Blue plaques

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs was a prolific and versatile English composer, born in Great Baddow in the late 19th century.

Anne Ashberry was a British engineer, gardener and author, and the first woman elected to the Society of Engineers.

Sir Noel Ashbridge worked for Marconi and the BBC, and helped to develop broadcasting technology.

Florence Attridge worked at the Marconi wireless factory and received a British Empire Medal for her contributions during World War II.

Francis Thomas Bacon was an English engineer who was born in Ramsden Heath and developed the first practical hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell.

John Alec Baker, an English author from Chelmsford, was awarded the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for his critically acclaimed work The Peregrine.

Major Alfred Bennett Bamford was an English watercolour painter, known for pictures of Essex. He has a plaque in Moulsham Street.

The Black Boy was a 16th century pub that played host to many important people, including the Duke of Wellington and Charles Dickens.

Frederic Chancellor was a notable local architect, archaeologist and surveyor who began his career in the mid 19th century in Chelmsford.

Fell Christy opened the Christy & Norris company in Broomfield with his father James in the mid 19th century.

Thomas Clarkson ran a number of successful steam car companies, in Chelmsford and London in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Richards Coates helped built the Chelmer and Blackwater canal in the late 18th century and later became a major barge owner and merchant.

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell was an English engineer and inventor of the hovercraft who lived and worked in Chelmsford in the mid 20th century.

Winifred Collins was the first paid singer on British radio, following her work with Marconi engineers.

Joanna Constantinidis taught ceramics in Chelmsford for over 30 years and was internationally recognised for her sculptural ceramic works.

Alderman Thomas John Deeks Cramphorn was a local businessman and philanthropist and was six times Mayor of Chelmsford.

Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton was a British electrical engineer, industrialist and inventor who set up a factory in Chelmsford in the 19th century.

James Fenton helped lay out and develop New London Road and also installed a major water supply and sewage system for Chelmsford.

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet. He is said to have lived in Springfield in the late 18th century.

Ernst Hoffmann was an American ball bearing machine manufacturer who financed the first ball bearing factory in the UK, located in Chelmsford.

Gwynneth Holt and Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones were both renowned sculptors who lived in Broomfield. They both produced works exhibited in Chelmsford and beyond.

Thomas Hooker was known as a gifted preacher and suffrage advocate, who went on to establish the first colony in Connecticut in the 17th century.

Godfrey Charles Isaacs was an influential figure at the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company and played a role in the development of the British Broadcasting Company.

John Johnson was an English architect and Surveyor to the County of Essex. He is best known for designing Shire Hall in Chelmsford.

Anne Knight was a social reformer, abolitionist and pioneer of feminism who was born in Chelmsford in the late 18th century.

Elizabeth Maconchy was an Irish-English composer who lived in Boreham in the late 20th century.

Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer and opened the world's first wireless factory at Chelmsford in the late 19th century.

Charles Pertwee was an influential Chelmsford figure, for his work with the Local Health Board and for the many fine buildings he designed, including Cemetery Lodge.

Benjamin Pugh pioneered improvements in midwifery, inventing an early form of ventilator and large curved forceps to assist delivery.

Rosemary Rutherford, a Broomfield-based artist, was notable for her paintings and stained glass designs.

Frederick Spalding Senior and Frederick Spalding Junior were prominent photographers who worked from the mid 19th to the early 20th century.

William Strupar was a bookseller, stationer and printer. He launched Chelmsford's first newspaper, the Chelmsford Chronicle (later the Essex Chronicle), on 10 August 1764.

Joseph Strutt was an English engraver, artist, antiquarian, and writer who was born in Chelmsford in the mid 18th century.

Sir Robert Telford worked for Marconi and was a technical wizard who oversaw the development of many important products and innovations.

Judge Tindal was a Conservative MP and judge, where he reformed the application of criminal law.

Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, owned the Palace of Beaulieu in Boreham.

Thomas Watts, a Protestant during the reign of Catholic Queen Mary I, was burned at the stake for his beliefs.

Frank Whitmore was an influential architect working in the late 19th century and early 20th century and designed many buildings in Chelmsford.