List of Old Bedford Modernians

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The Harpur Window, Bedford Modern School. They Shall Mount Up With Wings As Eagles

The following is a list of some notable Old Bedford Modernians who are former pupils of Bedford Modern School in Bedford, England. At the school, alumni are known as OBMs.[1] The Old Bedford Modernians' Club was founded in 1892.[1]

Academia[]

Sir William Tilden FRS
Prof. John Holland Rose FBA
Sir Peter Knight FRS
Dr. Peter Wothers MBE
  • Sir William Augustus Tilden FRS (1842–1926), Chemist & Dean, Royal College of Science, London[2]
  • Professor Joseph Reynolds Green FRS (1848–1914), Professor of Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain[3][4]
  • Professor William Hillhouse FLS (1850–1910), first Professor of Botany at the University of Birmingham[2]
  • Edward Mann Langley (1851–1933), founded the Mathematical Gazette, created Langley's Adventitious Angles[2]
  • William Robert Bousfield FRS (1854–1943), chemist[2]
  • Professor John Holland Rose FBA (1855–1942), Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge[2]
  • George Charles Crick FGS FRGS FZS (1856–1917), geologist, authority on Cephalopoda, 1st Assistant at the Natural History Museum[5]
  • Arthur John Pressland FRSE (1865 –1934), educational theorist, linguist, schoolmaster and writer[6]
  • George James Gibbs FRAS (1866–1947), astronomer, engineer, inventor and public science lecturer[7]
  • Professor Richard John Durley MBE (1868–1948), Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University (1901–12)[8]
  • Edward Augustine Lowe Laxton MBE (1869–1951), expert on fruit production (Laxton's Superb)[2]
  • Professor Henry Payne FRAeS M.Inst.C.E. (1871–1945), Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne[9]
  • Jannion Steele Elliott (1871–1942), ornithologist[10]
  • Dr Eric Temple Bell (1883–1960), mathematician who specialised in number theory and formulated the Bell series[11]
  • Sir Charles Oatley OBE FRS FREng (1904–1996), pioneered the development of the scanning electron microscope[12]
  • Dr. G. C. Dunning D.Lit FSA (1905–1978), pioneering medieval archaeologist, authority on Anglo-Saxon and medieval ceramics[13][14]
  • Professor William Francis Grimes CBE (1905–1988), Professor of Archaeology, University of London (1956–1973)[2]
  • Reverend Francis MacCarthy Willis Bund (1906–1980), Chaplain, Dean and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford[15]
  • Dr D. C. Riddy CBE (1907–1979), Controller-General of the Education Branch, Control Commission for German – British Element[2]
  • F. G. Emmison MBE FSA FRHistS (1907–1995), archivist, author and historian[2][16]
  • Professor John Roach (1920 – 2015), historian[17]
  • Professor Ramsay Shearman DSc FReng FIET FRMetS FIEEE (1924-2019), pioneer in shortwave radio and radar[18]
  • Professor Brian Glüss FRSS (1930–2013), statistician, mathematician, systems engineer, author and expert on survivor guilt[19]
  • Professor John Richard Anthony Pearson FRS FIMMM MIChemE (born 1930), pioneer in fluid mechanics[20]
  • Professor David John Bartholomew FBA (1931-2017), Professor of Statistics at the LSE (1973–96)[21]
  • Professor Philip Bean (born 1936), Professor of Criminology at Loughborough University, former President of the British Soc. of Criminology[20]
  • Professor George Richard Pickett FRS (born 1939), Professor of Low Temperature Physics at Lancaster University[21]
  • Professor Sid Gray PhD FASSA FCCA (born 1942), Professor at the University of Sydney Business School[22]
  • Professor Richard Hugh Britnell FBA (1944–2013), Professor of History at Durham University[20][23]
  • Sir Peter Knight FRS (born 1947), Professor of quantum optics at Imperial College London[24]
  • Professor Stephen Wildman (born 1951), Professor of the History of Art at Lancaster University[21]
  • Dr. Roger Geoffrey Clarke (1952–2007), ornithologist, world authority on harriers and other birds of prey[25]
  • Professor Barry H.V. Topping MBCS MICE MIStructE MIMechE FIMA (born 1952), authority and author on computational mechanics[26]
  • Professor John Clibbens FRSocMed (born 1953), Professor of Developmental Psychology at Birmingham City University[27]
  • Professor Stephen Taylor (born 1953), Professor of Finance at Lancaster University[21]
  • Professor Richard Charles Murray Janko (born 1955), Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan[21]
  • Professor Brian Derby FIMMM (born 1956), Professor of Materials science at Manchester University[21]
  • Professor Gavin D'Costa (born 1958), Professor in Catholic Theology at the University of Bristol[28]
  • Professor Nick Groom FRSA (born 1966), Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau and author[21]
  • Professor Tony Claydon (born 1967), Professor of Early Modern History at Bangor University, Wales[citation needed]
  • Dr Peter David Wothers MBE FRSC (born 1969), chemist and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge[20]
  • Professor Ben McFarlane (born 1976), Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford[29]

Actors, directors and entertainers[]

John Sessions
Jeremy Irvine
  • E. E. Blake (1879–1961), pioneering exhibitor of motion pictures and owner of cinemas[30][31]
  • Harrish Ingraham (1881–?), Hollywood film director, writer and actor in the era of silent movies[32]
  • Gillie Potter (1887–1975), comedian and broadcaster[33][34]
  • Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), playwright and screenwriter in Hollywood (Cavalcade, The World Moves On)[20]
  • Robert Luff CBE (1914–2009), theatrical agent and producer (The Black and White Minstrel Show)[35]
  • Derek Scott (1921–2006), double act (with Terry-Thomas and Tony Hancock) and music director (The Muppet Show)[36]
  • David Tringham (born 1935), assistant film director (Lawrence of Arabia, Highlander, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)[37]
  • Hugh Armstrong (1944-2016), actor (How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Death Line)[38]
  • David Firth (born 1945), actor (Casualty, Midsomer Murders), screenwriter (Home James!), singer (original cast of Phantom of the Opera)[39]
  • John Sessions (1953–2020), actor (Gangs of New York, The Iron Lady, Filth), comedian and broadcaster (QI)[21][40]
  • Julian Hector (born 1960), Head of the BBC Natural History Unit[41]
  • Saul Nassé (born 1965), producer for the BBC (Tomorrow's World), CEO at Cambridge English Language Assessment[42][43]
  • Russell Barnes (born 1968), television producer (The Enemies of Reason, The Genius of Charles Darwin)[21]
  • David Jubb (born 1970), theatre director and chief executive of the Battersea Arts Centre[44][45]
  • Russell Howard (born 1980), comedian and presenter (Russell Howard's Good News)[46][47][48]
  • Leon Parris (born 1981), writer, composer, musician and actor (Wolfboy)[49]
  • Jeremy Irvine (born 1990), UK and Hollywood actor (War Horse, Now Is Good, Great Expectations, The Railway Man)[50]
  • Sope Dirisu (born 1991), stage, television and film actor[51]
  • Suhani Gandhi (born 1994), model and actress[52]

Adventurers, aviators, exiles and prisoners of war[]

Capt. Percy Farrar DSO FGS
  • John Percy Farrar DSO FGS (1857–1929), mountaineer, President of the Alpine Club, Member of the Mount Everest Committee[53][54]
  • Sir Reginald Wolseley, 10th Baronet (1872–1933), dubbed the elevator baronet[55]
  • Captain and Bimbashi Henry Haymes SBStJ MRCS LRCP (1872–1904), surgeon, an original explorer of the Bahr-el-Ghazal[56]
  • George E.M. Kelly (1878–1911), early aviator in the Aeronautical Division, US Signal Corps[2]
  • Captain Aeneas Lionel Acton Mackintosh (1879–1916), Antarctic explorer, commander of the Ross Sea party expedition[2]
  • W.A.B. Goodall (1880–1941), castaway, described as 'the ruler of the world's tiniest kingdom': Pulau Sarimbun, Straits of Johore[57]
  • Duncan Mackintosh, 31st Chattan (1884–1966), 31st Chief of Clan Chattan (1942–66)[58]
  • Wilfrid Thomas Reid FRAeS (1887–1968), aircraft designer and pioneer of the Canadian aircraft industry[21]
  • P.C.B. Newington (1888–1964), author of a cookbook celebrating Malaysian food, conceived while starving as a prisoner of war[59]
  • Frederick Williamson CIE (1891–1935), explorer, founder member of the Himalayan Club[2]
  • Captain Richard 'Dick' Howe MBE MC (1916–1981), Escape Officer at Colditz Castle during World War II (1942–1945)[60][61]
  • Desmond 'Dizzy' de Villiers AFC (1922–1976), chief test pilot at de Havilland and English Electric[21]

Architecture, art and design[]

Josiah Conder, statue at the University of Tokyo
  • Josiah Conder (1852–1920), architect who designed the Rokumeikan and other public buildings in Tokyo[2]
  • Henry John Sylvester Stannard RBA FRSA (1870–1951), watercolour artist[2]
  • Sydney Morgan Eveleigh (1870-1947), architect in Vancouver[62]
  • Major Hugh Patrick Guarin Maule DSO MC FRIBA (1873–1940), architect (Royal Veterinary College in London)[63]
  • George Loraine Stampa (1875–1951), artist, contributor to Punch and other illustrated papers and magazines[2][64]
  • Walter Stonebridge FRIBA (1879–1962), Diocesan Architect for Ely, St Albans and Bedford[65]
  • Algernon Winter Rose MC (1885–1918), architect[2][66]
  • Kenneth Alexander (1887–1975), Hollywood photographer for United Artists and 21st Century Fox[67]
  • Robert Tor Russell CIE DSO (1888–1972), Chief Architect to the Government of India[68]
  • Thomas Francis Ford FRIBA (1891–1971), Diocesan Architect for Southwark and a translator of the New Testament[69]
  • Alexander Girard (1907–1993), textile designer and interior architect[70]
  • Victor Farrar RIBA PPFAS FRSA (1930–2007), architect[71]
  • Dennis Sharp (1933–2010), architect, professor, curator, historian, author and editor[72]
  • Steve Gibbons (born 1956), graphic designer[73]
  • Alex Chinneck (born 1984), sculptor and installation artist[74]

Armed forces[]

Major George Wheeler VC
H.D. Harvey-Kelly DSO
Lt-Col. James Knox DSO*
Capt. Wynn Bagnall MC, statue at Winnipeg, Canada
Sir Edwin Horlick KBE

Air Force[]

Army[]

  • Major-General Francis John Fowler CB DSO (1864–1939) Commander of the Derajat Brigade (1914–16)[85]
  • Major-General Charles Astley Fowler CB CSI DSO (1865–1940), Brigade Commander at the Battle of Loos, 1915[86]
  • Brigadier-General Sir Arthur Long KBE CB CMG DSO (1866–1941), Director of Transport and Supplies, Macedonia and The Black Sea[63]
  • Colonel Reginald Ruston CB (1867–1963), commander of the Mounted infantry of the Devon Regiment (1891–1903)[63]
  • Major R.T. Anwyl-Passingham OBE DL JP (1867–1926), Commander of the 72nd Punjabis, High Sheriff of Merionethshire[87][88]
  • Lieutenant-General Gerald Robert Poole CB CMG DSO (1868–1937), Commandant of the Royal Marine Artillery[89]
  • Lt.-Col. Charles Forbes Buchan CBE OStJ (1869-1954), Deputy Assistant Director at the War Office during WW1[90][91]
  • Colonel Ernest Clive Atkins CB TD DL JP (1870–1953), Commander of the 2/5th Leicestershire Regiment, High Sheriff of Leicestershire[21][92]
  • Lt.-Col. Robert Haymes DSO (1870–1942), first to establish an OP at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle[63]
  • Lt.-Col. C. A. Keatinge Johnson (1870–1937), senior officer in the First Australian Imperial Force[78][93][94]
  • Major-General Herbert William Jackson CB CSI DSO (1872–1940), Officer of the British Indian Army[95]
  • Major George Godfrey Massy Wheeler VC (1873–1915), was a recipient of the Victoria Cross[96]
  • Lt.-Col. Arthur Charles Rothery Nutt DSO (1873–1946), inventor of the artillery miniature range[63]
  • Lt.-Col. R. E. Power DSO (1874–1956), Commander of the 1st and 2nd Battalion of the Buffs[97]
  • Major-General Charles Howard Foulkes CB CMG DSO (1875–1969), Britain's chief adviser on gas warfare[63]
  • Brigadier-General Herbert Cecil Potter CB CMG DSO (1875–1964)[63]
  • Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood (1876–1899), first Canadian born Officer to die in the Second Boer War[98][99]
  • Colonel Charles Temple Morris CBE (1876–1956), Commander of the 5th Battalion of the 1st Punjab Regiment between 1921 and 1926[100]
  • Lt.-Col. James Knox DSO&bar (1878–1918), Battalion Commander, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1915–18[101][102]
  • Brigadier-General Herbert Dobbin CBE DSO (1878–1946), Colonel-Commandant, Iraq Levies, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry[103]
  • Brigadier-General Arthur Turner CB CMG DSO (1878–1952), Cricketer, rugby union player and soldier[104]
  • Colonel Wilfrid Stanley Richmond CMG MICE (1881–1962), Deputy Director of Roads in the BEF during World War I[105][106]
  • Lt.-Col. Henry Cecil Prescott CMG CIE (1882–1960), Inspector of Police in Iraq[63][107]
  • Colonel Guy Sutton Bocquet CIE VD FRSA (1882–1961), ADC to the Viceroy of India[108][109]
  • Lt.-Col. Archibald Alderman Chase DSO (1884–1917), Commander of the 8th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment[110][111]
  • Brigadier Harold Evelyn William Bell Kingsley CIE DSO (1885–1970), Aide-de-Camp to King George VI[63]
  • Lt.-Col. Charles HGH Harvey-Kelly DSO (1885–1982), Military Attache in Kabul (1924-6)[2]
  • Lieutenant-General Reginald Dawson Hopcraft Lough DSO OBE (1886–1958), Aide-de-camp to King George VI[2]
  • Lt.-Col. A.E.F. Fawcus DSO MC TD (1886–1936), Commander, 1/5th North Staffordshire Regiment, 1/5th Sherwood Foresters[63][112][113]
  • Lt.-Col. W. F. Jackson OBE MC&Bar TD (1886–1964), Signals Liaison Officer to the US Army HQ in the UK during World War II[114]
  • Major George Croxton Walker OBE MC TD (1888–1936)[115][116]
  • Major Edward Crozier Creasy (1888–1936), senior liaison Officer during the Upper Silesia Plebiscite (1920–21)[117][118]
  • Captain Wynn Bagnall MC (1890–1931), Canadian Field Artillery, model for a statue by James Fraser in Winnipeg, Manitoba[119]
  • Lt.-Col. Melville Ten Broeke MC&bar (1891–1963), commander of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment[120]
  • Major-General L.A. Hawes CBE DSO MC DL (1892–1986), Commanded the transport to France of the BEF during World War I[63]
  • Brigadier W.C.V. Galwey OBE MC&bar (1897–1977), Senior Officer who served in World War I and World War II[121]
  • Col. F. H. Willasey Wilsey MC (1898–1971), Senior Liaison Officer to the Afghan delegation during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II[122]
  • Brigadier Ernest Dynes CBE (1903–1968), Aide-de-camp to HM Queen Elizabeth II (1955–57)[63]
  • Brigadier Thomas Henry Scott Galletly DSO&bar MC (1905–1972), Commander of the 1st Brigade, Arab League[21]
  • Major Colin Leo Bliss (1907–1944), pioneer of operational parachuting[123][124]
  • Major-General Reginald Booth Stockdale CB CMG OBE (1908–1979) Colonel Commandant, REME[2]
  • Lt.-Col. Edward Peter Fletcher Boughey OBE (1911–1986), Special Operations Executive[125]
  • Major-General Keith Burch CB CBE (1931–2013)[63]

Navy[]

  • Commander Willoughby Huddleston CMG (1866–1953), ADC to Lord Pentland, Governor of Madras (1912–19)[20][126]
  • Captain Thomas Oloff de Wet CBE (1869–1940), Principal Naval Transport Officer during the evacuation of Constantinople in 1923[127]
  • Rear Admiral Alfred Ransom CBE (1871–1953), senior officer in the Royal Navy[128]
  • Sir Ernest Whiteside Huddleston CIE CBE RIN (1874–1959), Aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India[2]
  • Captain Francis Walter Despard Twigg OBE (1883-1951), senior officer in the Royal Navy[129]
  • Commander Herbert Newton OBE DL (1900–1973), Royal Navy Commander and Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire[21]
  • Rear-Admiral Jack Kenneth Highton CB CBE (1904–1988), Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II[63]
  • Captain Frederick Stovin-Bradford CBE DSC&Bar (1919–1974), Royal Navy Commander (Fleet Air Arm)[2]
  • Vice-Admiral Sir Ted Horlick KBE (born 1925), Director General of British Ships (1979–83), Chief Naval Engineer Officer (1981–83)[21]

Industry and commerce[]

John Howard
Hon. Arthur Carter
Sir George Farrar Bt
  • John Howard (1791–1878), industrialist, inventor of agricultural equipment and four times Mayor of Bedford[130]
  • James Howard (1821–1889), industrialist and inventor of agricultural equipment. MP for Bedford[130]
  • Sir Frederick Howard JP DL (1828–1915), industrialist[130]
  • Captain Charles Wells (1842–1914), founder of Charles Wells Ltd, progenitor of the Wells baronets of Felmersham[131]
  • Hon. Arthur Carter (1847–1917), businessman, Australian Consul to Norway, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council[132][133]
  • Sir George Farrar, 1st Baronet (1859–1915), mining magnate, politician and soldier[134][135]
  • Lt. Col. Henry Batten Huddleston OBE VD (1864–1944), Chief Agent and later a Director of the Burma Railways[136]
  • Hon. Walter Nutt OBE (1874–1940), managing director of The Straits Trading Company (1918–21)[137]
  • Sir Noel Mobbs KCVO OBE (1878–1959), founder of Slough Estates and High sheriff of Buckinghamshire[63]
  • E. E. Blake (1879–1961), Chairman of Kodak UK[31]
  • E. E. Cammack AIA FAIA FCAS (1881–1958), prominent actuary in the USA[138]
  • William Pickwoad OBE FRSA (1886–1975), prominent in South America's railway industry. Founding director of the Central Bank of Bolivia[2]
  • W. T. Godber CBE (1904–1981), authority on agriculture and agricultural engineering[21][139]
  • Sir Henry Cecil Johnson KBE (1906–1988), chairman of the British Railways Board (1968–71)[63]
  • Alastair George MacKenzie CBE MC (1915–1989), prominent figure in South East Asian insurance during the 1960s and 1970s[140]
  • Francis Coulson MBE (1919–1998), chef and hotelier[141]
  • Edward Roy Kent CBE (1920–2009), estate owner and agriculturalist in the Caribbean[2]
  • Lt.-Col. Ray Daniels MC (1923–2003), Chief Executive of the William Press Group[142]
  • Max Wideman (born 1927), expert in project management[143]
  • Sir Anthony Hartwell, 6th Baronet (born 1940), Master mariner and Marine surveyor[144]
  • John Quenby (born 1941), Chief Executive of the RAC Motor Sports Association (1990–2001)[145]
  • Andrew Stuart Winckler (1949–2007), Chief Executive of the Financial Services Authority (1996–98)[63]
  • Adrian Penfold OBE MRTPI FRSA (born 1952), Head of Planning at British Land, adviser to the UK Government[146]
  • Graham Clive Watts OBE MCMI FRSA FRIBA (born 1956), Chief Executive of the Construction Industry Council[20]
  • Richard Bradbury CBE (born 1956), Chief Executive of River Island (2008–11), director of Boden (2012–)[20]
  • Steve Melton (born 1962), Chief Executive of Circle Health Ltd[147]
  • Nick Blofeld (born 1964), managing director of Epsom Downs Racecourse (2007–09), Chief Executive of Bath Rugby (2009–14)[21]
  • Marcus Weldon (born 1968), 13th President of Bell Labs
  • Johnny Luk MRSA (born 1991), entrepreneur and Conservative Party candidate[148]

Journalism[]

  • William Fairbridge JP (1863–1943), founder of the Rhodesia Herald and the Bulawayo Chronicle, first mayor of Salisbury[149]
  • Leonard Dudeney (1875–1956), newspaper editor (North China Daily News) and parliamentary correspondent (Daily Express and Daily Sketch)[150][151]
  • Albert Powtrill Ager (1876–1956), editor, manager and publisher of The Straits Times[152]
  • Lindsay Bashford OBE (1881–1921), Literary Editor of the Daily Mail[153]
  • George Matthews (1917–2005), leading communist and editor of the Daily Worker/Morning Star from 1959–1974[63]
  • Eric Litchfield (1920–1982), sports editor of The Rand Daily Mail (1956–1970), the Cape Times (1970–82) and author[21]
  • Jon Akass (1933–1990), Fleet Street columnist[154][155]
  • Sir Nicholas Lloyd (born 1942), newspaper editor, News of the World (1984) and the Daily Express (1986–95)[20]
  • Michael Toner (born 1944), leader writer at the Sunday Express and Daily Mail. Author and novelist[21]
  • Christopher Wilson (born 1947), journalist and Royal biographer[21]
  • Nicholas Shaxson (born 1966), author, journalist and associate fellow of Chatham House[156]
  • Ben Anderson (born 1975), television reporter and writer (Holidays in the Axis of Evil)[21]

Law[]

Sir William Tudball

Literature[]

William Hale White
  • William Hale White (1831–1913), author known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford[159]
  • Neil Wynn Williams (1864–1940), novelist, writer and contributor of short stories and articles to periodicals and journals[160]
  • George Moreby Acklom (1870–1959), writer, literary editor of E.P. Dutton, father of the Hollywood actor David Manners[161][162]
  • Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), author of Augustus Carp, Esq. and several other satirical novels[63]
  • Eric Temple Bell, (1883–1960), science fiction author (as John Taine)[163]
  • David Scott Daniell (1906–1965), author, playwright and regimental historian[164]
  • Christopher Fry (1907–2005), poet and playwright. Awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1962[165]
  • Gordon Thomas (1933–2017), investigative journalist and author (Gideon's Spies, The Pope's Jews)[166]
  • John Andrews (born 1936), author and antiques writer[167]
  • David Morse (born 1938), author on Motown, Romanticism and the Victorian era[21]
  • Russell Ash (1946–2010), author (The Top 10 of Everything)[168]
  • S.I. Martin (born 1961), author, historian and journalist specialising in Black British history and literature[169][170]
  • Stephen May (born 1964), novelist, playwright and TV writer[171]
  • Toby Litt (born 1968), author (Beatniks, Corpsing, Finding Myself)[21]

Medicine[]

George Cleghorn
Walter Jessop FRCS
  • George Cleghorn (1850–1902), President of the New Zealand Medical Association[172]
  • Walter Jessop FRCS (1853–1917), Ophthalmic Surgeon at St Bartholomew's, President of the UK Ophthalmological Society[173][174]
  • Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow CB CMG OBE DSO (1856–1957), Honorary Surgeon to King George V[175]
  • Major-General George Francis Angelo Harris CSI FRCP (1856–1931), Professor at the Calcutta Medical School[176][177]
  • Rickard William Lloyd MRCS LRCPEd (1859–1933), Consulting Anaesthetist and author[178]
  • Charles Hubert Roberts FRCS FRCP (1865–1929), Obstetrician and Gynaecologist[179][180]
  • Claud Alley Worth FRCS (1869–1936), ophthalmologist, inventor of the Worth 4 dot test and Worth's Ambyloscope, world authority on squint[21]
  • Frank Atcherley Rose FRCS (1873–1935), surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital (1928–31)[181]
  • Thomas Shephard Novis FRCS (1874–1962), Professor of Surgery at Grant Medical College, Bombay[182]
  • Major-General Harold Rothery Nutt FRCS (1876–1953), Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy of India and King George V[183]
  • Cyril Arthur Bennett Horsford FRCS (1876–1953), Laryngologist to the Royal College of Music[184][185]
  • John Wycliffe Linnell FRCP MC (1878–1967), Consulting Physician[186][187]
  • Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), Honorary Physician to King George VI[188]
  • Sir Adolphe Abrahams OBE (1883–1967), Olympic Medical Officer from 1912[189]
  • HLD Kirkham (1887–1949), first Professor of Plastic Surgery at Baylor University, Texas, recipient of the US Legion of Merit[190]
  • Frank Cook FRCS FRCOG (1888–1972), Beit Fellow, obstetric and gynaecological surgeon[191][192]
  • Basil Laver MS FRCS (1894–1934), surgeon[193][194]
  • Arkyl Staveley Gough OBE OStJ FRCS (1900–1990), surgeon[195]
  • Professor Anthony Andreasen FRSE FRCSE FICS (1906–1986), surgeon to the Viceroy of India[2][196]
  • Sir George Edward Godber, GCB (1908–2009), Chief Medical Officer for HM Government in England (1960–73)[197]
  • William Edward Lancaster CBE AM (1909–2003), Chief Executive of the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia[2]
  • Professor Joseph Graeme Humble CVO FRCP (1913–1980), Professor of Haematology at Westminster Hospital[198][199]
  • Professor Michael Tynan MD FRCP (born 1934), Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at Guy's Hospital (1982–99)[200]
  • Dr Vaughan Southgate DL FRSM FLS FSB (born 1944), medical parasitologist[201]
  • Dr Harry Brünjes FRSM (born 1954), Chairman of Premier Medical Group[20]
  • Professor Mark Woodhead FRCP FERS (born 1954), world authority on lung infection and pneumonia[202]
  • Dr Ian Martin Wylie FRSM (born 1955), Chief Executive of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists[203]
  • Michael Trudgill FAsMA FRAeS (born 1966), Chief Medical Officer at the UK Civil Aviation Authority[204][205]

Music[]

Max Richter
  • Roland Bocquet (1878–1956), composer, Professor of Music Theory at Dresden Conservatory[21][206]
  • Richard Capell OBE (1885–1954), music critic for the Daily Mail (1911–33) and the Daily Telegraph (1933–54)[207][208]
  • Cyril Gell ARCO LRAM FGSM (1909-1994), musician, conductor of the BBC Singers and former Professor at the Guildhall School of Music[209]
  • Derek Scott (1921–2006), composer and music director for film and television (The Muppet Show)[210]
  • Gordon Langford (1930–2017), brass band and orchestral music composer, arranger and performer (Return of the Jedi, Superman II)[21]
  • Paul Paviour OAM FRCO (born 1931), composer, organist and conductor based in Australia[21]
  • Tim Souster (1943–1994), composer[211]
  • Justin Lavender (born 1951), operatic tenor and professor of vocal studies at the Royal College of Music[212]
  • Paul Christison Edwards (born 1955), organist and composer of music for the Anglican Church[213]
  • Nicholas Carthy (born 1957), Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (1993–96), Professor of Music at the University of Colorado[21]
  • Michael Hext (born 1961), inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition[2]
  • Max Richter (born 1966), composer[203][214]
  • Don Broco, band[215]
  • Segun Akinola (born 1993), composer and music director for film and television (Doctor Who)[216][217]

Public office[]

James Howard MP
Sir William Morgan KCMG
Sir Archibald Flower
E.D. Morel MP
The Rt. Hon. Nick Gibb MP
Richard Fuller MP

Home[]

  • James Howard (1821–1889), Liberal MP[130]
  • William Robert Bousfield KC FRS (1854–1943), Conservative MP[2]
  • Arthur Pedley CB (1859–1943), senior civil servant[63]
  • Arthur Sheppard MVO (1862–1944), Private Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury (1902–1928)[2]
  • Sir Archibald Dennis Flower (1865–1950). Chairman of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's birthplace[20]
  • Colonel John Alfred Lawrence Billingham CBE FRICS (1868–1955), Chief Inspector of Works, War Office (1928–33)[63]
  • Edmund Dene Morel (1873–1924), Labour MP[63]
  • Major F. R. Phipps OBE A.M. Inst. C.E. F.S.I. (1875–1927), Senior Engineering Inspector at the Ministry of Transport, 1924 to 1927[218]
  • Sir Ralph Endersby Harwood KCB KCVO CB CBE (1883–1951). Financial Secretary to three Kings (1935–37)[63]
  • Davenport Fabian Cartwright Blunt CB (1888–1965), Under-Secretary at HM Treasury (1946–48)[63]
  • Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), Liberal MP[63]
  • Sir Laurence George Gale CB OBE (1905–1969). Controller, Royal Ordnance Factories[63]
  • Hugh Chaplin CB (1905–1996), Principal Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum[219]
  • Jack Morton CMG OBE (1911–1985). Assistant Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Defence (1968–71)[63][220]
  • Philip Lionel Burton CBE (1914–1996), Head of the Civil Service Pay Research Unit between 1963 and 1971[221]
  • Arthur Jones (1915–1991), Conservative MP. Mayor of Bedford[63]
  • Rowland Thomas Lovell Lee (1920–2005), Recorder of the Crown Court (1979–92)[63]
  • Edgar William Boyles (1921–2001), Under-Secretary at the Inland Revenue (1975–81)[63]
  • Tony Hart CBE (1923–2009), leader of Kent C.C. during the development of the Channel Tunnel, Eurostar and the Dartford Bridge[222]
  • Brian Ernest Maitland Prophet OBE TD DL (1928–2004), Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire[21]
  • Sir Stanley John Odell (1929-2021), former Chairman of the National Union of Conservative Constituency Associations[20]
  • Sir Keith Speed DL (1934-2018), Conservative MP. Undersecretary of State for Defence (1979–81)[20]
  • Jeffery John Mumford Speed CBE FRSA FInstLM FRGS (born 1936) was Director of Fundraising at Conservative Central Office[20]
  • Rev. Canon Jeffrey James West OBE FRSA (born 1950), Inspector of Historic Buildings, English Heritage (1983–86)[20]
  • Patrick Hall (born 1951), Labour MP[20]
  • Michael Crowther (born 1952), wildlife conservationist and founder of the Indianapolis Prize[21]
  • Nick Hawkins, (born 1957), former Conservative MP[20]
  • Andrew Charles Gilchrist (born 1960), former General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union[20]
  • Nicolas John "Nick" Gibb (born 1960), Conservative MP[20]
  • Richard Fuller (born 1962), Conservative MP[20]
  • Matt Cavanagh (born 1971), special adviser to New Labour (2003–2010)[223]

Overseas[]

  • Sir William Morgan KCMG (1828–1883), Premier of South Australia (1878–81)[2]
  • Leonard Isitt (1855–1937), M.P. for the New Zealand Liberal Party and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council[224][225]
  • Charles Frederick Gale (1860–1928), senior Australian civil servant, Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia[226]
  • Henry George Graves ARSM (1864–1929), Controller of Patents and Designs in India between 1904 and 1919[227]
  • Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton KCMG (1870–1952), President of the Commission for the Government of the Saar Basin[2]
  • Herbert George Billson CIE (1871–1938), Chief Conservator of Indian Forests, 1922–26[228]
  • Sir William Pell Barton KCIE (1871–1956). Resident in Baroda (1919), Mysore (1920–25) and Hyderabad (1925–30)[63][229]
  • William McKinnell (1873–1939), politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada (1920–36)[230]
  • Hon. Walter Nutt OBE (1874–1940), a member of the Federal Malay States Legislative council[231]
  • John Richard Donovan Glascott CIE (1877–1938), Chief Engineer of the Burma Railways, Member of the Legislative Council of Burma[232]
  • Sir Robert Daniel Richmond CIE (1878–1948), Chief Conservator, Indian Woods and Forests[2][233]
  • Archie Rose CIE FRGS (1879–1961), diplomat, explorer and businessman in China[234]
  • John Mervyn Dallas Wrench CIE (1883–1961), Chief Engineer of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway[235][236]
  • Sir Francis Moncrieff Kerr-Jarrett (1885–1968), Custos Rotulorum of St James's, Jamaica[2]
  • Stanley Wyatt Smith (1887–1958), Consul-General of Manila (1938–42) and Honolulu (1943–44)[237]
  • Major-General Ronald Okeden Alexander CB DSO (1888–1949), Inspector General, Central Canada (1942–46)[2]
  • Charles Hawes CIE MC (1890–1963). Chief Engineer to the Government of Sind[238]
  • Frederick Williamson CIE (1891–1935), Consul-General of Kashgar (1927–30)[63][239]
  • Reginald Philip Abigail (1892–1969), District Commissioner of Arakan during the fall of Burma in 1942[240][241]
  • Bertram St. Leger Ten Broeke CIE MC (1895–1962), Deputy Inspector-General of the Indian Police in Bihar[242]
  • W. D. Harverson OBE ARSM MIMM (1903–92), Commissioner of Mines in Kenya (1949–58) and Tanganyika (1958–62)[243]
  • Walter Ian James Wallace CMG OBE (1905–1993), Assistant Undersecretary of State at the Colonial Office (1962–66)[2]
  • Sir Arthur Mooring KCMG (1908–1969), British Resident in Zanzibar (1959–1963)[63]
  • Cyril Herbert Williams CMG OBE (1908–1983), Provincial Commissioner of the Nyanza Province of Kenya (1951–56)[2]
  • Roger Tancred Robert Hawkins GLM ICD (1915–1980), Rhodesian politician and member of Ian Smith's cabinet after Rhodesia's UDI[244][245]
  • Victor Yarnell (1919–2005), American politician, Democratic Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania (1968–1972)[246]
  • Colonel Ian Cook OBE (1934–1994), Commander of the Vanuatu Mobile Police Force (1980–84)[21]
  • Malcolm Geoffrey Hilson OBE (born 1942), High Commissioner of Vanuatu (1997–2000)[20]
  • Paul Reddicliffe OBE (born 1945), British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia (1994–1997)[20]

Religion[]

The Rt. Rev. Tony Robinson

Sport[]

Athletics[]

Chess[]

  • Harold James Plaskett (born 1960), British Chess Champion in 1990[21]

Cricket[]

Arthur Jones
Monty Panesar

Football[]

Hockey[]

  • Charles Howard Foulkes CB CMG DSO (1875–1969), field hockey player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics[2]

Rallying[]

Rowing[]

  • Sir Archibald Dennis Flower (1865–1950), rowed for Cambridge in the 1886 Boat Race[2]
  • William Mansfield Poole (1871–1946), rowed for Oxford in the 1891 Boat Race[21]
  • Sir George Edward Godber GCB (1908–2009), rowed for Oxford in the 1928 and 1929 Boat Races[130]
  • Tony Leadley (born 1928), rowed for the United Kingdom and for Cambridge in the 1953 Boat Race[21]
  • Peter Knapp (born 1949), rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics[21]
  • John Yallop (born 1949), rower who won a Silver Medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal[21]
  • Neil Keron (born 1953), rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics[21]
  • Tim Foster MBE (born 1970), rower who won a Gold Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney[21]
  • David Gillard (born 1971), rowed for Great Britain and also for Cambridge in the 1991, 1992 and 1993 Boat Races[21]
  • Rod Chisholm (born 1974), rower who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London[269]

Rugby[]

Lt.Col Edgar Mobbs DSO

Rugby Fives[]

Swimming[]

  • Hamilton ("Tony") Pierre Matt Milton (born 1938), swimmer at the 1960 Summer Olympics[21]

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