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Fellows of the British Academy

  • C. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis was born on the 29th of November 1898 in Belfast, Ulster. His father Albert James Lewis worked as a solicitor while his mother Florence…
  • John Baines (Egyptologist)John Robert Baines entered the world on the 17th of March 1946. He was born into a family where his father Edward Russell Baines and mother Dora Margaret…
  • Tim DysonTim Dyson was born in 1949. This date marks the start of a life that would eventually reshape how scholars understand India's population growth.
  • Joseph StiglitzJoseph Eugene Stiglitz was born on the 9th of February, 1943 in Gary, Indiana. He grew up in a Jewish family where his mother Charlotte worked as a…
  • Odd Arne WestadOdd Arne Westad was born on the 5th of January 1960 in Norway. He began his academic journey at the University of Oslo as an undergraduate student.
  • A. C. BradleyAndrew Cecil Bradley entered the world on the 26th of March 1851 at Park Hill in Clapham. This location sat within Surrey before becoming part of London.
  • 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…
  • Friedrich HayekFriedrich August von Hayek was born on the 8th of May 1899 in Vienna to a family that valued scholarship. His father worked as a medical doctor for the…
  • Esther DufloEsther Duflo was born on the 25th of October 1972 at the Port Royal Hospital in Paris, France. Her father taught mathematics while her mother worked as a…
  • Jasper GriffinJasper Griffin arrived in the world on the 29th of May 1937. His early years unfolded under the roof of Christ's Hospital, a private school located in…
  • John Boardman (art historian)John Boardman arrived in the world on the 20th of August 1927 within the town of Ilford, Essex. His early years unfolded at Chigwell School between 1938 and…
  • Joan RobinsonJoan Violet Maurice was born in Camberley, Surrey, on the 31st of October 1903. Her father Frederick Maurice had just returned from fighting in the Second…
  • Angus DeatonAngus Deaton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 19th of October 1945. He attended Hawick High School before moving to Fettes College as a foundation…
  • Janet NelsonJanet Muir entered the world on the 28th of March 1942 in Blackpool, Lancashire. Her father was William Wilson Muir and her mother Elizabeth Barnes Muir.
  • Rana MitterRana Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter arrived in the world on the 11th of August 1969. He was born in Cambridge while his parents worked as academics near…
  • Howard Hayes ScullardHoward Hayes Scullard entered the world on the 9th of February 1903 in Bedford, England. His father Herbert Hayes Scullard served as a minister while his…
  • Alfred MarshallAlfred Marshall was born on the 26th of July 1842 in Bermondsey, a district within London. His father William worked as a clerk and cashier at the Bank of…
  • Peter Brown (historian)Peter Robert Lamont Brown was born on the 26th of July 1935 in Dublin, Ireland. His family background was Scots-Irish Protestant.
  • Thomas William Rhys DavidsThomas William Rhys Davids entered the world on the 12th of May 1843 in Colchester, Essex. His father served as a Congregational clergyman from Wales and…
  • Gabriel Turville-PetreGabriel Turville-Petre entered the world at Bosworth Hall in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire on the 25th of March 1908.
  • Arthur EvansArthur Evans entered the world on the 8th of July 1851 at Nash Mills in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. His father John Evans ran a paper mill business…
  • 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…
  • Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was born on the 3rd of February 1932 in Kingston, Colony of Jamaica. He entered a middle-class family where his father Herman…
  • Lionel RobbinsLionel Charles Robbins was born on the 22nd of November 1898 in Sipson, west of London. His father Rowland Richard Robbins worked as a farmer and served on…
  • T. D. KendrickThomas Downing Kendrick entered the world on the 1st of April 1895 in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham. His father Thomas H.
  • Eric HobsbawmEric Hobsbawm entered the world on the 9th of June 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt. His father Leopold Percy Hobsbaum was a Jewish merchant from London's East End…
  • Andrew Wallace-HadrillAndrew Frederic Wallace-Hadrill entered the world on the 29th of July 1951 in Oxford, England. His father was John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, a mediaeval…
  • Geoffrey KirkGeoffrey Stephen Kirk was born in December 1921 within the industrial heart of Nottingham. His father Frederic worked as an educational administrator at…
  • Ronald SymeRonald Syme arrived in the world on the 11th of March 1903 within the quiet town of Eltham, New Zealand. His father David and mother Florence raised him…
  • H. J. RoseHerbert Jennings Rose was born on the 5th of May 1883 in Orillia, Ontario. His family traced their roots back to Scotland before settling in Canada.
  • A. J. AyerAlfred Jules Ayer entered the world on the 29th of October 1910 in St John's Wood, a district in north west London. His parents were wealthy continental…
  • Frederick CoplestonFrederick Charles Copleston was born on the 10th of April 1907 at Claremont in the parish of Trull, near Taunton in Somerset.
  • John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes entered the world on the 5th of June 1883 in Cambridge, England. His father John Neville Keynes worked as an economist and lecturer at…
  • Roy PorterRoy Sydney Porter entered the world on the 31st of December 1946. He grew up in South London and attended Wilson's School in Camberwell.
  • Quentin SkinnerQuentin Robert Duthie Skinner arrived into the world on the 26th of November 1940 near Manchester. He was the second son born to Alexander Skinner and…
  • A. L. RowseAlfred Leslie Rowse was born on the 4th of December 1903 at Tregonissey near St Austell in Cornwall. His father Richard worked as a china clay worker while…
  • Frank KermodeFrank Kermode arrived in Douglas on the Isle of Man during November 1919. His father John Pritchard Kermode worked as a delivery truck driver and…
  • George SteinerFrancis George Steiner was born on the 23rd of April 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. His right arm withered from birth yet his mother insisted he use…
  • Peter TrudgillPeter Trudgill arrived in the world on the 7th of November 1943. He grew up in Thorpe St Andrew, a district just outside Norwich, England.