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Matriculated at St John's College 1960. First class cricketer, captain of the England cricket team. Following his retirement from cricket he pursued a career as a psychoanalyst and writer.

Life President of the Scott Bader Commonwealth.

Philosopher. Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge 1984-1991. Life peer.

George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death on 2 August 2013.

Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.

Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.

Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.

Professor of psychology.

American psychiatrist and research scientist.

Journalist and politician. Became Executive Director of the Relationships Foundation in 2008.