Everything about Derby totally explained
Derby (pronounced "dar-bee" /dˈɑːbɪ/) is a
city in the
East Midlands of
England. It lies on the banks of the
River Derwent and is surrounded by the
shire county of
Derbyshire. In the 2001 census the population of the borough was
233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was
229,407. Measured by Urban Area, Derby is the 18th largest settlement in England. A person from Derby is called a Derbian or a Derbrarian.
History
Origins
The City has Roman, Saxon and Viking connections.
The Roman camp of 'Derventio' was probably at Little Chester/Chester Green ;
The site of the old Roman fort is at Chester Green. Later the town was one of the '
Five Boroughs' (fortified towns) of the
Danelaw.
The popular belief is that the name 'Derby' is a corruption of the Danish and Gaelic
Djúra-bý (recorded in
Anglo-Saxon as
Deoraby) (Village of the Deer); however some assert that it's a corruption of the original Roman name 'Derventio'. The town was also named 'Darby' or 'Darbye' on some of the oldest maps, eg. Speed's 1610 map. The city is one of the few cities that has retained a name with a Viking origin, like
York, which had the Viking name Jórvík. Derby recently celebrated its 2,000th year as a settlement.
New research (throughout 2004) into the history and archaeology of Derby has provided evidence that the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons probably co-existed, occupying two areas of land surrounded by water. The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 900) says that "Derby is divided by water". These areas of land were known as
Norþworþig ("Northworthy", = "north enclosure") and Deoraby, and were at the "Irongate" (North) side of Derby. (Ron McKeown of Derby Heritage Development Trust has produced a recent paper on this subject.)
Middle Ages to the 18th century
During the Civil War of 1642-1646 the town was garrisoned by Parliamentary troops commanded by
Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, who was appointed Governor of Derby in 1643. These troops took part in the defence of
Nottingham, the siege of
Lichfield, the battle of
Hopton Heath and many other engagements in Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, as well as successfully defending Derbyshire against royalist armies.
Bonnie Prince Charlie made camp at Derby on
4 December 1745, whilst on his way south to seize the English crown. The Prince called at
The George Inn on Irongate, where the Duke of Devonshire had set up his headquarters, and demanded billets for his 9000 troops. He stayed at
Exeter House, Exeter Street where he held his "Council of War". A replica of the room containing actual wall panels from Exeter house is on display at the Central library located on the Wardwick in the City Centre.
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) He had received misleading information about an army coming to meet him south of Derby. Although he wished to continue with his quest, he was overruled by his fellow officers. He abandoned his invasion at
Swarkestone Bridge, on the
River Trent, just a few miles south of Derby. As a testement to his belief in his cause the Prince who on the march from Scotland had walked at the front of the column made the return journey on horseback at the rear of the bedraggled and tired army.
Each year at the beginning of December, (usually the first weekend), the Charles Edward Stuart Society of Derby lead a weekend of activities culminating in a parade through the City Centre and a battle on Cathedral Green.
Industrial Revolution
Derby and Derbyshire were centres of Britain's industrial revolution. In 1717 Derby was the site of the first
water powered silk mill in Britain, built by
John Lombe and
George Sorocold after Lombe had reputedly stolen the secrets of silk-throwing from
Piedmont in what is now
Italy (he is alleged to have been poisoned by Piedmontese in revenge in 1722).
In 1759
Jedediah Strutt patented and built a machine called the Derby Rib attachment that revolutionised the manufacture of Hose. This attachment was used on the Rev. Lee's
Framework knitting machine; it was placed in front of and worked in unison with Lee's Frame, to produce ribbed hose (stockings). The partners were Jedediah Strutt, William Woollatt had been joined in 1758 by John Bloodworth and Thomas Stafford, leading hosiers in Derby. The patent was obtained in January 1759; after three years Bloodworth and Stafford were paid off, and Samuel Need, hosier of Nottingham, joined the partnership; the firm was known as Need, Strutt & Woollatt. The patent expired in 1773, though the partnership continued until 1781, when Need died.
Messrs Wright, the bankers of Nottingham, recommended that Richard Arkwright apply to Strutt & Need for finance for his cotton spinning mill. The first mill opened in Nottingham in 1770; this was driven by horses.
In 1771
Richard Arkwright, Samuel Need and Jedediah Strutt built the world's first water-powered cotton spinning mill at
Cromford,
Derbyshire, developing a form of power that was the catalyst for the industrial revolution.
This was followed in Derbyshire by Jedediah Strutt's cotton spinning mills at Belper. They were: South Mill, the first, 1775; North Mill, 1784, which was destroyed by fire on
12 January 1803, and then rebuilt——it started work again at the end of 1804; West Mill, 1792, commenced working 1796; Reeling Mill, 1897; Round Mill, which took 10 years to build, from 1803 to 1813, and commenced working in 1816; and Milford Mills, 1778. The
Belper and
Milford mills were
not built in partnership with Arkwright. These mills were all Strutt owned and financed.
The
Belper North Mill of 1804 built by William Strutt, Jedediah's son, is an iron-framed fire-proof building and is the only original Strutt Mill still standing today. It now serves as a Visitor Centre.
Thomas Evans' mill at
Darley Abbey (1783).
Other famous 18th century figures with connections to Derby include
Dr Johnson, the creator of the English dictionary, who married Elizabeth Porter at
St. Werburgh's Church, Derby in 1735; the painter
Joseph Wright, known as Wright of Derby, who was famous for his revolutionary use of light in his paintings and was an associate of the
Royal Academy; and
John Whitehurst, a famous clockmaker and philosopher.
Erasmus Darwin, doctor, scientist, philosopher and grandfather of
Charles Darwin was also to be found in Derby and Derbyshire at much the same time, though his practice was based in
Lichfield,
Staffordshire.
The beginning of the next century saw Derby emerging as an engineering centre, with manufacturers such as
James Fox, who exported machine tools to
Russia.
In 1840, the
North Midland Railway set up
its works in Derby and, when it merged with the
Midland Counties Railway and the
Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, to form the
Midland Railway, Derby became its headquarters.
The connection with the railway encouraged others, notably
Andrew Handyside,
Charles Fox and his son
Francis Fox. A list of the structures these three built reads like a "Who's Who" of famous buildings.
Derby was one of the boroughs reformed by the
Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and it became a
county borough with the
Local Government Act 1888. The borough expanded in 1877 to include
Little Chester and
Litchurch, and then in 1890 to include
New Normanton and
Rowditch. The borough didn't increase substantially again until 1968, when under a recommendation of the
Local Government Boundary Commission it was expanded into large parts of the rural district of
Belper,
Repton and
South East Derbyshire. This vastly increased Derby's population from 132,408 in the 1961 census to 219,578 in the 1971 census.
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Despite being one of the areas of Britain furthest from the sea, Derby holds a special place in the history of marine safety - it was as MP for Derby that
Samuel Plimsoll introduced his bills for a '
Plimsoll line' (and other marine safety measures). This failed on first introduction, but was successful in 1876 and contributed to Plimsoll's re-election as a deservedly popular MP.
Recent history (post 1900)
Derby was awarded city status on
7 June 1977 by
Queen Elizabeth II to mark the
25th anniversary of her ascension to the throne. The Queen presented the "charter scroll" in person on
July 28 1977. Until then, Derby had been one of the few towns in England with a
cathedral but not city status.
Derby has a number of public parks, many Victorian in origin. Darley and Derwent Parks, lie immediately north of the city centre and are home to owls, kingfishers and a wide variety of other wildlife. There is an attractive riverside walk and cycle path from Darley Park South to two other parks. West of the city centre is Markeaton Park, while to the north is Allestree Park and its lake. Derby also has the first public recreational park in the country, the
Arboretum, to the south of the city centre. The arboretum was set up by philanthropic land owner and industrialist
Joseph Strutt in 1840. The arboretum's web site states that the arboretum's design was the inspiration for the vision of great urban parks in the
USA, notably
Central Park in
New York City.
Derby holds an important position in the history of the Labour movement, because it was one of two seats (the other being
Keir Hardie's in
Merthyr Tydfil) gained by the recently formed
Labour Representation Committee at the 1900 General Election. The MP was
Richard Bell, general secretary of the
Railway Servants Union. Bell was succeeded by
Jimmy Thomas and he in turn by the distinguished polymath and Nobel Laureate
Philip Noel-Baker.
Despite its strategic industries (rail and aero-engine), Derby suffered comparatively little wartime damage in WW1 or WW2 (contrast Bristol and Filton). This may in part have been due to the skilful jamming of the German radio-beam navigations systems (
X-Verfahren and
Knickelbein, camouflage and decoy techniques ('
Starfish sites') were built, mainly south of the town, for example out in fields near
Foremark (ref. Kirk, Felix & Bartnik, 2002, see talk; see also
(External Link)).
Derby has also become a significant cultural centre for the
deaf community in the UK. Many deaf people relocate to Derby because of its strong
sign language-using community. It is estimated that the deaf population in Derby is at least three times higher than the national average, and that only London has a larger deaf population. The
Royal School for the Deaf on Ashbourne Road used to provide education in
British Sign Language and English.
More recently Derby was granted the
Fairtrade City status.
Governance
By traditional definitions, Derby is the
county town of
Derbyshire, although Derbyshire's administrative centre has in recent years been
Matlock. On
1 April 1997 Derby City Council became again a
unitary authority (a status it had held, as a
County Borough, up until 1974), with the rest of Derbyshire administered from Matlock. Derby has two hospitals: the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and the
Derby City Hospital.
Geography
Derby is split up into 17 Wards.
Nearest settlements
Duffield,
Belper,
Heanor,
Ilkeston,
Ripley (Derbyshire Constabulary HQ),
Langley Mill,
Alfreton,
Chesterfield,
Matlock (Derbyshire County Council is based here),
Bakewell,
Long Eaton,
Nottingham,
Sandiacre,
Beeston,
Coalville,
Loughborough,
Castle Donington,
Leicester,
Burton-upon-Trent.
Economy
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Derby at current basic prices
published (pp.240-253) by
Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
| Year |
Regional Gross Value Added |
Agriculture |
Industry |
Services |
| 1995 |
2,509 |
2 |
1,130 |
1,377 |
| 2000 |
3,965 |
1 |
1,819 |
2,145 |
| 2003 |
4,421 |
1 |
1,806 |
2,614 |
includes hunting and forestry
includes energy and construction
includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
Industry
Derby's two biggest employers,
Rolls-Royce plc (commonly known in the area as 'Royce's') and the
Toyota Motor Corporation, are both in the engineering manufacturing trade.
Egg, the Internet and telephone bank, has its national base in Derby. Other companies of note include
Bombardier who manufacture train systems and aircraft, and
Alstom who manufacture large power plant boilers and
heat exchangers. The
Qibla Cola Company also has its home in Derby, based in the Normanton area.
As already noted, Derby was for many years a significant railway centre, being the former headquarters of the
Midland Railway, with both
British Rail workshops and research facilities in the town. Although much less important than in years gone by, train manufacture continues in Derby and
Derby station retains an important strategic role in the rail network. Moreover many major rail manufacturers retain a presence and, as reported in the Derby Evening Telegraph, the city is favoured as a possible site for a new national railway centre.
Among a number of IT houses, Derby was the home of
Core Design, who developed the computer game
Tomb Raider with its heroine
Lara Croft.
Landmarks
Derby Cathedral has the second-highest cathedral tower in the country. In recent years, this has been home to a pair of breeding peregrine falcons
Derby Heritage Centre, formerly the Tudor Grammar School, told the story of Derby from Roman times till today. Unfortunately the owner, Richard Felix, has closed it so that he can focus on his television career. The Heritage Centre has now been converted into a hairdresser's salon. However the new owner has a great interest in local history and has preserved all of the building's original features.
Derby Gaol is a visitor attraction based in the dungeons of the Derbyshire County Gaol which dates back to 1756.
Derby Industrial Museum is situated in Derby
Silk Mill and shows the industrial heritage and technological achievement of Derby, including
Rolls-Royce aero engines, railways, mining, quarrying and foundries.
Pickford's House Museum was built by architect
Joseph Pickford in 1770. It was his home and business headquarters.
Derby Museum and Art Gallery shows paintings by
Joseph Wright, as well as fine
Royal Crown Derby porcelain, local regiments and archaeology. Pickford also designed
St Helen's House in King Street.
Westfield Derby (formerly The Eagle Centre) is the city's main indoor shopping centre. It opened on 9 October 2007 after major extension work costing £340 million. It contains a brand new food court, dominated by chains, and a 12 screen cinema to be opened in spring 2008. It is already the subject of local controversy, since it has drawn trade away from the older parts of the city centre where independent shops have traditionally been located. Many have now gone out of business and others are struggling to survive. Moreover, in Westfield itself, a combination of high rents and rising rates have made it very difficult for smaller traders.
The Revive Healthy Living Centre was opened on September 22nd by actress Gwen Taylor. This centre was built to provide excellent new and exiciting health initiatives for the area known as Derwent, Chaddesden, and Breadsall. It is unique as it's run by local residents and will continue to do so. It has a unique sedum/grass roof. It is already proving to be invaluable to the local residents
Much of the skyline of the inner city changed radically in 1968 when the inner ring road with its two new crossings of the
River Derwent was built. The route of the ring road went through the magnificent
St. Alkmund's church and its wonderful
Georgian church yard, the only Georgian square in Derby. Both were demolished to make way for the road, a move still criticised today. Thus the editor (Elizabeth Williamson) of the 2nd edition of
Pevsner for Derbyshire wrote:- '...the character and cohesion of the centre has been completely altered by the replacement of a large number of C18 houses in the centre by a multi-lane road. As a traffic scheme this road is said to be a triumph; as townscape it's a disaster.'
Places of interest
Transport
Road
Derby's central location in England means it has extensive transport links with other areas of the country. The
M1 motorway passes about ten miles to the east of the city, linking Derby southwards to the
London area and northwards to
Sheffield and
Leeds. Other major roads passing through or near Derby include the
A6 (historically the main route from London to
Carlisle, also linking to
Leicester and
Manchester),
A38 (
Bodmin to
Mansfield via
Bristol and
Birmingham),
A50 (
Warrington to
Leicester via
Stoke-on-Trent),
A52 (
Newcastle-under-Lyme to
Mablethorpe, including
Brian Clough Way linking Derby to
Nottingham) and
A61 (Derby to
Thirsk via Sheffield and Leeds).
Rail
As already noted, the railway has served Derby since 1840 being the junction of what were then the two main lines from London to
Yorkshire and the North East. The present day station is
Derby Midland with frequent expresses to London, the North East and South West, provided by
East Midlands Trains and
CrossCountry. There also remain small local stations at
Peartree and
Spondon, although services are fairly limited, especially at the former.
The
Great Northern Railway's "Derbyshire and North Staffordshire Extension" formerly ran through
Derby Friargate Station, from
Colwick and
Nottingham to
Egginton Junction. After closure, part of the route west of Derby was used by British Rail as a test track. Although few traces of the route now remain, the ornate cast iron bridge by
Andrew Handyside across Friargate is still in place, as is his bridge over the river.
Air
East Midlands Airport is situated about fifteen miles (24 km) from Derby city centre, making Derby the closest city to the airport. Its proximity to Derby, the fact that the airport is in
Leicestershire, and the traditional rivalry between the three cities (Derby, Leicester and Nottingham), meant that there was a great deal of controversy locally about the airport's decision to append Nottingham to its name in 2004. Later on, in 2006, Nottingham East Midlands Airport reverted to its previous name, seen by many to be a victory for both Derby and Leicester, and promoting a more unified East Midlands. The airport is served by several
budget airlines, including
bmibaby (for which East Midlands is a main base),
Ryanair and
easyJet, with services to a variety of internal and European destinations.
Bus and coach
Derby's
former bus station was an innovative
art deco design by borough architect C.H. Aslin. Originally built in 1933, it was closed in 2005, and subsequently demolished, despite the protests of environmentalists and conservationists. The unique cafe building is planned to be rebuilt at
Crich Tramway Museum. A new bus station is set to be built on the site as part of the
Riverlights development. As a result of this work, services are currently using a number of temporary stops on streets around the Morledge area.
Local bus services in and around Derby are run by a number of companies, but principally
Trent Barton and
Arriva Midlands. The city isn't particularly well served by long distance coaches, although it's on
National Express's London to Manchester and Yorkshire to the South West routes. Additionally a regional route between Manchester and Nottingham is run by Trent Barton via its TransPeak and Red Arrow services.
Culture, entertainment and sport
Music
The annual open-air concert at
Darley Park is one of the biggest free concerts of its kind. It is one of many performances given throughout the year by Sinfonia Viva, a professional chamber
orchestra based in Derby. The
Derby Jazz group caters for the jazz interest in the city and is regarded as one of the UK's leading live
jazz organizations. There is also a summer rock music festival '
Prom in the Park' which takes place in late July every year.
The city of Derby has a burgeoning punk scene, and this is supported by many prominent punk, ska and hardcore bands playing the Vic Inn, a local biker pub. In recent years it has attracted many big names such as The Casualties, Agnostic Front, and U.K. Subs, as well as the many local punk and ska bands. Hardcore punk band, Anti-Pasti, were formed in Derby. Famous bands such as
The Ordinary Boys,
Snow Patrol and
The View have played there. In addition to this, the Derby Punx Picnic is held annually at the Bass Recreation Ground. Here underground punk and ska bands perform late into the night. The Punx Picnic has become an event in recent years, the attendance rising from around 300 in 2005 to just over 1000 in 2006. The festival attracts punks from all over the East Midlands and the UK. In Derby there's also a thriving Jazz scene.
Theatre and arts
Derby Playhouse regularly received acclaim in the national press for its productions, particularly, in recent years, for its staging of shows by
Stephen Sondheim. After a lengthy period of financial uncertainty, the theatre finally closed in February 2008.
QUAD is a new centre for art and film currently under construction in Derby. Work has commenced on the QUAD building and is due to be complete in 2008. The new building will house two cinema screens showing the best in independent and Hollywood cinema, two gallery spaces housing contemporary visual arts, a digital studio, participation spaces, digital editing suites, artists studio and the bfi Mediatheque.
The Robert Ludlam Theatre is a is a 270 seat Venue with a diverse programme of entertainment including Dance, Drama, Art, Music, Theatre in the Round, Comedy, Films, Family Entertainment, Rock and Pop Events, Workshops and provides a home for many Derbyshire’s amateur production groups.
Sport
Famous Derby sporting institutions include
Derby County Football Club, who were
FA Cup winners in 1946,
Football League champions in 1972 and again in 1975, and are currently members of the
Premier League, having been promoted as
Football League Championship playoff winners in
2006-07. They have played at
Pride Park Stadium since 1997, having previously based at the
Baseball Ground.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club are based at the
County Ground in Derby and play almost all home matches there, although matches at
Chesterfield were re-introduced in 2006. One of the designated
first class county sides, they've won the
County Championship once, in 1936.
Derby also has clubs in both codes of rugby. In
rugby union, Derby RFC play in Midlands Division Two East (the seventh level of English rugby) at their Haslams Lane ground.
Rugby league team Derby City RLFC were formed in 1990 and compete in the Midlands Premier Division of the National Rugby League Conference. From 2008 they're ground sharing with Derby RFC at Haslams Lane.
The city is also represented in the
English Basketball League Division One by
Derby Trailblazers, who play at the Moorways Sports Centre. They were formed in 2002 following the demise of
British Basketball League side
Derby Storm.
Local industrialist
Francis Ley introduced
baseball to the town in the late 19th century, and built a stadium near the town centre. The attempt to establish baseball in Derby was unsuccessful, but the stadium survived for some 100 years afterwards as the home of Derby County Football Club. It was finally demolished in 2003, six years after Derby's relocation to Pride Park.
Recreation
Derby Arboretum was the first public park in the country, and is thought to have been one of the inspirations for
Central Park in
New York. Although it suffered from neglect in the 1990s, it has recently undergone extensive improvement and renovation.
Markeaton Park is Derby's most used leisure facility. It is the venue for the city council's annual
Guy Fawkes Night firework display and contains its own
light railway. Other major parks in the city include Allestree Park, Darley Park, Chaddesden Park, Alvaston Park, Normanton Park and Osmaston Park.
Shopping and Nightlife
Shopping in Derby is divided into two main sections. The first is a recently opened
Westfield shopping centre, controlled by the
Westfield Group. The second is the older section known as the Cathedral Quarter. This area includes a range of boutiques and coffee shops and is focused around the Cathedral.
Many cities offer a thriving night life and Derby is no exception, dominated by a number of clubs and bars.
Education
Like most of the UK, Derby operates a non-selective
primary and
secondary education system with no
middle schools. Students attend infant and junior school (often in a combined primary school) before moving onto a
comprehensive secondary school. Many secondaries also have
sixth forms, allowing students to optionally continue their education by taking
A Levels after the end of compulsory education at age 16. For those who want to stay in education but leave school, the large
Derby College provides a number of post-16 courses.
Outside the state sector, there are four fee-paying
independent schools.
Derby Grammar School was founded in 1994 and was for boys only, until 2007, when they accepted girls into the sixth form for the first time, who aim to continue the work and traditions of the former
Derby School, closed in 1989, one of the oldest schools in
England; Derby High School is for girls only at secondary level and for boys at primary level; and
Ockbrook School is an
independent school for girls aged 3-18 and boys aged 3-11. Lastly, Micheal House Steiner school can be found in Shipley, Heanor and caters for students from kindergarten age through to 16.
Derby also has a
City Academy,
Landau Forte College, partially state-funded, but also with business backing. It was one of fifteen
City Technology Colleges set up by a
Conservative government in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it was converted into a City Academy in September 2006.
Derby also has a number of special needs establishments including Ivy House School (which takes pupils from nursery to sixth form) and The Light House which is a respite facility for children and parents.
The
University of Derby is the city's university.
In 2003 the University of Nottingham opened a
graduate entry medical school based in the Derby City hospital.
Media
The
Derby Evening Telegraph is the city's daily newspaper. In addition, two free newspapers, the
Derby Trader and
Derby Express, are delivered to households weekly. The daily freesheet 'Metro' is distributed in the city centre every morning, although this only has a very small amount of local content. Another local paper is the
Derbyshire Times which is a weekly paper out every Thursday, however it mainly covers news from northern areas of the county. The Derby Echo is another, but this is only available to people who put their names down for it, and is out every week.
BBC Radio Derby, the BBC's award-winning local station for
Derbyshire and East
Staffordshire, is based on St. Helen's Street in the city and offers a mixture of local, national and international news, features, music and sports commentaries. It has around 150,000 weekly listeners and is available locally on 104.5 FM and 1116 AM, on 95.3 FM in North and Mid Derbyshire and on 96.0 FM in the Buxton area, as well as being streamed on the internet. The BBC in Derby also have their own local
website for the area which provides news, travel and weather information, as well as other features. Since 1983 Radio Derby has organised the Money Mountain Appeal, an annual on-air charity auction which has raised more than £1 million for local causes. Since July 2007, the BBC has managed Big Screen Derby in the Market Place in conjunction with Derby City Council and the
University of Derby, as part of the
BBC Big Screen project.
RAM FM, the independent local radio station for
Derbyshire and East
Staffordshire, is also based in the city and offers a mixture of adult contemporary music and entertainment, with regular news and traffic bulletins. It broadcasts on 102.8 FM, and is also streamed on the internet, and is listened to by around 120,000 people each week.
RAM FM is part of the Gcap One Network, and hosts many big local events, such as the Darley Park Concert, The City Bonfire and Fireworks, The Christmas Lights Switch On, and the Race For Life, raising money for Cancer Research UK.
Trivia
Derby has been named "Ghost capital of Britain" with over 1,000 paranormal sightings recorded in recent years. (External Link)
Bold Lane car park in Derby is one of the top ten most secure places in the world according to a study published in a science magazine. (External Link)
Dracula first showed in Derby.
Notable people
Alan Bates (1934-2003), actor
Ronald Binge (1910-1979), composer
Steve Bloomer (1874-1938), footballer
Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), scientist
Brian Clough, OBE (1934-2004), football player and manager
William John Coffee (1774-1846), artist and sculptor
Daniel Parker Coke (1745-1825), barrister and member of parliament
William George Constable (1887-1976), art historian
John Cotton (1585–1652), New England Puritan
Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), physician
James Dobb, former motocross World Champion
John Flamsteed (1646-1719), first Astronomer Royal
Lianna Fowler, fashion model
Sir Charles Fox (1810-1874), engineer
Sir Francis Fox (1844-1927), engineer
James Fox (1780-1830) engineer
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), surgeon and artist
Andrew Handyside (1806-1887) iron founder
Geoff Hoon (1953- ), politician
Sir Robert Howe (1893-1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan
Arthur Keily (1921- ) Marathon runner
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), former Prime Minister
John Lombe (1693-1722), industrial pioneer
Stephen Marley, novelist and video game designer
Captain Godfrey Meynell, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Sir Howard Newby (1941- ) educationalist and sociologist
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), pioneer of modern nursing
Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion 2004
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), novellist
Sir Henry Royce (1863-1933), co-founder of Rolls-Royce
Max Sciandri, Olympic medalist
George Sorocold, engineer
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903), philosopher
Jedediah Strutt (1726-1797), industrial pioneer
John Whitehurst (1713–1788), clockmaker and scientist
Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996), Engineer
Sir Henry Wilmot, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Joseph Wright (1734-1797), painter
Twin cities
- Osnabrück, Germany
- Kapurthala, India (friendship link)
- Haarlem, Netherlands (friendship link)
- Foncqueviliers, France (friendship link)
- Toyota City, Japan
- Changzhi, China (Memorandum of Understanding)
Along with Wigan, Derby is one of only two cities in the UK that exchanges envoys with one of its twin cities (Osnabrück).
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