Torquay has been the backdrop to a number of films, including the iconic The System (also called The Girl Getters in the USA), and the Ray Winstone movie The Summer
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Sir Richard Francis Burton, a Torquay-born adventurer was the basis for Sean Connery’s role as Dr Jones, Indiana’s dad, in the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade film 1 comment - ()
Philip Henry Gosse was a naturalist and populariser of natural science – he also could be known as the creator of Creationism, and he spent the end of his life in St Marychurch 
Rudyard Kipling lived in Rock House, Maidencombe, for two years in the 1890s, and it’s where he wrote The White Man’s Burden, but he wasn’t happy in the Maidencombe house, or the ‘soft’ climate of Torquay 
William Topaz McGonagall has been widely accepted as the worst poet in British history, nevertheless, he wrote an ode to Torquay. 1 comment - ()
Oscar Wilde stayed in Babbacombe in 1892 where he wrote A Woman of No Importance, Salome and Lady Windemere’s Fan, and had a rip-roaring time 1 comment - ()Baby-farming was a term used in late-Victorian England to mean the taking in of an infant or child for payment, and baby-farmer Charlotte Winsor was found to ‘put away’ children in her care, for a fee |
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