When the headmaster of Wellington college, Sir Anthony Seldon, made his name this way no one described him as wishy-washy or feeble.
There are Jonty Driver, poet and the former master of Wellington college; Sir Roger Jowell, public policy researcher; Jann Parry, the Observer dance critic; John Clare, the Telegraph's education man - and Rick Turner, a student leader murdered by a South African agent.
A sub-committee, consisting of three heads of Oxford colleges (Sir William Beveridge from University College; Alfred Emden from St Edmund Hall and Linda Grierr from Lady Margaret Hall), was appointed to choose the architect; Emden appears to have played the major part in the group's work.
Try Whitehall or Glebelands primary schools; Soar Valley college and Sir Jonathon North community college (girls only) for secondary.
In his 1871 introductory lecture to new medical students at King's College hospital, Sir Thomas Watson warned: "A patient would think you careless, or ignorant of your craft, if you did not, at every visit, look at his tongue, as well as feel his pulse".
After an interview with the college principal, Sir Hugh Allen, Tippett was accepted despite his lack of formal entry qualifications.
Speaking before a packed auditorium at London's Imperial College last week, Sir David King, the UK's former head scientist, and current envoy for climate change, described 2015 as "a seminal year" for the planet.
We've saved enough to safely avoid the sort of Dickensian poverty I had once associated with high-cost colleges ("Please, sir, can I have some more merit aid?"), but things could get rocky in the event of some sort of nationwide economic collapse.
They were joined by Dr Richard Luckett, Pepys librarian of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Sir Keith Thomas, historian and author of works on early modern British history.
Some of the greatest scholars and eminent antiquarians of their age were members of the College, such as Robert Glover, William Camden, Sir William Dugdale, Elias Ashmole, John Anstis, Sir Anthony Wagner and John Brooke-Little.
After attending St . Augustines College, Ramsgate, Ferranti assisted Sir William Siemens in experiments with electric furnaces and dynamos.
