Matthew Parker

Matthew Parker

male, deceased (1575)
Matthew Parker (6 August 1504- 17 May 1575) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was one of the primary architects of...
Oliver Rackham

Oliver Rackham

male
Oliver Rackham is Fellow and Praelector Rhetoricus of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is also Keeper of the College Silver. An acknowledged...
Stephen Hales

Stephen Hales

male, deceased (1761)
Stephen Hales (September 17, 1677 - January 4, 1761) was an English physiologist, chemist and inventor. Hales studied the role of air and water in...
Helen Oyeyemi

Helen Oyeyemi

female, 25 years old
Helen Oyeyemi is a British novelist. She was born in Nigeria and moved to London when she was four. She wrote her first novel, "The Icarus Girl",...
William Stukeley

William Stukeley

male, deceased (1765)
The Rev. Dr. William Stukeley F.R.S., F.R.C.P., F.S.A. (November 7, 1687-March 3, 1765) was an English antiquary who pioneered the archaeological...
Nicholas Bacon

Nicholas Bacon

male, deceased (1579)
Sir Nicholas Bacon (1509-February 20, 1579) was an English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, notable as Lord Keeper of...
John Cowper Powys

John Cowper Powys

male, deceased (1963)
John Cowper Powys (October 8, 1872 - June 17, 1963) was a British (English-Welsh) writer, lecturer, and philosopher. He was born in Shirley,...
Alan Wilson

Alan Wilson

male, 70 years old
Sir Alan Geoffrey Wilson is a British scientist and social scientist. He was born in Bradford in 1939, and educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar...
Haroon Ahmed

Haroon Ahmed

male
Haroon Ahmed is Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, and was Master of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge until...
John Greenwood

John Greenwood

male, deceased (1593)
John Greenwood (d. April 6, 1593), English Puritan and Separatist (the date and place of his birth are unknown), entered as a sizar at Corpus...