Thomas Sheraton, STOCKTON-ON-TEES, North Yorkshire

This is named after one of the great furniture designers of the Georgian age. Thomas Sheraton was born in 1751, in Stockton. He originally worked as a cabinet-maker, later designing occasional tables. Later still, he was ordained a minister in his native town – a devout Baptist, he returned to Stockton in the early 1800s to lead its Baptist congregation