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The List of Old Rossallians lists persons who attended or are associated with the
Rossall School in Lancashire.
There have been many Old Rossallians who have become headmasters at
public schools since its foundation in 1844, including
Winchester College ,
Charterhouse School ,
Rugby School ,
Merchant Taylor's ,
Marlborough College ,
Cheltenham College ,
Dragon School ,
Wellington College ,
Harrow School ,
Malvern College ,
Dulwich College ,
Sevenoaks School and
Christ's Hospital . The current crop includes the Headmasters at
Bedales School and
Shrewsbury School .
George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe – Governor of
Bombay and
Victoria
Major General
Ralph Arthur Penrhyn Clements – British Army general during the
Second Boer War
Field Marshal Sir Charles Comyn Egerton – First World War Field Marshal, member of the Council of the India, Commander of the
Somaliland Field Force
Edward Fitzherbert (
CBE ,
DSO ,
MC ) – British Army general
Colonel Sir
George Malcolm Fox , Inspector of Gymnasia and sword designer
Air Commodore Robert Groves – Deputy Chief of the Air Staff
VC
Captain George S. Henderson (
VC )
General Sir Thomas Hutton , (
KCB ,
KCIE ,
MC )
Wing Commander Ronald Gustave Kellet – Second World War flying ace
Frederick Lugard (
GCMG ,
CB ,
DSO ,
PC ) – governor of Hong Kong and Nigeria and founder of the
University of Hong Kong
Air Chief Marshal
Sir Charles Edward Hasting Medhurst (
KCB
OBE
MC ) – Director of Allied Air Co-Operation (1940) and key figure in the
RAF throughout the Second World War
General John Nixon – First World War General
Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke –
Colonial Governor , last Governor of the
Gold Coast
VC
Brigadier George Rowland Patrick Roupell (
VC )
Erroll Chunder Sen – First World War Indian aviator
Vice Admiral Sir David Steel –
Second Sea Lord
Sir Thomas Beecham
Edgar Ord Laird –
British High Commissioner to Brunei 1963–1965
Edward Colborne Baber – colonial administrator (Rossall Junior School)
Eric Alfred George Shackleton Bailey – Conservative MP for Manchester Gorton 1931–1935
Robert Bernays – Liberal MP for Bristol North 1931–1945,
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health 1937–1939,
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport 1939–1940
Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham Private Secretary to Queen Victoria (1895–1901) and to George V (1910–1931)
Harry Brittain – Conservative MP for Acton 1918-1929 and founder of the
Pilgrims Society
Wilfred Banks Duncan Brown, Baron of Machrihanish – Minister of State at the
Board of Trade 1970–1975 and member of the
Privy Council
Bertie Bolton – Chief Constable of
Northamptonshire Constabulary (1941–1960)
Alfred Broughton – long-serving Labour MP, central to the Labour government downfall in 1979
Milne Cheetham – diplomatic minister to Switzerland, Greece and Denmark
Octavius Leigh Clare – Conservative MP for Eccles 1895–1906
Sir Robert Francis Dunnell – solicitor, civil servant and railway executive
Sir Hugh Forbes – British High Court Judge 1970–1985
Sir Herbert Brent Grotrian, 1st Baronet – Unionist MP for South-West Hull 1924–1929
Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth – barrister, author, Fellow of the Royal Society and Conservative MP for Salford South 1886–1900
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski - 66th President of the Republic of
Peru who had to leave due to corruption.
Neil Marten – Conservative MP for Banbury 1959–1983 and
Minister for Overseas Development 1979–1983
Charles Heron Mullan – Conservative MP for Down 1946–1950
Oswald Partington, 2nd Baron Doverdale – Liberal MP 1900–1918
Robert Frederick Ratcliff – MP for Burton 1900–1918
William Rolleston – cabinet minister in New Zealand, and later
Leader of the Opposition
Walter Dorling Smiles – MP for Blackburn 1931–1945; later for Down 1945–1950 and for Down, North 1950–1953
John Ellis Talbot – Conservative MP for Brierley Hill 1959–1967
Walter Topping – Northern Irish Minister of Home Affairs
George Frederic Verdon (
KCMG ) –
Treasurer of Australia
Derek Colclough Walker-Smith – Conservative MP for Hertford 1945–1955 and then for East Hertfordshire 1955–1983;
Minister of Health
Ralph Champneys Williams – Governor of Newfoundland
Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate – Conservative MP for Melton 1918–1924
Robert Armstrong Yerburgh – Unionist MP for Chester 1886–1906 and 1910–1916
Science, medicine and engineering
Notable parents of Rossall students
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