People’s Stories

On this page are short biographies for some of the more interesting people who are associated with New Fishbourne.

  • Archibald Francis Lewin Smith

    Sir Archibald Levin Smith (‘Judges. No. 24.’) by Sir Leslie Wardchromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 3 November 1888 (NPG D44410) Archibald Francis Lewin Smith was born in New Fishbourne and baptised at the parish church of St. Peter and St. Mary on the 29 September 1836. He was born into a far from humble family.…

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  • Levi Henry Nutbeem

    Levi Henry Nutbeem of New Fishbourne, Sussex is the man in question. Levi was baptised in Chiddingfold, Surrey in 1860 and spent his early life in Petworth, a town about 17 miles away from New Fishbourne where he is shown on the 1891 census as a “baker and confectioner”. I don’t know what prompted the…

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  • Louis Gould

    Tabernarius is from the Latin meaning tavern or innkeeper and I just like the sound of the word – sounds better than just plain “tavern keeper”. In the past, the local inn or pub was an important meeting place for the locals (albeit mostly men). It was often used as the venue for public meetings…

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