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Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- James Clerk MaxwellOn the 13th of June 1831, a boy named James Clerk Maxwell was born at 14 India Street in Edinburgh. His mother Frances Cay died when he was eight years old…
- Christopher Kelly (historian)Christopher Kelly was born in London during 1964. He grew up in Sydney, Australia instead of his birthplace. This Australian upbringing shaped his early…
- J. J. ThomsonJoseph John Thomson entered the world on the 18th of December 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester. His mother Emma Swindells came from a local textile family…
- Lord ByronGeorge Gordon Byron entered the world on the 22nd of January 1788 on Holles Street in London. His birthplace now sits beneath a branch of the department…
- Alfred, Lord TennysonAlfred Tennyson was born on the 6th of August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire. His father George Clayton Tennyson served as rector there from 1807 until his…
- Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru was born on the 14th of November 1889 in Allahabad, British India. He grew up in the Anand Bhavan mansion with his mother Swarup Rani and…
- A. A. MilneAlan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London on the 18th of January 1882. He grew up at Henley House School where his father taught him to read by the…
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of EssexRobert Devereux entered the world on the 10th of November 1565 at Netherwood in Herefordshire. He was the eldest son of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex…
- Isaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton said his mother told him he was so small at birth that he could have fit inside a quart mug. He was born prematurely on Christmas Day, the…
- James Graham-CampbellJames Graham-Campbell entered the world on the 7th of February 1947. This date marks the beginning of a life that would eventually reshape our understanding…
- Kim PhilbyHarold Adrian Russell Philby arrived in Ambala, Punjab, on the 1st of January 1912. His father St John Philby served as a member of the Indian Civil Service…
- Vladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov entered the world on the 22nd of April 1899 in Saint Petersburg. His family belonged to an ancient Russian nobility granted a…
- Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January 1561 at York House near Strand in London. He entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on the 5th…
- Daniel YerginDaniel Howard Yergin arrived in the world on the 6th of February 1947. He grew up in Los Angeles, California. His father Irving worked at Warner Brothers and…
- Nicholas CraftsNicholas Francis Robert Crafts entered the world on the 9th of March 1949 in Nottingham, England. He attended Brunts Grammar School in Mansfield before…
- William DalrympleWilliam Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple entered the world on the 20th of March 1965 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the youngest of four sons born to Major Sir…
- John DrydenJohn Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire. His father Erasmus Dryden belonged to a landowning gentry family…
- Austen ChamberlainAusten Chamberlain was born on the 16th of October 1863 in Birmingham. He entered the world as the second child and eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, a…
- Oliver Locker-LampsonOn a London street in 1911, Oliver Locker-Lampson ran as fast as he could. He believed he was winning a footrace against an old school friend named Horace de…
- Sogyal RinpocheSonam Gyaltsen Lakar arrived in the Trehor region of Kham, Tibet, during 1947. His mother identified him as a significant figure when Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi…
- James George FrazerJames George Frazer entered the world on the 1st of January 1854 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Daniel F. Frazer worked as a chemist while his mother…
- Chris WeitzChristopher John Weitz was born on the 30th of November 1969 in New York City. His mother Susan Kohner worked as an actress while his father John Weitz…
- Raymond WilliamsRaymond Henry Williams was born on the 31st of August 1921 in Pandy, a small village just north of Llanfihangel Crucorney near Abergavenny.
- Bertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Ravenscroft, a country house in Trellech, Monmouthshire, on the 18th of May 1872.
- Niels BohrOn the 7th of October 1885, Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He grew up as the second of three children to Christian Bohr and Ellen…
- Arthur EddingtonOn the 28th of December 1882, Arthur Stanley Eddington was born in Kendal, Westmorland. His parents were Quakers who valued education and quiet reflection.
- Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of WillingdonFreeman Freeman-Thomas entered the world on the 12th of September 1866 in England. His father, Freeman Frederick Thomas, served as an officer in the rifle…