Photographic pioneer Joseph Bancroft Reade was rector from 1863 until his death in 1870, and is buried at St Mary's.
It was deployed at Bishopsbourne in Kent on the Elham to Canterbury Line as a coast defence gun as a precaution against possible German invasion.
Edward Foote was born in 1767 in Bishopsbourne, the son of Francis Hender Foote, a barrister turned priest, and his wife Catherine neé Mann.
Finally, in 1970 after a concert with Pink Floyd in Bishopsbourne, England, the Farmers pooled their movie salaries basically; they received $100.00 each from Warner Brothers for the work they did while traveling across the U.S. for the purpose of promoting various musical groups that they had contracted with.
Wedge was then appointed by Nixon from 1846-51 to manage the farms which formed the endowment of Christ's College at Bishopsbourne.