Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
John Anderson |
Politician |
8-Jul-1882 |
4-Jan-1958 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1943-45 |
Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
Stanley Baldwin |
Head of State |
3-Aug-1867 |
14-Dec-1947 |
UK Prime Minister three times |
Arthur Balfour |
Head of State |
25-Jul-1848 |
19-Mar-1930 |
UK Prime Minister, 1902-05 |
Ed Balls |
Politician |
25-Feb-1967 |
|
British MP, Normanton |
Patrick M. S. Blackett |
Physicist |
18-Nov-1897 |
13-Jul-1974 |
Cosmic radiation, continental drift |
Montgomery Blair |
Attorney |
10-May-1813 |
27-Jul-1883 |
Dred Scott's lawyer |
Tony Blair |
Head of State |
6-May-1953 |
|
UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007 |
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 |
William Bridgeman |
Politician |
31-Dec-1864 |
14-Aug-1935 |
UK Home Secretary, 1922-24 |
Peter Brooke |
Politician |
3-Mar-1934 |
|
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1989-92 |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
Astronomer |
15-Jul-1943 |
|
Co-Discoverer of pulsars |
Terence Burns |
Business |
13-Mar-1944 |
|
Chairman of Marks & Spencer |
Rab Butler |
Politician |
9-Dec-1902 |
8-Mar-1982 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1963-64 |
Peter Carington |
Government |
6-Jun-1919 |
|
UK Foreign Secretary, 1979-82 |
George Cave |
Politician |
23-Feb-1856 |
29-Mar-1928 |
Lord Chancellor of Britain, 1922-28 |
Austen Chamberlain |
Politician |
16-Oct-1863 |
16-Mar-1937 |
British pol, Nobel Prize recipient |
John Chisholm |
Business |
c. 1946 |
|
Chairman of QinetiQ |
John Cockcroft |
Physicist |
27-May-1897 |
18-Sep-1967 |
Split the atom |
Alan Cottrell |
Scientist |
17-Jul-1919 |
15-Feb-2012 |
Metallurgist at Cambridge |
William Courtenay |
Religion |
c. 1342 |
31-Jul-1396 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1381-96 |
Stafford Cripps |
Politician |
24-Apr-1889 |
21-Apr-1952 |
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1947-50 |
Henry Page Croft |
Politician |
22-Jun-1881 |
7-Dec-1947 |
British Under-Secretary of War, 1940-45 |
Anthony Crosland |
Politician |
29-Aug-1918 |
19-Feb-1977 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1976-77 |
Donald G. Cruickshank |
Government |
c. 1942 |
|
Director-General of Oftel, 1993-98 |
George Nathaniel Curzon |
Government |
11-Jan-1859 |
20-Mar-1925 |
Created the Kingdom of Jordan |
Howard J. Davies |
Business |
c. 1951 |
|
Director, London School of Economics |
E. R. Eddison |
Novelist |
24-Nov-1882 |
18-Aug-1945 |
The Worm Ouroboros |
John Gilmour |
Politician |
27-May-1876 |
30-Mar-1940 |
UK Home Secretary, 1932-35 |
Herbert Gladstone |
Politician |
18-Feb-1854 |
6-Mar-1930 |
UK Home Secretary, 1905-10 |
Frederick Griffith |
Biologist |
c. 1877 |
16-Apr-1941 |
Discovered the transforming principle |
Harriet Harman |
Politician |
30-Jul-1950 |
|
Leader, House of Commons |
Michael Heseltine |
Politician |
21-Mar-1933 |
|
UK Deputy Prime Minister, 1995-97 |
Rowland Hill |
Inventor |
3-Dec-1795 |
27-Aug-1879 |
Invented the postage stamp |
Samuel Hoare |
Politician |
24-Feb-1880 |
7-May-1959 |
UK Home Secretary, 1937-39 |
John Holmes |
Diplomat |
29-Apr-1951 |
|
UN Under Sec. Gen. for Humanitarian Affairs |
Geoffrey Howe |
Politician |
20-Dec-1926 |
9-Oct-2015 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1983-89 |
David Hunt |
Politician |
21-May-1942 |
|
Former MP, The Wirral |
Henry B. Jackson |
Military |
21-Jan-1855 |
14-Dec-1929 |
Radio telegraphy |
Michael Jay |
Diplomat |
Jun-1946 |
|
UK Ambassador to France, 1996-2001 |
Sylvia Jay |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
Food and Drink Federation |
Ruth Kelly |
Politician |
9-May-1968 |
|
UK Minister of Transport |
John Maynard Keynes |
Economist |
5-Jun-1883 |
21-Apr-1946 |
Father of Keynesian economics |
Horatio Herbert Kitchener |
Military |
24-Jun-1850 |
5-Jun-1916 |
Field Marshal, Secretary of State for War |
Frederick Lindemann |
Government |
5-Apr-1886 |
3-Jul-1957 |
Churchill's scientific and war advisor |
Graham Love |
Business |
c. 1955 |
|
CEO of QinetiQ |
Halford Mackinder |
Geographer |
15-Feb-1861 |
6-Mar-1947 |
Founder of Geopolitics |
Roy Mason |
Politician |
18-Apr-1924 |
19-Apr-2015 |
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1976-79 |
Reginald Maudling |
Politician |
7-Mar-1917 |
14-Feb-1979 |
UK Home Secretary, 1970-72 |
Deryck Maughan |
Business |
c. 1947 |
|
CEO of Citigroup International, 1998-2002 |
David Maxwell Fyfe |
Politician |
29-May-1900 |
27-Jan-1967 |
UK Home Secretary, 1951-54 |
Patrick Mayhew |
Politician |
11-Sep-1929 |
|
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1992-97 |
Reginald McKenna |
Politician |
6-Jul-1863 |
6-Sep-1943 |
UK Home Secretary, 1911-15 |
Edward Mellanby |
Doctor |
8-Apr-1884 |
30-Jan-1955 |
Rickets |
Alfred Milner |
Government |
23-Mar-1854 |
13-May-1925 |
Architect of the Balfour Declaration |
Walter Monckton |
Politician |
17-Jan-1891 |
9-Jan-1965 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1955-56 |
Simon Conway Morris |
Paleontologist |
6-Nov-1951 |
|
Evolutionary paleobiologist |
John Nott |
Politician |
1-Feb-1932 |
|
Defence Minister during Falklands War |
Charles Powell |
Business |
6-Jun-1941 |
|
Private Secretary to Thatcher, 1983-90 |
Joseph Proudman |
Mathematician |
30-Dec-1888 |
26-Jun-1975 |
Tidal currents |
Michael Rake |
Business |
c. 1948 |
|
Chairman of British Telecom |
John Redwood |
Politician |
15-Jun-1951 |
|
British MP, Wokingham |
Thomas Sackville |
Aristocrat |
1536 |
19-Apr-1608 |
Earl of Dorset |
Herbert Samuel |
Politician |
6-Nov-1870 |
2-Feb-1963 |
High Commissioner of Palestine, 1920-25 |
Duncan Sandys |
Politician |
24-Jan-1908 |
26-Nov-1987 |
UK Colonial Secretary, 1962-64 |
John Sawers |
Diplomat |
26-Jul-1955 |
|
Director-General Designate, MI6 |
Peter Shore |
Politician |
20-May-1924 |
24-Sep-2001 |
Former MP, Stepney |
Edward Shortt |
Politician |
10-Mar-1862 |
10-Nov-1935 |
UK Home Secretary, 1919-22 |
John Simon |
Politician |
28-Feb-1873 |
11-Jan-1954 |
Lord Chancellor of Britain, 1940-45 |
Jacqui Smith |
Politician |
3-Nov-1962 |
|
UK Home Secretary |
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 |
2-Mar-2012 |
Leader, House of Commons, 1979-81 |
Frederick Arthur Stanley |
Government |
15-Jan-1841 |
14-Jun-1908 |
Hockey's Stanley Cup |
John Stonehouse |
Politician |
28-Jul-1925 |
14-Apr-1988 |
British MP, faked his own death |
Ratan N. Tata |
Business |
28-Dec-1937 |
|
Chairman of Tata Group |
Ann Taylor |
Politician |
2-Jul-1947 |
|
Leader, House of Commons, 1997-98 |
Peter Thorneycroft |
Politician |
26-Jul-1909 |
4-Jun-1994 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1962-64 |
Stephen Timms |
Politician |
29-Jul-1955 |
|
Labour MP for East Ham, stabbed |
Patrick Gordon Walker |
Politician |
7-Apr-1907 |
2-Dec-1980 |
UK Foreign Secretary, 1964-66 |
Robert Walmsley |
Military |
1-Feb-1941 |
|
Retired Royal Navy Admiral |
Harold Watkinson |
Politician |
25-Jan-1910 |
19-Dec-1995 |
UK Minister of Defence, 1959-62 |
Robert Watson-Watt |
Physicist |
13-Apr-1892 |
5-Dec-1973 |
Radar |
Bernard Weatherill |
Politician |
25-Nov-1920 |
6-May-2007 |
Speaker of the House of Commons, 1983-92 |
Peter Westmacott |
Diplomat |
c. 1950 |
|
UK Ambassador to France |
William Wordsworth |
Poet |
7-Apr-1770 |
23-Apr-1850 |
English romantic poet laureate |