List of Old Salopians

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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[]

  • Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer
  • Sir James Adams KCMG (1932–2020), ambassador to Tunisia (1984–1987) and Egypt (1987–1992)
  • John Adams, (before 1670−1738), cartographer
  • Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65
  • Harold Ackroyd VC MC (1877–1917), soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Sir John Lawson Andrews KBE DL PC (1903–1986), Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and son of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews
  • John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy

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
  • (1821–1865), politician and barrister
  • Henry Edward James Bevan FRSL (1854–1935), Archdeacon of Middlesex
  • Peter Blagg (1918–1943), cricketer and soldier
  • Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker KCMG PC (1922–2009), politician
  • David Blakely, murder victim. He was shot dead by Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
  • The Ven. Charles Blakeway (1868–1922), Archdeacon of Stafford 1911–22
  • Christopher Booker (1937–2019), journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
  • Tim Booth (1960–), lead singer of the band James
  • 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
  • Samuel Browne, (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Barwick Sharpe Browne (1881–1963), officer and librarian in the Institute of Archaeology
  • Colin Boumphrey DFC (1897–1945), cricketer and Royal Air Force officer
  • Donald Boumphrey MC (1892–1971), cricketer, educator and British Army officer
  • Samuel Hawksley Burbury FRS (1831–1911), mathematician
  • John Burrell (1910–1972), theatre director
  • Robert Burn (1829–1904), classical scholar, archeologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • John Burrough (1873–1922), cricketer
  • Charles Burney FRS (1726–1814), musician, composer, music historian
  • Omar 'Ali Bolkiah (born 1986), Crown Prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
  • Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

C[]

D[]

E[]

  • Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide of King Charles I
  • Alexander John Ellis FRS (1814–1890), phonetician and mathematician
  • Charles Evans (1918–1995), surgeon and mountaineer
  • William Addams Williams Evans (1853–1919), international footballer[5]
  • Canon Thomas Saunders Evans (1816–1889), Latin scholar and poet, was schoolmaster at Rugby and Durham.
  • Walter Ewbank (1918–2014), priest and author

F[]

G[]

H[]

I[]

  • William Inge (1829–1903), cricketer, clergyman and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
  • Brian St John Inglis (1916–1993), journalist
  • Richard Ingrams (born 1939), journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
  • Andrew Irvine (1902–1924), mountaineer

J[]

  • Jamie Catto (born 1968), economist and programmer
  • 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
  • Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
  • Vice Admiral Clive Carruthers Johnstone (born 1963), Royal Navy Officer
  • 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[]

  • Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), headmaster and classical scholar
  • Charles Rann Kennedy (1808–1867), lawyer and classical scholar
  • Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster KCMG KBE (1879–1939), governor of British Somaliland 1926-31, British Honduras 1932–34 and the Nyasaland protectorate 1934-39
  • Francis King CBE (1923–2011), novelist and poet
  • George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale CB (1866–1945), politician, businessman, soldier and cricketer

L[]

M[]

N[]

  • William Napper (1880–1967), Irish cricketer and British Army officer
  • The Very Rev. Stephen Nason (1901–1975), priest
  • Robert Needham, 1st Viscount Kilmorey (1565–1631), politician
  • Christopher Nevinson ARA (1889–1946), artist
  • Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
  • John Nottingham (1928-2018), colonial administrator and politician
  • Sir Charles Thomas Newton KCB (1816–1894), archaeologist
  • Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer

O[]

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)[9]
  • Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), poet and playwright
  • John Arthur Pilcher GCMG (1912–1990), diplomat, ambassador to Austria (1965–67), ambassador to Japan (1967–1972)
  • 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
  • Michael Proctor (1950–), physicist, mathematician, academic and Provost of King’s College, Cambridge
  • Sir Thomas Powys (1649–1719), MP, Attorney General to King James II, judge, and politician

R[]

  • Henry Cecil Raikes PC (1838–1891), Conservative politician
  • 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[]

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
  • Percy Beart Thomas CIE (1866–1921), Inspector-General of Police of Madras
  • Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
  • 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[10]
  • Henry William Rawson Wade QC FBA (1918–2004), academic lawyer
  • 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[11][12]
  • 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[]

  • Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate, 1st Baronet CSI CMG (1849–1940), administrator in India and politician

References[]

  1. ^ Thomas, C. E. (1979). "Breynton, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  2. ^ Brief profile of Sir Randolph Crewe. Annals of Shrewsbury School.George William Fisher. p. 58.
  3. ^ Biography of John Freeman Milward Dovaaston Archived 10 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine. sueburton.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  4. ^ The Sir Henry Dryden Collection Archived 4 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine. VADS. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  5. ^ Profile of William Addams-Williams-Evans. cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  6. ^ Sir Thomas Hewett(1656–1726) architect & landowner Archived 22 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine. rotherhamweb.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2010
  7. ^ "Sabrina Rowing News". Shrewsbury School. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  8. ^ Allemang, John (1 July 2011). "Terry Milewski: an equal-opportunity offender". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  9. ^ Ernest Marsh Lloyd, Robert Phayre - Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement
  10. ^ Betts, Graham (2006). England: Player by player. Green Umbrella Publishing. p. 249. ISBN 1-905009-63-1.
  11. ^ Biography of Charles Wicksteed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  12. ^ Charles Darwin in Western Australia – A Young Scientist's Perception of an Environment. Patrick Armstrong. University of Western Australia Press. 1905. p. 3.
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