- Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. - Joseph Bell
Joseph Bell, JP, DL, FRCS Ed., (2 December, 1837–1911) was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. In his instruction, he emphasized the importance of close observation in making a diagnosis. To illustrate this, he would often pick a stranger and, by observing him, deduce his occupation and recent activities. - Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin OBE, DL. (born April 28 1960, in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland) is one of the best-selling crime writers in the United Kingdom. His best known books are the "Inspector Rebus" novels. - Jools Holland
Jools Holland (born Julian Miles Holland in London on 24 January 1958), OBE, DL, is an English virtuoso pianist, bandleader and television presenter. - Colin Campbell
Sir Colin Campbell, DL, FRSA, an academic lawyer, is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, England and Her Majesty's First Commissioner of Judicial Appointments. Since 1988, when he was appointed as the country's youngest Vice-Chancellor at the age of 43, he has done much to expand the University of Nottingham and consolidate its position as one of the country's leading higher education institutions. - James Brown
Rt. Hon. James Brown (16 December 1862 - 21 March 1939) was a Scottish Labour politician. Educated at Annbank Public School, he was Secretary of the Ayrshire Miners and of the Scottish Miners' National Union. He unsuccessfully contested North Ayrshire in 1910 and was Member of Parliament for South Ayrshire from 1918-1931 and from 1935 until his death. He was awarded the OBE in 1917, appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1930. - Francis Jones
Major Francis Jones (b.1908, Trefin, Pembrokeshire - d. 14 December 1993) CVO, TD, DL, FSA, MA, KStJ was an author, archivist, historian and officer of arms. - John Wheeler
Sir John Daniel Wheeler, DL, JP, KStJ (born 1 May 1940) is a British Conservative politician who served as Security Minister in Northern Ireland. - Annabel Goldie
Annabel Goldie (born 27 February 1950, Glasgow) is a Scottish politician, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives in the Scottish Parliament, and chairwoman of the party's Shadow Cabinet. She is a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West of Scotland Region. - Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December, 1902 - 8 March, 1982), who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician. Butler was one of the few British politicians to have served in the three posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, … - Walter Long
Walter Long JP, DL (10 October 1793 - 31 January 1867) was a British politician. Born in Rood Ashton in Wiltshire, he was the son of Richard Godolphin Long and Florentina Wrey. Baptised on 18 November 1793, Long was educated in Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1812. He served in the Wiltshire Yeomanry, reaching the rank of Major and was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Wiltshire from 1835 to 1865. - Nigel Rudd
Sir Nigel founded Williams PLC in 1982, a company that went on to become one of the largest industrial holding companies in the United Kingdom until its demerger in November 2000, creating Chubb plc and Kidde plc. - Robert Worcester
Sir Robert Worcester , a Governor of the English Speaking Union, is the Founder of MORI (Market & Opinion Research International), London, and now an International Director of Ipsos Group, Paris, and Chairman of the Ipsos Public Affairs Research Advisory Board. He is a Past-President of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR). - John Madejski
John Robert Madejski OBE DL, born Robert John Hurst on April 28 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is a British businessman, mainly active in publishing and the hotel industry. As of 2007, he is in the top 200 wealthiest people in the UK, with a net worth said to be in the region of £400 million ("see" Sunday Times Rich List 2007). He changed his name when his stepfather, a Polish airman during World War II, … - Richard Whiteley
John Richard Whiteley, OBE, DL (28 December 1943 - 26 June 2005) was an English television presenter and journalist. He was most famous for his 23-year stint as presenter of "Countdown", a letters and numbers arrangement game show broadcast daily on Channel 4. An edition of "Countdown" was the launch programme for Channel 4 at 4:45pm on 2 November 1982, and Whiteley was the first person to be seen on the channel, discounting a programme montage. - Richard Robinson
Sir Richard Atkinson Robinson, DL, (October 16, 1849–April 28, 1928) was a retail chemist and druggist, who later became a local politician and was the first Conservative to lead the London County Council (1907–1908). He was the eldest son of a Whitby family engaged in the owning and operating of sailing ships. His father died when he was 18, and with four sisters and four younger bothers, there was no money for expensive higher education. - Douglas Bader
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, CBE, DSO and Bar, DFC and Bar, FRAeS, DL, RAF (21 February 1910-5 September 1982); surname pronounced) was a successful fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Bader is upheld as an inspirational leader and hero of the era, not least because he fought despite having lost both legs in a pre-war flying accident. - Charles Seely
Charles Seely (3 October, 1803 - 21 October, 1887) was a 19th century British politician, who served as a Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1847 to 1848 and again from 1861-1885, during which time he was one of the longest-seated MP's. He was born in Lincoln and was the Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire. He played host to the Italian revolutionary hero Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1864, when Garibaldi visited London and his estate at Brook House on the Isle of Wight. - John Kerr
Admiral Sir John Kerr GCB, DL, (born 27 Oct. 1937) is a retired admiral in the Royal Navy. During his naval career he commanded a frigate, a guided missile destroyer and an aircraft carrier — HMS Illustrious. He was in charge of various task groups and was Chief of Defence Intelligence. Kerr's naval career culminated in his appointment as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command and member of the Board of Admiralty. - Terry Wogan
Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3 1938, in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland), more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom (UK) for most of his career. He has been a leading media personality in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s, and is often referred to as a "national treasure". - Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948 in Ilford, Essex) is a British television presenter, DJ and executive who made his name on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He is more recently known as the presenter of the television gameshow "Deal or No Deal". Edmonds has also worked closely with Richard L. Lewis, who has written and produced various programmes that Edmonds has worked on. - James Lowther
James Lowther, DL, JP (1 September 1840 – 12 September 1904) was an English Conservative politician and sportsman, the younger son of Sir Charles Lowther, 3rd Baronet and Isabella Morehead. He was educated at Westminster School and took a BA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1863, and a MA in 1866. He was also admitted as a barrister of the Inner Temple on 17 October 1864, but never practised law. - Khalid Aziz
Khalid Aziz LVO DL FRSA started his career as a journalist, becoming the youngest producer in the BBC at Radio Leicester. And at the age of 24, the youngest presenter of a 6 o'clock BBC TV regional news programme, "Look North from Leeds". In his 12-year career with the BBC, he worked on many BBC News and Current Affairs programmes including "Newsbeat" and "Panorama". - Bernard Weatherill
Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill PC, DL (25 November 1920 - 6 May, 2007) was an English politician, and Speaker of the British House of Commons. - Robert Berkeley
Robert George Wilmot Berkeley (23 April 1898 - 28 August 1969) was an English cricketer who played four first-class games for Worcestershire shortly after the First World War. Three of these came in friendly matches in 1919, with the other being his only County Championship appearance three years later. He did very little in any of these games, three of which his county lost by an innings. Outside cricket, he was Deputy Lieutenant for Worcestershire, … - Penelope Keith
Penelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL (born Penelope Hatfield on 2 April 1940) is an English actress who is best known for her roles in "The Good Life" and "To the Manor Born", and has also had a long career on stage. - Nicholas Bonsor
Sir Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor, 4th Baronet DL (born 9 December, 1942) is a British Conservative politician. Bonsor was Member of Parliament for Nantwich from 1979 to 1983, then for Upminster from 1983 until he lost the seat to Labour's Keith Darvill in 1997. He was Minister for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 1995 to 1997 and practises as a barrister in London. He lives in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire and is a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. - Hugh Cholmondeley
Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (1513 - 6 January 1596), was an English soldier. Cholmondeley was the eldest son of Richard Cholmondeley and Elizabeth Brereton. The Cholmondeley family had held the lordship of Cholmondeley in Cheshire since the time of the Norman conquest. He fought against the Scots in 1542 and for this he was knighted by King Henry VIII. - Henry Thompson
Sir Henry Thompson was an English merchant and politician. Henry and his brother Edward Thompson were wine merchants of York. He was Lord Mayor of York in 1663, and was made a deputy lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1665. In 1668, Henry moved from York to a new country estate at Escrick, where he had been buying land for the past several years. After moving to Escrick, he briefly entered politics, and was a patron of Andrew Marvell. - Jock Slater
Admiral Sir Jock Slater, GCB, LVO, DL (born 27 March 1938), educated at Sedbergh School. Sir Jock Slater served in the Royal Navy from 1956-1998, retiring as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff. He was Equerry to HM The Queen from 1968-71. Since retirement, his appointments have included Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire, Director of VT Group, Director and Senior Military Adviser to Lockheed Martin UK, chairman of the Executive Committee of the RNLI, … - David Wallace
Professor Sir David James Wallace, CBE, FRS, DL is the Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and became master of Churchill College, Cambridge in October 2006. Wallace grew up in Hawick, Borders, Scotland and went to the University of Edinburgh where he earned a degree in Mathematical Physics and a PhD in Elementary Particle Theory. - George Arbuthnot
Colonel George Arbuthnot DL, JP (9 June 1836 - December 26, 1912) was a British politician. Born in Madras, India, he was the son of John Alves Arbuthnot and Mary Arbuthnot. Arbuthnot was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hereford from 1871 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1880. He served in the Royal Horse Artillery, reaching the rank of Colonel, and was Justice of Peace of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, and Deputy Lieutenant for Herefordshire. - Thomas Woodcock
Thomas Woodcock, LVO, BA (Dunelm), LLB (Cantab), FSA, DL (b. 1951) is Her Majesty's Norroy and Ulster King of Arms. He was educated at Eton College. He went on to University College, Durham and Darwin College, Cambridge. Woodcock was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple. He began his heraldic career in 1975 as a research assistant to Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms. In 1978 he was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant, and in 1982 promoted to Somerset Herald. - Henry Arthur Brassey
Henry Arthur Brassey, was a British Member of Parliament. Brassey was the son of the railway contractor Thomas Brassey and his wife Maria (née Harrison). Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, was his elder brother. He was educated at Oxford University and in 1868 he was elected to the House of Commons for Sandwich, a seat he held until 1885. Brassey also served as Deputy Lieutenant of Kent, as High Sheriff of Kent in 1890 and as a Justice of the Peace for the county. - Robert Biddulph
Robert Biddulph, was a British Member of Parliament. Biddulph was the son of John Biddulph and his wife Augusta (née Roberts). He sat as Member of Parliament for Hereford between 1832 and 1837 and also served as a Justice of the Peace for and as Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire. He married Elizabeth, daughter of George Palmer, in 1830. Their elder son Michael was created Baron Biddulph in 1903 while their younger son Sir Robert became a General in the Army. - Michael Marshall
Sir Robert Michael Marshall, DL (21 June 1930 - 6 September 2006), usually known as Michael Marshall, was a businessman, politician, cricketer and author. After a career in the steel industry, he was Conservative Member of Parliament for Arundel for 23 years, from the February 1974 general election until the constituency was abolished in 1997. He was the first MP with an MBA from Harvard, … - Henry Davis Pochin
Henry Davis Pochin was an English industrial chemist. He was the son of a yeoman farmer of Leicestershire who served an apprenticeship to James Woolley (1811-1858), a manufacturing chemist in Manchester, and in course of time became his partner. Woolley died in 1858 and Pochin kept a manuscript diary of the illness, treatment and death of his partner. This diary is preserved in the Wellcome Trust Library. On Woolley’s death Pochin became the sole proprietor. - Henry George Orlando Bridgeman
Henry George Orlando Bridgeman, MC, DSO, DL, JP, (15 August 1882 - 19 May 1972) was a British soldier. The third son of the 4th Earl of Bradford and Lady Ida Frances Annabella Lumley, and younger brother of the 5th Earl of Bradford, was educated at Harrow School, London. Bridgeman fought in the First World War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in the Royal Field Artillery and was Aide-de-Camp to the General Officer Commanding, Ireland. - James Bernard 4th Earl of Bandon
James Francis Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon KP (1850-1924) was a British Deputy Lieutenant in Ireland and cousin of the Earl of Middleton who was head of the southern Irish Unionists at the time of the Anglo-Irish War (1919-1921). Bandon Castle was one of the last mansions burned during the war by the Irish as a counter-reprisal measure against British policy to burn Irish homes in districts in which the British had declared martial law. - Arthur Ernest Percival
Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, CB, DSO*, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL, (26 December 1887 – 31 January 1966) was a British Army officer and World War I veteran. He built a successful military career during the interwar period but is most noted for his involvement in World War II, when he commanded the forces of the British Commonwealth during the Battle of Malaya and the subsequent Battle of Singapore.
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