Lady Runcie, Wylie Vale, Israel Baker, Barry Reckord and Reginald Hill

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The unconventional wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lady Runcie

The endocrinologist Wylie Vale who discovered the hormone that governs our response to stress,

The violinist Israel Baker who played the searing music for the shower scene in Psycho

The pioneering black playwright Barry Reckord

And the crime novelist Reginald Hill, best known for creating Dalziel and Pascoe.