People

W.G.Grace, the famous cricketer, who was born just across the Frome Gorge in Downend, and who was Captain of Frenchay Village Cricket Team in 1870. His record of scores is still amazing.
Francis Fox Tuckett, who was born in Frenchay and lived here all his life, and was one of the last scientific mountaineers. Edward Whymper described him as: "that mighty mountaineer, whose name is known throughout the length and breadth of the Alps..."
His uncle Frederick Tuckett, who was a founding father of Dunedin in New Zealand.
Francis Tuckett's mountaineering friend and rival John Tyndall the physicist who was born in Leighlinbridge in County Carlow, Ireland, and who became Director of The Royal Institution in London, in succession to Michael Faraday. Tyndall was a frequent visitor to the Tucketts in Frenchay.
Then in more recent years British entertainer Leslie Crowther, in his book The Bonus of Laughter, has some kind things to say about the way Frenchay Hospital put him back together again following a horrific auto crash.
Bruce Hocking, news presenter on the local commercial television station HTV, who lives "in a quiet side street" of Frenchay.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who is Patron, and Mikhail Gorbachev, who is International President, of CLIC (Cancer and Leukemia in Children), the charity founded in Frenchay by Bob Woodward and others.