Thomas Staller was an English Anglican priest. [1]
Staller educated at the University of Oxford. [2] He was Chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker and held the living at St Mary-at-Hill in the City of London. He was Archdeacon of Rochester from 1593 until his death in 1606. [3]
Samuel Horsley was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1793. He was also well versed in physics and mathematics, on which he wrote a number of papers and thus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767; and secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with the president he withdrew in 1784.
Lester J. Harrison was an American professional basketball player, coach, and team owner and is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
George Anthony Mogridge was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox (1911–12), New York Yankees (1915–20), Washington Senators (1921–25), St. Louis Browns (1925), and Boston Braves (1926–27). Mogridge threw the first no-hitter for the Yankees franchise in 1917 and was a member of the 1924 World Series champions with the Senators.
John Longland was an English cleric. He was Dean of Salisbury from 1514 to 1521 and Bishop of Lincoln from 1521 to his death in 1547.
Edmund Audley was Bishop of Rochester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Salisbury.
Benjamin Lany was an English academic and bishop.
The Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway was one of the more than ten thousand railroad companies founded in North America. It lasted much longer than most, serving communities from the shore of Lake Ontario to the center of western Pennsylvania.
Edmund Freke was an English dean and bishop.
The Chatham and District Light Railways Company was the originator and first operator of the electric tramway system that served Chatham and Gillingham, and was later extended into Rochester, Strood and Rainham. The system was in operation from 17 June 1902 to 30 September 1930, when it was superseded by the motorbuses of the Chatham and District Traction Company.
William Jane (1645–1707) was an English academic and clergyman, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1680.
Henry Reginald Courtenay (1741–1803) was an English Bishop of Bristol (1794–1797) and Bishop of Exeter 1797–1803.
Hon. Hugh Percy was an Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Rochester (1827) and Bishop of Carlisle (1827–56).
Joseph Wilcocks was an English churchman, bishop of Gloucester, and bishop of Rochester and dean of Westminster.
Thomas Dale was a British priest in the Church of England who was the Dean of Rochester for a brief period in 1870. He was also a poet and theologian.
William Beaumont Busby was Dean of Rochester from 1808 to 1820.
Thomas Dampier was Dean of Durham from his installation on 17 June 1774 until his death.
Samuel Pratt was a Canon of Windsor from 1697 - 1723 and Dean of Rochester from 1706 - 1723.
William Wilson DD was a Canon of Windsor from 1584 to 1615 and Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral from 1596 to 1615.
Sir William Henry St John Hope (1854–1919) was an English antiquary.
Sir William Arundel KG was a Knight of the Order of the Garter, Constable of Rochester Castle and Constable and Warden of Reigate Castle. He owed all his appointments to Richard II whose reign (1377-1399) covered most of Arundel's life.