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Novelist, biographer and poet Peter Ackroyd was born in London on 5 October 1949. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, and studied at Yale University as a Mellon Fellow, where he completed Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on
Dr Loyd Grossman CBE is the Chair of the Gresham Council. and was Chairman of the Heritage Alliance, Conservation Trust, and University for the Creative Arts.
Anthony Field’s career in the theatre started after having qualified and gained experience as a Chartered Accountant, when in 1957 he ran London’s Comedy Theatre as the New Watergate Theatre Club so that productions then banned by the Lord Chamberlain
Fiona Sampson was born in London in 1968. After a brief career as a concert violinist, she studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize. She has a PhD in the philosophy of language from Nijmegen University. Her