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List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable old boys of
Shrewsbury School , a leading UK independent boarding and day school in
Shrewsbury , in
Shropshire , England.
Old Salopians
A
B
Alan Barber (1905–1985), cricketer and headmaster of
Ludgrove
Robert Bardsley
CMG
OBE (1890–1952), cricketer and colonial administrator
Edward Barnard (1992–), cricketer
Mike Barnard (1990–), cricketer
Sir Alexander Fitzwilliam Barrington, 7th Baronet (1909–2003), landowner
Douglas Bartles-Smith (1937–2014), priest and
Archdeacon of Southwark 1985–2004
William Henry Bateson (1812–1881), scholar and Master of
St. John's College, Cambridge 1857–1881
Sir
Cecil Beadon
KCSI (1816–1880), administrator in
India
Andrew Berry (born 1963), evolutionary biologist and historian of science at
Harvard
Nick Bevan (1942–2014), rowing coach
Henry Edward James Bevan
FRSL (1854–1935), Archdeacon of Middlesex
Peter Blagg (1918–1943), cricketer and soldier
David Blakely , murder victim; shot dead by
Ruth Ellis , the last woman to be hanged in Britain
Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker
KCMG
PC (1922–2009), politician
The Ven.
Charles Blakeway (1868–1922),
Archdeacon of Stafford 1911–22
Omar 'Ali Bolkiah (born 1986),
crown prince of the
Sultanate of Brunei
Christopher Booker (1937–2019), journalist, co-founder of
Private Eye
Tim Booth (1960–), lead singer of the band
James
Colin Boumphrey
DFC (1897–1945), cricketer and Royal Air Force officer
Donald Boumphrey
MC (1892–1971), cricketer, educator and British Army officer
Sir James Bourne, 1st Baronet (1812–1882), politician
Piers Brendon (born 1940), historian
John Breynton (1719–1799), minister and missionary in Nova Scotia
[1]
Lieutenant General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker
KCB
KCMG
DSO (1862–1934), senior
British Army commander
Mynors Bright (1818–1883), academic and
Master of
Magdalene College, Cambridge
John Brockbank (1848–1896), footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland
Peter Brown
FBA (born 1935), historian of
Late Antiquity , Fellow of
All Souls College, Oxford
Lieutenant-Colonel
Barwick Sharpe Browne (1881–1963), officer and librarian in the Institute of Archaeology
Samuel Browne (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
Samuel Hawksley Burbury
FRS (1831–1911), mathematician
Robert Burn (1829–1904), classical scholar, archeologist and Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge
Charles Burney
FRS (1726–1814), musician, composer, music historian
John Burrell (1910–1972), theatre director
John Burrough (1873–1922), cricketer
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic author of
Erewhon and
The Way of All Flesh
C
Sir
Edward John Cameron
KCMG (1858–1947), British colonial administrator,
Governor of Gambia 1914–1920
Sir Philip Montgomery Campbell
FRSA
FInstP (born 1951), Editor-in-Chief of
Nature
Sir
Frederick Catherwood (1925–2015), politician, writer, and vice-president of
European Parliament
Jamie Catto (born 1968), economist and programmer
Bruce Clark (1958–), journalist and author
George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975), historian
Miles Clark (1960–1993), author, journalist and explorer
William George Clark (1821–1878), literary and classical scholar
William Clarke (1695–1771), antiquary
Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill (1833–1895), politician
Lieutenant-General Sir Skipton Hill Climo
KCB
DSO (1868−1937)
Richard Charles Cobb
CBE (1917–1996), historian and essayist
Edward Meredith Cope (1818–1873), classical scholar
Edward Corbet (died 1658), Anglican clergyman
Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden (1943–), biochemist
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet (1739–1809), MP for Cheshire 1780–1796
Sir Randolph Crewe (also Crew) (bap. 1559, d. 1646), judge
[2]
Sir
Julian Critchley (1930–2000), journalist and politician
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
CMG
TD (1881–1947),
Conservative politician
Assheton Henry Cross, 3rd Viscount Cross (1920–2004), racing driver and soldier
John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney (1925–2008), industrialist, civil servant, and peer
Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow
KCMG (1912–2013), diplomat
Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce
PC (1912–2000), judge
D
Charles Darwin
FRS
FRGS
FLS
FZS (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
Peter Davis (born 1941), businessman, former chairman of
Sainsbury's
William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane
KBE
FSA
JP
DL (1872–1953), politician and
MP for Kensington South
Francis Day
CIE (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
Charles Spencer Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 2nd Baronet
CBE
MC
TD (1916–2012), businessman and peer
General
Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey
GBE
KCB
DSO
MC (1896–1969),
D-Day 2nd Army Commander
Hal Dixon (1928–2008), biochemist and Vice Provost of
King's College, Cambridge
Cyril Henty-Dodd (1935–2009), interviewer and radio disc jockey, commonly known as Simon Dee
John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782–1854), naturalist and poet
[3]
Andrew Downes (c. 1549 – 1628), Greek scholar
Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, 4th Baronet of Ambrosden, 7th Baronet of Canons-Ashby (1818–1899), archaeologist and antiquary
[4]
Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet
OStJ (1912–1999),
Scottish businessman
E
F
Edmund Ffoulkes (1820–1894), clergyman
George Fielding
DSO (1915–2005),
Major in the
SOE
Frederick Fisher (born 1985),
Big Brother 10 contestant
Paul Foot (1937–2004), journalist, co-founder of
Private Eye
Nigel Forman (1943–2017),
Conservative politician,
MP for Carshalton and Wallington
William Orme Foster (1814–1899), ironmaster, MP for
South Staffordshire 1857–1868, owner of
Apley Hall
James Fraser (1818–1885), bishop of Manchester
Abraham Fraunce (France) (born c. 1558–1560, died 1592/3), poet and lawyer
G
William Garnett (1816–1903), cricketer and clergyman
David Gay
MC (1920–2010), British Army officer awarded the Military Cross in
World War II , cricketer, and educator
Edwin Gifford (1820–1905),
Anglican priest and author
Arthur Herman Gilkes (1849–1922), Headmaster of
Dulwich College
George Gore (1675–1753), landowner and
Attorney-General for Ireland
Richard Goulding , actor
Geoffrey Green (1911–1990), football writer
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke
KB
PC of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
Sir
George Abraham Grierson
OM
KCIE (1851–1941), administrator in India and philologist
Lawrence Grossmith (1877–1944), actor
Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), historian and theologian
Lieutenant General Willoughby Gwatkin
KCMG
CB (1859–1925), officer and
Chief of the General Staff of the
Canadian Militia
H
Nick Hancock (born 1962), actor and TV presenter
John Hanmer (1574–1629),
bishop of St Asaph
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
GCSI
PC (1814–1906), politician
Sir Jack Ashford Harris, 2nd Baronet (1906–2009), businessman
Sir Paul Harris, 2nd Baronet (1595–1644), politician and
Surveyor of the Ordnance
Thomas Emerson Headlam (1813–1875), barrister and politician
Sir Denis Maurice Henry
QC (1931–2010), barrister and
Lord Justice of Appeal
William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
Michael Heseltine
CH
PC (born 1933),
Conservative politician,
Deputy Prime Minister 1995–1997
Major Richard Henry Heslop
DSO (alias Xavier) (1907–1973), army officer and resistance organiser
Sir
Thomas Hewet (1656–1726), architect and landowner
[6]
Edward Hewetson (1902–1977), cricketer
Sir
John Tomlinson Hibbert
KCB
PC
JP
DL (1824–1908), politician
Horatio Hildyard (1805–1886), cricketer and clergyman
James Hildyard (1809–1887), classical scholar
Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone (1732–1808), Tory MP and religious revivalist
Richard Hillary (1919–1943),
RAF officer and author
John Hirsch (1883–1958), South African cricketer and rugby union international
Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), classical scholar
Edward Hopkins (1600–1657), politician and
Governor of Connecticut
Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow
KCMG (1912–2013), diplomat and colonial governor
Sir James Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce (1912–2000), barrister and
Lord Justice of Appeal
William Walsham How (1823–1897), bishop of Wakefield
Robert Hudson (1920–2010), BBC broadcaster and administrator
James Humphreys (1768–1830), law reformer
Sir
Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), barrister judge
David Lafayette Hunter
MC (1919–2001), officer
I
J
Frederick John Jackson ,
KCMG
CB (1860–1929), Governor of
Uganda (1911–1918) and naturalist
Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson ,
GBE
KCB
MC (1917–1999), army officer, military historian, and
Governor of Gibraltar
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge
Vice Admiral Clive Carruthers Johnstone (born 1963), Royal Navy Officer
Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
John Jones of Gellilyfdy (c. 1578 – c. 1658), copyist and manuscript collector
Sir Thomas Jones (1614–1692), judge and law reporter
Thomas Jones (1756–1807), academic and Head Tutor at
Trinity College, Cambridge
K
L
Richard Cornthwaite Lambert (1868–1939), barrister and politician
John Heath Lander (1907–1941), Olympic rower and soldier
Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane
AFC
PC
QC (1918–2005),
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Sir
John Langford-Holt (1916–1993), politician and
MP for
Shrewsbury 1945–83
Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine
PC (1901–1980), politician and son of Prime Minister
Bonar Law
Aubrey Trevor Lawrence
MBE
KC (1875–1930), barrister and author
Sir William Lawrence , 3rd Baronet (1870–1934), English horticulturalist and hospital administrator
Sir
Martin Le Quesne
KCMG (1917–2004), diplomat, ambassador to
Mali and
Algeria , high commissioner to
Nigeria
Steve Leach (born 1993), cricketer
Blessed
Richard Leigh (1557–1588), beatified English Catholic priest
Sir Charlton Leighton, 4th Baronet (1747–1784), politician and owner of
Loton Park
Sir
William Leighton (c. 1565–1622), poet and composer
Alexander Loveday (1888–1962), economist and
Warden of
Nuffield College, Oxford
Very Rev
Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909), Dean of Lichfield
General
Sir Daniel Lysons
GCB (1816–1898), army officer
M
Humphrey Mackworth (1603–1654), member of Shropshire parliamentary committee in English Civil War, governor of Shrewsbury, member of Protector's Council, MP
Humphrey Mackworth (born 1631), military governor of Shrewsbury under Protectorate, MP
Thomas Mackworth (1627–1696), Parliamentarian soldier and MP
Christopher MacLehose
CBE (born 1940), publisher
Richard Madox (1546–1583), Church of England clergyman and diarist
Harry Mallaby-Deeley (1863–1937), politician, MP for
Harrow and
Willesden East
George Augustus Chichester May
PC
QC (1815–1892), judge
John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor
FBA (1825–1910), classicist and librarian of
Cambridge University
Claas Mertens (born 1992), rower for the Germany national team
[7]
Anthony Merryweather (born 1973), Musical Theatre producer and accompanist
[8]
Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen (1931–2014), peer
Sotherton Micklethwait (1823–1889), cricketer and clergyman
Terry Milewski (born 1949), journalist
[9]
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart
KCMG (born 1940), ex-chairman of
Royal Dutch Shell and chairman of
UN Global Compact Committee
Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet
PC
QC (1826–1897), lawyer and politician
Henry Arthur Morgan (1830–1912), academic and
Master of
Jesus College, Cambridge
Francis Morse (1818–1886), priest
Sydney Morse (1854–1929), rugby player
Henry Whitehead Moss (1841–1917), headmaster 1866–190
Gerard Moultrie (1829–1885), third master, chaplain, hymnographer
Douglas Muggeridge (1928–1985), Controller, BBC Radio 1 between 1968 and 1976
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819–1885), classical scholar
General Sir
Geoffrey Musson
GCB
CBE
DSO (1910–2008), officer and
Adjutant-General to the Forces
N
O
Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet (1751–1826), administrator in India
William Oakley (1873–1934), footballer for
England
William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill (1813–1883), Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
Julian Orchard (1930–1979), film and television actor
Sir
Roger Ormrod
PC (1911–1992), judge,
Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir
Francis Ottley (1601–1649), royalist politician and soldier, military governor of Shrewsbury
Richard Ottley (1626–1670), royalist soldier and Restoration MP
P
Thomas Ethelbert Page
CH (1850–1936), classicist
General Sir
Bernard Charles Tolver Paget
GCB
DSO
MC (1887–1961), army officer
Edward Francis Paget (1886–1971),
Archbishop of Central Africa
Francis Paget (1851–1911), 33rd
Bishop of Oxford
Luke Paget (1853–1937), 34th
Bishop of Chester
Stephen Paget (1855–1926), writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), classical scholar and writer
Sir Michael Palin
CBE
FRGS (born 1943), member of
Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
John Parker Ravenscroft (1939–2004), DJ and journalist, known professionally as John Peel
Sir
Nicholas Penny
FBA
FSA (born 1949), art historian and Director of the
National Gallery
Lieutenant General Sir
Arthur Purves Phayre
GCMG
KCSI
CB (1812–1885),
British Indian Army officer; 1st
Commissioner of
British Burma (1862–1867) and
Governor of
Mauritius (1874–1878)
General Sir Robert Phayre GCB, ADC (1820–1897)
[10]
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), poet and playwright
John Arthur Pilcher
GCMG (1912–1990), diplomat, ambassador to
Austria (1965–67), ambassador to
Japan (1967–1972)
Nick Pocock (born 1951), cricketer
Graham Pollard (1903–1976), bookseller and bibliographer
Angus Pollock (born 1962), cricketer
Henry Steven Potter (1904–1976), Chief Secretary of
Uganda and
Kenya , later
British Resident in Zanzibar
Sir Thomas Powys (1649–1719),
MP ,
Attorney General to
King James II , judge, and politician
Michael Proctor (1950–), physicist, mathematician, academic and
Provost of
King's College, Cambridge
R
Henry Cecil Raikes
PC (1838–1891),
Conservative politician
Richard Ramsbotham
MBE (1880–1970), first-class cricketer and educator
Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow
OM
FRS
FREng
FMedSci
FRAS (born 1942), British cosmologist and astrophysicist
John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
James Riddell (1823–1866), classical scholar and Fellow of
Balliol College, Oxford
George Rudé (1910–1993), British Marxist Historian
Willie Rushton (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, co-founder of
Private Eye
S
Colonel Thomas Sandys (1837–1911), officer and politician
Clyde Sanger (born 1928), journalist and author, first Africa correspondent for
The Guardian
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
PC
DL
FRS (1633–1695), statesman, writer, and politician
John Sayer
OBE (1920–2013), first-class cricketer and officer in the
Fleet Air Arm and the
Royal Navy
Robert Gould Shaw III (1898–1970), American-born English socialite
Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907–1995), music critic
Desmond Shawe-Taylor
LVO (born 1955), art historian, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
Richard Shilleto (1809–1876), classical scholar
Nevil Shute (1899–1960), writer (and as Neville Shute Norway, an aeronautical engineer)
Sir
Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet, courtier and soldier
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1529–1586), poet, courtier and politician
Air Marshall Sir Michael Simmons
KCB
AFC (born 1937),
Royal Air Force officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
Sandy Singleton (1914–1999), cricketer
Sir
Norman Skelhorn
KBE
QC (1909–1988), barrister and
Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales 1964–77
Sir
Basil Smallpiece
KCVO (1906–1992), businessman
Martin Ferguson Smith
OBE
FSA (born 1940), scholar and writer, classics and ancient history professor at
Durham
Ruaidhri Smith (born 1994),
Scottish cricketer
Philip Snow (1907–1985), cricketer
Sir
Frederick Sprott (1863–1943), cricketer and engineer
William Starkie (1860–1920), Greek scholar, translator of
Aristophanes , and President of
Queen's College, Galway
Christopher Steel (1938–1992), composer of
classical music
Thomas Stevens
FSA (1841–1920),
Bishop of Barking
Sir
John Stuttard
JP
FCA (born 1945),
Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07
T
James Taylor (1990–), cricketer
John Taylor (1704–1766), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
John Taylor, Baron Ingrow
OBE
TD
JP
DL (1917–2002), soldier and politician
Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
Percy Beart Thomas
CIE (1866–1921),
Inspector-General of Police of
Madras
Sir
William Beach Thomas
KBE (1868–1957), author and journalist
William Thomson ,
FRS
FRGS (1819–1890), Archbishop of York
Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), hymn writer
Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring
KBE (1818–1907), parliamentary draftsman
J. C. Thring , notable figure in the early history of
association football
Lt Col.
Alfred Tippinge (1817–1898), of the
British Grenadiers ; recipient of the
Legion of Honour
Robert Morton Tisdall (1907–2004), Olympic athlete
Richard Todd ,
OBE (1919–2009), actor
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), headmaster of
Eton College and
Fettes College
Sir
Thomas Trevor (1586–1656), judge
Patrick Trimby (1972–), cricketer
V
W
Alan Wace (1879–1957), archaeologist at
Cambridge University 1934-44 and professor at the
Farouk I University in Egypt 1943–52
Henry Wace (1853–1947), England international footballer
[11]
Henry William Rawson Wade
QC
FBA (1918–2004), academic lawyer
Christopher Wallace (British Army officer) , 1943–2016
Graham Wallas (1858–1932), political psychologist, leader of the
Fabian Society and co-founder of the
London School of Economics
Sir Francis Bagott Watson
KCVO
FBA (1907–1992), art historian
John Weaver (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
Sir
Edgar Whitehead
KCMG
OBE (1905–1971), prime minister of
Rhodesia
Selby Whittingham (born 1941), art expert and author
Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885), Unitarian minister
[12]
[13]
Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1634–1700), lawyer and politician
Major General
Dare Wilson
CBE
MC (1919–2014),
SAS officer who introduced
attack helicopters to the British military
Jack Wilson (1914–1997), Olympic rower
H. de Winton , co-creator of the rules of
football
Samuel Woodhouse (1912–1995), priest and
Archdeacon of London
Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, 3rd Baronet (1828–1865), writer
Chandos Wren-Hoskyns
JP
DL (1812–1876), English landowner, agriculturist, politician and author
Jonathan Wright (born 1953), journalist and literary translator
John Wylie (1854–1924),
1878 FA Cup winner and
England international
Y
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