List of Old Ardinians

Typical Old Ardinian blazer in school colours. These garments may be worn by men who attended the school

The following is a list of some notable Old Ardinians, being former pupils of Ardingly College in the United Kingdom.

Politics[]

Conservative MP Sir Robert Tasker

• Sir Andrew Bowden MBE - Member of Parliament (Conservative)^[1]
• Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet - Member of Parliament (Conservative)^[2]
• Jack Easter - Member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales
• Sir John Gorst - Member of Parliament (Conservative)^[3]
• Sir Joseph Simpson KBE - Cabinet Minister in Uganda
• Sir Robert Tasker - Member of Parliament (Conservative)^[4]

Diplomacy[]

Former UK Ambassador the United States Sir David Manning

• Robert Alston CMG QSO DL - UK High Commissioner to New Zealand and UK Ambassador to Oman
• Chris Gunness - UNRWA chief spokesperson
• Sir Claude Hayes KCMG - civil servant for overseas territories
• Sir Edward Jackson KCMG - UK Ambassador to Belgium and UK Ambassador to Cuba
• Ian Mackley CMG, CVO - UK High Commissioner to Ghana and UK Chargé d'Affaires to Afghanistan
• Sir David Manning GCMG, KCVO - UK Ambassador the United States and UK Ambassador to Israel
• Sir Robin McLaren KCMG - UK Ambassador to China and UK Ambassador to the Philippines
• Sir Andrew Wood GCMG - UK Ambassador to Russia and UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia

Sciences[]

• Harold Comber - botanist
• Mike Pitts - archaeologist
• John Paul Wild CBE, FRS - radio astronomer

Academia[]

• Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the United Nations University
• Frank Cowell - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
• Robert Foley - Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge
• Patrick Hanks - lexicographer

Arts[]

Actor Terry-Thomas

Stage and Screen

• Dick Allen - film editor
• Charles Bryant - actor and film director
• Josh Dylan - (actor)
• Creighton Hale - actor
• Alan Howard CBE - actor
• Mark Letheren - actor
• Ed Sanders - actor
• Terry-Thomas - actor
• Frank Williams - actor

Writers

Author and screenwriter Neil Gaiman

• Nicholas Fisk - children's author
• Neil Gaiman - author and screenwriter
• Thomas Meech - author and journalist
• Ed Whitmore - screenwriter

Music

• Alex Cartana - singer
• Mike Christie - singer
• Julian Clifford - conductor
• James Lancelot - organist
• Stephen Oliver - composer
• Victor Silvester OBE - composer and band leader
• Ed Welch - composer

Visual Arts

• George Belcher - artist
• John Hayes CBE - director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974–1994)

Media[]

Satirist Ian Hislop

• Sir Bill Cotton CBE - controller of BBC One (1977–1981)
• Colin Griffiths - broadcaster
• Ian Hislop - editor of Private Eye and panelist on Have I Got News For You
• Nick Newman - cartoonist and scriptwriter
• Ed Petrie - children's television presenter
• Paul Reynolds - BBC News correspondent
• Jay Wynne - BBC weather forecaster

Sport[]

England footballer and Sussex cricketer George Brann

Motor Sports

• Max Chilton - Formula One, WEC, and IndyCar racing driver
• Clifford Earp - racing driver
• Mike Hawthorn - Formula One racing driver and World Champion (1958)

Football

• George Brann - England footballer and Sussex cricketer
• Donald Coles - footballer
• Adam Virgo - footballer

Cricket

• Walter Bettesworth - Scotland and Sussex cricketer
• William Blackman - Sussex cricketer
• Ben Brown - Sussex cricketer
• Alex Gregory - South Australia cricketer
• Arthur Kneller - Hampshire cricketer
• Billy Newham - England and Sussex cricketer
• Toby Peirce - Sussex cricketer
• Paul Phillipson - Sussex cricketer
• Abidine Sakande - Sussex and Leicestershire cricketer
• Valentine Sewell - Dorset cricketer
• Thomas Symington - Rhodesia cricketer

Industry and Commerce[]

Founder of Crufts dog show Charles Cruft

• Sydney Allard - founder of Allard Motor Company
• Charles Cruft - founder of Crufts dog show
• Sir Charles Fairey MBE - founder of Fairey Aviation Company
• Sir Richard Morris CBE - industrialist

Military[]

• Lieutenant Commander Peter Piper DSO, DSC - submarine commander
• Lieutenant Colonel George Starr DSO, MC - Special Operations Executive agent and leader
• Major General Robert Whittaker CB, CBE - Anti Aircraft divisional commander

Ecclesiastical[]

• Walter Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon
• George Browning, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
• Dennis Ede, Archdeacon of Stoke
• Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
• Andrew Norman, Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Other[]

• John Hooper - President of the British Orthodontic Society

References[]

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