Famous visitors to Thorntons of Oxford

Famous past visitors to and friends of

*C.S. Lewis*	Aung San Suu Kyi	*J.R.R. Tolkien*
*Susan Hill*	*Iris Murdoch*	*T.E. Lawrence* n.b. He promised Mrs Thornton to bring her a carpet from Arabia, but changed his mind.
*Isiah Berlin*	*Umberto Eco*	*John Le Carre*
*Elizabeth Jennings*	*A.N. Wilson*	*P.D. James*

Evgenii Evtushenko	Evgenii Pasternak	Bella Akhmadulina
Kenneth (Lord) Baker	Michael Foot	Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra

*Rowan Atkinson*	John Thaw	*Michael Palin*
Hafid Bouazza	Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons in Brideshead Revisited (1981)	Lord (Denis) Healy

See also The Inspector Morse Invasion

Others include:

Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre)	*Robert Graves*	*Lydia & Josephine Pasternak*
*Nirad C. Chaudhuri*	*Beryl Bainbridge*
*Jeremy Paxman*	*Terry Jones*	*Clive James*
*John Betjeman*	*David ben Gurion*	*Jeremy Irons*
	*Jeanette Winterton*	*Terry Eagleton*
*Count Nikolai Tolstoy*	*Richard Burton*	*Elizabeth Taylor*
*Desmond Morris*	*Leslie Ash*	*Jools Holland*
*Sir Basil Blackwell* *Christopher Hill*	*(Lord) Richard Attenborough* *Vladimir Grand-Duke of Russia* *Sir Roger Bannister*	*Alexander Zinoviev* *Tom Paulin* *H.R.H. Prince Hassan of Jordan*