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People educated at Westminster School, London

The following people were educated at Westminster School in London, and are sometimes listed with OW (Old Westminster) after their name (collectively, OWW). There are over 900 Old Westminsters listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography so these are necessarily a small sample:

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Culture Science Fellows of the Royal Society Anglican saints English male poets Theorists on Western civilization Sonneteers Age of Enlightenment English essayists English male non-fiction writers 17th-century English male writers British male essayists English Anglicans Lutheran saints Natural philosophers 17th-century English poets People celebrated in the Lutheran liturgical calendar Anglican poets 18th-century English male writers Anglican writers British critics of religions Irony theorists Rhetoric theorists Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English inventors English physicists 17th-century Christian mystics 18th-century English non-fiction writers Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford British MPs 1780–1784, Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England Poet priests Tuberculosis deaths in England 17th-century English Anglican priests 17th-century English architects 17th-century deaths from tuberculosis 18th-century English historians Anglo-Welsh poets British MPs 1774–1780 British scientific instrument makers English Protestants English rhetoricians Protestant mystics

Edward Gibbon

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of the writer of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the most celebrated works of its kind.

17 June 2021

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Featuring: David Womersley, Charlotte Roberts, Karen O'Brien

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Culture 18th-century English male writers British male essayists English essayists 18th-century English non-fiction writers 18th-century English historians British MPs 1780–1784, Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1774–1780 Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Freemasons of the Premier Grand Lodge of England English male non-fiction writers British critics of religions English rhetoricians Rhetoric theorists Irony theorists People educated at Westminster School, London Fellows of the Royal Society English Protestants Theorists on Western civilization 18th century
George Herbert

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of 'the most beautiful poem in the world' whose works on his relationship with God offered comfort to Charles I when he faced execution.

7 November 2024

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Featuring: Helen Wilcox, Victoria Moul, Simon Jackson

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Culture Poet priests Anglican poets Anglican saints Tuberculosis deaths in England 17th-century English poets 17th-century Christian mystics People celebrated in the Lutheran liturgical calendar Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Protestant mystics Anglo-Welsh poets 17th-century deaths from tuberculosis Sonneteers 17th-century English male writers English male poets 17th-century English Anglican priests Anglican writers People educated at Westminster School, London Lutheran saints 17th century Wales
Robert Hooke

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Robert Hooke, the 17th-century scientist with a wide variety of interests from elasticity to microscopes who fell out with Newton.

18 February 2016

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Featuring: David Wootton, Patricia Fara, Rob Iliffe

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Science English inventors English Anglicans Natural philosophers British scientific instrument makers Age of Enlightenment English physicists People educated at Westminster School, London 17th-century English architects 17th century