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John Fowles
English novelist (1926–2005)
Archer John Porter Martin
British chemist (1910–2002)
Saki
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
John Desmond Bernal
Irish scientist (1901-1971)
Paddy Ashdown
British politician and diplomat (1941–2018)
Harold Abrahams
British sprinter (1899–1978)
Michael Radford
British film director
Quentin Skinner
British historian (1940-)
Dan Wheldon
British racing driver (1978–2011)
Charles Piazzi Smyth
British astronomer (1817-1900)
Jack Beresford
British rower (1899–1977)
Ethan Vernon
British cyclist
H. B. Warner
English film and theatre actor (1876–1958)
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
British occultist (1854-1918)
John Wood
English actor (1930–2011)
Alastair Cook
English cricketer (born 1984)
Frank Adams
British mathematician (1930–1989)
Phelan Hill
British rower
Walter Duranty
American journalist (1884–1957)
Andrew Manze
English violinist and conductor
Grzegorz Turnau
Polish singer
Torin Thatcher
British actor (1905–1981)
Edward Vaughan Bevan
British rower (1907-1988)
Marius de Vries
English music producer and composer
Harold MacMichael
British colonial administrator (1882-1969)
Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall
British officer in the Royal Air Force and Chief of the Air Staff (1886-1963)
Martin Bayfield
English rugby union footballer
Sven Meinhardt
German field hockey player
Christopher Maltby
British Indian Army general (1891–1980)
Stefan Tewes
German field hockey player
Desmond Swayne
British politician (born 1956)
Cyril Deverell
Army officer (1874–1947)
Harold Rawdon Briggs
British Army general (1894–1952)
Al Murray
British comedian (born 1968)
Claude Grahame-White
British aviator (1879-1959)
Malcolm Harbour
British politician (born 1947)
Francis Penrose
English architect, archaeologist and astronomer (1817-1903)
Thomas Gwyn Elger
British astronomer (1836–1897)
Sidney Kirkman
British Army general (1895-1982)
Neil Coyle
British politician (born 1978)
William Stainton Moses
British medium
Henry Augustus Smyth
British Army general (1825–1906)
Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough
British constitutional theorist (1815–1886)
Robert Burnett
Royal Navy officer during the First and Second World Wars, rising to the rank of Admiral (1887-1959)
Paul Scully
British politician (born 1968)
Harold Baumgartner
Cricket player of South Africa. (1883-1938)
Alec Dankworth
English jazz bassist and composer
Walter Hillier
British diplomat (1849–1927)
Simon Chandler
British actor
Simon Murray
British businessman, adventurer and author
William Montgomery Thomson
British general
Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
Traveller and soldier (1842-1885)
Jeremy Summers
British television director (1931-2016)
Warington Wilkinson Smyth
British geologist (1817–1890)
John Pollard Seddon
English architect (1827-1906)
Richard Daintree
Australian geologist and photographer (1832–1878)
Michael Morris, Baron Naseby
British politician (born 1936)
Andy Gomarsall
English rugby union footballer
William Rowan
Canadian biologist
Walter Braithwaite
British military officer and herald (1865-1945)