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Udall, Nicholas (1504–1556). Schoolmaster and writer. Head Master of Eton, 1534–1541, when, accused of theft of the college silver, he denied it, but admitted buggery with one of his pupils. Later headmaster of Westminster School. Wrote the early English comedy Ralph Roister Doister.

Upjohn, Gerald Ritchie (1903–1971). Baron Upjohn. Judge of Chancery Division, 1951–1960; Lord Justice of Appeal, 1960–1963. Lord of Appeal in Ordinary 1963–1971. Married 1947 Marjorie Lucas.

Urquhart, Francis Fortescue ('Sligger') (1868–1934). Don at Balliol, Oxford for nearly forty years, as Junior Dean (1896–1907), Bursar (1907–1919), and Dean (1918–1934). The DNB says of him, 'He liked handsome young men, and photographing them, but was probably celibate.'