| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| A. J. Ayer |
Philosopher |
29-Oct-1910 |
27-Jun-1989 |
Language, Truth and Logic |
| Arthur Balfour |
Head of State |
25-Jul-1848 |
19-Mar-1930 |
UK Prime Minister, 1902-05 |
| Sir Joseph Banks |
Botanist |
13-Feb-1743 |
19-Jun-1820 |
Accompanied James Cook |
| John Bayley |
Novelist |
25-Mar-1925 |
|
Widower's House |
| David Benedictus |
Novelist |
16-Sep-1938 |
|
The Fourth of June |
| Peter Benenson |
Activist |
31-Jul-1921 |
25-Feb-2005 |
Founder of Amnesty International |
| Robert Boyle |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1627 |
30-Dec-1691 |
Pioneer of modern chemistry |
| Jeremy Brett |
Actor |
3-Nov-1933 |
12-Sep-1995 |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| William Bridgeman |
Politician |
31-Dec-1864 |
14-Aug-1935 |
UK Home Secretary, 1922-24 |
| Robert Bridges |
Poet |
23-Oct-1844 |
21-Apr-1930 |
Prometheus the Firegiver |
| Beau Brummell |
Socialite |
7-Jun-1778 |
30-Mar-1840 |
Dandy, 19th c. arbiter of fashion |
| John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute |
Head of State |
25-May-1713 |
10-Mar-1792 |
UK Prime Minister, 1762-63 |
| David Cameron |
Politician |
9-Oct-1966 |
|
Leader, UK Conservative Party |
| George Canning |
Politician |
11-Apr-1770 |
8-Aug-1827 |
Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain |
| Peter Carington |
Government |
6-Jun-1919 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1979-82 |
| Andrew Cavendish |
Aristocrat |
2-Jan-1920 |
3-May-2004 |
11th Duke of Devonshire |
| Christopher Cazenove |
Actor |
17-Dec-1945 |
|
English character actor |
| Lord David Cecil |
Author |
9-Apr-1902 |
1-Jan-1986 |
Melbourne |
| Robert Cecil |
Politician |
14-Sep-1864 |
24-Nov-1958 |
Diplomat, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Alexander Chancellor |
Editor |
4-Jan-1940 |
|
Editor of The Spectator, 1975-84 |
| Randolph Churchill |
Journalist |
28-May-1911 |
6-Jun-1968 |
Son of Winston Churchill |
| Lord Randolph Churchill |
Politician |
13-Feb-1849 |
24-Jan-1895 |
Father of Winston Churchill |
| Nicholas Coleridge |
Business |
1957 |
|
Managing Director, Condé Nast |
| Anthony Collins |
Philosopher |
21-Jun-1676 |
13-Dec-1729 |
A Discourse on Freethinking |
| Cyril Connolly |
Critic |
10-Sep-1903 |
26-Nov-1974 |
Enemies of Promise |
| Donald Crisp |
Actor |
27-Jul-1880 |
25-May-1974 |
Silent film actor survived into talkies |
| Harry Crookshank |
Politician |
27-May-1893 |
17-Oct-1961 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1951-55 |
| George Nathaniel Curzon |
Government |
11-Jan-1859 |
20-Mar-1925 |
Created the Kingdom of Jordan |
| Alec Douglas-Home |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1903 |
9-Oct-1995 |
UK Prime Minister, 1963-64 |
| E. R. Eddison |
Novelist |
24-Nov-1882 |
18-Aug-1945 |
The Worm Ouroboros |
| Anthony Eden |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1897 |
14-Jan-1977 |
UK Prime Minister, 1955-57 |
| Marshall Field III |
Business |
28-Sep-1893 |
8-Nov-1956 |
Founder of the Chicago Sun-Times |
| Henry Fielding |
Novelist |
22-Apr-1707 |
8-Oct-1754 |
Tom Jones |
| Ranulph Fiennes |
Explorer |
7-Mar-1944 |
|
World explorer |
| J. Dudley Fishburn |
Business |
8-Jun-1946 |
|
British MP, Kensington, 1988-97 |
| Antony Fisher |
Activist |
1915 |
Jul-1988 |
Libertarian think-tank founder |
| Ian Fleming |
Novelist |
8-May-1908 |
12-Aug-1964 |
Author of the James Bond series |
| Charles James Fox |
Politician |
24-Jan-1749 |
13-Sep-1806 |
U.K.'s first Foreign Secretary |
| Henry Richard Vassall Fox |
Politician |
21-Nov-1773 |
22-Oct-1840 |
3rd Baron Holland |
| Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil |
Head of State |
3-Feb-1830 |
22-Aug-1903 |
UK Prime Minister three times |
| Ian Gilmour |
Politician |
8-Jul-1926 |
21-Sep-2007 |
Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar |
| Herbert Gladstone |
Politician |
18-Feb-1854 |
6-Mar-1930 |
UK Home Secretary, 1905-10 |
| William Ewart Gladstone |
Head of State |
29-Dec-1809 |
19-May-1898 |
Four times UK Prime Minister |
| Thomas Gray |
Poet |
26-Dec-1716 |
30-Jul-1771 |
An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard |
| Henry Green |
Novelist |
29-Oct-1905 |
13-Dec-1973 |
Loving |
| George Grenville |
Politician |
14-Oct-1712 |
13-Nov-1770 |
UK Prime Minister, 1763-65 |
| William Wyndham Grenville |
Politician |
25-Oct-1759 |
12-Jan-1834 |
UK Prime Minister, 1806-07 |
| Jo Grimond |
Politician |
29-Jul-1913 |
24-Oct-1993 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1956-67 |
| Bear Grylls |
TV Personality |
7-Jun-1974 |
|
Man vs. Wild |
| J. B. S. Haldane |
Biologist |
5-Nov-1892 |
1-Dec-1964 |
The Causes of Evolution |
| Edward Hall |
Historian |
c. 1495 |
1547 |
English chronicler |
| Henry Hallam |
Historian |
9-Jul-1777 |
21-Jan-1859 |
View of the Middle Ages |
| Henry Hardinge |
Military |
30-Mar-1785 |
24-Sep-1856 |
Governor-General of India, 1844-48 |
| Sir John Harington |
Author |
1561 |
20-Nov-1612 |
The Metamorphosis of Ajax |
| Prince Harry |
Royalty |
15-Sep-1984 |
|
2nd son of Princess Diana |
| Antony Head |
Politician |
1906 |
1983 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1956-57 |
| Derick Heathcoat-Amory |
Politician |
26-Dec-1899 |
20-Jan-1981 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1958-60 |
| John Herschel |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1792 |
11-May-1871 |
Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| William Howe |
Military |
10-Aug-1729 |
12-Jul-1814 |
Commander-in-Chief in America |
| David Howell |
Politician |
18-Jan-1936 |
|
Former MP, Guildford |
| Douglas Hurd |
Politician |
8-Mar-1930 |
|
Former UK Home, Foreign Secretary |
| Aldous Huxley |
Author |
26-Jul-1894 |
22-Nov-1963 |
Brave New World |
| Julian Huxley |
Biologist |
22-Jun-1887 |
14-Feb-1975 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| M. R. James |
Author |
1-Aug-1862 |
12-Jun-1936 |
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
| Gladwyn Jebb |
Diplomat |
25-Apr-1900 |
24-Oct-1996 |
Acting UN Secretary General, 1945-46 |
| Boris Johnson |
Journalist |
19-Jun-1964 |
|
Mayor of London |
| Hugh Laurie |
Actor |
11-Jun-1959 |
|
Jeeves and Wooster |
| John Lehmann |
Poet |
2-Jun-1907 |
7-Apr-1987 |
Thrown to the Woolfs |
| Damian Lewis |
Actor |
11-Feb-1971 |
|
Band of Brothers |
| John Loder |
Actor |
3-Jan-1898 |
26-Dec-1988 |
Sabotage |
| Fitzroy Maclean |
Politician |
11-Mar-1911 |
15-Jun-1996 |
Eastern Approaches |
| Harold Macmillan |
Head of State |
10-Feb-1894 |
29-Dec-1986 |
UK Prime Minister, 1957-63 |
| Patrick Macnee |
Actor |
6-Feb-1922 |
|
Mr. Steed on The Avengers |
| Simon Mann |
Military |
26-Jun-1952 |
|
Executive Outcomes |
| John Maynard Smith |
Biologist |
6-Jan-1920 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
| Prince Michael of Kent |
Royalty |
4-Jul-1942 |
|
Grandson of King George V |
| George Orwell |
Author |
25-Jun-1903 |
21-Jan-1950 |
Author of 1984 and Animal Farm |
| William Oughtred |
Mathematician |
5-Mar-1574 |
30-Jun-1660 |
Inventor of the slide rule |
| Anthony Powell |
Novelist |
21-Dec-1905 |
28-Mar-2000 |
A Dance to the Music of Time |
| Archibald Philip Primrose |
Head of State |
7-May-1847 |
21-Mar-1929 |
UK Prime Minister 1894-95 |
| Francis Pym |
Politician |
13-Feb-1922 |
6-Mar-2008 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1982-83 |
| Lord Rayleigh |
Physicist |
12-Nov-1842 |
30-Jun-1919 |
Discovered the element Argon |
| Nicholas Ridley |
Politician |
17-Feb-1929 |
4-Mar-1993 |
Thatcherite MP and Minister |
| Vere Rothermere |
Publisher |
27-Apr-1925 |
1-Sep-1998 |
Proprietor of the Daily Mail, 1971-98 |
| Jacob Rothschild |
Business |
29-Apr-1936 |
|
RIT Capital Partners |
| Duncan Sandys |
Politician |
24-Jan-1908 |
26-Nov-1987 |
UK Colonial Secretary, 1962-64 |
| Charles Shaughnessy |
Actor |
9-Feb-1955 |
|
Maxwell Sheffield on The Nanny |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Poet |
4-Aug-1792 |
8-Jul-1822 |
Prometheus Unbound |
| Frederick Arthur Stanley |
Government |
15-Jan-1841 |
14-Jun-1908 |
Hockey's Stanley Cup |
| Sir Leslie Stephen |
Encyclopaedist |
28-Nov-1832 |
22-Feb-1904 |
Dictionary of National Biography |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Poet |
5-Apr-1837 |
10-Apr-1909 |
Masochist Victorian poet |
| Peter Thorneycroft |
Politician |
26-Jul-1909 |
4-Jun-1994 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1962-64 |
| Jeremy Thorpe |
Politician |
29-Apr-1929 |
|
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1967-76 |
| Edmund Waller |
Poet |
3-Mar-1606 |
21-Oct-1687 |
Go, Lovely Rose |
| Horace Walpole |
Author |
24-Sep-1717 |
2-Mar-1797 |
Wrote the first Gothic novel |
| Robert Walpole |
Head of State |
26-Aug-1676 |
18-Mar-1745 |
UK's first Prime Minister |
| Arthur Wellesley |
Military |
1-May-1769 |
14-Sep-1852 |
1st Duke of Wellington |
| Stephen Wolfram |
Mathematician |
29-Aug-1959 |
|
Creator of Mathematica |
| Simon Woods |
Actor |
1980 |
|
Pride & Prejudice |
