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Denis (formerly Pullein-Thompson) Cannan
Sir Antony Acland
Sir Harold Acton
Will Adams-Dale
Jonathan Aitken
HH Sheikh Mohammed al-Moubarak al-Sabah
HRH Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia
Sir George Allen
Dr Richard Alston
Giles Andreae
Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster
Marcus Armytage
Thomas Arne
Anthony Ascham
Neal Ascherson
Frank Ashton-Gwatkin
Hon. David Astor
Hon. Hugh Waldorf Astor
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever
John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever
Thomas Aufield
Sir Alfred Ayer
Francis Thomas Bacon, FRS
Arthur Balfour, later 1st Earl of Balfour
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Bt, FRS
John Barclay
Maurice Baring
Norman Rupert Barrett, FRCS
Shute Barrington
John Bernard Adie Barton CBE
Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (formerly Viscount Weymouth)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Benjamin Bathurst
Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst
Lieutenant Arthur Batten-Pooll
Sir Nicholas Bayne
Derrick Beecham
Timothy Behrens
David Benedictus
Peter Benenson
Edward Bennett
Arthur Benson
Michael Pickersgill Benthall
Micheal Bentine (Bentin)
Captain Lord William Beresford
Lord Berners (Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Lord Berners)
(William) Michael Berry, Baron Hartwell
Edmund Bertram (Mansfield Park by Jane Austen)
Jeremy Brett Huggins
Sir Anthony Bevir C.B.E, K.C.V.O.
HH Prince Birabongse of Siam
Edward Bird
HM King Birendra of Nepal
Mark Birley
Eric Blair (George Orwell)
Henry Blofeld
Wilfrid Blunt
Johnnie Boden
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
James Bond: various by Ian Fleming
W.R. Boone
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Borton
Arthur Bourchier
Gilbert Bourne, FRS
R.C. Bourne
R.M.A. Bourne
2nd Lieutenant George Boyd-Rochfort
Hon. Robert Boyle, FRS
Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth
Field Marshal Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall
Flying Officer Guy Rawstron Branch, RAF
Robert Bridges
Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
Anthony Walter Dayrell, formerly HH the Rajah Muda of Sarawak Brooke
Scott Brooksbank
Craig Brown
Oscar Browning
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine
George ‘Beau’ Brummel
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, VC, GCB
Mark Burnell
C.D. Burnell
Charles Bury
Rohan Butler
George Butler
George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC
Field Marshal Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
Robert Byron
Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia
Sir Dominic Cadbury
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
David Cameron
Lieutenant-Colonel John Campbell
James Campbell
Seymour Berry, 2nd Viscount Camrose
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Canning
George Canning
General Mark Carleton-Smith, A. P., CBE
Peter Carrington, 6th Baron Carrington
John Carter
Meric Casaubon
Christopher Cazenove
Jonathan Cecil
Lord David Cecil
David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley, later 6th Marquess of Exeter
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Henry Chadwick
HRH Prince Chalermbol of Thailand
Michael Chance
Alexander Chancellor
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Martin Charteris, Baron Chareris of Amisfield
James Chichester-Clark, later Baron Moyola
Sir Jeremy Child
John Christie
Hon. Randolph Spencer Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill
Alan Clark
Lawrence Clarke
Lewis Clive
Squadron Leader G.C.N. Close
Arthur Clutton-Brock
Jeremy Clyde
John Cobb
Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham
John Coldstream
John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
David Coleridge
Nicholas Coleridge
Anthony Collins
Brevet-Major William (Billy) La Touche Congreve
Henry Coningsby: Coningsby by Disraeli
HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught
Cyril Connolly
Edward Coode
John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, known as John Julius Norwich
(Alfred) Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Frederick Cornwallis
William Johnson Cory (formerly William Johnson)
John Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe
Piers Courage
Weetman Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray
John Cowell
Sir Trenchard Cox
William Crimsworth: The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer
Charles Cumming
George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon
Sir Lionel Cust
Hugh Dalton, Baron Dalton
Tam Dalyell
Mark Darcy: Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Sir Robert (Robin) Darwin CBE, RA
Bernard Darwin
Sir Francis Dashwood
Geoffrey Dawson (until 1917 Robinson)
Major Henri de Beaujolais: Beau Geste by P.C. Wren
Sir Roger de Grey
Thomas, 1st Baron Denman
Edward Dent
Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, KG, FRS
Peter Dickinson
Oliver Dimsdale
Sir Joseph Dimsdale, 1st Bt
HM King Dipendra of Nepal
Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran
Digby Mackworth- Dolben
Edward Chichester, 6th Marquess of Donegall
Colin Doran
Nigel Douglas (Leigh Pemberton)
David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, (formerly Viscount Drumlanrig)
Hon. William Douglas-Home
Charles Douglas-Home
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, formerly 14th Earl of Home, later Baron Home of the Hirsel
Charles Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda
Lieutenant Geoffrey Drummond, RNVR
Robin Drysdale
Arthur Dunn
Edward Plunkett, 19th Baron Dunsany
2nd Lieutentant John Dunville
John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
Sir Anthony Eden, later 1st Earl of Avon
Lieutenant William Edwards
Sir Alfred Egerton, FRS
Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel Neville Elliott-Cooper
Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher
Lionel Brett, 4th Viscount Esher
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Evans
Sidney Evans
Willam Evans
Philip Evergood
Richard Farnes
James Faure Walker
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Sir Robert Fellowes
Bernard Edward Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
Sebastian Fernandez-Armesto
Nic Fiddian-Green
Henry Fielding
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham- Fiennes, 3rd Bt
Lieutenant Alexander Murray Fincastle, Viscount, later 8th Earl of Dunmore
Denys Finch-Hatton
James Fisher
Captain Charles FitzClarence
Ian Lancaster Fleming
Matthew Fleming
Peter Fleming
Lord Sebastian Flyte: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Sir Brinsley Ford
Lieutenant George Fosbery
Charles James Fox
William Fox-Pitt
Peter Frankopan
Major Charles Fraser, later Sir Charles Fraser
Jordan Frieda
John Frith
Lieutenant the Hon. Christopher Furness
Edward Gardner
(Arthur) Bamber Gascoigne
Brian Gascoigne
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Charles Trelawney Giles Granville
Ian Gilmour, 1st Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar
William Ewart Gladstone
Sir (Erskine) William Gladstone of Faske and Balfour, 7th Bt.
HRH Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
HRH Prince William of Gloucester
Robert Glover
Henry Godolphin
Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chievely
Sir Harcourt Gold
Sir James Goldsmith
Zac Goldsmith
David Goode
David Goodhart
Brevet-Major Gerald Goodlake
Tristan Gooley
Lord George Gordon
Paul Gore-Booth, Baron Gore-Booth
Brevet-Major John Gough
Professor William Timothy Gowers, FRS
Ivo Graham
Lieutenant Reginald Graham, later Sir Reginald, 3rd Bt.
General John Manners, 1st Marquess Granby
Thomas Gray
Henry Green
George Carron Greig
Hon. Julian Grenfell
Captain Francis Grenfell
Riversdale Nonus Grenfell
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville
George Grenville
Charles Greville
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Nigel de Grey
Lord Greystoke: Tarzan by E.R. Burroughs
Temp. Captin Julian Royds Gribble
Francis Grier
Nicholas Griffin
Jo Grimond, Baron Grimond
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
Bear Grylls
Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne
Professor Sir John Gurdon, FRS
John Habgood, Baron Habgood
Peter Haig-Thomas
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
J.B.S. Haldane, FRS
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Arthur Henry Hallam
Peter Hambro
Tom Hammick
Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE
Captain Percy Hansen
George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris
Adam Hart-Davis
Duff Hart-Davis
Sir Rupert Hart-Davis
Robert Harvey
Nicholas Haslam
Capt. Arthur Hastings: various by Agatha Christie
Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke
Sir Charles Hawtrey
Cadet David George Montagu Hay (later 12th Marquess of Tweeddale)
David Heathcote-Amory
Victor Hely-Hutchinson
Captain Clement Walker Heneage
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, KH FRS
Sir John Heygate, 4th Bt.
Tom Hiddleston
Brent Hoberman
Sir Howard Hodgkin
James Hogg
Quintin Hogg
Michael Holroyd
Captain James Hook: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Captain the Hon. Alexander Hore-Ruthven, later the 1st Earl of Gowrie
Simon Hornblower
HRH Prince Henry (known as Harry) of Wales, later Duke of Sussex
HRH Prince William of Wales
Robin Howard
Brian Howard
Philip Howard
Brigadier-General George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
General William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
Hugh Hudson
Mark Hue-Williams
John Hullier
Douglas Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell
James Hurford
Christopher Hussey
Aldous Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley, FRS
Courtenay Adrian Ilbert
William Inge
Colin Ingleby-MacKenzie
Michael Jaffé
Montague Rhodes James
Dr Oliver James
Major David Jamieson
R.H.A. Jenkyns
David Jessel
Jez: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, BBC television series by Jonathan Harvey
Gaj Singh, Maharajah of Jodphur
Peter Johnson
Boris Johnson
Brian Johnston
Sir Lawrence Jones, 5th Bt.
Colonel “H” Jones
Mark Jones
Davey Jones: Pirates of the Deep Green Sea by Eric Linklater
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Jay Jopling
Charles Kean
Will Keen
Sir Gerald Kelly
Sir Ludovic Kennedy
HRH Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
HRH Prince Michael of Kent
Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Keyes
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
Alexander Kinglake
Robin Leigh-Pemberton, Baron Kingsdown
Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Baron Kinnaird
Alfred Dillwyn Knox
Monseigneur Ronald Knox
General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam
Kwasi Kwarteng
Rev A.G.K. L’Estrange
James Landale
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Landsdowne
Robin Lane-Fox
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
Hugh Laurie
Sir Charles Lawes, 2nd Bt (Lawes-Wittewronge from 1962)
Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Bt, FRS
John Lawrence, 2nd Baron Oaksey
Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham
Edward Lawson, 4th Baron Burnham
Dominic Lawson
Stephen Layton
Jeremy Le Grice
James Lees-Milne
John Lehmann
John Leigh-Pemberton
Leopold III of Belgium
Shane Leslie (Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Bt.)
Oliver Letwin
Damian Lewis
Andrew Lindsay
Harry Lloyd
Anthony (known as Tony) Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick
George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
Francis Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
Alex Loudon
Constantine Louloudis
Thomas Lowinsky
Anthony Loyd
Brevet-Major Robert Loyd-Lindsay, later 1st Baron Wantage
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, FRS
Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Bt, FRS
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
Temp. Captain Charles Napier Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell
Thomas Lynch Jnr
Inspector Thomas Lynley: novels by Elizabeth George and BBC television adaptation
Humphrey Lyttelton
Hon. George Lyttelton
Hon. Alfred Lyttelton
Hon. Alfred Lyttleton
Sir Desmond MacCarthy
Bruce MacKinnon
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
Sir Fitzroy Hew Royle MacLean, 1st Bt.
Harold Macmillan, later 1st Earl of Stockton
Patrick Macnee
Professor Frederic Maitland
Sir Noel Malcolm
George Mann
Sir James Mansfield
Richard Mason
Lieutenant-Commander Michael Mason
Daniel Massey
Uncle Matthew (Lord Alconleigh): various by Nancy Mitford
Andrew Maud
Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham, known as Robin Maugham
Rory McEwen
Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway
Henry Duncan McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Sir Thomas Merton, FRS
John Merton
Oliver Messel
Captain Godfrey Meynell
Sir Henry Miers, FRS
Oliver Milburn
Sir Eugen Millington-Drake
Professor Robin Milner, FRS
Charles Moore
Colonel Sebastian Moran: various by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Henry More
Thomas Morell, FRS
E.J. Mortimer
Henry Moseley
Nicholas Mosley
Sir Robert Mount
John Murray
Sir John Murray (V)
Sir John Murray (IV)
Sir John ‘Jock’ Murray (VI)
Sir John Murray (VII)
Stanley Muttlebury
Sir Roger Mynors
HH Raj Rajendra, Maharajah of Cooch Behar Narayan
Airey Neave
HRH Prince Nicholas of Romania, later HRH Prince Nicholas of Hohenzollern
Guy Nickalls
Adam Nicolson
Nigel Nicolson
HRH Prince Nirajan of Nepal
Montagu Collet Norman, 1st Baron Norman
Sir Torquil Norman
Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guildford, 8th Baron North (Lord North)
Lawrence Edward Grace “Titus” Oates
Ian Ogilvy
Dr Alexander Ogston, FRS
Richard Ollard
Peter Mason Opie
Nicholas Ormerod
George Orwell (Eric Blair)
George Osborne: Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray
William Oughtred
Julian Ovenden
Alexander Paget, Earl of Uxbridge
C.D. Palmer-Tomkinson
J.A. Palmer-Tomkinson
J.J. Palmer-Tomkinson
Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo
James Palumbo
Derek Parfit
Eric Parker
Sir Hubert Parry, 1st Bt
Bishop John Coleridge Patteson
John Pawson
James Payn
John Pearson
Colonel Lord Henry Percy
Sir Matthew Pinsent, CBE
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
Hon. Jonathon Porritt
Richard Porson
Tristram Powell
Anthony Powell
HM King Prajadhipok of Siam
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Edward Pusey
Allan Quartermain: The League of Extraordinary Gentleman directed by Stephen Norrington
Roger Quilter
Eddie Redmayne
Jacob Rees-Mogg
John Reeves
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Lieutenant Frederick Roberts, later Field Marshal the 1st Earl Roberts
Lieutenant the Hon. Frederick Roberts
Simon Robertson
Sir Arnold Robinson: Yes, Minister BBC television series
Marquess of Rockingham: Under Two Flags by Ouida
Hon. Charles Rolls
Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan
Nicholas Rowe
Hon. Sir Steven Runciman
Walter Runciman, 2nd Viscount Runciman of Doxford
Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell
Brevet-Major Sir Charles Russell, 3rd Bt.
George ‘Dadie’ Rylands
Robert Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
Jeremy Sandford
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Laurence Saunders
Sir Henry Segrave
George Selwyn
George Augustus Selwyn
Patrick Shaw-Stewart
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thomas Sherlock
Ralph Sherwin
Temp. Major William Sidney, later 1st Viscount De L’Isle
Charles Simeon
Andrew Sinclair
HH Prince Frederick Duleep Singh
HH Prince Victor Duleep Singh
HH Prince Sarabjit Singh of Kapurthala
Sir (Francis) Osbert Sitwell, 5th Bt.
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Bt.
Julian Slade
Sir John Smith
Sebastian Snow
Sebastian Snow
S.P. Somtow (Sucharitkul)
William Spottiswoode
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
John Standing (Sir John Leon, Bt)
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, FRS
Boris Starling
John Steed: The Avengers 1960s television series
Sir Leslie Stephen
Henry Stephens-Salt
Sir Jocelyn Stevens
Rory Stewart
Robert Still
Christopher Stone
Reynolds Stone, CBE, RDI
(Evelyn) John Strachey
John Willam Strutt, 3rd Baron Ralyeigh, FRS
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
Sir (John Edward) Kynaston Studd, 1st Bt
Charles Studd
John Bird Sumner
Charles Sumner
Algernon Swinburne
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol
Martin Taylor
Penrose Tennyson
Sir Wilfred Thesiger
Jeremy Thorpe
Edward Thring
Colin Thubron
Squadron Leader Anthony Henry Hamilton Tollemache
John Horne Tooke
Charles “Turnip” Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
Abhisit (Mark) Vejjajiva
Sir John Verney, 2nd Bt
Roland Vernon
Hon. Arthur Villiers
Henry Wade
Sir Anthony Wagner
William Waldegrave
Captain Ronald Wallace
Edmund Waller
Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, FRS
Guy Walters
Peter (Philip Heseltine) Warlock
Michael Warre
Justin Welby
John Weldon
General Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Richard Wentworth
Dominic West
Nicholas Wheeler
Professor John Whitehead, FRS
Jeffry Wickham
Kenneth Widmerpool: Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
Heathcote Williams
Hugo Williams
Captain Arthur Wilson, 3rd Bt., RN, later Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson
Peter Wilson
Lord Peter Wimsey
Field Marshal Henry Wison, 1st Baron Wison
Dr Stephen Wolfram
Ed Woodall
Simon Woods
Henry Woodyer
Bertie Wooster: various by P.G. Wodehouse
Sir Brian Young
Sir George Young, Bt
HIH Prince Zara Yacob of Ethiopia
Count Louis Zborowski
Philip Ziegler