Famous or Renowned Culgaith People
(for privacy reasons, only deceased persons - unless the person has a Wikipedia page) 

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Atkinson, George Wilkinson (c.1826-1895), clergyman, educated Queen’s Coll. Oxford, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851, member of the Anglo-Catholic English Church Union, perpetual curate, Culgaith, 1851; CCED, Munden, ‘The Anglican Evangelical Party…’, Durham Univ. PhD thesis (1987)

B

Boazman, Kenneth Imeson (1884-1968), mine manager, of Millrigg, Culgaith, near Temple Sowerby (owned by family since 1661), manager of family gypsum mine at Acorn Bank, marr (1924) Isabel Hope (ashes buried at Temple Sowerby, 18 November 1961, aged 67), dau of James Morton Nicholson (qv), of Aston Lea, Kirkby Thore; his cousins, Barbara Avril Dalston Boazman (Lady of Manor) and Marigold Gillian Bridget Imeson Boazman living at Millrigg in 1970s (GiC, 161-)

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Harrison, John Brownrigg (c. 1805-1872), clergyman, (literatus, i.e. no degree), son of Robert Harrison Sr (qv), curate, Culgaith, 1828-37, curate, Raughton Head, 1838, perpetual curate, Plumpton, 1839-72; CACC, DRC1/9, pp. 213, 245; Crockford’s, 1868

HINDSON, John 1815-1893. Village carpenter, whose story has been made into a book.

HUDDART, William Harrison MBE Schoolmaster 1907-1945

Hutchinson, Arthur OBE FRS (1866-1937; ODNB), mineralogist, born in London, the son of George Hutchinson of Woodside (W), a silk merchant Land Tax Commissioner in 1836, his mother was Deborah Richardson of Culgaith, educated at Clifton and Christ’s, Cambridge, took his PhD on the reduction of aromatic amides, lecturer in crystallography, professor of mineralogy, tasked with the design of gas masks in the 1st WW, in time appointed as the master of Pembroke College and later the vice chancellor of Cambridge, he was also vice president of the Royal Society, entertained Gandhi at Pembroke, his wife was Evaline the daughter of Sir Arthur Shipley (1861-1927), zoologist, master of Christ’s and himself vice-chancellor, his son was Evelyn Hutchinson (1903-1991) (qv), the founder of modern ecology

J

James, William (1791-1861), DL, JP, MA, son of William Evans James (1764-1795), descended from Thomas James, of Culgaith (d.1668), purchased Barrock Park, Carlisle in 1813, MP for Carlisle 1820-1826 and 1831-1834 and for East Cumberland 1836-1847, Chairman of Carlisle Canal Co, High Sheriff of Cumberland 1827, owner of large estates in Jamaica

L

LANCASTER, Stuart , a former head coach for the England Rugby Football Union, was born in Culgaith.

Lancaster, Thomas (1718-1789), MA, clergyman, bapt at Barton, 1 May 1718, yst son of John Lancaster, of Pooley Bridge (a cadet of Lancasters of Sockbridge), had er brothers William (bapt 7 February 1712) and John (bapt 26 August 1714) and sisters Mary (bapt 27 April 1713) and Agnes (2 July 1716), MA (Glasgow), curate of Culgaith 1745, curate of Alston and Garrigill 1754-1756, vicar of Alston 1756-1789, died in 1789 (MI in Alston church)

Jean Leech nee Burne. Born in Culgaith and is buried in the church yard. Jean was Mayor of Southport (1970-71), Chairman of Merseyside Transport and was awarded the OBE 

M

Moresby, Sir Christopher (c.1357-1391), MP, lived Distington and Culgaith

P

Pearson, Gradwell (fl.late 19thc.), related to John Bagot Pearson of Augill Castle qv, listed at Augill Castle in 1873 and landowner in 1885 [the castle was ‘unoccupied for many years’ till restored in 1896 by owner, J H Jackson, of Moorside, Culgaith (Kelly, 1897), later property and residence of Paul Kester, American playwright (qv), who is said to have purchased estate by cable (Bulmer, 1905), then in occupation of Dr John Abercrombie (qv) by 1906]

R

RICHARDSON, Matthew Kendal Richardson Canadian politician was born in Culgaith

W
Westmorland, Thomas (1774-1845), baptised in Culgaith, son of Joseph & Elizabeth. clergyman, curate of Kirkby Thore from 1800, curate of Buttermere from 1802, vicar of Sandal, nr Wakefield from 1818, vicar of Brantingham with Ellerker, Yorks from 1857, dau Mary (marr (1825) Revd Wilmot Cave-Browne-Cave (1802-1857), 4th son of Sir William Cave-Browne-Cave, 9th Bt, and later of Rosebank, Temple Sowerby and died in 1897 at The Cedars, in the same village in her 97th year). There is a memorial to Thomas in Culgaith churchyard

Y

Youngman, Des (1928-2016), local councillor, born and raised in Victoria, Australia, worked as a radio transmitter engineer, becoming a radio operator at sea, marr 1st (19xx) 1 son (Derek) and 1 dau (Maureen), both of Perth, marr 2nd (1957) Elizabeth Eggleston (d.2001), working as a nurse in Borneo, no issue, moved to England, initially living at Culgaith with his brother-in-law, Joe Eggleston, converted an old barn at Culgaith to make new home, Hallowell, employed as a telecommunications technical officer at RAF Kingstown, near Carlisle, known as 14 MU, and continued to work there until he retired in early 1990s, prominent member of local community in Culgaith for over 40 years, acted as umpire in local cricket leagues and held coaching sessions for village youngsters, churchwarden at All Saints’, Culgaith, served on Culgaith Parish Council for about 30 years, Eden District Council (leader of Conservative group) and Cumbria County Council, a stroke in 2002 forcing him to give up his local authority roles, living for more than 10 years at Greengarth care home in Penrith, moving to Nether Place, Keswick, where he died 2 December 2016, aged 88, and buried in Culgaith churchyard, 8 December (CWH, 10.12.2016)

Full credit to the excellent Cumbrian Lives https://www.cumbrianlives.org.uk/lives-index.html for most of these potted biographies (in the hope of inspiring others to be written)