Sir Rupert Charles Hart-Davis was an English publisher and editor. He founded the publishing company Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd. As a biographer,he is remembered for his Hugh Walpole (1952),as an editor,for his Collected Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962),and,as both editor and part-author,for the Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters.
Ronald "Ronnie" Kray and Reginald "Reggie" Kray were English organised crime figures,and identical twin brothers from Haggerston,who operated mostly in the East End of London from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968. With their gang,known as the Firm which was based in Bethnal Green,the Kray twins were involved in murder,armed robbery,arson,protection rackets,gambling and assaults. At their peak in the 1960s,they gained a certain measure of celebrity status by mixing with prominent members of London society,being photographed by David Bailey and interviewed on television.
Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart was an English legal philosopher. He was the Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University and the Principal of Brasenose College,Oxford. His most famous work is The Concept of Law,which has been hailed as "the most important work of legal philosophy written in the twentieth century". He is considered one of the world's foremost legal philosophers in the twentieth century.
Lewis Silkin,1st Baron Silkin CH,was a British Labour Party politician.
Johan van Zyl Steyn,Baron Steyn,PC was a South African-British judge,until September 2005 a Law Lord. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
Joseph Kagan,Baron Kagan was a Lithuanian-British industrialist and the founder of Kagan Textiles,of Elland,which made raincoats from the waterproof Gannex fabric he had invented. Gannex raincoats were worn by Prime Minister Harold Wilson,a friend of his. Kagan was sent to prison for ten months in 1980 for tax evasion.
Adrienne Corri was a Scottish actress.
Robert John Graham Boothby,Baron Boothby,,often known as Bob Boothby,was a British Conservative politician.
Hackney Downs School was an 11–16 boys,community comprehensive secondary school in Lower Clapton,Greater London,England. It was established in 1876 and closed in 1995. It has been replaced by the Mossbourne Community Academy.
Lucy Caroline Cavendish,also known as Lady Frederick Cavendish,was a pioneer of women's education.
Sir William Gervase Beckett,1st Baronet was a British banker and Conservative politician.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Boothby,both in the Baronetage of England. One creation is extant as of 2022.
Brian Leopoldo Brivati is a British historian. He was a professor of contemporary history at Kingston University and worked as a director of the John Smith memorial trust from 2008 to 2012.
John Graham Cuckney,Baron Cuckney was a British industrialist,civil servant and peer.
Sir Roger Thomas Baldwin Fulford was an English journalist,historian,writer and politician.
Wixenford School,also known as Wixenford Preparatory School and Wixenford-Eversley,was a private preparatory school for boys near Wokingham,founded in 1869. A feeder school for Eton,after it closed in 1934 its former buildings were taken over by the present-day Ludgrove School.
