In 1916 Eastman married the British editor and antiwar activist Walter Fuller.

* 1927 – Rajendra Lahiri, Indian British anti-occupation activist ( b. 1892 )

* 1952 – Peter Tatchell, Australian-born British activist

* 2001 – Barry Horne, British animal activist ( b. 1952 )

* 1919 – Ludovic Kennedy, British broadcaster and political activist ( d. 2009 )

, with its notorious image of British Movement activist and felon Nicky Crane

In March 2009, British family care activist and a best-selling novelist Erin Pizzey reportedly declined to comment on the temporary withdrawal by its publishers of the book Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain following her complaint it had falsely linked her to The Angry Brigade.

* July 16 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist ( d. 2010 )

* November 21 – Michael Hogan, Irish activist shot during a Gaelic football match by the British army, who also killed 14 Irish supporters

** Alan Thornett, British Trotskyist activist

* October 5 – Martin Ennals, British human rights activist.

In the early 1950s, the United States initiated a more activist policy of support for Egyptian nationalism ; this was often in contrast with British policies of maintaining its regional hegemony.

In 2007 British activist Peter Tatchell was physically assaulted.

Emmeline Pankhurst ( born Emmeline Goulden ) ( 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928 ) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote.

They were mostly students and members of the local vegetarian society, but the group included a friend of Pacheco's from the UK, Kim Stallwood, a British activist who went on to become the national organizer of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.

In September 2005, Fonda was scheduled to join British politician and anti-war activist George Galloway at two stops on his U. S. book tour, Madison, Wisconsin and Chicago.

Glele resisted British diplomatic overtures, however, distrusting their manners and noting that they were much more activist in their opposition to the slave trade: though revolutionary France itself had outlawed slavery at the end of the 18th century it allowed the trade to continue elsewhere ; Britain outlawed slavery in the U. K. and in its overseas possessions in 1833, and had its navy make raids against slavers along the West African coast starting in 1840.

A good example would be the Scottish Prohibition Party, founded by a communist temperance activist called Bob Stewart, who followed the British Labour Party on all other issues.

* Anna Mendelssohn ( 1948 – 2009 ), British political activist and poet

Linton Kwesi Johnson, British Black activist and a protagonist of " Dub Poetry " was largely influenced by the writings of Fanon, as evidenced by several of the lyrics on Johnson's album Dread Beat an ' Blood.

* Birthplace of Republican political activist Bernadette Devlin, who was raised in a small housing estate called Rathbeg ( meaning small fort in Gaelic ), one of the leaders of 1960s civil rights movement and the youngest woman ever to be elected to the British parliament ( aged 21 ).

The investigation into the parcel bomb attack led to charges being laid against David Barbarash, an animal rights activist based in British Columbia, but they were eventually stayed.

In England, British Social Anthropology's paradigm began to fragment as Max Gluckman and Peter Worsley experimented with Marxism and authors such as Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach incorporated Lévi-Strauss's structuralism into their work.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is owned by Frederick Warne and Company, The Tailor of Gloucester by the Tate Gallery and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by the British Museum.

* Peter Jay's appointment as British Ambassador to the U. S. by his father in law, the then Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan.

The professional head of the British Army is the Chief of the General Staff, currently General Sir Peter Wall KCB CBE ADC Gen.

Julian Bream of Britain managed to get nearly every British composer from William Walton to Benjamin Britten to Peter Maxwell Davies to write significant works for guitar.

Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS.

* 1943 – Peter Sinfield, British lyricist and producer

Examples include Jamie Baillie, former CEO of Credit Union Atlantic, Graham Day, former CEO of British Shipbuilders, Sean Durfy, former CEO of WestJet, and Charles Peter McColough, former president and CEO of Xerox.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

Hammer would dominate British horror production throughout this period with acclaimed English actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee at the forefront, but other companies were created specifically to meet the new demand, including Amicus Productions and Tigon British.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

* 1940 – Peter Gethin, British racing driver ( d. 2011 )

* 1950 – Peter Hain, British politician

A subplot in the book is Peter Wimsey's role as an informal envoy of the British Foreign Ministry, called upon to help defuse international crises where more conventional diplomats have failed.

Another example is British writer Peter O ' Donnell, who wrote under the pseudonym Madeleine Brent.

* Jim Hillier, Howard Hawks: American Artist, Peter Wollen ( British Film Institute, 1997 )

In 1982, British courts recognised prior art by Peter Chilvers, who as a young boy on Hayling Island assembled his first board combined with a sail, in 1958.

* 1932 – Peter Redgrove, British poet ( d. 2003 )