In US and British usage, the production of ornamental plantings around buildings is called landscaping, landscape maintenance or grounds keeping, while international usage uses the term gardening for these same activities.

( Wye ) ( 1900 – 1982 ) was a British organic gardener and pioneer of no dig gardening.

An allotment garden ( British English ), often called simply an allotment, or community garden ( North America ) is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening.

Away from gardening, Titchmarsh has had spells presenting Songs of Praise, and a series of programmes on BBC Radio 2 in which he played a selection of light classical music, and more recently a BBC nature documentary series, British Isles-A Natural History.

Since branching out from his gardening shows Titchmarsh has earned some criticism for his sycophancy towards the British Royal Family.

The emergence of Australian nationalism in the second half of the nineteenth century diminished the degree in which Anglo-Celtic Australians identified themselves as primarily from their homelands, although many elements of Australian culture and life, from jurisprudence to gardening, are transplanted from British and Irish traditions.

In cryptanalysis, gardening was a term used at Bletchley Park, England, during World War II for schemes to entice the Germans to include known plaintext, which the British called " cribs ," in their encrypted messages.

Filoli is an outstanding example of the Anglo-American gardening style reintroducing Italian formality, that was pioneered at the end of the nineteenth century by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll in British gardens and exemplified in the U. S. by designs of Charles A. Platt and Beatrix Farrand.

William Robinson ( 5 July 1838 – 17 May 1935 ) was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that evolved into the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement.

Gordon the Garden Gnome is a British animated children's television series aimed at getting children interested in gardening.

There are many social activities within Williton including the social club, bowling club, gardening club, Women's Institute, Good Neighbours Club, British Legion and Young Farmers.

Amateur Gardening is a British magazine dedicated to gardening, including news, advice, feature articles and celebrity columns and interviews.

Sir Roderic Victor " Roddy " Llewellyn, 5th Baronet ( born 9 October 1947 ), a British baronet and gardening expert.

The park's landscaping combines British, Japanese, and Chinese gardening styles.

When Morris built his Red House in Kent, it influenced new ideas in architecture and gardening — the " old-fashioned " garden suddenly became a fashion accessory among the British artistic middle class, and the cottage garden esthetic began to emigrate to America.

* Royal Horticultural Society British gardening charity.

* 1974 – Comedy Dave, British radio personality

* 1922 – Denis Norden, British television personality

* 1970 – Diane Youdale, British television personality

Along with Russell, he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts, his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, and " his exceptional personality and moral character.

Jane Goldman, wife of British TV and radio personality Jonathan Ross, owns a similar style " hearse " built from a Jaguar XK8 convertible.

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office speaks of Vatican City as the " capital " of the Holy See, although it compares the legal personality of the Holy See to that of the Crown in Christian monarchies and declares that the Holy See and the state of Vatican City are two international identities.

* 1984 – Layla Kayleigh, British television personality

* 1965 – Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British reality TV personality

The term " mind map " was first popularized by British popular psychology author and television personality Tony Buzan when BBC TV ran a series hosted by Buzan called Use Your Head.

* 1955 – Mike Mendoza, British radio personality

* 1966 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality

British policy and the strength of Sobhuza II's personality shifted power decisively toward the king and away from the senior queen during his long reign.

** Nigel Lythgoe, British television personality

** Chris Tarrant, British radio and TV personality

* March 25 – John Snagge, British radio personality ( b. 1904 )

* May 8 – John Snagge, British radio personality ( d. 1996 )

* January 31 – Johnny Rotten, British punk musician and TV personality

** Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician ( d. 2009 )

** Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician and radio personality ( died 2008 )

** Denis Norden, British television and radio scriptwriter and personality

** Graham Kerr, British television personality

* Joe Cornish ( comedian ) ( born 1968 ), British television personality

* Janet Street-Porter, British media personality, journalist, television presenter and producer

* Caesar the Geezer ( born 1958 ), British radio personality

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* British mathematician Alan Turing created a theoretical model for a machine, now called a universal Turing machine, that could carry out calculations from inputs,

In the 1970s and 80s, The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock group which specialized entirely in concept albums.

* 2003 – Alan Davidson, British author ( b. 1924 )

Notable US radio disc jockeys of the period include Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack, Kasey Kasem, and their British counterparts such as the BBC's Brian Matthew, Radio London's John Peel, and later in the 60s, Radio Caroline's Tony Blackburn.

* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

* 1914 – Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

* Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Field Marshal, British Army

Other contemporary British film directors include Paul W. S. Anderson, Andrea Arnold, Richard Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Mike Figgis, Terry Gilliam, Tom Hooper, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes, Alan Parker, Sally Potter, Lynne Ramsay, Guy Ritchie, Michael Winterbottom, Edgar Wright, Joe Wright and Matthew Vaughn.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

* 1944 – Alan Parker, British film director and writer

* 1940 – Alan Caddy, British musician ( The Tornados ), arranger and record producer ( d. 2000 )

In early August, Winston Churchill and General Alan Brooke — the British Chief of the Imperial General Staff — visited Cairo on their way to meet Joseph Stalin in Moscow.

However, following a visit in early August to Egypt by British prime minister Winston Churchill and the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Alan Brooke, Alexander flew to Cairo on 8 August to replace Claude Auchinleck as the Commander-in-Chief of Middle East Command, the post responsible for the overall conduct of the campaign in the desert of North Africa.

The fundamental properties of currents mediated by ion channels were analyzed by the British biophysicists Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley as part of their Nobel Prize-winning research on the action potential, published in 1952.

The resulting promotion meant that Blackburn were back in the top flight of English football for the first time since 1966. In the 1992 close season, Dalglish signed Southampton's Alan Shearer for a British record fee of £ 3. 5 million.

British author Alan D. Millington revived the Chinese classical game of the 1920s with his book The Complete Book of Mah-jongg ( 1977 ).

* 1966 – Alan Davies, British comedian and actor

* 1951 – Dougie Thomson, British bassist ( Supertramp and The Alan Bown Set )

In 1981, Smith and Griff Rhys Jones founded TalkBack Productions, a company that has produced many of the most significant British comedy shows of the past two decades, including Smack the Pony, Da Ali G Show, I'm Alan Partridge and Big Train.

* 1957 – Alan Duncan, British politician

* 1904 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, British politician ( d. 1983 )

* 1953 – Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist

* 27-Sir Alan Bates, 69, British actor, pancreatic cancer.

* Thomas Alan Stephenson ( 1898 – 1961 ), British zoologist