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Belgium classical philologist.

Bentley Beetham was an English mountaineer, ornithologist and photographer, and a member of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition.

Bentley Beetham was born in Darlington in 1886, the second son of James Weighell Beetham and his wife Frances. His father was a bank manager and died when Beetham was four years old. Until the age of eight Beetham was educated at Mr Bowman's Preparatory School; he then attended the Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Darlington. From 1899 to 1903 he attended the North Eastern County School where he was a boarder. He left school at the age of sixteen.

Initially he worked in an architect's office in Darlington and then between 1903-1914 he was busy with field research, writing books and articles, photography and giving lectures. In

1914, having established himself as a leading ornithologist, he returned to the North Eastern County School to teach natural history.
Beetham started rock climbing in the Lake District where he used Wasdale Head as a base and became fiends with Howard Somervell. Together they made ascents of the classic Lakeland climbs in the period before the First World War. After the war, Beetham and Somervell started climbing in the Alps. In 1924 they were both chosen to join the 1924 Everest Expedition.

In 1927 he was elected a member of the Royal Geographical Society.

In 1949 he retired and in 1962 he was disabled by a stroke. He spent his last year in a nursing home, where he died on 5 April 1963.

Belgian lithographer.

A French psychoanalyst and pacifist. His psychoanalytical work combined Freudianism with elements of the thought of Carl Jung and Alfred Adler.

A Tuscan artist working in Florence, he produced decorative marbles and alabasters for the European market.

Wife of Joshua Bates (1788-1864), American financier.

Educated at Eton College; Westcott House; matriculated 1950 (Scholar); Chaplain 1956–1960; Fellow and Dean of Chapel 1963–1969; General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society 1975–1985; Bishop of Coventry 1985–1997; Chairman, Partnership for World Mission 1987–1991; International Affairs Committee, Board for Social Responsibility of General Synod 1986–1996. Honorary Fellow 1987, and (resident) Honorary Assistant Chaplain 1997. Prelate of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George 1989 (KCMG 2001).

College Magazine
Article vol. 32 (1987–88) p. 17
Obituary by Ronald Hyam, College Magazine, No. 64 (2019-20), pp. 11-17

Irish artist, painter and designer. He was born in Dublin and studied architecture at the Bolton Street College of Technology. His painting style was strongly influenced by pop art. He is particularly well known for his hyperrealistic renderings of well known Irish literary, historical or establishment figures.