Cuthbert Ottaway (1850–1878), the first captain of the England football team
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Hugh Ottaway (born 1925), prominent British writer on concert music
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Richard Ottaway (born 1945), British Conservative politician, and Member of Parliament for Croydon South
Important contributions on the establishing of political settlements in modern (particularly newly democratic) states have also been made by Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Today, Ottaway is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company and the Pocono Record is a subsidiary of Ottaway Newspapers of Pennsylvania LP.
In the late eighties he co-founded the group ‘3 or 4 composers’ (with Laurence Crane, Helen Ottaway, Melanie Pappenheim & Jocelyn Pook).