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Bridget Phillipson
British politician (born 1983)
Richard Collinson
British Royal Navy admiral (1811-1883)
Peter Straughan
English dramatist, screenwriter and short-story writer (born 1968)

David Olusoga
David Adetayo Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, writer, broadcaster, and BAFTA winning film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. Olusoga has presented historical documentaries on the BBC, has contributed to The Guardian and is the author of Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016).
Charles Augustus Hartley
British civil engineer (1825–1915)
George Stewardson Brady
British copepodologist (1832-1921)
James Henry Bowker
South African naturalist (1822-1900)
Ian Lucas
Welsh politician and MP (born 1960)
Robert Atkinson
Anglo-Irish academic, philologist and textual scholar
Githa Sowerby
playwright and writer (1876-1970)
Sharon Hodgson
British politician (born 1966)

Brian Routh
contemporary artist (1948-2018)
David Clelland
British politician (born 1943)
Thomas Bernard Collinson
Royal Engineers officer
Charles Hesterman Merz
British electrical engineer (1874–1940)
Robert Spence Watson
politician (1837-1911)