John Ritblat

John Ritblat

male
British, CEO, London Business School, chief executive officer, Business Person, Old Alleynian…BritishLibrary, British Land
Sir John Ritblat, educated at Dulwich College, is the honorary Chairman and formerly Chairman and CEO of British Land PLC a large London-based...
Colin St John Wilson

Colin St John Wilson

male, deceased (2007)
Sir Colin Alexander St John ("Sandy") Wilson, Kings Cross, London, Knights Bachelor, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, FRIBA, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge…Royal Institute of British Architect, BritishLibrary, British
Sir Colin Alexander St John ("Sandy") Wilson, FRIBA, RA, (14 March 1922 – 14 May 2007) was a British architect, lecturer and author. He spent ov...
Eduardo Paolozzi

Eduardo Paolozzi

male, deceased (2005)
Alumni of Slade School of Art, Italian-Scot, BritishLibrary, British, printmaker, Scottish…Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Order of the British Empire
Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE FRA (March 7 1924 - April 22 2005), was a Scottish sculptor and artist. Paolozzi was born in Leith in north Edinburgh,...
Brian Lang

Brian Lang

male, 63 years old
PhD, Social Science Research Council, Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, FRSE, Academic of the University of St Andrews, social anthropology…BritishLibrary
Brian Lang, FRSE, is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. Lang was born on 2 December 1945 in Edinburgh and educated at...
Robert Bruce Cotton

Robert Bruce Cotton

male, deceased (1631)
Parliament of England, Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge, julius, caesar augustus, Member of the pre-1707 English Parliament, baronet…BritishLibrary, Cotton library
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (January 22 1570/1-May 6 1631) was an English politician, founder of the famous Cotton library. He was of...
Marc Aurel Stein

Marc Aurel Stein

male, deceased (1943)
Gulmarg, BritishLibrary, Explorer of Asia, hungarian, British, Buddhism…British Museum
Sir Marc Aurel Stein, Stein Márk Aurél in Hungarian. In 1901 Stein was responsible for exposing forgeries of Islam Akhun. During his expedition of...

Helen Wallis

female, deceased (1995)
R.A. Skelton, Helen Margaret Wallis, barnet, British Cartographic Society, BritishLibrary, St Hugh's College, Oxford…International Federation of Library Associations, British
Helen Margaret Wallis (August 17, 1924-February 7, 1995) was the Map Curator of the British Library from 1967 to 1987. Born in Barnet, Wallis...

Owen Jones

male, deceased (1814)
welsh, Upper Thames Street, Myvyrian Archaiology, Gwyneddigion Society, Llanfihangel Glyn y Myfyr, Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales…BritishLibrary
Owen Jones was a Welsh antiquary. He was born on the Llanfihangel Glyn y Myfyr in Denbighshire. In 1760 he entered the service of a London firm of...
Martin Lings

Martin Lings

male, deceased (2005)
Doctor of Philosophy, Muslim, From BURNAGE, doctorate, writer, perennial philosophy…British, British Museum, BritishLibrary, seconded to the British Library
Martin Lings (Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din). After completing his doctorate, Lings worked at the British Museum and later British Library, overseeing...

George Thomason

male, deceased (1666)
English Civil War, plot, Bishop of Lincoln, University of Oxford, cavalier, BritishLibrary…British Museum
George Thomason (d. April 1666), English book and tract collector. George Thomason was a London bookseller, whose life contains few items of...