Editing Wetherby (section)

==Notable people==
[[File:Ginger Lacey.jpg|thumb|right|Wetherby-born Second World War flying ace 'Ginger' Lacey, in about 1940]]
[[File:CINvOCB 2017-05-13 - Seb Hines (34525816801) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Major League Soccer]] footballer Seb Hines was born and raised in Wetherby]]

* Beer and whisky expert [[Michael Jackson (writer)|Michael Jackson]] (1942–2007) was born in Wetherby.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/04/guardianobituaries.lifeandhealth | title = Michael Jackson | date = 4 September 2004 | newspaper = The Guardian | author = Roger Protz}}</ref>
* [[Flight Lieutenant]] [[James Harry Lacey|'Ginger' Lacey]] (1917–1989), a [[Battle of Britain]] flying ace, was born in Wetherby.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web | url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0994930/bio | publisher = IMDb | title = Ginger' Lacey. Biography | access-date = 4 August 2007}}</ref> ''Lacey Grove'' is named after him.<ref name="wol">{{cite web |url=http://www.wetherby.co.uk/about/facts.php4 |title=About Wetherby – Fascinating Facts|access-date=4 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004221236/http://www.wetherby.co.uk/about/facts.php4 |archive-date=4 October 2006 |work=Wetherby Online}}</ref>
* Former goalkeeper [[Stuart Naylor]] was born in Wetherby in 1962. He was capped three times for the [[England national football team|England]] [[England B national football team|B team]] in the 1980s
* [[Yorkshire Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] [[Cricket]]er [[Charles Midgley]] was born in Wetherby in 1877 and died in Bradford in 1942.
* Former Conservative [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] [[Robert Sturdy]] was born in Wetherby in 1944. He has never represented Yorkshire [[constituencies]], holding seats in the Tory heartlands of [[Cambridgeshire]] and [[Bedfordshire]].
* [[Essex cricket team|Essex]] Cricketer [[Fred Cooper (1888–1958)|Fred Cooper]] was born in Wetherby in 1888.
* Former [[Middlesbrough F.C.]] footballer, [[Seb Hines]] (born 1988), is from the [[Hallfields Estate]] in Wetherby.
* [[Skins (TV series)|Skins]] Actor [[Sam Jackson (actor)|Sam Jackson]] also comes from Wetherby and was born in October 1993.
* [[Reginald Wickham]], cricketer
* [[Emily Wardman]], museum curator
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