Subscribers to the Ancestry.com U.K. & Ireland Collection can
view these famous people on the 1901 U.K. Census.
H. G. Wells, 1866–1946. Herbert George Wells is listed as
an author in the 1901 census. He proved it by publishing many books,
including The War of the Worlds, Around the World in 80 Days, and
The Time Machine.
Virginia Woolf, 1882–1941. Woolf has been recognized as one
of the most important and influential feminist writers of the twentieth
century. Her works are fully engaged with the important issues of
her time. In 1901, she was 19 and still living at home, listed under
her maiden name of Adeline Virginia Stephen.
Claude Monet, 1840–1926, was an impressionist artist famous
for his paintings that look like chaos close-up, but reveal beautiful
images at a distance. In the 1901 census Monet was 60 and listed "artist" as
his occupation.
Charlie Chaplin, 1889–1977, was a legendary actor in silent
films. His most famous film is probably The Tramp. In 1901, he is
listed as a 12-year-old "worker."
Florence Nightingale, 1820–1910, is most remembered as a pioneer
of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. In 1901,
she was living on her own means.
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, 1874–1922, was a famous arctic
explorer. He tested his mettle and that of his crew, however, when
they were shipwrecked in the Antarctic, where despite fatigue, extreme
temperatures, sickness, and lack of food, they managed to survive
for months in the icy sea.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859–1930, is famous for introducing
the world to Sherlock Holmes in a series of newspaper columns that
was later published as one of the most beloved detective novels of
all time. He is listed in the 1901 census as a surgeon.
King Edward, 1894–1972, Royal Monarch of England. King Edward
VIII fell in love with Mrs. Wallis Simpson, a married American woman
who had previously been divorced. In order to marry her, King Edward
would have to give up the British throne—and he did.
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