Who were these people? Queen’s University Halls in the 1990’s. Riddel Halls also in foreground. Belfast.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Brooke,_1st_Viscount_Alanbrooke. Multi lingual Field Marshal of WW2 born in France of Fermanagh Anglo Irish gentry stock.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Ogilvie another knighted Vice Chancellor and former director of the BBC up to 1942z
Sir Richard Winn Livingstone- another knight vice chancellor of Queen’s and Oxford. My hall 1991/92. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Livingstone
Former Pro-chancellor and WW1 Victoria Cross recipient malaria expert and member of the Royal Society. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alexander_Sinton
Pics from memorial window to Eliza and Isabella Riddel. Original Riddel Hall can be seen in background. First residence for female students founded at Queen’s Belfast 1913. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_and_Isabella_Riddel
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