- Fiona Bruce
Fiona Bruce (born 25 April, 1964 in Singapore) is a British journalist and television presenter in the United Kingdom. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many programmes for the corporation including the "Ten O'Clock News", "Real Story" and "Crimewatch UK", as well as appearing elsewhere in the likes of "Call My Bluff". - Byron White
Byron Raymond White (June 8, 1917 - April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, he served until his retirement in 1993. He was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and died in Denver at the age of 84 from complications of pneumonia. - Charles James Fox
Hon. Charles James Fox (24 January, 1749 - 13 September, 1806) was a prominent British Whig politician. He is noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of American independence from Britain, and as a supporter of the French Revolution. He held several senior government offices, including being Britain's first Foreign Secretary. Fox was the third son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, one of the older generation of self-aggrandizing Whigs. - Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like "Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal", "A Journal to Stella", "The Drapier's Letters", "The Battle of the Books", and "A Tale of a Tub". Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. - Nick Cohen
Nick Cohen is a British journalist, author, and political commentator. He was educated at Hertford College, Oxford, where he read PPE. He began his career at the "Birmingham Post and Mail" before becoming a reporter at "The Independent". He now writes a political column for "The Observer", a weekly column for the London "Evening Standard", and contributes regularly to the "New Statesman". - Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (October 28 1903 - April 10 1966) was a British writer, best known for such satirical and darkly humorous novels as "Decline and Fall", "Vile Bodies", "Scoop", "A Handful of Dust" and "The Loved One", as well as for more serious works, such as "Brideshead Revisited" and the "Sword of Honour" trilogy, that are influenced by his own conservative and Catholic outlook. - David Pannick
David Pannick QC (born 7 March 1956) is a leading barrister in the United Kingdom. He practices mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He has argued more than 75 cases in the House of Lords, more than 25 cases in the European Court of Justice, and more than 30 cases in the European Court of Human Rights. - Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born April 5, 1970) is a British television newscaster and journalist currently fronting "Channel 4 News" (produced by ITN), which he joined in 1998. He first appeared on the "DEF II" programme "Open to Question" in 1988, and later presented the BBC's children's news programme, "Newsround", from 1991 to 1994, … - Gavin Maxwell
Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS (Sc.), FRGS, FAGS was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his work with otters. He wrote the book "Ring of Bright Water" (1960) about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland. "Ring of Bright Water" sold more than a million copies and was made into a movie starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna in 1969. - Richard Addinsell
Richard Addinsell (January 13, 1904 - November 14, 1977) was a British composer, best known for his "Warsaw Concerto" and film music. After studying at Hertford College, Oxford, Addinsell went to the Royal College of Music in 1925 and continued his musical education in Berlin, Vienna and the USA. Films for which he wrote the music include: *"The Amateur Gentleman" (1936) *"Fire Over England" (1937) *"Goodbye Mr. - Jacqui Smith
Jacqueline Jill Smith is a British politician who has been Home Secretary since June 28, 2007 and is the current Member of Parliament for Redditch, since 1997. She was made a Member of the Privy Council in 2003. Smith is the first female Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, and only the third woman to hold one of the Great Offices of State — after Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister) and Margaret Beckett (Foreign Secretary). - Soweto Kinch
Soweto Kinch is a British jazz alto saxophonist and rapper. He was born in London in 1978 to a Barbadian father, who is a playwright, and British-Jamaican mother, who is an actress. Kinch began playing saxophone at the age of nine after learning clarinet at primary school. After meeting Wynton Marsalis four years later he discovered and became passionate about jazz, first concentrating on piano and later, in his teens, focusing on alto saxophone. - Jeffrey John
The Very Revd Dr Jeffrey Philip Hywel John, SCP, (born 10 February 1953) is a Church of England cleric, and the current Dean of St Albans. He made headlines in 2003 when he was the first person to have openly been in a sexually active gay relationship to be nominated to be a Church of England bishop. Owing to the consequent controversy, he was asked by archbishop Rowan Williams to stand down before he took up the bishopric. He was born in Tonyrefail in South Wales, in 1953, … - Ed Vulliamy
Ed Vulliamy is an English journalist and writer. He was born on August 1, 1954. His mother is the children's book illustrator Shirley Hughes. He was educated at University College School and Hertford College, Oxford before becoming a journalist. He was Washington correspondent for "The Observer" for six years (1997 - 2003) and Rome correspondent for "The Guardian". He has reported extensively on the mid-1990s war in Bosnia, … - William Robinson Clark
William Robinson Clark FRSC (1829 - 1912) was a Scottish-Canadian theologian. He was born in Daviot, Aberdeenshire. After graduating from King's College, Aberdeen MA with honours, he went to Hertford College, Oxford. Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses' indicates that his BA was conferred by Oxford in 1864 and his MA in 1865. He was the Dean of Taunton and prebendary of Wells Cathedral from 1859 to 1880. - Calvin Cheng
Calvin Ern-Lee Cheng (born in Singapore) is a leading figure in the fashion modelling industry in Asia. At the age of 25, Cheng became the Asian regional head of Elite Model Management, the largest and most famous modelling agency in the world which spawned supermodels Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, and Gisele Bundchen amongst others. In a short span of 3 years, he burst into the close-knit modelling industry of Asia, starting Elite agencies in Bombay, … - Tobias Wolff
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his short stories and his memoirs, although he has written two novels (most recently "Old School"). - Dom Mintoff
Dom Mintoff (born Dominic Mintoff; August 6th, 1916) was Prime Minister of Malta during the year 1955 (when Malta was still under British rule), and from 1971 to 1984. He was also the leader of the Malta Labour Party from 1949 to 1984. He remained a member of parliament till 1998. - Paul Langford
Professor Paul Langford (born November 20, 1945) is a British historian and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Educated at Monmouth School and Hertford College, Oxford, he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970. He was a university lecturer from 1971 to 1994, being elected a Reader in modern history in 1994 and a professor of modern history in 1996. - John Clifford Valentine Behan
Sir John Clifford Valentine Behan (May 8, 1881-September 30, 1957) was the second warden of the Trinity College of the University of Melbourne, and the first Victorian Rhodes Scholar. He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School (where in 1895 he was Dux) and University High School in Melbourne, Australia and then at the University of Melbourne where he studied law, and was awarded the Supreme Court Prize for being the top law student in his graduating class. - Natasha Kaplinsky
Natasha Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972) is a British newsreader, currently working predominantly as a co-presenter of the "BBC Six O'Clock News" with George Alagiah. She is also currently taking part in a trial on BBC One in Birmingham, where she is presenting a special news update, between 60-90 seconds long. - Bernard Ashmole
Bernard Ashmole (1894, Ilford, Essex - 1988, Peebles, Scotland) was a British archaeologist and art historian (M.A., B. Litt., Oxford 1924), who specialized in ancient Greek sculpture. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of London, 1929-1948. He was a collateral descendant of Elias Ashmole (1617-92), eponymous benefactor of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, where he was briefly assistant keeper of coins. - Roger Neil Wheeler
General Sir Roger Neil Wheeler, GCB, CBE, was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1997 and 2000. After graduating from Hertford College, Oxford Roger Wheeler was commissioned into the Royal Irish Rangers. He went on to hold various commands and staff appointments in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Falkland Islands and Cyprus. - George Dangerfield
George Dangerfield (October 28, 1904 - December 26, 1986) was a journalist, an author, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935. Dangerfield was born in Newbury, Berkshire in England. He received his B.A. from Hertford College, Oxford in 1926. Dangerfield moved to the United States in 1930 and became an American citizen in 1943. Dangerfield is best remembered for writing "The Strange Death of Liberal England" (1935), … - Nicholas Henderson
Sir Nicholas Henderson GCMG, KCVO (born 1919) is a retired British career diplomat and writer. Educated at Stowe School and Hertford College, Oxford he joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1946 and rose to become Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 1963. Subsequently he served as British Ambassador to Spain, Poland, Germany and France. He retired in 1979 but, on the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in May of that year, … - Richard Norton-Taylor
Richard Norton Taylor (born June 6 1944) is Security Affairs Editor of The Guardian. He was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. Norton Taylor has written several plays based on trasnscripts of public inquiries including "The Colour of Justice" (published 1999) based on the hearing of the MacPherson inquiry on the Police conduct of the investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and "Justifying War: Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry" (2003). - Nathaniel Woodard
Reverend Nathaniel Woodard (21 March, 1811 - 25 April,1891) founded 11 schools for the middle classes in England whose aim was to provide education based on "sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith". His educational principles are promoted today through the Woodard Corporation. - Jurek Martin
Jurek Martin (born 1941) is a British-born journalist. Martin, a "Financial Times" columnist and former Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief is noted chiefly for his weekly "Letter to America" column. Jurek Martin was born in England in 1941 and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester and Hertford College Oxford. He then joined the "Financial Times" in London before moving to America. Along with other journalist jobs, Martin also does some work for CNN. - David Dilks
Professor David N Dilks FRHistS FRSL is a British academic in the field of International Relations. Professor Dilks is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Leeds. He was born in Coventry in 1938 and attended The Royal Grammar School before winning a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford to read History. He remained in Oxford to do research at St Antony's College before becoming research assistant to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan. - Marian Bell
Marian Bell was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 2002 to June 2005. She was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. - Sherard Cowper-Coles
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles (born London 1955) is the United Kingdom's ambassador to Afghanistan. - J. Meade Falkner
John Meade Falkner (8 May, 1858 - 22 July, 1932) was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel, "Moonfleet". An extremely successful businessman as well, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth during World War I. He was born in Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire, spent much of his childhood in Dorchester and Weymouth and educated at Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in history in 1882. - Alexander Briant
Saint Alexander Briant was an English Jesuit and martyr, born in Somerset about 1556; executed at Tyburn, 2 December 1581. He entered Hart Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College), at an early age. While there, he became a pupil of Father Robert Parsons to which fact, together with his association with Richard Holtby, is attributed his conversion. Having left the university he entered the English College at Reims, and was ordained priest 29 March 1578. - Catherine Bennett
Catherine Bennett is a British journalist working for "The Guardian", where she writes columns on politics and culture. She was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. - Steve Webb
Steven John Webb, better known as Steve Webb, is a British politician, the Member of Parliament for Northavon and the Chair of the Liberal Democrats Election Manifesto Team. - Edward Max Nicholson
Edward Max Nicholson ("Max" to everyone who knew him; July 12, 1904 - April 26, 2003) was a pioneering environmentalist, ornithologist and internationalist; and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund. Nicholson was born in Kilternan, to the south of Dublin (then part of the United Kingdom), the son of English parents. He and his family moved to England in 1910, settling in Staines. He became interested in birdwatching, beginning his list of birds in 1913. - Nathaniel L. Clapton
Nathaniel Langford Clapton was born on 1 September 1903, the only son of Nathaniel Clapton, ironmonger's manager, of St Dunstan's Crescent, Worcester. He attended the Royal Grammar School Worcester, before gaining a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, where he gained first class honours in Mathematical Moderations in 1923 and in the Final Honour School of Mathematics in 1925. - David Naylor
Christopher David Naylor, D.Phil, MD (born 1954 in Woodstock, Ontario) is a medical researcher and president of the University of Toronto. A Rhodes Scholar, Naylor received an MD from the University of Toronto in 1978, proceeding to Hertford College, University of Oxford, where he earned a D.Phil in 1983 in the Department of Social and Administrative Studies. - Warren Fisher
Sir (Norman Fenwick) Warren Fisher (1879-1948), was a British civil servant. Fisher was born in Croydon, London on 22 September 1879. He was educated at the Dragon School (Oxford), Winchester College and Hertford College, Oxford University. He matriculated in 1898, graduating with a first class degree in Classical Moderations in 1900 and again with a first in Greats in 1902. After failing to get into the Indian Civil Service and the medical examination for the Royal Navy, … - Ronald Martland
Ronald Martland, CC, AOE, LL.B, BA (1909 — November 20, 1997) was a Canadian Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Born in Liverpool, England, he was the second Albertan ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice Martland attended the University of Alberta and obtained a B.A. in 1926 and an LL.B in 1928. He was awarded Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University, where he played for the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club.
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