| Name | Lived | Mini-biography |
| George Gascoigne | 1525-1577 |
Poet, dramatist - Jocasta, The Glasse of Government |
| John Dee | 1527-1608 |
Alchemist, geographer, mathematician |
| Edward Coke | 1552-1634 |
Lawyer, politician; Chief Justice of the King's Bench |
| Philemon Holland | 1552-1637 |
Translator of Pliny, Plutarch, Xenophon. |
| Francis Bacon | 1561-1626 |
Lawyer, philosopher, poet; Lord Chancellor |
| Henry Spelman | 1562-1641 |
Antiquary - Reliquiae Spelmannianae |
| Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | 1566-1601 |
Soldier, courtier to Elizabeth I; executed for rebellion |
| John Winthrop | 1588–1649 | First governor of Massachusetts |
| Giles Fletcher | 1588-1623 |
Poet - Christ's Victory and Triumph |
| Sir Robert Filmer |
1588?-1653 |
Political writer - author of Patriarcha |
| George Herbert | 1593-1633 |
Poet - The Temple; MP (Montgomery) |
| Thomas Randolph | 1605-1635 |
Poet, dramatist |
| John Suckling | 1609-1642 |
Poet, dramatist |
| Abraham Cowley | 1618-1667 |
Poet, dramatist - The Mistress |
| Andrew Marvell | 1621-1678 |
Poet -`Horatian Ode', The Rehearsal Transpros'd; MP (Hull) |
| George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | 1627-1687 |
Wit, dramatist - The Rehearsal; member of the `Cabal' |
| John Ray | 1627-1705 |
Naturalist; created the principles of plant classification |
| John Dryden | 1631-1700 |
Poet Laureate -Absalom and Achitophel; Translator of Virgil |
| Francis Willughby | 1635-1672 |
Naturalist |
| Isaac Newton | 1642-1727 |
Mathematician, physicist; MP (Cambridge University) |
| George Jeffreys | 1645-1689 |
Judge - `Bloody Assizes'; Lord Chancellor |
| Nathaniel Lee | 1649-1692 |
Dramatist - The Rival Queens |
| Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax | 1661-1715 |
Founded Bank of England, 1694; Chancellor of Exchequer |
| John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich | 1718-1792 |
First Lord of the Admiralty; invented the 'sandwich' |
| John Manners, Marquess of Granby | 1721-1770 |
Soldier of Seven Years' Way; commemorated in dozens of pub names |
| Richard Cumberland | 1732-1811 |
Playwright - The Brothers, The West Indian |
| Thomas, Lord Erskine | 1750-1823 |
Lord Chancellor, jurist |
| George Crabbe | 1754-1832 |
Poet; did not matriculate |
| Richard Porson | 1759-1808 |
Classical scholar |
| Spencer Perceval | 1762-1812 |
Prime Minister 1809-1812 (Tory); assassinated |
| Charles, Earl Grey | 1764-1845 |
Prime Minister 1830-1834 (Whig); Great Reform Act (1832) |
| John Lyndhurst | 1772-1863 |
Lawyer; Lord Chancellor |
| Viscount Melbourne | 1779-1848 |
Prime Minister 1834, 1835-1841 (Whig) |
| John, 3rd Earl Spencer | 1782-1845 |
Known as Lord Althorp; Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| Adam Sedgwick | 1785-1873 |
Geologist |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron | 1788-1824 |
Poet - `She Walks in Beauty', Don Juan |
| Charles Babbage | 1791-1871 |
Mathematician; Built the forerunner of modern computers |
| Kenelm Digby | 1797-1880 |
Medievalist; Strong influence on
Pre-Raphaelites |
| Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay | 1800-1859 |
Historian, essayist |
| William Henry Fox Talbot | 1800-1877 |
Inventor of photography |
| George Airy | 1801-1892 |
Astronomer, geophysicist |
| William Smith O'Brien | 1803-1864 |
Irish Nationalist |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 1803-1873 |
Novelist - The Last Days of Pompeii; politician |
| James Challis | 1803-1882 |
Astronomer; twice observed Neptune without noting it, before its discovery |
| Frederick D Maurice | 1805-1872 |
Theologian, writer, Christian Socialist |
| Augustus de Morgan | 1806-1871 |
Mathematician; symbolic logic |
| Richard Chenevix Trench | 1807-1888 |
Poet, Archbishop of Dublin; Theorist of English Language |
| James Spedding | 1808-1881 |
Scholar; editor of Bacon's Works |
| Monckton Milnes | 1809-1885 |
Politician, man of letters |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 1809-1892 |
Poet Laureate - Maud, In Memoriam |
| Edward Fitzgerald | 1809-1883 |
Poet - `The Rubá iyá t of Omar Khayyá m' |
| Thomas Wright | 1810-1877 |
Antiquary, medievalist, founding member of Camden and Shakespeare Societies |
| William M. Thackeray | 1811-1863 |
Novelist - Vanity Fair, Henry Esmond |
| Tom Taylor | 1817-1880 |
Scottish dramatist; editor of Punch |
| Thomas Wade | 1818-1895 |
Diplomat; invented Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration |
| Arthur Cayley | 1821-1895 |
Mathematician; non-Euclidean geometry, invented matrices |
| Francis Galton | 1822-1911 |
Scientist; meteorology, heredity |
| Brooke Westcott | 1825-1901 |
Canon of Westminster, Bishop of Durham |
| William Waddington | 1826-1894 |
French Prime Minister 1879; archaeologist |
| William Harcourt | 1827-1904 |
Liberal statesman; home secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| Hugh Childers | 1827-1896 |
Australian statesman, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| Joseph Lightfoot | 1828-1889 |
Bishop of Durham; theologian |
| Edward White Benson | 1829-1896 |
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1883-1896 |
| James Clerk Maxwell | 1831-1879 |
Physicist; electromagnetism |
| John, Lord Acton | 1834-1902 |
Historian |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 1836-1908 |
Prime Minister 1905-1908 (Liberal) |
| Michael Foster | 1836-1907 |
Physiologist; MP (London University) |
| Henry Sidgwick | 1838-1900 |
Philosopher, major proponent of women's colleges |
| George Otto Trevelyan | 1838-1928 |
Historian; MP; Father of G. M. Trevelyan |
| Richard Jebb | 1841-1905 |
Greek scholar |
| Edward VII | 1841-1910 |
Reigned 1901-1910 |
| Lord Rayleigh | 1842-1919 |
Physicist; isolated the inert gas argon |
| Frederick Pollock | 1845-1937 |
Jurist |
| Edmund Gosse | 1849-1928 |
Poet, critic - On Viol and Flute |
| Arthur Balfour | 1848-1930 |
Prime Minister 1902-1905 (Conservative) |
| F. W. Maitland | 1850-1906 |
Legal historian |
| Charles Stanford | 1852-1924 |
Composer, organist |
| James Frazer | 1854-1941 |
Anthropologist; writer - The Golden Bough |
| A. E. Housman | 1859-1936 |
Poet - A Shropshire Lad; Classical scholar |
| A. N. Whitehead | 1861-1947 |
Philosopher, mathematician |
| George, Lord Carnarvon | 1866-1923 |
Egyptologist; funded the discovery of Tut'ankhamun's tomb |
| Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquess of Willingdon | 1866-1941 |
Administrator; Viceroy of India |
| Stanley Baldwin | 1867-1947 |
Prime Minister 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37 (Conservative) |
| Erskine Childers | 1870-1922 |
Writer, Irish Nationalist - The Riddle of The Sands |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872-1958 |
Composer - Sea Symphony, Pilgrim's Progress |
| Prince Ranjitsinhji | 1872-1933 |
Cricketer; Indian Prince |
| G. E. Moore | 1873-1958 |
Philosopher |
| Aleister Crowley | 1875-1947
| Writer and 'Magician'; 'the wickedest man alive' |
| Walter Greg | 1875-1959 | Bibliographer and Editor of Marlowe
and Shakespeare |
| Geoffrey Winthrop Young | 1876-1958 | Doyen of British mountaineering; author of many books on the subject |
| Charles Rolls | 1877-1910 |
Co-founder of Rolls-Royce; aviator |
| Muhammad Iqbal | 1877-1938 | Islamic poet and philosopher |
| James Jeans | 1877-1946 |
Astronomer, mathematician; stellar evolution |
| Godfrey Harold Hardy | 1877-1947 |
Mathematician; A Mathematician's Apology |
| Lytton Strachey | 1880-1932 |
Biographer - Eminent Victorians; Bloomsbury Group |
| Leonard Woolf | 1880-1969 |
Writer; husband of Virginia; Bloomsbury Group |
| Clive Bell | 1881-1964 |
Art and literary critic; husband of Vanessa |
| Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | 1881-1955 |
Social anthropologist |
| A. A. Milne | 1882-1956 |
Novelist - Winnie the Pooh |
| Arthur Eddington | 1882-1944 |
Astronomer |
| John Littlewood | 1885-1977 |
Mathematician; Fourier Series, Zeta Function |
| Harry Philby | 1885-1960 |
Explorer of Arabia; father of Kim |
| G. I. Taylor | 1886-1975 |
Physicist, mathematician; Fluid dynamics, crystals |
| C. D. Broad | 1887-1971 |
Philosopher |
| Srinivasa Ramanujan | 1887-1920 |
Mathematician; analytic number theory, elliptic integrals |
| Sydney Chapman | 1888-1970 |
Mathematician, geophysicist; kinetic theory, geomagnetism |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951 |
Philosopher |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | 1889-1964 |
First Prime Minister of India, 1949-1964 |
| George VI | 1895-1952 |
Reigned 1936-1952 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899-1977 |
Russian and English novelist - Lolita |
| Christopher, Lord Hinton | 1901-1983 |
Nuclear engineer; constructed Calder Hall, the first large scale reactor |
| George 'Gubby' Allen | 1902-1989 |
Cricketer - captained England; played in Bodyline series |
| Frank Plumpton Ramsey | 1903-1930 |
Philosopher, mathematician, economist |
| Otto Frisch | 1904-1979 |
Nuclear physicist; first used the term 'nuclear fission' |
| Erskine
Childers | 1905-1974 |
President of the Irish Republic, 1973-74 |
| John Lehmann | 1907-1987 |
Poet, man of letters; inaugurated The London Magazine |
| Peter Scott | 1909-1989 |
Artist, ornithologist; Olympic sailor (1936) |
| Nicholas Monsarrat | 1910-1979 |
Novelist - The Cruel Sea |
| Enoch Powell | 1912-1998 |
Statesman; Minister of Health, 1960-3 |
| Willie Whitelaw | 1918-1999 |
Statesman; Home Secretary, 1979-83 |
| John Robinson | 1919-1983 |
Theologian; Bishop of Woolwich, Dean of Trinity |
| Raymond Williams | 1921-1988 |
Marxist critic, novelist - The Country and the City |
| Rajiv Gandhi | 1944-1991 |
Prime Minister of India, 1984-1989 |
