 People born in Canterbury include the detective Edmund Reid , Christopher Marlowe , TV presenter Fiona Phillips , actor Thomas James Longley , BBC Radio 6 Music presenter Gideon Coe , former ITV News journalist , television presenter and BBC Radio 3 presenter Katie Derham , airline entrepreneur Sir Freddie Laker , boy singer and actor Joseph McManners , comic book artist Jack Lawrence , and actor Orlando Bloom . Mary Tourtel , the creator of Rupert Bear , and the Victorian animal painter who taught her , Thomas Sidney Cooper. were both born and lived in the city . The cricketer David Gower , physician William Harvey , actress and singer Aruhan Galieva , writer W. Somerset Maugham and film director Michael Powell are among the former pupils of The King 's School , Canterbury . 
