of Damon Albarn, was born in Nottingham. (Born 1963) Nicky Hirst, artist, was born in Nottingham. (Born 1964) Edmund de Waal, ceramicist and writer, author of a family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes: a Hidden Inheritance, was born in Nottingham. Business (1631–1699) Thomas Smith, either of Cropwell Butler or of East Stoke, established England's first provincial bank in Nottingham. (c. 1763–1834) George Africanus was a Nottingham entrepreneur of African origin. (1781–1868) Samuel Fox was a philanthropist, abolitionist Quaker and first chairman of Nottingham Building Society. (1808–1867) Mark Huish, railway manager, was born in Nottingham. (1850–1931) Jesse Boot, chairman and managing director of Boots the Chemists who transformed it into a national concern: the company was founded in Nottingham in 1849 by his father, (1815) John Boot. (1848–1921) Sir Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet spent the last 34 years of his life in Nottingham turning Raleigh into the world's largest bicycle maker. (Born 1946) Sir Paul Smith, fashion designer (from Beeston). (Born 1970) Julian Penniston-Hill is the founding CEO of the Nottingham-based investment managers Intelligent Money Literature (1623–1673) Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, writer and aristocrat, died at Welbeck Abbey. (1723–1815) William Hutton, poet and historian, was a stocking maker's apprentice in Nottingham and later a bookseller in Southwell. (1785–1806) Henry Kirke White, religious poet, was the son of a Nottingham butcher. (1788–1824) Lord Byron, the poet lived at Newstead Abbey and is buried at nearby Hucknall along with Ada Lovelace, his mathematician daughter (1815–1852). (1788–1839) Robert Millhouse, poet, stocking weaver and bank clerk, was born in Nottingham. (1792–1879) William Howitt, Quaker poet and author, served as a Nottingham alderman in the 1830s. (1795–1869) Richard Howitt, Heanor-born poet, spent much of his life in Nottingham and died at Edingley. (1799–1888) Mary Howitt, Quaker poet and author, lived in Nottingham with her husband William in the 1830s. (1816–1902) Philip James Bailey, poet, lived with his father at 16–18 Denman Street, then moved to 449 Alfreton Road. His poem "Festus" was written in the Basford area. (1824–1884) Anna Mary Howitt, writer and painter, was born in Nottingham. (1835–1902) Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon, was born at Langar, Nottinghamshire. (1860–1937) J. M. Barrie, Scottish playwright and novelist, lived in Nottingham in 1883–1885, working as a leader writer at the Nottingham Journal. (1875–1943) Arthur Mee, compiler of the Children's Encyclopædia and author of the King's England series, was born in Stapleford. (1880–1951) Henry James Bruce,