Jeremy Summerly is a British conductor. He was educated at Lichfield Cathedral (where he was a chorister), at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford (where he was a choral scholar). While at Oxford he conducted the New College Chamber Orchestra and the Oxford Chamber Choir. After graduating with a First in Music in 1982, he started work as a Studio Manager for BBC Radio, while pursuing research at King's College, London. He founded the Oxford Camerata in 1984.

James Mark Dakin Purnell (born 2 March 1970, London) is a British politician. He was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on 28th June 2007. He has been the Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde since the 2001 general election. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, obtaining first class honours in PPE.

Tom Arden is a British science fiction and fantasy writer, who was born in Australia. His main work is the five volume "Orokon" saga, as well as the novels "Shadow Black", "The Translation of Bastian Test" and the Doctor Who novella "Nightdreamers". Arden was born in 1961 and grew up in Mount Gambier, South Australia.

Gordon Crosse (born December 1, 1937) is an English composer and music technologist. Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire and in 1961 graduated from Oxford University with a first class honours degree in Music. He then undertook two years of postgraduate research on early fifteenth-century music before beginning an academic career at the University of Birmingham. Subsequent employment included posts at the Universities of Essex, Cambridge and California.

Mr Cameron joined his family in Istanbul after he made a flying visit to Georgia, where he upstaged the Government by meeting its President, Mikheil Saakashvili, in the wake of the Russian invasion. His flights to and from Tbilisi were paid for by the Conservative Party. He and his family were then taken on Mr Freud's Gulfstream IV jet to Santorini.

Professor Heinz Wolff (born 29 April 1928) is a German-British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He is best known for his television and radio work, including the TV series "The Great Egg Race". He was born in Berlin, and moved to Britain with his family at the age of ten, arriving on the day World War II broke out. After school, he worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit near Cardiff, …

Charles Edward Rhodes Bruce (C.E.R. Bruce), MA., DSc., FIEE., FInstP., (1902 near Glasgow - 30 Dec 1979) was a Scottish astrophysicist and writer. He was educated at Edinburgh University where he finished with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. 1924 he joined the Electrical Research Association (now ERA Technology Ltd) in Leatherhead, England, where he begun analysing the operation of oil circuit-breakers.

Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (born 27 January 1935, Redruth, Cornwall, UK) is a Cornish novelist, poet, and translator. He graduated with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford in 1959 and has lived and worked in Australia and the United States before returning to his native Cornwall. A prolific writer, Thomas' career has been most successful when his circumstances have allowed him to concentrate on writing.

Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn (born 20 February 1961) is a British actress. She was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. When her family moved to a barge in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith and Westminster School, and then gained a First Class Honours Degree in English Literature at Exeter College, Oxford and was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. She subsequently trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

David John Denzil Davies (born 9 October, 1938, Carmarthen) was the Welsh Member of Parliament for Llanelli for the Labour Party from 1970 to 2005, and a member of the Privy Council. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Pembroke College, Oxford where he graduated with First Class Honours in Law and Gray's Inn where he qualified as a barrister. He lectured in Law at Chicago University and the University of Leeds.

Winifred (Freda) Utley (January 23, 1898 London, England - January 21, 1978 Washington, DC) was a British scholar and author. A card-carrying British Communist by age 28, Winifred Utley had begun to reverse her stance on the worldwide Communist movement by the time her husband was arrested in 1936 in Moscow, where the couple lived and worked. Her conversion to an outspoken anti-Communist with worldwide influence was complete by 1939, …

Sir Robin Ernest Auld (born 19 July 1937), styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Auld, is a judge in the English Court of Appeal. Auld was educated at Brooklands College and King's College London. He graduated with a first class honours degree in Law in 1958, obtained a doctorate in Law in 1963, and he became a fellow at King's College in 1987. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1959 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1975.

Maurice Edwin Tucker (born November 6, 1946) is a leading British sedimentologist, specialising in the field of carbonate sedimentology, more commonly known as limestones. Since 1993, he has held the position of Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Durham, and since 1998 he has been Master of University College, Durham.

Professor Sir (George) Malcolm Brown FRS (October 5, 1925 - March 27, 1997) was one of the most respected geologists of the second half of the Twentieth Century. His formidable reputation as an igneous petrologist enabled him to become one of the few scientists invited by NASA to work on the moon rock samples recovered from the Apollo 11 lunar mission. Brown was born in Redcar and was educated at Coatham School.

Professor Brian John Grieve was an Australian botanist best known for his multi-volume book series "How to Know Western Australian Wildflowers". Born in Allans Flat, Victoria, he was educated at Williamstown High School, then matriculated to the University of Melbourne. He graduated with First Class Honours in Botany in 1929, and the following year was awarded an M.Sc..

Ceiri Torjussen is an Emmy-nominated composer who has contributed music to dozens of film and television productions in the U.S. His music was described by the Los Angeles Times as a “sudden bolt of creative lightning”, and he was hailed in a UK newspaper as one of the brightest British musical talents in recent history. Similarly, in the last few years, he has made a sudden but marked impact on the world of film music in Los Angeles, …

Niall Ferguson (b. April 18, 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish historian best known for his views on imperialism and the origins of conflict in the twentieth century. After attending The Glasgow Academy, he was educated as a Demy at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class honours degree. After two years as a Hanseatic Scholar in Hamburg and Berlin, he took up a Research Fellowship at Christ's College Cambridge University, in 1989, …