- Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. - Douglas Haig 1st Earl Haig
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, later 1st Earl Haig, Viscount Dawick, Baron Haig of Bemersyde, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC (June 19, 1861 – January 28, 1928) was a British soldier and senior commander (Field Marshal) during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the Battle of the Somme and the 3rd Battle of Ypres. His tenure as commander of the BEF made Haig one of the most controversial military commanders in British history. - William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 - 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983), best known for his novel "Lord of the Flies". He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980, for his novel "Rites of Passage," the first book of the trilogy "To the Ends of the Earth". - Henry Savile
Sir Henry Savile (November 30 1549 - February 19, 1622), Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and Provost of Eton, was the son of Henry Savile of Bradley, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, a member of an old county family, the Saviles of Methley, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ramsden. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1561. He became a fellow of Merton in 1565. - William Webb Ellis
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 game is apocryphal. Nevertheless his name is firmly established in the lore of rugby football. He has become immortalised by the William Webb Ellis Cup presented to the winners of the Rugby World Cup. Even if Webb Ellis could be credited with introducing running with the ball in hand, … - John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist, best known for his novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps", and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. - John Brademas
John Brademas, Ph.D., (b. March 2, 1927) is an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the United States Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 at the conclusion of a twenty-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In addition to his major legislative accomplishments, including much federal legislation pertaining to schools, arts, and the humanities, … - Robert Runcie
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie of Cuddesdon PC MC (October 2 1921 - July 11 2000) was the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991. - Robin Janvrin
Sir Robin Berry Janvrin, GCB, KCVO (born 1946) is the Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II. He was educated at Marlborough College, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Brasenose College of the University of Oxford, from which he received a First class bachelor's degree in 1969, and later a master's degree. He entered the Royal Navy in 1964, and served until 1975. He then joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. - Mark Harper
Mark James Harper (born 26 February 1970) British politician and accountant. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Forest of Dean. - John Gorton
Sir John Grey Gorton GCMG AC CH (9 September 1911 - 19 May 2002), Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia. - Kate Allen
Katherine Allen (Born 25 January 1955) is the Director of Amnesty International UK (AIUK) - Alexander Nowell
Alexander Nowell (c. 1507 - February 13, 1602) was an English Puritan theologian and clergyman, who served as dean of St Paul's during much of Elizabeth I's reign. He was the eldest son of John Nowell of Read Hall, Whalley, Lancashire, by his second wife Elizabeth Kay of Rochdale, and was the brother of Laurence Nowell. He was twice married, but left no children. Nowell was educated at Middleton, near Rochdale, Lancashire and at Brasenose College, Oxford, … - John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English barrister turned prolific writer and dramatist. Educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford, his oeuvre includes over fifty books, plays, and scripts. The play, "A Voyage Round My Father" (1971) is autobiographical, recounting his experiences as a young barrister and his relationship with his blind father. - Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is a British best-selling author and politician. He was a member of Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and became a life peer in 1992. His political career, having suffered from several earlier controversies, finally ended after a conviction for perjury and his subsequent imprisonment. He is married to Mary Archer, a scientist specialising in solar power. - Robert Burton
Robert Burton was an English scholar and vicar at Oxford University, best known for writing "The Anatomy of Melancholy". - Thomas de Quincey
Thomas de Quincey (August 15, 1785 - December 8, 1859) was an English author and intellectual, famous for his book "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". - William Whittingham
William Whittingham (c. 1524-1579) was an English Biblical scholar and religious reformer. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he became a zealous Protestant; as such he found it prudent to flee to France when Mary I ascended the throne of England. By 1554, Whittingham made his way to Frankfurt, Germany, where he joined a group of Protestant exiles from Mary's reign. There, he met up with John Knox and became a supporter of Calvinism. - Stephen Dorrell
Stephen James Dorrell (born March 25 1952) British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Charnwood constituency in northern Leicestershire and is a Patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was born in Worcester and was educated at Uppingham School and Brasenose College, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree. He was with the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve for two years from 1971. - James Gordon Farrell
James Gordon Farrell, referred to by and large as J.G. Farrell, was a British novelist best known for his historical fiction. He is most famous for his "Empire Trilogy" ("Troubles", "The Siege of Krishnapur" and "The Singapore Grip"), three books dealing with the political and human consequences of British colonial rule. "The Siege of Krishnapur" won the 1973 Booker Prize. - Walter Pater
Walter Horatio Pater (August 4 1839 - July 30 1894) was an English essayist and art and literary critic. Born in Stepney, England, Pater was the second son of Richard Glode Pater, a doctor, who had moved there in the early 1800s and practiced medicine among the poor. He died while Walter was an infant, and the family moved to Enfield, where he attended Enfield Grammar School. In 1853 Pater was sent to The King's School, Canterbury, … - John Foxe
John Foxe (1517 -April 8, 1587), martyrologist, is remembered as the author of what is popularly known as "Foxe's Book of Martyrs". - John Freeman
Major John Freeman, MBE (born February 19, 1915) is a former British Labour Party politician, broadcaster and journalist, television executive, bowls commentator and diplomat. - Elias Ashmole
Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617-18 May 1692), the celebrated English antiquary, was a politician, officer of arms, student of astrology and alchemy, and an early speculative Freemason. He supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices. Throughout his life he was an avid collector of curiosities and other artifacts. Many of these he acquired from the traveller, botanist, … - Leslie Scarman Baron Scarman
Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman, OBE, PC (29 July 1911 - 8 December 2004) was an English judge and barrister, who served as a Law Lord until his retirement in 1986. He was born in Streatham but grew up on the border of Sussex and Surrey. He won scholarships to Radley College and then Brasenose College, Oxford, as a Classical Scholar, graduating in 1932 with a double first. He was called to the Bar in 1936. - Philip Yea
Yea was in such demand in 2004 that he turned down the chief executive's job at British Land to take the same title at 3i Group, where he became the first "outsider" to run the company. He joined after five years in private equity with Investcorp and quickly showed his independence by changing the co-investment rules for 3i executives - the group was previously different from other private equity firms in that managers were not obliged to put their money into deals. - Richard Adams
Richard Adams, a non-conforming English Presbyterian divine, author of various sermons and other writings in divinity, was the grandson of Richard Adams, the rector of Woodchurch, in the part of Cheshire which is called the hundred of Wirral, and son of Charles Adams, who, with his brother Randal, was brought up to the church, and became the father of four Adams — Richard, Peter, Thomas, and Charles, who were all clergymen. - Toby Young
Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 1963) is a British journalist and the author of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People", the tale of his failed five-year attempt to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at "Vanity Fair" magazine, as well as "The Sound of No Hands Clapping," a follow-up about his failure to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. - Cuthbert Ottaway
Cuthbert John Ottaway (July 19, 1850 - April 2, 1878), one of the most talented and versatile sportsmen of the 1870s, was the first captain of the England Association Football team and led his side in the earliest full international football match ever played. Ottaway was also a noted cricketer until his retirement shortly before his early death at the age of only 27. - James Arthur Salter 1st Baron Salter
James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter, GBE, KCB, PC (15 March 1881 - 27 June 1975) was a British politician and academic. Educated at Oxford City High School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a scholar, he graduated with first class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1903. He joined the Civil Service in 1904 and worked in the transport department of the Admiralty, on national insurance, and as private secretary, being promoted to Assistant Secretary grade in 1913. - George Monbiot
George Monbiot (born January 27, 1963) is a journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist in the United Kingdom who writes a weekly column for "The Guardian" newspaper. He is on the advisory board of "BBC Wildlife" magazine. - Peter J. King
Peter J. King (born 27 March 1956) is a British poet and humanist philosopher. He teaches philosophy at Pembroke College, Oxford and is the author of "One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World's Greatest Thinkers" (2004), which has been published in three English-language editions, and translated into a number of languages, including Chinese, French, Greek, Estonian, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese. - Wilton Barnhardt
Wilton Barnhardt (b. 1960) is a former reporter for "Sports Illustrated" and is the author of "Emma Who Saved My Life" (1989), "Gospel" (1993), and "Show World" (1999). Barnhardt took his B.A. at Michigan State University, and was a graduate student at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, where he read for an M.Phil. in English. - John Marston
John Marston was an English poet, playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Although his career as a writer lasted only a decade, his work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary. - Richard Barnes
Richard Barnes (1532-August 241587) was an Anglican priest who served as a bishop in the Church of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He was born in Bold which was then a village in south Lancashire. He attended Farnworth grammar school and then was admitted to Brasenose College, Oxford. Here he was elected a fellow in 1552, and received his BA in 1553. This was followed by a BD and then a MA in 1557. Finally he became a DD in 1579. - Colin Cowdrey
(Michael) Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge CBE (December 24, 1932 - December 4, 2000) was an English cricketer and later cricket administrator, born in Ootacamund (India). His father named him Michael Colin Cowdrey, to give him the same initials as cricket's most famous club the Marylebone Cricket Club. He was educated at Homefield Preparatory School, Sutton, Tonbridge School and Brasenose College, Oxford. - Frank Finn
Frank Finn FZS, MBOU (1868 - October 1, 1932) was an English ornithologist. Finn was born in Maidstone and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He went on a collecting expedition to East Africa in 1892, and became First Assistant Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta in 1894, and Deputy Superintendent from 1895 to 1903. He then returned to England, and was editor of the "Avicultural Magazine" in 1909-10. - Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur John Evans was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Evans attended Harrow School and Brasenose College (The University of Oxford and University of Göttingen). Before Evans began work in Crete, archaeologist Minos Kalokairinos unearthed two of the palace’s storerooms in 1894, but the Turkish government interrupted his work before he could complete excavations. - Frederick Weatherly
Frederick Edward Weatherly (1848-1929) was an English lawyer, author, songwriter and radio entertainer. He wrote the lyrics of the well-known ballad "Danny Boy" which is set to the tune "A Londonderry Air". Weatherly wrote over 3,000 popular songs, including "Roses Are Blooming In Picardy" and "The Holy City". - John Profumo
John Dennis Profumo, CBE (January 30, 1915 – March 9, 2006), informally known as Jack Profumo, was a British politician. He also held the Sardinian title Baron Profumo. Although Profumo held a variety of increasingly-responsible political posts in the 1950s, he is best known today for his involvement in a 1963 scandal involving a prostitute. The scandal, which is now called the Profumo Affair, …
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