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This is a List of Old Brightonians , notable former students – known as "Old Brightonians" – of the
co-educational ,
public school ,
Brighton College in
Brighton , East Sussex, United Kingdom.
Academia, education and literature
Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), socialist writer and campaigner for homosexual rights
Robert H. Crabtree (born 1948),
Organometallic Chemist, Professor of
Inorganic Chemistry ,
Yale University , creator of
Crabtree's catalyst
Andrew Gamble (born 1947), Professor of Politics,
University of Sheffield and then
University of Cambridge , Fellow of the
British Academy
Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862–1934),
Egyptologist and pioneer of
Nubian archaeology, first Professor of Egyptology,
University of Oxford
George Bagshawe Harrison (1894–1991), Shakespearean scholar, Professor of English,
Queen's University , Ontario and the
University of Michigan , editor of the Penguin Shakespeare 1937–59, member of the Roman Catholic
International Commission on English in the Liturgy
Sir Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist, Assistant Secretary-General United Nations, Director
Institute of Development Studies at the
University of Sussex 1972–81
Ewart Mackintosh (1893–1917),
First World War poet,
MC
Michael Roberts (1908–1996), historian of
Sweden , Professor of History at
Queen's University Belfast , Fellow of the
British Academy
Sir Sydney Roberts (1887–1966), Dr Johnson scholar, Master of
Pembroke College, Cambridge , Secretary of
Cambridge University Press and Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge , Chairman
British Film Institute
John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950), physician and
Regius Professor of Physic ,
University of Cambridge 1935–45, physician to King George V
Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher and
Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy ,
University of Oxford , declined a knighthood in 1965
Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), novelist, children's writer and poet
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky of Tilton (born 1939), Professor of Political Economy,
University of Warwick , created a life peer (changed whip from SDP to Conservative to cross-bencher)
Leonard Strong (1896–1958), writer and poet, Director of
Methuen Ltd
Architecture, building and engineering
Sir Francis Fox (1844–1927),
civil engineer , responsible for
Mersey Railway Tunnel and the
Snowdon Mountain Railway , consultant engineer for the
Simplon Tunnel , consultant engineer in the restoration of
Exeter Cathedral ,
Lincoln Cathedral ,
Peterborough Cathedral ,
St Paul's Cathedral and
Winchester Cathedral
Charles Fraser-Smith (1904–1992), missionary, farmer, creator of gadgets for
SOE during World War II and as such the model for
Q in
Ian Fleming 's
James Bond stories
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924), architect and architectural historian, Master of the
Art Workers' Guild 1896,
RA
Business
Community and philanthropy
Entertainment, media and the arts
John Castle (born 1940), actor
Dave Clarke (born c.1969), techno producer and disc jockey
Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
Peter Copley (born 1962), composer and cellist
Roland Curram (born c.1932) actor and novelist
Wilfrid de Glehn (1870–1951), impressionist painter,
RA
Simon Dee (1935–2009) (real name Cyril Henty-Dodd), radio disk jockey and television presenter, Sixties celebrity and inspiration for
Austin Powers
Rose Elinor Dougall (born 1986), musician, former member of
The Pipettes
Tim Hadcock-Mackay , TV shows presenter
[1]
Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), writer and librettist
Tony Hawks (born c.1960), comedian and author
Gavin Henderson (born c.1947), Principal of
Trinity College of Music and Chairman of
Youth Music
McDonald Hobley (1917–1987), actor, TV and radio presenter,
TV Personality of the Year 1954
Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), actor
Menhaj Huda (born 1967), film producer and director
Selwyn Image (1849–1930), designer, illustrator and poet, joint founder of the
Century Guild , Master of the
Art Workers' Guild 1900,
Slade Professor at Oxford 1910 and 1913
Graham Kerr (born 1934), author, chef and television presenter, known as "The Galloping Gourmet"
Bruce Lester (1912–2008), actor
Miles Malleson (1888–1969), actor, playwright and scriptwriter
Peter Mayle (1939–2018), writer. He has written that he loathed the school.
Tamzin Merchant (born 1987), actress
Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), writer
Ward Muir (1878–1927), photographer
David Nash (born 1945), sculptor,
RA
Laurie Penny (1986–present), journalist
Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter, art educator and President of the
Royal Academy
George Sanders (1906–1972), actor. Won
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor 1950. He said in his biography that he hated the school.
Bijan Sheibani (born 1979), award-winning theatre director
Chris Terrill (born 1952) Anthropologist, adventurer and multi award-winning documentary maker including
Royal Television Society award for Innovation for
Soho Stories (1997),
Emmy for
Ape Trade (1992)
John Warner (1924–2001), actor
John Worsley (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator of
Albert RN , President
Royal Society of Marine Artists
Vera Filatova (born 1982), Actress
Dakota Blue Richards (born 1994), Actress
Chloé Zhao (born 1982), filmmaker, won
Academy Award for Best Director 2021
Medicine and science
Military
Lieutenant-Colonel
Leonard Berney (1920–2016),
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator
Alfred Carpenter (1847–1925), naval officer, commander Marine Survey of India, piloted the Burma Field Force up the River
Irrawaddy in 1885 (awarded
DSO ),
Albert Medal (Challenger Scientific Expedition)
Air Commodore Lionel Charlton (1879–1958),
Royal Flying Corps and
Royal Air Force officer, Air Attache
Washington 1919–22, as Chief Air Staff Officer
Iraq Command in 1924 he resigned in protest at the policy of policing by bombing civilian targets, in retirement a successful author of children's fiction, wrote a series of influential books on air defence 1935–38
Brigadier-General Frank Crozier (1879–1937), commander of the British Mission to
Lithuania , 1919–20, commander of the
Black and Tans , 1920–21, military author and co-founder of the
Peace Pledge Union
Air Marshal Sir Humphrey Edwardes Jones (1905–1987), inaugural Commander-in-Chief,
RAF Germany
Colonel Sir George Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), Inspector of Gymnasia and sword designer
Admiral Sir Herbert Heath (1861–1954), Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron at
Jutland in 1916, Second Sea Lord
General Sir William Peyton (1866–1931), commanded
Western Frontier Force against the
Senussi 1916, Military Secretary to
Sir Douglas Haig 1916–18, commanded 40th Infantry Division July 1918 – March 1919 in France and Flanders, Military Secretary to
Secretary of State for War 1922–26, Commander-in-Chief
Scottish Command 1926–30
General Sir Harry Prendergast (1834–1913),
Victoria Cross ,
Indian Army soldier, commander of the Burma Field Force 1885–86
Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), army staff officer, commanded the Desert Column to relieve
Khartoum , mortally wounded at
Abu Klea
General Sir Cecil Sugden (1903–1963),
Quartermaster-General to the Forces and
Master-General of the Ordnance
Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker (1894–1967), Indian Army officer and military historian, commander
4th Indian Division , 1941–44
Politics, public service and the law
Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister, banker, politician and
Chancellor of the
University of Exeter
Sir Edmund Barnard (1856–1930), Chairman of the
Metropolitan Water Board , Chairman of
Hertfordshire County Council , Liberal MP for
Kidderminster , Cambridge polo blue
Sir Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation, Chairman
National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations ,
High Sheriff of Derbyshire
[2]
Keith Best (born 1949), lawyer and politician, Conservative MP for
Anglesey and
Ynys Mon 1979–87 (resigned and prosecuted for fraud), Director
Prisoners Abroad 1989–93, chief executive
Immigration Advisory Service , Chairman Conservative Action for Electoral Reform, Chairman of the Executive Committee
World Federalist Movement
Andrew Cayley CMG QC FRSA (born 1964), barrister specialising in international criminal law, public international law and international arbitration. Formerly Senior Prosecuting Counsel at the ICTY and ICC and the UN International Chief Co-Prosecutor of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia and currently the United Kingdom's Director of Service Prosecutions.
Sir John Chilcot (1939–2021),
Permanent Under-Secretary of State ,
Northern Ireland Office , 1990–97
Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845–1915), Indian civil servant, Chief Commissioner of
Assam , President of the
Indian National Congress and Liberal MP for
Nottingham East 1906–10
Eric Gandar Dower (1894–1987), air pioneer and Conservative MP for
Caithness and Sutherland 1945–50
William Fuller-Maitland (1844–1932), cricketer and politician, Oxford blue, played for the
MCC , the
Gentlemen ,
I Zingari and
Essex , Liberal MP for
Breconshire 1875–95
Alan Green (1911–1991), Conservative MP for
Preston South 1955–64 and 1970–74,
Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1963–64
Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926),
Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy ,
University of Oxford and legal historian
Francis Hughes-Hallett (1838–1903), soldier and politician, Colonel
Royal Artillery , Conservative MP for
Rochester 1885–89 (resigned in a sex scandal)
Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke (1854–1944), barrister and politician, MP
Devonport (Conservative) 1910–23 and
Cardiff East (Unionist) 1924–29, created baronet
Augustus Margary (1846–1875), Chinese Consular Service officer and explorer in China
Sir Hubert Murray (1861–1940), Lieutenant-Governor of
Papua New Guinea
Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), Conservative MP for
Guildford 1874–85, played cricket for
Cambridge University , Sussex and the
MCC
Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), Liberal Unionist and then Unionist MP for
Darlington ,
Assistant Postmaster-General , Privy Councillor and Ecclesiastical Commissioner
Charles Campbell Ross (1849–1920), banker and politician, Conservative MP for
St Ives 1881–85
Sir Walter Shaw (1863–1937), judge,
Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements
[3]
Arthur Wellesley Soames (1852–1934), Liberal MP for
South Norfolk 1898–1918, son of the Brighton College founder William Aldwin Soames
George Hampden Whalley (1851–1917), Liberal MP for
Peterborough 1880–83 resigned and declared bankrupt, imprisoned for theft, emigrated to Australia, and vanished
Religion
Timothy Bavin (born 1935), Anglican priest and Benedictine monk, Bishop of
Johannesburg and then
Portsmouth
John Neville Figgis (1866–1919), Anglican priest, member of the
Community of the Resurrection , church historian, theologian and political theorist
Cecil Horsley (1906–1953), Anglican priest, Bishop of
Colombo 1938–47 and then
Gibraltar 1947–53
Wilfrid John Hudson (1904–1981), Anglican priest, Bishop of
Carpentaria 1950–60 and then coadjutor Bishop of
Brisbane 1960–73
Frederick Meyer (1847–1929), Baptist minister and evangelist, social reformer, President of the
Baptist Union , dubbed "archbishop of the free churches"
Arthur Stretton Reeve (1907–1981), Cambridge rowing blue (1930) and Anglican priest, Bishop of
Lichfield 1953–74
Sport
Gordon Belcher (1885–1915), cricketer (son of
Thomas Belcher , headmaster of the college)
Tom Campbell Black (1899–1936), aviator, joint winner
London-Melbourne Centenary Air Race 1934, awarded
Britannia Trophy 1934
William Churchill (1840–1907), cricketer
Holly Colvin (born 1989), England
cricketer
[4]
Maurice Conde-Williams (1885–1967), naval officer and cricketer, played for the Royal Navy and
Devon
George Huth Cotterill (1868–1950),
England footballer,
Corinthian 1886–98, Cambridge football blue 1888–91, played cricket for Sussex 1886–90
Clare Connor (born 1976), England
cricket captain
[4]
John Cressy-Hall (1843–1894), cricketer
Freya Davies (born 1995), England cricketer
[4]
Robert Dewing (1863–1934), cricketer
Harry Freeman (1887–1926), cricketer
Joe Gatting (born 1987), former footballer for
Brighton and Hove Albion , current cricketer for
Sussex
Leslie Gay (1871–1949),
England footballer,
England cricketer 1894–95, Cambridge blue,
Hampshire and
Somerset
Leslie Godfree (?–?), tennis player, won Men's Doubles at Wimbledon 1923 and Mixed Doubles 1926 (finalist 1924 and 1927)
Chris Grammer (born 1984), cricketer
Sam Grant (born 1995), cricketer
Duncan Hamilton (1920–1994), racing driver
John Hart (born 1982),
Wasps
rugby union player
Geoffrey Hett , (1909–88), fencer, Captain
Cambridge University Fencing 1930, British Foil Team
1936 Olympics , author of a standard work on Fencing
Carl Hopkinson (born 1981),
cricketer
Bazid Khan (born 1981), Pakistan
cricketer
[5]
Alex King (born 1975),
England and
Wasps
rugby union player
Richard Kirwan (1829–1872), cricketer
'Hopper' Levett (1908–1995), England,
Kent and
MCC cricketer (wicket-keeper)
Gordon Lyon (1905–1932), cricketer
Matt Machan (born 1991), Sussex cricketer
[6]
Laura Marsh (born 1986), England cricketer
[4]
Ralph Oliphant-Callum (born 1971), played first-class cricket for
Oxford University
Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), played cricket for
Cambridge University , Sussex and
MCC , Conservative MP for
Guildford 1874–85
Jonathan Palmer (born 1956), racing driver
Ollie Phillips (born 1982),
England and
Newcastle Falcons
rugby union player
Matt Prior (born 1982),
[7] England
cricketer
[8]
Malcolm Waller (born 1984)
Zimbabwe Cricket player
George Colin Ratsey (1906–1984), sailmaker and sailor, silver medal 2-man Star class
1932 Olympics ,
Prince of Wales Cup winner (14 ft dinghies) 1939,
Prince Philip Cup winner (Dragon class) 1959, in the crew for two British attempts at the
America's Cup 1934 and 1958
Major Ritchie (1870–1955), tennis player, gold medal men's singles
1906 Olympics , silver medal men's doubles
1906 Olympics , bronze medal men's indoor singles
1906 Olympics ,
Wimbledon doubles champion 1906 and 1910, Irish singles champion 1907, German singles champion 1903–06 and 1910, British
Davis Cup team 1910
Henry Soames (1843–1913)
Hampshire cricketer, son of the Brighton College founder
William Aldwin Soames
Kelvin Tatum (born 1964), British
speedway captain
Sarah Taylor (born 1989), England
cricketer
[4]
Claude Wilson (1858–1881),
England footballer
Sammy Woods (1867–1931),
Somerset cricketer, played cricket for both Australia and England; and England rugby player and captain
Jordan Turner-Hall (born 1988),
England and
Harlequins
rugby union player
Harry Leonard (born 1992),
Scotland and
Rosslyn Park professional
rugby union player
Ollie Richards (born 1992),
England
rugby union player
Ross Chisholm (born 1990),
Harlequins professional
rugby union player
James Chisholm (born 1995),
Harlequins professional
rugby union player
Todd Gleave (born 1995),
Gloucester Rugby professional
rugby union player
Charles Ward (1838–1892), cricketer
Calum Waters (born 1996),
Harlequins professional
rugby union player
Marcus Smith (born 1999),
Harlequins professional
rugby union player
Leonard Stileman-Gibbard (1856–1939), cricketer
Notable Brighton College staff
Grant Allen (1848–1899), novelist, author of
The Woman Who Did (1896)
Thomas Belcher (1847–1919), cricketer and headmaster of Brighton College 1881–92
Rt Rev.
Christopher Butler (1902–1986),
Benedictine monk , Abbot of
Downside Abbey 1946–66, Council Father at the
Second Vatican Council , Auxiliary Bishop of
Westminster
Bertie Corbett (1875–1967), played association football for
Oxford , the
Corinthians and England, played
hockey for England, played
cricket for
Buckinghamshire and
Derbyshire
Rt Rev.
Henry Cotterill , Vice-Principal of
Brighton College 1846–51, Principal of Brighton College 1851–56,
Bishop of Grahamston , South Africa 1856–71, Coadjutor
Bishop of Edinburgh 1871–72,
Bishop of Edinburgh 1872–86
Rodney Fox , Headmaster of
King Edward's School, Witley , Chairman of the Governors of
Ryde School , Isle of Wight
Jack Hindmarsh (1927–2009), Professor at
Trinity College of Music
Frank Harris (c. 1856–1931), notorious author, traveller, intriguer and fantasist
Walter Ledermann , Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Sussex 1965–78
Professor
George Long (1800–1879), classical scholar, inaugural Professor of Ancient Languages at the
University of Virginia , inaugural Professor of Greek at
University College London , Professor of Latin at
University College London , co-founder and Honorary Secretary of the
Royal Geographical Society
Frederick Madden (1839–1904), numismatist, Secretary and Bursar of Brighton College 1874–88. Chief Librarian, Brighton Public Library 1888–1902
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