Editing Kennington (section)

==Notable people==
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{{main|List of people from Lambeth}}
* [[William Hogarth]], artist, lived in Kennington in the early part of the eighteenth century.<ref name="british-history1"/>
* [[David Ricardo]], the celebrated political economist, lived in Kennington in the 1790s.
* [[William Blake]], artist and visionary, occupied a house at Hercules Road, at the boundary of Kennington and Lambeth, between 1790 and 1800.
* [[Eliza Cook]], author, [[Chartism|Chartist]] poet and writer, lived in Kennington in the first half of the nineteenth century.
* [[William Bligh]], Captain of {{HMS|Bounty}}, against whom the [[Mutiny on the Bounty]] was brought, occupied a house at Lambeth Road, near the Imperial War Museum. He died in 1817, and was buried at St. Mary's, Lambeth.
* [[William Hosking]], architect and civil engineer, who claimed to have formed the design for the [[British Museum Reading Room]], and was the first Professor of Architecture at [[King's College London]], occupied a house in Walcot Square in the 1840s.
* [[William Chandler Roberts-Austen|Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen]] metallurgist – after whom [[austenite]] is named – was born in Kennington in 1843.
* [[William Booth]], founder and General of [[The Salvation Army]], found work and lodging at a pawnbroker shop in Kennington Park Road in 1849.
* [[E. Nesbit]], children's author, best known for ''[[The Railway Children]]'', was born in Kennington in 1858.
* [[Samuel Prout]], watercolorist, lived from 1849-50 in Kennington Road.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol23/pp128-136|title=Kennington Road &#124; British History Online}}</ref>
* [[Felix Slade]] – a lawyer and philanthropist, who endowed three Slade Professorships of Fine Art at [[Oxford University]], [[Cambridge University]] and [[University College London]], and bequeathed most of his art collection to the [[British Museum]] – lived and died in Walcot Place, off Kennington Road. He donated a large fountain to Kennington Park – the Slade Memorial Fountain.
* [[Roy Redgrave]], actor, and patriarch of the [[Redgrave family|Redgrave]] acting family, was born in Kennington in 1873.
* [[Vincent van Gogh]], artist, lived at Ivy Cottage, 395 Kennington Road, from August to October 1874, and from December 1874 to May 1875.<ref>http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let092/letter.html; see note [7] {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
* [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] [[Bernard Montgomery|Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein]], [[British Army]] [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]]. Montgomery was born into an [[Ulster Scots people|Ulster Scots]] family in Harleyford Street in 1887.
* [[Charlie Chaplin]], actor, born in 1889, grew up in Kennington,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10768576/Charlie-Chaplin-Londons-greatest-son.html|title=Charlie Chaplin: London's greatest son|first=Horatia|last=Harrod|date=16 April 2014|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> and lived in several different houses at different times, Methley Street and Kennington Road.
* [[Harry Roberts (murderer)|Harry Roberts]], who was jailed for life for murdering three policemen in the [[Massacre of Braybrook Street]] in 1966, was born in Kennington in 1936. He spent 48 years in prison.
* [[Don Letts]], film director and musician, born in 1956, was educated in Kennington.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://onelovefestival.co.uk/artists/don-letts/|title=Don Letts – One Love Festival 2018|website=onelovefestival.co.uk|access-date=7 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507143738/https://onelovefestival.co.uk/artists/don-letts/|archive-date=7 May 2018}}</ref>
* [[Bob Marley]], [[Jamaicans|Jamaican]] musician, stayed at a property in St. Agnes Place on occasions in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Video/Evictions-At-Bob-Marleys-London-Squat/Article/200511413471774?lpos=Video_Article_Body_Copy_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_13471774_Evictions_At_Bob_Marleys_London_Squat |title=Evictions at Bob Marley's London Squat |publisher=News.sky.com |access-date=15 August 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427034711/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Video/Evictions-At-Bob-Marleys-London-Squat/Article/200511413471774?lpos=Video_Article_Body_Copy_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_13471774_Evictions_At_Bob_Marleys_London_Squat |archive-date=27 April 2011  }}</ref>
* [[James Callaghan]], who was [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] in 1976, insisted that he did not want to inflict upon his wife the "discomforts" of living at [[10 Downing Street]], and elected to stay at his flat on Kennington Park Road. He was eventually persuaded, in the interests of security, to move to 10 Downing Street.<ref>{{cite news |author=Travis, Alan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/jan/04/uk.past |title=Why Jim arrived so reluctantly – and Harold went so fast  |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 January 2005 |access-date=29 March 2012 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002202928/http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/jan/04/uk.past |archive-date=2 October 2013  }}</ref>
* [[William Tallon]], Steward and [[Page of the Backstairs]] in the household of [[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]], typically referred to by newspapers as "Backstairs Billy", moved from [[Clarence House]] in 2002 to a Duchy of Cornwall flat in Kennington. He died in 2007.
* [[David Laws]], politician, was involved in a controversy concerning a property which he occupied in Kennington.<ref>{{cite news |last=Watt |first=Holly |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/7780642/MPs-Expenses-Treasury-chief-David-Laws-his-secret-lover-and-a-40000-claim.html |title=MPs' Expenses: Treasury chief David Laws, his secret lover and a £40,000 claim |work=Telegraph |date=28 May 2010 |access-date=29 March 2012 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319085251/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/7780642/MPs-Expenses-Treasury-chief-David-Laws-his-secret-lover-and-a-40000-claim.html |archive-date=19 March 2012  }}</ref>
* [[Lembit Öpik]], politician.
* [[Kevin Spacey]], actor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kenningtonnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/kevin-spacey-exclusive-part-of-me-feels.html |title=Kevin Spacey exclusive: Part of me feels British now but the knife crime here is shocking |publisher=Kenningtonnews.blogspot.com |date=26 June 2009 |access-date=29 March 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322181953/http://kenningtonnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/kevin-spacey-exclusive-part-of-me-feels.html |archive-date=22 March 2012  }}</ref>
* [[Ted Rogers (comedian)|Ted Rogers]], comedian and host of [[3-2-1]]
* [[Sarah Waters]], author, who wrote (among other novels) ''[[Tipping the Velvet]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sarah-waters-tales-of-a-reluctant-celebrity-443747.html|title=US|website=independent.co.uk|access-date=7 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513075248/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/sarah-waters-tales-of-a-reluctant-celebrity-443747.html|archive-date=13 May 2011}}</ref>
* [[Oliver Letwin]], Member of Parliament, who was the victim of a confidence trick at his Kennington home.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1748347.stm |title=UK POLITICS &#124; Tories signal law and order shift |work=BBC News |date=8 January 2002 |access-date=29 March 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040702170325/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1748347.stm |archive-date=2 July 2004  }}</ref>
* [[Michael Connarty]], Member of Parliament.<ref name="Telegraph_010715">{{cite news |last=Cracknell |first=David |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334056/Two-days-to-go-and-its-still-anybodys-race.html |title=Two days to go and it's still anybody's race |work=Telegraph |date=15 July 2001 |access-date=29 March 2012 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427030526/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1334056/Two-days-to-go-and-its-still-anybodys-race.html |archive-date=27 April 2011  }}</ref>
* [[Jack Straw]], Member of Parliament; former [[Home Secretary]]; former [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs|Foreign Secretary]]; former [[Lord Privy Seal]] and [[Leader of the House of Commons]]; former [[Lord Chancellor|Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain]] and [[Secretary of State for Justice]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
* [[Anthony Steen]], politician.<ref name="Telegraph_010715"/>
* [[Stephen Hesford]], politician.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hoylakejunction.com/mp-expenses-update |title=Wirral West MP Expenses Update |publisher=Hoylakejunction.com |date=29 May 2009 |access-date=29 March 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317070107/http://www.hoylakejunction.com/mp-expenses-update |archive-date=17 March 2012  }}</ref>
* [[Alistair Darling]], Member of Parliament and former [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]].
* [[Hazel Blears]], Member of Parliament and former [[Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
* [[Charles Kennedy]], Member of Parliament and former leader of the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] Party.<ref name="Telegraph_060108">{{cite news |last=Kite |first=Melissa |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/liberaldemocrats/1507268/The-three-days-that-finished-off-Charles-Kennedys-leadership.html |title=The three days that finished off Charles Kennedy's leadership |work=Telegraph |date=8 January 2006 |access-date=29 March 2012 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805194319/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/liberaldemocrats/1507268/The-three-days-that-finished-off-Charles-Kennedys-leadership.html |archive-date=5 August 2011  }}</ref>
* [[Phil Willis, Baron Willis of Knaresborough]], politician.<ref name="Telegraph_060108"/>
* [[Kenneth Clarke]], Member of Parliament, [[Secretary of State for Justice]] and [[Lord Chancellor]].
* [[Ronnie Campbell]], Member of Parliament for Blyth, Northumberland.
* [[Florence Welch]], musician and frontwoman of [[Florence & The Machine]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Kennington Runoff |url=http://kenningtonrunoff.com/florence-welch-recently-moved-to-kennington/ |title=Florence Welch recently moved to Kennington |work=Kennington Runoff |date=13 May 2013 |access-date=8 December 2013 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212121522/http://kenningtonrunoff.com/florence-welch-recently-moved-to-kennington/ |archive-date=12 December 2013  }}</ref>
* [[Karen Gillan]], actress<ref>{{cite news |author=Kennington Runoff |url=http://kenningtonrunoff.com/doctor-who-day-in-kennington/ |title=Karen Gillan and Dr Who: the Kennington connections |work=Kennington Runoff |date=23 November 2013 |access-date=8 December 2013 |location=London |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212121524/http://kenningtonrunoff.com/doctor-who-day-in-kennington/ |archive-date=12 December 2013  }}</ref>
* [[David Ball (electronic musician)|David Ball]] electronic musician, member of [[Soft Cell]]
* [[Lady Colin Campbell]], socialite, author, TV/radio personality.
* [[Alan Kitching (typographic artist)|Alan Kitching]], typographer<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/02/a-z-living-typographer-alan-kitching-home-letterpress|title=A-Z living: an inside look at typographer Alan Kitching's home|first=Candice|last=Pires|access-date= 5 August 2021|date=2 April 2016|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>
* [[Rory Kinnear]], actor<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/theatre/rory-kinnear-on-writing-his-first-play-8797289.html|title=Rory Kinnear on writing his first play|newspaper=The Evening Standard|date=4 September 2013}}</ref>
* [[Jadon Sancho]], footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Why future England squads will have heavy south London accent|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/12/why-future-england-squads-will-have-heavy-south-london-accent|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=12 October 2018 |access-date=6 January 2019}}</ref>