Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent

Boot, founder of the Boots chain, gave Nottingham the Highfields estate and money for the new campus of University College in the 1920s, which became the University of Nottingham, plus land for a park and boating lake still used by the public. A women's hall of residence, Florence Boot Hall, carries his wife's name. Their gifts shaped the city's university and its western green spaces.