Other famous people who lived in Bromley include Alex Clare , Charles Darwin , David Bowie , Richmal Crompton , Pixie Lott , Starsmith , Christopher Tennant , Peter Frampton , Aleister Crowley , Siouxsie Sioux , Gary Rhodes , Poly Styrene , singer Billy Idol , Trevor Goddard , actor Billy Jenkins , cricketer Jill Cruwys , the anarchist Peter Kropotkin , the former Clash drummer Topper Headon , illustrator Charles Keeping , Formula 1 test driver Gary Paffett , children 's writer Andrew Murray , tenor Roland Cunningham , actor Michael York who attended Bromley Grammar School for Boys , clarinetist Chris Craker , Don Perrin , Canadian author who attended Burnt Ash School in Bromley , and Sir Thomas James Harper , an officer decorated in the Crimean War .
The historian Richard Jefferis and Philip Eames Contracting pioneer are among the popular people that lived in Bromley .