List of Old Greshamians

The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt, Norfolk, England.

Public life

* James Allan – British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to MozambiqueLidell, Charles Lawrence Scruton & Douglas, A. B., ''The History and Register of Gresham's School, 1555-1954'' (Ipswich, 1955)''Old Greshamian Club Address Book'' (Cheverton & Son Ltd., Cromer, 1999)''Who's Who 2003'' (A. & C. Black, London, 2003)
* Duncan Baker (born 1979) – Conservative Member of Parliament.
*Jeremy Bamber (born 1961) - British convicted mass murderer, apprehended 29 September 1985

* Eric Berthoud, Sir Eric Berthoud – British ambassador to Denmark and Poland''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004)
*Robert Brightiffe (c. 1666–1749) barrister and Member of Parliament
*Derek Bryan – Diplomat, sinologist, writer
* Erskine Childers – fourth President of Ireland''I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School'' by S.G.G. Benson and Martin Crossley Evans (James & James, London, 2002)
* Sir Stewart Crawford – diplomat
*Kenelm Hubert Digby (1912–2001), proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate and later Attorney General and judge in Sarawak
* Bernard Floud – Labour politician
* Sir Cecil Graves – Director-General of the BBC
* Thomas George Greenwell – National Conservative member of parliament
* Sir Christopher Heydon – 16th century member of parliament
* Paul Howell – Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk
*Robert Lymbery - Common Serjeant of London
* Donald Maclean – diplomat and spy
* 11th Earl of Northesk – parliamentarian
* Terence O'Brien – British ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia
* John Playfair Price – diplomat, a President of the Oxford Union
* Laurance Reed – Conservative politician
* Lord Reith – first Director-General of the BBC – politician
*Wilfrid Roberts – Liberal politician
*Christian Schiller – HM Inspector of Schools
* 11th Lord Strabolgi – Labour politician
* Dr Thomas Stuttaford – Conservative politician and journalist
* C. G. H. Simon (1914–2002), Income Tax General Commissioner
*Lord Simon of Glaisdale – Conservative politician and law lord
* Lord Simon of Wythenshawe – socialist and journalist
* Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp – Lord Justice of Appeal
* Sir William Royden Stuttaford – President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations"Stuttaford, Sir William (Royden)", in ''Who Was Who'', A. & C. Black, 1920–2008, online edition, Oxford University Press, December 200
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* Sir Gerald Thesiger – High Court Judge
*Sir John Tusa – Director of BBC World Service
* Lord Wilson of High Wray – governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria
* Sir Percy Wyn-Harris – governor of The Gambia

Armed forces

* General Sir Terence Airey – soldier, GOC Hong Kong
*Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell – Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to George VI
*Peter Beck – soldier and schoolmaster
* General Sir Robert Bray – Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
*Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet – killed on active service in Java, 1942
*Donald Cunnell – First World War fighter pilot
* Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion – Royal Air Force officer and British Overseas Airways Corporation executive
* Major-General Guy Gregson – soldier''Who's Who 1969'' (A. & C. Black, London, 1969)
* Sir Christopher Heydon – took part in the capture of Cádiz, 1596 J. Venn and J. A. Venn, '' Alumni Cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates, and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900'', 2 pts in 10 vols.(1922–54); repr. in 2 vols.(1974–8)
* General Sir William Holmes – Second World War general
* Henry Howard – Second World War commander of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
*Brigadier Julian Jefferson, British Army officer
* Major-General John Lethbridge – soldier
* Rear Admiral Martin Lucey (1920–1992), Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland and Admiral President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
*Major-General Patrick Marriott – Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2009–2012
*Rear-Admiral Brian Perowne – Chief of Fleet Support, Royal Navy
*Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey – Bridge on the River Kwai commander
* Tom Wintringham – soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist
* Major-General A. E. Younger – soldier
*Major General Alastair Duncan – soldier

Church

* John Astley – 18th century Norfolk pluralist
* Edwin Boston – founder of the Cadeby Light Railway, "the Fat Clergyman" in the books of the Rev. W. Awdry
* John Bradburne – Franciscan
* John Burrell (1762–1825), clergyman and entomologist
* John Daly – bishop of The Gambia, Accra, Korea and Taejon
*Colin Forrester-Paton – missionary and Chaplain to H.M. The Queen in Scotland
* Most Rev. David Hand – Archbishop of Papua New Guinea
* Dr John Johnson (1769–1833) – clergyman and editor
*Peter Lee – bishop of the diocese of Christ the King, Johannesburg
*William Lubbock – 18th century divine, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge
*Charles Abdy Marcon – Master of Marcon's Hall, Oxford, 1891 to 1918
* John Moorman – Bishop of Ripon
* Thomas Pyle – 18th century clergyman and writer
*Herbert Reeve – Church of England missionary and clergyman in New Zealand
*Robin Woods – Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester

Medicine

* Richard Battle – plastic surgeon
* Arthur Doyne Courtenay Bell – consultant paediatrician
* Roger Carpenter – neurophysiologist
* Major-General Joseph Crowdy – Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps
* Michael Fordham – psychiatrist
*Douglas Gairdner, paediatrician
* Thomas Girdlestone – physician and writer
* John Grange – immunologist
*William Henry Kelson, physician, president of the Hunterian Society
*Dermod MacCarthy – paediatrician
* William Rushton FRS – physiologist
*Thomas Stuttaford – doctor and politician
* Hugh Christian Watkins – cardiologist
*Anthony Yates – rheumatologist

Nobel Prize-winner

* Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin – Nobel Prize for Medicine, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

Academics

Arts

* John Bensusan-Butt – landscape painter
* Norman Cohn – historian''Norman Cohn: Historian who drew parallels between apocalyptic medieval movements and Marxism and nazism'', The Guardian (London, England) Obituary August 9, 2007
*Oliver Elton – literary critic, translator
* Boris Ford – literary critic, editor
*Alfred Gissing – biographer
*John Davy Hayward – editor and critic
* Andrew Hurrell - Professor of International Relations, Oxford University
* Michael Kitson – art historian
* James Klugmann – Communist historian
* 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker – political scientist
* W. Wesley Pue – academic lawyer
* Sir James Maude Richards – architectural historian
*E. Clive Rouse – archaeologist
* John Saltmarsh – historian
*Brian Simon – educational historian
*Peter J N Sinclair – economist

Sciences

*L. E. Baynes – aeronautical engineer
*Arnold Beck – electrical engineer, Professor of Engineering at Cambridge'BECK, Prof. Arnold Hugh William', in '' Who's Who 1997'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1997)
* David Bensusan-Butt – economist
*Derek Bryan – sinologist
*Anthony Bull – transport engineer
*Sir Henry Clay, 6th Baronet – engineer
* Sir Christopher Cockerell – inventor of the hovercraft
* Nicholas Day - statistician and epidemiologist
* James Durrant - FRS Professor of Photochemistry, Imperial College
* C. H. Gimingham – botanist
* Dr Hildebrand Hervey FRS – marine biologist
*Sir John Hammond – agricultural research scientist
* Ian Hepburn, botanist and schoolteacher
*Harry Hodson – economist
*G. Evelyn Hutchinson – zoologist
*Bryan Keith-Lucas – political scientist
*David Keith-Lucas – aeronautical engineer
* David Lack – evolutionary biologist
*David Layton – economist and industrial relations specialist
* Dr Colin Leakey – botanist
*Maurice Lister – chemist
*Jonathan Partington – mathematician
* Frank Perkins – engineer
* Henry Snaith - FRS Professor of Physics, Oxford University
*Christopher Strachey – computer scientist
* Sir Owen Wansbrough-Jones – chemist, weapons research scientist
*Sir Martin Wood – engineer

Writers

Poets

* W. H. Auden – poet
*John Henry Colls, 18th century poet
*Andrew Jefford – poet and wine writer
*Michael Laskey – poet
*John Pudney – poet and novelist
* Sir Stephen Spender – poet

Novelists

* John Lanchester – novelist
*Sabin Willett – novelist

Journalists

*Matt Arnold – journalist and television presenter
*Bruce Belfrage - BBC Radio newsreader and actor
*Cedric Belfrage – journalist and author
*Mark Brayne – BBC foreign correspondent and psychotherapist
* Rupert Hamer – journalist killed in Afghanistan
*Alastair Hetherington – journalist, editor of ''The Guardian''
*Paddy O'Connell – journalist and main presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''Broadcasting House''
*Edmund Rogers – journalist
* Philip Pembroke Stephens – journalist
*Sir John Tusa – BBC journalist

Other

*Maurice Ash – environmentalist writer
* Sir Christopher Heydon – 17th century writer on astrology
*Lady Flora McDonnell – children's author
*Pat Simon – wine writer and Master of Wine
* Kenneth Taylor – television scriptwriter''International Who's Who 2004''
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* William Osborne — screenwriter

Music

* Richard Austin – conductor
* Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh – composer
* Sir Lennox Berkeley – composer
* Richard Hand – classical guitarist
*Christopher J. Monckton – organist and conductor
*Heathcote Dicken Statham – composer and organist
* George Stiles – composer
* Roderick Watkins – composer

Artists

*Michael Cummings – cartoonist
*Richard Chopping – book cover illustrator, painter and novelist
*William Lionel Clause, landscape artist
* Sir Philip Dowson – architect and president of the Royal Academy
*Edward Frank Gillett – sporting artist
* Robert Medley RA – artist
* Ben Nicholson, OM – artist
*Christopher Nicholson – architect
* Christopher Perkins – artist
*Humphrey Spender – photographer
*Tony Tuckson – artist
*Charles Mayes Wigg – artist

Sport

*Giles Baring – cricketer
*Glyn Barnett – rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006
*Tom Bourdillon – mountaineer
* Gawain Briars – British No. 1 squash player
* 11th Earl of Northesk – Olympic medallist (skeleton, 1928)
*Andrew Corran – cricketer
* Peter Croft – cricketer and Olympic field hockey player
* Matthew Dickinson – mountaineer and adventurer
*Dennis Eagan – field hockey player, bronze medallist in the 1952 Summer Olympics
*Natasha Firman – Formula Woman racing driver
*Ralph Firman – Formula One racing driver
*Julian Jefferson – cricketer
*Richard Leman – hockey player and Olympic gold medallist
* Peter Lloyd – mountaineer
* Richard Millman - Squash national champion and coach
* Andy Mulligan – captain of Ireland and the British and Irish Lions Rugby XV
*Tom Percival (1943–1984) – powerboat racer
*Ben Pienaar player and Junior National Champion at judo
* Harry Simmons – rugby footballer
* Pat Symonds – Formula One racing
* Nick Youngs – England rugby union footballer
*Ben Youngs – England Rugby Team, British Lion and member of Leicester Tigers and Heineken Cup medal winner
*Tom Youngs – England Rugby Team, British Lion
* Sir Percy Wyn-Harris – mountaineer

Performing arts

* Kat Alano – model, actress
*Michael Aldridge – actor
*Bruce Belfrage – actor, news reader, politician
* Peter Brook – theatre director
*Olivia Colman (Sarah Colman) – actress
* Michael Culver – actor
* Henry Daniell – actor
* Nigel Dick – music video and film director
* Stephen Frears – film director
* Sienna Guillory – actress
* Geoffrey Gwyther – singer, actor, and song-writer
* Julian Jarrold – television and film director
* Ben Mansfield – actor
*Robert Mawdesley – actor
* Bill Mason – documentary film maker
*Paddy O'Connell – television presenter
* Miranda Raison – actress
* Sebastian Shaw – actor
* Patrick Waddington – actor
*Peter Whitbread – actor and scriptwriter

Business

*Sir Harold Atcherley – Royal Dutch Shell executive; Chairman of Tyzack & Partners
* Randal McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim – Chairman of Sarasin and Partners LLP
*Sir James Dyson – inventor and entrepreneur
* Sir Nigel Foulkes –Chairman of the British Airports Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority
* Anthony Habgood – Chairman of Court, Bank of England. Chairman of Reed Elsevier and past chairman Whitbread
* Sir Robin Ibbs – banker
*Charles Kearley – property developer and art collector
* Sir Christopher Howes – chief executive of the Crown Estate
* Sir William Stuttaford – stockbroker and business man
* John L. Marden – Chairman of Wheelock and Marden Co. Ltd

Other

*Robert Aagaard – furniture maker and founder of the youth movement Cathedral Camps
*Theodore Acland – headmaster of Norwich School
*Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet – landowner, festivals organizer
*Sir George Anthony Agnew, 7th Baronet – landowner
*Jeremy Bamber – convicted murderer
* Bill Bell – chief legal adviser to Lloyds Bank
*Thomas Blanco White QC, British patent lawyer
*John Bradbury, 3rd Baron Bradbury
*Martin Burgess FSA – master clockmaker
*Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron
* Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd
* Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester
* Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys CB DM FRCP
*David W. Doyle – CIA officer and author
* James Halman (died 1702), Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
*Christopher Newbury – Council of Europe
*John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk
*Ian Proctor – yacht designer
* 8th Baron Suffield

In fiction

Among fictional OGs, John Mortimer's television barrister Rumpole sent his son Nick to the school during the 1970s.

Notable Gresham's masters

* Logie Bruce Lockhart – Scotland rugby footballer, headmaster
*Warin Foster Bushell – later headmaster of Michaelhouse and Birkenhead School and president of the Mathematical Association
* Antony R. Clark – headmaster since 2002, first-class cricketer
* C. V. Durell – writer of mathematics textbooks
*Graeme Fife – writer – playwright and broadcaster
* Walter Greatorex – composer
* Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick – research chemist
* John Holmes – writer of textbooks on grammar, rhetoric and astronomy
*George Howson – headmaster, 1900-1919
*Charles W. Lloyd – Master of Dulwich College
*Frank McEachran – author
* Geoffrey Shaw – organist and composer
* Patrick Thompson – Conservative Member of Parliament
*Hugh Wright – Headmaster 1985–1991, later Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference
*Graeme Fife – Writer and broadcaster
* Professor Richard D'Aeth (later Master of Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

Notable governors of the school

*Graham George Able, 2013–2020
*Theodore Dyke Acland
*A. C. Benson
* Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood
*Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet
* Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark
* Sir Angus Stirling'Stirling, Sir Angus (Duncan Æneas)' in ''Who's Who 2009'' (A. & C. Black, London, 2008)
*David Cairns, 5th Earl Cairns
*Anthony Duckworth-Chad
*Anne, Princess Royal
*James Dyson

See also

*Gresham's School
*List of Masters of Gresham's School

References

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