Island People
The articles included on this page have been written by Isle of Wight people and, in most cases, give a brief history of Island people. They are listed here in chronological order (by date). Click on a link below to jump to a specific article.
Sir John Simeon – Catholic M.P. for the Isle of Wight
Mass at Island Martyrs’ memorial
Caedwalla – an Isle of Wight saint?
St Dominic – 850th anniversary
Josephine Ward and Maisie Ward Sheed
Knights of St. Columba – 70th Anniversary on the IoW
Priest and Poet – Gerard Manly Hopkins and the Isle of Wight
Father Brian Coogan – 70th Anniversary of his Ordination
Diamond Jubilee of Canon Dermot McDermot-Roe (Curate of St. Mary’s, Ryde, 1951-64)
Siegfried Sassoon and the Isle of Wight by Edmund Matyjaszek
Lady Louisa Dillon-Fitzgibbon (1823-98)
Helen Jane Gladstone (1814-80)
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman
Life of Elizabeth, Countess of Clare, – Foundress of St. Mary’s Church, Ryde
Richard Waldo Sibthorpe (1792-1879)
John Keats and the Isle of Wight
Elizabeth Heneage (1734 – 1800)
Isle of Wight Martyrs – Blessed Robert Anderton and Blessed William Marsden
St. Wilfrid and the Makers of England
St. Wilfrid’s Chapel in the London Oratory
The Story of Eoppa, the First Known Missionary on the Isle of Wight