Christopher, Lord Geidt living
Principal private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 2007-2017, Crossbench party politician, member of the UK House of Lords, chairman of the Council of Kings College London
1961- (63)
kcl.ac.uk
Michael Dobson living
Chairman and CEO of Schroders from 2001-2016, former CEO of Morgan Grenfell Group from 1989-1996, director of Deutsche Bank from 1996-2000
1952- (72)
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley living
CEO of BP from 1995-2007
1948- (76)
members.parliament.uk
Geoffrey Hinton living
mathematician, reseacher, winner of the Turing Award, known as the godfather of AI, computer scientist, cognitive psychologist, pioneer in artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks
1947- (77)
cs.toronto.edu
Harold W. Rosenthal
Diplomat, aide to US senator Jacob Javits, killed in a terrorist attack in Istanbul
1947-1976 (29)
gogovernment.org
Peter Kellner living
journalist for BBC News, political commentator, politics, former president of YouGov opinon polling for the UK
1946- (78)
kellnerpolitics.com
Sir Andrew Crockett
General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) from 1994-2003, executive director at the Bank of England, formerly a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1972-1989
1943-2012 (69)
bis.org
Ken Thomson
British peerage, billionaire publicist, chairman of The TImes & Sunday Times and sold to Fox News Corp (Rupert Murdoch), reporter, journalist at the Timmins Daily Press, Cambridge Reporter( Galt Reporter), media mogul who created what became Thomson Reuters, the largest business and commerical news outlet in the world, art collector of Kreigoff
1923-2006 (83)
Marshall McLuhan
Professor, philosopher, pioneer in communications theory, television, TV media theory, cybernetics, coined the phrase "the medium is the message"
1911-1980 (69)
marshallmcluhan.com
Homi (H.J.) Bhabha
Scientist, physicist, mechanical engineer, inventor, research in cosmic rays and quantum theory
1909-1966 (57)
britannica.com
Charles Webster
Historian, foreign diplomat, member of the League of Nations (United Nations)
1886-1961 (75)
Lord Esher
Liberal politician, courtier, influencer, publicist, fixer of public opinions
1852-1930 (78)
Sir James Dewar
Inventor of the thermos in 1892, Dewar bottle or thermo flask, vacuum flask or the Dewar flask, physicist, chemist, known for liquid hydrogen/oxygen and cryogenic storage, Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution in London
1842-1923 (81)
undiscoveredscotland.co.uk
Joseph Jacobs
Folklore scholar, writer, author
britannica.com
John Maynard (J.M.), Lord Keynes
economist aka JM Keynes, libertarian, pioneer in macroeconomics, lobbyist, slick suits, wino, author of The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, Treatise on Money
econlib.org
Frederick Denison Maurice
editor of Metropolitan Quarterly magazine, author of The History of the Puritans
spartacus-educational.com
Emma Rothschild
Economic historian, economist
history.fas.harvard.edu
Victor Cavendish
Duke of Devonshire, politician in the UK House of Lords (House of Peers), governor general of Canada