Contents

Introduction

1 Three priests

Alexander Jones, Jack Kennedy, Herbert McCabe

2 Three cardinals

William Theodore Heard, John Carmel Heenan, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor

3 Three Anglicans

Austin Farrer, Henry Chadwick, Richard Harries

4 Three Oxford dons

Christopher Cox, Russell Meiggs, Richard Cobb

5 Three heads of house

Christopher Hill, Isaiah Berlin, Daphne Park

6 Three benefactors

Bill Coolidge, Irwin Miller, David Astor

7 Three businessmen

Warwick Fairfax, Robert Maxwell, John Templeton

8 Three Oxford philosophers

Gilbert Ryle, Richard Hare, Philippa Foot

9 Three Wittgensteinians

Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach, Georg Henrik von Wright

10 Three overseas philosophers

Willard Van Orman Quine, Ernst Tugendhat, Jacques Derrida

11 Three prime ministers

Harold Macmillan, Ted Heath, Margaret Thatcher

12 Three British statesmen

Denis Healey, Roy Jenkins, Chris Patten

13 Three privy councillors

Peter Brooke, Boris Johnson, Yvette Cooper

14 Three heads of state

King Olav V, Francesco Cossiga, Bill Clinton

15 Three judges

Jim Kilbrandon, Tom Bingham, Laurie Ackermann

16 Three dissidents

Ivan Supek, Mihailo Marković, Julius Tomin

17 Three Irish leaders

Charles Haughey, Garret FitzGerald, Mary Robinson

18 Three South African leaders

Desmond Tutu, Mamphela Ramphele, Nelson Mandela

19 Three novelists

Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, David Lodge

20 Three scientists

Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Denis Noble

Plates