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Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. His ideas were articulated in a series of articles published under the pseudonym Frank Talk.

He campaigned for an end to apartheid and the transition of South Africa toward universal suffrage and a socialist economy. Biko believed that black people needed to rid themselves of any sense of racial inferiority, an idea he expressed by popularizing the slogan "black is beautiful".
The government came to see Biko as a subversive threat and placed him under a banning order in 1973, severely restricting his activities but he remained politically active.

Following his arrest in August 1977, Biko was beaten to death by state security officers. Over 20,000 people attended his funeral.

Economist and parliamentary candidate for South Africa's National Party, tipped as a future Minister of Finance.

He was murdered, along with his wife Jean-Cora, on 22 November 1977. No arrests have ever been made, and there was little evidence in the case, but the murders are widely suspected to have been politically motivated. Cabinet Minister Pik Botha described it as "one of the most haunting criminal mysteries in our country", and the police investigation remained open as of November 2012.

Zimbabwean politician and statesman who founded the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) in July 1963. This was a militant, nationalist organisation that opposed the government of Rhodesia.

He worked as a United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ) minister.

He spent 10 years in prison after the government banned ZANU. A rift along tribal lines split ZANU in 1975, and he lost the 1980 elections to Robert Mugabe.

Rhodesian and Zimbabwean politician, farmer, and former fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979.

He led the predominantly white-minority government that unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in November 1965 after rejecting British demands for a transition to majority rule.

His premiership was marked by international non-recognition, United Nations sanctions, and the Rhodesian Bush War.

Born in Gloucester in 1905, the third of four sons of Ernest Dykes Bower MD, a general practitioner and ophthalmic surgeon, and his wife, Margaret Dora Constance Sheringham. Two of his brothers (Michael and Wilfrid) became well-known doctors, and the other, Stephen Ernest Dykes Bower, an architect who carried out work at Magdalene College.

Educated at Cheltenham College and at the same time was a pupil of Herbert Brewer, organist of Gloucester Cathedral.
1922 admitted to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and won the John Stewart of Rannoch university scholarship in music in 1922 and 1925.

1926-1929 - organist at Truro (1926–9)
1929 - organist at New College, Oxford
1933 - cathedral organist at Durham, with a university lectureship
1934-37 - Corpus Christi College elected him a (non-resident) fellow
1936 - appointed to St Paul's Cathedral

During the Second World War he lost everything in the bombing of London
1940 - joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and, with the rank of squadron leader, worked in the Air Ministry
1945-1952 - he continued work at St Paul's and was also associate director of the Royal School of Church Music
1936-1969 - professorship of organ at the Royal College of Music
1967 - retired sue to bad eyesight

1953 - appointed CVO
1968 - knighted
1944 - Oxford made him an honorary DMus
1980 - Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi, Cambridge
1967-68 - master of the Worshipful Company of Musicians

He died, unmarried, on 29 May 1981 in Kent

British church architect and Gothic Revival designer best known for hBrother of the organist Sir John Dykes Bower.

Born in Gloucester on 18 April 1903, the second of the four sons of Ernest Dykes Bower, general practitioner and ophthalmic surgeon, and his wife, Margaret Dora Constance, the youngest daughter of John William Sheringham, archdeacon of Gloucester. The organist Sir John Dykes Bower was his brother.

Educated at Cheltenham College and then was admitted to Merton College, Oxford, as an organ scholar in 1921
1924 - graduated with a third-class degree in English in 1924
A meeting with Sir Ninian Comper encouraged him to proceed to study architecture at the Architectural Association

1931 - set up practice moving to Quendon Court, near Saffron Walden, Essex, in 1933, where he lived and ran an office for the remainder of his life.

He is known for his work on Westminster Abbey, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral and the Chapel at Lancing College. He carried out a number of projects for Magdalene College.

He died at Quendon Court, Essex, on 11 November 1994. He never married.

Son of the Revd Francis Jourdain (Pembroke College, Oxford), of Ashbourne vicarage, Derbyshire.
School - Derby.

Admitted as a Pensioner (age 18) on 1 August 1889.
Prizeman; Scholar, 1891; B.A. 1892.
Kept a school at Clifton, near Ashbourne in Derbyshire.
Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Capt., R. Fusiliers; Staff Capt., War Office; wounded; Brevet-Major; mentioned in Secretary of State's List for "valuable services").

Of Charlynch, near Bridgwater in Somerset.

Died on 31 July 1942, in Newquay, Cornwall.

He fought in the Second World War as a fighter pilot taking part in the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Alam el Halfa, the First Battle of El Alamein and the Second Battle of El Alamein and then in operations in Burma.

He served as Chief of the Air Staff in the late 1970s advising the British Government on the reinforcement of the British garrison in Belize.

He also served as the Chief of the Defence Staff at the end of the 1970s.

Zimbabwean politician who served as justice minister in Zimbabwe Rhodesia and subsequently in the post-independence Parliament of Zimbabwe.

He supported and participated in Prime Minister Ian Smith's Internal Settlement.

He later served as ZANU-PF MP for Gokwe until April 1986 when he lost his position for misdemeanors.

On 18 April 1978 he was dismissed after he criticised the government for excluding blacks from high-level jobs.

In 1980 he was thrown out of Parliament after he openly criticized the Mugabe administration for corruption.

Anglo-Irish diplomat and writer
First cousin of Sir Winston Churchill
Became a Roman Catholic and supported Irish Home Rule

Leon Lovett studied music in Cambridge. Early in his career, he became the Assistant Conductor of the Scottish National Orchestra, and also conducted the Scottish Opera. In 1950, he co-founded the New Opera Company at Sadler’s Wells with Peter Hemmings and Brian Trowell. As Music Director of the New Opera Company, he conducted over 20 British opera premieres.

In 1973, Lovett founded the London Oriana Choir. He led companies and ensembles such as The London Chorus, English Baroque Orchestra, and the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. He appeared frequently on BBC radio and television, including “Proms.”

Commonly referred to as Bishop Muzorewa. He was a United Methodist Church bishop and nationalist politician who served as the first and only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979.

Born at Crayke, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest son of William Inge, curate of Crayke, and his wife, Susanna Mary Churton.

William Ralph Inge (1860–1954), theologian, Dean of St Paul's
Edward Churton Inge (1864–1865), died in infancy
Charles Cuthbert Inge (1868–1937), Vicar of St Giles' Church, Oxford
Agnes Sophia Inge (1862-1945)
Mary Caroline Inge (1866-1896), unmarried
Mary Anne Inge (died in infancy)

He was educated by his parents until he was thirteen and then won a scholarship to Eton College in 1874. There he met A.C. Benson (Master of Magdalene College, 1915-1925), who became a lifelong friend, and with whom he was caned for making an indoor bonfire out of blotting paper.

1879-1883 - undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge. He won the Craven, Bell, and Porson scholarships, took a first in both parts of the classical tripos (1882–3), and was senior-chancellor's medallist. Both Inge and Benson were susceptible to bouts of acute depression, which Inge attributed to overwork, and in Benson's case to the fact that he was celibate.

After graduating he spent four years teaching at Eton but felt he was not suited to the role. In 1889 he became a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, where he taught classics and developed an interest in philosophy.

1888 - ordained deacon but religious doubts meant that he did not proceed to the priesthood for four years.

1905 - appointed vicar of All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, in central London.

The same year he married Mary Catharine (Kitty) Spooner (1880–1949). Her father was archdeacon of Canterbury, her uncle, William Spooner was warden of New College. This marriage was very successful, and Kitty succeeded in alleviating Inge's depression and in helping him to overcome his shyness. They had five children:

William Craufurd Inge (1906–2001)
Edward Ralph Churton Inge (1907–1980)
Catharine Mary Inge (1910–1997), married Derek Wigram
Margaret Paula Inge (1911–1923), died from type 1 diabetes
Richard Wycliffe Spooner Inge (1915–1941), priest, killed on an RAF training flight

1907-1911 - Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

1911-1934 - Dean of St Paul's. He hated choral music, found the daily services 'dreary and interminable’, and was often seen reading a book in his stall. As a modernist he was often at odds with his Anglo-Catholic canons. He had been appointed in order to revive the literary eminence which St Paul's had previously enjoyed and in this respect he was a great success. His writings attained their widest readership through his weekly columns in the Evening Standard, which ran, with some interruptions, from 1921 to 1946. These articles were on literary, political, and religious themes.

Between the wars - Inge was one of the most vociferous defenders of the rights of the middle classes. One of his most pressing social concerns was the shortage of domestic servants, which he called 'a matter of national importance'. Inge was also concerned that the working classes were breeding too fast and that unless measures were taken to stop them they would overwhelm the middle classes. His interest in eugenic theory had deepened through his friendship with Sir Francis Galton, and he served on the council of the Eugenics Society.

1920s - was a leading spokesman for the modernist wing of the Church of England, becoming president of the Modern Churchmen's Union (1924–34).

He was made CVO in 1918 and KCVO in 1930. He received a BD and DD from Cambridge in 1909, was an Honorary Fellow of several Oxford and Cambridge Colleges and was elected FBA in 1921.

Inge and his wife Kitty had three sons and two daughters. In 1923 his 11 year old daughter, Paula, died of diabetes. His youngest son Richard was an undergraduate at Magdalene, 1934-1937 but was killed in an RAF training flight in 1941.

1934 - he retired to Brightwell Manor near Wallingford. He was not a pacifist but did oppose Britain's entry into the Second World War on the grounds that she had no quarrel with Germany. After the outbreak of war he continued to call for a negotiated peace.

26 February 1954 - he died at Brightwell Manor.

Spooner's grandfather, William, was Archdeacon of Coventry from 1821 to 1851; and his father, also William Spooner, a county court judge for North Staffordshire.

Spooner was educated at Oswestry School and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in 1868.
He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford 1868–1876.
He was ordained deacon in 1870; and priest in 1871.
He was domestic chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1870 to 1875.

In 1875 year he married Catherine, the second daughter of Harvey Goodwin, the Bishop of Carlisle and became vicar of Boughton under Blean.
In 1887 he became the incumbent at Holy Trinity, Maidstone; and in 1893 rector of Saltwood.
He became a canon residentiary of Canterbury Cathedral in 1900.
He was Archdeacon of Maidstone from 1900 until 1921.

He died on 1 April 1929.

Derek Pepys Whiteley was born in 1906, the son of Gerard Tarver Whiteley and the Hon. Amy Theresa Pepys. He was educated at Sherborne and King's College, and was called to the Bar from the Middle Temple in 1931. He became senior legal assistant in the Treasury Solicitor's Department, retiring in 1957; and from 1959 to 1970 was Assistant Pepys Librarian. An expert on Victorian art history, he wrote a life of George du Maurier, and articles for the Dictionary of National Biography.

John Tyndall's scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air, proving the connection between atmospheric CO2 and what is now known as the greenhouse effect in 1859.

Tyndall also published more than a dozen science books which brought state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wide audience.

In 1853, he attained the prestigious appointment of Professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics) at the Royal Institution in London, due in no small part to the esteem his work had garnered from Michael Faraday, the leader of magnetic investigations at the Royal Institution. About a decade later Tyndall was appointed the successor to the positions held by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution on Faraday's retirement.

Norman Pittenger was an Anglican minister, teacher, and theologian. He wrote about and promoted process theology, and became one of the first acknowledged Christian defenders for the open acceptance of homosexual relations among Christians. He served as Vice-Chairman and the Chairman of the Theological Commission of the World Council of Churches from the mid-1950s through the early 1960s. He lived most of his life in the United States, though from 1966 until his death he lived at King's College at Cambridge University as an honorary member of the university.

Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford.
One of the first members of the literary group "Inklings".
Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Canon of Westminster Abbey.
Warden of Radley College.

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