- John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August, 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. Known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style, John Peel was a popular and respected DJ and broadcaster. He was one of the first to play reggae and punk on British radio. - Richard Ingrams
Richard Ingrams was the second editor of British satirical magazine, "Private Eye", taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963. Richard Ingrams was one of four sons. His parents were Leonard St Clair Ingrams and Victoria (née Reid). Ingrams was educated at Shrewsbury School and University College, Oxford where he read Classics. Curiously, he was the tutorial partner of a completely different figure - Robin Butler, … - Willie Rushton
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (18 August, 1937 in Chelsea, London - 11 December, 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer. Rushton was a co-founder of "Private Eye" with his Shrewsbury School peers Christopher Booker, Paul Foot and Richard Ingrams, originally acting as the magazine's layout artist. He served as one of its cartoonists until his death. - Paul Foot
Paul Mackintosh Foot (8 November 1937 - 18 July 2004) was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Paul Foot was the son of Hugh Foot who, as Lord Caradon, was governor of Cyprus and represented the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970. He was also the nephew of Michael Foot, former leader of the Labour Party. - Christopher Booker
Christopher John Penrice Booker (born October 7 1937) is an English journalist and editor, educated at Shrewsbury School. He was a founding editor of "Private Eye" at the height of the British Satire Boom, but he was forced out in the magazine's early days by Richard Ingrams. He has, however, remained a regular contributor and joke writer on the magazine since its inception. In the late 1960s he wrote "The Neophiliacs", … - Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. - Julian Critchley
Sir Julian Michael Gordon Critchley (8 December 1930 - 9 September 2000) was a politician in the United Kingdom, educated at Shrewsbury School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament, firstly for Rochester and Chatham from 1959 to 1964, and then for Aldershot from 1970 until his retirement at the 1997 election. He was knighted in 1995. He was a childhood friend of Michael Heseltine while they were both at Shrewsbury, … - Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway (January 17, 1899 in London - January 12, 1960 in Melbourne) was, as Nevil Shute, one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century, as well as a successful aeronautical engineer. His stories and characters are humane but avoid emotional extremes (occasionally to a surprising extent, given the circumstances they describe), which helps explain why a half-century after his death, virtually all his books remain in print. - Richard Todd
Richard Todd (born June 11, 1919) is a British actor. - Andrew Irvine
Andrew "Sandy" Irvine was an English mountaineer who took part in the third British Expedition to Mount Everest in 1924. Irvine disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge, along with climbing partner George Mallory, whilst attempting to make the first ascent of the world's highest Mountain in June of that year. The pair's last known sighting was only a few hundred metres from the summit. - Simon Dee
Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd (born July 28, 1935, Ottawa, Canada) is better known by his stage name Simon Dee. He was a British television interviewer and radio disc jockey who hosted a twice-weekly chat show "Dee Time", but after moving from the BBC to London Weekend Television he was dropped and his career never recovered. - George Mallory
George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8 June/9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s. On the third expedition, in June of 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine both disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge during (or perhaps after completing) the final stage of their attempt to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain. - Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 - October 17, 1586) became one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures. Famous in his day in England as a poet, courtier and soldier, he remains known as the author of "Astrophil and Stella" (1581, pub. 1591), "The Defence of Poesy" (or "An Apology for Poetry", 1581, pub. 1595), and "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia" (1580, pub. 1590). - Michael Heseltine
Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933) is a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group. - J. L. Austin
John Langshaw Austin was a philosopher of language, who developed much of the current theory and terminology of speech acts. He was born in Lancaster and educated at Balliol College, Oxford University. After serving in MI6 during World War II, Austin became White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. - Tom Macan
Thomas Townley Macan (born 1946) was educated at Shrewsbury School and Sussex University, where he was President of the Student Union. He was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the British Virgin Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea, from 14 October 2002 to 10 April 2006. - Nick Owen
Nick Owen is an English television presenter. Born November 1, 1947 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, to father Bertie, a headmaster and Dunkirk veteran, and mother Esme, a music teacher. He attended Kingsland Grange prep school, an independent boarding school in Shrewsbury, from the ages of 7-13, then Shrewsbury School itself from the ages of 13-18. While at Kingsland Grange, Nick borrowed a Cliff Richard record from Bob Warman, … - Richard Best Baron Best
Richard Stuart Best, Baron Best, OBE (b. 22 June, 1945) is a British social housing leader and member of the House of Lords. The son of late Walter Best DL and Frances Chignell, Best was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University of Nottingham. He married Ima Akpan in 1970, divorcing in 1976, then Belinda Stemp in 1978. He had two daughters and two sons with his two wives. From 1970 to 1973, Best served as Director of the British Churches Housing Trust, … - Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 - June 18 1902) was a British writer strongly influenced by his New Zealand experiences. He is best known for his utopian satire "Erewhon" and his posthumous novel "The Way of All Flesh". - Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler, FRS (30 January 1774 - 4 December 1839), was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler, noted author. He was born at Kenilworth. He was educated at Rugby School, and in 1792 went to St John's College, Cambridge. Butler's classical career was a brilliant one. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and Greek (1793, 1794) odes, … - Peter Brown
Peter Robert Lamont Brown (b. 1935) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a Protestant family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He is a fellow of All Souls', Oxford. He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton University, where he is currently the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History. In 1982, Brown was named a MacArthur Fellow. - Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Erasmus Alvey Darwin, nicknamed "Eras" or "Ras", was the older brother of Charles Darwin, born five years earlier, and also brought up at the family home, The Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was the only other boy in the family, the fourth of six children of Robert and Susannah Darwin ("née" Wedgwood), and the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, and of Josiah Wedgwood, a family of the Unitarian church. - Kyffin Williams
Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA (May 9 1918 – September 1 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey. He was born in Llangefni, Anglesey into an old landed Anglesey family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School before joining the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers as a lieutenant in 1937. After failing a British Army medical examination in 1941 (due to epilepsy), doctors advised him to become an artist, … - Francis King
Francis Henry King (born 1923) is a British novelist and short story writer, and a poet. He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland and brought up in India. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II he was a conscientious objector, and left Oxford to work on the land. After completing his degree in 1949 he worked for the British Council; he was posted around Europe, and then in Kyoto. He resigned to write full time in 1964. - William Thomson
William Thomson (February 11, 1819 - December 25, 1890) was an English church leader, Archbishop of York from 1862 until his death. He was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, and educated at Shrewsbury School and at The Queen's College, Oxford, of which he became a scholar. He took his B.A. degree in 1840, and was soon afterwards made fellow of his college. He was ordained in 1842, and worked as a curate at Cuddesdon. In 1847 he was made tutor of his college, … - Colin McColl
Sir Colin Hugh Verel McColl, KCMG (born 6 September 1932) was Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1989 - 1994. McColl was educated at Shrewsbury School and at The Queen's College, Oxford, of which he would later become an honorary fellow. He currently holds the position of advisory director of Campbell Lutyens, a private equity advisory firm, is a director of the Scottish American Investment Trust and Chairman of two charities. - Richard Law 1st Baron Coleraine
Richard Kidston Law, 1st Baron Coleraine PC (27 February, 1901-15 November, 1980) was a British Conservative politician. He was the youngest son of former Conservative Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Lawand his wife Annie. He was elected MP for Hull South West in 1931 and held that seat until 1945. In 1940 he was appointed Financial Secretary to the War Office and was then transferred to the job of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until 1943. - Brian Inglis
Brian Inglis (31 July1916-11 February1993) was a British journalist, historian and television presenter. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and retained an interest in Irish history and politics. He was best known to people in Britain as the presenter of "All Our Yesterdays", a television review of events exactly 25 years previously, as seen in newsreels, newspaper articles etc. He also presented the weekly review of newspapers known as "What the Papers Say". - Owen Seaman
Sir Owen Seaman (September 18, 1861 - February 2, 1936) was a British writer, journalist and poet. He is best known as editor of "Punch", from 1906 to 1932. Born in Shrewsbury, he was the only son of William Mantle Seaman and Sarah Ann Balls. He distinguished himself academically both at Shrewsbury School and later Clare College, Cambridge. Following this, he worked as a schoolmaster at Rossall School (1884), professor of literature at Durham College of Science, … - Christopher Gill
Christopher John Frederick Gill (born October 28, 1936) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was one of the Maastricht Rebels and is the current President of The Freedom Association (TFA). He is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). Gill was born in Wolverhampton where he was a local councillor and was educated locally at Birchfield Preparatory School and then Shrewsbury School. - Sandy Singleton
Alexander Parkinson Singleton, known as Sandy (5 August 1914 - 22 March 1999), was an English all-round cricketer: a right-handed opening batsman and slow left arm bowler. He played his county cricket for Worcestershire, captaining the side in 1946, and also captained Oxford University and Transvaal. In all he scored 4,700 runs and took 240 wickets in first-class cricket. Born in Repton, Derbyshire, Singleton attended Shrewsbury School, … - John Taylor
John Taylor, English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury. His father was a barber, and, by the generosity of one of his customers, the son, having received his early education at the grammar school of his native town, was sent to St John's College, Cambridge. In 1732 he was appointed librarian, in 1734 registrar of the university. Somewhat late in life he took orders, became rector of Lawford in Essex in 1751, and canon of St Paul’s in 1757. - Stephen Paget
Stephen Paget was an English surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget, who has been long credited with proposing the "seed and soil" theory of metastasis, even though in his paper “The Distribution Of Secondary Growths In Cancer Of The Breast”, The Lancet, Volume 133, Issue 3421, 23 March 1889, Pages 571-573, … - Richard Hillary
Flight Lieutenant Richard H. Hillary (born 20 April 1919 in Sydney, Australia - died 8 January 1943) was a Battle of Britain pilot who died during World War II. He is best known for his book "The Last Enemy", based upon his experiences during the Battle of Britain. Richard Hillary writes about his first experience in a Supermarine Spitfire in "The Last Enemy": :" The Spitfires stood in two lines outside 'A' Flight pilots' room. - Graham Wallas
Graham Wallas (May 31, 1858 - August 9, 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society. Born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Wallas was educated at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. It was at Oxford that Wallas abandoned religion and converted to rationalism. He taught at Highgate School until 1885, when he resigned rather than participate in communion, … - John Stuttard
John Boothman Stuttard is the current Lord Mayor of London. Stuttard was educated at Shrewsbury School and Churchill College, Cambridge, before joining Cooper Brothers in 1967. He has been a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1975. He spent five years in China as the company's executive chairman. From 1981, he spent two years on secondment to the British Cabinet Office advising the Central Policy Review Staff on nationalized industries and their privatisation. - Ambrose Philips
Ambrose Philips, (1674 - June 18, 1749), was an English poet. He was born in Shropshire of a Leicestershire family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1699. He seems to have lived chiefly at Cambridge until he resigned his fellowship in 1708, and his pastorals were probably written in this period. - Edgar Whitehead
Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead, OBE, (February 8, 1905-September 23, 1971) was a Rhodesian politician. He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesia Legislative Assembly, although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness; as an ally of Sir Roy Welensky, he was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962. His government was defeated in the 1962 general election by the Rhodesian Front. - Alexander John Ellis
Alexander John Ellis (or Alexander Sharpe) (14 June, 1814 - 28 October, 1890) was an English philologist and music theorist. He is noted for translating and extensively annotating Hermann Helmholtz's "On the Sensations of Tone", in which he among other things introduces the notation of cents for musical intervals. He is sometimes considered to be one of the founders of the field ethnomusicology because of his work in the science of sound. - Tim Lamb
Timothy Michael Lamb (born Hartford, Cheshire, March 24 1953) was an English County Cricketer and Cricket Administrator, the first Chief Executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (1996-2004). The younger son of the 2nd Lord Rochester, Tim Lamb was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Queen's College Oxford University (for whom he got a blue in 1973 and 1974) and played professional cricket for Middlesex (1974-77) and Northamptonshire (1978-83).
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