Young, Leonard. Born in Horne, (Harrowsley Green Farm) c 1868. Married to Amie who came from Slaugham. Len was a carman and greengrocer. Lived in Station Road (High Street.) He and his son, Reg, ran a Transport and Removals business from a garage in Lumley Road into the 1970s when it was sold to the family who owned Crawley Luxury Coaches. The ‘L Young and Son’ lorries were a familiar sight in and around Horley for many years. Anderson, Douglas. Doug Anderson was involved with the Scouting movement from 1928 when he became a “Wolf Cub”. Later he became assistant cub master then in 1946 he became a master. He remained involved in the Scout all his life, and in 1997 he was still the president of the 6th Horley Group. Doug also served in the RAF during WW2. He is best known for his efforts to raise money to establish the Anderson leisure centre and swimming pool. Doug ran the family building business, “Anderson Building Contractors,” which operated from “Wheelwrights” in Horley Row. They built many houses for the council and renovated various old houses in Horley. According to the Horley Tithe Apportionment 1846, he owned vast amounts of land in the Horley area including, the land where Albert Road, Southlands Avenue and Crawley Sewage Works are built, also much of Meath Green area and Nutley Deane Farm. [Henry Smith’s and Lord Amherst’s estates: enabling the trustees of Henry Smith to accept a rentcharge out of property belonging to Lord Amherst at Horley (Surrey), in exchange for land at Sevenoaks (Kent). Dated 1793] (Wikipedia et al. ) Desoutter, Marcel. Born London 1894. His father was Louis, a watchmaker & jeweller, born in France, his mother was Philomen?, also born in France according to the 1901 census when the family were living at 1 Maddox Square, in the Parish of St. George, Hanover Sq. London.

Pamela said: “It was a very unconventional marriage, but brought about by love. My father adored my mother and wanted her to be happy. Brown, William. A vicar of Horley Church for 52 years. He was inducted in 1561. He died 14th November, 1613 aged 80. His wife was Magdalena, and they had sons, Joseph, and Benjamin, and daughters, Phoebe and Sara. Joseph became rector of Rusper and Benjamin vicar of Ifield. William Brown owned Russell’s Farm from which Russell Crescent takes its name. He was also left Rowels Farm (which is where Crawley Sewerage Works is now) and other lands in the Horley area. Clarke, James. Born c1921, died 2006. Won the Military Cross and Bar for bravery in WW2. “Jimmy” was involved in the Round Table, The Horley Lions, and the Horley Scouts. He studied Law at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge and trained as a Barrister. He served on the Parish Council for 17 years. Somehow he managed to be find time to be employed as a Civil Servant at the Treasury and rose to under-secretary in the 1960s to 70s. Later he presided over the family building business of Bishop & Clarke. (condensed from “Horley Mirror.”)On 21st July the 7th Lancs moved up to relieve a battalion in the front line near Marmetz Wood. That night Henry Webber took supplies as usual with the battalion transport. Leaving his men to unload the horses, he went over to where the C.O. was talking to a group of officers. Into this routine, peaceful scene there suddenly dropped a single, heavy German shell. When the smoke and dust had cleared it was found that twelve men and three horses had been hit. Henry Webber lay unconscious, badly wounded in the head. He and the other wounded were rushed to a Dressing Station but, for Webber, it was to late. He never regained consciousness and died that night. He married his wife Clairon Barbara Cuerton Aug. 31, 1839 at St Pancras Parish Chapel, Camden, his name was given as Francis Burdett Thomas, solicitor of Lombard Street, and his father was William Thomas, When Edwina had met Louis, he was a handsome naval officer who the film star Grace Kelly had her eye on. Like the first book in this series this one was again extremely cute! I really like that this is written as if by Mrs Bunny herself. And even better was the fact that Polly Horvath herself had a small role in the story. Burbridge. Percy. Born Horley c 1895. (Son of George Burbridge 1) Corn chandler and bookmaker. (As George (2) above)

He was educated at a Boy’s School in Karlshamm, Blekinge, Sweden, then University of Lund in Agriculture at Trelleborg. Sweden Birnage, Derek. Derek Birnage was the founder editor of one of the most popular boys sports comic “Tiger” in the 1950s when he lived in Horley at No 8 Fairfield Avenue. Yarwood, Frank. Born about 1904, died about 1986. Said to have be a millionaire, accountant and property developer. Owned “Imperial Buildings” in Victoria Road, and other property in the Horley area. When WW1 started he relentlessly tried to join up as his three of his four sons had. Then age 66 he was repeatedly turned down as the War Office had an age limit of 60. Eventually the South Lancashire Regiment accepted him as a junior Lieutenant. In May 1916 he was appointed to the Horse Transport and went to France behind the lines where the Battle of the Somme was about to commence on 1 July. His task was to bring up supplies as the battle raged and as he had done on numerous occasions was doing so on 21 July a mile or so east of Albert when an enemy shell landed close by and he was killed.Baden-Powell, Lord Robert Stephenson. Born Paddington 1857, died Nyeri, Kenya 1941 aged 83.? Founder of Boy Scout & Girl Guide movements. Lived at Little Mynthurst in Smalls Hill Road, Norwood Hill 1916. Phyllis became an ardent and successful tennis player and in 1930 became a member of the winning British Wightman Cup team that went to Forest Hill in the USA. At Wimbledon in 1931 she became the doubles champion with Mrs W P Barron (the Horley Mirror for 02.02.06 called her Dorothy Shepherd-Barron) and won the match 6-4. She travelled widely overseas to play tennis and at her 100th birthday party reported that when part of a mixed team, the Lawn Tennis Association always sent a married lady with them to act as a chaperone. She also played with some of the great players of the day including Fred Perry and Bunny Austen.

This is a very silly book, even more so than Horvath's first about the bunnies, "Mr. and Mrs. Bunny - Detectives Extraordinaire!" This time Mrs. Bunny develops a burning desire to be queen, so they're off to England to somehow make that happen. What a coincidence! Madeline's parents have received word that they've inherited a candy shop, so Madeline, her parents, and her friend Katherine are also sailing to England. They plan to run the shop just long enough to make the money necessary for Madeline's mom to buy a 30-acre plot of Knowles, Charlie. Charlie Knowles was a colourful character in Horley during the 1960s, not only because of his white beard and his sporty grey top hat, but also where on numerous occasions he spent his nights. For almost two years he slept under the remaining elm tree in the car park of the then “Chequers Hotel”. One reason for doing so was said to be his belief that the tree was on Horley Common and he wanted to exercise his right to use the common.Have you been to British Columbia, where Madeline and the Bunnys live? How did you like it? How was it different from the place you live? Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9556 Ocr_module_version 0.0.9 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0000354 Openlibrary_edition

Born in an affluent area of Wandsworth in 1879, Blunden Shadbolt had a singularly unfortunate childhood. When he was only two years of age he lost his father, a timber merchant who specialized in mahogany. Devastated and unsettled, his family moved to three different towns over the next few years. As a young boy he was of mild and rather timid disposition, so that when he attended school, he was subjected to bullying. Thankful when his school days ended, he found employment with a firm of architects in Chelmsford. Vagg, Daphne. Lived at Mole End, Church Road Horley. Died 2006. Past President of the “National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies” The second son of Admiral Sir William Monson (c.1568-1643), William Monson was knighted in 1623 and acquired a large estate at Reigate in Surrey upon his marriage to Lady Margaret Stewart (d.1639) daughter of the Earl of Moray in 1625. Three years later, he was created Viscount Monson of Castlemaine in the Irish peerage. Monson opposed King Charles’ arbitrary rule during the 1630s and was among those who refused to pay ship money in 1636. He was elected MP for Reigate in the Long Parliament. Madeline and her hippie parents travel to England to run a sweet shoppe. Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Bunny also travel to England, where Mrs. Bunny tries to weasel her way into the ranks of royalty.Louis agreed they could both take lovers within their marriage and soon fell for French Yola Letellier Charrington, Nicholas et al. It is said the family were in Surrey from about 1340. Nicholas was born 1530. The family bought Bures manor als Beeres & Buryscourt 1622. Later buying Stumblehole and other property including Harrowsley Green Farm and other properties in the Horley area. Descendants of Nicholas were well known as Brewers and coal merchants. In 1766 Rev. Nicholas Charrington, Vicar of Aldenham, Hertfieldshire, raised a mortgage on Bures Manor to buy for his son John a share in a London Brewery, Westfield & Moss. The brewery became the sole property of the family in 1783. A second cousin of John, also named John Charrington, born c1767 moved to London and he became a coal merchant in 1790 In 1841 Thomas Charrington, aged 20, Brewer was living at ‘Woodhatch’ with Harriett (his mother?) and several sisters. In 1901 Edward Charrington aged 25 and family were living at Bures. Ann Charrington the daughter of Richard Humphrey inherited her father’s properties of Wilgers, Jordans and Harrowsley Green Farms, and they remained in the Charrington family for several generations. (Details from “The Charrington Family 1500-1962” by Sir John Charrington, and other sources.) Ramsey, Dame Mary. Dame Mary gave money to Christ’s Hospital to buy the Manor of Horley in about 1602. I love Mr. Bunny - for so he is called - and Mrs. Bunny and the way they tell stories. I also like their enthusiasms and need for adventure. Danny was also a very active supporter of the peace movement and frequently joined their marches for peace. He also hated political injustice and wanted to help political prisoners the world over. It was this that led to his discovery of Greece. Through the League for Democracy in Greece, Danny met his wife Maria.