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page 1People from Northumberland

Matthew Festing
Grand Master of the Order of Malta (1949–2021)
Benedict Biscop
Anglo-Saxon abbot
Margaret Douglas
Daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland
Bryan Donkin
British civil engineer (1768–1855)
Henry Witham
English paleontologist (1779-1844)
Denys Page
British classical scholar and academic (1908-1978)
Robert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus
Anglo-Norman baron in Northumberland and Earl of Angus

Thomas Forster
English politician, landowner and Jacobite
Oswald Tesimond
British Jesuit priest involved in the Gunpowder Plot
John Chambre
English churchman, academic and physician
Umfraville
The Umfraville family were Anglo-Norman landowners, administrators and soldiers who were prominent from about 1120 to 1437 on the northern border of England, where they held the strategic lordships of Prudhoe and Redesdale in Northumberland. They held, for the English Crown, Tynedale to the Cumbrian Border up to the border with Scotland.