Ruth Mott, cook and TV presenter, was born in the village. Technical advisor on the 2001 Robert Altman film Gosford Park. Egon Ronay the restaurant critic, lived in Yattendon until his death in 2010. Alfred Waterhouse, the architect of the Natural History Museum who built himself a home at Yattendon Court (not the present building). The fortified manor house, Yattendon Castle was home of: Sir Henry Norreys, a Tudor courtier accused of adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn and the father of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, Ambassador to France and father of Sir John Norreys, the greatest soldier of Elizabethan England whose memorial is in the parish church References External links Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon Castle Royal Berkshire History: Yattendon Court Yattendon Estate Villages in Berkshire Civil parishes in Berkshire West Berkshire District