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Businesses (55)
- American Cuban Estates Corporation
- Anglo-South American Bank Ltd London
- Anglo-Argentine Refrigerating Co Ltd
- Anglo-Argentine Tramways Co Ltd
- Argentine Transandine Holdings Ltd London
- Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Packet Co
- Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Co
- Bahia and San Francisco Railway Co
- Balfour Williamson & Co Ltd, Chilean merchants London
- Bank of London & South America Ltd London
- Bank of Tarapaca and Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Bolanos Mining Co
- British Bank of South America Ltd London
- Buenos Aires & Pacific Railway Co Ltd London
- Catalinas Warehouses & Mole Co Ltd London
- Cia Estanifera De Ocuri, mining Chile
- Commercial Bank of Spanish America Ltd London
- Cuban Central Railways Ltd London
- John Francis De Luc, East Indies merchant
- Debrett's Illustrated Peerage & Baronetage, publishers London
- Havana Terminal Railroad Co London
- AM Heath & Co, literary agents London
- Hotel du Monte Moro, Saas Saas, Switzerland
- Frederick Huth & Co, merchants and merchant bankers London
- Edward Johnston & Co Ltd, coffee merchants London
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, publishers London
- Alexander King Brown & Co Ltd, textile merchants Manchester, Lancashire
- HK Lewis & Co Ltd, publishers, booksellers and medical and scientific library London
- Lobitos Oilfields Ltd Peru
- Lodge's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, publishers London
- London & Brazilian Bank Ltd London
- Mariano & Havana Railway Co Ltd London
- Matanzos Terminal Railroad Co London
- Mexico Tramways Company Mexico
- Moorside Trust Ltd, investment company London
- Nelson Steam Navigation Co Ltd Liverpool, Lancashire
- JC Nimmo, publishers London
- Pacific Loan & Investment Company
- Peruvian Corporation, railway and trading company London
- Real del Monte Mining Co Mexico
- River & Mercantile Trust Ltd, investment company London
- River Plate & General Investment Trust Co Ltd London
- Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, publishers London
- George Routledge & Co, publishers London
- Royal Mail Steam Packet Co London
- Santa Rosa Milling Co Ltd London
- J Henry Schroder & Co Ltd, merchant bankers London
- Tlahualilo Agricultural Company Ltd Mexico
- Nicholas Trubner, oriental publishers London
- United Railways of the Havana & Regla Warehouses Ltd Cuba
- Villa Maria & Rufino Railway Co London
- Western Railway of Havana Ltd London
- Western Telegraph Co Ltd London
- Merchant
- Merchant London
Organisations (46)
- Academic Women's Achievement Group London
- Anglo Norse Society
- Association for Promoting a Teaching University for London London
- Association of University Teachers: University College London branch London
- Basic English Foundation
- Biometrika Journal
- Board of Deputies of British Jews London
- British Maritime Law Association London
- British Mathematical Colloquium
- Chadwick Trust
- Consortium of University Research Libraries
- Flaxman Gallery, London London
- Gilchrist Educational Trust
- G B Greenough: Grove Lodge, Regents Park, Westminster Westminster, Middlesex
- Housman Centenary Exhibition
- Institute of Jewish Affairs London
- London Mathematical Society London
- London University: Institute of Archaeology London
- London University: University College London
- M25 Consortium of Higher Education Libraries London;Greater London
- Men and Women's Club, London London
- Metropolitan Red Lion Association London
- Norwegian Club, London London
- Royal Geographical Society London
- Shakespeare Association
- Slade School of Fine Art London
- Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
- Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews
- Spitalfields Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor Spitalfields, Middlesex
- St Christophers Working Boys Club, Fitzroy Square Westminster, Middlesex
- Standing Conference of National and University Libraries London
- Tewkesbury parish Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
- University College Hospital Ladies Asociation London
- University College Hospital Medical School, London London
- University College Hospital, London London
- University College London Department of Chemistry South Seas Club London
- University College London Guild of Graduates London
- University College London Gymnasium Society London
- University College London Medical Society London
- University College London Old Students' Association London
- University College London Roundhead Debating Society London
- University College London Union Debating Society London
- University College London Women's Debating Society London
- University College London Women's Union Society London
- University College Medical School, London London
- University College School, Hampstead Hampstead, Middlesex
Persons (895)
- Abercrombie, Michael (1912-1979), Director, Strangeways Research Laboratory
- Abercromby, James (1776-1858) 1st Baron Dunfermline, Speaker of House of Commons
- Acland, Sir William Alison Dyke (1847-1924) 2nd Baronet Admiral
- Adams, William Alexander (1821-1896), engineer
- Adams, William Bridges (1797-1872), engineer
- Adey, Daniel Goodson (1787-1872) Assistant Poor Law Commissioner
- Aguilar, Grace (1816-1847) Jewish Novelist
- Ainger, Alfred (1797-1859) Architect
- Aitken, John Thomas (1913-1992), anatomist
- Aitken, William Maxwell (1879-1964) 1st Baron Beaverbrook, newspaper proprietor
- Allen, George Cyril (1900-1982), economic historian
- Allen, William (1770-1843), Quaker scientist and philanthropist
- Altmann, Alexander (1906-1997) rabbi, Jewish scholar
- Amos, Andrew (1791-1860), lawyer and antiquary
- Andersson, Charles John (1827-1867), explorer and author
- Angus, Selby (fl 1988), chemical engineer
- Ansell, Charles (1794-1881) Actuary
- Anson, Sir William Reynell (1843-1914) 3rd Baronet MP Warden of All Souls
- Armstrong, Henry Edward (1848-1937) Chemist and Educationist
- Arnold, Samuel James (1774-1852) Dramatist
- Arnott, Neil (1788-1874) Physician and Scientist
- Ashley, Sir William James (1860-1927) Knight, economic historian
- Ashton, Thomas (1818-1898) Manchester Merchant and Politician
- Ashworth, Henry (1794-1880) Founder of Anti Corn Law League
- Astle, Thomas (1735-1803), antiquary, archivist and palaeographer
- Astor, Francis David Langhorne (1912-2001), journalist and editor
- Atkinson, Charles Caleb (1793-1869) Secretary University College London
- Atkinson, James (fl 1817-1836) Whig Agent
- Austin, Henry (? 1810-1861), civil engineer
- Austin, Sarah (1793-1867), translator
- Ayrton, William Edward (1847-1908) Electrical Engineer and Physicist
- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Viscount St Albans, Lord Chancellor
- Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877) Economist and Journalist
- Baillie, Joanna (1762-1851), playwright and poet
- Bain, Alexander (1818-1903), psychologist, logician and writer on education
- Baldwin, Ernest Hubert Francis (1909-1969), biochemist
- Baldwin, Robert (c 1780-1858) Printer and Bookseller
- Balfour, Arthur James (1848-1930) 1st Earl of Balfour, statesman
- Balfour, Sir George (1809-1894) Knight General and Politician
- Ball, John (1818-1889) Scientist and Politician
- Ballard, Edward (1820-1897) Physician and Botanist
- Bannister, Saxe (1790-1877), writer
- Barham, John Foster (1799-1838), politician
- Baring, Alexander (1774-1848) 1st Baron Ashburton, statesman
- Baring, William Bingham (1799-1864) 2nd Baron Ashburton, politician
- Barker, Olivia Stuart (1894-1976), goddaughter of William Paton Ker
- Barlow, Henry Clark (1806-1876), writer on Dante
- Barlow, Peter (1776-1862), mathematician
- Barrington, Frederick James Fitzmaurice (1884-1956) Urologist
- Bateson, William (1861-1926), biologist
- Bauer, Franz Andreas (1758-1840) botanical artist
- Bayliss, Leonard Ernest (1900-1964), physiologist
- Bayliss, Sir William Maddock (1860-1924) Knight, physiologist
- Beaufort, Sir Francis (1774-1857) Knight, Rear Admiral, hydrographer
- Beddoe, John (1826-1911) Physician and Anthropologist
- Beer, Sir Gavin Rylands de (1899-1972), Knight, embryologist
- Beesly, Edward Spencer (1831-1915), positivist and historian
- Beggs, Thomas (1808-1896) Temperance Advocate and Sanitary Reformer
- Bell, Charles (1774-1842) Knight, surgeon
- Bellot, Hugh Hale (1890-1969) Historian
- Bennett, Enoch Arnold (1867-1931), novelist playwright and journalist
- Bensusan, Samuel Levi (1872-1958) Journalist and Author
- Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832), lawyer, philosopher, writer on jurisprudence
- Bentley, Phyllis Eleanor (1894-1977), novelist
- Beresford, Marcus (1800-1876) General
- Bethune, John Elliot Drinkwater (1801-1851), administrator in India and educationist
- Birkbeck, George (1776-1841) Founder of Mechanics' Institutions
- Bithell, John Joseph (fl 1888), railway engineer
- Black, Arthur (1851-1893) mathematician
- Black, Joseph (1728-1799), chemist
- Blackwell, John (1797-1840) Rector of Maenordeifi, Welsh poet as Alun
- Blair, Eric Arthur (1903-1950), novelist and journalist
- Blamire, William (1790-1862) Tithe Commissioner
- Bland, Edith (1858-1924), writer
- Blomfield, Charles James (1786-1857) Bishop of London
- Blomfield, Sir Reginald Theodore (1856-1942) Knight, architect
- Bois, Edward Du (1774-1850) wit and man of letters
- Bonar, James (1852-1941), political economist
- Bonney, Thomas George (1833-1923) Geologist
- Boole, George (1815-1864), mathematician
- Booth, David (1766-1846), lexicographer
- Borenius, Carl Tancred (1885-1948), art historian
- Borough, Sir John (d 1643) Knight Herald
- Bourne, Gilbert Charles (1861-1933) Zoologist
- Bouverie, William Pleydell- (1779-1869) 3rd Earl of Radnor, politician
- Bowring, Sir John (1792-1872) Knight, MP, diplomat, colonial governor, author, traveller
- Boycott, Brian Blundell (1924-2000), zoologist
- Brabrook, Sir Edward William (1839-1930), Knight anthropologist
- Bracebridge, Charles Holte (1799-1872), friend of Florence Nightingale
- Bradley, James (1693-1762), Chaplain to Bishop of Hereford, astronomer
- Bradshaw, Henry (1831-1886), scholar, antiquary and librarian
- Bramwell, Sir Frederick Joseph (1818-1903) Baronet Civil Engineer
- Bramwell, George William Wilshere (1808-1892) Baron Bramwell, judge
- Brett, Reginald Baliol (1852-1930) 2nd Viscount Esher
- Brewster, Sir David (1781-1868) Knight, natural philosopher
- Bridge, Sir Cyprian Arthur George (1839-1924) Knight Admiral
- Bright, John (1811-1889), politician Rochdale, Lancashire
- Brodie, Sir Benjamin Collins (1783-1862) 1st Baronet, surgeon
- Brooke, Emma Frances (d 1926) Fabian
- Brougham, Henry Peter (1778-1868) 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman, Lord Chancellor
- Brougham, James (1780-1833) MP
- Brougham, William (1795-1886) 2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux
- Browning, Oscar (1837-1923), educationist, historian and mountaineer
- Bruce, Victor Alexander (1849-1917) 9th Earl of Elgin, Viceroy of India
- Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859), civil engineer
- Bryce, James (1838-1922) Viscount Bryce, statesman
- Buckley, Henry Burton (1845-1935) 1st Baron Wrenbury
- Bullar, John (c 1806-1867) Barrister
- Bullen, George (1816-1894), Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum
- Buller, Charles (1806-1848), politician
- Bulloch, John Malcolm (1867-1938), author and literary critic
- Bulloch, William (1868-1941) Bacteriologist
- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton (1803-1873) 1st Baron Lytton, statesman and novelist
- Burbury, Samuel Hawksley (1831-1911) Barrister and Scientific Writer
- Burdon-Sanderson, Sir John Scott (1828-1905) 1st Baronet, physiologist
- Burgon, John William (1813-1888), Dean of Chichester, antiquary
- Burgoyne, Sir John Fox (1782-1871) 1st Baronet Field Marshal
- Burhop, Eric Henry Stoneley (1911-1980) Physicist
- Burke, Edmund Plunkett (1803-1834) Judge
- Burke, John French (1776-1854) Author
- Burnett, John Chaplyn (1863-1943) Mathematician
- Burrows, Sir George (1801-1887) 1st Baronet Physician
- Burt, Cyril Lodowic (1883-1971), Knight psychologist
- Burton, John Hill (1809-1881), historian
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890), explorer, diplomat and author
- Bury, Lady Charlotte Susan Maria (1775-1861), novelist
- Bushnan, John Stevenson (c 1808-1884) Writer On Medicine
- Busk, Edward Henry (1844-1926) Knight, Vice Chancellor of London University
- Butcher, Samuel Henry (1850-1910), classical scholar educationist MP
- Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824) 6th Baron Byron, poet
- Cairnes, John Elliot (1823-1875), political economist
- Caley, George (1770-1829) Naturalist
- Cameron, Sir Gordon Roy (1899-1967) knight pathologist
- Campbell, George Douglas (1823-1900) 8th Duke of Argyll, statesman
- Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844), poet
- Carey, Sir Peter Stafford (1803-1886) Knight Judge and Professor of Law
- Carpenter, Alfred John (1825-1892) Physician and Public Health Expert
- Carpenter, William Benjamin (1813-1885), naturalist
- Carswell, Sir Robert (1793-1857) Knight, physician and pathological anatomist
- Carter, Angela Olive (1940-1992), author and journalist
- Cavendish, Spencer Compton (1833-1908) 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman
- Cayley, Arthur (1821-1895) Mathematician
- Chadwick, Sir Edwin (1800-1890) Knight, sanitary reformer
- Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer
- Chambers, Charles Edward Stuart (1859-1936), editor and publisher
- Chambers, Raymond Wilson (1874-1942), scholar and writer on English language and literature
- Champneys, Basil (1842-1935) Architect
- Chapman, John (1822-1894) Physician Author and Publisher of the Westminster Review
- Charteris, Francis Richard (1818-1914) 10th Earl of Wemyss and March
- Chattock, Arthur Prince (1860-1934) Physicist
- Chaundy, Theodore William (1889-1966), Mathematician
- Chree, Charles (1860-1928) Astronomer
- Christie, William Dougal (1816-1874) MP Diplomat
- Christmas, Henry (1811-1868), writer
- Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer (1849-1895), statesman
- Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874-1965) Knight, prime minister and historian
- Clark, Sir James (1788-1870), 1st Baronet physician
- Clarke, Sir Cyril Astley (1907-2000) Knight, clinical geneticist
- Clarke, Patricia Hannah (1919-2010), biochemist
- Clay, Sir William (1791-1869) 1st Baronet MP Shipowner
- Clifford, Sophia Lucy (1846-1929), novelist and playwright
- Clifford, William Kingdon (1845-1879) Mathematician
- Clinton, Wellesley Curram (1871-1934) Electrical Engineer
- Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861) Poet
- Clowes, William (1779-1847), printer
- Cobden, Richard (1804-1865), statesman and businessman
- Cochrane-Baillie, Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart (1816-1890) 1st Baron Lamington, politician
- Cohen, Harriet (1896-1967), pianist
- Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634) Knight Judge MP Law Writer
- Coldstream, Sir William Menzies (1908-1987) Knight Painter
- Cole, Sir Henry (1808-1882) Knight, public servant
- Collier, John Payne (1789-1883), Shakespearean scholar and forger, antiquary and journalist
- Collins, Frederick Howard (1857-1910), printer, indexer and editor
- Colquhoun, David (b 1936), pharmacologist
- Comfort, Alexander (1920-2000), writer and gerontologist
- Connolly, Cyril Vernon (1903-1974), writer and literary reviewer
- Conolly, John (1794-1866) Physician
- Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924), master mariner and author
- Constable, Archibald (1774-1827), publisher
- Coode, George (1807-1869) Assistant Secretary to Poor Law Commission
- Cook, James (1728-1779) Captain RN Explorer
- Cooke, Edward (d 1862) County Court Judge
- Cooke, George Wingrove (1814-1865) man of letters
- Cooper, Anthony Ashley (1801-1885) 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, philanthropist
- Copley, John Singleton (1772-1863) 1st Baron Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor
- Coulson, William (1802-1904), surgeon
- Courtney, William Leonard (1850-1928) Author and Journalist
- Cowen, Joseph (1821-1900), politician and journalist Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- Cox, Francis Augustus (1783-1853) Baptist Preacher
- Crackanthorpe, Montague Hughes (1832-1913) Barrister and Author
- Craik, George Lillie (1798-1866), author
- Craik, Sir Henry (1846-1927) 1st Baronet, civil servant and author
- Crampton, Thomas (1817-1885) Composer and Organist
- Crane, Walter (1845-1915), artist
- Croker, John Wilson (1780-1857), politician and essayist
- Croker, Thomas Crofton (1798-1854), Irish antiquary
- Crompton, Henry (1836-1904), Positivist and advocate of trade unions
- Crook, Eric Mitchell (1914-1993), biochemical engineer
- Cross, Mary Ann (1819-1880), novelist and poet Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Cross, Richard Assheton (1823-1914) 1st Viscount Cross, statesman
- Crowe, Eyre Evans (1799-1868) historian
- Currie, Raikes (1801-1881), MP and banker
- Dale, Thomas (1797-1870) Dean of Rochester Poet and Theologian
- Dalrymple, Sir John Hamilton Macgill (1771-1853) 8th Earl of Stair, General
- Daniell, John Frederick (1790-1845) Physicist
- Darbishire, Arthur Dukinfield (1879-1915) statistician
- Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882), naturalist
- Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802), physician botanist and poet
- Darwin, Sir Francis (1848-1925) Knight, botanist
- Darwin, Sir George Howard (1845-1912) Knight, mathematician and astronomer
- Darwin, Sir Horace (1851-1928) Knight, civil engineer
- Darwin, Leonard (1850-1943), eugenist
- Davidge, Henry Thomas (1871-1957), engineer
- Davis, Eliza Jeffries (1875-1943) historian
- Davis, Sir John Francis (1795-1890), Knight, diplomat and writer
- Davis, Ralph (1915-1978), economic historian
- Delane, John Thadeus (1817-1879), editor of The Times
- Denman, George (1819-1896) judge and MP
- Denman, Thomas (1779-1854) 1st Baron Denman, Lord Chief Justice
- Dessiou, Joseph Foss (1797-1842) hydrographer
- Dickens, Charles John Huffam (1812-1870), novelist and journalist
- Dickins, Frederick Victor (1838-1915) Orientalist and University Administrator
- Digby, John (1580-1653) 1st Earl of Bristol, statesman
- Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth (1843-1911) Knight, 2nd Baronet, politician and author
- Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881) Earl of Beaconsfield, statesman
- Dobson, Henry Austin (1840-1921) Poet and Literary Biographer
- Doll, Sir William Richard Shaboe (1912-2005), Knight epidemiologist and cancer researcher
- Donald, Maxwell Bruce (1897-1978), Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Donaldson, Thomas Leverton (1795-1885), architect, antiquary and archaeologist
- Donkin, Sir Horatio Bryan (1845-1927), Knight, physician
- Donnan, Frederick George (1870-1956) Chemist
- Donne, William Bodham (1807-1882) Examiner of Plays
- Donovan, Desmond Thomas (b 1921), palaeontologist
- Drake, Sir William (1606-1669) Knight MP
- Drummond, Sir Francis Walker (1781-1844) 2nd Baronet
- Drummond, Thomas (1797-1840) Engineer and Administrator
- Dumont, Pierre Etienne Louis (1759-1829), Swiss political writer and Benthamite
- Duncombe, Thomas Slingsby (1796-1861) Radical Politician
- Easthope, Sir John (1784-1865) Knight Politician and Journalist
- Eden, Emily (1797-1869) Novelist and Traveller
- Eden, George (1784-1849) Earl of Auckland, Governor General of India, statesman
- Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro (1845-1926), economist
- Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849), novelist and children's writer
- Edgeworth, Richard Lovell (1744-1817), author
- Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford (1831-1892), novelist and Egyptologist
- Egerton, Francis (1800-1857) 1st Earl of Ellesmere, politician, poet
- Elderton, Ethel Mary (1878-1954) Biometrician and Eugenist
- Elderton, Sir William Palin (1877-1962) Knight Actuary
- Ellice, Edward (1781-1863), merchant and politician
- Ellis, George James Welbore Agar- (1797-1833) 1st Baron Dover
- Ellis, Sir Henry (1777-1869) Knight, Principal Librarian of the British Museum and antiquary
- Ellis, Henry Havelock (1859-1939), psychologist, writer and social reformer Croydon, Surrey
- Ellis, Richard White Bernard (1902-1966) paediatrician and author
- Ellis, Robert Staunton (1825-1877), Indian civil servant
- Ellis, Thomas Flower (1796-1861), law reporter
- Elwin, Whitwell (1816-1900), Anglican clergyman, editor of 'Quarterly Review'
- Emerson, William (1701-1782), mathematician
- Estlin, John Bishop (1785-1855) Surgeon
- Evans, Benjamin Ifor (1899-1982) Baron Evans of Hungershall
- Evans, Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt (1884-1968), Knight, physiologist
- Everett, Edward (1794-1865) American Clergyman Diplomat and Statesman
- Falconer, Thomas (1805-1882) County Court Judge
- Fane, Priscilla Anne (1793-1879), artist, wife of 11th Earl of Westmorland
- Farjeon, Eleanor (1881-1965) Author London
- Finney, David John (b 1917) Statistician
- Firbank, Arthur Annesley Ronald (1886-1926) Author and Playwright
- Firth, Sir Charles Harding (1857-1936) Knight, historian
- Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962) Knight Geneticist
- Fitzgerald, George Francis (1851-1901) Physicist
- Flaxman, John (1755-1826), sculptor
- Fleming, Charles Elphinstone (1774-1840) Admiral MP
- Fleming, John (fl 1825) Admiral
- Fleming, Sir John Ambrose (1849-1945) Knight, electrical engineer
- Fletcher, Sir Banister Flight (1866-1953) Knight Architect
- Fonblanque, Albany (1793-1872), Radical journalist
- Forbes, Duncan (1798-1868) Orientalist
- Forster, John (1812-1876), historian and biographer
- Forsyth, Alexander John (1769-1843) Inventor of the Percussion Lock
- Forsyth, Andrew Russell (1858-1942) Mathematician
- Fortescue, Hugh (1783-1861) 2nd Earl Fortescue
- Fortescue, Hugh (1818-1905) 3rd Earl Fortescue
- Foss, Edward (1787-1870) Lawyer and Biographer
- Foster, George Carey (1835-1919), physicist
- Foster, Peter Le Neve (1809-1879) Secretary of Royal Society of Arts
- Foster, Sir Thomas Gregory (1866-1931), 1st Baronet, Provost of University College, London
- Fox, Henry Richard Vassall (1773-1840) 3rd Baron Holland, statesman
- Francis, Sir Philip (1740-1818) Knight Politician
- Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941) Knight, social anthropologist
- Friedlaender, Michael (1833-1910) Jewish scholar
- Fry, Roger Eliot (1866-1934), art critic and artist
- Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte (1812-1885), novelist and philanthropist
- Gaitskell, Hugh Todd Naylor (1906-1963) Statesman
- Galton, Sir Douglas Strutt (1822-1899), Knight, Captain, Royal Engineers and scientist
- Galton, Sir Francis (1822-1911), Knight, eugenist, meteorologist, psychologist
- Galton, Samuel Tertius (1783-1844), banker
- Gardner, Ernest Arthur (1862-1939), archaeologist
- Garwood, Edmund Johnston (1864-1949) Geologist
- Gascoyne-Cecil, James Brownlow William (1791-1868) 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
- Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot (1830-1903) 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, statesman
- Gaster, Moses (1856-1939) Scholar
- Gathorne-Hardy, Gathorne (1814-1906) 1st Earl of Cranbrook, statesman
- Gavin, Hector (1815-1855) Public Health Inspector
- Gayangos, Pascual de (1809-1897), linguist and writer
- Gee, Arthur Beilby Pearson- (1855-1896) Barrister and Author
- Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume (1869-1951) French Writer
- Gilbert, Lionel Felix (1893-1955) Chemist
- Gisborne, John (1770-1851) Poet
- Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), statesman
- Glazebrook, Sir Richard Tetley (1854-1935) Knight, physicist
- Goldsmid, Sir Isaac Lyon (1778-1859) Knight, financier and philanthropist
- Goodeve, Sir Charles Frederick (1904-1980) Knight Government Scientist
- Goschen, George Joachim (1831-1907) 1st Viscount Goschen, statesman
- Gosset, William Sealy (1876-1937), statistician and industrial research scientist
- Gowers, Sir William Richard (1845-1915) Knight Physician
- Gowing, Lawrence Burnett (1918-1991) Painter and Writer On Painting
- Graham, Sir James Robert George (1792-1861), 2nd Baronet, statesman
- Graham, Thomas (1805-1869), chemist
- Grant, Robert Edmond (1793-1874) Anatomist
- Grattan, Thomas Colley (1792-1864), author
- Graves, John Thomas (1806-1870) Jurist and Mathematician
- Gray, Edward George (1924-1999), anatomist
- Greenbaum, Sidney (1929-1996) Professor of English Language and Literature, UCL
- Greene, Graham (1904-1991), novelist
- Greenhill, William Alexander (1814-1894), physician
- Greenough, George Bellas (1778-1855), geographer, geologist and cartographer
- Greenwood, Frederick (1830-1909) Journalist
- Greenwood, Major (1880-1949), medical statistician
- Greg, Robert Hyde (1795-1875) MP Corn Law Reformer
- Grenville, George Nugent- (1788-1850) 2nd Baron Nugent, politician
- Grey, Charles (1764-1845) 2nd Earl Grey, statesman
- Grey, Sir George (1799-1882), 2nd Baronet, statesman
- Grey, Henry George (1802-1894) 3rd Earl Grey, statesman
- Grimshaw, Thomas Wrigley (1839-1900) Surgeon Registrar General of Ireland
- Gross, Fritz (1897-1946) Author
- Grosvenor, Robert (1801-1893) 1st Baron Ebury, politician
- Grote, George (1794-1871), MP and historian
- Grote, Harriet (1792-1878), biographer
- Gueterbock, Ernest Adolphus Leopold (d 1984) Brigadier
- Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume (1787-1874), French statesman and writer
- Gunther, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (1830-1914) Zoologist
- Gurney, Edmund (1847-1888), philosophical writer
- Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (1892-1965), geneticist
- Hale, Sir John Rigby (1923-1999) Knight Historian
- Hales, John (d 1571), writer
- Haliburton, James (1788-1862) Egyptologist
- Hall, Basil (1788-1844), Captain RN, author
- Hallam, Henry (1777-1859), historian
- Hamilton, Sir Robert George Crookshank (1836-1895) Knight Civil Servant Governor of Tasmania
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- Heath, Christopher (1835-1905) Surgeon
- Heathcote, Niels Hugh de Vaudrey (1895-1985), reader in the History of Science Department, University College London, editor of Annals of Science
- Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925) Mathematical Physicist and Electrician
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- Helm, Alex (1920-1970) Folklorist
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- Herzl, Theodor (1860-1904) Zionist
- Hicks, George Dawes (1862-1941) Philosopher
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- Hill, Archibald Vivian (1886-1977), MP, physiologist
- Hill, Edwin (1793-1876) Inventor and Author
- Hill, Frederic (1803-1896) Prison Inspector and Educationist
- Hill, James Peter (1873-1954) Zoologist
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- Hill, Sir Rowland (1795-1879) Knight Inventor of Penny Postage
- Hirst, Thomas Archer (1830-1892) Mathematician
- Hodgkin, Sir Alan Lloyd (1914-1998) Knight, physiologist Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Hodgskin, Thomas (1787-1869) Teacher Journalist and Economist
- Hodgson, Robert (fl 1740-1759), Commander-in-Chief of the Mosquito Shore
- Hogben, Lancelot Thomas (1895-1975) Zoologist
- Hogg, Thomas Jefferson (1792-1862) friend and biographer of Shelley
- Holland, Philip Henry (fl 1840-1870), author and public health reformer
- Hollingworth, Sydney Ewart (1899-1966), geologist
- Holtby, Winifred (1898-1935), author and journalist
- Hone, William (1780-1842), author, publisher and bookseller
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817-1911) Knight, botanist, explorer, Director of Kew Gardens
- Hope, Charles (1763-1851) Lord Granton President of the Court of Session
- Hoppus, John (1789-1875) Professor at University College London
- Horne, Richard Hengist (1803-1884), author
- Horner, Leonard (1785-1864), geologist
- Horsley, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857-1916), Knight, physiologist and surgeon
- Hoult, Norah (fl 1928-1970) Novelist and Journalist
- Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936), poet and classical scholar
- Howard, George William Frederick (1802-1864) 7th Earl of Carlisle
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- Howard, Henry (1757-1842) Antiquary
- Hume, Joseph (1777-1855), politician
- Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859), essayist and poet
- Hunt, William (1842-1931) Historian
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- Hunter, Sir William Guyer (1829-1902) Knight Surgeon General Bombay Army MP for Central Hackney
- Hurstfield, Joel (1911-1980) Historian
- Hussey, Thomas John (fl 1826-1851), rector and astronomer Hayes, Kent
- Huth, Frederick (1777-1864) Merchant
- Ibbetson, Henry John Selwin- (1826-1902) Baron Rookwood, politician
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- Jaggard, William (d 1947) Scholar
- Jameson, Robert (1774-1854), mineralogist
- Jardine, David (1794-1860) Historian and Legal Writer
- Jeffrey, Francis (1773-1850), Lord Jeffrey Scottish judge and critic
- Jenkinson, Sir Charles Hilary (1882-1961) Knight, archivist
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- Jenner, Sir William (1815-1898) 1st Baronet Physician
- Jennings, Gertrude (d 1958) dramatist
- Jerrold, William Blanchard (1826-1884) Author and Journalist
- Jevons, William Stanley (1835-1882), economist
- Johnson, George William (1802-1886) Writer On Gardening
- Jones, Daniel (1881-1967) Professor of Phonetics
- Jones, John Pike (1790-1857), antiquary
- Jones, John Winter (1805-1881) Principal Librarian of the British Museum
- Katz, Sir Bernard (1911-2003), Knight, biophysicist
- Keeling, Stanley Victor (1894-1979), philosopher
- Keen, Bernard Augustus (1890-1982), Knight agricultural scientist
- Keith, Sir Arthur (1866-1955) Knight Anatomist
- Kennedy, Sir Alexander Blackie William (1847-1928), Knight, engineer
- Kennedy, Margaret (1896-1967) afterwards Davies, Lady Davies, Playwright and Author
- Kennedy, Patrick (1801-1873) Miscellaneous Writer
- Kenrick, John (1788-1877) Classical Scholar and Historian
- Kenrick, Timothy (1759-1804), Unitarian minister and Bible commentator
- Ker, Charles Henry Bellenden (? 1785-1871) Legal Reformer
- Ker, William Paton (1855-1923), literary scholar India;China
- Key, Thomas Hewitt (1799-1875) Classical Scholar
- Kibalchich, Victor Lvovich (1890-1947), socialist writer
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- Kirkup, Seymour Stocker (1786-1880) Artist
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- Knight, Charles (1791-1873) Author and Publisher
- Knight, William Francis Jackson (1895-1964), Classical scholar
- Koestler, Arthur (1905-1983), author
- Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand (1907-1966) Mathematician and Orientalist
- Krasinski, Walerjan Skorobohaty (1780-1855) Count Hrabia, Polish historian
- Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf (1900-1981) Knight Biochemist
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- Lambton, John George (1792-1840) 1st Earl of Durham, statesman
- Lamouroux, Jean Vincent Felix (1779-1825) Naturalist
- Lamy, Rowena (1894-1959), writer
- Lane, Edward William (1801-1876), Arabic scholar and Egyptologist
- Lankester, Edwin (1814-1874) Naturalist
- Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray (1847-1929) Knight, zoologist
- Lardner, Dionysius (1793-1859) Scientific Writer
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- Larpent, Sir George Gerard de Hochepied (1786-1855) 1st Baronet, MP
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- Lavater, Johann Gaspar Christian (1741-1801) Swiss German Poet and Physiognomist
- Law, Edward (1790-1871) Earl of Ellenborough, Governor General of India
- Laycock, Sir Thomas (1812-1876) Knight, mental physiologist
- Leathes, John Beresford (1864-1956) Physiologist
- Lecky, William Edward Hartpole (1838-1903), MP, historian
- Leeds, William Henry (1786-1866) Architectural Writer
- Lehmann, John Frederick (1907-1987), editor and author
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- Lester, Anthony Paul (b 1936) Baron Lester of Herne Hill, barrister
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- Lighthill, Sir Michael James (1924-1998), Knight, mathematician
- Lilly, Malcolm Douglas (1936-1998), biochemical engineer
- Lindley, John (1799-1865), botanist
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- Lindsay, Lady Charlotte (d 1849) Lady in Waiting to Queen Caroline
- Lister, Joseph Jackson (1857-1927) Zoologist
- Loch, James (1780-1855), MP, economist
- Lockhart, John Gibson (1794-1854), writer and literary editor
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940) Knight, physicist
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- Lonsdale, Dame Kathleen (1903-1971) Chemist and Crystallographer
- Losh, James (1763-1833) Industrialist and Reformer
- Lubbock, John (1834-1913) 1st Baron Avebury, politician
- Lubbock, Sir John William (1803-1865), 3rd Baronet, astronomer and mathematician
- Ludlow, John Malcolm Forbes (1821-1911), social reformer
- Lushington, Sir Godfrey (1832-1907) Knight Civil Servant
- Macaulay, William Herrick (1853-1936) Mathematician
- MacDonald, James Ramsay (1866-1937), statesman
- Maceroni, Francis (1788-1846) Aide De Camp to Murat Inventor
- MacGregor-Morris, John Turner (1872-1959), Professor of Electrical Engineering
- Mackay, Robert William (1803-1882) Philosopher and Scholar
- Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart (1780-1848) Knight, mineralogist
- Mackenzie, Robert Shelton (1809-1880), poet, journalist and compiler
- Macleod, Henry Dunning (1821-1902) Economist
- Macvicar, John Gibson (1800-1884), writer on science
- Malden, Henry (1800-1876) Classical Scholar
- Malkin, Sir Benjamin Heath (1797-1837) Knight Calcutta Judge
- Mallet, Sir Louis (1823-1890) Knight Civil Servant and Economist
- Maltby, Edward (1770-1859) Bishop of Durham
- Manning, James (1781-1866) Serjeant at Law
- Markham, Sir Clements Robert (1830-1916), Knight, geographer and historian
- Marsden, Dora (1882-1960), author, editor, and suffragette
- Marsh, John Charles Lory (1823-1888) Surgeon Author and Educationist
- Marshall, John (fl 1880-1921) Philologist
- Marshman, Joshua Ryland (1807-1850), Professor of Law
- Martin, Sir David Christie (1914-1976), Knight and secretary of the Royal Society
- Martin, Francis Offley (1805-1878) Charity Commissioner
- Martin, William (1861-1929), barrister, antiquary and archaeologist
- Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876), writer
- Maseres, Francis (1731-1824), mathematician, historian and reformer
- Massey, Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson (1908-1983) Knight Physicist
- Masson, David (1822-1907), biographer and editor
- Masson, James Irvine Orme (1887-1962) Chemist
- Matthews, Henry (1826-1913) Viscount Llandaff
- Matthews, John (c1650-1729), vicar of Tewkesbury
- Mawer, Sir Allen (1879-1942) Knight, Provost of University College London
- McCarthy, Cavan (b 1943), bibliographer and poet
- McCosh, James (1811-1894), Philosopher
- McCulloch, John Ramsay (1789-1864), statistician and economist
- McKie, Douglas, (1896-1967), chemist and science historian
- Means, Joseph Calrow (1801-1879) Baptist Minister Biographer Topographer
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- Meen, Henry (1744-1817) Prebendary of St Paul's Classical Scholar
- Meredith, George (1828-1909), novelist and poet
- Merivale, Charles (1808-1893) Dean of Ely
- Merivale, John Herman (1779-1844) Barrister and Poet
- Meynell, Alice Christiana Gertrude (1847-1922), poet, suffragist and critic Barnes, Surrey
- Miers, Sir Henry Alexander (1858-1942), Knight, mineralogist
- Miles, Sir William (1797-1878) 1st Baronet MP
- Mill, James (1773-1836) Philosopher
- Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873), philosopher, MP
- Milner, James Donald (1874-1927) Director of National Portrait Gallery
- Minchin, George Minchin (d 1914) Mathematician
- Minto, William (1845-1893), professor of Logic and English
- Mitchell, James (c 1786-1844) Scientific Writer Antiquary
- Mitchison, Naomi Margaret (1897-1999) Baroness Mitchison, writer and social activist Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Molesworth, William Nassau (1816-1890) Historian
- Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Walter Francis (1806-1884) 5th Duke of Buccleuch
- Montague, Francis Charles (1858-1935) Historian
- Montefiore, Claude Joseph Goldsmid (1858-1938), Jewish biblical scholar and philanthropist
- Montefiore, Sir Moses Haim (1784-1885) Knight, philanthropist
- Montefiore, Nathaniel (1819-1883) Surgeon
- Montgomery, Hugh de Fellenberg (1844-1924), Senator, Northern Ireland
- Morgan, Augustus de (1806-1871), mathematician
- Morgan, Edwin George (1920-2010), writer and poet
- Morley, Henry (1822-1894) Author
- Morley, John (1838-1923) Viscount Morley of Blackburn, statesman
- Morley, Samuel (1809-1886), politician
- Morris, John (1913-1977) Historian
- Morrison, James (1789-1857), MP Merchant
- Moseley, Henry (1801-1872) Mathematician
- Mott, Charles (d 1851) Assistant Poor Law Commissioner
- Mouat, Frederic John (1816-1897) Military Surgeon Local Government Board Inspector
- Muirhead, Alexander (1848-1920), electrical engineer
- Munro, Thomas Arthur Howard (1905-1966) physician
- Murison, Alexander Falconer (1847-1934), jurist and author
- Murphy, Robert (1806-1843) Mathematician
- Murray, John (c 1786-1851) Scientific Lecturer
- Murray, John Archibald (1779-1859) Lord Murray Scottish Judge
- Murray, Margaret Alice (1863-1963) Egyptologist
- Murry, John Middleton (1889-1957), writer and journal editor
- Mylne, William Chadwell (1781-1863) Architect and Engineer
- Napier, John Russell (1917-1987), primatologist
- Napier, Macvey (1776-1847), editor of Edinburgh Review
- Nettleship, Edward (1845-1913), ophthalmic surgeon
- Newman, Francis William (1805-1897) Scholar and Man of Letters
- Nicholls, Sir George (1781-1865) Knight, poor law reformer
- Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910), reformer of hospital nursing
- Noel, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley (1834-1894) Poet
- Northcote, Stafford Henry (1818-1887) 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, statesman
- Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (1808-1877), poet and campaigner for women's rights
- Nourse, John (d 1780), bookseller
- Nutt, Alfred Trubner (1856-1910) Publisher and Folklorist
- Ogden, Charles Kay (1889-1957) Linguistic Psychologist
- Olden, Rudolf (1885-1940) Writer
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- Oliver, Francis Wall (1864-1951), botanist
- Opie, Amelia (1769-1853), novelist and poet
- Orwell, Sonia Mary (1918-1980), literary assistant
- Owen, Sir Hugh (1804-1881) Knight Promoter of Welsh Education
- Owen, Sir Richard (1804-1892) Knight, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist
- Owen, Robert (1771-1858) Socialist and Philanthropist
- Paget, Sir James (1814-1899), 1st Baronet, surgeon
- Paget, Sir Richard Arthur Surtees (1869-1955) 2nd Baronet, barrister and philologist
- Palaye, Jean Baptiste de la Curne de Sainte- (1697-1781), lexicographer
- Panizzi, Sir Anthony (1797-1879) Knight Principal Librarian of the British Museum
- Parker, John William (1793-1870), publisher
- Parker, Robert John (1857-1918) Baron Parker of Waddington, judge
- Parker, Thomas (1666-1732) 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Chancellor
- Parkes, Joseph (1796-1865), election agent and reformer
- Parkes, Josiah (1793-1871), civil engineer inventor of Deep Drainage System
- Parkes, Samuel (1761-1825) Chemist
- Parnell, Henry Brooke (1776-1842) 1st Baron Congleton, politician
- Parr, Samuel (1747-1825) Pedagogue
- Parry, Charles Henry (1779-1860) Physician
- Pattison, Granville Sharp (1791-1851) Anatomist
- Paxton, Sir Joseph (1801-1865), Knight, MP, architect and landscape gardener
- Peake, Mervyn (1911-1968), author and artist
- Pearl, Raymond (1879-1940) Biologist
- Pearson, Egon Sharpe (1895-1980), statistician
- Pearson, Karl (1857-1936), mathematician and biologist
- Pearson, Maria Sharpe (1851-1928), feminist
- Pearson, William (d 1907) Chancery Barrister
- Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), 2nd Baronet, statesman
- Penfold, Charles (1799-1864) Surveyor and Author
- Penrose, Lionel Sharples (1898-1972) Professor of Eugenics and Human Genetics
- Percy, Algernon George (1810-1899) 6th Duke of Northumberland
- Perron, Nicolas (fl 1825-1870), French writer on Islamic culture
- Perry, John (1850-1920) Mathematician and Engineer
- Perry, William James (1887-1949), anthropologist
- Petrie, Sir William Matthew Flinders (1853-1942) Knight Egyptologist
- Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry (1780-1863) 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, statesman
- Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry William Edmund (1872-1936) 6th Marquess of Lansdowne
- Phillipps, James Orchard Halliwell- (1820-1889), antiquary and literary scholar
- Phillipps, Samuel March (1780-1862), legal writer and civil servant
- Phillips, Charles (? 1787-1859) Barrister and Miscellaneous Writer
- Phipps, Sir Charles Beaumont (1801-1866), Knight, Lieutenant Colonel and official of Royal Household
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- Pinker, James Brand (1863-1922), literary agent
- Place, Francis (1771-1854), radical reformer
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- Playfair, Lyon (1818-1898) 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews, chemist
- Plowman, Dorothy Lloyd (1886-1967), author
- Plowman, Mark (1883-1941), writer, editor and and pacifist
- Plunket, William Conyngham (1764-1854) 1st Baron Plunket, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- Polanyi, Michael (1891-1976) Hungarian physical chemist, author
- Pollard, Alan Faraday Campbell (1877-1948) Professor of Instrument Design
- Pollard, Albert Frederick (1869-1948) constitutional historian
- Pollock, Sir Jonathan Frederick (1783-1870) 1st Baronet, MP, judge
- Ponsonby, Sir Henry Frederick (1825-1895) Knight, General, private secretary to Queen Victoria
- Porter, George Richardson (1792-1852), statistician
- Potter, John Phillips (1818-1847) Surgeon
- Poulton, Sir Edward Bagnall (1856-1943) Knight Zoologist
- Powell, Anthony Dymoke (1905-2000) novelist
- Powell, Baden (1796-1860), Savilian and Professor of Geometry
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- Power, Sir Alfred (1805-1888) Knight Chief Irish Poor Law Commissioner
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- Price, William Philip (1817-1891) MP for Gloucester
- Prothero, Sir George Walter (1848-1922) Knight, historian
- Pusey, Philip (1799-1855), MP, agriculturalist
- Quain, Richard (1800-1887) Surgeon
- Quirk, Sir Charles Randolph (1920-2017) Lord Quirk, Professor of English Language and Literature
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- Ramsay, Sir William (1852-1916) Knight, chemist
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- Rawson, George (1807-1889) Hymn Writer
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- Redgrave, Samuel (1802-1876), author and art historian
- Rees, Sir Richard Lodowick Edward Montagu (1900-1970) 2nd Baronet Author
- Rees, Thomas (1777-1864) Unitarian Minister and Historian
- Repington, Charles Ashe A'Court (1785-1861) Lieutenant General MP
- Reynolds, Sir John Russell (1828-1896), Knight, physician
- Rham, William Lewis (1778-1843) Agriculturist
- Ricardo, David (1772-1823) MP Economist
- Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828-1896), Knight, physician
- Rickman, John (1771-1840) Statistician
- Ringer, Sydney (1835-1910) Surgeon
- Ritchie, Duncan Leitch (1800-1865), novelist and journalist
- Rivers, William Halse Rivers (1864-1922), anthropologist
- Roberton, John (1797-1876) Surgeon
- Roberts, Robert Davies (1851-1911) Educational Administrator
- Robertson, George Croom (1842-1892) Philosopher
- Robinson, Sir Edward Stanley Gotch (1887-1976) Knight, numismatist
- Robinson, Frederick John (1782-1859) 1st Earl of Ripon, statesman
- Robinson, George Frederick Samuel (1827-1909) 1st Marquess of Ripon, statesman
- Robinson, Henry Crabb (1775-1867) Diarist
- Roe, John (1795-1874) Surveyor in Chief to the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewer
- Roebuck, John Arthur (1801-1879), politician
- Rogers, Ben (fl 1999-2000), author and journalist
- Rogers, Nathaniel (d 1881) Physician Author
- Rogers, Samuel (1763-1855), poet
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- Rose, George (1744-1818), politician and publicist
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- Rothman, Richard Wellesley (d 1856) Registrar of London University
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- Ruck, Berta (1878-1978), novelist India;Bangor, Caernarfonshire;Aberdyfi, Merionethshire
- Ruecker, Sir Arthur William (1848-1915) Knight Physicist
- Ruskin, John (1819-1900), author, artist and social reformer
- Russell, Lord John (1792-1878) 1st Earl Russell, statesman
- Russell, Odo William Leopold (1829-1884) 1st Baron Ampthill, diplomat
- Sabine, Sir Edward (1788-1883) Knight, General, geophysicist
- Sackville-West, Victoria Mary (1892-1962), poet, novelist and biographer
- Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman (1845-1933), literary critic and historian
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- Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873), geologist
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- Sharpey, William (1802-1880), physiologist
- Shaw, Sir Charles (1795-1871) Knight Brigadier General Chief Commissioner of Police Manchester
- Shaw, Sir Evelyn Campbell (1882-1974) Knight Secretary of Royal Commission of 1851
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950), author and playwright
- Shaw-Lefevre, Charles (1794-1888) Viscount Eversley, Speaker of the House of Commons
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- Sinclair, George (1786-1834) Author of 'hortus Gramineus Woburnensis'
- Sinclair, Sir John (1754-1835) 1st Baronet, politician and agriculturist
- Sinclair, May (1863-1946), Author, Suffragist and Critic
- Skeat, Walter William (1835-1912), philologist
- Skene, James (1775-1864), artist and antiquary
- Slaney, Robert Aglionby (1792-1862), politician and social reformer
- Smedley, Edward (1788-1836), author
- Smith, Cedric Austen Bardell (1917-2002), geneticist and mathematician
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- Smith, James (1805-1872), merchant and mathematician
- Smith, Naomi Gwladys Royde- (1875-1964), literary editor and writer
- Smith, Philip (1817-1885), historian
- Smith, Robert Angus (1817-1884), chemist
- Smith, Sidney (1889-1979), historian
- Smith, Stanley Patrick James (1915-1979) journalist
- Smith, Thomas Southwood (1788-1861), sanitary reformer
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- Smithells, Arthur (1860-1939) Chemist
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- Sollas, William Johnson (1849-1936), geologist
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- Southern, Henry (1799-1853), editor and diplomat
- Souttar, Sir Henry Sessions (1875-1964) Knight, surgeon Birkenhead, Cheshire
- Spalding, William (1809-1859), author
- Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903), philosopher
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- Spencer, Thomas (1796-1853) Clergyman Church and Social Reformer
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- Sprenger, Aloys (1813-1893) Orientalist
- Spring-Rice, Thomas (1790-1866) 1st Baron Monteagle, statesman
- Stafford, William (1554-1612) Author
- Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith (1799-1869) 14th Earl of Derby, statesman
- Stanley, Edward John (1802-1869) 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, statesman
- Starling, Ernest Henry (1866-1927) Physiologist
- Staunton, Sir George Thomas (1781-1859) 2nd Baronet, MP, orientalist
- Stephen, Sir George (1794-1879) Knight Barrister and Reformer
- Stephen, Sir Leslie (1832-1904) Knight, man of letters, philosopher, biographer, mountaineer
- Stern, Gladys Bertha (1890-1973) afterwards Holdsworth, Playwright Journalist and Author
- Stocks, Percy (1889-1974) Medical Statistician
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903), 1st Baronet mathematician and physicist
- Stokes, Whitley (1830-1909), Celtic scholar and Indian civil servant
- Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael (1841-1929), Shakespearean scholar and historian
- Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880-1958), scientist
- Strachey, Julia Frances (1901-1979) Writer
- Strang, William (1893-1978) 1st Baron Strang, diplomat
- Strickland, Sir George (1782-1874) 7th Baronet MP
- Strutt, John William (1842-1919) 3rd Baron Rayleigh, mathematician and physicist
- Stuart, James (1775-1849) Writer to the Signet
- Sully, James (1842-1923), philosopher and psychologist
- Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) American Statesman
- Sutherland, John (1808-1891) Physician Promoter of Sanitary Science
- Sutherland, Norman Stuart (b 1927), psychologist
- Sylvester, James Joseph (1814-1897) Mathematician
- Szinessy, Solomon Marcus Schiller- (1820-1890), rabbi and scholar
- Taylor, Edward (1784-1863) Gresham Professor of Music
- Taylor, John (1781-1864) Publisher
- Taylor, John (d 1857) Cotton Merchant
- Taylor, William (1765-1836) Critic and Translator
- Temple, Henry John (1784-1865) 3rd Viscount Palmerston, statesman
- Temple, William Francis Cowper- (1811-1888) Baron Mount Temple, politician
- Thane, Sir George Dancer (1850-1930) Knight Anatomist
- Thomas, Joseph Anthony Charles (1923-1981) Professor of Roman Law
- Thompson, George (1802-1876) Editor Headmaster of Wisbech Great School
- Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (1851-1916) Physicist
- Thomson, Anthony Todd (1778-1849), physician and professor, London University
- Thomson, Katharine (1797-1862), writer
- Thomson, William (1824-1907) Baron Kelvin, physicist
- Thornely, Thomas (1781-1862) MP for Wolverhampton
- Tierney, David (d 1990), historian
- Titchener, Edward Bradford (1867-1927), psychologist
- Tocher, James Fowler (1864-1945), chemist
- Tooke, William (1777-1863) Solicitor MP Educationist
- Torrens, Robert (1780-1864) MP Economist
- Tottel, William (d 1626) steward to Francis Bacon
- Townsend, William (1909-1973) Professor of Fine Art
- Travers, Morris William (1872-1962) Chemist
- Treece, Henry (1911-1966) Author
- Tremenheere, Hugh Seymour (1804-1893) Publicist and Author
- Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward (1807-1886) Knight, Governor of Madras
- Trotter, Sir Coutts (d 1837) 1st Baronet
- Tufnell, Edward Carleton (1806-1886) Assistant Poor Law Commissioner
- Tufton, Sackville (1769-1825) 9th Earl of Thanet
- Tupp, Alfred Cotterell (1840-1914) Indian Administrator Economist Statistician
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich (1818-1883), Russian novelist
- Turner, Herbert Hall (1861-1930), astronomer and seismologist
- Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett (1832-1917) Knight Anthropologist
- Tyndall, John (1820-1893), natural philosopher
- Upcott, William (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector
- Ure, Masterton (1776-1863) MP for Weymouth
- Usher, Charles Howard (1865-1942), ophthalmologist
- Vardon, Thomas (1799-1867), Librarian of House of Commons
- Vaughan, Robert (1795-1868) Congregational Clergyman Historian
- Venn, John (1834-1923) Logician and Historian
- Verney, Frances Parthenope (1819-1890), sister of Florence Nightingale, wife of Sir Harry Verney 2nd Baronet
- Victoria, Adelaide Mary Louise (1840-1901) Princess Royal of Great Britain German Empress
- Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1785-1840), Zoologist and MP for Carlow Borough 1832-35 and for Carlow County 1837-40.
- Villiers, George William Frederick (1800-1870) 4th Earl of Clarendon, statesman
- Vizard, William (1774-1859) Solicitor
- Waddington, George (1793-1869) Traveller and Church Historian
- Wade, Thomas Francis (d 1846) Colonel 42nd Highlanders
- Waite, Arthur Edward (d 1942), writer
- Wakefield, Edward (1774-1854) Economist and Philanthropist
- Waley, Jacob (1818-1873) Economist
- Wall, Patrick David (1925-2001), neuroscientist
- Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913), naturalist
- Walsham, Sir John James (1805-1874) 1st baronet, poor law inspector
- Walshe, Sir Francis Martin Rouse (1885-1973), Knight and physician
- Ward, Arnold Sandwith (1876-1950), MP and journalist
- Ward, Dorothy Mary (1874-1964) daughter of Mrs Humphry Ward
- Ward, Frederick Oldfield (c 1815-1877), sanitary reformer, physiologist and author
- Ward, Mary Augusta (1851-1920), novelist and social worker Hobart, Tasmania;Oxford, Oxfordshire;London
- Ward, Thomas Humphry (1845-1926), author and journalist
- Ward, William George (1812-1882), theologian and philosopher
- Warren, Sir Charles (1840-1927) Knight General and Archaeologist
- Warren, George John (1803-1866) 5th Lord Vernon Baron of Kinderton
- Warren, Samuel (1807-1877), lawyer and writer
- Watherston, Edward James (fl 1880) Educationist and Public Health Reformer
- Watson, David Meredith Seares (1886-1973), palaeontologist
- Watts, Thomas (1811-1869), Keeper of Printed Books British Museum and biographer
- Waud, Samuel Wilkes (1801-1887) Rector of Rettenden Mathematician
- Weaver, Harriet Shaw (1876-1961) Editor of the Egoist
- Webber, Charles Edmund (1838-1904) Major General
- Webster, Thomas (1773-1844) Geologist
- Webster, Thomas (1810-1875) Barrister
- Weir, William (1802-1858), journalist
- Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952) chemist, scholar and Zionist leader
- Welby, Victoria (1837-1912) Pioneer of Linguistic Philosophy
- Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael (1860-1906) Zoologist
- Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852) 1st Duke of Wellington, Field Marshal, statesman
- Wellesley, Richard Colley (1760-1842) Marquess Wellesley, statesman
- Welsh, John (1824-1859), meteorologist
- West, Dame Rebecca (1892-1983), critic and novelist
- Westmacott, Sir Richard (1775-1856) Knight, sculptor
- Weymouth, Richard Francis (1822-1902) Philologist
- Whalley, George Hammond (1813-1878) MP for Peterborough
- Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer (1890-1976) Knight Archaeologist
- Whiston, Robert (1808-1895) Headmaster of Rochester Cathedral School
- White, John Meadows (1799-1863), parliamentary solicitor and legal writer
- Whitworth, Sir Joseph (1803-1887) Baronet Engineer
- Wicksteed, Philip Henry (1844-1927), economist
- Wilberforce, William (1759-1833), MP, philanthropist
- Wilde, James Plaisted (1816-1899) 1st Baron Penzance, judge
- Williams, Philip Maynard (1920-1984) Historian and Political Scientist
- Williamson, Alexander William (1824-1904), chemist
- Willich, Charles Madinger (d 1867) Printer and Writer
- Willis, Robert (1800-1875) Mechanician and Architectural Historian
- Wilmot, John Eardley- (1750-1815) Politician and Author
- Wilson, Harriette (1786-1846) nee Dubouchet, Society Mistress
- Wimperis, Harry Egerton (1876-1960), aeronautical engineer
- Wolf, Abraham (1876-1948) Professor of Logic
- Wolf, Lucien (1857-1930) journalist
- Wollaston, William Hyde (1766-1828), physiologist, chemist and physicist
- Wood, Dudley Orson (1887-1965), physicist
- Wood, John (1790-1856) Chairman of the Inland Revenue Board
- Woodger, Joseph Henry (1894-1981) biologist
- Woodward, Sir Arthur Smith (1864-1944), Knight, palaeontologist
- Woolf, Adeline Virginia (1882-1941), author and critic Kensington, Middlesex
- Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), poet
- Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1812-1877) Art Critic, Biographer and Keeper of the National Gallery
- Wrottesley, John (1798-1867) 2nd Baron Wrottesley
- Yates, James (1789-1871) Unitarian and Antiquary
- Yates, John Ashton (1782-1863) Author
- Youatt, William (1776-1847) Veterinary Surgeon
- Young, Sir George (1837-1930) Knight Administrator and Essayist
- Young, John Zachary (1907-1997), anatomist and neurologist
- Young, Thomas (1773-1829) Physician Physicist and Egyptologist
- Yule, George Udny (1871-1951), statistician
- Zola, Emile (1840-1902) French Novelist
Diaries (7)
- Carlill, John Burford (1814-1874) Physician
- Davis, Lesley (fl 1940-1944), nurse of London London
- Jeaffreson, Christopher (fl 1675-1686), Dullingham Dullingham, Cambridgeshire
- Jones, Henry (1731-1769) Vicar, Tewkesbury Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
- Jones, Penry (d1754) Vicar, Tewkesbury Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
- Norris, Arthur (fl 1900) Railway Engineer South Africa
- Thane, Vendla Harriett Matilda (1885-1976) Teacher Cambridge, Cambridgeshire;Wimbledon, Surrey;Oldham, Lancashire
Families (2)
- Brougham family, Barons Brougham and Vaux Brougham Hall, Westmorland
- Brown, family, merchants and bankers of London London
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (58)
- NRA 41124 Ernest Hubert Francis Baldwin, biochemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24776 Balfour, Williamson & Co Ltd, Chilean merchants, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 33776 Bank of London & South America Ltd link to online catalogue
- NRA 27944 Henry Clark Barlow, Dante scholar: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 33773 Sir William Maddock Bayliss and Leonard Ernest Bayliss, physiologists: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14723 Edward Spencer Beesly, historian: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 29882 Arnold Bennett, author: corresp and papers rel to his estate link to online catalogue
- NRA 20655 Jeremy Bentham, philosopher: literary MSS and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14258 George Boole and Augustus de Morgan, corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 31344 Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman and James Brougham MP: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 24778 Buenos Aires & Pacific Railway Co Ltd link to online catalogue
- NRA 14259 Sir John Burdon-Sanderson, physiologist: personal and family corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 36166 Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 19560 Sir Roy Cameron, anatomist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 21653 Sir Edwin Chadwick, sanitary reformer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 30483 Chadwick Trust link to online catalogue
- NRA 23133 Raymond Wilson Chambers, professor of English: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14720 Frederick George Donnan, chemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14721 Sir John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 19968 Sir Francis Galton, eugenist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 16929 Moses Gaster, Chief Rabbi: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 33777 Lionel Felix Gilbert, chemist: corresp and papers rel to biography of WH Wollaston link to online catalogue
- NRA 24838 George Bellas Greenough, geographer and geologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 29880 George Grote, historian, and Harriet Grote, biographer: diaries and corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 18114 David Hannay, author: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 21451 Alex Helm, folklorist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 33631 Sir Victor Horsley, physiologist and surgeon: personal and family papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24782 Edward Johnston & Co Ltd, coffee exporters, Santos Brazil link to online catalogue
- NRA 26088 Sir Bernard Augustus Keen, agricultural scientist: misc corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 33774 William Paton Ker, scholar and author: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 18113 James Loch, economist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 20647 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, scientist: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 18117 London University: University College corresp
- NRA 20580 London University: University College, interim handlist of scientific papers University College, Lo
- NRA 33772 London University, University College: James Joyce Centre archives
- NRA 24781 London University: University College misc accessions
- NRA 14722 CK Ogden: Arnold Bennett MS collection link to online catalogue
- NRA 6318 Parkes family of Warwick and Birmingham: political and family papers
- NRA 18115 Karl Pearson, mathematician and biologist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 23657 Lionel Sharples Penrose, geneticist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 23945 Peruvian Corporation, railway company, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 33775 Mark (Max) Plowman, writer and pacifist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14260 Sir William Ramsay, research chemist, and Professor MW Travers corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14256 George Croom Robertson, philosopher: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 20377 Rogers, Sharpe, Reid and Kenrick family papers incl Samuel Rogers diaries and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22647 Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, publishers, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 20649 Royal Mail Steam Packet Co, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 24775 Santa Rosa Milling Co Ltd, Chile: London office link to online catalogue
- NRA 18112 William Sharpey, physiologist: corresp as Secretary of Royal Society link to online catalogue
- NRA 22241 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge link to online catalogue
- NRA 14257 James Sully, philosopher: corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 24780 United Railways of the Havana & Regla Warehouses Ltd, Cuba link to online catalogue
- NRA 24917 University College Hospital, London link to online catalogue
- NRA 19562 Sir Francis Martin Rouse Walshe: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 19802 Thomas Humphry Ward: family diaries and letters link to online catalogue
- NRA 36203 David Meredith Seares Watson, palaeontologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24779 Western Telegraph Co Ltd, Brazil link to online catalogue
- NRA 40235 John Zachary Young, anatomist and neurologist: scientific corresp and papers link to online catalogue
Accessions
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