The one that normally gets quoted is William Golding who wrote Lord of The Flies. He won a Nobel Prize for Literature in later years. He lived in The Green.
Quite a few went to or are going to Marlborough College but apart from that King John stayed here for a while, Henry I kept his easter here, Thomas Wolsey was ordained in St. Peters Church,
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Edward VI was the last royal owner of the old Marlborough Castle. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour's home was Wulfhall, on the south east edge of Savernake Forewst, near Burbage.
Walter Hancock, (1799 -1852inventor of the Steam Road Engine was born in Marlborough, as was his brother Thomas Hancock,(1786-1865) inventor of the process of India rubber manufacture.
William Samuel Bambridge was Music Director at Marlborough College at the period of the turn of the 19th to 20th century He died in 1923. Not only do his links with the College make him well known at the time, he also was a minor composer and was also a true man of Marlborough with great sporting and social connections in the Town.
Rob Dickens might know if a street in Marlborough is named for him, if not it should be. The Town could do with people like WS Bambridge today.
