- John Adams
Sir John Bertram Adams KBE FRS (24 May 1920-3 March 1984) was a British nuclear physicist and administrator. During World War II, Adams worked in the Radar laboratories of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. After the war he moved to Harwell, and the Atomic Energy Research establishment, designing a 180 MeV synchro-cyclotron. In 1953 he joined CERN as director of the Proton Synchotron division. - Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 - 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son. - Ross Brawn
Dr Ross Brawn is a British engineer, best known for his role as the technical director of Scuderia Ferrari, the Ferrari company's Formula One constructor, from 1996 to 2006. His biggest role has often been perceived to be planning and executing the team's race strategies, which have often allowed Michael Schumacher to take surprising wins. Brawn was born November 23, 1954 in Manchester, Lancashire, England and attended Reading School in Reading, Berkshire, England. - Alec Issigonis
Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS (November 18, 1906-October 2, 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1959. - Harry Ferguson
Henry George (Harry) Ferguson (November 4, 1884 - October 25, 1960) developed the modern agricultural tractor. He was also an early Irish aviator. He was born at Growell, near Dromore, County Down, Ireland (in what is now Northern Ireland), and was the son of an Irish farmer. In 1902 Ferguson went to work with his brother Joe in his bicycle and car repair business. Whilst working there as a mechanic he developed an interest in aviation, … - James McNeill Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 - July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail. The symbol was apt, for Whistler's art was characterized by a subtle delicacy, in contrast to his combative public persona. - Mike Hancock
Michael Thomas Hancock CBE (born April 9, 1946), known as Mike Hancock, is a British politician. He is Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Portsmouth South and a City councillor for Fratton ward.. Mike Hancock was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the son of a sailor, he was educated locally at the Copnor and Portsea School. He worked as an engineer until he was first elected to parliament, … - William Arrol
William Arrol (1839 - 1913) was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Party politician. The son of a spinner, he was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, and started work in a cotton mill at only 9 years of age. He started training as a blacksmith by age 13, and went on to learn mechanics and hydraulics at night school. In 1863 he joined a company of bridge manufacturers in Glasgow, but by 1872 had established his own business, the Dalmarnock Iron Works, … - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 - 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century. He did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. He is widely known for developing the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature measurement. - Thomas Bouch
Sir Thomas Bouch (25 February 1822 - 30 October 1880) was a railway engineer in Victorian Britain. He was born in Thursby, Cumbria, England and lived in Edinburgh. He helped develop the caisson and the roll-on/roll-off train ferry. He also built a number of railway bridges, at Belah and Deepdale on an important cross-Pennines route (now defunct, but which survived until the era of Dr Beeching in the 1960s. - Richard Caborn
Richard George Caborn, (born October 6, 1943) is a British politician. He has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central since June 1983. Until June 28 2007 he was the Minister of Sport with the rank of Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. He has now stepped down as Minister for Sport to be appointed as Gordon Brown's ambassador for a possible 2018 World Cup bid. - Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH, MBE, PC (born 30 August 1917), is a British Labour politician. He was the UK Defence Secretary in the late 1960s and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the late 1970s. - William Small
William Watson Small (19 October 1909 - 18 January 1978) was a Scottish Labour Party politician. Small was an engineer. He was an Ayrshire County Councillor from 1945 to 1951 and an active member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, serving on its national committee from 1955 to 1957 and as president of the union's West Ayrshire district. At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Glasgow Scotstoun. - Claire Curtis-Thomas
Dr Claire Curtis-Thomas, previously Clare Curtis-Tansley (born April 30, 1958) is a British politician and engineer. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Crosby. Born Claire Curtis-Tansley in Neath, she was educated at the Mynyddbach Comprehensive School for Girls, Swansea, and studied at University College, Cardiff where she was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, and at Aston University, … - Davies Gilbert
Davies Gilbert (born Davies Giddy) (6 March 1767 - 24 December 1839) was a British engineer, author, and politician. He was President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830. Davies was High Sheriff of Cornwall from 1792 to 1793. He served in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Helston in Cornwall from 1804 to 1806 and for Bodmin from 1806 to 1832. - Charles Urban
Charles Urban (14 April 1867, Cincinnati - 29 August 1942, Brighton) was an Anglo-American film producer and distributor, and one of the most significant figures in British cinema before the First World War. He was a pioneer of the documentary, educational, propaganda and scientific film, as well as being the producer of the world's first successful motion picture colour system. - Charles Tilston Bright
Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832 - 3 May 1888), was a British electrical engineer who oversaw the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, for which work he was knighted. Born on June 8 1832 in Wanstead, Essex. At fifteen he became a clerk under the Electric Telegraph Company and his talent for electrical engineering was obvious such that he was appointed engineer to the Magnetic Telegraph Company in 1852. - Lowthian Bell
Sir (Isaac) Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet FRS (18 February 1816 - 20 December 1904), was a Victorian ironmaster and Liberal Party politician from Washington, Co. Durham. He was the son of Thomas Bell and his wife Katherine Lowthian. In 1854 he built Washington Hall, now called Dame Margaret's Hall. At Washington he established a process for the manufacture of an oxychloride of lead, and built Britain's first plant for aluminium production by the Deville sodium process. - Mark Hendrick
Mark Phillip Hendrick (born November 2, 1958) British politician and is the Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Preston. Mark Hendrick, who is half-Somali, was born in Salford, … - John Josiah Guest
Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, (February 2, 1785 - November 26, 1852) was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur. Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company. Guest was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Monmouth Grammar School before learning the trade of ironmaking in his father's foundry at the hands of works manager John Evans. - Charles Hamilton Smith
Charles Hamilton Smith was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier and spy. His military career began in 1787 when he studied at the Austrian academy for artillery and engineers at Mechelen and Leuven in Belgium. Although his military service, which ended in 1820 and included the Napoleonic Wars, saw him travel extensively (including the West Indies, Canada and United States), much of the time saw him at a desk job in Britain. - Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
Gustav William Wolff (1834 - 17 April 1913) (born as Gustav Wilhelm Wolff) was one of the founders of Harland and Wolff and a Member of Parliament. Born and privately educated in Hamburg, he and his family later moved to Liverpool where he attended college. He was apprenticed as an engineer with Whitworth and Co., Manchester, then worked for Goodfellow and Co., Hyde. - Philip Hammond
Philip Hammond (born 4 December 1955) British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Runnymede and Weybridge and the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Philip Hammond was born in Epping, Essex, the son of a civil engineer, and educated at Shenfield School, Brentwood, Essex and the University College, Oxford where he was awarded a master's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. - Joe Meek
Joe Meek (born Robert George Meek; April 5, 1929 in Newent, Gloucestershire — February 3, 1967 in London) was a pioneering English record producer and songwriter acknowledged as one of the world's first and most imaginative independent producers. His most famous work was The Tornados' hit "Telstar" (1962), which became the first record by a British group to hit #1 in the US Hot 100. It also spent five weeks atop the UK singles chart, … - Thomas Brassey 2nd Earl Brassey
Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 - 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building a large portion of the world's railways in the 19th century. By the time of his death he had been responsible for building about one-third of the railways in Britain, three-quarters of those in France, and major lines in many countries throughout Europe, and in Canada, Australia, South America and India, … - Lawrie Quinn
Lawrence William Quinn (Born December 25, 1956) is a Labour politician in England. He was member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby for two terms until being ousted by Conservative candidate Robert Goodwill in the United Kingdom general election of 2005. Lawrie lost the seat by 1,245 votes. It has been suggested that votes for the local Liberal Democrat candidate, the Iraq war, … - John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist, best known for his novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps", and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. - C. D. Howe
Clarence Decatur "C. D." Howe, PC (15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960) was a leading Canadian politician. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was known as the "Minister of Everything." - Aylmer Hunter-Weston
Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston KCB DSO GStJ (23 September 1864 - 18 March 1940) was a British Army general who served in the First World War. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1884 he served on the Indian North West Frontier and took part in the Miranzai Expedition of 1891 and was wounded during the Warziristan Expedition of 1894-1895. During this time he was promoted to brevet major. He was on General Herbert Kitchener's staff in 1896. - John Fox Burgoyne
Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Baronet GCB (July 24, 1782 - October 7, 1871) was a senior British Army officer. Burgoyne was the illegitimate son of General John Burgoyne and opera singer Susan Caulfield. In 1798, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a Second Lieutenant. He fought against the army of Napoleon I and campaigned in the Pyrenees under the Duke of Wellington. - Charles Warren
General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS (7 February 1840-21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers, and in later life was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders. - Charles David Murray Lord Murray
Charles David Murray (20 October 1866 - 9 June 1936) was a Scottish Tory politician, lawyer and judge. Born in London, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University and was admitted as an advocate in 1889 and appointed a King's Counsel in 1907. He was a Major in the Forth Division of the Royal Engineers (Volunteers), resigning in 1907. He was on the War Office staff from 1915 to 1917, … - Robert Stevenson Horne 1st Viscount Horne of Slamanna
Robert Stevenson Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan, GBE, PC, KC (28 February 1871-3 September 1940) was a businessman and Scottish Unionist politician and advocate. Horne was born at Slamannan, Stirlingshire, the son of the village's Church of Scotland minister. He was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and the University of Glasgow. He then spent a year teaching philosophy at the University College of North Wales, … - Bob Mellish Baron Mellish
Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC (March 3, 1913 - May 9, 1998) was a British politician. He was a long-serving Labour Party MP (from 1946 to 1982) and served as the Labour Chief Whip from 1969 until 1976 but in his later years he fell out with his local Constituency Labour Party which had become dominated by left-wingers, and eventually left the party. Mellish was born in Bermondsey to a docker father, the thirteenth of fourteen children. - David Kirkwood
David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood, PC (1872 - April 16, 1955) was a socialist from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, viewed as a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era. Kirkwood was educated at Parkhead Public School and was trained as an engineer. Kirkwood's earliest political involvement was through his trade union, the Associated Society of Engineers, and the Socialist Labour Party, which he left in 1914 to join the Independent Labour Party (ILP). - Charles George Gordon
Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa. - Garnet Wolseley 1st Viscount Wolseley
Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley KP OM GCB GCMG VD PC (4 June 1833-25 March 1913) was a British army officer. He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and widely in Africa - including his brilliantly executed Ashanti campaign (1873-74). He was the eldest son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley of the King's Own Borderers (25th Foot.), he was born at Golden Bridge, Co. Dublin. - Julian Asquith 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith
Julian Edward George Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith KCMG (born April 22, 1916) is the grandson of Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908 until 1916. He was the only son of Raymond Asquith, a brilliant barrister, by his wife the former Katherine Horner. Lord Asquith has two older sisters, who have both predeceased him; the younger of these was Lady Perdita Rose Mary Asquith, … - Ian Ian Keith 12th Earl of Kintore
James Ian Keith, 12th Earl of Kintore (25 July 1908 - October 1, 1989), was a Scottish nobleman, the son of the 1st Viscount Stonehaven and the 11th Countess of Kintore. Born James Ian Baird, he changed his name from Baird to Keith by Interlocutur Lyon Court 28 June 1967. He worked as a labourer in Britain and Canada in his youth. In 1935, he married Delia Loyd and had three children: *The Lady Dianna Keith *Michael Keith, 13th Earl of Kintore *The Hon.
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