musician, TV presenter, convicted of sexual assault Carol Kirkwood - BBC Weather presenter lives here George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892–1938) – buried in Bray Cemetery Sir Michael Parkinson (b. 1935) – journalist and TV presenter Tony Prince (b. 1944) – Disc Jockey Regenbald - Chancellor of King Edward the Confessor and King William the Conqueror was vicar of Bray Literature The Singing Vicar of Bray The village features as the home of the eponymous "The Vicar of Bray" in a satirical 18th-century song of that name. The titular character frequently changed his religious principles in order to remain in office throughout various reforming upheavals in the English church. The story was turned into an opera in 1882 and a film in 1937. Edward Lear Edward Lear makes reference to Bray in More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc'': "There was an old person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, Whom he fed upon figs, That valuable person of Bray." Nearest places References External links Royal Berkshire History: Bray Villages in Berkshire Populated places on the River Thames Civil parishes in Berkshire Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead