Brian Harrison

male
historian, University of Oxford, Knight Bachelor, British Academy, New Year's Honours, Corpus Christi College, Oxford…OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography
Professor Sir Brian Harrison (b. July 9, 1937) was the editor of "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" from January 2000 to September 2004...
Colin Matthew

Colin Matthew

male, deceased (1999)
Old Sedberghian, William Ewart Gladstone, Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford, christ church, public school, University of Oxford…St Hugh's College, Oxford, Dictionary of National Biography, OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography, oxford university press
Henry Colin Gray Matthew, an historian, was the first editor of the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" and editor of the diaries of William...
Fiona MacCarthy

Fiona MacCarthy

female, 69 years old
Oxford University, Wolfson History Prize, OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography, University of Oxford, debutante, English…Last Curtsey The End of the Debutantes
Fiona MacCarthy (born January 23, 1940) is a British biographer and cultural historian. She was raised in Chelsea; her family then owned the...

George Cavendish

male, deceased (1562)
tudor, Court of Exchequer, William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography, Duke of Devonshire
George Cavendish (1494-c.1562), was an English writer, best known as the biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. His "Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall,...
Augustus Agar

Augustus Agar

male, deceased (1968)
Old Framlinghamians, British Military, commodore, dso, British, Irish…Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography
Commodore Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO, RN (1890-1968) was a noted Royal Navy officer in both World War I and World War II and a...
John van der Kiste

John van der Kiste

male, 55 years old
novelist, Biographer, Non-fiction writer, record collector, BBC, ealing…Best of British, OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography
John Van der Kiste, author, was born in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, in 1954, son of Wing Commander Guy Van der Kiste (1912-99). He was educated at...
Scipio Africanus

Scipio Africanus

male, deceased (1720)
African-English, Henbury, Charles Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, Charles William Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk, OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography, epitaph
Scipio Africanus (1702 - 21 December 1720) was a slave born to unknown parents from West Africa.
Rachel Beer

Rachel Beer

female, deceased (1927)
buried at Highgate Cemetery, Jewish person, The Sunday Times, Newspaper editor, observer, From Tunbridge Wells…OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography
Rachel Beer (1858-1927), granddaughter of David Sassoon, was editor of "The Observer" (1891-1904) and owner-editor of "The Sunday Times"...

A. B. Campbell

male, deceased (1966)
Radio personality, British, Royal Navy officer, peckham, Naval Officer, Jan 21…OxfordDictionaryofNationalBiography
Commander A. B. (Archibald Bruce) Campbell (Jan 21 1881 - April 11 1966) was a British naval officer and radio broadcaster, born in Peckham,...