- William Donaldson
Charles William Donaldson (January 4, 1935 - June 22, 2005) was an English satirist, writer, rake and playboy, author of "The Henry Root Letters". Donaldson enjoyed a privileged upbringing in Sunningdale, Berkshire as the son of a shipping magnate. He was educated at Winchester College, and during his national service he met Julian Mitchell who introduced him to art galleries. Donaldson discovered prostitutes himself. - G. H. Hardy
Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 - December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. He was called "Harold" by a few close friends, and otherwise "G. H.". Non-mathematicians usually know him for "A Mathematician's Apology", his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics. - 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. - Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. Trollope has always remained a popular novelist. - Kenneth Clark
Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood, OM, CH, KCB, FBA (July 13, 1903 - May 21, 1983) was an English author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the most famous art historians of his generation. - Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 - 3 December 1980) was a British politician known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. He was also the sixth baronet of a title established in 1720. - Michael Hart
Sir Michael Christopher Campbell Hart (7 May 1948 - 20 February 2007) was a British High Court judge in the Chancery Division. Hart was born in London. He was educated at Winchester College, where he was cox of the rowing eight, and read law at Magdalen College, Oxford. He graduated with a first-class degree in 1966, and then studied for the Bachelor of Civil Law. He took a second first, winning the Vinerian Prize and Scholarship for the best exam performance. - Robert Conquest
Dr. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the publication, in 1968, of his account of Stalin's purges of the 1930s, "The Great Terror". - Lord Alfred Douglas
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 - 20 March 1945) was a poet, a translator and a prose writer, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. Much of his early poetry was Uranian in theme, though he tended, later in life, to distance himself from both Wilde's influence and his own role as a Uranian poet. - Tim Brooke-Taylor
Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor, (born 17 July 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of "The Goodies" comedy trio and in the comedy radio shows "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", and "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again". - Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan is National Film Award winning Indian actor who stars in Bollywood films. He is the son of the Nawab of Pataudi, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and the actress Sharmila Tagore. His sister is actress Soha Ali Khan. Khan starred in many films since his debut in 1992 but many failed at the box office. However he gained acclaim and rose into prominence with his performance in "Dil Chahta Hai" (2001). - Thomas Arnold
Thomas Arnold (June 13, 1795 - June 12, 1842) was a British schoolmaster and historian, head of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841. - Richard Pace
Richard Pace (c. 1482 - June 28 1536) was an English diplomat of the Tudor period. He was educated at Winchester College under Thomas Langton, and later at Padua, at Bologna, and probably at the University of Oxford. In 1509 he accompanied Cardinal Christopher Bainbridge, Archbishop of York, to Rome, where he won the esteem of Pope Leo X, who advised King Henry VIII to take him into his service. - Jonathan Spence
Jonathan D. Spence is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He has been Sterling Professor of History at Yale University since 1993. His most famous book is "The Search for Modern China", which has become one of the standard texts on the last several hundred years of Chinese history. - Brian Trubshaw
Ernest Brian Trubshaw (January 29 1924 - 25 March 2001) was a notable test pilot, and the first British pilot to fly Concorde, in April 1969. He was born in 1924 and educated at Winchester College. He signed up for the RAF in 1942 at the age of eighteen and went to the United States where he trained as a pilot flying Stearman biplanes. He joined Bomber Command in 1944, flying Stirlings and Lancasters, transferring a year later to Transport Command. - Thomas Beckington
Thomas Beckington (also spelt Beckyngton) (c. 1390 - 14 January 1465) was the Bishop of Bath and Wells and 'King's Secretary' in Medieval England. He was born at Beckington in Somerset, and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. Having entered the Church he held many ecclesiastical appointments, and became dean of the Arches in 1423; then devoting his time to secular affairs he was sent on an embassy to Calais in 1439, and to John IV, … - Thomas Burgess
Thomas Burgess (1756 - February 19, 1837), English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury. He was born at Odiham in Hampshire and educated at Winchester, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Before graduating, he edited a reprint of John Burton's "Pentalogia". In 1781 he brought out an annotated edition of Richard Dawes's "Miscellaneci Critica" (reprinted, Leipzig, 1800). In 1783 he became a fellow of his college, … - George Ridding
George Ridding (March 16, 1828 - August 30, 1904), English headmaster and bishop, was born at Winchester College, of which his father, the Rev. Charles Ridding, vicar of Andover, was a fellow. He was educated at Winchester and at Balliol College, Oxford. He became a fellow of Exeter College and was a tutor from 1853 to 1863. In 1853 he married. Mary Louisa Moberly, who died within a year of her marriage. He was appointed second master of Winchester College in 1863, … - Andrew Longmore
Sir Andrew Centlivres Longmore (born 25 August 1944), styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Longmore, is a British lawyer and judge. Educated at Winchester College and Lincoln College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1966 and was appointed a QC in 1983. A Judge of the High Court from 1993, he rose to the rank of Lord Justice of Appeal in 2001. - Richard Williamson
"The Most Reverend" Richard Nelson Williamson, SSPX (born 8 March 1940) is a bishop of the Society of St. Pius X. He has been excommunicated because of his episcopal consecration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, deemed by the Holy See to be "illicit" and "a schismatic act". - Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Mansoor (Mansur) Ali Khan, the 9th Nawab of Pataudi (Jr.), nicknamed "Tiger" is a former Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team. - Edward Young
Edward Young (1683 - April 5, 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for "Night Thoughts". He was the son of Edward Young, afterwards dean of Salisbury, and was born at his father's rectory at Upham, near Winchester, where he was baptized on July 3, 1683. He was educated at Winchester College, and matriculated in 1702 at New College, Oxford. He later moved to Corpus Christi, and in 1708 was nominated by Archbishop Tenison to a law fellowship at All Souls'. - Richard Mant
Richard Mant (February 12, 1776 - 1848) was an English churchman and writer. He was born at Southampton and educated at Winchester College and at Trinity College, Oxford. He was elected fellow of Oriel in 1798, and afterwards took orders, holding a curacy at Southampton in 1802. In 1808 he published "The Simpliciad", this satirical poem was addressed in verse to William Wordsworth, Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, … - Nicholas Monsarrat
Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat RNVR (22 march 1910 - 8 august 1979) was a UK novelist best known today for his sea stories, particularly "The Cruel Sea" (1951). - Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987. - Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne (October 19, 1605 - October 19, 1682) was an English author of varied works that disclose his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the Scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. In counterbalance his Christian faith exuded tolerance and goodwill towards humanity in an often intolerant era. - Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington
Sir Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington, was a publisher, President of Trinity College, Oxford, vice-chancellor of Oxford University and originator of the Norrington Table. Norrington was born on October 27, 1899 at Normandy Villa, Godstone Road, Kenley, Surrey. The only son and eldest child of Arthur James Norrington, a merchant in the City of London, and his wife, Gertrude Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of William Pugh, a merchant from Montgomeryshire. - Patrick Minford
Professor Patrick Minford CBE (b. 1943) is currently Professor of Applied Economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University since 1997. He was previously Edward Gonner Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Liverpool from 1976 to 1997. Minford was educated at Winchester and Balliol College, Oxford and then at the London School of Economics. He then went on to become Economic Assistant to the Finance Director, Courtaulds Ltd. - Thomas Ken
Thomas Ken (July 1637 - 19 March 1711), English churchman, was the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnology - Nathaniel Fiennes
Nathaniel Fiennes (c. 1608 - December 16, 1669) English politician, second son of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Temple, of Stow in Buckinghamshire, was born in 1607 or 1608, and educated at Winchester and at New College, Oxford, where as founder's kin he was admitted a perpetual fellow in 1624. After about five years residence he left without taking a degree, travelled abroad, … - William Grocyn
William Grocyn (1446? - 1519) was an English scholar, a friend of Erasmus. He was born at Colerne, Wiltshire. Intended by his parents for the church, he was sent to Winchester College, and in 1465 was elected to a scholarship at New College, Oxford. In 1467 he became a fellow, and among his pupils was William Warham, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1479 Grocyn accepted the rectory of Newton Longville, in Buckinghamshire, but continued to live at Oxford. - Stafford Cripps
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, known as Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer for several years after the Second World War. - Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, "A Study of History", 1934-1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global perspective. - Ian Gow
Ian Reginald Edward Gow TD(11 February 1937 - 30 July 1990) was a British Conservative politician and a solicitor. While serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastbourne, he was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who exploded a bomb under his car at his home in Sussex. - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (January 2, 1886 - May 18, 1959) was an English explorer of Antarctica. - Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 - 18 January 1963) was a British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. - Geoffrey Howe
Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, PC, QC (born 20 December 1926), known until 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a senior British Conservative politician. He was Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet minister, successively holding the posts of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and finally Leader of the House of Commons and Deputy Prime Minister. - George MacLeod
The Very Rev. George Fielden MacLeod, Baron MacLeod of Fuinary, MC DD (June 17, 1895 - June 27, 1991), was a Scottish soldier and clergyman; one of the best known, most influential and unconventional Church of Scotland ministers of the 20th century. He was the founder of the Iona Community. - John Davies
Sir John Davies (April 16, 1569 - December 8, 1626) was an English poet and lawyer, who became attorney general in Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire. - Thomas Coryat
Thomas Coryat (also Coryate) (c.1577-1617) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through Europe and parts of Asia. He is often credited with introducing the table fork to England, with "Furcifer" (Latin: fork-bearer, rascal) becoming one of his nick-names.
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