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- Abingdon Abbey Abingdon, Berkshire
- Cambridge University: King's Hall Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge University: Michaelhouse Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge University: Trinity College Cambridge, Cambridgeshire;Monks Kirby, Warwickshire;Withybrook, Warwickshire;Newbold-on-Avon, Warwickshire;Ware, Hertfordshire;Flintham, Nottinghamshire
- Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury Canterbury, Kent
- Deer Abbey Deer, Aberdeenshire
- Ely Cathedral Priory (formerly Abbey) Ely, Cambridgeshire
- Sheen Priory (Carthusian) Sheen, Surrey;Ware, Hertfordshire
- Ware Priory (Alien) Ware, Hertfordshire
Persons (468)
- Abercrombie, Lascelles, (1881-1938), poet and critic
- Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, (1834-1902), 1st Baron Acton, historian
- Adams, John Frank, (1930-1989), mathematician
- Addison, Joseph, (1672-1719), writer and politician
- Adrian, Edgar Douglas, (1889-1977), 1st Baron Adrian, physiologist
- Aide, Charles Hamilton, (1826-1906), author and musician
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Aitken, Alexander Craig, (1895-1967), mathematician
- Akerman, John Yonge, (1806-1873), numismatist and antiquary
- Allen, John, (1810-1886), Archdeacon of Salop
- Armitage, John Vernon, (b 1932), Mathematician
- Armitage, Whalley, (1767-1855), Barrister and Estate Agent
- Arnold, Sir Edwin, (1832-1904), Knight, poet and journalist
- Babington, George Gisborne, (1794-1856), surgeon
- Babington, John, (1791-1885), Canon of Peterborough
- Babington, Joseph, (1768-1833), Physician
- Babington, Matthew, (1792-1836), Banker
- Babington, Thomas, (1758-1837), MP for Leicester
- Bale, John, (1495-1563), Bishop of Ossory, antiquary
- Balfour, Arthur James, (1848-1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
- Banting, John Frederick, (1902-1972), Painter and Designer
- Barnes, Richard Nelson, (1808-1889), Vicar of Kingsclere
- Barton, Bernard, (1784-1849), Quaker Poet
- Beaufort, Sir Francis, (1774-1857), Knight, Rear Admiral, hydrographer
- Bell, Arthur Clive Heward, (1881-1964), art critic
- Bell, Beaupre, (1704-1745), Antiquary
- Bell, George, (1814-1890), publisher
- Bell, Vanessa, (1879-1961), artist London
- Benson, Arthur Christopher, (1862-1925), writer
- Benson, Edward White, (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Bentham, Jeremy, (1748-1832), lawyer, philosopher, writer on jurisprudence
- Bentley, Richard, (1662-1742), scholar and critic
- Berry, Mary, (1763-1852), author and friend of Horace Walpole
- Besicovitch, Abram Samoilovitch, (1891-1970), mathematician
- Bethell, Christopher, (1773-1859), Bishop of Bangor
- Bethune, John Elliot Drinkwater, (1801-1851), administrator in India and educationist
- Bickersteth, Edward, (1786-1850), Secretary of the Christian Missionary Society Rector of Watton
- Bickersteth, Henry, (1750-1821), Surgeon
- Bickersteth, John, (1781-1855), Post Office Clerk Rector of Sapcote
- Binnie, Alfred Maurice, (1901-1986), engineer
- Blair, Robert, (1845-1923), antiquary
- Blakesley, Joseph Williams, (1808-1885), Dean of Lincoln
- Blomfield, Charles James, (1786-1857), Bishop of London
- Borrow, George Henry, (1803-1881), writer and traveller
- Bottomley, Gordon, (1874-1948), poet and dramatist
- Bowen, Edward Ernest, (1836-1901), schoolmaster and songwriter
- Boyd, Walter, (c 1754-1837), Financier and MP
- Bray, Anna Eliza, (1790-1883), novelist
- Brewster, Sir David, (1781-1868), Knight, natural philosopher
- Brian, Percy Wragg, (1910-1979), botanist
- Bridges, Robert Seymour, (1844-1930), Poet Laureate
- Bright, Henry Arthur, (1830-1884), Merchant and Author
- Bright, John, (1811-1889), politician Rochdale, Lancashire
- Broad, Charlie Dunbar, (1887-1971), Philosopher
- Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins, (1817-1880), 2nd Baronet, chemist
- Bromet, William, (d 1850), physician and antiquary
- Brooke, Bernard Jocelyn, (1908-1966), poet, naturalist
- Browne, Isaac Hawkins, (1705-1760), wit and poet
- Bruce, Victor Alexander, (1849-1917), 9th Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Viceroy of India
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, (1803-1873), 1st Baron Lytton, statesman and novelist
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert, (1831-1891), 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Bunsen, Sir Maurice William Ernest de, (1852-1932), Knight, diplomat
- Burgon, John William, (1813-1888), Dean of Chichester, antiquary
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis, (1821-1890), explorer, diplomat and author
- Butler, George, (1774-1853), Dean of Peterborough
- Butler, Sir George Geoffrey Gilbert, (1887-1929), Knight, MP and historian
- Butler, Henry Montagu, (1833-1918), Headmaster of Harrow Master of Trinity Cambridge
- Butler, Sir James Ramsay Montagu, (1889-1975), Knight, historian
- Butler, Sir Neville Montagu, (1893-1973), Knight, Knight Diplomat
- Butler, Richard Austen, (1902-1982), Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, politician
- Buxton, Sydney Charles, (1853-1934), 1st Earl Buxton, Governor General of South Africa
- Camden, William, (1551-1623), antiquary, herald and schoolmaster
- Campbell, James Dykes, (1838-1895), Biographer
- Campion, Edmund, (1540-1581), Saint and Jesuit Martyr, historian
- Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, (1801-1866), poet and writer
- Carlyle, Thomas, (1795-1881), historian, essayist and philosopher
- Cassel, Sir Ernest Joseph, (1852-1921), Knight Banker Philanthropist
- Cassels, John William Scott, (b 1922), mathematician
- Cavendish, William, (1808-1891), 7th Duke of Devonshire
- Cazenove, John, (1788-1879), author
- Chadwick, John Albert, (1899-1939), Philosopher
- Challis, James, (1803-1882), Astronomer
- Chalmers, Thomas, (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer
- Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Austen, (1863-1937), Knight, politician
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, (1910-1995), applied mathematician and astrophysicist
- Chibnall, Albert Charles, (1894-1988), Biochemist Local Historian
- Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley, (1827-1896), statesman
- Childers, Robert Erskine, (1870-1922), author and politician
- Clark, George Sidney Roberts Kitson, (1900-1975), historian
- Clark, John Willis, (1833-1910), scientist, archaeologist and historian of Cambridge
- Clark, William, (1788-1869), anatomist
- Clark, William George, (1821-1878), literary and classical scholar
- Cobbett, William, (1763-1835), MP, author, journalist and publisher
- Cochrane, James Inglis, (fl 1852-1867), translator
- Cochrane-Baillie, Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart, (1816-1890), 1st Baron Lamington, politician
- Collins, Cecil, (1908-1989), painter
- Collins, Sir Robert Hawthorn, (1841-1908), Knight, Comptroller to the Royal Household
- Compton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne, (1790-1851), 2nd Marquess of Northampton
- Copley, John Singleton, (1772-1863), 1st Baron Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor
- Cornford, Christopher, (1917-1993), Artist
- Cornford, Frances Crofts, (1886-1960), poet
- Cornford, Francis Macdonald, (1874-1943), Classical Scholar Poet
- Cornford, Rupert John, (1915-1936), Poet
- Cornforth, Sir John Warcup, (1917-2013), Knight Chemist
- Coulson, Charles Alfred, (1910-1974), Mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious writer
- Courtauld, Samuel, (1876-1947), Industrialist Art Collector
- Cowper, William, (1731-1800), poet
- Cox, Sir Ernest Gordon, (1906-1996), crystallographer and secretary of the Agricultural Research Council
- Coxeter, Harold Scott Macdonald, (1907-2003), mathematician London;Toronto, Ontario
- Crabbe, George, (1754-1832), poet
- Cross, Mary Ann, (1819-1880), novelist and poet Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Crowe, Catherine Ann, (1790-1876), novelist and dramatist
- Crowther, James Gerald, (1899-1983), science journalist
- Cullum, George Gery Milner-Gibson, (1857-1921), antiquary
- Curzon, Robert, (1810-1873), 14th Baron Zouche
- Cust, Henry John Cockayne, (1861-1917), MP and journalist
- Cuthbertson, Sir David Paton, (1900-1989), Knight, pathological biochemist
- Dalton, John Neale, (1839-1931), Canon of Windsor, antiquary and liturgical scholar
- Darley, George, (1795-1846), Poet and Mathematician
- Darwin, Sir Robert Vere, (1910-1974), painter
- Davenport, Harold, (1907-1969), mathematician
- Dawkins, Sir Clinton Edward, (1859-1905), Knight, civil servant
- Dawson, Warren Royal, (1888-1968), Egyptologist and antiquary
- Dee, John, (1527-1608), Mathematician and Astrologer
- Dessiou, Joseph Foss, (1769-1853), hydrographer
- Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, (1776-1847), vicar of Exning, antiquary and bibliographer
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam, (1812-1870), novelist and journalist
- Digby, Kenelm Henry, (c 1796-1880), writer
- Disraeli, Benjamin, (1804-1881), Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman
- Dobb, Maurice Herbert, (1900-1976), communist and economist
- Donaldson, St Clair George Alfred, (1863-1935), Bishop of Salisbury
- Donne, William Bodham, (1807-1882), Examiner of Plays
- Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, (1810-1888), 2nd Baronet, poet
- Duff, James Duff, (1860-1940), classical scholar
- Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley, (1882-1944), Knight, theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
- Egerton, Francis, (1800-1857), 1st Earl of Ellesmere, politician, poet
- Ellice, Edward, (1810-1880), politician
- Elliott, Henry Venn, (1792-1865), clergyman, traveller and author
- Ellis, Henry, (1721-1806), explorer and colonial governor
- Ellis, Robert Leslie, (1817-1859), scientist
- Ellis, Thomas Flower, (1796-1861), law reporter
- Elsden, Sidney Reuben, (1915-2006), biologist
- Evans, Robert Wilson, (1789-1866), Church of England clergyman and author
- Evans, William, (1788-1856), MP
- Evelyn, John, (1620-1706), diarist, traveller, numismatist, antiquary and gardener
- Evennett, Henry Outram, (1901-1964), Historian
- Everett, Edward, (1794-1865), American Clergyman Diplomat and Statesman
- Fane, Julian Henry Charles, (1827-1870), Diplomat and Poet
- Faraday, Michael, (1791-1867), natural philosopher
- Farish, James, (1802-1853), Surgeon
- Farrar, Frederic William, (1831-1903), Dean of Canterbury
- Fedden, Robin Romilly, (b 1908), author
- Field, Frederick, (1801-1885), Rector of Reepham Classical and Biblical Scholar
- Fitch, William Stevenson, (1792-1859), Suffolk antiquary
- Fitzgerald, Edward, (1809-1883), poet and translator
- Fitzmaurice, Henry Charles Keith, (1845-1927), 5th Marquess of Landsdowne, statesman
- Flamsteed, John, (1646-1719), astronomer
- Foley, Grace, (d1769) Baroness Foley, noblewoman
- Forbes, James David, (1809-1868), natural philosopher
- Forster, Edward Morgan, (1879-1970), novelist and critic
- Forster, John, (1812-1876), historian and biographer
- Forster, William Edward, (1818-1886), statesman
- Franklin, Sir Benjamin, (1844-1917), Knight Surgeon General
- Frazer, Lady Daniel, (fl 1895-1940), Lily Author
- Frazer, Sir James George, (1854-1941), Knight, social anthropologist
- Fremantle, Sir Charles William, (1834-1914), Knight, Knight Deputy Master of Mint Director of Suez Canal Co
- Frisch, Otto Robert, (1904-1979), German physicist
- Gale, Roger, (1672-1744), Antiquary
- Garrett, Charles Geoffrey Blythe, (1925-2017), physicist Tonbridge, Kent;East Hampton, New York
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot, (1830-1903), 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, statesman
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, (1810-1865), novelist Chelsea, Middlesex
- Gisborne, Thomas, (1758-1846), Prebendary of Durham, author
- Gladstone, William Ewart, (1809-1898), statesman
- Gloucester, William Frederick, (1776-1834), 2nd Duke of Gloucester
- Godwin, Francis, (1562-1633), Bishop of Llandaff and Hereford Antiquary
- Goschen, George Joachim, (1831-1907), 1st Viscount Goschen, statesman
- Goulburn, Henry, (1784-1856), statesman
- Gow, Andrew Sydenham Farrar, (1886-1978), Classical Scholar
- Grant, Arthur James, (1862-1948), historian and professor, Leeds University
- Granville, George, (1667-1735), Baron Lansdowne, poet and dramatist
- Gray, David, (1838-1861), poet
- Grey, Sir Edward, (1862-1933), Viscount Grey of Falloden, statesman
- Grote, George, (1794-1871), MP and historian
- Grote, Harriet, (1792-1878), biographer
- Grote, John, (1813-1866), Fellow of Trinity College, vicar and philosopher Cambridge, Cambridgeshire;Trumpington, Cambridgeshire
- Gurney, Hudson, (1775-1864), antiquary and poet
- Hall, Ann Maria, (1800-1881), novelist and playwright
- Hallam, Arthur Henry, (1811-1833), Subject of Tennyson's "in Memoriam"
- Hallam, Henry, (1777-1859), historian
- Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, (1820-1889), antiquary and literary scholar
- Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, (1853-1947), Knight, General
- Hamilton, Sir William Rowan, (1805-1865), Knight, mathematician
- Hammond, James Lempriere, (1829-1880), scholar and public servant
- Hamson, Charles John Joseph, (1905-1987), jurist
- Hanmer, John, (1809-1881), Baron Hanmer, poet and MP
- Harcourt, Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon, (1827-1904), Knight, statesman
- Hardy, Godfrey Harold, (1877-1947), mathematician
- Hare, Julius Charles, (1795-1855), author and Church of England clergyman
- Harris, Sir William Snow, (1791-1867), Knight, electrician
- Harrisson, Thomas, (1911-1976), Anthropologist
- Harrod, Sir Roy Forbes, (1900-1978), Knight, economist
- Hartshorne, Albert, (1839-1910), archaeologist and antiquary
- Hawkins, Edward, (1789-1882), Provost of Oriel College Oxford
- Haworth, Robert Downs, (1898-1990), chemist
- Hawtrey, Edward Craven, (1789-1862), Provost of Eton
- Hayter, Stanley William, (1901-1988), painter and print maker
- Hayward, Abraham, (1801-1884), essayist
- Hebbes, Thomas, (d17666), clergyman
- Heilbronn, Hans Arnold, (1908-1975), mathematician
- Henderson, John, (1862-1938), secretary of National Liberal Club
- Henslow, John Stevens, (1796-1861), botanist and Church of England clergyman
- Herbert, Henry Howard Molyneux, (1831-1890), 4th Earl of Carnarvon, statesman
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Hicks, Sir John Richard, (1904-1989), Knight Economist
- Higgins, Matthew James, (1810-1868), journalist
- Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley, (1898-1975), Knight Chemist
- Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd, (1914-1998), Knight, physiologist Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot, (1910-1994), chemist
- Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, (1792-1862), friend and biographer of Shelley
- Holland, Sir Henry, (1788-1873), 1st Baronet, physician
- Hooke, Robert, (1635-1703), natural philosopher Freshwater, Isle of Wight
- Hope, Alexander James Beresford Beresford-, (1820-1887), politician and writer
- Horne, Richard Hengist, (1803-1884), author
- Horner, Francis, (1778-1817), Politician
- Hort, Fenton John Anthony, (1828-1892), scholar and theologian
- Housman, Alfred Edward, (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar
- Housman, Laurence, (1865-1959), writer and artist
- Hume, David, (1711-1776), philosopher and historian
- Humphrey, John Herbert, (1915-1987), immunologist
- Huxley, Andrew Fielding, (1917-2012), neurophysiologist and Master of Trinity College
- Ibbetson, Sir Denzil Charles Jelf, (1847-1908), Knight Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab
- Ingham, Albert Edward, (1900-1967), Mathematician
- Jackson, Henry, (1839-1921), classical scholar
- Jacobson, William, (1803-1884), Bishop of Chester
- Jaeger, John Conrad, (1907-1979), geophysicist
- James, Henry, (1843-1916), novelist
- James, Montague Rhodes, (1862-1936), Biblical Scholar Antiquary Palaeographer
- Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse, (1841-1905), Knight, classical scholar historian MP educationist
- Jones, Richard, (1790-1855), political economist
- Joseph, Mayor, (c 1789-1860), Fellow of St John's College Rector of South Collingham
- Kahn, Richard Ferdinand, (1905-1989), Baron Kahn of Hampstead, economist
- Keynes, John Maynard, (1883-1946), Baron Keynes of Tilton, economist
- King, Charles William, (1818-1888), Author Lapidary
- King, Edward, (1735-1807), Barrister Antiquary
- Kinglake, Alexander William, (1809-1891), MP, historian and traveller
- Kingsley, Charles, (1819-1875), Canon of Westminster author
- Knight, Bert Cyril James Gabriel, (1904-1981), microbiologist
- Labouchere, Henry, (1798-1869), 1st Baron Taunton, statesman
- Laird, John, (1887-1946), philosopher
- Lamb, Sir Walter Rangeley Maitland, (1882-1961), Knight Secretary of Royal Academy of Arts
- Lapsley, Gaillard Thomas, (1871-1949), Historian
- Latimer, Frederick William, (1845-1910), Indian civil servant
- Layton, Sir Walter Thomas, (1884-1966), 1st Baron of Danehill, economist
- Leveson-Gower, Granville George, (1815-1891), 2nd Earl Granville, statesman
- Lewes, George Henry, (1817-1878), author
- Linfoot, Edward Hubert, (1905-1982), Astronomer Mathematician Researcher in Optics
- Littlewood, John Edensor, (1885-1977), Mathematician
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick, (1821-1895), poet
- Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane, (1846-1915), children's writer
- Lockhart, John Gibson, (1794-1854), writer and literary editor
- Lubbock, Sir John William, (1803-1865), 3rd Baronet, astronomer and mathematician
- Lyell, Sir Charles, (1797-1875), 1st Baronet, geologist
- Lyttelton, George William, (1817-1876), 4th Baron Lyttelton
- Macaulay, Aulay, (1758-1819), Writer and Antiquary
- Macaulay, Colin, (1760-1836), Lieutenant General Indian Army
- Macaulay, Dame Emilie Rose, (1881-1958), novelist, travel writer and critic
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, (1800-1859), Baron Macaulay, statesman and historian
- Macaulay, Zachary, (1768-1838), Philanthropist
- Mahler, Kurt, (1903-1988), German mathematician
- Mann, Frederick George, (1897-1982), Chemist
- Marston, Hedley Ralph, (1900-1965), biochemist
- Martin, Archer John Porter, (b 1910), chemist
- Martin, Francis, (1802-1868), Fellow and Vice Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Martin, Louis Claude, (b 1891), physicist
- Martineau, James, (1805-1900), Unitarian minister
- Mathias, Thomas James, (? 1754-1835), Satirist and Italian Scholar
- Mayor, Flora Macdonald, (1872-1932), novelist
- Mayor, John, (1756-1826), vicar of Shawbury
- Mayor, John Eyton Bickersteth, (1825-1910), classical scholar and antiquary
- Mayor, Joseph Bickersteth, (1828-1916), Fellow of St John's College Headmaster Professor of Classics at King's College London
- Mayor, Robert, (1791-1846), Missionary Rector of Acton By Nantwich
- Mayor, Robert Bickersteth, (1820-1898), Clergyman Schoolmaster Mathematician
- Mayor, Robert John Grote, (1869-1947), civil servant and educationist
- McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees, (1872-1940), Bibliographer and Literary Scholar
- McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis, (1866-1925), philosopher
- Mill, John Stuart, (1806-1873), philosopher, MP
- Milman, Henry Hart, (1791-1868), Dean of St Paul's
- Milne, Edward Arthur, (1896-1950), astrophysicist and cosmologist
- Milner-Gibson, Susanna Arethusa, (1814-1885), society hostess
- Milnes, Richard Monckton, (1809-1885), 1st Baron Houghton, politician and poet
- Milton, John, (1608-1674), Poet
- Molyneux, William, (1656-1698), Philosopher
- Monk, Charles James, (1824-1900), MP for Gloucester
- Monk, James Henry, (1784-1856), Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol
- Montagu, Edwin Samuel, (1879-1924), Statesman
- Moore, George Edward, (1873-1958), philosopher
- Moore, Thomas Sturge, (1870-1944), writer and wood engraver
- Mordell, Louis Joel, (1888-1972), mathematician
- Morgan, Augustus de, (1806-1871), mathematician
- Morgan, Sydney, (c1781-1859), Lady Morgan, novelist
- Morley, Sir John, (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, statesman
- Mortimer, Charles Raymond Bell, (1895-1980), writer on literature and art critic
- Mottram, Vernon Henry, (1882-1976), Physiologist
- Mowatt, Sir Francis, (1837-1919), Knight Civil Servant
- Munby, Alan Noel Latimer, (1913-1974), librarian, bibliographer, historian and book collector
- Munby, Arthur Joseph, (1828-1910), poet and civil servant
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist
- Murray, George Gilbert Aime, (1866-1957), classicist and internationalist
- Musgrave, William, (? 1655-1721), Physician and Antiquary
- Myers, Frederic William Henry, (1843-1901), psychical researcher, schools inspector and author
- Myers, Leo Hamilton, (1881-1944), Novelist
- Nelthropp, Henry Leonard, (c1820-1901), Anglican clergyman, writer on clocks and watches
- Neuberger, Albert, (1908-1996), chemical pathologist
- Newton, Sir Isaac, (1642-1727), Knight, natural philosopher
- Nichols, John, (1745-1826), printer, author and antiquary
- Nichols, John Bowyer, (1779-1863), printer and antiquary
- Nichols, John Gough, (1806-1873), printer and antiquary
- Nicolson, Sir Arthur, (1849-1928), 11th Baronet and 1st Baron Carnock, diplomat
- Nightingale, Florence, (1820-1910), reformer of hospital nursing
- Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah, (1808-1877), poet and campaigner for women's rights
- O'Conor, Sir Nicholas Roderick, (1843-1908), Knight Diplomat
- Opie, Amelia, (1769-1853), novelist and poet
- Oppenheim, Lassa Francis Lawrence, (1858-1919), Professor of International Law
- Owen, Sir Richard, (1804-1892), Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
- Palgrave, Francis Turner, (1824-1897), poet and critic
- Pankhurst, Dame Christabel Harriette, (1881-1958), DBE, suffragette and political activist Trafford, Lancashire
- Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia, (1882-1960), suffragist and political campaigner Trafford, Lancashire
- Parker, Sir James, (1803-1852), Knight Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University
- Partridge, Frances Catherine, (1900-2004), writer and literary journalist
- Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton, (1823-1896), poet
- Paul, Charles Kegan, (1828-1902), author and publisher
- Peacock, George, (1791-1858), mathematician and university reformer
- Peacock, Thomas Love, (1785-1866), Novelist and Poet
- Pearse, George Godfrey, (1827-1905), General
- Peel, Sir Robert, (1788-1850), Baronet, 2nd Baronet, statesman
- Percy, Hugh, (1785-1847), 3rd Duke of Northumberland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Perutz, Max Ferdinand, (1914-2002), biologist
- Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline, (1867-1954), suffragist and social reformer
- Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William, (1871-1961), 1st Baron Pethick Lawrence, statesman
- Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry, (1780-1863), 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, statesman
- Phillips, John, (1800-1874), geologist
- Phipps, Sir Charles Beaumont, (1801-1866), Knight, Lieutenant Colonel and official of Royal Household
- Pigou, Arthur Cecil, (1877-1959), economist
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch, (1741-1821), literary figure and writer
- Pirie, Norman Wingate, (1907-1997), biochemist
- Polya, Georg, (1887-1985), German mathematician
- Porson, Richard, (1759-1808), Classical Scholar Radical Journalist
- Procter, Bryan Waller, (1787-1874), poet
- Quaritch, Bernard, (1819-1899), bookseller
- Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques, (1796-1874), Belgian mathematician and astronomer
- Rado, Richard, (1906-1989), mathematician Reading, Berkshire
- Raine, Kathleen Jessie, (1908-2003), poet
- Ramee, Marie Louise de la, (1839-1908), novelist
- Ray, John, (1627-1705), Naturalist
- Reade, John Edmund, (1800-1870), humorist and novelist
- Ricardo, David, (1772-1823), MP Economist
- Rickman, Thomas, (1776-1841), architect and historian
- Rigaud, Stephen Peter, (1774-1839), astronomer
- Rimington, Claude, (1902-1993), chemical pathologist
- Ritchie, Anne Isabella, (1837-1919), novelist and biographer
- Robertson, Sir Dennis Holme, (1890-1963), Knight, economist
- Robins, Elizabeth, (1862-1952), actress, author and suffragist
- Robinson, George Frederick Samuel, (1827-1909), 1st Marquess of Ripon, statesman
- Robinson, Henry Crabb, (1775-1867), Diarist
- Robinson, Joan Violet, (1903-1983), economist
- Robinson, Pamela Lamplugh, (1919-1994), Geologist and Vertebrate Palaeontologist
- Robson, Robert, (1929-1995), historian
- Rogers, Claude Ambrose, (b 1920), mathematician
- Rogers, Samuel, (1763-1855), poet
- Romilly, Joseph, (1791-1864), Archivist Registrary of Cambridge University
- Roscoe, William, (1753-1831), banker, botanist, historian and politician
- Rose, Hugh James, (1795-1838), Theologian and Author
- Roth, Klaus Friedrich, (b 1925), mathematician
- Rothschild, Nathaniel Meyer Victor, (1910-1990), 3rd Baron Rothschild
- Roy, Anthony D, (fl 1943-1980), Captain
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, (1872-1970), 3rd Earl Russell, philosopher
- Russell, Lord John, (1792-1878), 1st Earl Russell, statesman
- Sabine, Sir Edward, (1788-1883), Knight, General, geophysicist
- Sadler, Donald Harry, (1908-1987), astronomer
- Sedgwick, Adam, (1785-1873), geologist
- Sedgwick, Adam, (1854-1913), Zoologist
- Seeley, Sir John Robert, (1834-1895), Knight, historian
- Senior, Nassau William, (1790-1864), economist
- Shaffer, Peter Levin, (1926-2016), knight, playwright
- Sheepshanks, Richard, (1794-1855), astronomer
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, (1797-1851), author
- Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred, (1845-1936), Principal of Newnham College
- Sidgwick, Henry, (1838-1900), philosopher and educationalist
- Sike, Henry, (d 1712), Hebrew Scholar
- Smith, Adam, (1723-1790), philosopher and political economist
- Smith, Archibald, (1813-1872), mathematician
- Smith, Arthur Hamilton, (1860-1941), archaeologist
- Smith, Constance Babington, (1912-2000), author
- Smith, Sir Henry Babington, (1863-1923), Knight, public servant
- Smyth, William, (1765-1849), historian and poet
- Somerset, Charles A, (fl 1827-1855), Dramatist
- Somerville, Mary, (1780-1872), science writer and polymath
- Spedding, James, (1808-1881), editor
- Spender, Humphrey, (b 1910), painter
- Spring-Rice, Thomas, (1790-1866), 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon in Kerry, statesman
- Sraffa, Piero, (1898-1983), economist
- Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers, (1852-1924), Knight composer and conductor
- Stanley, Edward George Villiers, (1865-1948), 17th Earl of Derby, statesman
- Stanley, Edward Henry, (1826-1893), 15th Earl of Derby, statesman
- Stanley, Edward John, (1802-1869), 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, statesman
- Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, (1841-1904), Knight, explorer and journalist
- Stanton, Sir Thomas Ernest, (1865-1931), Knight, engineer
- Stephen, Sir James, (1789-1859), Knight, civil servant and historian
- Stephen, Sir Leslie, (1832-1904), Knight, man of letters, philosopher, biographer, mountaineer
- Swift, Jonathan, (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Dublin Satirist
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles, (1837-1909), poet
- Swinnerton-Dyer, Sir Henry Peter Francis, (b 1927), 16th Baronet Mathematician
- Synge, Richard Laurence Millington, (1914-1994), biochemist
- Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram, (1886-1975), Knight, physicist and engineer
- Tedder, John Michael, (1926-1994), 2nd Baron Tedder, chemist
- Temperley, Harold William Vazeille, (1879-1939), historian
- Temple, Frederick, (1821-1902), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Temple, Henry John, (1784-1865), 3rd Viscount Palmerston, statesman
- Tennyson, Alfred, (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet
- Tennyson, Sir Charles Bruce Locker, (1879-1977), Knight Author and Businessman
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, (1811-1863), novelist
- Thirlwall, Newell Connop, (1797-1875), Bishop of St Davids historian
- Thompson, William Hepworth, (1810-1886), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Thomson, Sir George Paget, (1892-1975), knight, physicist
- Thomson, Sir Joseph John, (1856-1940), Knight, physicist
- Thorp, Thomas, (1797-1877), Archdeacon of Bristol
- Thouless, Robert, (fl 1922-1944), psychologist
- Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de, (1805-1859), French writer
- Todhunter, Isaac, (1820-1884), mathematician
- Trench, Richard Chenevix, (1807-1886), Archbishop of Dublin
- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet Statesman and Historian
- Trevelyan, Julian Otto, (1910-1988), painter and etcher
- Trevelyan, Robert Calverley, (1872-1951), Poet and Dramatist
- Trollope, Anthony, (1815-1882), novelist
- Turing, Alan Mathison, (1912-1954), mathematician
- Turner, Dawson, (1775-1858), banker, botanist, art collector and antiquary Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
- Turner, Dawson William, (1815-1885), Philanthropist and Educational Writer
- Verney, Sir Harry Calvert Williams, (1881-1974), 4th Baronet, MP
- Verrall, Arthur Woollgar, (1851-1912), classical scholar
- Vibhaji, Sir Ranjitsinhji, (1872-1933), Maharajah of Nawangar, Knight
- Villiers, George William Frederick, (1800-1870), 4th Earl of Clarendon, statesman
- Waddington, William Henry, (1826-1894), French archaeologist and statesman
- Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville, (1887-1979), Knight, aeronautical designer and engineer Ripley, Derbyshire
- Warre-Cornish, Francis Warre, (1839-1916), schoolmaster, bibliophile and historian
- Warren, John Byrne Leicester, (1835-1895), 3rd Baron De Tabley, poet
- Warren, Samuel, (1807-1877), lawyer and writer
- Watts, George Frederic, (1817-1904), painter and sculptor
- Welby, Sir Reginald Earle, (1832-1915), 1st Baron Welby, civil servant
- Wellesley, Arthur, (1769-1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman
- Wellesley, Gerald, (1885-1972), 7th Duke of Wellington
- Whewell, William, (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, (1834-1903), painter
- White, John, (1839-1912), civil servant
- Whittaker, John William, (? 1790-1854), Vicar of Blackburn Theologian
- Wilberforce, Samuel, (1805-1873), Bishop of Oxford and Winchester
- Wilson, Sir Henry Francis Harry, (1859-1937), Knight, Orange River colonial secretary
- Winstanley, Denys Arthur, (1877-1947), historian
- Wisdom, Arthur John Terence Dibben, (1904-1993), Philosopher
- Wiskemann, Elizabeth, (1901-1971), writer
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, (1889-1951), philosopher
- Wood, Charles, (1800-1885), 1st Viscount Halifax, statesman
- Wordsworth, Christopher, (1774-1846), Master of Trinity College Cambridge
- Wordsworth, Christopher, (1807-1885), Bishop of Lincoln
- Wright, William Aldis, (1831-1914), Shakespearean and biblical scholar
- Young, Edward, (1683-1765), Poet and Dramatist
- Young, Geoffrey Winthrop, (1876-1958), Educationalist
Families (2)
- Babington family of Rothley Temple Rothley Temple, Leicestershire
- Crewe-Milnes family, Barons Houghton Crewe, Cheshire;Timberland, Lincolnshire;Clippesby, Norfolk;Everton, Nottinghamshire;Scrooby, Nottinghamshire;Madeley, Staffordshire;Radbourne, Warwickshire;Calne, Wiltshire;Austerfield, Yorkshire;Bawtry, Yorkshire;Ferry Frystone, Yorkshire;Great Houghton, Yorkshire
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (38)
- NRA 34000 John Frank Adams, mathematician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 32441 Babington family of Rothley Temple: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43845 Arthur Clive Heward Bell, art critic: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 35406 Edward White Benson, archbishop of Canterbury: diaries, notebooks and copy corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 35401 Joseph Williams Blakesley, dean of Lincoln: corresp
- NRA 43847 Charlie Dunbar Broad, philosopher: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 32443 Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39233 Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler, historian: personal and family corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 8554 Cambridge, Trinity College: Ware deeds and papers
- NRA 20697 John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst: misc corresp and papers
- NRA 43775 Francis Macdonald Cornford, classical scholar: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28914 Harold Davenport, mathematician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 35404 Henry Outram Evennett, historian: corresp and papers
- NRA 34804 Sir James George Frazer, social anthropologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 25187 Otto Robert Frisch, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 35405 Robert Hooke, natural philosopher: misc corresp and papers
- NRA 43846 Charles William King, author and lapidary: corresp and papers
- NRA 35402 Edward Hubert Linfoot, astronomer: notebooks
- NRA 43855 Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, novelist and critic: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 41144 Mayor, Grote and Bickersteth families: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 26344 James Henry Monk, Bishop of Gloucester, and Charles James Monk, politician: corresp and family pape link to online catalogue
- NRA 17362 Frederic William Henry Myers, author: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 25485 Carl Frederick Abel Pantin, zoologist: misc papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 35403 Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence, politician: corresp
- NRA 39229 Sir Dennis Holme Robertson, economist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 34807 Henry Sidgwick, philosopher and educationalist: personal and family corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 41013 Skidby manor
- NRA 32442 Sir Henry Babington Smith, public servant: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39219 Piero Sraffa, economist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 34805 Piero Sraffa, economist: MS collection
- NRA 41466 Richard Laurence Millington Synge, biochemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22889 Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, aerodynamicist: scientific and family corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24104 Sir George Thomson, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 23828 Sir Joseph John Thomson, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 43856 Julian Otto Trevelyan, painter and etcher: corresp and papers
- NRA 39236 Dawson Turner, botanist and antiquary: corresp and papers
- NRA 8804 William Whewell, mathematician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 39230 Denys Arthur Winstanley, historian: lectures link to online catalogue
Accessions
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