Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in Somerset, located on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 21 miles (34 km) south-east of Weston-super-Mare, 22 mi (35 km) south-west of Bath and 23 mi (37 km) south of Bristol. Although the population recorded in the 2011 census was only 10,536, and with a built-up area of just 3.244 km2 (1.253 sq mi), Wells has had city status since medieval times, because of the presence of Wells Cathedral. Often described as England's smallest city, it is actually second smallest to the City of London in area and population, but unlike London it is not part of a larger urban agglomeration.
George Leslie Norris, was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. He taught at academic institutions in Britain and the United States, including Brigham Young University. Norris is considered one of the most important Welsh writers of the post-war period, and his literary publications have won many prizes.
Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker KCIE CB DSO OBE was a senior British Indian Army officer who commanded the 4th Indian Infantry Division during the Second World War from 1941.
Walter Fitzgerald Bond was an English character actor.
Robert Wilmer Woods,, known as Robin Woods, was an English Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Worcester from 1971 to 1982. He previously served as Archdeacon of Sheffield from 1958 to 1962, and as Dean of Windsor from 1962 to 1970.
William Champion Streatfeild was the Anglican Bishop of Lewes. He was a descendant of the historic Streatfeild family, the father of the novelist Noel Streatfeild, and appears as the beloved but over-saintly father of the heroine, Victoria, in her autobiographical novel A Vicarage Family.
Richard Charles Challinor Watson was an Anglican clergyman who was the seventh Bishop of Burnley from 1970 to 1988.
Colonel William Vere Reeve King-Fane was an English local politician, magistrate and landowner, who served as vice-chairman of Kesteven County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire.
Charles Lawrence Riley CBE, VD was an Australian Anglican bishop: the fourth Bishop of Bendigo from 1938 to 1957; and Chaplain-General to the AMF from 1942 until 1957.
Captain Arthur Granville Soames was a British officer in the Coldstream Guards, a landowner, and a Sheriff of Buckinghamshire.
Charles Ernest Hopton was Archdeacon of Birmingham from 1915 to 1944.
John Charles Williams was an Anglican priest.
The Ven Folliott George Sandford was the inaugural Archdeacon of Doncaster.
Joseph Bertram Kite, was the fourth Dean of Hobart, serving from 1897 to 1916.
The Ven. Robert Sydney Dell, MA was Archdeacon of Derby from 1973 to 1992.
Olga Edwardes was a South African-born British actress and artist.
Rev. William Champion Streatfeild MA (1839–1912) was an English clergyman and descendant of the historic Streatfeild family. In his retirement he lived at Chart’s Edge and Hoseyrigge, in Westerham Kent.
The Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall, is an Anglican parish church in Killinghall, North Yorkshire, England. It was designed in 1879 by William Swinden Barber when the parish of Ripley was split to create the additional parish of Killinghall, and a new building was required to accommodate a growing congregation. It was opened in 1880. Among the early vicars posted in this benefice were two canons, Sydney Robert Elliston and Lindsay Shorland-Ball, and the Venerable Robert Collier, an Irish missionary who served in India and Africa.
Canon Sydney Robert Elliston MA was a journalist, vicar, and canon of Ripon Cathedral. Two of his brothers were William Rowley Elliston and George Elliston MP. He was involved with the formation of the Ripon Diocesan Board of Finance in 1913, and was its secretary from 1914 to 1935. At his funeral it was said of him that, "The diocese of Ripon owed a great debt to the work of Canon Elliston in laying down sound principles of Church finance." While looking after the finances of Ripon diocese, he was at the same time vicar of one of north-east England's Barber churches: the Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall (1880), designed by William Swinden Barber.
Frank Nuttall was Archdeacon of Madras from 1922 to 1924.
