style="font-size: larger;" | The Garrick Club

Founded	1831
Home Page	http://www.garrickclub.co.uk/
Address	15 Garrick Street
Clubhouse occupied since	1864
Club established for	The Arts The arts The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art", which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts. The arts encompass visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts – music, theatre, dance and... ; especially theatre Theatre Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
Club motto	All the world's a stage

The Garrick Club is a gentlemen's club in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

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History

The Garrick Club was founded at a meeting in the Committee Room at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663,...

 on Wednesday 17 August 1831. Present were James Winston (a former strolling player, manager & important theatre antiquarian), Samuel James Arnold

Samuel James Arnold

Samuel James Arnold , was an English dramatist.Arnold was the son of Samuel Arnold, Mus. Doc, and was educated for an artist. He produced, however, at the Haymarket Theatre, in 1794, 'Auld Robin Gray,' a musical play in two acts; and this was followed by other works of the same class: 'Who pays the...

 (playwright & theatre manager), Samuel Beazley

Samuel Beazley

Samuel Beazley was an English architect, novelist and playwright. He became the leading theatre architect of his time and the first notable English expert in that field....

 (architect & playwright), Sir Andrew Francis Barnard (officer hero of the Peninsular Wars & Waterloo), and Francis Mills (timber merchant & railway speculator). It was decided to write down a number of names in order to invite them to be original members of the Garrick Club. The avowed purpose of the Club was to "tend to the regeneration of the Drama."

The Club was named in honour of the eminent actor David Garrick

David Garrick

David Garrick was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson...

 whose acting and management at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the previous century, had by the 1830s come to represent a golden age of British drama. Less than six months later the members had been recruited and a Club House found and equipped on King Street in Covent Garden. On February 1, 1832 it was reported that the novelist and journalist Thomas Gaspey was the first member to enter at 11am, and that “Mr Beazley gave the first order, (a mutton chop) at ½ past 12.”

The list of those that took up original membership runs like a Who’s Who of the Green Room for 1832: actors such as John Braham

John Braham

John Braham was a tenor opera singer born in London, England. His long career led him to become one of Europe's leading opera stars. He also wrote a number of songs, of minor importance, although The Death of Nelson is still remembered...

, Charles Kemble

Charles Kemble

Charles Kemble was a British actor.-Life:The youngest son of Roger Kemble, and younger brother of John Philip Kemble, Stephen Kemble and Sarah Siddons, he was born at Brecon, South Wales. Like John Philip, he was educated at Douai...

, William Charles Macready

William Charles Macready

-Life:He was born in London, and educated at Rugby.It was his intention to go up to Oxford, but in 1809 the embarrassed affairs of his father, the lessee of several provincial theatres, called him to share the responsibilities of theatrical management. On 7 June 1810 he made a successful first...

, Charles Mathews

Charles Mathews

Charles Mathews was an English theatre manager and comic actor, well-known during his time for his gift of impersonation and skill at table entertainment...

 and his son Charles James; the playwrights James Robinson Planché, Theodore Hook and Thomas Noon Talfourd

Thomas Noon Talfourd

Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, SL , was an English judge and author.The son of a well-to-do brewer, he was born at Reading, Berkshire ....

; scene-painters including Clarkson Stanfield and Thomas Grieve

Thomas Grieve (painter)

Thomas Grieve , was an English scenepainter.Grieve, son of John Henderson Grieve, theatrical scene-painter , was born at Lambeth, London, 11 June 1799, and was a member of a family long associated with Covent Garden as the chief artists employed in the adornment of the dramas, spectacles, and...

. Even the patron, the Duke of Sussex

Duke of Sussex

Duke of Sussex was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was conferred on 27 November 1801 upon The Prince Augustus Frederick, the sixth son of George III, who was created Duke of Sussex, Earl of Inverness, and Baron Arklow, all in the Peerage of the United Kingdom...

, had an element of the theatrical about him, being a well known mesmerist. To this can be added numerous Barons, Counts, Dukes, Earls and Lords, soldiers, parliamentarians and judges.

The membership would later include the like of Charles Kean

Charles Kean

Charles John Kean , was born at Waterford, Ireland, the son of the actor Edmund Kean.After preparatory education at Worplesdon and at Greenford, near Harrow, he was sent to Eton College, where he remained three years...

, Henry Irving

Henry Irving

Sir Henry Irving , born John Henry Brodribb, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as...

, Beerbohm Tree, Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...

, JM Barrie, AW Pinero, Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...

 and John Gielgud

John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...

. From the literary world came writers such as Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...

, William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.-Biography:...

, Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire...

, HG Wells and AA Milne; the art world has been represented by painters such as John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...

, Lord Leighton and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...

.

The Club’s popularity at the beginning of the 1860s created an overcrowding of its original club-house. Slum clearance being undertaken just round the corner provided the opportunity to move into a brand new purpose built home on what became known as Garrick Street. The move was completed in 1864 and the Club remains in this building today.

Today the Club has around 1,300 members who continue to be drawn from across the same varied spectrum. All new candidates must be proposed by an existing member before election in a secret ballot. The original assurance of the committee being “that it would be better that ten unobjectionable men should be excluded than one terrible bore should be admitted”. At present the Club remains “gentlemen only”, although Lady guests are welcome in most parts of the Club. This exclusive nature of the club was highlighted when reporter Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Dickson Paxman is a British journalist, author and television presenter. He has worked for the BBC since 1977. He is noted for a forthright and abrasive interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians...

 applied to join but was initially blackballed, though he was later admitted, an experience he shares with Sir Henry Irving who despite being the first actor to receive a knighthood had himself been blackballed in 1873.

The Club holds a remarkable collection of art works representing the history of the British theatre. There are over 1000 paintings, drawings and sculptures, a fascinating selection of theatrical memorabilia, and thousands of prints and photographs.

The collection originated with the actor Charles Mathews

Charles Mathews

Charles Mathews was an English theatre manager and comic actor, well-known during his time for his gift of impersonation and skill at table entertainment...

, one of the original members of the Club who had a passion for collecting theatrical portraits; they were once displayed by him in a gallery at his home, Ivy Cottage, in Highgate, North London. Mathews managed to secure a large number of pictures from the collection of Thomas Harris, who had been manager of Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and which included paintings by the likes of Johan Zoffany, Francis Hayman

Francis Hayman

Francis Hayman was an English painter and illustrator who became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 and later its first librarian....

 and Gainsborough Dupont

Gainsborough Dupont

Gainsborough Dupont, the nephew and pupil of Thomas Gainsborough, R.A., was born in 1754. He painted portraits and landscapes in imitation of the style of his uncle, and also landscapes with architectural ruins, in which he imitated Nicolas Poussin. His principal work is a large picture containing...

. He also actively commissioned artists such as Samuel De Wilde

Samuel De Wilde

Samuel De Wilde , born and died in London, was a portrait painter and etcher of Dutch descent famous for his theatrical paintings. He was the son of a Dutch joiner who had settled in London by 1748....

 to paint all the popular stars of the stage at that time (there are 196 works by De Wilde in the collection). Mathews had hoped to sell the collection to the Club and it appears that lengthy negotiations were entered into without any result. It was eventually purchased by a wealthy stock-broker and donated to the Club, having already hung on its walls for several years.

The collection continued to grow with many being presented by artist members, such as Clarkson Stanfield and David Roberts

David Roberts (painter)

David Roberts RA was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region . These, and his large oil paintings of similar subjects, made him...

, who with fellow scene painter Louis Haghe

Louis Haghe

Louis Haghe was a lithographer and watercolour artist.His father and grandfather had practised as architects. Training in his teens in watercolour painting, he found work in the relatively new art of lithography when the first press was set up in Tournai...

 painted a series of large canvasses especially for the Smoking Room at the old Clubhouse. Roberts’s Temple at Baalbec remains today one of the most important paintings by that artist. Sir John Everett Millais is represented by one of his most important portraits, that of Sir Henry Irving which he painted and presented to the Club in 1884.

The picture collection continued to expand throughout the twentieth century with artists such as Edward Seago

Edward Seago

Edward Brian Seago RBA ARWS RWS was an English artist who painted in both oils and watercolours.The son of a coal merchant, born in Norwich, Seago was a self-taught artist, , and enjoyed a wide range of admirers from the British Royal family and the Aga Khan to the common man...

 and Feliks Topolski

Feliks Topolski

Feliks Topolski RA was a Polish-born British expressionist painter and draughtsman.- Life :Felix Topolski was born on 14 August 1907 in Warsaw...

 both represented.

When the Club was founded in 1831 Rule 1 of the Garrick Club Rules and Regulations called for the "formation of a theatrical Library, with works on costume". At a General Meeting on 15 October 1831, the barrister John Adolphus suggested that members should present their duplicate dramatic works to the Club, and that these should go some way towards forming a Library. A very valuable collection has thus come together over the years, and its special collections are particularly strong on eighteenth and nineteenth century theatre.

James Winston, the first Secretary and Librarian of the Club, was one of the principal early benefactors and his gifts included minutes from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as well as his own Theatric Tourist. These presentations formed the nucleus of a Library which now holds well over 10,000 items, including plays, manuscripts, prints (bound into numerous extra-illustrated volumes), and many photographs.

Notable members

In 2011 the Garrick Club newsletter compiled a list of 100 notable members, yielding:

• John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
  John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....
  
  , 1792–1878
• William Makepeace Thackeray
  William Makepeace Thackeray
  William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society.-Biography:...
  
  , 1811–1863
• Thomas Creswick
  Thomas Creswick
  Thomas Creswick was an English landscape painter and illustrator.-Biography:Creswick was born in Sheffield . He was the son of Thomas Creswick and Mary Epworth and educated at Hazelwood, near Birmingham.At Birmingham he first began to paint...
  
  , 1811–1869
• Charles Dickens
  Charles Dickens
  Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
  
  , 1812–1870
• Anthony Trollope
  Anthony Trollope
  Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire...
  
  , 1815–1882
• Sir John Tenniel, 1820–1914
• Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
  Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
  Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury PC, QC was a leading barrister, politician and government minister. He served thrice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:...
  
  , 1823–1921
• Wilkie Collins
  Wilkie Collins
  William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces...
  
  , 1824–1889
• Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st baronet
  James Fitzjames Stephen
  Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet was an English lawyer, judge and writer. He was created 1st Baronet Stephen by Queen Victoria.-Early life:...
  
  , 1829–1894
• Sir John Everett Millais, 1829–1896
• Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen
  Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen
  Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, GCMG, PC, was an Irish statesman of the 19th century, and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.-Early life:...
  
  , 1832–1900
• Sir W. S. Gilbert
  W. S. Gilbert
  Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...
  
  , 1836–1911
• Sir Henry Irving, 1838–1905
• King Edward VII, 1841–1910
• Sir Arthur Sullivan, 1842–1900
• George Grossmith
  George Grossmith
  George Grossmith was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades...
  
  , 1847–1912
• Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
  Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
  Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, KP, GCVO, FRS was an Irish philanthropist and businessman.-Public life:...
  
  , 1847–1927
• William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor
  William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor
  William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor was a very wealthy American who became a British nobleman. He was a member of the prominent Astor family.-Life in United States:...
  
  , 1848–1919
• Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1852–1917
• Edward Carson, Baron Carson
  Edward Carson, Baron Carson
  Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson PC, PC , Kt, QC , often known as Sir Edward Carson or Lord Carson, was a barrister, judge and politician from Ireland...
  
  , 1854–1935
• Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 1855–1934
• Sir Edward Marshall Hall, 1858–1927
• Sir J. M. Barrie
  J. M. Barrie
  Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright...
  
  , 1860–1897
• Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
  Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
  Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, PC, KC , was an English lawyer, jurist and politician...
  
  , 1860–1935
• H. G. Wells
  H. G. Wells
  Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
  
  , 1866–1946
• Arnold Bennett
  Arnold Bennett
  - Early life :Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the beginning of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the...
  
  , 1867–1931
• Sir Edwin Lutyens,1869–1944
• Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart
  Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart
  Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart, PC was a politician and judge in the United Kingdom.-Background and education:...
  
  , 1870–1943
• Sir Seymour Hicks
  Seymour Hicks
  Sir Arthur Seymour Hicks , better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, theatre manager and producer. He married the actress Ellaline Terriss in 1893...
  
  , 1871–1949
• Sir Gerald du Maurier, 1873–1934
• Somerset Maugham, 1874–1965
• F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
  F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
  Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead GCSI, PC, KC , best known to history as F. E. Smith , was a British Conservative statesman and lawyer of the early 20th century. He was a skilled orator, noted for his staunch opposition to Irish nationalism, his wit, pugnacious views, and hard living...
  
  , 1878–1930
• Sir Alfred Munnings, 1878–1959
• Augustus John
  Augustus John
  Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom....
  
  , 1878–1961
• Sir Thomas Beecham, 1879–1961
• P. G. Wodehouse
  P. G. Wodehouse
  Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
  
  , 1881–1975
• A. A. Milne
  A. A. Milne
  Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.-Biography:A. A...
  
  , 1882–1956
• Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, 1883–1962
• Arthur Ransome
  Arthur Ransome
  Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects...
  
  , 1884–1967
• T. S. Eliot
  T. S. Eliot
  Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
  
  , 1888–1965
• Sir Neville Cardus
  Neville Cardus
  Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus CBE was an English writer and critic, best known for his writing on music and cricket. For many years, he wrote for The Manchester Guardian. He was untrained in music, and his style of criticism was subjective, romantic and personal, in contrast with his critical...
  
  , 1888–1975
• Sir Arthur Bliss, 1891–1975
• J. B. Priestley
  J. B. Priestley
  John Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...
  
  , 1894–1984
• Sir Noël Coward, 1899–1973
• Harold Abrahams
  Harold Abrahams
  Harold Maurice Abrahams, CBE, was a British athlete of Jewish origin. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...
  
  , 1899–1978
• David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
  David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
  David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir GCVO, PC, KC, , known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as The Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions...
  
  , 1900–1967
• Alastair Sim
  Alastair Sim
  Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two St. Trinian's films...
  
  , 1900–1976
• Lord Gardiner, 1900–90
• Sir Donald Wolfit, 1902–1968
• Sir Melford Stevenson
  Melford Stevenson
  Sir Aubrey Melford Steed Stevenson PC was a British lawyer and High Court judge who served in many high-profile cases. He defended Ruth Ellis and prosecuted suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams, both unsuccessfully.-Career:Stevenson was educated at Dulwich College. He became a barrister in...
  
  , 1902–1987
• Lord Shawcross, 1902–2003
• Lord Clark
  Kenneth Clark
  Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA was a British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation...
  
  , 1903–1983
• Malcolm Muggeridge
  Malcolm Muggeridge
  Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he was a soldier and a spy...
  
  , 1903–1990
• Sir John Gielgud, 1904–2000
• Hugh Gaitskell
  Hugh Gaitskell
  Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell CBE was a British Labour politician, who held Cabinet office in Clement Attlee's governments, and was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955, until his death in 1963.-Early life:He was born in Kensington, London, the third and youngest...
  
  , 1906–1963
• Sir John Betjeman, 1906–1984
• W. H. Auden
  W. H. Auden
  Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...
  
  , 1907–1973
• Lord Olivier
  Laurence Olivier
  Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...
  
  , 1907–1989
• Sir Michael Redgrave, 1908–1985
• Sir Osbert Lancaster, 1908–1986
• Sir Rex Harrison, 1908–1990
• Robert Morley
  Robert Morley
  Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBE was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment...
  
  , 1908–1992
• Sir John Mills, 1908–2005
• Eric Ambler
  Eric Ambler
  Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.-Life:...
  
  , 1909–1998
• Sir Isaiah Berlin, 1909–1997
• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
  Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr. KBE was an American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.-Early life:...
  
  , 1909–2000
• Jack Hawkins
  Jack Hawkins
  Colonel John Edward "Jack" Hawkins CBE was an English actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.-Career:Hawkins was born at Lyndhurst Road, Wood Green, Middlesex, the son of master builder Thomas George Hawkins and his wife, Phoebe née Goodman. The youngest of four children in a close-knit family,...
  
  , 1910–1973
• Sir Douglas Bader, 1910–1982
• David Niven
  David Niven
  James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...
  
  , 1910–1983
• Sir A. J. "Freddie" Ayer, 1910–1989
• Sir Hugh Casson, 1910–1999
• Sir Geoffrey Cox
  Geoffrey Cox (journalist)
  Sir Geoffrey Sandford Cox, CNZM, CBE was a New Zealand-born newspaper and television journalist. He was a former editor and chief executive of ITN and a founder of News at Ten....
  
  , 1910–2008
• Sir Terence Rattigan, 1911–1977
• Sir Michael Hordern, 1911–1995
• Lord Scarman, 1911–2004
• Sir Anthony Quayle, 1913–1989
• Lord Cudlipp
  Hugh Cudlipp
  Hubert "Hugh" Kinsman Cudlipp, Baron Cudlipp, OBE , was a Welsh journalist and newspaper editor noted for his work on the Daily Mirror in the 1950s and 60s.- Life and career :...
  
  , 1913–1998
• Kenneth More
  Kenneth More
  Kenneth Gilbert More CBE was a highly successful English film actor during the post-World War II era and starred in many feature films, often in the role of an archetypal carefree and happy-go-lucky middle-class gentleman.-Early life:Kenneth More was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the...
  
  , 1914–1982
• Sir Alec Guinness, 1914–2000
• Peter Carter-Ruck
  Peter Carter-Ruck
  Peter Frederick Carter-Ruck was an English lawyer, specialising in libel cases. The firm he founded, Carter-Ruck, is still practising.-Personal life:...
  
  , 1914–2003
• Sir David Napley, 1915–1994
• Sir Huw Wheldon
  Huw Wheldon
  Sir Huw Pyrs Wheldon OBE MC was a BBC broadcaster and executive.Wheldon was born in Prestatyn, Wales and educated at Friars School, Bangor. His father, Sir Wynn Wheldon, was a prominent educationalist, who had been awarded the DSO for gallantry in the First World War...
  
  , 1916–1986
• Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin
  Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985...
  
  , 1916–1999
• Ian Wallace
  Ian Wallace (singer)
  Ian Bryce Wallace OBE was a British bass-baritone opera and concert singer, actor and broadcaster of Scottish extraction....
  
  , 1919–2009
• Sir Peter Ustinov, 1921–2004
• Sir Kingsley Amis, 1922–1995
• Paul Scofield
  Paul Scofield
  David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE , better known as Paul Scofield, was an English actor of stage and screen...
  
  , 1922–2008
• Lord Havers, 1923–1992
• Sir Robin Day, 1923–2000
• John Lanchbery
  John Lanchbery
  John Arthur Lanchbery OBE was an English, later Australian, composer and conductor, famous for his ballet arrangements.-Life:...
  
  , 1923–2003
• Sir John Mortimer, 1923–2009
• Richard Burton
  Richard Burton
  Richard Burton, CBE was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role , and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid...
  
  , 1925–1984
• Sir Charles Mackerras, 1925–2010
• John Osborne
  John Osborne
  John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....
  
  , 1929–1994
• George Carman
  George Carman
  George Alfred Carman, QC , was a leading English barrister of the 1980s and 1990s. He first came to the attention of the general public in 1979, when he successfully defended the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe after he was charged with conspiracy to murder...
  
  , 1929–2001
• Lord Dahrendorf
  Ralf Dahrendorf
  Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician....
  
  , 1929–2009
• Baron Taylor of Gosforth, 1930–1997
• Ian Richardson
  Ian Richardson
  Ian William Richardson CBE was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of the Machiavellian Tory politician Francis Urquhart in the BBC's House of Cards trilogy. He was also a leading Shakespearean stage actor....
  
  , 1934–2007