pearson-musician |access-date=14 March 2021 |website=Notable Abodes |archive-date=28 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228034115/http://www.notableabodes.com/people-search-results/person-details/135256/bob-pearson-musician |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Alf (1910–2012) on Linden Gardens in the 1950s;<ref>{{cite web|title=Alf Pearson (Musician)|url=http://www.notableabodes.com/people-search-results/person-details/135257/alf-pearson-musician|access-date=14 March 2021|website=Notable Abodes|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923122528/http://www.notableabodes.com/people-search-results/person-details/135257/alf-pearson-musician|url-status=dead}}</ref> the pop artist [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]] (1932–), in Chiswick since 1967,<ref>{{cite news |last=Nikkhah |first=Roya |title=Sir Peter Blake: why I chose Pop over pot |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7908366/Sir-Peter-Blake-why-I-chose-Pop-over-pot.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7908366/Sir-Peter-Blake-why-I-chose-Pop-over-pot.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=20 November 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> with a "vast" studio in a former [[ironmonger]]'s warehouse;<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Barber |first=Lynn |title=Blake's progress |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/jun/17/art2 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 June 2007}}</ref> the actor [[Hugh Grant]] (1960–&nbsp;), who grew up in Chiswick, living next to Arlington Park Mansions on Sutton Lane; the singer [[Bruce Dickinson]] (1958–&nbsp;) of the band [[Iron Maiden]];<ref>{{cite book |last=Keaveny |first=Shaun |author-link=Shaun Keaveny |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sRHqKuTdfb0C&pg=PA11 |title=R2d2 Lives In Preston |page=11 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |date=2010 |isbn=9780752227450 |access-date=23 May 2013}}</ref> the TV presenter [[Kate Humble]] (1968–&nbsp;);<ref>{{cite news |last=Swinford |first=Steven |title=Kate Humble: I lived in a squat and took drugs |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10008743/Kate-Humble-I-lived-in-a-squat-and-took-drugs.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10008743/Kate-Humble-I-lived-in-a-squat-and-took-drugs.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=21 April 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the actress [[Elizabeth McGovern]] (1961–&nbsp;) and her husband, film director [[Simon Curtis (filmmaker)|Simon Curtis]] (1960–&nbsp;);<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/hollywood-never-suited-me-elizabeth-mcgovern-on-fleeing-la-and-downton-abbeyrsquos-lady-cora-2161323.html |title='Hollywood never suited me': Elizabeth McGovern on fleeing LA and Downton Abbey's Lady Cora |last=Gilbert |first=Gerard |date=18 December 2010 |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=24 May 2013}}</ref> the American lawyer [[John Lowenthal]] (1925–2003),<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lowenthal |first=John |author-link=John Lowenthal |title=Venona and Alger Hiss |magazine=[[Times Literary Supplement]] |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/venona-and-alger-hiss/ |date=2 July 1999 |access-date=8 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lowenthal |first=John |author-link=John Lowenthal |title=Views of Alger Hiss |magazine=Times Literary Supplement |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/views-of-alger-hiss/ |date=13 August 1999}}</ref> the singer [[Lonnie Donegan]]<!--c. 1960s-->,<ref name="Cousins and Donegan"/> the musician and songwriter [[Noel Gallagher]] (1967–),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horton |first=Matthew |date=24 April 2013 |title=18 Things You Might Not Know About Oasis's 'Some Might Say' |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/18-things-you-might-not-know-about-oasiss-some-might-say-765579 |access-date=3 January 2023 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}</ref> and the model [[Cara Delevingne]] (1992–&nbsp;).<ref name=W424Nov2014>{{cite news |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb342.htm |title=Supermodel set to move to Chiswick |publisher=ChiswickW4 |date=24 November 2014 |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref><!-- Bluelinks with full references only please, no uncited entries, thanks -->