The Ennevers and their related families have no connections with the royal or famous that I know of, but nevertheless there are a small number of individuals who are, or will have been, well-known in their own fields in their own times. Anyone who I have found featured in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 1, Who's Who 2008 2 or with obituaries in The Times 3 (logins required) are included below. Follow the name links for more information about their lives and achievements.
Names (alphabetical order)
Summary
Albert Sydney (Syd) Enever (not yet featured in the family trees)
Syd Enever was born in 1906 near Winchester, in Hampshire. At the age of 15, with the assistance of his headmaster, he got a job as an errand boy for the showroom of Morris Garages in Oxford. About a year later he was promoted and moved to one of the firm's garages nearby.
In 1927 he was assigned to the experimental department at Abingdon. In 1938 he was appointed chief planning engineer where he remained until 1954 when he was promoted to Chief Engineer. He held that position until he retired in 1971. Syd was responsible for engineering both the MGA and MGB sports cars.
Ted Ennever (not yet featured in the family trees)
Author of "Britain's Best Kept Secret", a concise book focusing on Bletchley Park's unique role. Bletcley Park was the historic site of secret British codebreaking activities during WWII and birthplace of the modern computer. "Britain's Best Kept Secret" traces the Park's early history and provides a guide to the key wartime buildings and events behind the scenes.
Cook, TV presenter and countryside campaigner. Clarissa Dickson Wright trained as a lawyer and was the youngest woman to be called to the bar and comes from an eminent family which includes her father, Arthur Dickson Wright, a surgeon to the Royal family, and her uncles Sir Almoth Edward Wright, medical scientist, Sir Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, secretary and librarian of the London Library and Dr Eric Blackwood Wright, a High Commissioner of the Seychelles.
Sources
1Oxford DNB : more than 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
2Who's Who 2008 : the essential directory of the noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide, published annually by A & C Black since 1849.
