to a variety of aviation-based businesses, including flying schools and the APT Charitable Trust for disabled flyers. The city's theatre is the Salisbury Playhouse. The City Hall is an entertainment venue and hosts comedy, musical performances (including those by the resident Musical Theatre Salisbury) as well as seminars and conventions. Salisbury Arts Centre, housed in a redundant church, has exhibitions and workshops. Salisbury is well-supplied with pubs. The Haunch of Venison, overlooking the Poultry Cross, operates from a 14th-century building; one of its attractions is a cast of a mummified hand, supposedly severed during a game of cards. The Rai d’Or has original deeds dating from 1292. It was the home of Agnes Bottenham, who used the profits of the tavern to found Trinity Hospital next door in circa 1380. Notable people Born before 1900 John of Salisbury (c.1120–1180) author, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres, born at Salisbury Simon Forman (1552 in Quidhampton, Fugglestone St Peter – 1611) astrologer, occultist and herbalist John Bevis (1695 in Old Sarum – 1771) doctor, electrical researcher and astronomer, discovered the Crab Nebula in 1731 James Harris (1709–1780) politician and grammarian, born and educated in Salisbury James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury (1746 in Salisbury – 1820) diplomat, politician and MP Sir John Stoddart (1773 in Salisbury – 1856) writer and lawyer, and editor of The Times Sir George Staunton, 2nd Baronet (1781 at Milford House near Salisbury – 1859) traveller and Orientalist Henry Fawcett PC (1833 in Salisbury – 1884) academic, statesman and economist John Neville Keynes (1852 in Salisbury – 1949) economist and father of John Maynard Keynes Sir James Macklin (1864 in Harnham – 1944) jeweller, farmer and six times Mayor of Salisbury 1913/1919 Herbert Ponting (1870 in Salisbury – 1935) professional photographer, the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition Lieutenant James Cromwell Bush (1891 in Salisbury – 1917) World War I flying ace Lieutenant Colonel Tom Edwin Adlam (1893 in Salisbury – 1975) recipient of the Victoria Cross Since 1900 William Golding (1911–1993) novelist, schoolteacher, taught Philosophy in 1939, and English from 1945 to 1961 at Bishop Wordsworth's School Daphne Pochin Mould (1920 in Salisbury – 2014) photographer, broadcaster, geologist, traveller, pilot and Ireland's first female flight instructor John Rowan (1925 in Old Sarum – 2018 in London) author, one of the pioneers of Humanistic Psychology and Integrative Psychotherapy Iona Brown (1941 in Salisbury