son Bud Westmore is credited as make-up artist on over 450 movies Harry Frederick Whitchurch V.C., born in Sandown Eric Charles Twelves Wilson V.C., born in Sandown in 1912 Raised on the Isle of Wight E. Power Biggs, concert organist Uffa Fox, raised in Cowes William Hutt, MP and colonial administrator, educated in Ryde George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, at St. Lawrence Hall, Ventnor Donna Langley, film executive and chairwoman of Universal Pictures, raised on the island. Fidelis Morgan, actress and writer, raised in Bonchurch Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, drummer for Hanoi Rocks, raised in Binstead Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet, raised in East Dene, Bonchurch Bear Grylls, climber, youngest Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest and live; survival expert; host of Man vs. Wild Lived on the Isle of Wight Sam Browne, soldier, retired to Ryde Master Gunner Daniel Cambridge VC (later Yeoman of the Guard), stationed at Redoubt Battery, Fort Redoubt, Freshwater Bay, until 1871 (Census) Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer, lived in Freshwater Bay Lewis Carroll, author, lived at Sandown while working on Alice in Wonderland Winston Churchill, visited Ventnor for extended periods throughout his life Helen Clare, soprano singer Sir Christopher Cockerell, inventor of the hovercraft, spent two years in East Cowes working on his prototypes Charles Darwin, naturalist, lived for a period in 1867 in the Kings Head Hotel in Sandown Charles Dickens, author, lived in Bonchurch for 3 months in 1849 King Charles I, held prisoner in Carisbrooke Castle for a year Ken Dodd, comedian, had a holiday home at Freshwater Bay Jack Douglas, actor from a series of Carry On films Trevor Duncan, composer (known for the Dr Finlay's Casebook theme), lived in Bonchurch King Ethelred the Unready, fled to the Isle of Wight in 1012 from the Danes under Sweyn Forkbeard Uffa Fox, yacht designer, lived in Puckaster David Gascoyne, 20th-century surrealist poet Pamela Green, infamous nude model of the 1950s and 1960s, lived in Yarmouth with the dambuster Douglas Webb, DFM King Harold II and his brother Tostig Godwinson, have estates at Kern and Nunwell respectively Jet Harris, musician with The Shadows Peter de Heyno, defended the Carisbrooke Castle 1377 against French–Castilian troops Robyn Hitchcock, musician, lived in Yarmouth from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and cited it in many of his works of the period John Oliver Hobbes (Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie), novelist, lived part-time in Steephill, 1900–1906 Geoffrey Hughes,