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Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford

  • Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde arrived in the world on the 16th of October 1854 at 21 Westland Row in Dublin, and from the very beginning his life…
  • Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber walked into Her Majesty's Theatre on the 11th of February 2012 to mark a milestone that no Broadway show had ever reached: the 10,000th…
  • Terrence MalickTerrence Malick graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1965, won a Rhodes Scholarship to study philosophy at Oxford, then walked away from the…
  • Thomas WolseyThomas Wolsey was born in about 1473 in Ipswich, the son of a man his enemies would mock as a common butcher. By 1515, he wore a cardinal's red hat…
  • John FoxeJohn Foxe published a book on the 20th of March 1563 that would make him, in the words of one contemporary observer, England's first literary celebrity.
  • William CamdenWilliam Camden was born in London on the 2nd of May 1551, into a city that had barely begun to reckon with its own past.
  • Richard GombrichRichard Francis Gombrich was born on the 17th of July 1937 into a family that bridged two distinct cultural spheres. His mother Ilse Gombrich worked as a…
  • Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount ChelmsfordFrederic John Napier Thesiger entered the world on the 12th of August 1868 in London, England. He was the son of Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford and…
  • Edward GibbonIt was on the night of the 27th of June 1787, between eleven and midnight, that Edward Gibbon wrote the last lines of his life's great work in a summer-house…
  • Edmund CartwrightEdmund Cartwright is the name behind a machine that a Manchester mill owner never got to finish installing. In 1790, Robert Grimshaw built a weaving factory…
  • Reginald PoleReginald Pole entered the world at Stourton Castle in Staffordshire on the 12th of March 1500. He was the third son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole…
  • Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert was born on the 25th of October 1936, the son of a north London jeweller whose family name had once been Goldberg.