British architects whose drawings, and in some cases models of their buildings, in the collection, include: Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, Nicholas Hawksmoor, William Kent, James Gibbs, Robert Adam, Sir William Chambers, James Wyatt, Henry Holland, John Nash, Sir John Soane, Sir Charles Barry, Charles Robert Cockerell, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Sir George Gilbert Scott, John Loughborough Pearson, George Edmund Street, Richard Norman Shaw, Alfred Waterhouse, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Holden, Frank Hoar, Lord Richard Rogers, Lord Norman Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid and Alick Horsnell.

British educational institutions which honor Monnet include the Jean Monet Centre of Excellence at King's College London, the East Midlands Euro-Centre at Loughborough University, the European Research Institute at the University of Bath, the Jean Monnet Centre at the University of Birmingham, the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence at Cambridge, the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellenceat the University of Essex, the Centre for European Union Studies at the University of Hull, the Kent Centre for Europe at the University of Kent, the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, a partnership between the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford, the Jean Monnet Centre at Newcastle University and the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies at the University of Wales.

Other sports teams include the non-league Loughborough Dynamo Football Club and the Loughborough Aces ( Collegiate American Football ).

Notable sporting graduates of Loughborough University include Sir Clive Woodward, Sebastian Coe, Paula Radcliffe, David Moorcroft, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Monty Panesar, Steve Backley, Jack Kirwan and Lawrie Sanchez.

These include extensions south and north and also a half mile length of line joining together the Loughborough to Leicester line, and Loughborough to Ruddington line as the Leicester to Ruddington line.

Intermediate population centres served by main line services include: Market Harborough, Kettering, Wellingborough, Bedford, Luton, Loughborough, Alfreton, Doncaster and Wakefield.

Nearby places include Long Eaton, Castle Donington, Sutton Bonington, Hathern and Loughborough.

Old Girls of Loughborough High School include:

Major events include the annual Remembrance Parade in Loughborough in November, and the Annual Review in May.

Albert Hallam ( Albert William Hallam ; 12 November 1869, East Leake, Nottinghamshire, England – 24 July 1940, Loughborough, England ) was an off spin bowler who is primarily remembered, along with Thomas Wass, for giving Nottinghamshire an astonishing win in the County Championship of 1907.

In 1790 Jessop founded, jointly with partners Benjamin Outram, Francis Beresford and John Wright, the Butterley Iron Works in Derbyshire to manufacture ( amongst other things ) cast-iron edge rails – a design Jessop had used successfully on a horse-drawn railway scheme for coal wagons between Nanpantan and Loughborough, Leicestershire ( 1789 ).

** Francis Edward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, Lord Loughborough ( 1892 – 1929 )

Robert Francis St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn ( 2 March 1833 – 6 September 1890 ), styled Lord Loughborough until 1866, was a Scottish Conservative politician.

Herne Hill is a district in south London, England, approximately four miles from Charing Cross and bordered by Brixton, Denmark Hill, Dulwich, Loughborough Junction and Tulse Hill.

At first, services ran from Edgware to Finsbury Park, King's Cross and, via Snow Hill tunnel, to Ludgate Hill, Blackfrairs and Loughborough Road on the south of the Thames.

Sayers is here acknowledging the assistance of Paul Taylor of Taylor's bell foundry in Loughborough, England who provided detailed information on all aspects of ringing to her.

The club also run a Midweek XI who play in the Premier Division of the Loughborough Cricket Association League and a Sunday XI who play friendly cricket.

In 1841 Thomas Cook who was a wood turner and cabinet maker in the town organised the first group travel by rail from Leicester to Loughborough and went on to found the travel agency bearing his name.

The Loughborough base was chosen and work began on restoring the station, an office was rented at street level at Loughborough Central station, and in 1971 Charitable Status was granted to MLPG, who changed their name to Main Line Steam Trust Limited.

A small group based at Loughborough who are devoted to LNER Chief Mechanical Engineer, Sir Nigel Gresley.

All of these branches were united nationally in 1932, though the London Road Church still continued to be served from Loughborough until 1943, when the chapel was transferred to the Coalville circuit and served by a minister who lived opposite, at number 76, London Road.

The resignation of Pitt on the question of Catholic emancipation ( 1801 ) put an end to Wedderburn's tenure of the Lord Chancellorship, for, much to his surprise, no place was found for him in Addington's cabinet. Pitt's friends believed he had ben guilty of treachery over the Emancipation issue ; and even the King, who used Loughborough as a spy in Cabinet, later commented that his death removed " the gretest knave in the Kingdom ".

It was at Loughborough University that he met athletics coach George Gandy, who had developed " revolutionary " conditioning exercises to improve Coe's running.

The main sports team in the town and the surrounding borough is Shepshed Dynamo F. C., who belong to the UniBond League and play at the Dovecote stadium on Butthole Lane off Loughborough Road.

Andrew John Reed OBE ( born 17 September 1964 ) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the key marginal Constituency of Loughborough from 1997 to 2010.

He was succeeded by his son, the aforementioned sixth Baronet, who in 1805 succeeded his uncle Lord Rosslyn in the barony of Loughborough and earldom of Rosslyn.

Storer after Johnathan Storer who in 1713 founded a charity conveying cottages and land in Loughborough to eleven trustees allowing the purchase of wheat to make bread and clothing, which was distributed to poor people living in the town.

And finally Fearon for Archdeacon Henry Fearon who in 1870 financed the oldest edifice in Market Square, the drinking fountain, allowing Loughborough to gain its first piped water supply.

Philip Ranulph de Glanville ( born on 1 October 1968 in Loughborough ) is a former English rugby union player who played at centre for Bath and England.

* Under One Roof ( 1949 )-UN sponsored documentary about the students from different countries who attend Loughborough Engineering College.

Frances was the daughter of a London merchant called Joseph Whitchurch, who came from Loughborough in County Down, Ireland, although her mother was English and they lived at Twickenham.

The first organised tours dated back to Thomas Cook who, on 5 July 1841, chartered a train to take a group of temperance campaigners from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, twenty miles away.

* The station is served by Monday to Saturday ( there is no Sunday service ) by East Midlands Trains, who operate local services from Leicester to Nottingham and Lincoln via Loughborough and Newark.

Duncan Norvelle ( born 1958, in Hoton, near Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, UK ) is a comedian in the variety tradition who appeared on television from the early 1980s.

In tests done by 56 of the 150 English local education authorities in 2004, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Loughborough University found staying-on rates improved up 5. 9 percentage points among those who were eligible.

Poirot is asked for help by Doctor Charles Oldfield who has a practice in Market Loughborough, a small village in Berkshire.

* Adie v Fennilitteau ( 1 Cox, 24 ) by the Lords Commissioners Lord Loughborough, Ashhurst, and Hotham, in April 1783, a trustee laid out trust money in South Sea annuities ; they afterwards fell in their price, and though it was in the same fund in which the greatest part of the testator's personal estate was at his death invested, their Lordships held it to be an improper investment ; and that the trustee should abide the loss.

Another form of rail, the edge rail, was first used by William Jessop on a line which was opened as part of the Charnwood Forest Canal between Loughborough and Nanpantan in Leicestershire in 1789.

The family returned to England after Tanganyika was granted independence, when Gower was six years old, settling in Kent and later moving to Loughborough.

Royce & Company remained in business as a separate company making cranes until 1932 when it was bought by Herbert Morris of Loughborough.

He trained as a teacher of physical education at what is now Loughborough University and his first ( and only ) teaching position was at Glyn Grammar School, Epsom, the school which he himself had attended.

In 2003 he was made an Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich and in the same year was awarded an honorary doctorate by Loughborough University.

In the English Civil War the town was one of the Royalists ' chief garrisons under the control of Colonel Henry Hastings, 1st Baron Loughborough and commander of the North Midlands Army.

In January 2009 a brand-new station, East Midlands Parkway, was opened between Loughborough and Trent Junction, to act as a park-and-ride station for the major East Midlands cities ; it also serves East Midlands Airport.

He was Fellow of Poetry at Loughborough University ( 1973-5 ) and Honorary Professor at Thames Valley University ( 1993 ).

He was made High Sheriff of Leicestershire by the King and became engaged in various skirmishes between the opposing forces, seeing action at the Battle of Hopton Heath, fighting a small battle at Cotes Bridge near Loughborough and later losing an eye to a pistol shot after an exchange near Bagworth, all in 1643.

To provide the best in education, training, research and development for the benefit of all young people, the Beckwith Chair of Youth Sport was established in Loughborough University in November 1998.

There was no official winner, although Colonel A H Loughborough in a Lanchester 15 / 18 was recorded as having the fewest penalty points in the decisive test at the finish.

The section between Loughborough and Leicester was made navigable in 1784, and the Grand Union Canal connected it south to the southern canals network and to London, in 1814.

There followed a period of rapid expansion during which the Institute was renamed Loughborough College and the development of the present campus began.

Consequently, Loughborough College of Technology was granted a Royal Charter on 19 April 1966 and became Loughborough University of Technology ( LUT ), with Haslegrave as its first Vice-Chancellor.

In 1977, Loughborough Training College ( now renamed Loughborough College of Education ) was absorbed into the University.

* Johnnie Johnson ( RAF officer ), leading Spitfire ace of World War II, when it was Loughborough College