An interactive map has revealed who is the most searched-for person on Wikipedia from the Shotley peninsula, and it may surprise you.

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According to the map, the most Wikipedia'ed person from the Shotley Peninsula is... Sir Humphrey Wingfield (died 1545) who was an English lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons of England between 1533 and 1536, who owned Crepinghall in Stutton and was closely connected to Brantham while an MP.

Humphrey was educated at Gray's Inn, where he was elected Lent Reader in 1517. He had been on the commission of the peace both for Essex and Suffolk since 1509 at least.

In 1515 he was appointed chamberlain to the First Duke of Suffolk's wife Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and was apparently resident in her house. On 28 May 1517 he was nominated upon the royal commission for inquiring into illegal enclosures in Suffolk. He appears to have acted in 1518, together with his eldest brother, Sir John Wingfield, as a financial agent between the government and the Duke of Suffolk.

On 6 November 1520 Wingfield was chosen High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and on 14 November was appointed a commissioner of gaol delivery for Essex. In 1523 and 1524 he was a commissioner of subsidy for Suffolk and for the town of Ipswich and also MP for Ipswich, his main seat being at Brantham nearby.

On 26 June 1525 he was appointed a commissioner of assize for Suffolk, on 5 February 1526 he was a legal member of the king's council. He was in favour with Thomas Wolsey, and he took an active part in the establishment of the "Cardinal's College" at Ipswich in September 1528.

On 11 June 1529 he was nominated by Wolsey one of a commission of twenty-one lawyers presided over by John Taylor to hear cases in chancery, and on the following 3 November he was returned to parliament for Great Yarmouth.