List Of Old Malvernians

Old Malvernians are alumni of Malvern College, an independent day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire, England that was founded in 1865. Originally a school for boys aged 9 to 18, it merged in 1992 with a private boys' primary school and an independent school for girls to become coeducational for pupils aged 3 to 18.

Many alumni have gained recognition in such fields as the military, politics, business, science, culture and sport - especially first-class cricket and the eighteen county cricket clubs. Among the most famous Old Malvernians are spymaster James Jesus Angleton, former head of the CIA's counter-intelligence; Aleister Crowley, the controversial but influential occultist; actor Denholm Elliott, sportsman R. E. Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football; and novelist C. S. Lewis, author of '' The Chronicles of Narnia''. Other well-known personalities include businessman Baron MacLaurin, a former Chairman of Tesco and Vodafone; Jeremy Paxman, journalist, author, and BBC presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge; and Baron Weatherill, the former Speaker of the House of Commons. Old Malvernians who have become heads of state or government include the eponymously titled Viscount Malvern and Najib Tun Razak, the 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia. The former was the British Commonwealth's longest serving Prime Minister by the time he left office. Old Malvernian Nobel Prize winners include Francis William Aston, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and James Meade, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1977.

A

* Lascelles Abercrombie , (1881–1938), poet, journalist, critic
* Diran Adebayo FRSL, novelist, cultural critic and academic, tales of London and the lives of African diasporans
* Brian Aherne, stage, screen, radio and television actor. Hollywood Walk of Fame and Oscar nominee.
* Douglas Allday, First-class cricket cricketer for the Europeans cricket team and British Army officer
* John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley
* James Jesus Angleton, chief of counter-intelligence for the CIA from 1954 to 1974. Source of inspiration for the character ''Edward Wilson'' in the film '' The Good Shepherd''.
* Nicholas Argenti, stockbroker, British Army officer, Royal Air Force officer, and philatelist
* Michael Arlen, prolific essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter.
* Alban Arnold, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club and Hampshire County Cricket Club
* Francis William Aston, chemist and physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for work on mass spectrometry.

B

* Ralph Bagnold, geo-morphologist, pioneering desert explorer, founder & commander of the Long Range Desert Group
* James Balfour-Melville (1882–1915), British Army officer, footballer for Oxford University A.F.C., and cricketer for Scotland
* Charles Bambridge (1858–1935), England international footballer and captain
* Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes, British Indian administrator
* Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg, First Sea Lord, Governor of Gibraltar
* Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
* Humphry Berkeley, politician, humourist, early supporter for Gay rights in the UK, and Conservative Member of Parliament.
* Wilfred Bird, played first-class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and Oxford University Cricket Club
* Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport, British Army officer, Conservative Member of Parliament, British Army welterweight boxing champion,
* Sir Stephen Brown GBE, Kt., PC, Lord Justice of Appeal, President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice, Royal Navy officer
* Vice Admiral Sir Peter Buchanan, naval officer
* Cuthbert Burnup, England footballer, cricketer for Cambridge University, Marylebone Cricket Club, Kent, and London county cricket clubs
* Claude Burton, cricketer for Oxford University and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
* Philip Bushill-Matthews, politician, former Member of the European Parliament

C

* Henry Montgomery Campbell, bishop
* Lieutenant ColonelDuncan Carter-Campbell of Possil OBE, British Army officer
* George Chesterton MBE, cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, cricket author, and former deputy head of Malvern College
* David Chipp, journalist, former chief editor of Reuters and the Press Association
* Prof Geoffrey Duncan Chisholm FRSE, surgeon and urologist
* Peter Churchill, intelligence officer in Special Operations Executive F Section (1940−1945)
* Horatio Clare, writer of travel, memoir, nature and children's books, and BBC Radio producer
* Sir Andrew Cohen , Governor of Uganda, UK representative to the U.N. Trusteeship Council and Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development.
* Bernard Collins, Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, cricketer
* Geoffrey Cornu, cricketer for the Free Foresters Cricket Club and British Army officer
* George Cottrell, former politician and deputy treasurer of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), financier, and convicted felon.
* Aleister Crowley, occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, mountaineer, and prolific author of poetry and novels
* Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling, flying ace in the Battle of Britain
* Edward Cuthbertson, cricketer, stockbroker, and British Army officer

D

* Arthur Day, cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, stockbroker, and British Army officer
* Samuel Day, cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, footballer for Corinthian F.C., and England
* James Delingpole, journalist, columnist, novellist, Bastiat Prize winner.
* Sir Edward Brandis Denham, colonial governor
* Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet
* Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, (1895–1966), Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar
* Guy Disney, (1982—), First amputee jockey to win a horse race at a professional race-course in Britain (February 2017).
* Monty Don, BBC television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture
* Ignazio Dracopoli, Anglo-French cartographer and explorer
* Nigel Draffan, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club
* Sandy Duncan, athlete, general secretary of the British Olympic Association (1949-1975)

E

* Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet of the Province of Maryland, English writer on poverty and pioneering social investigator
* Ricardo Ellcock, cricketer for Worcestershire and Middlesex county cricket clubs and the England team
* Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet, shipping magnate, natural historian and philanthropist
* Denholm Elliott CBE, actor with 125 film and television credits and 3 times BAFTA award winner.
* Lloyd Embley, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Trinity Mirror group
* William Evans, cricketer for Worcestershire and Hampshire county cricket clubs
* Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, international business editor of '' The Daily Telegraph'' and author of ''The Secret Life of Bill Clinton''.

F

* John Ferraby, Hand of the Cause in the Bahá’í Faith
* Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Fielden, pilot, Captain of The Queen's Flight
* Sir Eustace Fiennes, 1st Baronet of Banbury, politician, colonial governor
* Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, barrister, judge
* Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke, politician and Conservative MP, barrister ( QC), and Member of the European Parliament
* Giles Foden, author of '' The Last King of Scotland''
* " Fostershire", the Foster brothers who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club:
* Basil Foster, Geoffrey Foster, Harry Foster, Maurice Foster, Neville Foster, Reginald "Tip" Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football,Betts, Graham (2006) p.102 and Wilfrid "Bill" Foster
* Major General John F. C. Fuller, , military historian, strategist, occultist

G

* Sir Anthony Hastings George, British Consul-General in Shanghai and Boston
* Sir Peter Gibson, judge and Lord Justice of Appeal
* Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill (1911–1963), doctor, naturalist and Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore
* Penrhyn Grant Jones, CBE, Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China
* Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), Blackburn Rovers and England international footballerBetts, Graham (2006) p.114
* William Mitchell Grundy, English headmaster, son of Rev. W. Grundy, a former Headmaster of Malvern College.

H

* Sir William Henry Hadow, English educationist, musicologist
* St. John Emile Clavering Hankin, Edwardian essayist and playwright
* Prince Christian of Hanover
* Prince Ernst August of Hanover
* Air Chief Marshal Sir Donald Hardman, flying ace, CAF (RAAF)
* Fred Hargreaves

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