- Richard Busby
The Rev. Dr Richard Busby (27 September 1606 - 1695) was an English clergyman, and headmaster of Westminster School. His is believed by many to be the most famous headmaster in history, because he served for 57 years. He was born at Lutton in Lincolnshire, and educated at Westminster, where he first showed his academic promise by gaining a King's Scholarship. From Westminster Busby duly proceeded to Christ Church College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1628. - Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 - 29 March 1788) was a leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley. Despite their closeness, Charles and his brother did not always agree on questions relating to their beliefs. In particular, Charles was strongly opposed to the idea of a breach with the Church of England into which they had been ordained. Charles Wesley is chiefly remembered for the many hymns he wrote. - Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick (baptized August 24 1591- October 1674) was a 17th century English poet. Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith, who committed suicide when Robert was a year old. It is likely that he attended Westminster School. In 1607 he became apprenticed to his uncle, Sir William Herrick, who was a goldsmith and jeweller to the king. The apprenticeship ended after only six years when Herrick, … - Warren Hastings
Warren Hastings (December 6 1732 - August 22 1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously impeached in 1787 for corruption, and acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814. Hastings was born at Churchill, Oxfordshire. He attended Westminster School before joining the British East India Company in 1750 as a clerk. In 1757 he was made the British Resident (administrative in charge) of Murshidabad. - Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley (1618 - July 28, 1667), English poet, was born in the City of London late in 1618. His father, a wealthy citizen, who died shortly before his birth, was a stationer. His mother was wholly given to works of devotion, but it happened that there lay in her parlor a copy of "The Faerie Queene". This became the favorite reading of her son, and he had twice devoured it all before he was sent to school. As early as 1628, that is, in his tenth year, … - Peter Asher
Peter Asher (born on June 22, 1944 in London, England) is a guitarist, singer and record producer. Asher is known as "Peter" of 1960s duo Peter & Gordon, whose biggest hit was "World Without Love"; since Peter & Gordon disbanded. Asher's greatest success was serving as producer of a long string of multi-platinum albums for Linda Ronstadt as well as albums for James Taylor. While attending Westminster School, he first met fellow student Gordon Waller, … - Shane MacGowan
Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan (born December 25, 1957) is an English-born Irish musician. He is best known as the original singer and songwriter with The Pogues, and is considered one of the most important and poetic Irish songwriters of the last thirty years, often echoing his influences such as Irish playwright Brendan Behan and songwriter Dominic Behan in his writing style. - Peter Brook
Peter Brook is a British theatre and film director and innovator, and considered one of the most influential and revered directors and theatre theorists. - Richard Lower
Richard Lower was a Cornish physician who played an important part in the development of medical science. Lower was born in St Tudy, Cornwall and studied at Westminster School where he met John Locke, and Oxford, where he met Thomas Willis, founder of the Royal Society. He followed Willis to London, where he carried out research, some in partnership with Robert Hooke. His major work, "Tractatus de Corde" (1669) was concerned with the workings of the heart and lungs, … - Gordon Waller
Gordon Waller (born as Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller, on June 4, 1945 in Braemar, Scotland) is a singer/songwriter/Guitarist, best known as "Gordon" of 1960s duo Peter & Gordon, whose biggest hit was "World Without Love". While attending Westminster School, he first met fellow student Peter Asher, and together they began playing together as a duo - Peter & Gordon. Asher is the older brother of actress and businesswoman Jane Asher, … - John Rae
John Rae (20 March 1931 - 16 December 2006) was a British novelist, writer and educator. He was headmaster of Taunton School (1966-1970) and Westminster School (1970 - 1986). - Nicholas Udall
Nicholas Udall (1504 - December 23, 1556), was an English playwright and schoolmaster, the author of "Ralph Roister Doister", generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English language. - Michael Flanders
Michael Henry Flanders (March 1, 1922 - April 14, 1975) was an English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs. He is best known to the general public for his partnership with Donald Swann (see Flanders and Swann). __TOC_ - Francis Atterbury
Francis Atterbury (March 6, 1663 - February 22, 1732), was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. He was born at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a tutor. In 1682, he published a translation of "Absalom and Achitophel" into Latin verse with neither the style nor the versification typical of the Augustan age. - Henry Liddell
Henry George Liddell was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster (1846–55) of Westminster School, author of "A History of Rome" (1857), and co-author (with Robert Scott) of the monumental work "A Greek-English Lexicon", which is still used by students of Greek. His daughter Alice was the Alice for whom Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland. Liddell received his education at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. - Matthew Prior
Matthew Prior (July 21, 1664 - September 18, 1721) was an English poet and diplomat. Prior was the son of a Nonconformist joiner at Wimborne Minster, East Dorset. His father moved to London, and sent him to Westminster School, under Dr. Busby. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel Row. Here Lord Dorset found him reading Horace, and set him to translate an ode. - Donald Swann
Donald Ibrahím Swann was a British composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders (see Flanders and Swann). - William Alabaster
William Alabaster (also Alablaster, Arblastier) (1567 - 1640) was an English poet, playwright, and religious writer. His surname is one of the many variants of arbalester, a cross-bowman. He was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, and educated at Westminster School, and Trinity College, Cambridge from 1583. His "Roxana", a Latin tragedy, was performed around 1592, and printed in 1632. - Celia Walden
Celia Walden (born 1976) is a British journalist, novelist and critic. She is the daughter of former Conservative Party Member of Parliament George Walden. Walden was born in Paris and educated at Westminster School and at Cambridge University. She speaks French and Italian fluently. Walden is best known as a gossip columnist. She currently edits "The Daily Telegraph"'s Diary, known as "Spy", and appears regularly in person on the Daily Telegraph Podcast. - Richard Stone
Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (August 30, 1913 - December 6, 1991) was an eminent British economist who in 1984 received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale. He is sometimes known as the father of national income accounting. - William King
William King (1663 - 1712) was an English poet. Born in London, the son of an Ezekiel King, he was related to the family of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon. From Westminster School, where he was a scholar under the care of Dr. Busby, at the age of eighteen he was elected to Christ Church College, Oxford in 1681. There he is said to have dedicated himself so completely to his studies that after eight years he had read over twenty-two thousand books and manuscripts. - Augustus Montague Toplady
Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740 - August 11, 1778), Anglican divine, was born at Farnham, Surrey, and educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Dublin. His father, Major Toplady, died in May 1741 of yellow fever at the siege of Cartagena. Although originally a follower of Wesley, in 1758 he adopted Calvinist opinions. He was ordained curate at Blagdon in June 1762 and became vicar of Harpford with Fenn-Ottery, Devon, in 1766. - Robert Lloyd
Robert Lloyd (1733-1764) was an English poet and satirist. He was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he graduated in 1758. He was author of the popular poem "The Actor" (1760) and the comic opera "The Capricious Lovers" (1764), which was first performed at Drury Lane just a few weeks before his death. He was co-author, with George Colman, of Ode to Obscurity and Ode to Oblivion, both published in the early 1760s, … - Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill (February, 1731 - November 4, 1764), was an English poet and satirist. Churchill was born in Vine Street, Westminster. His father, rector of Rainham, Essex, held the curacy and lectureship of St Johns, Westminster, from 1733, and Charles was educated at Westminster School, where he became a good classical scholar, and formed a close and lasting friendship with Robert Lloyd. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1749, having been refused at Oxford, … - Richard Blackmore
Sir Richard Blackmore, (January 22 1654 - October 9, 1729), English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example of a dull poet. He was, however, a respected physician and religious writer. He was born at Corsham, in Wiltshire, the son of a wealthy attorney. He was educated at Westminster School very briefly, and he entered St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1669. He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1674 and his MA in 1676. - Aaron Hill
Aaron Hill (February 10, 1685 - February 8, 1750) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The son of a country gentleman of Wiltshire, Hill was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards travelled in the East. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of Voltaire's "Zaire" and "Merope", being adaptations. He also wrote poetry, which is of variable quality. Having written some satiric lines on Alexander Pope, … - Joseph Williamson
Sir Joseph Williamson, FRS (July 25, 1633- October 3, 1701), English politician, was born at Bridekirk, near Cockermouth, where his father, also called Joseph, was vicar. He was educated at St Bees, at Westminster School and at Queen's College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow, and in 1660 he entered the service of the Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, retaining his position under the succeeding secretary, Sir Henry Bennet, afterwards Earl of Arlington. - Tristram Jones-Parry
Tristram Jones-Parry is a former British teacher of mathematics and former headmaster of Emanuel School and Westminster School, independent schools in the UK. He became involved in media and political controversy in 2004, when on retiring from independent schools at the age of 58, after 30 years' teaching experience, applied to teach in a state school in order to "give a bit back", … - John Cleland
John Cleland ("baptised" September 24, 1709 - January 23, 1789) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of "Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure". John Cleland was the oldest son of William Cleland (1673/4 - 1741) and Lucy Cleland. He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant. - Dominic Lawson
Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson (born December 17 1956) is a British journalist. He was born in an influential Jewish family, the son of a then future Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson and socialite Vanessa Salmon, heir to the Lyons Corner House empire; she died of liver cancer in 1985. Lawson had three sisters, TV chef and writer Nigella Lawson (wife of art collector Charles Saatchi), Horatia, and Thomasina, … - Stephen Spurr
Dr Stephen Spurr is currently the Head Master of Westminster School, the leading British Public school in London, having taken over from Tristram Jones-Parry in September 2005. He is an advocate for exam reform. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, as well as the University of Sydney and, later, Oxford. Before his current appointment Spurr was the headmaster of Clifton College, and prior to that he was a housemaster at Eton, … - Simon Gray
Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE is an English playwright. Born in Hayling Island, England, he attended Westminster School, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia and Trinity College, Cambridge. He lives in London. He is married to Victoria née Rothschild, youngest daughter of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild. Gray has written over 30 plays, including "Butley", "Quartermaine's Terms", several TV plays, film scripts and a number of popular memoirs. - Joe Cornish
Joe Cornish (born December 20, 1968) is an English comedian who, along with his long-time comedy partner Adam Buxton, forms one half of the comedy duo Adam and Joe. He was educated at Westminster School in central London, where he became friends with both Adam Buxton and Louis Theroux. He went on to study at the Bournemouth Film School, indulging and cultivating his love of films. - John Dyer
John Dyer (1699 - 1757) was a Welsh poet who wrote in the English language. The son of a solicitor, he was born either in 1699 or 1700 at Aberglasney, in Carmarthenshire. He was sent to Westminster School and was intended for a career in law, but on his father's death he began to study painting. He wandered about South Wales, sketching and occasionally painting portraits. In 1726 his first poem, Grongar Hill, appeared in a miscellany published by Richard Savage, the poet. - Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton (March 17, 1904 - September 23, 1962) was an English playwright and novelist. He was well-regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley and his novels have undergone a revival recently through their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture. They display a strong sympathy to the dispossessed, as well as an acerbic black humour. - Thomas Randolph
Thomas Randolph (June, 1605 - March, 1635), English poet and dramatist, was born near Daventry in Northamptonshire, and was baptized on June 18, 1605. He was the uncle of colonist William Randolph. He was educated at Westminster and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1628, proceeded M.A. in 1632 and became a major fellow of his college in the same year. He soon gave promise as a writer of comedy. - Robert Bruce Cotton
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (January 22 1570/1-May 6 1631) was an English politician, founder of the famous Cotton library. He was of Huntingdonshire parentage and educated at Westminster School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He had become interested in antiquarian studies under William Camden, and began to amass a library. He entered the Parliament of England as a member for Huntingdon in 1601. - William Markham
William Markham (1710-1807), English divine and archbishop of York, was educated at Westminster and at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was one of the best scholars of his day, and attained to the headship of his old school and college in 1753 and 1767 respectively. He held from time to time a number of livings, and in 1771 was made bishop of Chester and tutor to George prince of Wales. In 1776 he became Archbishop of York, and also Lord High Almoner and privy councillor. - Richard Cumberland
Richard Cumberland was an English dramatist and civil servant. He was born in the master's lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge, the great-grandson of the bishop of Peterborough; his father, Dr Denison Cumberland, became successively Bishop of Clonfert and of Kilmore. His mother was Joanna, youngest daughter of the great scholar Richard Bentley and the heroine of John Byrom's popular eclogue, "Cohn and Phoebe". - Richard Doll
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912-24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was the first in the modern world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease.
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