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Famous (and infamous) Residents of our  Kensington Parish 
Joseph Addison
English essayist, poet, playwright and politician who co-founded The Spectator. 


Image: New International Encyclopaedia 
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Sculptor and Artist, Daughter of Queen Victoria, artist, sculptor, educator and feminist. 
Her angel sculpture can be found in the Resurrection Chapel 
Image: Vianeli Brothers, Royal Collection
​Isambard Kingdom Brunel
​Civil engineer
Married at church on 5th July 1836.


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Image: Robert Howlett, Met Museum of Art
Lady Tennessee Celeste Claflin, Viscountess of Montserrat
​American Suffragist, Banker, Radical Newspaper founder, Politician
and Colonel. 
Married Francis Cook on 15th October 1885 
​Image: Tucker Collection, New York
​​Henry Cromwell
Lord Deputy of Ireland, son of Oliver Cromwell,
who married Elizabeth Russill on 10th May 1653.
​Holman Hunt
Pre-Raphaelite artist
His son, Hilary, married at church on 24th October 1905 
Image: Self portrait, Uffizi Gallery 
​Alice Kipling
Poet and mother of Rudyard Kipling
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Married John Lockwood Kipling at the church on 18th March 1865

Image: Edward Poynton
​Sir Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist,  scientist 



​Image: Godfrey Kneller,  Isaac Newton Institute
​Helen Beatrix Potter
Children's Author, artist, biologist and conservationist 
Married William Heelis at the church on 15th October 1913.
Image: National Trust archives
​William Makepeace Thackeray 
Novelist
His daughter Anne married here on 2nd August 1877.

​Image: Francis Montague Holl, engraving.
William Holman-Hunt
Pre-Raphaelite artist
Three of his children were baptised here between 1865 and 1868 ​

​Image: self-portrait in the Uffizi Museum 
William Wilberforce
Politician, philanthropist, leader of movement to end slavery.

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​Image:  Sir Thomas Lawrence, National Portrait Gallery​