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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
Harold Phillip Barnes	Harold became the Assistant Accountant & Comptroller General, Board of Inland Revenue and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1957.
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	Syd Enever will be remembered as the engineer of the MGA and MGB sports cars. His story is told in more detail here.
Francis Alfred Enever	Francis was knighted in 1955 having been the Deputy Treasury Solicitor for the UK Government and written the 'History of the Law of Distress for Rent and Damage Feasant' in about 1931.
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. John Kirkpatrick's obituary in The Sun newspaper (Sydney) reported that he belonged to one of the oldest and most distinguished of Scottish families whose records are brimful of adventure and tragedy. His grandfather was the late Robert Kirkpatrick, Closeburn, Dumfriesshire, who was the grandson of Sir James Kirkpatrick, fourth baronet.
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-
Arthur Dickson Wright	A distinguished surgeon who served for 16 years as a council member of the Royal College of Surgeons and for 2 years as its Vice-President. He worked for 30 years at St Mary's Hospital in London and had an extensive private practice and was a surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen Mother. He was described in a valedictory address as being a "volatile and mercurial character" and "one of the last and one of the greatest of the genus 'general surgeon'". See also Clarissa Dickson-Wright, below.
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, (see above) 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. It is also reported that Alexander Armstrong, the comedian, is Clarissa's cousin although I am unaware of the link. Alexander (also known as Xander) Armstrong was born in Rothbury, Northumberland and was educated at Durham School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he met Ben Miller, both being members of the Cambridge Footlights. Among other roles they co-starred in four series of Armstrong amd Miller from 1997 to 2001 and The Armstrong and Miller Show in 2007. Source: wikipedia & others.

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