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This is a List of Old Rugbeians , they being notable former students – known as "Old Rugbeians" of the
Church of England school,
Rugby School in
Rugby, Warwickshire , England.
Academia
L.A. Adamson , Headmaster of
Wesley College, Melbourne
Donald Beves (1896–1961), English modern linguist
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R. G. Collingwood , English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the
University of Oxford
Richard Congreve (1818–1899), English philosopher
Marcus Flather , Clinical Professor in Medicine at the
University of East Anglia
Henry Watson Fowler , English lexicographer, author of
Fowler's Modern English Usage
T. H. Green , moral and political philosopher and reformer
R. M. Hare , English moral philosopher
Fenton John Anthony Hort , English theologian
F. L. Lucas , Reader in English Literature at the
University of Cambridge , scholar, critic and writer
Edward Ellis Morris , Educationist, second Headmaster of
Melbourne Grammar School (1875–83), and miscellaneous writer
[2]
Edward Samuel Morris (1940–2016), art historian
[3]
Frederick York Powell ,
Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford)
Henry John Stephen Smith , Irish mathematician
Jon Stallworthy , Professor of English at the
University of Oxford
Sir
Percy Sykes soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar
Richard Henry Tawney , one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian
Henry Wace ,
Principal of
King's College London (1883–1897), former
Dean of Canterbury
Wynne Godley , economist
Sir
Will Spens , educationalist and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1927-1952)
Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan ,
Chichele Professor of the History of War
The Armed Forces
Field Marshal
Sir Archibald James Cassels , former Chief of the General Staff & Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine
Admiral Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort , fought during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver , British officer during the Second World War
Admiral Sir Guy Grantham ,
Vice Chief of the Naval Staff ;
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet ;
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and
Governor of Malta
General Arthur Clifton , general who was a regimental commander during the Napoleonic Wars, and took over command of the
Union Brigade during the Battle of Waterloo
General Sir Ivor Maxse , General Officer Commanding
XVIII Corps during World War I; renown for his innovative and effective training methods
General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall , General Officer Commanding,
British Troops in Egypt during World War II
General Sir George Giffard , Commander-in-Chief,
11th Army Group in World War II
General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt , commanded
57th Brigade and then
38th (Welsh) Division during World War I and later was appointed
Governor of Bermuda
General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn , General Officer Commanding,
5th Infantry Division during the withdrawal to Dunkirk & later
Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces
General John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort , British General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; also a
Whig politician
General Sir Richard Wakefield Goodbody ,
Commander-in-Chief, Northern Command and
Adjutant General
General Sir Horatio Shirley , fought in the Crimean War
Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder ,
UK Military Representative to NATO
Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercromby , General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who was
Commander-in-Chief, Ireland ; he was also MP for
Clackmannanshire , and
Governor of Trinidad
Lieutenant General William Augustus Johnson , fought as a junior officer in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Lieutenant General
Arthur Ernest Percival , the General Officer Commanding, Malaya during World War II who
surrendered Singapore to the Imperial Japanese Army
Lieutenant General
Sir
Henry Royds Pownall , former Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff & Chief of Staff for the
British Expeditionary Force during the
Battle of France
Lieutenant General Henry Andrew Sarel fought in the
Indian Mutiny and
Second Opium War ; later
Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
Lieutenant General Jonathan Peel , general and politician
Lieutenant General Henry Hope Crealock , commanded a division in the Anglo-Zulu War
Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Pelly ,
East India Company army officer and Conservative MP
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot ,
Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army and
Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army
Lieutenant General Sir Robin Carnegie , a former
Military Secretary
Lieutenant General Timothy Radford , current Commander,
Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
Lieutenant General Willoughby Cotton Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army
Major-General Sir George Forestier-Walker , commanded
21st Division and
27th Division on the Western Front and as part of the
British Salonika Army during World War I
Major-General William Donovan Stamer , commanded
161st Infantry Brigade ,
Sudan Defence Force and
131st Infantry Brigade during World War II
Major-General Sir Charles Sim Bremridge Parsons ,
Commander of the British Troops in Canada
Major-General Sir Harcourt Mortimer Bengough , fought in the Crimean War, Anglo-Zulu War and Third Anglo-Burmese War
Major-General Sir William Eyre , commanded
3rd Brigade and later
3rd Division in the
Crimean War ; later
Commander-in-Chief, North America
Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton , instrumental in the development of the tank
Major-General
Philip de Fonblanque , commanded the Lines of Communication for the
British Expeditionary Force during the
Battle of France
Major-General Geoffrey Bruce , Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Indian Army; also a member of the
1922 British Mount Everest expedition and
1924 British Mount Everest expedition
Major-General Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin , Divisional Commander in Persia, Iraq, Madagascar and Italy during World War II
Major General John Fielden Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough
Major-General Sir William Godwin Michelmore , commanded
Devon and Cornwall County Division ,
77th Infantry Division and
45th Holding Division during World War II; later Lord Mayor of Exeter
Major-General Victor Campbell
Air Vice Marshal Augustus Henry Orlebar ,
British Army and
Royal Air Force officer who served in both world wars
Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes , soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output
Brigadier-General John Tyson Wigan , commanded
12th Cavalry Brigade . After the war he was the MP for Abingdon, 1918–1921
Brigadier-General George MacLeay Macarthur-Onslow , commanded
5th Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Army during World War I
Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb , Chief Engineer Ports Construction to the British Army in France and Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty
Brigadier-General Anthony Courage , Regimental Colonel of the
15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars .
Brigadier Philip Bowden-Smith , Commander of
125th Infantry Brigade which later became
10th Armoured Brigade ; he also represented Great Britain at the
1924 Olympic Games
Brigadier Raymond Ladais Sandover , Commander
2/11th Battalion (Australia) and
6th Australian Infantry Brigade
Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet , awarded the
Victoria Cross during the
Indian Mutiny
Colonel Osmond Barnes ,
Chief Herald of the
Indian Empire
Colonel Lionel Beaumont-Thomas ,
British Army officer during both World Wars and
Conservative Member of Parliament for
Birmingham King's Norton
Colonel James Duff Army Officer who fought in the Crimean War and later became a Conservative MP
Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn , commander of the 2nd (Central African) Battalion, King's African Rifles
Colonel Robin Evelegh ,
British Army officer who authored 'Peace-Keeping in a Democratic Society'
William Proby, Lord Proby , a British
Royal Navy
officer and
Whig politician
Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Bushell , won the
Victoria Cross and
Distinguished Service Order during World War I
Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading , Liberal then Conservative politician and barrister who fought in World War I
Lieutenant-Colonel Kanwar Shumshere Singh , doctor in the
Indian Medical Service
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander "Alec" Ogilvie , early aviation pioneer
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare , British officer during the First World War
Lieutenant Commander Robert Selby Armitage , won both the
George Cross and
George Medal for his bomb disposal work during the Second World War
Lieutenant Commander John Bryan Peter Duppa-Miller ,
Royal Navy officer who was awarded the
George Cross for bomb disposal work during the
Blitz
Major Arthur Willan Keen , British World War I flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories
William Hodson , commander during the 1857 Indian mutiny and founder of
Hodson's Horse
Major Bruce Shand , officer in the British Army and father of
Camilla, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
Squadron Leader William Spurrett Fielding-Johnson MC and Bar, DFC , army officer in World War I before joining the RFC and RAF in both World Wars
Squadron Leader Hedley Fowler , RAF officer who escaped from
Colditz
Captain John Norwood won the
Victoria Cross during World War I
Captain Charles Roger Lupton , British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories
Captain Kenneth Barbour Montgomery , British World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories
Lieutenant Frank Alexander de Pass , the first
Jew and the first officer of the Indian Army to receive the
Victoria Cross during World War I
Lieutenant Alfred Gordon Clark , won the
Victoria Cross during World War I
Lieutenant Arthur Conolly , British Officer in 6th Bengal Native Light Cavalry. Coined the phrase 'The Great Game'
Lieutenant Donald Hankey , wrote two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in World War I both titled 'A Student in Arms'
Sir
James Arnold Stacey Cleminson
Edmund Musgrave Barttelot , British Army officer who was part of Henry Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886-89
Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor British Army Officer who fought in the Xhosa Wars
Aviation
Building, Engineering and Architecture
Business
Richard Jewson , businessman and
Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk
Charles Tertius Mander , first baronet, manufacturer, public servant and philanthropist.
Clive Schlee , businessman, CEO of
Pret a Manger
Nusli Wadia , businessman, Chairman of the
Wadia Group , son of
Neville Wadia and
Dina Wadia , grandson of
Muhammad Ali Jinnah and
Rattanbai Jinnah
Civil Service
Sir Christopher Bullock ,
Permanent Under-Secretary at the
Air Ministry
Sir Bertram Blakiston Cubitt , civil servant in the
War Office
Sir George Coldstream ,
Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
Sir Arthur Franks ,
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service
Sir Ernest Gowers , civil servant and author of
The Complete Plain Words
Sir Godfrey Lushington ,
Permanent Under-Secretary of the
Home Office 1886–1895; championed prison reform
Sir Nicholas Montagu , Chairman of H.M.
Inland Revenue , 1997–2004
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey , Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence; and 1st Cabinet Secretary
J. M. Bruce Lockhart , intelligence officer
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Colonial Service and Imperial Administration
Sir
Alexander John Arbuthnot , colonial administrator and writer
Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch , the 25th Governor of Hong Kong
Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines , member of the
Indian Civil Service
Sir Henry Conway Belfield , Resident of Negeri Sembilan; Resident of Selangor;
British Resident of Perak and finally
Governor of the British East Africa Protectorate
Maurice Collis colonial administrator in Burma; later a writer on South-East Asia
Arthur Conolly (1807–1842), captain in the East India Company's service
Henry Valentine Conolly , member of the
Indian Civil Service
The Honourable Sir Ashley Eden ,
Chief Commissioner of British Crown Colony of
Burma and
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth , Administrator of the British Raj
Patrick William Forbes , Commander of the
British South Africa Police , who invaded Matabeland in the
First Matabele War ; later Magistrate of Mashonaland 1893–1894; Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia 1895–1897
Sir Robert Allason Furness , classicist and representative of the
British Council in Egypt, 1945-1950
Sir Henry Paul HarveyKCMG , Egyptian Financial Advisor from 1907 to 1912 and 1919–1920
Sir Frederick James Halliday , first
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
Stephen Rumbold Lushington ,
Governor of Madras 1827–1832 and Tory politician
Leonard Fielding Nalder colonial administrator who served as Governor of Fung Province 1927–1930 and
Mongalla province 1930–1936 in
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
James Alexander Richey , educational administrator in South Africa and India
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet ,
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal 1874–1877;
Governor of Bombay 1877–1880 and also an MP
Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope , civil servant of the Government of India, including Public Works
Sir George Chardin Denton , Governor of Gambia
John Loader Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby , Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province; Governor-General of the Sudan; and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken ,
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India 1883–1909
Sir William Frederick Gowers , Governor of Uganda
John Claude White , Deputy Commissioner of the Tibet Frontier Commission
Diplomatic Service
Sir Charles Bagot , diplomat and administrator
Sir Thomas Bromley , Ambassador to Somalia, Syria, Algeria & Ethiopia
Sir Julian Bullard , Ambassador to West Germany
Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock ,
Ambassador to Spain ;
to Russia and finally
Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle , Consul to the Canton of Geneva
Baron Charles de Chassiron ,
Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps , 2001–2006
Sir Leycester Coltman ,
Ambassador to Cuba from 1991 to 1994 and
to Colombia 1994–1998; author of The Real Fidel Castro
Sir John Coulson ,
Ambassador to Sweden and
Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association
Sir Moore Crosthwaite ,
Ambassador to Lebanon and
to Sweden
Sir Patrick Henry Dean ,
Permanent Representative to the UN 1960–1964;
Ambassador to the United States 1965–1969 and also Chairman of the
Joint Intelligence Committee
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff
GCB
GCMG
PC , High Commissioner to Egypt;
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Teheran ; and
Ambassador to Spain ; also a
Conservative Politician
Sir Ewen Fergusson ,
Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary 1975–1978;
Ambassador to South Africa 1982–1984 and
to France 1987–1992
Sir Anthony Figgis ,
Ambassador to Austria 1996–2000;
Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 2001–2008 and the current
Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod
Sir Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet ,
Ambassador to Serbia ,
to Denmark ,
to Austria-Hungary and
to Germany ; later
Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State
Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey ,
Ambassador to Sweden 1954–1960
Sir James Hudson , Ambassador to Turin
Augustus Henry Mounsey ,
Minister Resident and Consul General to Colombia
Sir Owen O'Malley ,
Minister to Hungary 1939–1941;
British ambassador to the Polish government in exile during World War II; and
Ambassador to Portugal 1945–1957
Sir Maurice Peterson ,
Minister to Bulgaria 1936–1938;
Ambassador to Iraq 1938–1939;
to Spain 1939–1940;
to Turkey 1944–1946 and
to Russia 1946–1949
Sir Frank Roberts ,
Ambassador to Yugoslavia , 1954–1957; Permanent Representative on the
North Atlantic Council 1957–1960; Ambassador to the USSR 1960–1962; to West Germany 1963–1968
Ian Samuel , diplomat and RAF officer during World War II
Sir William Seeds , Ambassador to Brazil 1930–1935; and
Ambassador to Russia 1939–1940
Sir Alan Urwick ,
Ambassador to Jordan 1979–1984;
to Egypt 1985–1987;
British High Commissioner to Canada 1987–1989 and
Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons 1989–1995
Sir Charles Richard Vaughan ,
Minister to Switzerland 1823–1825 and
Minister to the United States 1825–1835
Sir Peter Wilkinson , Ambassador to Vietnam in 1966–1967; also a SOE agent during World War II
Sir Michael S. Williams ,
Ambassador to Guatemala 1962–1963; and
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See 1965–1970
Ecclesiastics
Robert Barbour , lecturer in theology, moderator of the church of Scotland, and holder of the Military Cross
George Bradley ,
Dean of Westminster
Charles Boyd , Archdeacon of Colombo
Godwin Birchenough ,
Dean of Ripon Cathedral
John Bickersteth ,
Bishop of Bath and Wells and
Clerk of the Closet
Geoffrey Clayton ,
Archdeacon of Chesterfield ;
Bishop of Johannesburg and
Archbishop of Cape Town
Thomas Legh Claughton ,
Bishop of Rochester and
Bishop of St Albans .
George Chase ,
Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge and
Bishop of Ripon
Reverend William Lucas Collins
James Cotton ,
Dean of Bangor
Francis Cramer-Roberts ,
Bishop of Nassau and
Archdeacon of Blackburn
Reverend Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet
Edwin Dodgson
Alan Campbell Don ,
Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons 1936–1946 and
Dean of Westminster 1946–1959
Nowell Twopeny , Archdeacon of Flinders
Edward Feild , Bishop of Newfoundland and Archdeacon of Bermuda
Launcelot Fleming ,
Bishop of Portsmouth and
Bishop of Norwich
Rev. Thomas Valpy French , first Bishop of
Lahore
Archibald Ronald Gordon ,
Bishop of Portsmouth ,
Bishop at Lambeth and
Bishop to the Forces
Rupert Hoare ,
Dean of Liverpool and
Bishop of Dudley
Percy Mark Herbert , the first
Bishop of Blackburn ;
Bishop of Norwich and
Clerk of the Closet
Hugh Hornby ,
Bishop of Hulme
Phipps Hornby ,
Archdeacon of Lancaster
Rev Francis Jayne ,
Bishop of Chester and academic
Thomas Jex-Blake ,
Dean of Wells also a teacher and Headmaster of Rugby
Michael Gresford Jones ,
Bishop of Willesden and
Bishop of St Albans
Edwin Kempson ,
Bishop of Warrington
Francis Kilner ,
Bishop of Richmond
Carey Knyvett ,
Archdeacon of Northampton and
Bishop of Selby
William Lake ,
Dean of Durham
John Lawton ,
Archdeacon of Warrington
Edward Legge ,
Dean of Windsor and
Bishop of Oxford
William MacKennal ,
Archdeacon of Ely
Hugh Montefiore ,
Bishop of Kingston 1970–1978 and
Bishop of Birmingham 1977–1987
Frank Okell ,
Bishop of Stockport and
Archdeacon of Macclesfield
Grandage Powell ,
Archdeacon of Carlisle and
Bishop of Penrith
John Purchas , Church of England priest who was prosecuted for ritualist practices
Norman Rathbone ,
Dean of Hereford
Charles Waldegrave Sandford ,
Bishop of Gibraltar
Augustus Shears , clergyman who
translated part of the
Prayer Book into
Burmese
Walter Waddington Shirley , churchman and ecclesiastical historian
Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole
Lovelace Stamer ,
Archdeacon of Stoke and
Bishop of Shrewsbury
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , English churchman, and
Dean of Westminster
Arthur Stanton Anglo-catholic priest
John Stott ,
evangelical minister who later was a curate of
All Souls, Langham place and a leading figure involved in drafting the
Lausanne Covenant
Alfred Swann ,
Dean and Archdeacon of Hong Kong
Henry Herbert Symonds , Anglican priest who was a driving force behind the creation of National Parks
Frederick Stephen Temple ,
Dean of Hong Kong and
Bishop of Malmesbury
William Temple ,
Bishop of Manchester 1921–29;
Archbishop of York 1929–42 and
Archbishop of Canterbury 1942–44; an influential radical thinker, and father of the post-war Welfare State
David Urquhart ,
Bishop of Birkenhead and the current
bishop of Birmingham
Henry Wace ,
Dean of Canterbury
Richard Watson ,
Bishop of Burnley
Edward Were ,
Bishop of Derby 1889–1909, and
Bishop of Stafford 1909–1915
Edward Winnington-Ingram ,
Archdeacon of Hereford
The Law
Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington ,
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross , judge and politician. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999.
Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen , Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Horace Davey, Baron Davey , Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead , Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Sir Edward Marshall-Hall , English barrister and orator
Sir
Michael Kerry , former
HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor
Robert Barton , Irish lawyer and statesman who worked on the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Major Sir Thomas Hetherington , barrister and first head of the
Crown Prosecution Service
Edmund Yorke , Legal scholar and barrister
Sir Robert Akenhead , High Court Judge and Head of the Technology and Construction Court
Wilfred Baugh Allen , judge
Sir Lewis Cave , judge
Sir
George Farwell ,
Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir James Edmund Sandford Fawcett , barrister and member of the
European Commission for Human Rights
Alfred Gordon Clark , judge
Charles Sprengel Greaves
Philip Guedalla , barrister
Sir Alfred van Waterschoodt Lucie-Smith , colonial judge who became
Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago
Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne ,
Lord Chancellor 1872–1874 & 1880–1885;
Attorney General for England and Wales 1863–1866; and
Solicitor General for England and Wales 1861–1863
Sir Lawrence Peel ,
Advocate-General of Bengal and
Chief Justice of Bengal
Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle , county court judge and liberal party politician
Thomas Bateman Napier county court judge and politician
John Sandford , judicial commissioner of Burma and Mysore
Sir Leslie Frederic Scott ,
Lord Justice of Appeal and Liberal MP
Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens ,
Chief Justice of India
Roger John Laugharne Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd ,
President of the Queen's Bench Division and the current
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Jonathan David Chattyn Turner , barrister specialising in intellectual property and competition law
Dudley Ward , New Zealand judge and politician
Literature
Matthew Arnold , Victorian poet and critic (son of Headmaster Dr
Thomas Arnold )
Rupert Brooke , English poet
Arthur Hugh Clough , English poet
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as
Lewis Carroll , famous for
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Richard Doyle , English author
Dominic Hibberd , English critic and biographer
Anthony Horowitz , English writer
Edmund George Valpy Knox , editor of
Punch
Walter Savage Landor , English writer and poet
Wyndham Lewis , British painter and author
John Gillespie Magee, Junior , Anglo-American poet and aviator
Arthur Ransome , British children's author
Mario Reading , author
Sir Salman Rushdie , author and essayist, Booker Prize winner for
Midnight's Children . Said of his time: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too."
[5]
J.K. Stanford , English author
Francis Stuart , IRA member, Nazi collaborator and Irish novelist.
Thomas Hughes , English lawyer and author of
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Major Geoffrey Cecil Gilbert McNeill-Moss British army officer and novelist
Media, Entertainment and the Arts
Charles Acton , music critic at
The Irish Times
Faris Badwan , aka Faris Rotter, vocalist from band
The Horrors
Roy Beddington , painter, illustrator, author, and journalist
William Bullock , journalist at
The Daily News
David Carritt (1927–1982), British art historian, dealer and critic
Charlie Charters , Author, rugby union official, sports executive and journalist
Tom Cowan /Furse, Bassist from band
The Horrors
Freddie Cowan , Guitarist from band
The Vaccines
Frank Barrington Craig , British portrait painter
David Croft , (born David Sharland) Television writer, producer and director
David Haig , English actor and writer
Arthur fforde ,
BBC chairman
Isabel Fay , comedy actress and writer
Dan Haigh , bassist,
Fightstar ,
Gunship (band)
Robert Hardy , English stage and film actor
John Hawkesworth , television producer,
Upstairs, Downstairs
Sir
Charles Hawtrey ,
Victorian era stage actor
Marmaduke Hussey , BBC chairman
Hugh Johnson , British wine writer
Pete Kember , musician,
Spacemen 3
John Kentish , English operatic tenor
Wyndham Lewis , British painter and author
Richard Hey Lloyd , British organist and composer
William Charles Macready , English stage actor
Robin Milford , British musician
Sydney Nicholson , British musician
Sir Anthony Quayle , British actor
Andrew Rawnsley , British political journalist
Andy Richards , British / Australian musician, composer and organist
Adnan Sami , singer, pianist, actor and composer
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F. H. S. Shepherd , painter
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Richard Talbot Kelly , soldier and artist
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Alex Westaway , guitarist and singer, Fightstar,
Gunship (band)
A. N. Wilson , English writer and newspaper columnist
Sophie Xeon , Singer and musician
Medicine and Science
William Bateson , English geneticist
Miles Joseph Berkeley , English botanist
Humphry Bowen , British botanist and chemist
Dr Peter Brinsden , fertility expert
Abel Chapman , big game hunter and naturalist who started South Africa's first game reserve
Alex Hankey , English theoretical physicist
Walter W. Holland , public health physician
Andrew Karney , scientist, chartered engineer, businessman and entrepreneur
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes , physician and scholar, brother of economist
John Maynard Keynes
Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr ,
zoologist and
Doctor of Medicine
David Marr , British psychologist
Donald Michie , British researcher in
artificial intelligence who during World War II, worked for the
Government Code and Cypher School at
Bletchley Park , to break "
Tunny ", a German teleprinter cipher
George Mitchell Seabroke , British astronomer
Frederick Courteney Selous , British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, known for his exploits in South-East Africa
Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet , won the
Copley Medal
Nevil Sidgwick , English theoretical chemist
E. Barton Worthington (1905-2001), ecologist and science administrator
Babulal Sethia ,
President of the Royal Society of Medicine and cardiac surgeon
Politics
Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker , Liberal Party MP
Leonard Behrens Liberal Party Politician
William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick , Tory politician and
British Minister to Sardinia
Sir Thomas Birch, 2nd Baronet Whig politician
Sir Noël Vansittart Bowater, 2nd Baronet ,
Lord Mayor of London
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet Whig politician
Arthur Montagu Brookfield Conservative Politician, diplomat and army officer
Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet , Conservative Politician
Esmond Bulmer , Conservative MP
Marston Clarke Buszard Liberal Party MP and barrister
William John Dalzell Burnyeat , Liberal Party politician
Charles Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle Liberal Unionist politician and army officer
Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet , politician and lawyer
Harold Cawley Liberal Party MP, killed in World War I
Oswald Cawley Liberal Party MP, killed in World War I
Austen Chamberlain , British statesman and recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
Neville Chamberlain , politician and former
Prime Minister
Sir
Sydney Chapman ,
Conservative
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Birmingham Handsworth and
Chipping Barnet
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin PC , Conservative MP and
First Lord of the Admiralty
Samuel Clowes , Conservative politician
Herbert James Craig Liberal politician
Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet Tory politician
William John Evelyn , Conservative politician
Sir Frederick William Fison, 1st Baronet , Conservative politician
Charles Berkeley, 3rd Baron FitzHardinge , Liberal politician
Tetley Gant , Tasmanian politician and Chancellor
University of Tasmania
Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes , Current Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords
Sir Richard Gilpin, 1st Baronet , Conservative Politician and Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen , Liberal Unionist politician; served as
Chancellor of the Exchequer 1887–1892,
First Lord of the Admiralty 1871–1874 and 1895–1900
Captain Alan Graham Conservative politician
Frank Gray , inter-war Liberal politician
The Honourable Ronald Greville , Conservative MP
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC Conservative politician
Sir Jeremy James Hanley , Conservative MP;
Chairman of the Conservative Party 1994–1995 and
Minister without portfolio 1994–1995
Sir Reginald Hanson , Conservative politician and
Lord Mayor of London
Henry Peirson Harland Unionist politician
William Harrison-Broadley Conservative MP
Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton ,
Canningite Tory and later Whig politician,
Chief Secretary for Ireland , also a major
Staffordshire landowner, farmer and businessman
Sir Arthur Adlington Haworth, 1st Baronet , Liberal politician
Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson Liberal political advisor and economist
Charles Hendry , British politician and the
Conservative
Member of Parliament for
Wealden
William Holbech Member of Parliament for Banbury
Edward Horsman , MP and
Chief Secretary for Ireland
Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport , Labour Party politician
Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe , Conservative health spokesman in the House of Lords
Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde , Edwardian Liberal Party politician and industrialist
Colonel Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel , Liberal Unionist and later Conservative politician; the third
Mayor of Westminster
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Edgar Mayne Keatinge Soldier who was a Conservative politician
Wilfred Byng Kenrick ,
Lord Mayor of Birmingham and industrialist
Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater , Conservative Party politician
William Kingan , Unionist politician
Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston , Irish peer and Victorian Conservative Party politician
Isaac Cowley Lambert Conservative MP and solicitor
Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton , Conservative Party politician
Francis Charles Lawley Liberal party politician and journalist
Henry Lefroy , Western Australian politician
Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn Conservative politician
William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton Whig politician
Miles MacInnes Liberal MP and railway director
Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Baronet , four times
Mayor of Wolverhampton and an industrialist
Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet Liberal MP and industrialist
Angus Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon , Conservative Party politician and father of Conservative Cabinet member
Francis Maude
George Melly Liberal MP and shipowner
Arthur Mills Conservative MP
Charles Mills MP and Director of the East India Company
Andrew Mitchell , British Conservative politician and
Secretary of State for International Development (from May 2010)
Edmund Morris MP
George Herbert Morrell Conservative MP and lawyer
Thomas Bateman Napier Liberal MP and judge
Sir John Holbrook Osborn Conservative MP
Francis Otter Liberal MP
Sukhumbhand Paribatra , Thai politician, 15th
Governor of Bangkok
Sir William Pearce, 2nd Baronet Conservative politician and industrialist
Jonathan Peel Conservative MP;
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance 1841–1846 and
Secretary of State for War 1858–1859 & 1866–1867
Albert Pell Conservative MP and solicitor
Sir Edward Penton , Mayor of St Marylebone; Superintendent of the Royal Army Clothing Department (Boot Section) 1914–1919 and Chief Inspector of Clothing for the Central Ordnance Depot
Edwin Berkeley Portman Liberal MP and barrister
Thomas Bayley Potter Liberal MP
Walter Powell , Conservative MP and colliery owner
David Pugh , Liberal MP
Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle Liberal politician
John Bonfoy Rooper MP
Shane Ross , Irish politicians and journalist
Henry Bucknall Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe , conservative politician and barrister who was
Minister of Labour 1931–1934
Harold Rushworth New Zealand politician from the County Party
Sir Henry Bernhard Samuelson, 2nd Baronet Liberal MP
Sir Leslie Frederic Scott ,
Lord Justice of Appeal and Liberal MP
Alexander Craig Sellar MP
Evelyn Shirley MP
Walter Shirley Shirley Liberal MP and barrister
Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet MP, mathematician and astronomer
Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe , politician and industrialist
Sir Thomas Skipwith, 4th Baronet MP
Samuel George Smith Conservative MP and banker
Edward Smith Tory MP
Tim Smith ,
Liberal Party of Australia member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Richard Spooner MP
Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford MP and peer
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby , prominent 19th century statesman
Lewis Randle Starkey , Conservative MP
George Strauss , Baron Strauss, Labour politician and
Father of the House of Commons
Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet Conservative MP,
Chairman of the Conservative Party and
Minister of Labour
Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley Whig politician
Henry Tancred , 19th-century New Zealand politician.
Sir John Stradling Thomas , Welsh Conservative Party politician
Andrew Turner , British Conservative Party politician
Yevhenia Tymoshenko (Eugenia), Ukrainian entrepreneur and lobbyist on behalf of her mother, former
Prime Minister of Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko
[9]
William Henry Waddington , French statesman (eventually
Prime Minister of France )
Sir George Gustavus Walker , Conservative MP
Cathcart Wason MP in both New Zealand and Great Britain
Eugene Wason Liberal MP and lawyer
Samuel Whitbread , Liberal MP
Edward Whitley , Conservative MP
James Wigley , Tory MP
George Wilbraham , Whig MP
John Charles Williams Liberal Unionist MP
Sir Nicholas Winterton Conservative MP
Henry Christopher Wise Conservative MP
Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet Conservative MP
Dennis Kwok Hong Kong Legislative Council Member
Sport
John Anton , English cricketer
George Barker , English cricketer
Robert Barlow (1827–1907), cricketer
[10]
David Barttelot (1821–1852), English cricketer
Samuel Bateson , Irish cricketer
Denis Bingham , Irish cricketer
Henry Boden , cricketer and founding member of
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Frederick Bowden-Smith , first-class cricketer
Trevor Bowring , first-class cricketer
Edward Bradby , first-class cricketer
Henry Bradby , first-class cricketer
Henry Brandt , first-class cricketer
Chris Brasher , Olympic gold medalist in the
steeplechase at the
1956 Summer Olympics , co-founder of the
London marathon and pace setter in
Roger Bannister 's world record mile
John Bridger , first-class cricketer
William Bullock , first-class cricketer
Walter Byles , first-class cricketer
Frederick Capron , first-class cricketer
Henry Cholmondeley , first-class cricketer
Giles Clarke , the chairman of the
England and Wales Cricket Board
John Clayton (rugby union) , international who represented
England in the
First international rugby match .
Richard Clement , first-class cricketer
Louis Cockerell , first-class cricketer
Granville Coghlan , rugby union international, represented
Great Britain on
1927 British Lions tour to Argentina (1907–1983)
George Cooke (1826–1862), cricketer
Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven , English nobleman and sportsman
Frederick Crowder (1845–1938), cricketer and tennis player
James Crowdy , first-class cricketer
Joseph Dacre , first-class cricketer
Peter Dowson , first-class cricketer
John Marshall Dugdale ,
rugby union international who represented
England in the
first international rugby match in 1871 .
Frederick Morton Eden , first-class cricketer
Edmund Ellis , first-class cricketer
Francis Evelyn , first-class cricketer
Nigel Fenton , first-class cricketer
Patrick Fraser , Scottish first-class cricketer
Cornelius Fryer , first-class cricketer
Miles Giffard , English cricketer who was hanged for the murder of his parents.
Joseph Fletcher Green ,
rugby union international who represented
England in the
first international rugby match in 1871 .
James Ford (1836–1877), cricketer
Alex Grove , rugby player for
Worcester Warriors and
Scotland national rugby union team
A. G. Guillemard ,
rugby union international who represented
England in the
first international rugby match in 1871 and later president of the
Rugby Football Union .
Thomas Hale (1829–1899), first-class cricketer
Octavius Hanbury (1826–1882), first-class cricketer
William Harrison (1838–1912), first-class cricketer
George Hughes (1821–1872), first-class cricketer and the basis for the literary character
Tom Brown
Rupert Edward Inglis (1863–1916), England rugby international who was killed at the
Battle of the Somme
[12]
Kenneth Jackson , Scottish rugby union international and first-class cricketer
Edward Kenney , first-class cricketer
Charles Langton , first-class cricketer
Alexander Law , first-class cricketer
Henry Lindow , first-class cricketer
Algernon Lushington , first-class cricketer
Arthur Lyon (rugby union) , who represented
England in the first
1871 Scotland versus England rugby union match .
Dar Lyon , first class cricketer
John Macartney-Filgate , Irish first-class cricketer
Charles McCarthy , cricketer who played in
Burma's only
first-class cricket match in 1927.
Douglas Mackessack (1903–1987), Scottish first-class cricketer, brother of the below
Kenneth Mackessack (1902–1982), Scottish first-class cricketer, brother of the above
Richard Montgomerie , English cricketer
David Noble , first-class cricketer
Rollo O'Dwyer , Argentine first-class cricketer
Henry Pickard , first-class cricketer
Abram Rawlinson , first-class cricketer
Gerard Rotherham , recipient of the
Wisden Cricketer of the Year award in 1918.
Samuel Ruddock , Paralympic sprinter
[13]
Eustace Rutter , first-class cricketer
John Sandford (1832–1892), first-class cricketer
Richard Seaman (1913–1939). One of the greatest British pre-war motor racing drivers. Infamously suffered a fatal crash at the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix.
Alfred Seymour (1843–1897), first-class cricketer
Ian Shield (1914–2005), first-class cricketer
Frank Smallwood (1867–1919), first-class cricketer
Stephen Soames (1826–1908), first-class cricketer
Francis Speed , first-class cricketer
Frederick Stokes (1850–1929)
[14] the first captain of the
England national rugby union team .
Adrian Stoop , English rugby player
William Surtees , World Rackets Champion
Richard Sykes , Rugby player and founder of towns in
North Dakota
Theodore Tapp , first-class cricketer
Henry Taswell , first-class cricketer
Henry Tubb , first-class cricketer
Dawson Turner ,
rugby union international who represented
England in the
first international rugby match in 1871 .
Frank Tobin ,
rugby union international who represented
England in the
first international rugby match in 1871 .
Richard Townsend (1829–1852), first-class cricketer
Rowland Venables , first-class cricketer
Sir Pelham Warner , England cricket captain and cricket administrator
William Webb Ellis , the credited inventor of rugby football
John Weston , cricketer
Tom Wills , the inventor of
Australian rules football
Alfred Wilson (1828–1908), first-class cricketer
William Yardley , cricketer and dramatist
Fictional Old Rugbeians
See also
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"School Crest and Motto" . History . Melbourne Grammar School. Archived from
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"Play it again Sami..." The Times of India . 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2009 .
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"Lieutenant Richard Talbot Kelly" . National Army Museum, London . Retrieved 6 May 2019 .
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Alumni Cantabrigienses . Cambridge University Press. p. 156.
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"Rupert Edward Inglis" . www.inglis.uk.com. Retrieved 17 April 2011 .
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"Samuel Ruddock – UK Paralympian and School Sports Mentor" . Retrieved 17 April 2014 .
^ Steve Lewis, One Among Equals , 2008, pp9-10 (Vertical Editions:London)
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