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Arthur Surridge Hunt (369 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Surridge Hunt, FBA (1 March 1871 – 18 June 1934) was an English papyrologist. Hunt was born in Romford, Essex, England. Over the course of many

Jack Linnett (441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cambridge from 1973 to 1975. He was for many years a Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford, and a demonstrator in Inorganic Chemistry at the University

Edmund Gibson (638 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edmund Gibson (1669 – 6 September 1748) was a British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, jurist, and antiquary. He was born in

Thomas Langton (969 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Langton (died 27 January 1501) was chaplain to King Edward IV, before becoming successively Bishop of St David's, Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop of

David Jenkins (bishop) (1,569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David Edward Jenkins (26 January 1925 – 4 September 2016) was a Church of England cleric and theologian. He was Bishop of Durham from 1984 until 1994.

Fred Halliday (1,450 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Simon Frederick Peter Halliday FBA (22 February 1946 – 26 April 2010) was an Irish writer and academic specialising in international relations and the

Edward Turnour (speaker) (342 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir Edward Turnor or Turnour (1617 – 4 March 1676) of Little Parndon, Essex was a Speaker of the House of Commons of England. Edward Turnor was son of

Lancelot Addison (290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

born at Crosby Ravensworth in Westmorland. He was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford. Addison worked at Tangier as a chaplain for seven years and

Richard Pilkington (priest) (148 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

The Venerable Richard Pilkington D.D was an Anglican priest in England. Pilkington was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A

Obadiah Sedgwick (700 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Obadiah Sedgwick (1600?–1658) was an English clergyman of presbyterian views, and a member of the Westminster Assembly. He was the son of Joseph Sedgwick

David George Kendall (541 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David George Kendall FRS (15 January 1918 – 23 October 2007) was an English statistician and mathematician, known for his work on probability, statistical

Joseph Williamson (English politician) (1,603 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir Joseph Williamson, PRS (25 July 1633 – 3 October 1701) was an English civil servant, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England

Ali Yavar Jung (544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nawab Ali Yavar Jung Bahadur (February 1906 – 11 December 1976) was an Indian diplomat. He served as Indian Ambassador in Argentina, Egypt, Yugoslavia

Thomas Jackson (theologian) (501 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Thomas Jackson (1579 – 1640) was an English theologian, and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Originally a Calvinist, he became in later life

Kenneth O. Morgan (1,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kenneth Owen Morgan, Baron Morgan, FRHistS FBA FLSW (born 16 May 1934) is a Welsh historian and author, known especially for his writings on modern British

Kenneth O. Morgan (1,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kenneth Owen Morgan, Baron Morgan, FRHistS FBA FLSW (born 16 May 1934) is a Welsh historian and author, known especially for his writings on modern British

Robert Southwell (diplomat) (728 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir Robert Southwell FRS (31 December 1635 – 11 September 1702) was an Anglo-Irish politician and diplomat. He was Secretary of State for Ireland and President

Alan Davidson (food writer) (1,380 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Alan Eaton Davidson CMG (30 March 1924 – 2 December 2003) was a British diplomat and writer best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy

Augustus Edward Hough Love (549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS (17 April 1863, Weston-super-Mare – 5 June 1940, Oxford), often known as A. E. H. Love, was a mathematician famous for his

John Lewis (archdeacon of Hereford) (123 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Wilfred Lewis (25 September 1909 – 4 January 1984) was a British Anglican priest. He was the Archdeacon of Ludlow from 1960 to 1970 and Archdeacon

Ingram Bywater (521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ingram Bywater, FBA (27 June 1840 – 18 December 1914) was an English writer and scholar. He was well known for his philosophical works on Aristotle, in

Robert Burscough (312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Burscough (1651 –July 1709) was an English divine. The son of Thomas Burscough, he was born at Cartmel, Lancashire, in 1651. He entered Queen's

Edmund Dell (928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edmund Emanuel Dell (15 August 1921 – c. 31 October 1999) was a British politician and businessman. He was a Labour MP and minister in the 1960s and 1970s

Basil Jones (1,065 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Basil Jones (1822–1897) was a Welsh bishop and scholar who became the Bishop of St David's in 1874, holding the post until his death in 1897. Jones

George C. McGhee (825 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Crews McGhee (March 10, 1912 – July 4, 2005) was an American oilman and a career diplomat in the United States foreign service. McGhee was born

Siegbert Salomon Prawer (656 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Siegbert Salomon Prawer FBA (15 February 1925 – 5 April 2012) was Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Prawer

Siegbert Salomon Prawer (656 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Siegbert Salomon Prawer FBA (15 February 1925 – 5 April 2012) was Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Prawer

George Temple (mathematician) (470 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

George Frederick James Temple FRS (born 2 September 1901, London; died 30 January 1992, Isle of Wight) was an English mathematician and recipient of the

John Heath-Stubbs (1,293 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE (9 July 1918 – 26 December 2006) was an English poet and translator. He is known for verse influenced by classical

James Wood-Mason (976 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

James Wood-Mason (December 1846 – 6 May 1893) was an English zoologist. He was the director of the Indian Museum at Calcutta, after John Anderson. He collected

Charles Anson (143 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Christianity portal Charles Anson (born Adams; 1770 – 7 June 1827) was Archdeacon of Carlisle from 29 January 1805 until his death. He was born in Stepney

John Boste (655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Boste (c. 1544 – 24 July 1594) is a saint in the Catholic Church, and one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. John Boste was born in Dufton

Edward Rudge (534 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edward Rudge FSA (27 June 1763 – 3 September 1846) was an English botanist and antiquary. He was the son of Edward Rudge, a merchant and alderman of Salisbury

William Bradshaw Amos (395 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Bradshaw Amos FRS (born 1945) is a British biologist, Emeritus Scientist at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Joseph Fisher (priest) (239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Joseph Fisher (c. 1655–1705) was an English churchman, Archdeacon of Carlisle from 1702. Fisher was born at Whitbridge, Cumberland and matriculated at

Bernard Rose (musician) (1,229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

academic career at The Queen's College, Oxford. As Rose began his position as a tutor in music, organist of The Queen's College, Oxford, and conductor of

John Tien (1,476 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Kai Tien Jr. (born 1963) is an American government official and retired United States Army officer who served as the United States deputy secretary

James Clappison (718 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the independent St Peter's School, York, before attending The Queen's College, Oxford where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy

Fergus Millar (1,532 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar, FBA, FSA (/ˈmɪlər/; 5 July 1935 – 15 July 2019) was a British ancient historian and academic. He was Camden Professor

Arthur Griffith-Boscawen (974 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC (18 October 1865 – 1 June 1946) was a British politician in the Conservative Party whose career was cut

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1,612 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (/ˈdɛləwɛər/ DEL-ə-wair; 9 July 1576 – 7 June 1618), was an English nobleman, for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently

Iain Sutcliffe (209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Iain John Sutcliffe (born 20 December 1974) is a former English cricketer who played for the cricket teams of Oxford University, Combined Universities

Francis Llewellyn Griffith (961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francis Llewellyn Griffith FBA FSA (27 May 1862 – 14 March 1934) was an eminent British Egyptologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. F. Ll.

Robert J. Van de Graaff (942 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (December 20, 1901 – January 16, 1967) was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high-voltage Van

J. J. C. Smart (1,896 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Jamieson Carswell Smart AC FAHA (16 September 1920 – 6 October 2012) was a British-Australian philosopher who was appointed as an Emeritus Professor

Richard Ullerston (314 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Richard Ullerston DD (died August or September 1423) was a Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of Oxford University. Ullerston was born in the Duchy of Lancaster

Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet (363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Christopher Musgrave, 4th Baronet (c. 1632 – 29 July 1704) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1704

Brian Spalding (989 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dudley Brian Spalding (9 January 1923 – 27 November 2016) was Professor of Heat Transfer and Head of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Unit at Imperial

Arthur Livingstone (254 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Guinness Livingstone (1840 - 12 May 1902) was an Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Sudbury from 1901 to 1902. Livingstone was born in 1840,

J. Gwyn Griffiths (950 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Gwyn Griffiths (7 December 1911 – 15 June 2004) was a Welsh poet, Egyptologist and nationalist political activist who spent the largest span of his

Allan Green (botanist) (667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Thomas George Allan Green NZAM is a lichenologist, terrestrial ecologist and botanist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Waikato, Hamilton

Norman Lockhart Smith (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Norman Lockhart Smith CMG (Chinese Translated Name: 史美; 29 May 1887 – 27 January 1968) was a British colonial administrator who served as Acting Administrator

Samuel Rush Meyrick (906 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, KH (16 August 1783 – 2 April 1848) was an English collector and scholar of arms and armour. He lived at Goodrich Court, Goodrich

Elmer Davis (1,414 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Elmer Holmes Davis (January 13, 1890 – May 18, 1958) was an American news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information

Adam Buick (370 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adam Lewis Buick (born 6 January 1944) is a prominent London-based socialist. Buick was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales and graduated from the University

Kenneth Leighton (3,315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

scholarship to study Classics at University, Leighton was admitted to the Queen's College, Oxford in 1947, where he also won a Hastings Scholarship, obtaining

Sidney Keyes (668 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes (27 May 1922 – 29 April 1943) was an English poet of World War II. Keyes was born on 27 May 1922 at the family home, only

Henry Crumpe (197 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry Crumpe (fl.1380–1401) was Anglo-Irish Cistercian. Crumpe was an Oxford-based cleric from Ireland. He wrote sermons against John Wycliffe's views

Edward Nicholas (1,144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Edward Nicholas (4 April 1593 – 1669) was an English officeholder and politician who served as Secretary of State to Charles I and Charles II. He also

Bamber Gascoyne (the elder) (248 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire (1725–1791), was an 18th-century English politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between

Henry Hooke (136 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry Hooke (fl. 1600s) was Archdeacon of York. Henry Hooke was appointed city preacher in York in 1615 due to the influence of Lord Sheffield. He was

William Dawson (college president) (635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

William Dawson (1704–1752) was an Anglican clergyman, poet and member of the Governor's Council of Virginia who became the second president of The College

Anthony Hawles (164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anthony Hawles DD (1609 – 16 January 1664) was a Canon of Windsor from 1660 to 1664 and Archdeacon of Salisbury. He was born in Winterborne Monkton, Dorset

D. C. H. Rieu (357 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dominic Christopher Henry Rieu (26 October 1916 – 29 April 2008) was a classical scholar and the son of the classicist and publisher E. V. Rieu. After

John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (254 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (1719 – 23 September 1758), styled Lord Gowran from 1727–51, was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and politician from

William Nicolson (3,190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Nicolson (1655–1727) was an English churchman, linguist and antiquarian. As a bishop he played a significant part in the House of Lords during

Ian MacArthur (210 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ian MacArthur (17 May 1925 – 30 November 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Perth and East Perthshire

Kenneth V. Jones (669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Kenneth Victor Jones FRCM (14 May 1924 – 2 December 2020) was a British composer of film scores and concert works, and a conductor. Born in Bletchley,

Ritchie Robertson (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ritchie Neil Ninian Robertson FBA (born 1952) is a British academic who was the Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature between 2010 and 2021

Malcolm Boyle (334 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Malcolm Courtenay Boyle (1902–1976) was a British organist and composer. He was born in Windsor, England, and as a boy served as a chorister at Eton College

Jack Pole (173 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jack Richon Pole, FBA, FRHistS (14 March 1922 – 30 January 2010) was a British historian of the United States. After holding posts at University College

Sir Arthur Onslow, 1st Baronet (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Arthur Onslow, 1st Baronet (1622 – 21 July 1688) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1641 and 1685.

Michael Hanley (244 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Michael Bowen Hanley KCB (24 February 1918 – 1 January 2001) was Director General (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from

William Force Stead (240 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Force Stead (29 August 1884 – 8 March 1967) was an American diplomat and poet. He became an Anglican clergyman, and chaplain of Worcester College

Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (405 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge (14 December 1599 – 12 June 1668) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times

John Whitehead (theologian) (111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Whitehead (fl. 1389–1415) was an Irish theologian. A native of Ireland, Whitehead studied at Oxford where in 1408 he is referred to as a Doctor of

William Temple (bishop) (3,908 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

William Temple (15 October 1881 – 26 October 1944) was an English Anglican priest who served as Bishop of Manchester (1921–1929), Archbishop of York (1929–1942)

Drummond Allison (131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(John) Drummond Allison (1921 – 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of the Second World War. He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's

Phillip Norreys (220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Phillip Norreys, Irish theologian, fl. 1427-1465. A native of the diocese of Dublin, Ireland, Norreys made a successful career for himself in the church

John Stawell (826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir John Stawell or Stowell, 29 August 1600 – 21 February 1662, was MP for Somerset at various times from 1625 to 1662, and one of the leading Royalists

Doctor Syn (3,843 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike. The first book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh

Sir Ralph Delaval, 1st Baronet (219 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Ralph Delaval, 1st Baronet (13 October 1622 – 29 August 1691) of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland was an English landowner and politician who sat in

Ron Laskey (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ronald Alfred Laskey CBE FRS FMedSci FLSW (born 26 January 1945) is a British cell biologist and cancer researcher. Laskey was the Charles Darwin Professor

Chau Tsun-nin (175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Tsun-nin Chau, CBE (Chinese: 周埈年; 22 December 1893 – 27 January 1971) was a prominent Hong Kong businessman and politician. He graduated from St Stephens

Basil Moss (priest) (187 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Basil Stanley Moss (7 October 1918 – 24 March 2006) was Provost of Birmingham Cathedral from 1972 to 1986. He was born in Salford as the son of Canon H

Ron Laskey (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ronald Alfred Laskey CBE FRS FMedSci FLSW (born 26 January 1945) is a British cell biologist and cancer researcher. Laskey was the Charles Darwin Professor

William Morton Pitt (191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Morton Pitt, FRS (16 May 1754 – 28 February 1836) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of John Pitt of Encombe House, Dorset

David C. Hardesty Jr. (265 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David Carter Hardesty Jr. is an American lawyer and educator who was the 21st president of West Virginia University from 1995 to 2007. As an undergraduate

Edward Northey (barrister) (654 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir Edward Northey (7 May 1652 – 14 August 1723), of Woodcote House, Epsom, Surrey, was a senior British barrister and politician who sat in the House

E. T. Cook (242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cathedral under Sir Ivor Atkins. He won an Organ Scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford where he studied music and obtained his MMus. In 1909 he became

Thomas Myddelton (younger) (1,551 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir Thomas Myddelton (1586–1666) of Chirk Castle, Denbighshire, was an English-born Welsh landowner, politician, and military officer. He became a Member

John Pitt (of Encombe) (545 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Pitt (c.1706–1787) of Encombe House, Dorset was a British MP for 35 years. He is recorded as having given one speech to Parliament. He is noted for

John Norris (priest) (252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Pilkington Norris , D.D. (June 10, 1823 in Chester – 29 December 1891 in Bristol) was Archdeacon of Bristol from 1881 until his death. Norris was

Daniel Coke (381 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Daniel Parker Coke (17 July 1745 – 6 December 1825), was an English barrister and Member of Parliament. Coke was the only son of Thomas Coke (1700–1776)

John Vicars (175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Vicars (1582, London – 12 April 1652, Christ's Hospital, Greyfriars, London) was an English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English

Sir John Walter, 3rd Baronet (646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir John Walter, 3rd Baronet (c. 1674–1722) of Sarsden House, Oxfordshire was a British politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1694

Geoffrey Trease (1,947 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 – 27 January 1998) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934

Lionel Cooper (mathematician) (508 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Jacob Lionel Bakst Cooper (27 December 1915 – 8 August 1979) was a South African mathematician who worked in operator theory, transform theory, thermodynamics

Francis Godolphin, 2nd Baron Godolphin (315 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francis Godolphin, 2nd Baron Godolphin (2 November 1706 – 25 May 1785) was a British politician and peer. He was the eldest surviving son of Henry Godolphin

Henry Berkeley (MP for Ilchester) (285 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir Henry Berkeley (1579–1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1626 and 1640. He supported the Royalist side

William 'Eternity' Tipping (249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Tipping (1599–1649) was an early 17th-century English religious writer. William Tipping was the fourth son of Sir George Tipping (1560–1627) of

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell (1,062 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isel Hall, Cumberland (c. 1610–1688) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660

Bev Lyon (499 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Beverley Hamilton Lyon (19 January 1902 – 22 June 1970) was an English cricketer who played for Oxford University and Gloucestershire. He was a bespectacled

Job Throckmorton (789 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Job Throckmorton (Throkmorton) (1545–1601) was a Puritan English religious pamphleteer and Member of Parliament during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Asma Khan (1,996 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ambassador) by the UN World Food Programme and an Honorary Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford. In 2024 she was named by Time to their list of the year's 100

John Peel (gynaecologist) (656 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir John Harold Peel KCVO FRCOG FRCS FRCP (10 December 1904 – 31 December 2005) was a leading British obstetrician and gynecologist, who was Surgeon-Gynaecologist

Dick Franks (414 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Arthur Temple "Dick" Franks KCMG (13 July 1920 – 12 October 2008) was Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service from 1979 to 1982. Educated at

Henry Coventry (1,224 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry Coventry (1619–1686), styled "The Honourable" from 1628, was an English politician who was Secretary of State for the Northern Department between

David Davis (broadcaster) (296 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

William Eric Davis MBE, (27 June 1908 – 29 April 1996), better known by his professional name David Davis, was a British radio executive and broadcaster

Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet (460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet DL (11 January 1640 – 18 January 1716) was an English baronet and Tory politician. Burdett was the offspring of a Warwickshire

Alan Smithson (395 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Christianity portal Alan Smithson (1 December 1936 – 17 June 2010) was Bishop of Jarrow from 1990 to 2001. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and

John LaRoche (MP) (447 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John LaRoche (c. 1700–1752) of Pall Mall, and Englefield Green, Surrey, was a British merchant and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from

John Frewen-Turner (395 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Frewen-Turner (1 August 1755 – 1 February 1829), born John Frewen, was an English landowner and politician. John Frewen was born in Sapcote, Leicestershire

Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet (552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir James Dalrymple, 2nd Baronet (24 July 1692 – 24 February 1751) was Member of Parliament for Haddington Burghs and the Principal Auditor of the Exchequer

Anastasios Christodoulou (913 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Anastasios Christodoulou CBE (1 May 1932 – 20 May 2002), often known as Chris Christodoulou, was a British-based Greek Cypriot university administrator

Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (26 April 1844, in Taunton – 13 June 1924, in Hove) was an English journalist and editor. The son of Hay Escott of Launton, he

Henry Souttar (737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Henry Sessions Souttar CBE FRCS (14 December 1875 – 12 November 1964) was a British surgeon with a wide breadth of interests. He trained first as a

Thomas St Aubyn (98 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas St Aubyn (c. 1578 – 1637) was an English politician. He was the son of Thomas St Aubyn of Clowance in Cornwall and studied at Queen's College, Oxford

Henry Hungerford (180 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry Hungerford (23 July 1611 – 27 May 1673) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1645 and 1660, Hungerford was

Robert Caesar (174 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Caesar (9 October 1602 – 27 October 1637) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1625 and 1626. Caesar was the

Denis Moore (106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Denis Neville Moore (26 September 1910 – 2 October 2003) was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Gloucestershire

Renfrey Potts (1,318 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Renfrey Burnard (Ren) Potts AO (1925–2005) was an Australian mathematician and is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research

Sir Thomas Biggs, 1st Baronet (167 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Thomas Biggs, 1st Baronet (c. 1577 – 11 June 1621), was an English politician. Biggs was the son of Sir Thomas Biggs, of Lenchwick, Worcestershire

Renfrey Potts (1,318 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Renfrey Burnard (Ren) Potts AO (1925–2005) was an Australian mathematician and is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research

John Owen (footballer) (318 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Robert Blayney Owen (25 May 1848 - 13 June 1921) was the head teacher at Trent College, who earlier in his life was a promising footballer who made

Thomas Tonkin (905 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Tonkin (1678–1742) was a Cornish landowner and historian. He was born at Trevaunance, St Agnes, Cornwall, and baptised in its parish church on 26

John Padel (147 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Hunter Padel (3 May 1913 – 24 October 1999) was a British psychoanalyst and classicist. He was born in Carlisle, where his father Charles Padel was

Wilson Gale-Braddyll (341 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wilson Gale-Braddyll (baptised 24 February 1756 – 19 November 1818) was a British Member of Parliament. He was born Wilson Gale, the eldest son of John

Harold Soref (1,220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Harold Benjamin Soref (18 December 1916—14 March 1993) was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom for Ormskirk, Lancashire, first

Brian McGuinness (714 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Brian McGuinness (22 October 1927 – 23 December 2019) was a Wittgenstein scholar best known for his translation, with David Pears, of the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus

Alan Burgoyne (163 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alan Hughes Burgoyne (30 September 1880 – 26 April 1929) was a British Conservative politician. He first contested King's Lynn in

Joseph Browne (112 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(provost) (1700–1767), English clergyman and academic, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford Joseph Browne (physician) (fl. 1706), English physician, charlatan

Henry Neville Southern (390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry Neville "Mick" Southern (28 September 1908 – 25 August 1986) was an English ornithologist. Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Southern was educated at

John Tufton, 4th Earl of Thanet (167 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Tufton, 4th Earl of Thanet (7 August 1638 – 27 April 1680), styled The Honourable John Tufton until 1679, was an English politician and nobleman.

Richard Pyne (1,247 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Richard Pyne (1644 – December 1709) was an Irish landowner, barrister and judge. He held office as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland from 1695-1709. He

Michael Noble (Parliamentarian) (676 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Michael Noble (1591 – February 1649) was an English puritan who represented Lichfield during the Long Parliament and sided with Parliament during the English

Paul Carey Jones (1,282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and remains a fluent Welsh speaker. He then studied Physics at The Queen's College, Oxford University, where he was awarded a Styring Exhibition in 1993

William Briscoe (politician) (218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

William Brisco (c. 1606 – 25 February 1688) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1660. Brisco was the

Roger Stevens (diplomat) (338 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir Roger Bentham Stevens, GCMG (8 June 1906 – 20 February 1980) was a British academic, diplomat and civil servant. Stevens was born 8 June 1906. He was

John Aglionby (divine) (440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Aglionby (1566 – 6 February 1610) was an English clergyman and academic who was one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible. Aglionby

John Fenton-Cawthorne (421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Fenton-Cawthorne (5 January 1753 – 1 March 1831) was a British Tory politician, who served as MP for Lincoln between 1783 and 1796 and as MP for Lancaster

John Tufton, 4th Earl of Thanet (167 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Tufton, 4th Earl of Thanet (7 August 1638 – 27 April 1680), styled The Honourable John Tufton until 1679, was an English politician and nobleman.

Owen Dowling (385 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Christianity portal Owen Douglas Dowling (1934 – 2008) was an Anglican bishop in Australia. Dowling was educated at Melbourne High School and the University

Alexander Chocke of Shalbourne (104 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexander Chocke (1594–1625) of Shalbourne, Wiltshire and late of Hungerford Park, Berkshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

Tim Leunig (444 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Timothy Charles Leunig (born 26 February 1971) is an economist at the London School of Economics's Department of Economic History. After a long career

Martin Hawke, 2nd Baron Hawke (164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

daughter of Walter Brooke. He was educated at Eton College and the Queen's College, Oxford, followed by the study of law at Lincoln's Inn. Hawke sat as

George Hunt (MP) (405 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

George Hunt (c1720–1798), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 31 years from 1753 to 1784. Hunt was the son of Thomas Hunt of Mollington

Thomas Bromley (died 1641) (142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Sir Thomas Bromley (1585 – 1641) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1629. Bromley

Thomas Davis (priest) (565 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Thomas Davis (15 February 1804 – 11 November 1887) was a Church of England clergyman, author and hymn writer. The son of the Rev Richard Francis Davis

Thomas Edwards-Freeman (193 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Edwards-Freeman (c. 1726–1808) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780. Edwards Freeman was the eldest son of

Octavius Black (1,189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Octavius Orlando Irvine Casati Black CBE (born 2 May 1968) is a British businessman and founder of the company The Mind Gym. Black is the son of socialite

Jack Harley (544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

John Laker Harley CBE FRS FLS FIBiol (17 November 1911 – 12 December 1990) was a British botanist, known for his work on ectomycorrhizal physiology. Harley

Henry Foulis (311 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry Foulis (1638–1669) was an English academic theologian and controversial author. Foulis was the second son of Sir Henry Foulis, 2nd Baronet, of Ingleby

Sir William Clayton, 4th Baronet (396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir William Clayton, 4th Baronet (16 April 1762 – 26 January 1834) of Harleyford Manor, near Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire was an English politician. Clayton

Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet (822 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Gilfrid Lawson, 6th Baronet (1675–1749), of Brayton Hall, Cumbria, was an English lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons

David Hughes-Morgan (268 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Major Sir David Hughes-Morgan, 1st Baronet (born David Hughes Morgan; 16 August 1871 – 16 March 1941) was a Welsh solicitor and landowner. Hughes Morgan

George Drewry Squibb (823 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cromwell). He was educated at the King's School, Chester, and the Queen's College, Oxford, where he took his first degree and also a Bachelor of Civil

Alec Naylor Dakin (670 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alec Naylor Dakin (3 April 1912 – 14 June 2003) was a Fellow of University College, Oxford, a cryptologist at Bletchley Park, an Egyptologist and schoolmaster

Sir William Guise, 5th Baronet (246 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir William Guise, 5th Baronet (1737 – 6 April 1783), was a British politician who accompanied Edward Gibbon on his Grand Tour of Italy and sat in the

Walter Eytan (1,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Walter Eytan (24 July 1910 – 23 May 2001) was an Israeli diplomat. He served as Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in 1948–1959 and Israeli

Daniel Cobb Harvey (249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Daniel Cobb Harvey (January 10, 1886-August 7, 1966), FRSC was a Canadian historian and archivist. Harvey was born in Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island

John Conyers (East Grinstead politician) (402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

John Conyers (6 March 1650 – 10 March 1725) of Walthamstow, Essex was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons