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Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker was a British politician, diplomat, academic, an outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for... disarmament who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959. Philip John Baker was born in Hendon, to a Canadian-born Quaker father, Joseph Allen Baker, who moved to England to set up a manufacturing business and himself served on the London County Council and in the House of Commons. Educated at Bootham School and Ackworth School, York and then in the US at the Quaker-associated Haverford College in Pennsylvania, he attended King's College, Cambridge from 1910 to 1912. As well as being an excellent student, he became President of the Cambridge Union Society and the Cambridge University Athletic Club. He was selected and ran for Britain at the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912, and was team manager as well as a competitor for the British track team for the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. In 1920 at Antwerp he won a silver medal in the 1500 metres.
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Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan, OBE was a British military intelligence officer, author, and academic. During his military career, he rose to the... rank of Colonel and was appointed OBE. He was Provost of King's College, Cambridge, Provost of University College, London, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, and a member of the House of Lords. Annan's publications include Leslie Stephen , Roxburgh of Stowe , Our Age , described by Professor John Gray in the New Statesman as a "marvellous compendium of the higher gossip," Changing Enemies , and The Dons . His best-known essay is "The Intellectual Aristocracy," which illustrates, according to Robert Fulford in the National Post, the "web of kinship that united British intellectuals in the 19th and early 20th centuries." He was born in Gloucester Terrace, London, attending St. Winnifred's School, Seaford, and Stowe, Buckinghamshire, a well-known fee-paying school. At Stowe, he was head of Temple House, and editor of the school newspaper The Stoic.
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Daniel Raymond Massey was an English actor and performer. He is possibly best known for his starring role in the British TV drama The Roads to... Freedom, as Daniel, alongside Michael Bryant. He is also known for his role in the 1968 American film Star!, as Noël Coward, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. Massey was born in London in 1933. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He was a member of the noted Massey family, which included his father, Raymond Massey, his sister, Anna Massey and his uncle Vincent Massey, a Governor General of Canada. His mother was the actress Adrianne Allen. Living with his mother after his parents' divorce, Massey rarely saw his father through most of his adult life; however, they were cast as father and son in The Queen's Guards . Massey was married three times, two of his wives being well-known actresses: He died after a three year battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma aged 64 in London and was laid to rest at Putney Vale Cemetery.Massey worked in theatre throughout his cancer treatments rarely missing a performance.
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James Graham "J. G." Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction. His... best-known books are Crash , adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun , made into a film by Steven Spielberg, based on Ballard's boyhood in the Shanghai International Settlement and internment by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War. The literary distinctiveness of his work has given rise to the adjective "Ballardian", defined by the Collins English Dictionary as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard’s novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." Ballard was diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2006, from which he died in London in April 2009. In 2008, The Times included Ballard on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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