The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life.
Martin McLaughlin: Charles Peter Brand Roy Ellen: John Horsley Russell Davis Wilt L. Idema: Glen Dudbridge Daniel Isaacson and Ian Rumfitt James: Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett, 1925-2011 Nicholas Jardine FBA: Mary Brenda Hesse Jeffrey Elman, Lorraine K. Tyler FBA, & Mark H. Johnson FBA: Annette Dionne Karmiloff-Smith Maxine Berg FBA: Peter Mathias Vincent Gillespie FBA: Malcolm Beckwith Parkes by John Boardman FBA and Andrew Parkin: Brian Benjamin Shefton Robert Fowler FBA: Martin Litchfield West
Ron Johnston FBA, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol