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Charles Swift OBE served Peterborough for an extraordinary 62 years as a councillor. Railwayman, Mayor, council leader and community champion, he helped shape the expanding modern city and played a courageous role in welcoming Ugandan Asian families to Peterborough in 1972.
Born in Peterborough and baptised at its Cathedral, William Paley became one of Georgian Britain’s most influential philosophers and theologians, famous for the watchmaker argument that later helped shape the thinking of Charles Darwin.
Lily Violet Bryant became Peterborough’s first woman councillor in 1930 and its first woman mayor in 1938, leading the city as Britain prepared for the Second World War.
A former Peterborough Cathedral chorister and Head Boy at The King’s School, David Lammy went on to become a barrister, author, long-serving Member of Parliament and one of the most prominent British politicians of his generation.
Born in Peterborough in 1944, Sir Henry Hodge devoted his career to making justice accessible before becoming only the third solicitor appointed as a High Court judge in England and Wales.
Although born in Swardeston, Norfolk, Edith Cavell’s story has strong roots in Peterborough.