Alumnus to be proud of no 113, Lord Owen, may turn out to have made his most significant contribution to British politics by intervening in the 1989 Richmond by-election. An apparent sitter for the Liberals, Owen's Social Democrats insisted on standing as well. The Tory candidate, one William Hague, sneaked in with 37.2 per cent of the vote. It remains a matter of doubt whether those political skills were acquired as a student at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, or St Thomas's Hospital, London.