ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF LIFE STORIES
Ahmed, Haroon. Born 1936. (20 pages). Professor of Microelectronics.
Alma. Born 1797. (19 pages). A chapter from a moving Swiss family saga.
Ames, Cecil. Born 1897. (191 pages). Soldier, colonial administrator, judge in W. Africa.
Anckorn, Fergus. Born 1918. (8 pages). Soldier, conjurer, and prisoner of war.
Anderson, Ross. Born 1956. (73 pages). Professor of Security Engineering.
Andrew, Christopher. Born 1941. (51 pages). Historian of the secret services.
Arday, Jason. Born 1985. (11 pages). Professor of Sociology of Education.
Arrol, William. Born 1839. (8 pages). Builder of the Forth Bridge.
Arup, Ove. Born 1895. (43 pages). Engineer and philosopher.
Astor, John Jacob. Born 1763. (32 pages). A fortune in fur and real estate.
Atiyah, Michael. Born 1929. (36 pages). Distinguished mathematician.
Attlee, Clement. Born 1883. (232 pages). Labour MP and Prime Minister.
Baker, John Sterry. Born 1798. (15 pages). Runaway convict in Australia.
Baker, Kenneth. Born 1942. (32 pages). Milton Keynes architect.
Bann, Harry. Born 1902. (140 pages). Town Clerk of Huddersfield.
Barton, Jo. Born 1986. (4 pages). Doctor.
Baston, David. Born 1942. (49 pages). Naval helicopter pilot.
Beavitt, Alan. Born c.1950. (15 pages). Violin maker in the Scottish highlands.
Beer, Gillian. Born 1935. (17 pages). Professor of English Literature.
Bell, Alexander Graham. Born 1847. (153 pages). Inventor of the telephone.
Bell, William. Born 1792. (7 pages). A military life in the East India Company.
Bendall, Derek. Born 1930. (4 pages). Researcher on photosynthesis.
Bentley, Richard. Born 1897. (75 pages). Pioneering aviator.
Bertoni, Flaminio. Born 1903. (25 pages). Sculptor & Citroen car designer.
Bingham, Thomas. Born 1933. (16 pages). Lord Chief Justice.
Bird, John. Born 1946. (18 pages). Founder of the Big Issue charity.
Blake, Quentin. Born 1932. (17 pages). Illustrator and author of children’s books.
Booth, Hubert. Born 1871. (23 pages). Inventor of the vacuum cleaner.
Booth, William & Catherine. Both born 1829. (26 pages). Founders of the Salvation Army.
Bowness, Alan. Born 1928. (25 pages). Art critic and Director of the Tate.
Bradley, Lionel. Born 1898. (14 pages). Librarian and musicologist.
Braille, Louis. Born 1809. (15 pages). Inventor of the Braille touch reading system.
Brand, Stewart. Born 1938. (37 pages). Writer and social entrepreneur.
Brandon, Ruth. Born 1943. (12 pages). Author.
Bray, Robert. Born 1956. (17 pages). Clockmaker.
Brendon, Piers. Born 1940. (42 pages). Historian.
Brendon, Vyvyen. Born 1941. (15 pages). An author’s childhood.
Brigham, Allan. Born 1951. (16 pages). Road sweeper and local historian.
Broadwick, Charles & Tiny. Born 1875 & 1893. (23 pages). Parachute inventors.
Brooks, Henry. Born 1880. (25 pages). Banker.
Brooke-Taylor, Tim. Born 1940. (11 pages). Radio and television comedian.
Buchan, John. Born 1875. (133 pages). Writer and Governor General of Canada.
Buckingham, David. Born 1930. (41 pages). Professor of Chemistry and cricketer.
Buckminster Fuller, Richard. Born 1895. (55 pages). Designer.
Burford, Tim. Born 1959. (49 pages). Travel writer and hiking guide.
Burgoyne, John Fox. Born 1782. (11 pages). Field Marshal.
Burns, James. Born 1887. (26 pages). Coal and shipping in South America.
Burton, Montague. Born 1885. (25 pages). Tailoring entrepreneur.
Bush, Eileen. Born 1890. Volunteer nurse in France during the First World War.
Butler, David. Born 1936. (40 pages). Computer consultant.
Campbell, Colin. Born 1918. (10 pages). Colonial administrator and schoolmaster.
Campbell, James. Born. Born 1916. (15 pages). Cambridge law don and piping expert.
Campbell, John. Born 1947. (39 pages). Political biographer.
Carolin, Joseph. Born 1905. (38 pages). British businessman in South America.
Carolin, Peter. Born 1936. (77 pages). Architect, editor and academic.
Cartwright, Midgie. Born 1899. (19 pages). Edwardian stunt woman.
Caroe, William. Born 1857. (21 pages). Architect.
Carus-Wilson, Eleanora. Born 1897. (19 pages). Professor of Economic History.
Caulfield, Patrick Joseph. Born 1936. (224 pages). Artist.
Chadwick, Lynn Russell. Born 1914. (325 pages). Sculptor.
Chadwyck-Healey, Charles. Born 1940. (28 pages). Digital publisher.
Champion, Rosemary. Born 1962. (36 pages). Scottish smallholder.
Christo & Jeanne Claude. Born 1935. (49 pages). Wrappers of the Reichstag.
Cimillo, William. Born 1909. (8 pages). Runaway bus driver.
Clarke, Arthur C. Born 1917. (13 pages). Writer and inventor of communications satellites.
Clarke, Keith. Born 1930. (10 pages). Life in a metal working company.
Clarke, Keith. Born 1940. (11 pages). Telecommunications engineer.
Cleevely, David. Born 1953. (39 pages). Technology entrepreneur.
Coade, Eleanor. Born 1733. (22 pages). 18th century businesswoman.
Cockburn, Jim. Born 1909. (4 pages). Farmer and magistrate in Dorset.
Cockburn, Malcolm. Born 1940. (17 pages). Engineer, farmer and adventurer.
Cockerell, Christopher. Born 1910. (27 pages). Inventor of the hovercraft.
Coghill, Steven. Born 1961. (15 pages). Horticulturist.
Conran, Terence. Born 1931. (23 pages). Designer, retailer and restauranteur.
Corbett, John. Born 1817. (15 pages). Manufacturer of salt.
Cotton, Ann. Born 1950. (15 pages). Founder of the Camfed charity for education of girls in Africa.
Crichlow, Frank. Born 1932. (10 pages). Community activist in Notting Hill.
Cross, John. Born 1925. (18 pages). Soldier and author.
Crowley, George. Born 1919. (14 pages). Inventor of the modern electric blanket.
Cullinan, Edward Horder. Born 1931. (9 pages). Architect.
Cushman, David. Born 1946. (22 pages). Beekeeper and website builder.
Dale, Reginald. Born 1940. (11 pages). Foreign correspondent.
Dasgupta, Partha. Born 1942. (29 pages). Professor of Economics.
Daunt, James. Born 1963. (18 pages). Bookseller.
Davies, Humphrey. Born 1904. (45 pages). RNVR officer in World War II.
Dawkins, Charles. Born 1870. (13 pages). A life in agricultural machinery.
Day, Horace. Born 1898. (15 pages). Naval officer and company secretary.
Day, James. Born 1935. (15 pages). A life in computer services.
Dolby, Ray. Born 1933. (27 pages). Inventor of sound systems.
Du Cane, Alison. Born 1955. (270 pages). Charity administration and amateur dramatics.
Duffy, Frank. Born 1940. (25 pages). Architect, space planner, and author.
Duncan, Isadora. Born 1877. (155 pages). Pioneer of modern dance.
Dyer, Henry. Born 1848. (7 pages). Engineer and educator in Japan.
Dyson, Freeman. Born 1923. (36 pages). Theoretical physicist.
Eames, Charles & Ray. Born 1907 & 1912. (35 pages). Designers.
Eckford, Alexander Herbert. Born 1867. (34 pages). Pioneer in the Canadian west.
Edwards, Sam. Born 1928. (26 pages). Professor of Physics.
Eiloart, Timothy. Born 1936. (17 pages). Transatlantic balloonist and entrepreneur.
Eley, Peter. Born 1939. (4 pages). Architect.
Evans, Berwyn. Born 1940. (200 pages). Civil engineering and Welsh male voice choirs.
Evelyn, John. Born 1620. (623 pages). Diarist, writer and environmentalist.
Fairbairn, William. Born 1789. (373 pages). Pioneer of engineering research.
Faulkner, Peter. Born 1945. (19 pages). Coracle maker.
Feilden, Bernard. Born 1919. (15 pages). Childhood on a Canadian ranch.
Feilden, Bob. Born 1917. (14 pages). Mechanical engineer.
Feilden, Fergus. Born 1983. (48 pages). Architect.
Feilden, Richard. Born 1950. (19 pages). Architect.
Ferrers, Earl. Born 1929. (83 pages). Hereditary peer and Conservative Minister.
Feuerheerd, Ernest. Born 1876. (18 pages). Inventorof pumps.
Field, Cyrus. Born 1819. (269 pages). Builder of the first transatlantic cable.
Filaretov, Konstantin. Born 1905. Factory life in early 20th century Russia.
Fleming, Chris. (8 pages). Professor in Humanities.
Ford, David. Born 1948. (22 pages). Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge.
Frayling, Christopher. Born 1946. (33 pages). Professor Cultural History.
Friend, Richard. Born 1953. (20 pages). Cavendish Professor of Physics.
Fuller, Mark. Born 1951. (22 pages). Designer of spectacular fountains.
Furnivall, Frederick. Born 1825. (11 pages). An extremely energetic Victorian.
Gallagher, William. Born 1942. (25 pages). Manufacturing and selling shirts.
Garlick, Andrew. Born c.1953. (23 pages). Harpsichord maker.
Garrod, Rex. Born 1943. (22 pages). Maker of robotic machines for television.
Garside, Roger. Born 1939. (14 pages). Diplomat, consultant and author.
Gibbon, Edward. Born 1737. (104 pages). Historian.
Giffone, Luigi. Born 1927. (12 pages). Architect.
Gillie, Annis. Born 1900. (15 pages). Leader in the development of general practice.
Gillie, Bernard. Born 1907. (40 pages). Teacher in Canada.
Gillie, Darsie. Born 1903. (12 pages). Foreign correspondent and broadcaster.
Gillie, John. Born 1829. (41 pages). Sea captain in the days of sail.
Glover, Jonathan. Born 1941. (222 pages). Professor of Philosophy.
Glover, Vivette. Born 1942. (14 pages). Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology.
Goldmark, Peter. Born 1906. (26 pages). Inventor of the long playing record.
Goldsworthy, Charles. Born 1900. (10 pages). Survivor of HMS Otranto shipwreck.
Greenwood, Norman. Born 1925. (24 pages). Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
Guiducci, Ilario. (6 pages). Owner of a catering company.
Hackney, Rod. Born 1942. (36 pages). Community architect and RIBA President.
Hare, Francis. Born 1830. (345 pages). Police Superintendent in Australia.
Harris, Jon. Born 1942. (28 pages). Artist and draughtsman.
Hauser, Hermann. Born 1948. (18 pages). Technology entrepreneur.
Heath-Caldwell, Jeremy James. Born 1959. (302 pages). Family historian.
Hedgecoe, John. Born 1932. (9 pages). Photographer.
Hepburn, Audrey. Born 1929. (19 pages). Acrress and UNICEF ambassador.
Herd, Christopher. Born 1990. (25 pages). Remote working entrepreneur.
Hilger, Otto. Born 1857. (106 pages). Businessman.
Hilger, Gustav. Born 1886. (11 pages). German diplomat.
Hines, Gordon. Born 1918. (42 pages). Soldier, engineer and prisoner of war.
Hislop, Ian. Born 1960. (13 pages). Editor of satirical magazine Private Eye.
Hobsbawm, Eric. Born 1917. (16 pages). Historian of the 19th century.
Hobson, John. Born 1910. (26 pages). Founder of an advertising agency.
Hobson, Theo. Born 1972. (23 pages). Writer and artist.
Hodgetts, Colin. Born 1940. (15 pages). Vicar and social activist.
Hoffbrand, Barry. Born 1934. (15 pages). Physician, teacher and editor.
Hoffbrand, Joyce. Born 1933. (10 pages). Life in Bradford’s Jewish community.
Hoffbrand, Philip. Born 1896. (12 pages). Tailor.
Hoffbrand, Victor. Born 1935. (210 pages). Professor of Haematology.
Holt, Alfred. Born 1829. (13 pages). Steamship pioneer.
Holt, Kitty. Born 1871. (184 pages). Scientist, writer, poet and artist.
Hone, Peter. Born 1941. (18 pages). Master plaster caster.
Hopper, Andrew. Born 1953. (13 pages). Computer scientist and entrepreneur.
Hopwood, Henry. Born 1813. (17 pages). Convict, policeman and entrepreneur.
Hughes, Philip. Born 1936. (19 pages). Software entrepreneur and artist.
Humphrey, Caroline. Born 1943. (19 pages). Anthropologist.
Humphreys, Colin. Born 1941. (21 pages). Professor of Materials Science.
Hunkin, Tim. Born 1950. (36 pages). Engineer, cartoonist and maker of improbable machines.
Huppert, Herbert. Born 1943. (14 pages). Professor of Theoretical Geophysics.
Hurst, Arthur. Born 1879. (37 pages). Pioneering physician.
Hurst, Christopher. Born 1929. (44 pages). A childhood with a loving nanny.
Husemeyer, Peter. Born 1988. (20pages). Sports technology entrepreneur.
Image, Selwyn. Born 1849. (38 pages). Artist, designer, writer and poet.
Image, Selwyn. Born 1938. (32 pages). Businessman, composer, and charity founder.
Ismay, Thomas. Born 1837. (10 pages). Victorian shipping magnate.
Issigonis, Alec. Born 1906. (50 pages). Designer of the Mini.
Jack, John. Born 1780. (22 pages). Soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.
James, Cecil. Born 1900. (103 pages). Builder and Mormon Bishop.
James, Lucie. Born 1900. (145 pages). Devoted Mormon and mother of six.
Jamieson, Peter. Born 1941. Narrow gauge railways and architecture.
Jardine, Lisa. Born 1944. (16 pages). Historian.
Jerome, Jerome K. Born 1859. (108 pages). Author of ‘Three Men in a Boat’.
Johnson, Anne. Born 1954. (17 pages). Professor of epidemiology.
Johnson, Katherine. Born 1918. (18 pages). Mathematician of the US space race.
Johnston, Edward. Born 1872. (35 pages). Calligrapher and typeface designer.
Keegan, Tim. Born 1968. (10 pages). Retail analyst and knife sharpener.
Kelly, John. Born 1938. (10 pages). Naval officer and helicopterpilot.
Kennedy, John. Born 1821. (5 pages). Naval officer during the Crimean War.
Kerr, Malcolm. Born 1931. (10 pages). President, American University of Beirut.
Koblikoff, Alexander. Born 1990. (9 pages). Award winning Ukranian juggler.
Lampson, Curtis. Born 1806. (16 pages). Fur trading and transatlantic cables.
Larmuth, Leopold. Born 1855. (14 pages). Ear surgeon in the Lake District.
Lasdun, Denys Louis. Born 1914. (134 pages). Architect of the National Theatre.
Lee, Michael. Born 1932. (40 pages). Manufacturer of research instruments.
Lewis, John Spedan. Born 1885. (28 pages). Pioneer of employee ownership.
Lewis, Martin. Born 1972. (10 pages). Journalist, Campaigner, and Entrepreneur.
Leyser, Ottoline. Born 1965. (15 pages). Professor of Plant Biology.
Lockwood, Clare. Born 1955. (26 pages). Airline management and teaching.
Long, Susan. Born c.1987. (11 pages). Humanitarian engineer.
Lorton, Joseph. Born 1851. (11 pages). Victorian police constable.
Lubbock, Cecil. Born 1872. (77 pages). Businessman and banker.
Lucas, Charles. Born 1964. (11 pages). Childhood living in a Chelsea hotel.
Luckock, Arthur. Born 1880. (6 pages). Vicar.
Luckock, Edward. Born 1871. (101 pages). Land agent.
Luckock, Herbert. Born 1833. (35 pages). Dean of Lichfield Cathedral.
Luckock, Russell. Born 1877. (19 pages). Army officer in Boer and First World Wars.
Luttrell, Hugh. Born 1857. (26 pages) Liberal Member of Parliament.
Luttrell, John. Born 1915. (23 pages). A career in Middle East oil companies.
Luttrell, William. Born 1908. (30 pages). Economist.
Lyon, Russell. Born 1922. (34 pages). Spitfire pilot who died in action aged 21.
MacCormac, Richard. Born 1940. (20 pages). Architect.
Macfarlane, Alan. Born 1941. (3074 pages). Anthropologist and historian.
Macfarlane, Donald. Born 1916. (247 pages). Tea planter in northern India.
Macfarlane, Iris. Born 1922. (461 pages). Writer and wife of an Assam tea planter.
MacKay, David. Born 1967. (15 pages). Scientist and communicator.
Mackay, Donald. Born 1926. (40 pages). Engineer and Mayor of Cambridge.
Mackay, Roderick. Born 1880. (23 pages). Engineer of Los Angeles Aqueduct.
Mackenzie, Alexander. Born 1787. (17 pages). Canal constructor and hotelier.
Mackenzie, Edward. Born 1811. (14 pages). Victorian railway contractor.
Magie, Lizzie. Born 1866, (21 pages). Inventor of the Monopoly board game.
Mahon, Michael. Born 1945. (18 pages). Irish airline pilot.
Mair, Robert James. Born 1950. (152 pages). Baron Mair. Geotechnical engineer.
Mair, William Austyn. Born 1917. (16 pages). Aeronautical engineer.
Martin, Gerry. Born 1930. (14 pages). Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Mayer, Arthur. Born 1884. (12 pages). Chef.
McKee, David. Born 1935. (23 pages). Writer and illustrator of children’s books.
Mehrez, Shahira. Born 1943. (16 pages). Multiple lives in a turbulent Egypt.
Melville, John Murray. Born 1914. (150 pages). Life as a prisoner of war.
Micol, Irene. Born 1924. (57 pages). Teacher of Russian in France.
Miller, Hugh. Born c.1989. (15 pages). Furniture maker.
Minkin, Lewis. Born 1936. (36 pages). Historian of the Labour Party.
Muybridge, Eadweard. Born 1830. (17 pages). Photographer of motion.
Nash, David. Born 1945. (277 pages). Sculptor.
Nelson, Michael. Born 1929. (31 pages). Digital pioneer and author.
Neres, Philip. Born 1922. (19 pages). Special Operations agent.
Newlands, Robin. (13 pages). River conservator and vintage boat enthusiast.
Nicholson, Robin. Born 1944. (30 pages). Architect.
Niemann, Derek. (9 pages). Author.
Nizzoli, Marcello. Born 1887. (10 pages). Artist, architect, and product designer.
Noble, John. Born 1937. (36 pages). Landowner and oyster farmer.
Norman, Priscilla. Born 1883. (17 pages). Suffragist & scooterist.
Oglethorpe, William. Born c.1980. (15 pages). Urban cheese maker.
Orde-Lees, Thomas. Born 1877. (28 pages). Antarctic explorer and parachutist.
Otis, Elisha. Born 1811. (15 pages). Inventor of the safety elevator.
Owers, David. Born 1934. (41 pages). Architect and artist.
Penkala, Eduard. Born 1871. (10 pages). Inventor of the hot water bottle.
Pepys, Samuel. Born 1633. (112 pages). Secretary of the Admiralty and diarist.
Perry, Colin. Born 1940. (8 pages). Businessman.
Petrie, Irene. Born 1864. (370 pages). Missionary in India.
Phillips, Winifred. Born 1926. (9 pages). First female Chelsea Pensioner.
Plumb, Joseph. Born 1845. (11 pages). Gardener.
Potter, Richard. Born 1778. (16 pages). Electoral reformer and Liberal MP.
Potter, Richard. Born 1817. (10 pages). Investor in timber and railways.
Powell, Kathleen. Born 1903. (179 pages). Wife and mother in Burma.
Price, Veronica Mary. Born 1949. (37 pages). Teacher.
Pullan, Wendy. (26 pages). Architect researching conflict cities.
Rabeneck, Andrew. Born 1942. (92 pages). Architect and construction historian.
Rabeneck, Charles. Born 1888. (15 pages). Anglo Russian businessman.
Rabeneck, Edouard. Born 1858. (54 pages). Russian industrialist.
Rabeneck, Eugenie. Born 1862. (8 pages). A refugee travel diary.
Rabeneck, Helen. Born 1907. (9 pages). Carer.
Rabeneck, Lev. Born 1883. (12 pages). Anglo Russian businessman.
Rams, Dieter. Born 1932. (22 pages). Designer of Braun consumer products.
Raverat, Gwen. Born 1885. (129 pages). A Cambridge childhood.
Rees, Martin. Born 1942. (12 pages). Cosmologist and astrophysicist.
Reid, Alexander. Born 1941. (99 pages). Architecture & telecomms.
Reid, Anna. Born 1965. (13 pages). Author.
Reid, Hilda. Born 1898. (37 pages). Novelist between the wars.
Reid, Louisa. Born 1906. (88 pages). Naval wife and writer.
Reid, Philip Henry Stewart. Born 1901. (42 pages). Naval officer & prisoner of war.
Reid, Philip Owen. Born 1989. (17 pages) Growing up in London and Cambridge.
Rivolta, Renzo. Born 1908. (29 pages). Italian designer of the Isetta bubble car.
Robbins, Trevor. Born 1949. (37 pages). Professor of cognitive neuroscience.
Roberts, Emrys. Born 1910. (66 pages). Lawyer and Member of Parliament.
Roberts, Owen Owen. Born 1870. (10 pages). Ironmonger and Councillor.
Rowland, Sarah. Born 1858. (10 pages). Parlour maid to a sporting parson.
Saarinen, Eero. Born 1910. (113 pages). Architect and furniture designer.
Sabben-Clare, James. Born 1941. (10 pages). Headmaster of Winchester College.
Sackville-West, Pepita. Born 1830. (196 pages). Spanish dancer.
Sackville-West, Vita. Born 1892. (30 pages). Writer and garden designer.
Sahakian, Barbara. Born 1952. (19 pages). Professor of clinical neuropsychology.
Sainsbury, David. Born 1940. (15 pages). A career in business and politics.
Savery, Constance. Born 1897. (15 pages). Author.
Savin, Thomas. Born 1826. (28 pages). Railway engineer in Wales.
Schaffer, Simon. Born 1955. (28 pages). Historian of Science.
Scott, Adam. Born 1950. (7 pages). Lawyer, priest, army officer, and businessman.
Scott, William Harding. Born 1862. (14 pages). Electrical engineer.
Scott-Moncrieff, Sir Colin Campbell. Born 1836. (4 pages). Engineer of the Nile.
Sen, Amartya. Born 1933. (39 pages). Nobel Prize winning economist.
Shafik, Doria. Born 1908. (21 pages). Campaigner for women’s rights.
Shaw, Percy. Born 1890. (10 pages). Inventor of Catseye road reflecting studs.
Shiers, Allan. Born c.1955. (12 pages). Harp maker.
Shoard, Marion. Born 1949. (23 pages). Author and campaigner.
Sinclair, Clive. Born 1940. (192 pages). Technology entrepreneur.
Smith, Anthony. Born 1938. (41 pages). Broadcaster, author and academic.
Smith, Eddie. Born 1890. (236 pages). A Royal Engineer in the First World War.
Smith, John. Born 1923. (21 pages). Banker and founder of the Landmark Trust.
Smith, Michael. Born 1939. (16 pages) . Naval helicopter pilot and entrepreneur.
Smith, William Henry. Born 1792. (10 pages). Creator of W.H.Smith.
Sousa, John Philip. Born 1854. (486 pages). Composer and conductor.
Southward, David. Born 1936. (31 pages). Cambridge technology entrepreneur.
Spence, Robin. Born 1938. (25 pages). Architect.
Stanier, Alexander. Born 1899. (73 pages). Decorated officer in two world wars.
Steadman, Fred. Born 1911. (61 pages). Chemical engineer and parson.
Steadman, Philip. Born 1942. (22 pages). Professor of Architecture.
Steiner, George. Born 1929. (29 pages). Professor of Comparative Literature.
Stern, Michael. Born 1922. (63 pages). Founder of a multi-racial school in Africa.
Stevens, Jocelyn. Born 1932. (32 pages). Newspaper man and public servant.
Stevenson, Marc & Tony. Born c.1955. (11 pages). Rocking horse makers.
Stoddart, Ista. Born 1911. 34 pages). Farming during the Second World War.
Sundback, Gideon. Born 1880. (11 pages). Inventor of the zip fastener.
Swan, Nancie. Born 1924. (39 pages). Burma, India, and teaching.
Swan, Neil. Born 1953. (17 pages). Childhood in Burma and India.
Taylor, Andy. Born c.1965. (18 pages). Trumpet maker.
Taylor, John. Born 1936. (43 pages). Inventor of kettle thermostats and clocks.
Thomas, Antony. Born 1940. (25 pages). Childhood of a documentary film maker.
Thomas, Dylan. Born 1914. (107 pages). Writer.
Thomas, John Meurig. Born 1932. (15 pages). Professor of Chemistry.
Thompson, Elizabeth. Born 1814. (38 pages). A Victorian grandmother.
Thomson, Alexander. Born 1817. (16 pages). ‘Greek’ Thomson, architect.
Thorn, John. Born 1925. (8 pages). Headmaster of Winchester College.
Tootill, Kathleen. Born 1904. (37 pages). Teacher and cross-Channel canoeist.
Tracey, Basil & Katherine. Born 1899. (14 pages). Doctor and mother.
Tracey, Peter. Born 1937. (58 pages). Innovator.
Traversy, Nancy. Born 1960. (20 pages). Children’s book publisher.
Trelawny, Clarence. Born 1826. (5 pages). Officer in the Radetsky Hussars.
Trubshaw, Brian. Born 1924. (14 pages). Concorde test pilot.
Tudor, Frederic. Born 1783. (46 pages). Ice harvesting entrepreneur.
Tyler, Wat. Born 1341. (10 pages). Leader of the Peasants’ Revolt.
Vallance, Iain. Born 1943. (18 pages). Chairman of British Telecom.
Van de Ven, Hans. Born 1958. (18 pages). Professor of Modern Chinese History.
Van Jeens, Leonard. Born c.1920. (11 pages). Hairdressing entrepreneur.
Vardag, Ayesha. Born 1968. (14 pages). Divorce lawyer for the very wealthy.
Wakeford, George. Born 1900. (20 pages). Professional beekeeper.
Walbank, Albert. Born 1879. (16 pages) Teacher.
Walbank, Frank. Born 1909. (205 pages). Professor of Ancient History.
Walbank, William. Born 1840. (13 pages). Boot mender.
Waldegrave, William. Born 1946. (46 pages). Conservative politician.
Waterstone, Tim. Born 1939. (12 pages). Bookseller.
Watts, Gordon. Born 1918. (28 pages). Army officer.
Watts, Patrick. Born 1912. (18 pages). Monk, Catholic priest, and teacher.
Watts, Paul. Born 1944. (54 pages). Military and industrial education.
Watts, Tony. Born 1942. (87 pages). Career development research and public policy.
Watts, Veronica. Born 1919. (42 pages). Teacher.
Webster, Gordon McWhirter. Born 1908. (24 pages). Stained glass artist.
Webster, Robin. Born 1939. (44 pages). Architect.
Wedderburn, David. Born 1835. (472 pages). Traveller, diarist and Liberal MP.
Wedderburn, Jabez. Born 1864. (9 pages). Scale maker in Australia.
Wedderburn, John. Born 1700. (8 pages). Country gentleman and rebel.
Wedderburn, John. Born 1825. (29 pages). Killed with his family in the Indian Mutiny.
Wedderburn, Robert. Born 1762. (7 pages). Author of ‘Horrors of Slavery’.
Wedderburn, William. Born 1838. (192 pages). MP and campaigner for Indian self rule.
Wells, H. G. Born 1866. (328 pages). Futurist writer.
Willcocks, David. Born 1919. (16 pages). Choral conductor, organist and composer.
Williams, John Kyffin. Born 1918. (168 pages). Artist of the Welsh landscape.
Williams, Rowan. Born 1950. (21 pages). Theologian, poet and Archbishop of Canterbury.
Wills, Anthony. Born 1954. (16 pages). Product designer and inventor of the D-Form.
Wilson, Richard. Born 1942. (28 pages). Head of the Home Civil Service.
Worthington, John. Born 1938. (13 pages). Architect and urbanist.
Yuan, Eric. Born 1970. (18 pages). Founder and CEO of Zoom.
Zweig, Stefan. Born 1881. (334 pages). Novelist, biographer and playwright.