Patricia Hewitt (1948)
Dame Patricia Hope Hewitt is an Australian-born British government adviser and former politician, who was the Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, she had…
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William Lyon Mackenzie (1795)
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Tony Gilroy (1956)
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