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Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth was born on the 7th of April 1770 in what is now called Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland, a market town sitting at the edge of…
- William Cecil, 1st Baron BurghleyWilliam Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was the man one biographer said could not be separated from the queen he served. Writing in the Encyclopædia Britannica…
- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of SalisburyRobert Cecil stood barely five feet tall with a spine curved by scoliosis. Queen Elizabeth I called him my pygmy while King James I nicknamed him my little…
- Robert Greene (dramatist)Robert Greene died on the 3rd of September 1592, reportedly after a surfeit of pickle herring and Rhenish wine. He was 34 years old, buried in the New…
- Paul DiracPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born on the 8th of August 1902 in Bristol, England, and died on the 20th of October 1984 in Tallahassee, Florida.
- Howard Hayes ScullardHoward Hayes Scullard was born on the 9th of February 1903 in Bedford, England, and spent his career turning the chaotic centuries of Rome's rise and fall…
- Samuel Butler (novelist)Samuel Butler was born on the 4th of December 1835 at the rectory in Langar, Nottinghamshire. His father Rev Thomas Butler had been a son of Dr Samuel Butler…
- Alfred MarshallAlfred Marshall was born on the 26th of July 1842 in Bermondsey, London, the son of a Bank of England clerk named William Marshall.
- Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of SouthamptonHenry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, was born on the 6th of October 1573 at Cowdray House in Sussex, and before he turned eight his father was dead…
- John DeeJohn Dee was born in the Tower Ward of London on the 13th of July 1527. His father Rowland Dee served as a mercer and courtier to Henry VIII.
- Thomas Wyatt (poet)Sir Thomas Wyatt died on the 11th of October 1542, at around age thirty-nine, and was buried at Sherborne Abbey. He had lived fast and dangerously close to…
- Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of OxfordEdward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was born on the 12th of April 1550 at Hedingham Castle in Essex, heir to the second-oldest earldom in England.
- Thomas NasheThomas Nashe was baptised in Lowestoft on the 30th of November 1567, the son of a curate who would eventually be awarded the living at the church of All…