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