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Americans in the United Kingdom or American Britons are emigrants from the United States who are residents or citizens of the United Kingdom.
Population
The
The largest single local cluster of Americans in the UK recorded by the 2001 UK Census was in
Prior to the end of the Cold War, the highest proportion of Americans resident in the United Kingdom per head of population was centred on the
Some Americans in the UK are older, ex-servicemen who returned to Britain after being based in the UK during World War II.[7]
Notable people
Henry James, considered one of the greatest novelists in the English language, was born to a Boston Brahmin family and moved to London in 1869. Aside from brief periods spent on the Continent and two short trips back to the US, James spent the rest of his life in England. (See Lamb House). He was naturalized as a British subject in the final year of his life.
Zoë Wanamaker is a US-born British actress of Jewish-Ukrainian ancestry,[10] Louis Theroux is the son of American writer Paul Theroux,[11] whilst Mika has a Lebanese mother and an American father born in Jerusalem.[12]
Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022, was born in New York City. Until 2016, he held dual citizenship of both the United States and the United Kingdom.[13][14]
YouTuber Evan Edinger who does vlogs about the comparisons between the UK and the United States since moving to the UK in 2012, gained British citizenship in June 2021.[16]
African American immigration to the UK began as early as the late-eighteenth century
The British-American Commission identified the Black people who had joined the British before the surrender, and issued "certificates of freedom" signed by General Birch or General Musgrave. Those who chose to emigrate were evacuated by ship.
African-American guitarist and singer
The African American singer Edwin Starr, moved to the UK in the 1970s, and lived there until his death in 2003.[25]
The British mixed-raced politician and noted former MP Oona King is the daughter of the African-American civil rights academic Preston King.
Sheila Ferguson, a former member of The Three Degrees, was born in and grew up in Philadelphia and has permanently settled in England since the 1980s where she is still famous with her own solo career. [26][27][28]
English musician Dhani Harrison is the son of George Harrison of The Beatles and Mexican-American Olivia Trinidad Arias (who also now lives in the UK).[29]
In
Martin Frobisher returned from a voyage to discover the Northwest Passage in 1576, bringing with him a native Inuit that he had seized. The man died days after reaching London and was buried in the churchyard at St. Olave's.[30]
Sir Richard Grenville captured the Roanoke Island Native American Raleigh (named for Sir Walter Raleigh) and brought him to Bideford following a skirmish in 1586. He had his baptism at Saint Mary the Virgin's Church in March 1588. He died from influenza in Grenville's house on 2 April 1589. His interment was at that same church five days later. Raleigh was the first Native American to have a Christian conversion and an English resting place.[31]
Blackfoot Sioux chief Charging Thunder came to Salford at age twenty-six as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1903. Like many Lakota tribesmen, Charging Thunder was an exceptional horseman and performed thrilling stunts in Buffalo Bill's show in front of huge crowds, on the site of what is now Lowry in Salford Quays. But when the show rolled out of town, he remained in the North West. He married Josephine, an American horse trainer who had just given birth to their first child, Bessie and together they settled in Darwen, before moving to Gorton. His name became George Edward Williams, after registering with the British immigration authorities to enable him to find work. Williams ended up as an elephant keeper at the Belle Vue Zoo. He died on 28 July 1929 from pneumonia at age fifty-two. His interment was in Gorton's cemetery.
More recently, notable British people of Native American descent include actress Hayley Atwell, who has dual UK-US citizenship due to her part-Native American father.[34]
Education
American schools in the United Kingdom:
- The American School in London
- American School in England(Plymouth area)
International School of Aberdeen was formerly the American School in Aberdeen.[35]
See also
- Canadians in the United Kingdom
- Mexicans in the United Kingdom
- Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
- British American
- United Kingdom–United States relations
References
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- ^ "Table 1.3: Overseas-born population in the United Kingdom, excluding some residents in communal establishments, by sex, by country of birth, January 2013 to December 2013". Office for National Statistics. 2 July 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015. Figure given is the central estimate. See the source for 95 per cent confidence intervals.
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- ^ "'Madam Hooch' rides her broomstick in from Odesa: Actress Zoë Wanamaker offers a glimpse into her family history". www.brama.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2009.
- ^ "You ask the questions: Louis Theroux". The Independent. 7 November 2001. Archived from the original on 14 August 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ^ Porter, Hugh (23 January 2007). "A Prejudice Goes Pop". Archived from the original on 10 February 2007 – via www.time.com.
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- ^ "Edwin Starr obituary". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
- ^ "Sheila Ferguson Biography". www.sheilaferguson.com. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
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- ^ "History of ISA." International School of Aberdeen. Retrieved on 28 November 2017.