Gilbert White

Gilbert White

male, deceased (1793)
Anglican priest, English, Naturalist, British, ornithology, northamptonshire…magdalen college, AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford, Oriel College, Oxford, Magdalen College, Oxford, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne
Gilbert White (July 18, 1720 - June 26, 1793) was a pioneering naturalist and ornithologist. White was born in his grandfather's vicarage at...
Michael Wood

Michael Wood

male, 61 years old
Old Mancunian, Manchester Grammar School, AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford, Oriel College, Oxford, TV archaeologist, Athelstan…British School of Archaeology in Iraq, In Search of the Dark Ages, Historian of antiquity
Michael Wood (born Michael David Wood, July 23 1948 in Manchester) is a popular English historian and broadcaster, presenter of numerous television...
Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh

male, deceased (1618)
poet, explorer, execution, "The Lost Colony", Roanoke Colony, governor of jersey…AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 or 1554 – 29 October, 1618), was a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for es...
Edward King

Edward King

male, deceased (1910)
Rochester, Lincoln, Anglo-catholicism, bishop, christ church, rector…ripon college, Bishop of Lincoln, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford, Oriel College
Edward King (1829 - 8 March, 1910) was an English bishop. King was the second son of the Reverend Walker King, Archdeacon of Rochester and rector...

Alexander R. Todd Baron Todd

male, deceased (1997)
ph.d, dna, Fellow of the Royal Society, Biologist, Life peer, organic chemistry…Member of the Order of Merit, President of the Royal Society, University of Glasgow, Academic of the University of London, university of strathclyde
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd, PC, OM, FRS (2 October 1907 - 10 January 1997) was a Scottish biochemist whose research on the structure and...
Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce

male, deceased (1873)
death by horse-riding accident, Continental Europe, Church of England, continent, From clapham, winchester…isle of wight, Bishop of Winchester, Bishop of Oxford, oxford union, AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford
Samuel Wilberforce was an English bishop in the Church of England, third son of William Wilberforce. Wilberforce was born at Clapham Common,...
Beau Brummell

Beau Brummell

male, deceased (1840)
Socialite, Oriel College, English, Prince Regent, Regency London, consul…AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford, Oriel College, Oxford
George Bryan Brummell (born June 7,1778, London; died March 30,1840, Caen, France), better known as Beau Brummell, was an arbiter of fashion in...
Thomas Pennant

Thomas Pennant

male, deceased (1798)
Whitford, Flintshire, coral, wrexham, fulham, Naturalist, British…AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford, Oriel College, Oxford, Queen's College, Oxford, Oriel College, Fellow of the Royal Society
Thomas Pennant (June 14, 1726 - December 16, 1798) was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary. The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of...
Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes

male, deceased (1896)
From Wimbledon, English, Anglican, writer, socialist, British…member of the United Kingdom Parliament, AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford, Tom Brown at Oxford
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"...
Cecil Rhodes

Cecil Rhodes

male, deceased (1902)
agnostic, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, Randlords, British, privy council, Business person in mining…AlumniofOrielCollege, Oxford
Cecil John Rhodes, PC, DCL, (July 5 1853 - March 26 1902) was a British-born South African businessman, mining magnate, and politician. He was the...