Victor James Ashby (1862-1938): Founded a motor engineering firm, the Pioneer Motor Works. [more]
Victor Stapleton Ashby (1892 to 1953): Designed the "Short-Ashby" car in the early 1920s. [more]
Her Imperial Majesty the Empress of Austria (1837-1898).: Rented Easton Neston House in 1876, when she established the first horse race meeting in Towcester.[external link]
Thomas Bickerstaffe (b. Towcester, 17th century): A London Merchant who paid for three almshouses to be built in Towcester in 1689. [more]
Pope Boniface VIII (1235-1303): As Benedict Cajetan, he was Rector of St. Lawrence's Towcester until he became Pope in 1294. [more]
Sir Richard Empson (b. c1450 Towcester, d.1510): Born in Towcester, he raised taxes for his master Henry VII and became influential and wealthy himself. He was beheaded at Tower Hill. [more]
Gilbert Flesher (1772-1845): Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Northampton. Invented a rival road construction method to MacAdam. Organised a party for 1,000 people in Towcester Market Square in 1839 [more]
Sir Henry St George: Chief Herald who lived at Easton Neston and who designed the Union Jack in 1801
James Mason Hutchings (b.1820 Towcester, d.1902 Yosemite): First to publicise and promote what is now the Yosemite National Park. [more]
John Jenkinson: Silk and Wool merchant who founded a bank in Towcester in 1781 [more]
James Cornelius Jones: Head Master of the National School from 1864 to 1909 [more]
Thomas Lord (b. c1582 Towcester, d. c1655, Hartford.): One of the original settlers of what is now Hartford, Connecticut.[external link]
Henry Newby (17c): Born in Towcester, became a haberdasher in London and donated a gallery to St.Lawrence Church in 1627. (Baker p329)
Pickering Phipps: Established a brewery in Towcester in 1801, and another in Northampton in 1817 which became the Carlsberg Brewery in 1974. [external link]
Miss Charlotte and Miss Ada Phipps: Founded a Young Men's Evening Institute in 1903 [more]
Walter (1749-1821) and Daniel (c.1780-1850) Prestidge: Watch and clock makers of Towcester and Eydon [more]
Thomas Ridgway: The tea magnate who erected the North End Baptist Chapel in c1853 [more]
Dr. David Sharp (b.1840 Towcester, d.1922).: One of the greatest naturalists of his generation and curator of the University Zoological Museum at Cambridge. [more]
Thomas Shepard (b.1605 Towcester, d.1639 Cambridge, Massachusetts): Clergyman instrumental in founding Harvard University.
Archdeacon William Sponne (?-1448): Chaplain to Henry VI, Archdeacon of Norfolk and a great benefactor to Towcester [more]
John Wetherell: Headmaster of Towcester Grammar School from 1890-1920. [more]

Nineteenth Century Directories

Employment in Towcester and surrounding villages, including pubs and inns: Towcester people and their jobs; Towcester pubs and inns with the names of the Landlords or Landladies [more]
Properties in Towcester and their occupiers: A rating assessment of Towcester in 1855 listing all properties, owners and occupiers. [more]