A brief sample of celebrated Bournemouthians
Bournemouth's history encompasses a cast of colourful characters. Here, for example, lived Robert Louis Stevenson, Tony Hancock, Stewart Granger, Freddie Mills and Aubery Beardsley. Tolkien was a regular visitor as was Sir Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde and, unofficially, Edward VII for secret liaisons with his mistress Lillie Langtry.
In the churchyard of St Peter's Church in the town centre, Mary Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein, is entombed along with the heart of her husband, the romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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