Writers, Poets, Wits, Scholars and Dons

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Sir Harold Acton Neal Ascherson Frank Ashton-Gwatkin Sir Alfred Ayer Maurice Baring David Benedictus Arthur Benson Lord Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Lord Berners) Eric Blair (George Orwell) Robert Bridges Oscar Browning Mark Burnell Rohan Butler John Carter Meric Casaubon Lord David Cecil Hon. Randolph Spencer Churchill Arthur Clutton-Brock John Coldstream Cyril Connolly William Johnson Cory (formerly William Johnson) Charles Cumming Peter Dickinson Digby Mackworth- Dolben Edward Chichester, 6th Marquess of Donegall Hon. William Douglas-Home Edward Plunkett, 19th Baron Dunsany Henry Fielding Ian Lancaster Fleming Peter Fleming Peter Frankopan Charles Trelawney Giles Granville Sir (Erskine) William Gladstone of Faske and Balfour, 7th Bt. Henry Godolphin Thomas Gray Henry Green Hon. Julian Grenfell Charles Greville Nicholas Griffin Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne Arthur Henry Hallam Duff Hart-Davis Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Robert Harvey Sir John Heygate, 4th Bt. Michael Holroyd Simon Hornblower Brian Howard Philip Howard Aldous Huxley Montague Rhodes James R.H.A. Jenkyns Peter Johnson Sir Lawrence Jones, 5th Bt. Monseigneur Ronald Knox Rev A.G.K. L’Estrange Robin Lane-Fox James Lees-Milne John Lehmann Shane Leslie (Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Bt.) Francis Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford Anthony Loyd Hon. George Lyttelton Sir Desmond MacCarthy Winthrop Mackworth Praed Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle MacLean, 1st Bt. Sir Noel Malcolm Richard Mason Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham, known as Robin Maugham E.J. Mortimer Nicholas Mosley Sir Robert Mount John Murray Sir John Murray (V) Sir John Murray (IV) Sir John ‘Jock’ Murray (VI) Sir John Murray (VII) Sir Roger Mynors Adam Nicolson Nigel Nicolson Richard Ollard Peter Mason Opie George Orwell (Eric Blair) Derek Parfit Eric Parker James Payn Richard Porson Anthony Powell Jonathan Riley-Smith Hon. Sir Steven Runciman Walter Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell George ‘Dadie’ Rylands Jeremy Sandford George Selwyn Patrick Shaw-Stewart Percy Bysshe Shelley Andrew Sinclair Sir (Francis) Osbert Sitwell, 5th Bt. Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt. Julian Slade S.P. Somtow (Sucharitkul) Boris Starling Sir Leslie Stephen Christopher Stone Algernon Swinburne Edward Thring Colin Thubron Roland Vernon Henry Wade Edmund Waller Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, FRS Guy Walters Heathcote Williams Hugo Williams Philip Ziegler