William Hope (1863 – 1933) pioneer of spirit photography,[52] based in Crewe, member of the Crewe Circle Ada Nield Chew, (1870 – 1945) suffragette wrote a series of letters to the Crewe Chronicle, signed "A Crewe Factory Girl"[53] Blaster Bates a.k.a. Derek Macintosh Bates (1923 in Crewe – 2006), an English explosives and demolition expert and raconteur Harold Hankins CBE FREng (1930 in Crewe – 2009) was a British electrical engineer[54] and the first Vice-Chancellor of UMIST. Professor Christine Dean BA.