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Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji[1] (Gujarati:કૃષ્ણા પંડિત ભાનજી); 31 December 1943) is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He is also known for his performances in the films Schindler’s List (1993), Sexy Beast (2000) and House of Sand and Fog (2003). He lives just outside Chipping Norton, in the N. Cotswolds.
Alan Rusbridger
Alan Charles Rusbridger (born 29 December, 1953, Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia) is th
e editor of the British newspaper The Guardian. He has also been a reporter and a columnist. His first post in journalism was with the Cambridge Evening News. He joined The Guardian as a reporter in 1979 and subsequently wrote the paper’s diary column and was a feature writer. He left to become The Observer’s TV critic before moving to America to be the Washington editor of the London Daily News. On returning to The Guardian in 1987 he launched the “Weekend” supplement and the paper’s “G2″ section. As editor from 1995, he oversaw the launch and development of the Guardian Unlimited website. He has a house in Blockley in the N. Cotswolds.
Dudley Sutton
Dudley Sutton (born 6 April 1933, Surrey) is an English actor. He served in the RAF as a mechanic before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from which he was later expelled.[1]Known for his eccentricity, he became a cult figure after playing a gay biker in The Leather Boys (1964). He married American actress Marjorie Steele in 1961; she had previously been married to the millionaire producer Hu
ntington Hartford. Sutton and Steele had one child together, later divorcing in 1965. On stage, he played the title role in the first production of Joe Orton‘s Entertaining Mr Sloane (1963). He has appeared in many films during his career, including Rotten to the Core (1965), Crossplot (1969), The Devils (1971), Madame Sin (1972), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Fellini’s Casanova (1976), Edward II (1991), and The Football Factory (2004). Among the more notable of his many television appearances are his roles as Tinker Dill in Lovejoy.
Henry Porter
Henry Porter is a novelist and political columnist for the Observer newspaper in London. Since 2005 he has been chronicling the attack on liberty and rights in Britain and has written over 100 columns on the subject. In 2006, Tony Blair suggested an email debate with Porter and after three robust exchanges the correspondence was published in the Observer. Porter has written six novels. His latest is The Dying Light, a political thriller set a few years in the future. His first children’s book, The Master of the Fallen Chairs, was published in 2008. He won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for best thriller with Brandenburg, a story set against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He is also the UK Editor of the American magazine Vanity Fair. He lives in London. He has a house in Blockley in the N. Cotswolds.
Angie Hobbs
Angela Hunter Hobbs (born 1961, Sussex) is a British philosopher. Hobbs is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and was previously a Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. She has a First Class Honours Degree in Classics acquired at New Hall, Cambridge and a PhD in Classical Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in Platonic ethics and moral psychology concerned with value conflicts, and whether it is possible or desirable to resolve them. She is a frequent contributor to radio programmes in the UK, including numerous appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Hobbs has also appeared on BBC Radio 3′s Night Waves and the BBC World Services’ The Forum. On October 6, 2009 The University of Warwick announced that they had appointed her to be the first ever UK Senior Fellow in the Public Understanding of Philosophy, charged with bringing philosophy to as wide an audience as possible in Britain and beyond.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
Geoffrey Robert Clifton-Brown MP FRICS (born 23 March 1953) is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of The Cotswolds and a Vice-President of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists as well as the Head of the International Office. He has interests in wild life conservation and country living. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown was born in Cambridge and educated at Tormore School, in Upper Deal, Kent and Eton College before attending the Royal Agricultural College where he qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1975. He began his career as a graduate estate surveyor at the Property Services Agency in Dorchester in 1975 and later in that year became an investment surveyor with Jones Lang Wootton. He has been the managing director of a farming company since 1979. Clifton-Brown is a Freeman of the City of London and became the vice chairman of the Norfolk North Conservative Association in 1984, before being elected as chaiman in 1986. He resigned as chairman in 1991.
Brad Hooker
Brad Hooker is a philosopher who specialises in moral philosophy. He is a Professor at the University of Reading and is best known for his work defending rule-consequentialism (often treated as being synonymous with rule utilitarianism). His book Ideal Code, Real World [1] received a number of favourable reviews from high profile philosophers. Derek Parfit, for example, wrote: “This book seems to me the best statement and defence, so far, of one of the most important moral theories. He Lives in Blockley, in the North Cotswolds.
