Updates: September 2014
Updates: September 2014
New subjects |
Acland, Sarah Angelina (1849–1930), photographer |
Adrian, Richard William (1911x14–1963), boxer |
Aglionby, William (1641–1705), diplomat and writer on art |
Allin, John (1623–1683), nonconformist minister and alchemist |
Ambler, Geoffrey Hill (1904–1978), inventor and air force officer |
Archer, David Archer Alderson (1907–1971), bookseller and publisher |
Arnold, Doris Grace (1904–1969), radio presenter and producer |
Ashworth, Mary Howard, (1863–1928), businesswoman and official typist to the houses of parliament |
Baines, Sir Frank (1877–1933), architect and architectural preservationist |
Baxter, Sir (Arthur) Beverley (1891–1964), journalist |
Berkeley, Norborne, fourth Baron de Botetourt (1717–1770), politician and colonial governor |
Blanke, John (1507–1512), royal trumpeter |
Blyton, Roland (d. in or after 1555), abbot of Rufford and of Rievaulx |
Britain, William, junior (1859–1933), toy-soldier manufacturer |
Britain, William, senior (1831–1907), toy manufacturer [see under Britain, William, junior (1859–1933)] |
Britain, (Leslie) Dennis (1903–1996), toy manufacturer [see under Britain, William, junior (1859–1933)] |
Brownlee, John (1868–1927), public health officer, geneticist, and medical statistician |
Buchinger, Matthias (1674–1739), artist |
Burn, James (1800x03–1889), autobiographer |
Casson, Elizabeth (1881–1954), medical practitioner |
Champney, Dorothy Conyers Nelson (1909–1968), racing motorist [see under Riley family (per. 1890–1969)] |
Chatterton, Frederick Balsir (1834–1886), theatre manager |
Chitqua (c. 1728–1796), clay figure portrait artist |
Chubb, Sir Cecil Herbert Edward, first baronet (1876–1934), last private owner of Stonehenge and benefactor |
Churchill, Arabella Spencer (1949–2007), festival and charity founder |
Clayton, Ralph (1507/8–1553), Franciscan friar |
Cowper, Edward (d. 1557), abbot of Rievaulx |
Davies, Richard Bell (1886–1966), pilot and naval officer |
Delaval, Sir Francis Blake (1727–1771), rake |
Dent, William (d. 1546), abbot of St Mary's, York |
Dunckerley, Thomas (1720?–1795), naval officer, royal impostor, and freemason |
Dunnico, Sir (James) Herbert (1875–1953), Baptist minister and politician |
Dunnico, Harriet Emma, Lady Dunnico (1877–1952), voluntary worker [see under Dunnico, Sir (James) Herbert (1875–1953)] |
Eckenstein, Oscar Johannes Ludwig (1859–1921), mountaineer |
Edwards, Dorothy (1902–1934), writer |
Enthoven, (Augusta) Gabrielle Eden (1868–1950), theatre archivist and playwright |
Ewart, (Katharine) Dorothea (1870–1956), historian [see under Vernon, Horace Middleton (1870–1951)] |
Farrer, Dame Frances Margaret (1895–1977), public servant |
Foster, (Frederic) Gordon (1921–2010), statistician |
Fozard, John William (1928–1996), aeronautical engineer |
Fragson, Harry (1869–1913), singer and songwriter |
Frye, Katharine (1878–1959), suffragist and diarist |
Fussell, Maria Mary (1834–1881), benefactress |
Gamage, John of (d. 1306), abbot of Gloucester |
Garnett, Eve Cynthia Ruth (1900–1991), children's writer and book illustrator |
Gill, Leslie MacDonald [Max] (1884–1947), artist and decorative cartographer |
Goldston, Thomas (1450?–1517), prior of Christ Church, Canterbury |
Greville, David Robin Francis Guy, eighth earl of Warwick and eighth Earl Brooke (1934–1996), art and property divester [see under Greville, (Charles Guy) Fulke, seventh earl of Warwick and seventh Earl Brooke (1911–1984)] |
Greville, (Charles Guy) Fulke, seventh earl of Warwick and seventh Earl Brooke (1911–1984), socialite and actor |
Greville, George, second earl of Warwick and second Earl Brooke (1746–1816), art collector |
Hannah, (Dorothy) Margaret (1922–1999), mathematician [see under Ambler, Geoffrey Hill (1904–1978)] |
Harris, Sir Alan James (1916–2000), civil and structural engineer |
Hatton, Brian (1887–1916), artist |
Hill, Georgiana (1825–1903), cookery writer |
Hill, Georgiana (1858–1924), historian and women's rights activist |
Hollyband, Claudius (1534/5–1597), linguist and writer |
Kinneir, (Richard) Jock (1917–1994), typographer and graphic designer |
Leigh, Fred W. (1869–1924), lyricist and literary editor |
Leveson, Sir Arthur Cavenagh (1868–1929), naval officer |
MacPherson, Hector Carsewell (1851–1924), journalist and political campaigner |
Medd, Mary Beaumont (1907–2005), architect and educationist |
Medd, David Leslie (1917–2009), architect [see under Medd, Mary Beaumont (1907–2005)] |
Midwinter, Kathleen Margaret [Kay] (1909–1995), first female clerk in the House of Commons and United Nations official |
Mikes, George (1912–1987), writer and humorist |
Millais, Sir Everett, second baronet (1856–1897), dog breeder and biomedical scientist |
Monkman, Kenneth Mackay (1911–1998), book collector and restorer of Shandy Hall, Coxwold |
Montalembert, Charles-René-Forbes de, comte de Montalembert in the French nobility (1810–1870), politician, orator, and writer |
Montreuil, Jean de (1613/4–1651), diplomat |
Moore, Isabella McAlpine (1894–1975), swimmer [see under Fletcher, Jane (1890–1968)] |
Moreland, Samuel John (bap. 1828, d. 1924), match manufacturer |
Napier, Sir Trevylyan Dacres Willes (1867–1920), naval officer |
Newbould, Frank Parkinson (1887–1951), graphic artist |
Norman, Frederick (1897–1968), German scholar |
Norton, Doreen (1922–2007), geriatric nurse |
Parnes, Laurence Maurice [Larry] (1929–1989), impresario |
Petty, Florence (1870–1948), cookery writer and broadcaster |
Pierce, Kate Edith (1873–1966), librarian |
Pitman, Robert Percy (1924–1969), journalist and author |
Poole, Henry George (1814–1876), tailor |
Pratt, Edwin Augustus (1854–1922), journalist and author |
Pretty, Edith May (1883–1942), landowner and benefactor |
Pritchard, John Edward Maddock (1889–1921), air force officer [see under Maitland, Edward (1880–1921)] |
Red Lady of Paviland (33,000 bc?), recipient of ceremonial burial |
Richardson, Sir George Lloyd Reily (1847–1931), army officer and commander of the Ulster Volunteer Force |
Riley family (1890–1969), bicycle and motor car manufacturers |
Riley, William (1851–1944), bicycle and motor car manufacturer [see under Riley family (per. 1890–1969)] |
Riley, (William) Victor (1876–1958), bicycle and motor car manufacturer [see under Riley family (per. 1890–1969)] |
Riley, (William Herbert) Percy (1880–1941), bicycle and motor car manufacturer [see under Riley family (per. 1890–1969)] |
Riley, Norah (1895–1984), company director [see under Riley family (per. 1890–1969)] |
Roberts, Sir James, first baronet (1848–1935), mill owner and benefactor |
Roberts, William (1912–2001), athlete |
Rood, Theodoric (1480–1484?), printer |
Rosenberg, Rose (1892–1966), political secretary |
Sagar, Stephen (d. in or before 1551), abbot of Hailes |
Saville, (Leonard) Malcolm (1901–1982), children's author |
Simon, Henry (1835–1899), industrialist and inventor |
Southgate, Walter Charles (1890–1986), political activist and co-founder of the National Museum of Labour History |
Speirs, Annie Coupe (1889–1926), swimmer [see under Fletcher, Jane (1890–1968)] |
Spithovius, Johannes (d. 1563), royal tutor and diplomat |
Spoor, Benjamin Charles (1878–1928), politician |
Stedman, Fabian (bap. 1640, d. 1713), bookseller and campanologist |
Steer, Irene (1889–1977), swimmer [see under Fletcher, Jane (1890–1968)] |
Stevenson, Dorothy Emily (1892–1974), novelist |
Stokes, Ethel (1870–1944), record agent and preserver of local archives |
Sutton, Robert (d. in or before 1457), dyer [see under Worcester Pilgrim (1450s?)] |
Thorne, John (d. 1548?), bookseller and stationer |
Towers, Thomas (1525), Premonstratensian canon |
Tree, Iris (1897–1968), poet and actress |
Tyrwhitt, (Mary) Jaqueline (1905–1983), town planner and educator |
Vandeleur, John Ormsby Evelyn (1903–1988), soldier |
Vernon, Horace Middleton (1870–1951), physiologist and industrial health specialist |
Walker, George (1781–1856), artist |
Watson, Andrew (1856–1921), footballer |
White, Lydia Rogers (bap. 1760, d. 1827), literary hostess |
Wilkinson, Norman (1878–1971), marine and poster artist and creator of dazzle camouflage |
Willey, Basil (1897–1978), literary scholar |
Winn, Godfrey Herbert (1906–1971), popular author and journalist |
Wolff, Frederick Ferdinand (1910–1988), athlete and metal trader [see under Roberts, William (1912–2001)] |
Worcester Pilgrim (1450s?), archaeological discovery |
New features |
Naval Officers of World War I |
Statesmen of World War I |
See also
- Ambler, Geoffrey Hill (1904–1978), inventor and air force officer
- Britain, William, junior (1859–1933), toy-soldier manufacturer toy manufacturer
- Dunnico, Sir (James) Herbert (1875–1953), Baptist minister and politician
- Fletcher, Jane [Jennie] (1890–1968), swimmer
- Greville, (Charles Guy) Fulke [performing name Michael Brooke], seventh earl of Warwick and seventh Earl Brooke (1911–1984), socialite and actor
- Maitland, Edward Maitland (1880–1921), air force officer and developer of airships and parachutes
- Medd [née Crowley], Mary Beaumont (1907–2005), architect and educationist
- Riley family (per. 1890–1969), bicycle and motor car manufacturers
- Roberts, William [Bill] (1912–2001), athlete
- Vernon, Horace Middleton (1870–1951), physiologist and industrial health specialist
- Worcester Pilgrim (fl. 1450s?), archaeological discovery