* In the novel Perdido Street Station, by British author China Miéville, engines similar to Babbage's serve as " brains " for the robotic constructs of the city of New Crobuzon.

* Adrian Goldsworthy ( born 1969 ), British historian and author who writes mostly about ancient Roman history

* 1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British author ( d. 1988 )

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.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

Colin Kapp ( 1928 – 3 August 2007 ) was a British science fiction author.

Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is perhaps the first example of the modern style of fictional private detective.

* 1892 – Osbert Sitwell, British author ( d. 1969 )

* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

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

* 1909 – James Riddell, British champion skier and author ( d. 2000 )

During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.

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

After its first release, this book sold far better than any of Butler's other works — perhaps because the British public assumed that the anonymous author was some better-known figure ( the favorite being Lord Lytton, who had published The Coming Race two years previously ).

* 1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and Scout movement founder ( d. 1941 )

* 1912 – George Mikes, Hungarian-born British author ( d. 1987 )

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century.

* 1929 – Len Deighton, British author

Near its entrance, opposite the new British Library, a contemporary statue of Saint Joan commemorates Shaw as author of that play.

Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920.

* Thomas Robson, author of The British Herald ( 1830 ).

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

* 1944 – Jenny Nimmo, British author

* 1836 – John Cheyne ( physician ), British physician, surgeon and author ( b. 1777 )

* December 30 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1936 )

* January 18 – Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1865 )

Famous early visitors included British author Rudyard Kipling and General George Crook.

* Rudyard Kipling, British author and poet, ashes removed to Westminster Abbey

It was introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim ( 1901 ).

The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling (( 1865-1936 ), a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature ( 1907 ).

Important British poets of the 20th century include Rudyard Kipling, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, John Betjeman and Dylan Thomas.

" If —" is a poem written in 1895 by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling.

The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling.

* In 2007, during the 40th-anniversary DVD rerelease of The Jungle Book London press junket, the Sherman Brothers were witnessed by press working on a new song for Inkas ( see below ) in the same Brown's Hotel room where The Jungle Book was originally penned by British writer Rudyard Kipling over a hundred years earlier.

The earliest example from the OED is from Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads ( published 1892 ): So ' ark an ' ' eed, you rookies, which is always grumblin ' sore, referring to rookies in the sense of raw recruits to the British Army.

Stalky & Co. is a book published in 1899 ( following serialisation in the Windsor Magazine ) by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school.

This is a re-working of a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem " Tommy " in which he describes British soldiers ( nicknamed " Tommy Atkins ") as the " thin red line ", from the color of their uniforms and their formation.

The film is prefaced with a quotation from the poem " The Young British Soldier " by Rudyard Kipling:

Punch ( magazine ) | Punch cartoon ( 1905 ) accompanied by a quote from Rudyard Kipling that appeared in the British press after the treaty was renewed in 1905 illustrates the positive light that the alliance was seen in by the British public.

The British Cubbing program used elements of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book series, with the Cubmaster taking the role of Akela and the assistant Cubmaster the role of Baloo.

Rudyard Kipling published a series of articles about the British Channel Fleet under the title A Fleet in Being in 1898, but did not use the term in the sense described here.

Quiroga was also inspired by British writer Rudyard Kipling ( The Jungle Book ), which is shown in his own Jungle Tales, a delightful exercise in fantasy divided into several stories featuring animals.

Two years later, again at the Mermaid, McCowen gave a portrayal of the British poet Rudyard Kipling in a one-man play by Brian Clark, performed in a setting that exactly matched Kipling's own study at Bateman's ( his Jacobean rustic haven in Sussex ) " and turning ", as Michael Billington wrote, " an essentially private man into a performer.

In the early years of this century, a real estate boom took place, with speculators – including the British poet Rudyard Kipling – eager to turn a quick dollar.

* Rudyard Kipling, Indian-born British author and poet

It is used as a metaphor of a cheap weapon in Rudyard Kipling's poetry describing British casualties in colonial wars:

The family moved out to a large estate in Locust Valley on Long Island, called " Effendi " after their father's nickname given to him by his friend, the British author Rudyard Kipling.