The creative talents of the Horspool name cover a variety of fields.
Amos Horspool (1853 - 1922) - was a composer
Maurice Horspool (1905 - 1988) - was a writer of several books and plays
Francis Leroy Horspool (1871 - 1951) - was a painter and inventor
Horspool's also played a minor part in the lives of other well known artists
D H Lawrence - based a short story on a Horspool family
Sir Edward Elgar - stayed in Mrs Horpool's boarding house on the Isle of Wight for his honeymoon in May 1889