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Downing College, Cambridge

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Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 650 students. [1]

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A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College, Cambridge

A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College, Cambridge is Tim Rawle's introduction to the architectural history of Downing College, Cambridge with photographs of the college buildings by Rawle and Louis Sinclair.

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Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist.

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Aitzaz Ahsan

Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan (چودھری اعتزاز احسن; born 27 September 1945) is a Pakistani politician and lawyer serving as the Pakistan Senator from Punjab, a seat he was first elected to in 1994.

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Amol Rajan

Amol Rajan (born 4 July 1983) is the BBC's Media Editor, having taken up the role in December 2016.

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Andy Hamilton

Andrew Neil Hamilton (born 28 May 1954) is a British comedian, game show panellist, television director, comedy screenwriter, radio dramatist, and novelist.

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Annabel Vernon

Annabel "Annie" Morwenna Vernon (born 1 September 1982 in Truro, Cornwall) is a retired British rower.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Archbishop of York

The Archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman

Arnold Abraham Goodman, Baron Goodman, CH, (21 August 1913 – 12 May 1995) was a British lawyer and political advisor.

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Bernard Eder

Sir Henry Bernard Eder (born 16 October 1952 in Malta), styled The Hon.

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Bernard Mayes

Anthony Bernard Duncan Mayes (10 October 1929 – 23 October 2014) was a British broadcaster, university dean and author who founded America's first suicide prevention hotline.

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Bishop of Whitby

The Bishop of Whitby is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of York, in the Province of York, England.

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Boots UK

Boots UK (formerly Boots the Chemists Ltd), trading as Boots, is a pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Thailand and other territories.

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Brian Redhead

Brian Leonard Redhead (28 December 1929 – 23 January 1994) was a British author, journalist and broadcaster.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts or BAFTA Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British National Party

The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right and fascist political party in the United Kingdom.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Caruso St John

Caruso St John is an architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Chief Justice of Singapore

The Chief Justice of Singapore is the highest post in the judicial system of Singapore.

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Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Clifton College

Clifton College is a co-educational independent school in the suburb of Clifton in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862.

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Clive King

David Clive King (born 24 April 1924) is an English author best known for his children's book Stig of the Dump (1963).

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Colleges of the University of Cambridge

This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge.

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Court of Chancery

The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law.

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Criminal law

Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.

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D. J. Enright

Dennis Joseph "D.

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David Holbrook

David Kenneth Holbrook (9 January 1923 – 11 August 2011) was a British writer, poet and academic.

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David Lister (origami historian)

David Lister (18 April 1930 – 13 February 2013) was the world's leading origami historian.

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David Lloyd Jones, Lord Lloyd-Jones

David Lloyd Jones, Lord Lloyd-Jones, (born 31 January 1952) is a British judge and legal scholar.

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David Watkin (historian)

David John Watkin, FRIBA FSA (born 1941) is a British architectural historian.

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Derek Robinson (novelist)

Derek Robinson (born 12 April 1932) is a British author best known for his military aviation novels full of black humour.

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Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman

The Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, and encompasses the area around Kimberley and Kuruman and overlaps the Northern Cape Province and North West Province of South Africa.

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Dorothy Trump

Dorothy Trump (24 January 1964 – 26 March 2013) was an English physician who specialised in clinical genetics.

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Downing College Boat Club

Downing College Boat Club (or DCBC) is the rowing club for members of Downing College, Cambridge.

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Downing Site

The Downing Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city of Cambridge, England, on Downing Street and Tennis Court Road, adjacent to Downing College.

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Downing Street, Cambridge

Downing Street is a street in central Cambridge, England.

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E. O. E. Pereira

Vidya Jyothi E.O. Eustace Pereira (September 13, 1907 – 1988) was a Sri Lankan Engineer and Academic.

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Ed Mayo

Ed Mayo (born 14 April 1964), is Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, the UK trade association for co-operatives.

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Francis Annesley (1734–1812)

Francis Annesley (2 May 1734 – 17 April 1812) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons for 32 years from 1774 to 1806, and was the first Master of Downing College, Cambridge.

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Frank Buttle

Frank Buttle (19 October 1878 – 11 February 1953), a priest of the Church of England, was the founder of Buttle UK.

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Geoffrey Cox (British politician)

Charles Geoffrey Cox (born 30 April 1960) is an English barrister who, as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), has been representing the constituency of Torridge and West Devon since 2005.

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Geoffrey Grimmett

Geoffrey Richard Grimmett FRS (born 20 December 1950) is a mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising in probability theory and statistical mechanics, especially percolation theory and the contact process.

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George Mosse

George Lachmann Mosse (September 20, 1918 – January 22, 1999) was an emigre from Nazi Germany first to Great Britain and then to the United States who taught history as a professor at the University of Iowa, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Hebrew University.

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Giles Brindley

Giles Skey Brindley, MD FRS (born April 30, 1926), is a British physiologist, musicologist and composer, known for his contributions to the physiology of the retina and colour vision, treatment of erectile dysfunction, and is perhaps best known for an unusual scientific presentation at the 1983 Las Vegas meeting of the American Urological Association, where he removed his pants to show the audience his chemically induced erection and invited them to inspect it closely.

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Godfrey Lienhardt

Ronald Godfrey Lienhardt (17 January 1921 – 9 November 1993) was a British anthropologist.

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Gordon Pask

Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask (28 June 1928 – 29 March 1996) was an English author, inventor, educational theorist, cybernetician and psychologist who made significant contributions to cybernetics, instructional psychology, experimental epistemology and educational technology.

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Gordon Reece

Sir James Gordon Reece (28 September 1929 – 22 September 2001) was a British journalist and television producer who worked as a political strategist for Margaret Thatcher during the 1979 general election, which led to her victory over then prime minister James Callaghan.

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Graham Savage

Sir (Edward) Graham Savage CB (born 31 August 1886, Erpingham - 18 May 1981, Highgate, Islington) was an English civil servant who largely invented the concept of comprehensive schools and originated the phrase.

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Graham Virgo

Graham Virgo is a legal academic and barrister who is currently serving as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Cambridge.

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H. W. Harvey

Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey CBE FRS (born 31 December 1887, Streatham, London, died Plymouth, Devon, 26 November 1970) was an English marine biologist.

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Hamish Henderson

Hamish Scott Henderson, (11 November 1919 – 9 March 2002; Scottish Gaelic: Seamas MacEanraig (Seamas Mòr)) was a Scottish poet, songwriter, communist, soldier and intellectual.

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Hari Singh Gour

Sir Hari Singh Gour (26 November 1870 – 25 December 1949) was a distinguished lawyer, jurist, educationist, social reformer, poet, and novelist.

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Howard Jacobson

Howard Eric Jacobson (born 25 August 1942) is a British novelist and journalist.

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Iain Overton

Iain Overton (born 3 August 1973) is the author of Gun Baby Gun: a bloody journey into the world of the gun.

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International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice (abbreviated ICJ; commonly referred to as the World Court) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN).

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J. C. D. Clark

Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark (born 28 February 1951) is a British historian of both British and American history.

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James Wyatt

James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical style and neo-Gothic style.

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Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness

James Robert Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness,, FRSE (born 25 August 1954) is a British politician and former leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.

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John Adamson (publisher)

John Adamson (born 1949) is a British publisher, translator and writer.

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John Blofeld

John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld (Born Anthony, 2 April 1913 – 7 June 1987) was a British writer on Asian thought and religion, especially Taoism and Chinese Buddhism.

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John Cardy

John Lawrence Cardy FRS (born 19 March 1947, England) is a British theoretical physicist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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John Hopkins (lawyer)

John Hopkins (born 16 December 1936) is a legal academic known for developing Downing College, Cambridge's reputation for law.

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John Leslie Green

John Leslie Green VC (4 December 1888 – 1 July 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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John Pendry

Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS FInstP (born 4 July 1943) is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indices and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak".

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John Penrose

John David Penrose (born 22 June 1964) is the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Weston-super-Mare who was first elected in 2005.

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Justin Pollard

Justin David Pollard (born 30 January 1968) is a British historian, television producer, writer and entrepreneur.

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Karl Miller

Karl Fergus Connor Miller FRSL (2 August 1931 – 24 September 2014) was a British literary editor, critic and writer.

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Kathryn Parsons

Kathryn Parsons (born 1982) is a British tech entrepreneur.

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Kim Lewison

Sir Kim Martin Jordan Lewison (born 1 May 1952) is a Lord Justice of Appeal.

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Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury

Lawrence Antony Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, (born 7 May 1941), is a British judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Leigh Turner

Robert Leigh Turner CMG (born 1958) is a British diplomat who has been British Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Vienna since August 2016.

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Lensfield Road

Lensfield Road is a road (part of the A603) in southeast central Cambridge, England.

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Lent Bumps

The Lent Bumps (also Lent Races, Lents) are a set of rowing races held annually on the River Cam in Cambridge.

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Lincoln College, Oxford

Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford.

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List of Masters of Downing College

This is a list of Masters of Downing College, Cambridge.

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Louise Dean (author)

is a British novelist, author of four published works, and Dean was the winner of the Betty Trask Prize in 2004, long listed for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book prize and IMAP, winner of Le Prince Maurice prize in 2006.

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Malcolm MacDonald (music critic)

Malcolm MacDonald (also known by the alias "Calum MacDonald") (26 February 1948 – 27 May 2014) was a British author, mainly about music.

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Mark Cox (tennis)

Mark Cox (born 5 July 1943) is a former tennis player from England, who played professional and amateur tennis in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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Mark Moore (educator)

Mark Jonathan Moore (born 25 April 1961) was a teacher and recent headmaster (and Head of College) of Clifton College in Bristol - he succeeded Stephen Spurr in 2005.

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Martin Baker (organist)

Martin Baker (born 26 July 1967, Manchester) is President of the Royal College of Organists, a position held since 2017, and is Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, a position he has held since 2000.

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Martin Kemp (art historian)

Martin Kemp (born 5 March 1942) is emeritus professor of the history of art at University of Oxford.

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May Bumps

The May Bumps (also May Races, Mays) are a set of rowing races, held annually on the River Cam in Cambridge.

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Michael Apted

Michael David Apted, (born 10 February 1941) is an English director, producer, writer and actor.

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Michael Atherton

Michael Andrew Atherton OBE (born 23 March 1968) is a broadcaster, journalist and a former England international first-class cricketer.

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Michael Baxandall

Michael David Kighley Baxandall, FBA (18 August 1933 – 12 August 2008) was a British art historian and a professor emeritus of Art History at University of California, Berkeley.

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Michael Neubert

Sir Michael Jon Neubert (3 September 1933 – 3 January 2014) was Conservative MP for Romford from 1974 until 1997.

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Michael Winner

Robert Michael Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English film director and producer, and a restaurant critic for The Sunday Times.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as The Pythons) were a British surreal comedy group who created their sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, which first aired on the BBC in 1969.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Nick Griffin

Nicholas John Griffin (born 1 March 1959) is a British politician who represented North West England as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, and especially that of architecture.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.

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Peter Ackroyd (biblical scholar)

Peter Runham Ackroyd (15 September 1917 – 23 January 2005) was a British Biblical scholar, Anglican priest, and former Congregational minister.

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Philip Hobsbaum

Philip Dennis Hobsbaum (29 June 1932 – 28 June 2005) was a British teacher, poet and critic.

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Philip Wheeldon

Philip William Wheeldon (1913–1992) was the fourth Bishop of Whitby and twice Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman.

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Quentin Blake

Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, FRSL, RDI (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer.

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Quinlan Terry

John Quinlan Terry CBE (born 24 July 1937 in Hampstead, London, England) is a British architect.

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Ray Lankester

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist.

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Regent Street, Cambridge

Regent Street is an arterial street in southeast central Cambridge, England.

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Remi Fani-Kayode

Chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode, Q.C., SAN, CON (1921–1995) was a leading Nigerian politician, aristocrat, nationalist, statesman and lawyer.

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Richard Baker (British businessman)

Richard Baker (born 6 August 1962) is the former chief operating officer of Asda Stores Ltd. and CEO of Boots Group.

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Richard Barbrook

Richard Barbrook is an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.

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Richard Gregory

Richard Langton Gregory CBE FRS FRSE (24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010) was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.

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Richard McCombe

Sir Richard George Bramwell McCombe (born 23 September 1952), styled The Rt.

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Richard Weber (mathematician)

Richard Robert Weber (born 25 February 1953) is a mathematician working in operational research.

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Rob Crilly

Rob Crilly (born London 1973) is a British/Irish freelance journalist and author.

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Robert Yewdall Jennings

Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings (19 October 1913 – 4 August 2004) was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge University from 1955 to 1982 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1982.

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Rubel Phillips

Rubel Lex Phillips Sr. (March 29, 1925 – June 18, 2011) was an attorney, businessman, and politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi best known for his Republican gubernatorial campaigns waged in 1963 and 1967.

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Rumi Verjee

Rumi Verjee, Baron Verjee CBE (born 1957) is a British businessman, philanthropist and Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet

Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet (– 1684) was an Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy, after whom Downing Street in London is named.

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Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet

Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet (baptized 24 October 1685 – 10 June 1749) was a British politician and, through a donation in his will, the founder of Downing College, Cambridge.

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Sir Jacob Downing, 4th Baronet

Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, 4th Baronet (c. 1717 – 6 February 1764) was an English baronet and politician.

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St John's College, Cambridge

St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge (the full, formal name of the college is The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge).

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Stan Kelly-Bootle

Stanley Bootle, known as Stan Kelly-Bootle (15 September 1929 – 16 April 2014), was a British author, academic, singer-songwriter and computer scientist.

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Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the supreme court in all matters under English and Welsh law, Northern Irish law and Scottish civil law.

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Taoism

Taoism, also known as Daoism, is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (also romanized as ''Dao'').

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Terrance Dicks

Terrance Dicks (born 14 April 1935) is an English author and former television screenwriter, script editor and producer.

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Thandie Newton

Melanie Thandiwe "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is an English actress,Graydon, Nicola; The Times (London), 7 September 2008Carty, Ciaran; Tribune.ie, 21 September 2008 who has appeared in several British and American films.

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The Cambridge Union

The Cambridge Union Society, commonly referred to as "The Cambridge Union", is a debating and free speech society in Cambridge, England, and the largest society at the University of Cambridge.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Thomas Hope (1769–1831)

Thomas Hope (30 August 1769 – 3 February 1830/1831) was a Dutch and British merchant banker, author, philosopher and art collector, best known for his novel Anastasius, a work which many experts considered a rival to the writings of Lord Byron.

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Tim Parks

Timothy Harold Parks (born 19 December 1954 in Manchester) is a British novelist, translator, author and professor of literature.

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Tim Rawle

Tim Rawle is an English architectural photographer and writer.

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Tom Udall

Thomas Stewart Udall (born May 18, 1948) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from New Mexico, a seat he was first elected to in 2008.

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Trevor Nunn

Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Trinity Great Court

Great Court is the main court of Trinity College, Cambridge, and reputed to be the largest enclosed court in Europe.

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Ultimate (sport)

Ultimate, originally known as Ultimate frisbee, is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc (frisbee).

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Westminster

The University of Westminster is a public university in London, United Kingdom.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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Westminster Cathedral

Westminster Cathedral, or the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in London is the mother church of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

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Wilfrid Mellers

Wilfrid Howard Mellers (26 April 1914 – 17 May 2008) was an English music critic, musicologist and composer.

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William Schreiner

William Philip Schreiner (30 August 1857 – 28 June 1919) was a barrister, politician, statesman and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony during the Second Boer War.

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William Wilkins (architect)

William Wilkins RA (31 August 1778 – 31 August 1839) was an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist.

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Yong Pung How

Yong Pung How (born 11 April 1926),, is a former Chief Justice of Singapore, serving from 1990 to 2006.

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10 Downing Street

10 Downing Street, colloquially known in the United Kingdom as Number 10, is the headquarters of the Government of the United Kingdom and the official residence and office of the First Lord of the Treasury, a post which, for much of the 18th and 19th centuries and invariably since 1905, has been held by the Prime Minister.

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