University of Oxford John Fowles, Theodor Geisel, Thomas Middleton, Samuel Johnson, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Graves, Evelyn Waugh, Lewis Carroll, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Graham Greene, V.S.Naipaul, Vera Brittain, Dorothy L. Sayers, A.S. Byatt, Iris Murdoch, Philip Pullman, Joseph Heller, Vikram Seth, the poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Donne, A. E. Housman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Wendy Perriam and Philip Larkin, and seven poets laureate: Thomas Warton, Henry James Pye, Robert Southey, Robert Bridges, Cecil Day-Lewis, Sir John Betjeman, and Andrew Motion. Composers Hubert Parry, George Butterworth, John Taverner, William Walton, James
Eric Lewis (actor) until 1934, including 25 years as the company's principal comedian. Lewis was soon performing in the West End of London at the Royalty Theatre in April 1887 in "Ivy", and in May in a comedy entitled "A Tragedy". In June 1887, Lewis performed in a comedietta by Andrew Longmuir called "Cleverly Managed". In July 1888, he starred in another comedietta, entitled "Caught Out", by Florence Bright at St George's Hall In September of that year, he helped open the relocated New Court Theatre with a play by Sydney Grundy called "Mamma", starring Mrs. John Wood and also featuring Arthur Cecil.