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Rugby School
Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, is regarded as one of the UK's leading co-educational boarding schools and is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain.
Rugby School was founded in 1567 as a provision in the will of Lawrence Sheriff, who had made his fortune...
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Henry Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick (May 31, 1838–August 28, 1900) was an English Utilitarian philosopher. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research, a member of the Metaphysical Society, and promoted the higher education of...
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William Stephen Raikes Hodson
Brevet Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson (10 March 1821 – 11 March 1858) was the British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was known as "Hodson of Hodson's Horse."
Hodson is credited with being jointly...
Reid Railton
Reid A Railton (1895 – 1977) was an automotive engineer, and designer of land and water speed record vehicles.
Reid Antony Railton was the son of a Manchester stockbroker and was educated at Rugby School and Manchester University. He joined Leyland...
Augustus Orlebar
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Charles Tertius Mander
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He was the eldest son of Charles Benjamin Mander...
Arthur Markham
Sir Arthur Basil Markham, 1st Baronet (25 August 1866 – 5 August 1916) was a British industrialist and politician.
Markham was born on 25 August 1866 at Brimington Hall in Brimington, near Chesterfield. He was the son of Charles Markham who was part...
Thomas Valpy French
Thomas Valpy French (January 1, 1825 - May 14, 1891), was an English Christian Missionary in India and Persia, who became the first Bishop of Lahore, in 1877, and also founded the St. John's College, Agra, in 1853 .
After Henry Martyn, he is...
Carey Frederick Knyvett
Carey Frederick Knyvett (1885 – 1967) was the 2nd Bishop of Selby. Educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford he was ordained in 1914. His first post was as Curate at Petworth. Subsequently Chaplain to the Bishop of Sheffield (until war broke out...
William Binnie
William James Eames Binnie (10 October 1867 – 4 October 1949) was a British civil engineer. William was the son of Alexander Binnie the famed civil engineer and William would enter the same career. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge...
Howard Somervell
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Osmond Barnes
Colonel Osmond Barnes CB (23 December 1834 – 20 May 1930) was a British soldier of the Indian Army and Chief Herald of India.
The son of John Barnes, of Portland Place, London, and Chorleywood House, Hertfordshire, Barnes was born in Bryanston...
Ted Dillon
Edward Wentworth Dillon (born February 15, 1881; died April 20, 1941) was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket predominantly for Kent County Cricket Club between 1900 and 1913, captaining the side from 1909 until his retirement....
Robert Selby Armitage
Lieutenant-Commander Robert Selby Armitage GC, GM, RNVR (28 March 1905 – 26 May 1982) won both the George Cross and George Medal for his bomb disposal work during the Second World War, one of only eight people to have been awarded both.
The son of...
Brian Boydell
Brian Boydell (March 17, 1917 – November 8, 2000) was an Irish composer whose works include orchestral pieces, chamber music, and songs. He was professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin for 20 years, founder of the Dowland Consort, conductor of...
John Day Collis
John Day Collis (1816–1879) was a British headmaster and educational writer.
Collis, son of the Rev. Robert Fitzgerald Collis, prebendary of Kilconnell, County Galway, by Maria, daughter of Edward Bourke of Nun's Island, Galway, was born 24 Feb....
Sir Arthur Haworth, 1st Baronet
Sir Arthur Adlington Haworth, 1st Baronet (22 August 1865-31 August 1944), was a British businessman and Liberal politician.
He was born in Eccles, Lancashire, and was the eldest son of Abraham Haworth of Altrincham. He was educated at Rugby School...
William Lucas Collins
Rev William Lucas Collins (baptised 23 May 1815 – 24 March 1887) was a Church of England clergyman and author.
Collins was born in Oxwich, Glamorgan, Wales, and educated at Rugby School (1829–33) and Jesus College, Oxford (matriculating in 1833,...
Edwin Hone Kempson
Edwin Hone Kempson (1862 - 1931) was the second Suffragan Bishop of Warrington . Born on 16 April 1862 and educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford ,, he was ordained in 1886 and began a career in education. He was successively an assistant...
William Grierson
William Wylie Grierson (9 December 1863 – 14 March 1935) was a British civil engineer.
William was born to James Grierson (Manager of the Great Western Railway) and Margaret Emily Grierson and was educated at Rugby School. William married Aleen...
Hugh Leycester Hornby
Hugh Leycester Hornby (20 November 1888, St. Michael's-on-Wyre, near Preston, Lancashire - 24 March 1965, Dunster) was an Anglican clergyman.
He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was curate of St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire...
Giles Clarke
Charles Giles Clarke (born 29 May 1953 in Bristol), is an English businessman and cricket enthusiast, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Clarke was born in Bristol and educated at Rugby School. Clarke graduated from Oriel College,...
William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick
William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick, PC, FSA (21 October 1773 – 4 August 1842) was a British peer, politician and diplomatist.
Born William Hill, he was the second son of Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick and his wife, Anna, a maternal granddaughter of...
Richard Booth
Richard George William Pitt Booth, MBE (born September 12, 1938 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales), is a Welsh bookseller, known for his contribution to the success of Hay-on-Wye as a centre for second-hand bookselling. He is also the self-proclaimed "King of...
Percy Sykes
Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes KCIE, CB, CMG (28 February 1867-11 June 1945) was a soldier, diplomat and scholar, with a considerable literary output. He wrote historical, geographical, and biographical works, as well as describing his...
Tim Butcher
Tim Butcher is an English journalist, broadcaster and best-selling author.
Born on November 15 1967 in Rugby, Warwickshire, UK, he was educated at Rugby School, and Magdalen College, Oxford University.
He is the author of Blood River: A Journey to...
Richard Sykes
Richard Sykes (11 May 1839-31 May 1923) was a pioneering rugby player who helped found two major clubs and became a landowner in North Dakota, founding five towns there.
He was the fourth son of Richard Sykes, owner of the Sykes Bleaching Company,...
Harold Rushworth
Harold Montague Rushworth (18 August 1880 – 25 April 1950) was a New Zealand politician of the Country Party.
Rushworth was born in Croydon, England and was educated at Rugby School and Jesus College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in law. He...
Archibald Ronald McDonald Gordon
Archibald Ronald McDonald Gordon (born 1927) was, amongst other Episcopal appointments, the Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth from 1975 to 1984.
Gordon was the son of the distinguished diplomatSir Archibald Gordon, CMG and Dorothy, the daughter of...
William Launcelot Scott Fleming
William Launcelot Scott Fleming (1906-1990) was the Anglican Bishop of firstly, Portsmouth and then Norwich, as well as a geologist.
He was born on 7 August 1906 in Edinburgh, the youngest of four sons (the second of whom died at the age of five...
William Proby, Lord Proby
William Allen Proby, Lord Proby (19 June 1779 – 6 August 1804) was a British Royal Navy officer and Whig politician.
William Proby was the eldest son of Sir John Joshua Proby, 2nd Baron Carysfort (and later 1st Earl of Carysfort), and his first wife...
Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort
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Carysfort was the third and youngest son of John Proby, 1st...
John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort
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Proby was the second but eldest surviving son of John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort, and his wife...
Richard Doyle
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Doyle was born in Guernsey and, on his third birthday, was presented at the court of Emperor Haile Selassie. He has lived in Tripoli, Ethiopia, Kuwait, Kenya, Morocco, Libya, Beirut,...
Frank Roberts
Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts, GCMG, GCVO (27 October 1907 – 7 January 1998) was a British diplomat. He played a key role in British diplomacy in the early years of the Cold War, and in developing Anglo-German relations in the 1960s.
Born in Buenos Aires...
Reginald Beddington
Reginald Beddington CBE (c.1878–11 March 1962) was an English angler and humanitarian.
Beddington was educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar, specialising in conveyancing, but on his father's death no...
John Salusbury
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Edward Ash Were
Edward Ash Were (14 November 1846–8 April 1915 ) was an Anglican Suffragan Bishop in the latter part of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. He was educated at Rugby School and New College, Oxford . After graduation he was an...
Peter Brinsden
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Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ernest Newcomen King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston (31 July 1848 – 13 January 1896) was an Irish peer and Conservative politician.
The younger son of the 6th Earl of Kingston and Anne Gore-Booth, he succeeded to his older...
Maurice Collis
Maurice Stewart Collis (10 January 1889 Dublin - 12 January 1973) was an administrator in Burma (Myanmar) when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects.
He was the son of an...
Ivor Maxse
General Sir (Frederick) Ivor Maxse, KCB, CVO, DSO, (22 December 1862-1958) was a World War I divisional and corps commander, and noted wartime trainer.
Educated at Rugby School and Sandhurst, Maxse was commissioned into the 7th Royal Fusiliers in...
Charles Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle
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Howard was the eldest son of George Howard, 9th Earl of...
Oliver Millar
Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar, GCVO, FSA, FBA, (26 April 1923 – 10 May 2007) was a British art historian. He was an expert on 17th century British painting, and a leading authority on Anthony van Dyck in particular. He served in the Royal Household for...
Godwin Birchenough
Very Reverend Godwin Birchenough (Born 27 October 1880 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) was the only son of Walter Edwin Birchenough a silk manufacturer. Godwin Birchenough, who was also a nephew of Sir Henry Birchenough, the President of the...
Natalie Pinkham
Natalie Pinkham (born 20 September 1979) is British sports television presenter, who is currently hosting Police Interceptors Special Edition and NFL UK on Five.
Pinkham was born to barrister mother Joy, and estate agent and property developer John,...
Ernest Darwin Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe
Ernest Emil Darwin Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe (9 October 1879 – 3 October 1960) was an industrialist and politician in the United Kingdom.
Born in Didsbury, Manchester, Simon was educated at Rugby School and at Pembroke College, Cambridge...
Reginald Hanson
Sir Reginald Hanson Bt, Kt, JP, DL, FSA (31 May 1840 – 18 April 1905) was Lord Mayor of London and a British Conservative Party politician.
The son of Samuel and Mary Hanson (nee Choppin), Reginald was educated at Tonbridge, Rugby School and Trinity...
Christopher Orlebar
Christopher John Dugmore Orlebar (born 4 February 1945) was a British Concorde pilot with British Airways, and is now well-known as a lecturer and writer and as a frequent contributor to TV aviation documentaries, on aviation subjects generally, and...
George Strauss
George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss PC (18 July 1901 – 5 June 1993) was a long-serving British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979.
Strauss was the son...
Thomas Hetherington
Major Sir Thomas Chalmers Hetherington, KCB, CBE, QC (18 September 1926 - 28 March 2007), better known as Sir Tony Hetherington, was a British barrister. He was Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales from 1977 to 1987, and was the...
Donald Michie
Donald Michie (November 11, 1923 – July 7, 2007) was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve "Tunny," a German teleprinter cipher.
Michie was born in...
Alan Campbell Don
The Reverend Alan Campbell Don (1885-1966) KCVO, a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, was author of the Scottish Book of Common Prayer, Chaplain and Secretary to Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury between 1931 and 1941, Chaplain to the...
Charles Brett
Sir Charles Edward Bainbridge Brett CBE (30 October 1928 - 19 December 2005). Born in Holywood, County Down and often simply known as Charlie Brett, Sir Charles was a Northern Irish solicitor, journalist, author and founding member, and first...
Lewis Pelly
Sir Lewis Pelly, KCSI, (born 14 November 1825, Minchinhampton; died 22 April 1892, Falmouth), was Conservative Member of Parliament for Hackney North from 1885 to 1892 and an East India Company officer.
He was the son of John Hinde Pelly of Hyde...
William Denis Browne
William Charles Denis Browne (3 November 1888 - 4 June 1915), primarily known as Billy to family and as Denis to his friends, was a British composer, pianist, organist and music critic of the early 20th century. He and his close friend, poet Rupert...
David Urquhart
David Andrew Urquhart (born 1952) is the ninth Bishop of Birmingham.
Urquhart was educated at Rugby School and Ealing College Business School (BA 1970). After a career in commercial management with British Petroleum, Urquhart trained for the...
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, GCSI, CIE, PC (8 March 1826 – 15 March 1902) was an administrator in British India and a British politician.
After being educated at Rugby and the East India Company College at Haileybury, Temple joined the Bengal...
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (27 April 1678 – 5 December 1746) was a British baronet and Whig politician.
He was the oldest son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary Cave, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, 1st Baronet. His sister...
John Hawkesworth
John Hawkesworth (7 December 1920 – 30 September 2003) was an English television and film producer and writer best known for his work on the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
Hawkesworth was born in London in 1920. He was educated at Rugby, the...
