Aldous Huxley

Anna Ryder-Richardson

Baroness Warnock

(26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film stories and scripts.

(born 29 January 1964, in Swansea, Wales) is a British interior designer and television presenter. She is best known for being a designer on the BBC shows Changing Rooms and House Invaders.

(born 14 April 1924) is a British philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism.

She was created a life peer in 1985 as Baroness Warnock, of Weeke in the City of Winchester. She is a patron of The Iris Project.

Enid Bagnold

Thetis Blacker

Victoria Hamilton

(27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981) was a British author and playwright, best known for the 1935 story National Velvet which was filmed in 1944 with Elizabeth Taylor.

(13 December 1927 - 18 December 2006) painter and singer. She created richly coloured pictures notable for their symbolic and visionary qualities.

Blacker's pictures were commissioned for and exhibited in cathedrals in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. In England, her most conspicuous work is seen in sets of paintings on themes such as the Creation, displayed from time to time in Winchester, Windsor and Durham.

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(born 5 April 1971) is best known for her roles in costume drama. She appears as Ruby Pratt, one of the major characters, in the BBC1 series Lark Rise To Candleford. Other roles have included Mrs Forster in the Emmy-winning British 1995 series Pride and Prejudice and Maria Bertram in a 1999 film of Mansfield Park. She also played Queen Victoria in the BBC-TV production Victoria & Albert in 2001.

Elma Mitchell

The McKenzie Sisters

(19 November 1919 – 23 November 2000) was a Scottish poet who first came to public attention with her poem ‘Thoughts After Ruskin'. She won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford to read English in 1941 and worked for the BBC and as a freelance writer and translator.

Winifred McKenzie (1905- 2001) and Alison McKenzie (1907 - 1982)

were famous Scottish painters who specialised in wood engraving and water colouring. Daughters of the accomplished architect, George McKenzie, Winifred and Alison came to PF shortly after the Great War. They studied art at Glasgow School of Art and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London. During the Second World War Winifred volunteered to assist Canadian and French Soldiers. Alison and Winifred taught at Dundee College of Art. A biography entitled “The McKenzie Sisters”, charting the family history for more than a century was published in 1996 (by A Clark).