Thomas Digges was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances. He was also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".
Christopher Love was a Welsh Presbyterian preacher and activist during the English Civil War. In 1651, he was executed by the English government for plotting with the exiled Stuart court. The Puritan faction in England considered Love to be a martyr and hero.
George Davys (1780–1864) was an English cleric, tutor to Queen Victoria, and later Bishop of Peterborough. He was previously Dean of Chester. He himself was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where a house is named after him.
John Timbs was an English author and antiquary. Some of his work was published under the pseudonym of Horace Welby.
Hugh le Despenser, sometimes referred to as "the Elder Despenser", was for a time the chief adviser to King Edward II of England. He was created a baron in 1295 and Earl of Winchester in 1322.
John Droxford, was a Bishop of Bath and Wells. He was elected 5 February 1309 and consecrated 9 November 1309.
Thomas Bickley (1518–1596) was an English churchman, a Marian exile who became Warden of Merton College, Oxford and Bishop of Chichester
Samuel Bolton was an English clergyman and scholar, a member of the Westminster Assembly and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.
William Jackson, referred to as Jackson of Exeter, was an English organist and composer.
Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet, of Glentworth, Lincolnshire was an English Member of Parliament.
John de Batesford was an English judge.
James Brome was an English clergyman and travel writer.
William Colepeper was an English poet and politician.
George Pellew (1793–1866) was an English churchman and theologian, Dean of Norwich from 1828 to 1866.
The Socinian controversy in the Church of England was a theological argument on christology carried out by English theologians for around a decade from 1687. Positions that had remained largely dormant since the death in 1662 of John Biddle, an early Unitarian, were revived and discussed, in pamphlet literature.
William Kent was an English Royal Navy officer, known for his part in developing British settlement in Australasia.
Sir Arnold Savage, Lord of Bobbing, was a 14th century English knight and administrator from the Savage family, who was a commissioner of array in Kent (1346), lieutenant of the Seneschal of Gascony (1350), sat in the parliament of January 1352, Warden of the Coasts of Kent (1355), Mayor of Bordeaux (1359-63), and was employed in negotiations between England and Castile and France.
Sir William Howard, known as William of Wiggenhall, was an English lawyer who became a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He is known also as the earliest ancestor of the male line of the House of Howard established by solid historical research.
