ORGANIZATION

Official Website:
http://www.athenaeumclub.co.uk/

Location:
London, England

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Francis W. Aston	Chemist	1-Sep-1877	20-Nov-1945	Invented the mass spectograph
Robert Browning	Poet	7-May-1812	12-Dec-1889	Prominent Victorian poet and playwright
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton	Novelist	25-May-1803	18-Jan-1873	The Last Days of Pompeii
Thomas Carlyle	Historian	4-Dec-1795	5-Feb-1881	The French Revolution
Lewis Carroll	Author	27-Jan-1832	14-Jan-1898	Alice in Wonderland
Robert Chambers	Author	10-Jul-1802	17-Mar-1871	Chambers's Book of Days
Winston Churchill	Head of State	30-Nov-1874	24-Jan-1965	WWII Prime Minister of England
Joseph Conrad	Author	3-Dec-1857	3-Aug-1924	Heart of Darkness
Charles Darwin	Naturalist	12-Feb-1809	19-Apr-1882	Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
Humphry Davy	Chemist	17-Dec-1778	29-May-1829	Leading early 19th century chemist
Charles Dickens	Novelist	7-Feb-1812	9-Jun-1870	Oliver Twist
Arthur Conan Doyle	Novelist	22-May-1859	7-Jul-1930	Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essayist	25-May-1803	27-Apr-1882	Essayist, wrote Nature
Michael Faraday	Physicist	22-Sep-1791	25-Aug-1867	Discovered electrical induction
Felipe Fernández-Armesto	Historian	6-Dec-1950		Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
Francis Galton	Anthropologist	16-Feb-1822	17-Jan-1911	Word Association Test
Thomas Hardy	Novelist	2-Jun-1840	11-Jan-1928	Far from the Madding Crowd
Seamus Heaney	Poet	13-Apr-1939	30-Aug-2013	The Spirit Level
John R. Hicks	Economist	8-Apr-1904	20-May-1989	Value and Capital
Thomas Henry Huxley	Scientist	24-May-1825	29-Jun-1895	Debated Wilberforce over evolution
Rudyard Kipling	Author	30-Dec-1865	18-Jan-1936	The Jungle Book
Charles Lyell	Geologist	14-Nov-1797	22-Feb-1875	Principles of Geology
Thomas Babington Macaulay	Historian	25-Oct-1800	28-Dec-1859	History of England
George du Maurier	Artist	6-Mar-1834	6-Oct-1896	British caricaturist, Punch
James Clerk Maxwell	Physicist	13-Jun-1831	5-Nov-1879	Maxwell's equations
Peter Medawar	Biologist	28-Feb-1915	2-Oct-1987	Acquired immunological tolerance
James Mill	Philosopher	6-Apr-1773	23-Jun-1836	History of India
John Stuart Mill	Philosopher	20-May-1806	8-May-1873	Liberal philosopher and essayist
John Nash	Architect	1752	13-May-1835	British Regency architect
John Boyd Orr	Scientist	23-Sep-1880	25-Jun-1971	Nutritionist, Nobel Prize recipient
Lord Palmerston	Head of State	20-Oct-1784	18-Oct-1865	Twice Prime Minister of UK
Robert Peel	Head of State	5-Feb-1788	2-Jul-1850	U.K. Prime Minister
Sir William Ramsay	Chemist	2-Oct-1852	23-Jul-1916	Discovered noble gases
Lord Rayleigh	Physicist	12-Nov-1842	30-Jun-1919	Why the sky is blue
Cecil Rhodes	Business	5-Jul-1853	26-Mar-1902	De Beers
Ronald Ross	Scientist	13-May-1857	16-Sep-1932	Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes
Joseph Rotblat	Physicist	4-Nov-1908	31-Aug-2005	Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist
Jimmy Savile	Radio Personality	31-Oct-1926	29-Oct-2011	Jim'll Fix It
Sir Walter Scott	Author	15-Aug-1771	21-Sep-1832	Ivanhoe
Herbert Spencer	Philosopher	27-Apr-1820	8-Dec-1903	Synthetic Philosophy
Robert Louis Stevenson	Author	13-Nov-1850	3-Dec-1894	Treasure Island
John M. Templeton, Jr.	Relative	19-Feb-1940	16-May-2015	Conservative philanthropist
Alfred Lord Tennyson	Poet	6-Aug-1809	6-Oct-1892	The Charge of the Light Brigade
William Makepeace Thackeray	Novelist	18-Jul-1811	24-Dec-1863	Vanity Fair
Anthony Trollope	Novelist	24-Apr-1815	6-Dec-1882	Barchester Towers
William Butler Yeats	Poet	13-Jun-1865	28-Jan-1939	The Land of Heart's Desire

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