* " Born to Rock " guitar exhibit at Harrods, London, February 2007, featuring the 1931 Rickenbacker " Frying Pan ".

Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age ; he attended school in London and Margate.

Born in Milk Street in London on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of Sir John More, a successful lawyer, and his wife Agnes ( née Graunger ).

Born in London England, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was privately educated.

Born in London to an aristocratic Whig family, son of Sir Penniston Lamb and Elizabeth Milbanke Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne ( 1751 – 1818 ) and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he fell in with a group of Romantic Radicals that included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

Born in London, Blunden was the eldest of the nine children of Charles Edmund Blunden ( 1871 – 1951 ) and his wife, Georgina Margaret née Tyler, who were joint-headteachers of a London school.

Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of London where he achieved an MA degree in 1912.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

Born in London, Niven attended Heatherdown and Stowe before gaining a place at Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Born in Homerton in the London Borough of Hackney, London, Robinson attended the independent Woodford Green Preparatory School followed by Wanstead High School in what is now the London Borough of Redbridge.

Born in Kensington, London as Herbert Draper Beerbohm, Tree was the second son and second child of Julius Ewald Edward Beerbohm ( 1810 – 1892 ), of Dutch, Lithuanian, and German origin, who had come to England in about 1830 and set up as a prosperous corn merchant.

Born into a working-class family in Ponders End, Middlesex, Tebbit went to Edmonton County School, an academically selective state school in north London.

Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz ; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher.

Born in London on 14 April 1889, Arnold J. Toynbee was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in London, Anthony attended Harrow School as a free day pupil for three years from the age of seven because his father's farm, acquired for that reason, lay in that neighbourhood.

Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, he was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford.

Born in London, Hogg was the son of Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, who was Lord Chancellor under Stanley Baldwin, and grandson of another Quintin Hogg, a merchant, philanthropist, and educational reformer.

Born in London to a headmistress and a travelling salesman, she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927, at the age of 18.

Born in London, Chamberlain made his career in Birmingham, first as a manufacturer of screws and then as a notable Mayor of the city.

Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Carrel was raised in a devout Catholic family and was educated by Jesuits, though he no longer practiced his religion when he entered the university.

Born in Los Angeles, he entered the film industry in 1976, initially as an actor.

Born in 1771 in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents, John Lingard entered the English College at Douai, France, to commence training for the Catholic priesthood.

Born in Paris, Labrouste entered Collège Sainte-Barbe as a student in 1809.

Born in 1560, Thomas Harriot entered Raleigh's employment in the early 1580s, after graduating from Oxford University.

Born in 232 in Sirmium ( modern day Sremska Mitrovica ), Pannonia Inferior, the son of Dalmatius, Probus entered the army around 250 upon reaching adulthood.

Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome ; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon.

Born in Scotland and educated as a philosopher, Balfour first entered parliament in the 1874 general election.

Several of his songs entered the UK Singles Chart, including " Be My Girl " ( 1957, UK No. 2 ), " Just Born ( To Be My Baby )" ( 1958, UK No. 27 ), " Crazy Dream " ( 1958, UK No. 24 ) and " Sugartime " ( 1958, UK No. 25 ).

Born in South Haven, Michigan, as the third son of farmers Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey, Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College ( now Michigan State University ) in 1878 and graduated in 1882.

Born in Spain, he early entered the Spanish army, fighting in 1793 – 1795 in the Convention War, and in 1810 became general, receiving a command in Catalonia, where in that year he earned his title and the rank of field-marshal.

Born into a Prussian family with a long military tradition, Rundstedt entered the Imperial German Army in 1892 and rose through the ranks until World War I, in which he served mainly as a staff officer.

Born in the then-British colony of New Brunswick to a family of Loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, he entered politics in 1846, serving in the colony's Legislative Assembly and House of Assembly.

Born at Benvie, near Dundee, where his father was a kirk minister, Playfair was educated at home until the age of fourteen, when he entered the University of St Andrews.

Born in Hallock, Minnesota, Dr. Pederson entered Iowa State College in the autumn of 1943, but then left for the military during World War II.

Born in Paris, he entered the army in 1817, but after ten years of garrison service, he still held only the lowest commissioned grade.

Born at the Castle of Bruille in Hainaut in the Austrian Netherlands, he entered the Austrian army in 1753.

Born at Port Royal in Jamaica, he crossed over to England and in 1819 entered the Record Office in the Tower of London.

Born in Paris, he was educated for the bar, but after pleading a single case he entered the first dragoon regiment and served for two years.

Born in Molsheim ( Bas-Rhin ), François Joseph Westermann entered a cavalry regiment at an early age but soon left the service and went to Paris.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he entered the United States Naval Academy on September 23, 1902 and graduated with the Class of 1906.

Born in Bergamo, he studied at the Jesuit college in Monza, entered the order, and was appointed in 1755 professor of eloquence in the University of Milan.

Born in Montpellier, France of a noble family, he joined the French army in 1773 and entered upon active service in 1780, as aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War.

Born to an aristocratic family in England, he entered military service, seeing action in the French and Indian War, where he served alongside future opponent George Washington in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela.