actor, lived in Newport Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, lived at St. Lawrence Hall, Ventnor John Keats, poet, moved to the island in 1814; areas of Shanklin are named after him Kenneth Kendall, journalist and TV presenter, lived in Cowes where his partner owned an art gallery Charles Kingsley, spent childhood there Marek Larwood, actor and comedian Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, spent the summer in Shanklin in 1868 Guglielmo Marconi did radio experiments in Alum Bay and Niton around 1900 Karl Marx, lodged in Ryde in the 1870s and in Ventnor in the 1880s John Milne, inventor of the horizontal pendulum seismograph, retired from the Japanese Imperial College of Engineering in Shide, Isle of Wight David Niven, actor, lived in Bembridge as a child Isaac Pitman, invented a shorthand system, lived for a time in Sandown J.B. Priestley, author, playwright and broadcaster, lived at Brook for over a decade from 1948 John Morgan Richards, cigarette and patent medicine entrepreneur, lived in Steephill, 1903–1918 Legh Richmond, preacher and writer of the religious tract The Dairyman's Daughter, curate for Yaverland and Brading Frederick Riddle, viola player, died in Newport John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, Secretary of State for War in the years leading up to the First World War; MP and Justice of the Peace for the Isle of Wight Michael Sheard, actor, lived in Ryde Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet, lived in Bonchurch Shaw Taylor, television presenter, known for the catchphrase "keep 'em peeled", lived in Totland Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet, lived in Farringford in Freshwater Bay Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, rented a house in Seaview Edward Upward, long-lived author and part of the Auden Group in the 1930s, lived in Sandown from 1961 to 2004 Queen Victoria, had one of her residences at Osborne House in East Cowes Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb, lived and worked in Cowes Douglas Webb, DFM air gunner with 617 Squadron on the Dambusters raid; partner of the infamous nude model Pamela Green; lived in Yarmouth Currently resident Raymond Allen, television scriptwriter best known for Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, born and lives in Ryde Jack Barnes, musician and personality Keegan Brown, professional darts player Patrick Buckland, CEO of Stainless Games, creator of Carmageddon Hester Chambers, founding member of Wet Leg Sarah Close, singer-songwriter and YouTuber, born and lives on the island Melvyn Hayes, actor, lives in Ryde David Icke, conspiracy