Olympic Skater. Magdalena Cecilia Colledge born 28th November 1920 was a British figure skater. She was placed eighth in the 1932 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid. Aged 11 years and 73 days she competed in the women's single skating competition and is one of the...

Physicist.  He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law. Richardson was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, the only son of Joshua Henry and Charlotte Maria Richardson. He was educated at Batley...

Portrait Painter.  Cope was born on 2nd November 1857, in South Kensington, London. His father was Charles West Cope (1811–1890), a successful history and genre painter, his mother was Charlotte Benning. He attended Norwich Grammar School and Wiesbaden, before...

Civil EngineerEnglish civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London. He was a recognised industry leader He also played a prominent role in the development of...

Landscape Architect. Edward White was a distinguished landscape architect.  Born in Worthing, he came to London and met civil engineer H E Milner to whom he became an apprentice.  After taken into partnership, he married Milner’s eldest daughter.  The firm gained a...

Novelist.An English writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond stories....

Wartime SOE (Special Operations Executive) Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, GC, MC & Bar, known as "Tommy", was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in the Second World War. Codenamed "SEAHORSE" and "SHELLEY" in the SOE, Yeo-Thomas...

Merchant Banker.A Canadian merchant banker, born in St. Elmo, Glengarry County, Ontario. He is perhaps best known as a director of the Bank of England, or for his role as receiver general to the Duchy of Cornwall, the principal property management arm of the Royal...

Musician. A Dalmatian musician who moved to London where he was Professor of Singing at the Royal College of Music, becoming a Fellow in 1921. He was the stepfather of the novelist Radclyffe Hall. Born in Solin in Dalmatia to a landowner Italian father and an English...

Founder of the British School of Motoring.Inventor, Automotive Pioneer. An outstanding figure in technical education and training in Britain. Roberts was convinced that Britain could maintain its position in the world only by training more people in science and...