New subjects
| Alexander, Du Pre, second earl of Caledon (1777–1839), politician and colonial administrator |
| Anstey, Richard of (c.1137–1194/5), litigant |
| Armitage, Thomas Rhodes (1824–1890), campaigner for blind people |
| Armorer, Sir Nicholas (c.1620–1686), royalist army officer, conspirator, and courtier |
| Aubrey, Andrew (d. 1356), merchant and mayor of London |
| Ballinger, (Violet) Margaret Livingstone (1894–1980), university teacher and politician in South Africa |
| Bowes, John (c.1383–1444), lawyer and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Brereton, William (1750/51–1787), actor |
| Bridgeman, Sir John (1568/9–1638), judge |
| Briwes, Sir Robert de (d. 1275/6), justice |
| Buckley, Wilfred (1873–1933), promoter of clean milk and collector of antique glass |
| Bunting, Sidney Percival (1873–1936), political activist in South Africa |
| Chance, Janet (1886–1953), abortion campaigner and writer on sex and marriage |
| Chapman, Abel (1851–1929), naturalist and hunter |
| Charleton, Sir Robert (d. 1395/6), justice |
| Charlton, Sir Thomas (c.1417–1465), landowner and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Chisholm, Sir Samuel, baronet (1836–1923), local politician and temperance campaigner |
| Colenso, Francis Ernest (1852–1910), campaigner for the rights of the Zulu people |
| Coote, William Alexander (1842–1919), moral reform campaigner |
| Corkling, Mary Ann Yates (1850–1938), food reformer |
| Cossham, Handel (1824–1890), colliery owner and politician |
| Coytmor, Robert (fl. 1640–1660), lawyer and administrator |
| Curzon, Sir Nathaniel, fourth baronet (1675/6–1758), landowner and politician |
| Dadoo, Yusuf Mohamed (1909–1983), medical practitioner and politician in South Africa |
| Dale, Sir Langham (1826–1898), educationist in Cape Colony |
| Dickens, Arthur Geoffrey (1910–2001), historian |
| Doreward, John (d. 1420), speaker of the House of Commons and royal councillor |
| Dower, John Gordon (1900–1947), architect and promoter of national parks |
| Dower, William (1837–1919), missionary |
| Duncan, Patrick Baker (1918–1967), politician in South Africa |
| Erskine, Sir George, of Innerteil, Lord Innerteil (c.1567–1646), judge and supposed alchemist |
| Eure, Sir Sampson (c.1592–1659?), lawyer and politician |
| Farewell, Francis George (1793–1829), naval officer and settler in Natal |
| Farrar, Sir George Herbert, baronet (1859–1915), mine owner and politician in South Africa |
| Firth, Joseph Firth Bottomley (1842–1889), politician and municipal reformer |
| Fischer, Abraham (1850–1913), politician and lawyer in the Orange Free State |
| Fischer, Abram (1908–1975), communist revolutionary and barrister in South Africa |
| Fraser, John (1794–1879), Chartist and publisher |
| Fremantle, Henry Eardley Stephen (1874–1931), newspaper editor and politician in South Africa |
| Fyncheden, Sir William (d. 1374), justice |
| Fynn, Henry Francis (1803–1861), mariner and settler in Natal |
| Fynn, Henry Francis (1846–1915) [see under Fynn, Henry Francis (1803–1861)] |
| Gavin, Hector (1815–1855), sanitary reformer |
| Gildesburgh, Sir John (c.1331–1389), soldier and speaker of the House of Commons |
| Graham, John (1778–1821), army officer |
| Green, Stanley Owen (1915–1993), dietary reformer and author |
| Griffith, George (1811/12–1883), corn dealer and reformer of endowed schools |
| Hamilton, James Stevenson- (1867–1957), wildlife conservationist in South Africa |
| Hatton, Murray Edward Gordon Finch-, twelfth earl of Winchilsea and seventh earl of Nottingham (1851–1898), politician and agriculturist |
| Heaton, John Deakin (1817–1880), physician and advocate of provincial civic pride |
| Hendricks, A. (fl. 1892–1897), cricketer in South Africa |
| Henry, Jabez (1775–1835), colonial judge and writer on conflict of laws |
| Hentzner, Paul (1558–1623), writer and traveller |
| Hillary, Sir Roger (d. 1356), justice |
| Hilton, John (1880–1943), social scientist and broadcaster |
| Hoernlé, (Reinhold Friedrich) Alfred (1880–1943), philosopher and social reformer in South Africa |
| Hoernlé, (Augustus Frederic) Rudolf (1841–1918), Indologist and philologist [see under Hoernlé, (Reinhold Friedrich) Alfred (1880–1943)] |
| Hole, James (1819/20–1895), social reformer |
| Honywood, Sir Philip (c.1677–1752), army officer |
| Hoskins, Sir Bennet, baronet (1609–1680), judge and politician |
| Hutchinson, Sir Walter Francis Hely- (1849–1913), colonial administrator |
| Isham, John (1525–1596), merchant and gentleman |
| Ives, George Cecil (1867–1950), criminologist and campaigner for homosexual law reform |
| Ivie, Edward (d. 1698), informer and coiner |
| Jabavu, Davidson Don Tengo (1885–1959), educationist in South Africa |
| Jenkins, Alice Brook (1886–1967), abortion campaigner |
| Jermyn, Philip (1587/8–1654), lawyer and judge |
| Jones, Leifchild Stratten, Baron Rhayader (1862–1939), temperance advocate and politician |
| Ketelbey, Abel (1675/6–1744), barrister and politician |
| Knight, Joseph (b. c.1753), slave and litigant |
| Lagden, Sir Godfrey Yeatman (1851–1934), colonial administrator |
| Laing, James (1803–1872), missionary in Cape Colony |
| Lee Boo (c.1764–1784), first visitor to Britain from Palau |
| Littlebury, Martin of (d. 1274), justice |
| Lloyd, John (1833–1915), municipal reformer and antiquary |
| Loiseleur, Pierre (1530–1590), Reformed minister |
| Macaulay, George (1716–1766), physician and man-midwife |
| Malberthorpe, Sir Robert (d. 1331/2), justice |
| Margrie, William (1877–1960), philosopher and eccentric |
| Marshall, Henrietta Elizabeth (1867–1941), children's writer |
| Mayo, William (bap. 1684, d. 1744), surveyor and cartographer |
| Miranda, (Sebastián) Francisco de (1750–1816), campaigner for Spanish American independence |
| Moir, James (1806–1880), tea merchant, Chartist, and local politician |
| Norman, Leslie Armande (1911–1993), film director and producer |
| Orange, James (bap. 1800, d. 1878), author and philanthropist |
| Pankhurst, Richard Marsden (1835/6–1898), barrister and political activist |
| Pelham, Henry (bap. 1597, d. in or after 1660), lawyer and politician |
| Peto, Dorothy Olivia Georgiana (1886–1974), police officer |
| Pigott, Nathaniel (bap. 1661, d. 1737), barrister and counsellor at law |
| Post, Julius Ferdinand Hans Ernst (1913–2001), psychiatrist |
| Reckitt, Eva Collet (1890–1976), founder of Collet's bookshop |
| Redfern, Percy (1875–1958), journalist and historian of the co-operative movement |
| Rewse, Bodenham (d. 1725), thief-taker and prison warden |
| Richardson, Marion Elaine (1892–1946), art teacher |
| Richardson, Reginald John (1807/8–1861), political reformer |
| St Nicholas, Thomas (bap. 1602, d. 1668), lawyer and poet |
| Savile, Sir George, seventh baronet (bap. 1678, d. 1743), landowner and politician |
| Scholefield, James (1790–1855), political reformer |
| Seme, Pixley ka Isaka (1882–1951), political leader in South Africa |
| Solomon, Georgiana Margaret (1844–1933), philanthropist in South Africa and suffragette |
| Staines, Richard of (d. 1277/8), justice and administrator |
| Stapledon, (William) Olaf (1886–1950), philosopher and science fiction writer |
| Statham, Francis Reginald (1844–1908), journalist in South Africa |
| Stern, Irma (1894–1966), artist in South Africa |
| Stuart, James (1868–1942), magistrate and historian in South Africa |
| Talbot, Neville Stuart (1879–1943), military chaplain and bishop of Pretoria |
| Tebb, William (1830–1917), businessman and social reformer |
| Tew, Edmund (1700–1770), Church of England clergyman and magistrate |
| Thurtle, Dorothy (1890–1973), campaigner for contraceptive and abortion rights |
| Thurtle, Ernest (1884–1954), politician [see under Thurtle, Dorothy (1890–1973)] |
| Townshend, John Villiers Stuart, fifth Marquess Townshend (1831–1899), social reformer |
| Troup, George (bap. 1810, d. 1879), journalist and publisher |
| Tuckwell, William (1829–1919), schoolmaster, author, and self-styled radical parson |
| Turri, Nicholas de (d. 1270/71), justice |
| Twysden, Isabella, Lady Twysden (1605–1657), diarist |
| Violante, Signor (fl. 1727–1728), ropeslider |
| Walker, Eric Anderson (1886–1976), historian of South Africa |
| Waterston, Jane Elizabeth (1843–1932), missionary and doctor in South Africa |
| Watson, David (1859–1943), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer |
| Waugh, John (1661–1734), bishop of Carlisle |
| Waugh, John (bap. 1701, d. 1765), dean of Worcester [see under Waugh, John (1661–1734)] |
| Whiston, Robert (1808–1895), headmaster and reformer of cathedral charities |
| Willcock, (Clarence) Harry (1896–1952), campaigner against identity cards |
| Withers, Sir John James (1863–1939), solicitor |
| Withers, William (bap. 1568, d. 1647), child prophet and Church of England clergyman |
| Wode, Sir Thomas (d. 1502), judge |
| Xuma, Alfred Bitini (1893–1962), politician and physician in South Africa |
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New reference groups
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| Cabal (act. 1667–1673) |
| Canterbury Association (act. 1848–1852) |
| Century Club (act. 1865–1881) |
| Chathamites (act. 1766–1782) |
| Cliveden set (act. 1937–1939) |
| Club (act. 1764–1784) |
| Composers of the Eton choirbook (act. c.1450–c.1515) |
| Cosmopolitan Club (act. 1852–1902) |
| Essex Head Club (act. 1783–1794) |
| The few (act. 1940) |
| Five members (act. 1641) |
| Founder members of the Royal Society (act. 1660–1663) |
| Founders of the London Missionary Society (act. 1795) |
| Founders of the Royal Academy of Arts (act. 1768–1825) |
| Glamour boys (act. 1938–1940) |
| Guilty men (act. 1940) |
| Hotel Cecil (act. 1900) |
| Ivy Lane Club (act. 1748/9–1753x6) |
| Jacobite activists of the 1715 rising (act. 1715–1716) |
| Jacobite activists of the 1745 rising (act. 1745–1746) |
| King's friends (act. 1760–c.1786) |
| Merton calculators (act. c.1300–c.1349) |
| Metaphysical Society (act. 1869–1880) |
| Promoters of the South Sea Bubble (act. 1720) |
| Rainbow Coffee House group (act. 1702–1730) |
| Randlords (act. 1880s–1914) |
| Red Clydesiders (act. 1915–1924) |
| Society of Dilettanti (act. 1732–2002) |
| Tube Alloys directorate (act. 1941–1945) |
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New reference lists
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| Archbishops of St Andrews (1472–1689) |
| Archbishops of Wales (1920–2002) |
| Climbers of Mount Everest in the Oxford DNB |
| Holders of the king's and queen's gold medal for poetry (1934–2002) |
| Leaders of the Conservative and the Conservative and Unionist parties (1834–2002) |
| Leaders of the Labour Representation Committee and the Labour Party (1900–2002) |
| Leaders of the Liberal, Social Democratic, and (Social and) Liberal Democrat parties (1835–2002) |
| Lord chamberlains of the royal household in the Oxford DNB |
| Lord great chamberlains in the Oxford DNB |
| Ministers and secretaries of state for health (1919–2002) |
| Moderators of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland in the Oxford DNB |
| Permanent under-secretaries of the Foreign (and Commonwealth) Office (1827–2002) |
| Permanent under-secretaries of the Home department (1782–2002) |
| Presidents of the Board of Education, and ministers of and secretaries of state for education (1857–2002) |
| Wardens of the Cinque Ports in the Oxford DNB |
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New features
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| Britain and South Africa |
| ‘Faire Englands joy is fled’?: visual and performance arts in the 1650s |
| The general election of 1906 |
| Heterodox and radical lawyers in England, 1500–1800 |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the engineers of the nineteenth century |
| Lives of the law |
| The makers of association football |
| Portraiture in the Oxford DNB |
| Scotland in 1406: a kingdom in crisis? |
