This column this week finishes off the schedule of famous, infamous and imaginary names associated with the Forest. This week it’s N to Y (I couldn’t find a ‘Z’).

Dr Nanda dedicated doctor, remembered affectionately in the Forest, name appears on the dedication of the now abandoned Dilke (another famous name mentioned last week) Hospital

Henry George Nicholls (1825–1867) was Perpetual curate of the church of the Holy Trinity, East Dean. He wrote three books on the area and its history. His work includes information on such landmarks as St Briavels Castle and Speech House. His descriptions and historical information continue to be cited as authority concerning the history of the area. Nodens is a Celtic healing god worshipped in Ancient Britain. There are ancient commemorative plaques to him found in a shrine at Lydney Park.

Elsie Olivey lived in Cinderford all her long life. She was a contributor to Forest Talk, the talking newspaper for people with reading disabilities, and she was the dynamic producer and director of Cinderford’s Christmas pantomimes.

Hubert Parry, from Lydney was a composer of choral music, closely associated with Gloucester Cathedral

Forest literary potters, Dennis & Harry. Dennis, from Berry Hill, was a prominent, successful and controversial television playwright. The Forest featured in many of his plays. He was also an unsuccessful Labour Party candidate in the 1964 general election. Harry was the famous character in JK Rawlins novels.

Muriel Powell, from Cinderford, was a pioneering nurse, putting the needs of patients ahead of the convenience of the medical staff, which was a revolutionary practise. She worked first as a senior nurse at St Georges Hospital, London. She was later senior nurse in Scotland, when sadly ill health took over. She returned to the Forest and died in a nursing home in Newnham

JK Rawlins, of famous writer of the Potter (Harry) novels

Sarah Siddons, the famous 18th Century actress, who was brought up in Lydbrook. There is a commemorative plaque outside her home

Sigesmund is an old English personality , whose name is believed to be perpetuated in Symonds Yat

JRR Tolkein, well-known author of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, who worked with Mortimer Wheeler in the Lydney Park excavations

Philip Toynbee, a writer from a famous literary and intellectual family, who set up a sort of hippie camp in St Briavels Common

Chris Williams, who played rugby for Bream, Gloucester and England

Sir John Wyntour, whose dramatic scramble on horseback down a cliffside at Tidenham enabled him to evade his Parliamentary pursuers. The cliff is still called ‘Wyntour’s Leap’

With apologies for the many omissions I have made.