Original fellow of the Royal Society. Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College and Oxford Architect
1635-1703
Inventor, mechanic, architect, astronomer. Spiral spring to regulate watches, principle of the arch. Author of Micrographia
1648-1689
Lord Chief Justice of the Bloody Assize. Lord Chancellor
1659-1695
Composer
1661-1715
Earl of Halifax. Orator and financier. Originator of the Bank of England and the National Debt
1693-1768
Duke of Newcastle. First Lord of Treasury 1754-6. Prime Minister
1696-1754
First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1743-54. Prime Minister
1707-1788
Methodist preacher and writer of over 6000 hymns
1715-1763
First Lord of the Treasury. Prime Minister for five days in 1757
1721-1787
General. C in C North America. Governor of Massachusetts 1774
1723-1792
Lieutenant-General. Dramatist. Surrendered British Army at Saratoga
1726-1799
Admiral of the Fleet
1730-1782
2nd Marquis of Rockingham. Prime Minister
1732-1818
Governor-General of Bengal
1737-1794
Historian
1738-1809
3rd Duke of Portland. Prime Minister
1742-1787
Signatory of Declaration of Independence
1746-1825
American politician, delegate from South Carolina to the constitutional convention, defeated presidential candidate in 1804 and 1808
1748-1832
Philosopher
1766-1841
7th Earl of Elgin. Ambassador to Constantinople. Bringer of the Elgin Marbles to Britain
1768-1854
1st Marquis of Anglesey. Cavalry and horse artillery at Waterloo, where he lost a leg
1774-1843
Poet Laureate 1813
1788-1855
1st Baron Raglan. Lost his right arm at Waterloo. C in C in the Crimea
1792-1878
Introduced the Reform Bill 1831. Prime Minister
1802-1867
Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings. ‘Big Ben’ named after him in 1856
1804- 1858
ADC to Simón Bolívar
1812- 1887
Author of 'London Labour and the London Poor'
1815- 1875
Convert to Roman Catholicism, friend of Cardinal John Henry Newman and headmaster of the Oratory School. Newman asked to be (and was) burried in the same grave as St John
1818- 1894
Historian ('History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth' and 'The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century')
1832-1902
Author of over 80 popular books for boys
Lived
Additional information
1836- 1919
Painter and President of the Royal Academy
1874- 1953
Surgeon who was twice awarded the VC (Boer War and World War I)
1875- 1919
Winner of four successive Wimbledon singles championships
1882-1953
Author and journalist
1883- 1958
Bishop of Chichester, leading supporter of ecumenism and friend of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He commissioned 'Murder in the Cathedral' from T. S. Eliot
1885- 1963
Founder of the John Lewis Partnership
1885-1959
Physical chemist and chairman of the committee that supervised and championed the development of radar
1889-1984
Conductor
1892-1978
Actor
1899- 1977
Physiologist and Nobel Prize Winner
1900- 1969
Author of 'The Theory and Practice of Gamesmonship' or 'The Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating'
1904-2000
Actor and director
1912-1988
Diplomat, journalist and spy
1913-1992
Novelist
1913-1990
Photographer
1915-
Politician, diplomat and broadcaster
1916-2012
Secretary of State for Employment and Home Secretary
1917-2012
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1921-2004
Actor, writer and director
1922-1975
Writer and entertainer
1923-1994
Musician and entertainer
1925-
Cabinet Minister 1964-1970 and 1974-1979
1925-
Theatre director
1932-
Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983-1989
1933-
First class cricketer (Oxford University and Essex) and Labour peer
1934-2010
Journalist
1934-
Musician
1939-2010
Actor
1944-
Pop singer and record producer
1944-
Member of Parliament
1945-
Rower
1948-
Composer and producer
1948-
Master of the Rolls
1950-
Artistic director of the Almeida Theatre
1951-
Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland
Lived
Additional information
1952-
Playwright
1952–
Journalist and novelist
1953-
Publisher
1954-
Former Cabinet Minister
1954-
Novelist and Critic
1956-
Attorney General
1957-
Lead singer with The Pogues
1959-
Journalist
1960-
Novelist
1961-
Actress
1963-
TV journalist
1963-
Journalist - Editor of Prospect Magazine and columnist for The Times
1964-
Opera Singer and recitalist
1965-
Vice-chairman, Goldman Sachs
1965-
Lead singer of Bush
1966-
Actress
1967-
Deputy Prime Minister
1968-
Former Cabinet Minister
1968-
TV comedian/presenter
1969-
TV comedian/presenter
1969-
Journalist
1970-
Broadcaster
1970-
Oscar nominated documentary film director
1971-
Pop singer
1972-
Film Director (The Damned United; The King's Speech)
1973-
Founding director of lastminute.com
1977-
Sculptor and artist
1980-
Chef (Bocca di Lupo)
1982–
Electronic music producer – Sub Focus
1982-
Actress
1983-
Novelist, Journalist and Screenwriter
1983-
Singer
1984-
Composer and conductor
1988-
Actor
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