…(1545–1612), English herbalist. He was curator of the physic garden of the College of Surgeons and published his Herball, containing over 1,800 woodcuts, in 1597…
…(1922–86), English novelist, famous for his first novel, Room at the Top (1957), whose opportunistic hero was hailed as a representative example of an ‘angry young man’; full name John Gerard Braine…
…(b.1947), Irish Fine Gael statesman, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) 1994-7; full name John Gerard Bruton…
