| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edgar Adrian |
Scientist |
30-Nov-1889 |
4-Aug-1977 |
Electricity within nerve cells |
| Jeffrey Archer |
Novelist |
15-Apr-1940 |
|
First Among Equals |
| Paddy Ashdown |
Politician |
27-Feb-1941 |
|
Leader of Liberal Democrats, 1988-99 |
| Humphrey Atkins |
Politician |
12-Aug-1922 |
4-Oct-1996 |
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1979-81 |
| Kenneth Baker |
Politician |
3-Nov-1934 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1990-92 |
| Anthony Barber |
Politician |
4-Jul-1920 |
16-Dec-2005 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1970-74 |
| John Biffen |
Politician |
3-Nov-1930 |
14-Aug-2007 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1982-87 |
| Conrad Black |
Business |
25-Aug-1944 |
|
Rapacious newspaper mogul |
| Patrick M. S. Blackett |
Physicist |
18-Nov-1897 |
13-Jul-1974 |
Cosmic radiation, continental drift |
| James Blyth |
Business |
8-May-1940 |
|
Chairman of Diageo, 2000-08 |
| Betty Boothroyd |
Politician |
8-Oct-1929 |
|
Speaker of the House of Commons, 1992-2000 |
| Herbert Bowden |
Politician |
20-Jan-1905 |
30-Apr-1994 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1964-66 |
| Melvyn Bragg |
TV Personality |
6-Oct-1939 |
|
The South Bank Show |
| Leon Brittan |
Politician |
25-Sep-1939 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1983-85 |
| Benjamin Britten |
Composer |
22-Nov-1913 |
4-Dec-1976 |
Billy Budd |
| Henry Brooke |
Politician |
9-Apr-1903 |
29-Mar-1984 |
UK Home Secretary, 1962-64 |
| Peter Brooke |
Politician |
3-Mar-1934 |
|
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1989-92 |
| George Brown |
Politician |
2-Sep-1914 |
2-Jun-1985 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1966-68 |
| John Browne |
Business |
20-Feb-1948 |
|
CEO of British Petroleum, 1995-2007 |
| Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon |
Naturalist |
7-Sep-1707 |
16-Apr-1788 |
Histoire Naturelle |
| Alan Bullock |
Historian |
13-Dec-1914 |
2-Feb-2004 |
Historian of Hitler, Stalin |
| Terence Burns |
Business |
13-Mar-1944 |
|
Chairman of Marks & Spencer |
| Rab Butler |
Politician |
9-Dec-1902 |
8-Mar-1982 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64 |
| James Callaghan |
Politician |
27-Mar-1912 |
26-Mar-2005 |
UK Prime Minister, 1976-79 |
| Peter Carington |
Government |
6-Jun-1919 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1979-82 |
| Robert Carr |
Politician |
11-Nov-1916 |
17-Feb-2012 |
UK Home Secretary, 1972-74 |
| Camilo José Cela |
Author |
11-May-1916 |
17-Jan-2002 |
Spanish novelist and Nobel laureate |
| Lord Chadlington |
Business |
? |
|
CEO of Huntsworth |
| Hugh Cudlipp |
Business |
28-Aug-1913 |
17-May-1998 |
British news magnate |
| E. C. Dodds |
Scientist |
13-Oct-1899 |
16-Dec-1973 |
Diethylstilbestrol |
| Alec Douglas-Home |
Head of State |
2-Jul-1903 |
9-Oct-1995 |
UK Prime Minister, 1963-64 |
| James Chuter Ede |
Politician |
11-Sep-1882 |
11-Nov-1965 |
UK Home Secretary, 1945-51 |
| Julian Fellowes |
Actor |
17-Aug-1949 |
|
Shadowlands |
| Howard Florey |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1898 |
21-Feb-1968 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Norman Fowler |
Politician |
2-Feb-1938 |
|
Former MP, now Baron Fowler |
| Ian Gilmour |
Politician |
8-Jul-1926 |
21-Sep-2007 |
Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar |
| Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
| Jo Grimond |
Politician |
29-Jul-1913 |
24-Oct-1993 |
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1956-67 |
| Richard Burdon Haldane |
Government |
30-Jul-1856 |
19-Aug-1928 |
Lord Chancellor, 1912-15 and 1924 |
| Denis Healey |
Politician |
30-Aug-1917 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1974-79 |
| Michael Heseltine |
Politician |
21-Mar-1933 |
|
UK Deputy Prime Minister, 1995-97 |
| Clive R. Hollick |
Business |
19-May-1945 |
|
CEO of United Business Media, 1996-2005 |
| Geoffrey Howe |
Politician |
20-Dec-1926 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1983-89 |
| David Howell |
Politician |
18-Jan-1936 |
|
Former MP, Guildford |
| David Hunt |
Politician |
21-May-1942 |
|
Former MP, The Wirral |
| Douglas Hurd |
Politician |
8-Mar-1930 |
|
Former UK Home, Foreign Secretary |
| Lord Inge |
Military |
5-Aug-1935 |
|
British Field Marshal |
| P. D. James |
Novelist |
3-Aug-1920 |
|
Adam Dalgliesh series, etc. |
| Michael Jay |
Diplomat |
Jun-1946 |
|
UK Ambassador to France, 1996-2001 |
| Patrick Jenkin |
Politician |
7-Sep-1926 |
|
Former MP, Wanstead and Woodford |
| Roy Jenkins |
Politician |
11-Nov-1920 |
5-Jan-2003 |
Twice UK Home Secretary |
| Russell Johnston |
Politician |
28-Jul-1932 |
27-Jul-2008 |
Liberal MP from Inverness, 1964-97 |
| Keith Joseph |
Politician |
17-Jan-1918 |
10-Dec-1994 |
Conservative UK Minister, Thatcher influence |
| Nicholas Kaldor |
Economist |
12-May-1908 |
30-Sep-1986 |
An Expenditure Tax |
| Friedrich August Kekulé |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1829 |
13-Jul-1896 |
Theory of chemical structure |
| John Maynard Keynes |
Economist |
5-Jun-1883 |
21-Apr-1946 |
Father of Keynesian economics |
| Tom King |
Politician |
13-Jun-1933 |
|
UK Minister of Defence, 1989-92 |
| Neil Kinnock |
Politician |
28-Mar-1942 |
|
Labour Party Leader, 1983-92 |
| Norman Lamont |
Politician |
8-May-1942 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1990-93 |
| Ian Lang |
Politician |
27-Jun-1940 |
|
British MP for Galloway, 1979-97 |
| Nigel Lawson |
Politician |
11-Mar-1932 |
|
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1983-89 |
| Frederick Lindemann |
Government |
5-Apr-1886 |
3-Jul-1957 |
Churchill's scientific and war advisor |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Composer |
22-Mar-1948 |
|
Evita |
| Selwyn Lloyd |
Politician |
28-Jul-1904 |
18-May-1978 |
Speaker, House of Commons, 1971-76 |
| John MacGregor |
Politician |
14-Feb-1937 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 1990-92 |
| Roy Mason |
Politician |
18-Apr-1924 |
|
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1976-79 |
| Patrick Mayhew |
Politician |
11-Sep-1929 |
|
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1992-97 |
| Bernard Miles |
Actor |
27-Sep-1907 |
14-Jun-1991 |
Founder of the Mermaid Theatre, London |
| Herbert Morrison |
Politician |
3-Jan-1888 |
6-Mar-1965 |
UK Home Secretary, 1940-45 |
| Frederick Mulley |
Politician |
3-Jul-1918 |
15-Mar-1995 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1976-79 |
| Tony Newton |
Politician |
29-Aug-1937 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 1992-97 |
| Onora O'Neill |
Philosopher |
23-Aug-1941 |
|
President of the British Academy, 2005-09 |
| David Owen |
Politician |
2-Jul-1938 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1977-79 |
| Cecil Parkinson |
Politician |
1-Sep-1931 |
|
Thatcherite MP and Minister |
| Fred Peart |
Politician |
30-Apr-1914 |
26-Aug-1988 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1968-70 |
| George Porter |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1920 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Rapid chemical and biological processes |
| Charles Powell |
Business |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
Private Secretary to Thatcher, 1983-90 |
| James Prior |
Politician |
11-Oct-1927 |
|
Minister for Northern Ireland, 1981-84 |
| Francis Pym |
Politician |
13-Feb-1922 |
6-Mar-2008 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1982-83 |
| Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
| Merlyn Rees |
Politician |
18-Dec-1920 |
5-Jan-2006 |
UK Home Secretary, 1976-79 |
| Robin W. Renwick |
Diplomat |
13-Dec-1937 |
|
UK Ambassador to the US, 1991-95 |
| Paul Julius Reuter |
Journalist |
21-Jul-1816 |
25-Feb-1899 |
Founder of Reuters News Agency |
| Nicholas Ridley |
Politician |
17-Feb-1929 |
4-Mar-1993 |
Thatcherite MP and Minister |
| Geoffrey Rippon |
Politician |
28-May-1924 |
28-Jan-1997 |
Former MP, Hexham |
| Lord Robertson |
Politician |
12-Apr-1946 |
|
NATO Secretary General, 1999-2003 |
| Robert Runcie |
Religion |
2-Oct-1921 |
11-Jul-2000 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980-91 |
| Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
| Duncan Sandys |
Politician |
24-Jan-1908 |
26-Nov-1987 |
UK Colonial Secretary, 1962-64 |
| Peter Shore |
Politician |
20-May-1924 |
24-Sep-2001 |
Former MP, Stepney |
| Edward Short |
Politician |
17-Dec-1912 |
4-May-2012 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1974-76 |
| Sir Hans Sloane |
Curator |
16-Apr-1660 |
11-Jan-1753 |
Milk chocolate and the British Museum |
| C. P. Snow |
Author |
15-Oct-1905 |
1-Jul-1980 |
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution |
| Donald Somervell |
Politician |
24-Aug-1889 |
18-Nov-1960 |
AG for England and Wales, 1936-45 |
| Frank Soskice |
Politician |
23-Jul-1902 |
1-Jan-1979 |
UK Home Secretary, 1964-65 |
| Norman St. John-Stevas |
Politician |
18-May-1929 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81 |
| Jock Stallard |
Politician |
5-Nov-1921 |
29-Mar-2008 |
British MP, St. Pancras North, 1970-83 |
| Frederick Arthur Stanley |
Government |
15-Jan-1841 |
14-Jun-1908 |
Hockey's Stanley Cup |
| David Steel |
Politician |
31-Mar-1938 |
|
Leader of the UK Liberal Party, 1976-88 |
| Dennis Stevenson |
Business |
19-Jul-1945 |
|
Chairman of HBOS |
| Michael Stewart |
Politician |
6-Nov-1906 |
13-Mar-1990 |
Former UK Foreign Secretary |
| Ann Taylor |
Politician |
2-Jul-1947 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 1997-98 |
| Norman Tebbit |
Politician |
29-Mar-1931 |
|
Thatcherite MP and Minister |
| Peter Thorneycroft |
Politician |
26-Jul-1909 |
4-Jun-1994 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1962-64 |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclaic acid, nucleotides |
| Eric Varley |
Politician |
11-Aug-1932 |
|
Former MP, Chesterfield |
| David Waddington |
Politician |
2-Aug-1929 |
|
UK Home Secretary, 1989-90 |
| John Wakeham |
Politician |
22-Jun-1932 |
|
Baron Wakeham of Maldon |
| Patrick Gordon Walker |
Politician |
7-Apr-1907 |
2-Dec-1980 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1964-66 |
| Peter Walker |
Politician |
25-Mar-1932 |
|
Vice Chairman, Dresdner Kleinwort, Former MP |
| Bernard Weatherill |
Politician |
25-Nov-1920 |
6-May-2007 |
Speaker of the House of Commons, 1983-92 |
| George Younger |
Politician |
22-Sep-1931 |
26-Jan-2003 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1986-89 |
