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WJ Ennever (1869-1947). From the portrait by J Seymour R.A., exhibited in the Royal Academy.

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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 think merits a mention or I have found featured in the following publications is included below:

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ¹ (login required)
Who's Who 2008 ² (login required)
The Times (obituaries) ³ (login required)
Australian Dictionary of Biography ⁴

Name	Summary
Ferdinand Beacroft	Ferdinand Beacroft was, I believe, the Managing Director of the Shipley Colliery on its nationalisation in about 1947.
Thomas Alfred Beacroft	Thomas Alfred Beacroft is given credit by the author, D H Lawrence, for "the greatest assistance" he had received during his education from Thomas.
Edward Eagar	Edward Eagar was a convict transported to Australia in 1811 from Ireland and became a pioneer of the Methodist Church in Australia and helped to found the Bank of New South Wales and the Benevolent Society before returning to England to start a new life in a bigamous marriage. His full story can be found here.
Geoffrey Eagar	Geoffrey was Edward's son and he was an accountant, banker, politician and public servant in NSW, Australia. His story can be found here.
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 Enever (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 the 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.
William Joseph Ennever	Founder of Pelmanism and The Pelman Institute. Follow the link to William Joseph Ennever or select "Histories" for several links to the full stories of his life and career.
Albert Moulton Foweraker	Landscape artist.
George Henry Ince	George Ince was charged with the murder of Muriel Patience, the "Barn murder", in November 1972. The trial was to achieve national publicity and after two trials Ince was cleared of the charge. He had become "one of the most controversial prisoners in Britain". Read the full story here of his unjust arrest for murder, his conviction for a bullion robbery and his marriage to the ex-wife of Charles Kray, elder brother of the notorious Kray twins.
John Kirkpatrick	Architect. "A good, but not exceptionally gifted architect, Kirkpatrick owed his success, extending over forty years and involving several hundred buildings, more to outstanding drive and political connexions than to creative skill." Source: ADB.
Sidney Land Luker	Civil engineer and town planner. Believed to have married a distant cousin, Annie Luker Morris, who was descended from the transported convict, George Ennever, aka Morris.
Michael Norman Manley & Norman Washington Manley	Prime Ministers of Jamaica. Michael Manley's daughter, Rachel, married Paul Ennevor in 1974.
Albert Midlane	Hymn writer, best known for "There's a friend for little children". Click here for the full story.
Noel Newton Nethersole	Finance Minister of Jamaica and cricketer. He married Elsie Maud Ennevor in 1934.
Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson CBE	Deputy Chairman, Commission for Racial Equality, 1977–85.
Flora Thompson (nee Timms)	Author of the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy and others. Click here for the full story.
Donald George Wehby	Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Jamaica (2007-
Clarissa Dickson Wright	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 Almroth 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

1 Oxford DNB : more than 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.

2 Who'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.

3 The Times digital archive : the world's newspaper of record

4 Australian Dictionary of Biography: over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.

If you have any relevant information about any other well-known family members I would be delighted to hear from you.

Author: Barry Ennever