CATEGORIES (Back up) — LIVES RETOLD

ACADEMIA: HUMANITIES
Furnivall, Frederick. Born 1825. (11 pages). An extremely energetic Victorian.
Carus-Wilson, Eleanora. Born 1897. (19 pages). Professor of Economic History.
Walbank, Frank William. Born 1909. (205 pages). Professor of Ancient History.
Steiner, George. Born 1929. (29 pages). Professor of Comparative Literature.
Kerr, Malcolm. Born 1931. (10 pages). President, American University of Beirut.
Beer, Gillian. Born 1935. (17 pages). Professor of English Literature.
Minkin, Lewis. Born 1936. (36 pages). Historian of the Labour Party.
Brendon, Piers. Born 1940. (42 pages). Historian.
Glover, Jonathan. Born 1941. (222 pages). Professor of Philosophy.
Andrew, Christopher. Born 1941. (51 pages). Historian of the secret services.
Macfarlane, Alan. Born 1941. (3074 pages). Anthropologist and historian.
Humphrey, Caroline. Born 1943. (19 pages). Anthropologist.
Jardine, Lisa. Born 1944. (16 pages). Historian.
Frayling, Christopher. Born 1946. (33 pages). Professor Cultural History.
Ford, David. Born 1948. (22 pages). Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge.
Schaffer, Simon. Born 1955. (28 pages). Historian of Science.
Fleming, Chris. (8 pages). Professor in Humanities.
Van de Ven, Hans. Born 1958. (18 pages). Professor of Modern Chinese History.
Arday, Jason. Born 1985. (11 pages). Professor of Sociology of Education.

ACADEMIA: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Mair, William Austyn. Born 1917. (16 pages). Aeronautical engineering.
Dyson, Freeman. Born 1923. (36 pages). Theoretical physicist.
Greenwood, Norman. Born 1925. (24 pages). Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
Edwards, Sam. Born 1928. (26 pages). Professor of Physics.
Atiyah, Michael. Born 1929. (36 pages). Distinguished mathematician.
Bendall, Derek. Born 1930. (4 pages). Researcher on photosynthesis.
Buckingham, David. Born 1930. (17 pages). Professor of Chemistry and cricketer.
Thomas, John Meurig. Born 1932. (15 pages). Professor of Chemistry.
Ahmed, Haroon. Born 1936. (20 pages). Professor of Microelectronics.
Humphreys, Colin. Born 1941. (21 pages). Professor of Materials Science.
Rees, Martin. Born 1942. (12 pages). Cosmologist and astrophysicist.
Huppert, Herbert. Born 1943. (14 pages). Professor of Theoretical Geophysics.
Friend, Richard. Born 1953. (20 pages). Cavendish Professor of Physics.
Hopper, Andrew. Born 1953. (13 pages). Computer scientist and entrepreneur.
Anderson, Ross. Born 1956. (73 pages). Professor of Security Engineering.
Leyser, Ottoline. Born 1965. (15 pages). Professor of Plant Biology.
MacKay, David. Born 1967. (15 pages). Scientist and communicator.

ADVENTURE
Baker, John Sterry. Born 1798. (15 pages). Runaway convict in Australia.
Orde-Lees, Thomas. Born 1877. (28 pages). Antarctic explorer and parachutist.
Tootill, Kathleen. Born 1904. (37 pages). Teacher and cross-Channel canoeist.
Cimillo, William. Born 1909. (8 pages). Runaway bus driver.
Eiloart, Timothy. Born 1936. (17 pages). Transatlantic balloonist and entrepreneur.

AGRICULTURE
Wedderburn, John. Born 1700. (8 pages). Country gentleman and rebel.
Alma. Born 1797. (19 pages). A chapter from a moving Swiss family saga.
Eckford, Alexander Herbert. Born 1867. (34 pages). Pioneer in the Canadian west.
Dawkins, Charles. Born 1870. (13 pages). A life in agricultural machinery.
Luckock, Edward. Born 1871. (101 pages). Land agent.
Wakeford, George. Born 1900. (20 pages). Professional beekeeper.
Cockburn, Jim. Born 1909. (4 pages). Farmer and magistrate in Dorset.
Stoddart, Ista. Born 1911. (34 pages). Farming during the Second World War.
Macfarlane, Donald. Born 1916. (247 pages). Tea planter in northern India.
Noble, John. Born 1937. (36 pages). Landowner and oyster farmer.
Cushman, David. Born 1946. (22 pages). Beekeeper and website builder.
Champion, Rosemary. Born 1962. (36 pages). Scottish smallholder.

ARCHITECTURE
Thomson, Alexander. Born 1817. (16 pages). ‘Greek’ Thomson, architect.
Caroe, William. Born 1857. (21 pages). Architect.
Lasdun, Denys. Born 1914. (134 pages). Architect of the National Theatre.
Giffone, Luigi. Born 1927. (12 pages). Architect.
Cullinan, Edward. Born 1931. (9 pages). Architect.
Owers, David. Born 1934. (41 pages). Architect and artist.
Carolin, Peter. Born 1936. (77 pages). Architect, editor and academic.
Spence, Robin. Born 1938. (25 pages). Architect.
Worthington, John. Born 1938. (13 pages). Architect and urbanist.
Eley, Peter. Born 1939. (4 pages). Architect.
Webster, Robin. Born 1939. (44 pages). Architect.
Duffy, Frank. Born 1940. (25 pages). Architect, space planner, and author.
MacCormac, Richard. Born 1940. (20 pages). Architect.
Baker, Kenneth. Born 1942. (32 pages). Milton Keynes architect.
Hackney, Rod. Born 1942. (36 pages). Community architect and RIBA President.
Rabeneck, Andrew. Born 1942. (92 pages). Architect and construction historian.
Steadman, Philip. Born 1942. (22 pages). Professor of Architecture.
Nicholson, Robin. Born 1944. (30 pages). Architect.
Feilden, Richard. Born 1950. (19 pages). Architect.
Pullan, Wendy. (26 pages). Architect researching conflict cities.
Feilden, Fergus. Born 1983. (48 pages). Architect.

ART
Muybridge, Eadweard. Born 1830. (17 pages). Photographer of motion.
Image, Selwyn. Born 1849. (38 pages). Artist, designer, writer and poet.
Webster, Gordon. Born 1908. (24 pages). Stained glass artist.
Chadwick, Lynn. Born 1914. (325 pages). Sculptor.
Williams, John Kyffin. Born 1918. (168 pages). Artist of Welsh landscape.
Bowness, Alan. Born 1928. (25 pages). Art critic and Director of the Tate.
Blake, Quentin. Born 1932. (17 pages). Illustrator and author of children’s books.
Hedgecoe, John. Born 1932. (9 pages). Photographer.
Christo & Jeanne Claude. Born 1935. (49 pages). Wrappers of the Reichstag.
Caulfield, Patrick. Born 1936. (224 pages). Artist.
Nash, David. Born 1945. (15 pages). Sculptor.
Harris, Jon (28 pages). Artist and draughtsman.

AVIATION
Bentley, Richard. Born 1897. (75 pages). Pioneering aviator.
Lyon, Russell. Born 1922. (34 pages). Spitfire pilot who died in action aged 21.
Trubshaw, Brian. Born 1924. (14 pages). Concorde test pilot.
Kelly, John. Born 1938. (10 pages). Naval officer and helicopterpilot.
Smith, Michael. Born 1939. (16 pages) . Naval helicopter pilot and entrepreneur.
Baston, David. Born 1942. (49 pages). Naval helicopter pilot.
Mahon, Michael. Born 1945. (18 pages). Irish airline pilot.

BUSINESS
Astor, John Jacob. Born 1763. (32 pages). A fortune in fur and real estate.
Tudor, Frederic. Born 1783. (46 pages). Ice harvesting entrepreneur.
Smith, William Henry. Born 1792. (10 pages). Creator of W.H.Smith.
Corbett, John. Born 1817. (15 pages). Manufacturer of salt.
Potter, Richard. Born 1817. (10 pages). Investor in timber and railways.
Field, Cyrus. Born 1819. (269 pages). Builder of the first transatlantic cable.
Walbank, William. Born 1840. (13 pages). Boot mender.
Hilger, Otto. Born 1857. (106 pages). Businessman.
Roberts, Owen Owen. Born 1870. (10 pages). Ironmonger and Councillor.
Lubbock, Cecil. Born 1872. (77 pages). Businessman and banker.
Brooks, Henry. Born 1880. (25 pages). Banker.
Mayer, Arthur. Born 1884. (12 pages). Chef.
Rabeneck, Lev. Born 1883. (12 pages). Anglo Russian businessman.
Burton, Montague. Born 1885. (25 pages). Tailoring entrepreneur.
Lewis, John Spedan. Born 1885. (28 pages). Pioneer of employee ownership.
Burns, James. Born 1887. (26 pages). Coal and shipping in South America.
Rabeneck, Charles. Born 1888. (15 pages). Anglo Russian businessman.
Hoffbrand, Philip. Born 1896. (12 pages). Tailor.
Carolin, Joseph. Born 1905. (38 pages). British businessman in South America.
Hobson, John. Born 1910. (26 pages). Founder of an advertising agency.
Luttrell, John. Born 1915. (23 pages). A career in Middle East oil companies.
Van Jeens, Leonard. Born c.1920. (11 pages). Hairdressing entrepreneur.
Clarke, Keith. Born 1930. (10 pages). Life in a metal working company.
Lee, Michael. Born 1932. (40 pages). Manufacturer of research instruments.
Waterstone, Tim. Born 1939. (12 pages). Bookseller.
Perry, Colin. Born 1940. (8 pages). Businessman.
Gallagher, William. Born 1942. (25 pages). Manufacturing and selling shirts.
Guiducci Ilario. (6 pages). Catering company owner.
Traversy, Nancy. Born 1960. (20 pages). Children’s book publisher.
Daunt, James. Born 1963. (18 pages). Bookseller.

CAMPAIGNING
Wedderburn, Robert. Born 1762. (7 pages). Author of ‘Horrors of Slavery’.
Shafik, Doria. Born 1908. (21 pages). Campaigner for women’s rights.
Shoard, Marion. Born 1949. (23 pages). Author and countryside campaigner.

CHILDHOOD
Raverat, Gwen. Born 1885. (129 pages). The Cambridge childhood of a wood engraver.
Feilden, Bernard. Born 1919. (15 pages). Childhood on a Canadian ranch.
Hurst, Christopher. Born 1929. (44 pages). A childhood with a loving nanny.
Thomas, Antony. Born 1940. (25 pages). Childhood of a documentary film maker.
Brendon, Vyvyen. Born 1941. (15 pages). An author’s childhood.
Swan, Neil. Born 1953. (17 pages). Childhood in Burma and India.
Lucas, Charles. Born 1964. (11 pages). Childhood living in a Chelsea hotel.
Reid, Philip Owen. Born 1989. (17 pages) Growing up in London and Cambridge.

CHURCH
Luckock, Herbert. Born 1833. (35 pages). Dean of Lichfield Cathedral.
Petrie, Irene. Born 1864. (370 pages). Missionary in India.
Luckock, Arthur. Born 1880. (6 pages). Vicar.
James, Cecil. Born 1900. (103 pages). Builder and Mormon Bishop.
Hodgetts, Colin. Born 1940. (15 pages). Vicar and social activist.
Williams, Rowan. Born 1950. (21 pages). Theologian, poet and Archbishop of Canterbury.

DESIGN
Johnston, Edward. Born 1872. (35 pages). Calligrapher and typeface designer.
Nizzoli, Marcello. Born 1887). (10 pages). Artist, architect, and product designer.
Buckminster Fuller, Richard. Born 1895. (55 pages). Designer.
Bertoni, Flaminio. Born 1903. (25 pages). Sculptor & Citroen car designer.
Issigonis, Alec. Born 1906. (50 pages). Designer of the Mini.
Eames, Charles & Ray. Born 1907 & 1912. (35 pages). Designers.
Rivolta, Renzo. Born 1908. (29 pages). Italian designer of the Isetta bubble car.
Rams, Dieter. (22 pages). Designer of Braun consumer products.
Fuller, Mark. Born 1951. (22 pages). Designer of spectacular fountains.

ECONOMICS
Luttrell, William. Born 1908. (28 pages). Economist.
Sen, Amartya. Born 1933. (39 pages). Nobel Prize winning economist.
Dasgupta, Partha. Born 1942. (29 pages). Professor of Economics.

EDUCATION
Walbank, Albert. Born 1879. (16 pages) Teacher.
Gillie, Bernard. Born 1907. (40 pages). Teacher in Canada.
Watts, Veronica. Born 1919. (42 pages). Teacher.
Stern, Michael. Born 1922. (63 pages). Founder of a multi-racial school in Africa.
Micol, Irene. Born 1924. (57 pages). Teacher of Russian in France.
Swan, Nancie. Born 1924. (39 pages). Burma, India, and teaching.
Thorn, John. Born 1925. (8 pages). Headmaster of Winchester College.
Sabben-Clare, James. Born 1941. (10 pages). Headmaster of Winchester College.
Watts, Tony. Born 1942. (87 pages). Career development research and public policy.
Watts, Paul. Born 1944. (54 pages). Military and industrial education.
Price, Veronica Mary. Born 1949. (37 pages). Teacher.

ENGINEERING
Fairbairn, William. Born 1789. (373 pages). Pioneer of engineering research.
Mackenzie, Edward. Born 1811. (14 pages). Victorian railway contractor.
Savin, Thomas. Born 1826. (24 pages). Railway engineer in Wales.
Arrol, William. Born 1839. (8 pages). Builder of the Forth Bridge.
Dyer, Henry. Born 1848. (7 pages). Engineer and educator in Japan.
Scott, William Harding. Born 1862. (14 pages). Electrical engineer.
Scott-Moncrieff, Sir Colin Campbell. Born 1836. (4 pages). Engineer of the Nile.
Mackay, Roderick. Born 1880. (23 pages). Engineer of Los Angeles Aqueduct.
Arup, Ove. Born 1895. (43 pages). Structural engineer and philosopher.
Feilden, Bob. Born 1917. (14 pages). Mechanical engineer.
Mackay, Donald. Born 1926. (40 pages). Engineer and Mayor of Cambridge.
Clarke, Keith. Born 1940. (11 pages). Telecommunications engineer.
Mair, Robert James. Born 1950. (152 pages). Baron Mair. Geotechnical engineer.
Long, Susan. Born c.1987. (11 pages). Humanitarian engineer.

ENTERTAINMENT
Sackville-West, Pepita. Born 1830. (196 pages). Spanish dancer.
Duncan, Isadora. Born 1877. (155 pages). Pioneer of modern dance.
Cartwright, Midgie. Born 1899. (19 pages). Edwardian stunt woman.
Hepburn, Audrey. Born 1929. (19 pages). Acrress and UNICEF ambassador.
Brooke-Taylor, Tim. Born 1940. (11 pages). Radio and television comedian.
Koblikoff, Alexander. Born 1990. (9 pages). Award winning Ukranian juggler.

FOUNDERS
Booth, William & Catherine. Both born 1829. (26 pages). Founders of the Salvation Army.
Smith, John. Born 1923. (21 pages). Banker and founder of the Landmark Trust.
Image, Selwyn. Born 1938. (32 pages). Businessman, composer, and charity founder.
Bird, John. Born 1946. (18 pages). Founder of the Big Issue charity.
Cotton, Ann. Born 1950. (15 pages). Founder of Camfed charity for education of girls in Africa.

HOMEMAKING
Thompson, Elizabeth. Born 1814. (38 pages). A Victorian grandmother.
Rowland, Sarah. Born 1858. (10 pages). Parlour maid to a sporting parson.
Rabeneck, Eugenie. Born 1862. (8 pages). A refugee travel diary.
James, Lucie. Born 1900. (145 pages). Devoted Mormon and mother of six.
Powell, Kathleen. Born 1903. (179 pages). Wife and mother in Burma.
Hoffbrand, Joyce. Born 1933. (10 pages). Life in Bradford’s Jewish community.

HORTICULTURE
Plumb, Joseph. Born 1845. (11 pages). Gardener.
Sackville-West, Vita. Born 1892. (30 pages). Writer and garden designer.
Coghill, Steven. Born 1961. (15 pages). Horticulturist.

INVENTORS
Braille, Louis. Born 1809. (15 pages). Inventor of the Braille touch reading system.
Otis, Elisha. Born 1811. (15 pages). Inventor of the safety elevator.
Bell, Alexander Graham. Born 1847. (153 pages). Inventor of the telephone.
Magie, Lizzie. Born 1866, (21 pages). Inventor of the Monopoly board game.
Booth, Hubert. Born 1871. (23 pages). Inventor of the vacuum cleaner.
Penkala, Eduard. Born 1871. (10 pages). Inventor of the hot water bottle.
Broadwick, Charles & Tiny. Born 1875 & 1893. (23 pages). Parachute inventors.
Feuerheerd, Ernest. Born 1876. (18 pages). Inventorof pumps.
Sundback, Gideon. Born 1880. (11 pages). Inventor of the zip fastener.
Shaw, Percy. Born 1890. (10 pages). Inventor of Catseye road reflecting studs.
Goldmark, Peter. Born 1906. (26 pages). Inventor of the long playing record.
Cockerell, Christopher. Born 1910. (27 pages). Inventor of the hovercraft.
Clarke, Arthur C. Born 1917. (13 pages). Writer and inventor of communications satellites.
Crowley, George. Born 1919. (14 pages). Inventor of the modern electric blanket.
Dolby, Ray. Born 1933. (27 pages). Inventor of sound systems.
Taylor, John. Born 1936. (43 pages). Inventor of kettle thermostats and clocks.
Wills, Anthony. Born 1954. (16 pages). Product designer and inventor of the D-Form.

LAW
Campbell, James. Born 1916. (15 pages). Cambridge law don and piping expert.
Bingham, Thomas. Born 1933. (16 pages). Lord Chief Justice.
Vardag, Ayesha. Born 1968. (14 pages). Divorce lawyer for the very wealthy.

MAKERS
Hone, Peter. Born 1941. (18 pages). Master plaster caster.
Garrod, Rex. Born 1943. (22 pages). Maker of robotic machines for television.
Faulkner, Peter. Born 1945. (19 pages). Coracle maker.
Beavitt, Alan. Born c.1950. (15 pages). Violin maker in the Scottish highlands.
Hunkin, Tim. Born 1950. (36 pages). Engineer, cartoonist and maker of improbable machines.
Garlick, Andrew. Born c.1953. (23 pages). Harpsichord maker.
Shiers, Allan. Born c.1955. (12 pages). Harp maker.
Stevenson, Marc & Tony. Born c.1955. (11 pages). Rocking horse makers.
Bray, Robert. Born 1956. (17 pages). Clockmaker.
Oglethorpe, William. Born c.1980. (15 pages). Urban cheese maker.
Miller, Hugh. Born c.1989. (15 pages). Furniture maker.

MARITIME
Kennedy, John. Born 1821. (5 pages). Naval officer during the Crimean War.
Gillie, John. Born 1829. (41 pages). Sea captain in the days of sail.
Holt, Alfred. Born 1829. (13 pages). Steamship pioneer.
Ismay, Thomas. Born 1837. (10 pages). Victorian shipping magnate.
Day, Horace. Born 1898. (15 pages). Naval officer and company secretary.
Goldsworthy, Charles. Born 1900. (10 pages). Survivor of HMS Otranto shipwreck.
Reid, Philip Henry Stewart. Born 1901. (42 pages). Naval officer & prisoner of war.
Davies, Humphrey. Born 1904. (45 pages). RNVR officer in World War II.

MEDICINE
Larmuth, Leopold. Born 1855. (14 pages). Ear surgeon in the Lake District.
Hurst, Arthur. Born 1879. (37 pages). Pioneering physician.
Bush, Eileen. Born 1890. Volunteer nurse in France during the First World War.
Tracey, Basil & Katherine. Born 1899. (14 pages). Doctor and mother.
Gillie, Annis. Born 1900. (15 pages). Leader in the development of general practice.
Hoffbrand, Barry. Born 1934. (15 pages). Physician, teacher and editor.
Hoffbrand, Victor. Born 1935. (210 pages). Professor of haematology.
Glover, Vivette. Born 1942. (14 pages). Professor of perinatal psychobiology.
Robbins, Trevor. Born 1949. (37 pages). Professor of cognitive neuroscience.
Sahakian, Barbara. Born 1952. (19 pages). Professor of clinical neuropsychology.
Johnson, Anne. Born 1954. (17 pages). Professor of epidemiology.
Barton, Jo. Born 1986. (4 pages). Doctor.

MILITARY
Jack, John. Born 1780. (22 pages). Soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.
Burgoyne, John Fox. Born 1782. (11 pages). Field Marshal.
Bell, William. Born 1792. (7 pages). A military life in the East India Company.
Trelawny, Clarence. Born 1826. (5 pages). Officer in the Radetsky Hussars.
Luckock, Russell. Born 1877. (19 pages). Army officer in Boer and First World Wars.
Smith, Eddie. Born 1890. (236 pages). A Royal Engineer in the First World War.
Stanier, Alexander. Born 1899. (73 pages). Decorated officer in two world wars.
Melville, John Murray. Born 1914. (150 pages). Life as a prisoner of war.
Anckorn, Fergus. Born 1918. (8 pages). Soldier, conjurer, and prisoner of war.
Hines, Gordon. Born 1918. (42 pages). Soldier, engineer and prisoner of war.
Watts, Gordon. Born 1918. (28 pages). Army officer.
Neres, Philip. Born 1922. (19 pages). Special Operations agent.
Cross, John. Born 1925. (18 pages). Soldier and author.
Phillips, Winifred. Born 1926. (9 pages). First female Chelsea Pensioner.

MUSIC
Sousa, John Philip. Born 1854. (486 pages). Composer and conductor.
Bradley, Lionel. Born 1898. (14 pages). Librarian and musicologist.
Willcocks, David. Born 1919. (16 pages). Choral conductor, organist and composer.
Evans, Berwyn. Born 1940. (200 pages). Civil engineering and Welsh male voice choirs.

POLITICS
Tyler, Wat. Born 1341. (10 pages). Leader of the Peasants’ Revolt.
Wedderburn, David. Born 1835. (472 pages). Traveller, diarist and Liberal MP.
Wedderburn, William. Born 1838. (192 pages). MP and campaigner for Indian self rule.
Luttrell, Hugh. Born 1857. (24 pages) Liberal Member of Parliament.
Attlee, Clement. Born 1883. (232 pages). Labour MP and Prime Minister.
Roberts, Emrys. Born 1910. (66 pages). Lawyer and Member of Parliament.
Ferrers, Earl. Born 1929. (83 pages). Hereditary peer and Conservative Minister.
Sainsbury, David. Born 1940. (15 pages). A career in business and politics.
Waldegrave, William. Born 1946. (46 pages). Conservative politician.

PUBLIC SERVICE
Pepys, Samuel. Born 1633. (112 pages). Secretary of the Admiralty and diarist.
Potter, Richard. Born 1778. (16 pages). Electoral reformer and Liberal MP.
Wedderburn, John. Born 1825. (29 pages). Killed with his family in the Indian Mutiny.
Hare, Francis. Born 1830. (345 pages). Police Superintendent in Australia.
Lorton, Joseph. Born 1851. (11 pages). Victorian police constable.
Hilger, Gustav. Born 1886. (11 pages). German diplomat.
Bann, Harry. Born 1902. (140 pages). Town Clerk of Huddersfield.
Rabeneck, Helen. Born 1907. (9 pages). Carer.
Crichlow, Frank. Born 1932. (10 pages). Community activist in Notting Hill.
Wilson, Richard. Born 1942. (28 pages). Head of the Home Civil Service.
Newlands, Robin. (13 pages). River conservator and vintage boat enthusiast.
Brigham, Allan. Born 1951. (16 pages). Road sweeper and local historian.
Du Cane, Alison. Born 1955. (270 pages). Charity administration and amateur dramatics.

TECHNOLOGY
Coade, Eleanor. Born 1733. (22 pages). 18th century businesswoman.
Lampson, Curtis. Born 1806. (16 pages). Fur trading and transatlantic cables.
Wedderburn, Jabez. Born 1864. (9 pages). Scale maker in Australia.
Johnson, Katherine. Born 1918. (18 pages). Mathematician of the US space race.
Martin, Gerry. Born 1930. (14 pages). Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Day, James. Born 1935. (15 pages). A life in computer services.
Butler, David. Born 1936. (40 pages). Computer consultant.
Southward, David. Born 1936. (31 pages). Cambridge technology entrepreneur.
Tracey, Peter. Born 1937. (58 pages). Innovator.
Chadwyck-Healey, Charles. Born 1940. (28 pages). Digital publisher.
Sinclair, Clive. Born 1940. (192 pages). Technology entrepreneur.
Vallance, Iain. Born 1943. (18 pages). Chairman of British Telecom.
Hauser, Hermann. Born 1948. (18 pages). Technology entrepreneur.
Cleevely, David. Born 1953. (39 pages). Technology entrepreneur.
Yuan, Eric. Born 1970. (18 pages). Founder and CEO of Zoom.
Husemeyer, Peter. Born 1988. (20 pages). Sports technology entrepreneur.
Herd, Christopher. Born 1990. (25 pages). Remote working entrepreneur.

VARIED CAREERS
Mackenzie, Alexander. Born 1787. (17 pages). Canal constructor and hotelier.
Hopwood, Henry. Born 1813. (17 pages). Convict, policeman and entrepreneur.
Holt, Kitty. Born 1871. (184 pages). Scientist, writer, poet and artist.
Ames, Cecil. Born 1897. (191 pages). Soldier, colonial administrator, judge in W. Africa.
Steadman, Fred. Born 1911. (61 pages). Chemical engineer and parson.
Watts, Patrick. Born 1912. (18 pages). Monk, Catholic priest, and teacher.
Campbell, Colin. Born 1918. (10 pages). Colonial administrator and schoolmaster.
Nelson, Michael. Born 1929. (31 pages). Digital pioneer and author.
Stevens, Jocelyn. Born 1932. (32 pages). Newspaper man and public servant.
Hughes, Philip. Born 1936. (19 pages). Software entrepreneur and artist.
Smith, Anthony. Born 1938. (41 pages). Broadcaster, author and academic.
Garside, Roger. Born 1939. (14 pages). Diplomat, consultant and author.
Cockburn, Malcolm. Born 1940. (17 pages). Engineer, farmer and adventurer.
Reid, Alexander. Born 1941. (201 pages). Architecture & telecomms.
Mehrez, Shahira. Born 1943. (16 pages). Multiple lives in a turbulent Egypt.
Scott, Adam. Born 1950. (7 pages). Lawyer, priest, army officer, and businessman.
Lockwood, Clare. Born 1955. (26 pages). Airline management and teaching.
Keegan, Tim. Born 1968. (10 pages). Retail analyst and knife sharpener.
Lewis, Martin. Born 1972. (10 pages). Journalist, campaigner, and entrepreneur.

WRITING
Evelyn, John. Born 1620. (623 pages). Diarist, writer and environmentalist.
Gibbon, Edward. Born 1737. (104 pages). Historian.
Jerome, Jerome K. Born 1859. (108 pages). Author of ‘Three Men in a Boat’.
Wells, H. G. Born 1866. (328 pages). Futurist writer.
Buchan, John. Born 1875. (133 pages). Writer and Governor General of Canada.
Zweig, Stefan. Born 1881. (334 pages). Novelist, biographer and playwright.
Savery, Constance. Born 1897. Author.
Reid, Hilda Stewart. Born 1898. (37 pages). Novelist between the wars.
Gillie, Darsie. Born 1903. (12 pages). Foreign correspondent and broadcaster.
Reid, Louisa. Born 1906. (88 pages). Naval wife and writer.
Thomas, Dylan. Born 1914. (107 pages). Writer.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Born 1917. (16 pages). Historian of the 19th century.
Macfarlane, Iris. Born 1922. (461 pages). Writer and wife of an Assam tea planter.
McKee, David. Born 1935. (23 pages). Writer and illustrator of children’s books.
Brand, Stewart. Born 1938. (37 pages). Writer and social entrepreneur.
Dale, Reginald. Born 1940. (11 pages). Foreign correspondent.
Brandon, Ruth. Born 1943. (12 pages). Author.
Campbell, John. Born 1947. (39 pages). Political biographer.
Burford, Tim. Born 1959. (49 pages). Travel writer and hiking guide.
Heath-Caldwell, Jeremy James. Born 1959. (302 pages). Family historian.
Hislop, Ian. Born 1960. (13 pages). Editor of satirical magazine Private Eye.
Reid, Anna. Born 1965. (13 pages). Author.
Niemann, Derek. (9 pages). Author.
Hobson, Theo. Born 1972. (23 pages). Writer and artist.

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