(19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848) was an English statesman and writer. Barrow’s Boys – Fergus Fleming (1998) “For 30 years beginning 1816, the British Admiralty’s John Barrow and his elite team charted large areas of the Arctic, discovered the North Magnetic Pole, were the first to see volcanoes in the Antarctic, crossed the Sahara to find Timbuktu and the mouth of the Niger – John Ross, John Franklin, William Edward Parry and others.” In 1804 he was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Viscount Melville, a post which he held for forty years. His life and work are commemorated in Ulverston by Sir John Barrow’s Monument on Hoad Hill, overlooking the town. It was built in 1850 and was restored in 2009.

Selina Martin was born in Ulverston on the 21 November 1882 and died in 1972.
Selina joined the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1908. During the years as a members of WSPU she was imprisioned on numerous occasions, and was active in the movement throughout her life.
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Norman was born on 30 March 1940 in Ulverston. He was an international cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. Gifford played county cricket for Worcestershire, and Warwickshire, and represented England in fifteen Tests between 1964 and 1973. He was awarded an MBE in 1978 for Services to Cricket.
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