| |  | William Webb Ellis (November 24, 1806 - January 24, 1872) is often credited with the invention of Rugby football. The story of how he founded the... |  | Thomas Hughes (October 20, 1822 - March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel "Tom Brown's School Days"... |  | Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 - April 23, 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic "War Sonnets" written during the First World... |  | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician,... |  | Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, "Midnight's Children" (1981),... |  | Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of... |  | Thomas Wentworth "Tom" Wills was an Australian sportsman who is credited along with his cousin Henry Colden Harrison as one of the inventors of... |  | Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey was a celebrated stage actor, comedian, director and producer/manager, knighted in 1922 by King George V. Born at Eton... |  | Arthur Hugh Clough (January 1, 1819 - November 13, 1861) was an English poet, and the brother of Anne Jemima Clough. |  | William Bateson (August 8, 1861 - February 8, 1926) was a British geneticist. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the... | |
