text: Notable people from Bury St Edmunds include author Norah Lofts , artist Rose Mead , artist and printer Sybil Andrews , actors Bob Hoskins and Michael Maloney theater director Sir Peter Hall , author Maria Lousie de la RamÃ ( also known as Ouida ) , Canadian journalist and author Richard Gwyn , cyclist James Moore , World War II Canadian general Guy Simonds , footballer Andy Marshall and the 18th-century landscape architect Humphry Repton , Bishop of Winchester and Lord High Chancellor Stephen Gardiner , as well as Thomas Clarkson fact-finder behind the abolition of the slave trade .
simplified: Notable people from Bury St Edmunds include artist and printer Sybil Andrews , actor Bob Hoskins , theater director Sir Peter Hall , artist and water deviner Neil Stalley , author Maria Lousie de la RamÃ ( also known as Ouida ) , World War II Canadian general Guy Simonds and the 18th century landscape architect Humphry Repton , as well as Thomas Clarkson fact-finder behind the abolition of the slave trade .