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alumni Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for grou ...

Christ's Hospital Christ's Hospital is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a royal charter located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex. The school was founded in 1552 and received its first royal charter in 1553 ...

school, who are known as Old Blues.

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

Four Old Blues have been awarded the

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previously ...

and two the

George Cross The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy. In the British honours system, the George Cross, since its introduction in 1940, has been ...

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previously ...

Umbeyla Campaign The Ambela campaign (also called Umbeyla; Umbeylah; Ambeyla) in 1863 was one of many expeditions in the border area between the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Punjab Province of British India (this area was formally renamed to North-West Frontie ...

Major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...

Henry William Pitcher Henry William Pitcher VC (20 December 1841 – 5 July 1875) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. Details Pitcher was born at Kamptee in British India, the second son of Vincent Pitcher and Rose Mary le Geyt, daughter of Admiral Ge ...

(1841–1875) (CH 1848–1856) *

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...

Wilfrith Elstob Lieutenant Colonel Wilfrith Elstob (8 September 1888 – 21 March 1918) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealt ...

(1889–1918) (CH 1898–1905) **

Second Lieutenant Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, comparable to NATO OF-1 rank. Australia The rank of second lieutenant existed in the military forces of the Australian colonies and Australian Army until ...

Edward Felix Baxter (1885–1916) (CH 1896–1901) *

War in Afghanistan War in Afghanistan, Afghan war, or Afghan civil war may refer to: *Conquest of Afghanistan by Alexander the Great (330 BC – 327 BC) *Muslim conquests of Afghanistan (637–709) *Conquest of Afghanistan by the Mongol Empire (13th century), see als ...

Lance Corporal Lance corporal is a military rank, used by many armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organisations. It is below the rank of corporal, and is typically the lowest non-commissioned officer (NCO), usually equi ...

Joshua Leakey Colour Sergeant Joshua Mark Leakey (born 1988) is a British soldier currently serving in the Parachute Regiment. In 2015, Leakey was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the British and Commonwealth armed ...

(CH 1999–2006)

George Cross The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy. In the British honours system, the George Cross, since its introduction in 1940, has been ...

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

Air Vice Marshal Air vice-marshal (AVM) is a two-star air officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes u ...

Sir Laurence Sinclair (1908–2001) (CH 1919–1924)

Medicine

Russell Brock Russell Claude Brock, Baron Brock (24 October 1903 – 3 September 1980) was a leading British chest and heart surgeon and one of the pioneers of modern open-heart surgery. His achievements were recognised by a Knighthood in 1954, a Life Peera ...

– Chest and heart surgeon *

Raanan Gillon Raanan Evelyn Zvi Gillon FRCP (born April 1941) is emeritus professor of medical ethics at Imperial College London, and past president of the BMA. A general practitioner until his retirement in 2002, Gillon edited the ''Journal of Medical E ...

– Medical doctor, philosopher, journal editor and professor of medical ethicsGillon, R.
Ploughing a Furrow in Ethics
. Personal Histories in Health Research (2005): 83–97. *

Norman Guthkelch Arthur Norman Guthkelch (September 2, 1915 – July 28, 2016) was a British pediatric neurosurgeon. He is sometimes known as the first British pediatric neurosurgeon. He was the first physician to make a connection between shaken baby syndrome, sh ...

– British paediatric neurosurgeon * Caesar Hawkins – Surgeon *

James Jurin James Jurin Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, FRCP (baptised 15 December 168429 March 1750) was an English scientist and physician, particularly remembered for his early work in capillary action and in ...

– Physician and scientist *

Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan LL.D (2 October 1865 – 7 September 1936), known as Sir Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baronet, from 1922 to 1929, was a noted British abdominal surgeon. Early years Moynihan was born in Malta i ...

– Abdominal surgeon

Military

* Bertram Allen – Paymaster Rear-Admiral in the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

Thomas Bertie Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Bertie KSO (born Hoar, 3 July 1758 – 13 June 1825) was an English officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. His career began i ...

–

Rear-admiral Rear admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, equivalent to a major general and air vice marshal and above that of a commodore and captain, but below that of a vice admiral. It is regarded as a two star "admiral" rank. It is often regarded ...

in the Royal Navy *

Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari (4 July 1841 – 3 September 1879) was an Italian-British military administrator. Cavagnari was the son of Count Louis Adolphus Cavagnari, of an old family from Parma in the service of the Bonaparte family, b ...

– Military administrator *

John Colborne Field Marshal John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, (16 February 1778 – 17 April 1863) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. After taking part as a junior officer in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedi ...

– British Army Field Marshal *

Hugh Constantine Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Alex Constantine, (23 May 1908 – 16 April 1992) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Flying Training Command. RAF career Educated at Christ's Hospital, Constantine joined the R ...

–

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

Air Chief Marshal Air chief marshal (Air Chf Mshl or ACM) is a high-ranking air officer originating from the Royal Air Force. The rank is used by air forces of many countries that have historical British influence. An air chief marshal is equivalent to an Admir ...

Edgar William Cox Brigadier-General Edgar William Cox (9 May 1882 – 26 August 1918) was a senior intelligence officer on the British General Staff throughout most of the First World War who drowned in suspicious circumstances whilst swimming in August 1918 sho ...

– Intelligence officer *

Alexander Cunningham Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861, he was appointed to the newly ...

–

Army engineer Military engineering is loosely defined as the art, science, and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining lines of military transport and military communications. Military engineers are also responsible for logistics b ...

and archaeologist *

Edward Mortlock Donaldson Air Commodore Edward "Teddy" Mortlock Donaldson, (12 February 1912 – 2 June 1992) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) flying ace of the Second World War, and a former holder of the airspeed world record. Early life Born in Negeri Sembilan, then part ...

– Royal Air Force pilot * Michael Gray – SoldierObituary of Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Gray, The Daily Telegraph, 11 April, 2011
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Buster Howes Major General Francis Hedley Roberton "Buster" Howes, (born 22 March 1960) is a former Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from February 2010 to December 2011. Early life Howes was educated at Christ's Hospital ...

–

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and

Royal Marines The Corps of Royal Marines (RM), also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, are the UK's special operations capable commando force, amphibious light infantry and also one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy. The Corps of Royal Marine ...

officer *

Llewelyn Hughes Frederick Llewelyn Hughes (12 July 1894 – 4 June 1967) was an Anglican priest and British Army chaplain. He served as Chaplain-General from 1944 to 1951 and Dean of Ripon from 1951 to 1967. Early life Hughes was born on 12 July 1894 and ...

– Soldier, priest and army chaplain * Robert Hunter - Soldier * Henry Ralph Lumley –

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pilot and burn victim * Philip Mayne – Soldier *

John Robin Stephenson Lieutenant Colonel John Robin Stephenson (25 February 1931 – ) was a British Army officer and cricket administrator. John Stephenson was born in Sussex and educated at Christ's Hospital. He played in the School Cricket XI alongside J. ...

– British Army officer and cricket administrator * Harold Edward Whittingham – Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War

Music

Taio Cruz Jacob Taio Cruz (; born Adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere, 23 April 1980), better known professionally as Taio Cruz (stylized TΛIO CRUZ), is an English singer, songwriter and record producer from London, England, currently based in Los Angeles. In 200 ...

– Singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer *

Sydney Carter Sydney Bertram Carter (6 May 1915 – 13 March 2004) was an English poet, songwriter, and folk musician who was born in Camden Town, London. He is best known for the song " Lord of the Dance" (1967), whose music is based on the " Shaker Allegro" ...

– Poet, songwriter, musician *

Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom h ...

– Conductor * Tim Benjamin – Composer *

Catherine Ennis Catherine Mary Ennis (January 20, 1955 – December 24, 2020) was an English organist and music director. She was president of the Royal College of Organists, the director of music at the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, and the founder of the Lond ...

, organist *

Charles Hazlewood Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood (born 14 November 1966) is a British conductor. After winning the European Broadcasting Union conducting competition in 1995 whilst still in his twenties,Constant Lambert Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 190521 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founder and music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in th ...

– Composer and conductor *

Edward Lambert Edward Lambert (born 1951) is an English composer who has written chamber music, vocal and choral works, and chamber operas. He is also a conductor and pianist. Study Edward Lambert was educated at Christ's Hospital and read music at Mer ...

– Composer * Christopher Tambling – Composer, organist and choirmaster

Performing arts

Roger Allam Roger William Allam (born 26 October 1953) is a British actor, who has performed on stage, in film, on television and radio. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical ''Les Misérables'', First Officer D ...

– Actor *

James D'Arcy James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is an English actor and film director. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series '' Agent Carter'' and the ...

– Actor * Howard Davies – Theatre and television director *

Tenniel Evans Walter Tenniel Evans (17 May 1926 – 10 June 2009) was a British actor and, latterly, clergyman. Family Walter Tenniel Evans was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His middle name derived from the illustrator Sir John Tenniel, a distant relation.

– Actor *

Susannah Fielding Susannah Glanville-Hearson"Drama: High profile OB actors"
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– Actor"Drama: High profile OB actors"
''The Blue'' (

). 2011. p. 55. Retrieved 19 July 2014. *

Jason Flemyng Jason Iain Flemyng''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com (born 25 September 1966) is an English actor. He is known for roles in British films such as ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' (1998) ...

– Actor *

Jimmy Godden Jimmy Godden (11 August 1879 – 5 March 1955) was a British film actor. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and was in the Civil Service before becoming a concert pianist. Godden later turned to the stage and made his debut in pantomime at the ...

– Actor *

Leo Gregory Leo Gregory (born 22 November 1978) is a London born English film, television, voice-over artist and pantomime actor. Best known for starring as Bovver in '' Green Street'' (2005). Acting career Gregory has appeared in films such as the BAFTA w ...

– Actor *

George Peele George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – buried 9 November 1596) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not universally accepted collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play ''Titus Andronicus' ...

– Dramatist *

Michael Wilding Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding (23 July 1912 – 8 July 1979) was an English stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for a series of films he made with Anna Neagle; he also made two films with Alfred Hitchcock, ''Under Caprico ...

– Actor

Religion

* John Arnold –

Anglican Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...

priest and author * John Ashe – Priest *

Reginald Bazire Reginald Victor Bazire (30 January 1900 – 20 October 1990) was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Southwark from 1967 to 1973; and of Wandsworth from 1973 to 1975. Bazire was educated at Christ's Hospital. and in 1922 Bazire went to China ...

– Anglican priest * Raymond Birt –

Archdeacon of Berkshire The Archdeacon of Berkshire (also rendered Archdeacon of Berks) is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford. The archdeacon is the head of the archdeaconry of Berkshire, a post historically found within the diocese ...

Edmund Campion Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 15401 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was ...

– Jesuit priest, martyr and saint *

Mordecai Cary Mordecai Cary (1687–1751) was Bishop of Killala and Achonry. Early years Mordecai Cary was born in London on 7 August 1687 and baptized eight days later at St Faith-under-St.Pauls' He was the eldest son, the second of eight children born to ...

– Bishop *

Thomas Dale Sir Thomas Dale ( 1570 − 19 August 1619) was an English naval commander and deputy-governor of the Virginia Colony in 1611 and from 1614 to 1616. Governor Dale is best remembered for the energy and the extreme rigour of his administration in ...

– Anglican priest, poet and theologian *

John Delight The Ven. John David Delight (24 August 1925 - 16 February 2013) was a British clergyman who served as Archdeacon of Stoke 1982 to 1989. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, the University of Liverpool, Oak Hill Theological College and the Open ...

–

Archdeacon of Stoke The Archdeacon of Stoke ("Archdeacon of Stoke-upon-Trent" in full and often rendered "Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent") is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield. The archdeaconry was created on 24 July 1877 ...

* Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne – Priest and missionary to China *

Robert Newton Flew Robert Newton Flew (1886–1962) was an English Methodist minister and theologian, and an advocate of ecumenism among the Christian churches. Family and education Robert Newton Flew was born at Holsworthy, Devon, on 25 May 1886, the older son of ...

– Methodist theologian *

Bede Griffiths Bede Griffiths OSB Cam (17 December 1906 – 13 May 1993), born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known by the end of his life as Swami Dayananda ("bliss of compassion"), was a British-born priest and Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in Sou ...

– Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East–West religious dialogue *

Thomas Hartwell Horne Thomas Hartwell Horne (20 October 1780 – 27 January 1862) was an English theologian and librarian. Life He was born in London and educated at Christ's Hospital until he was 15 when his father died and he had to work. He then became a clerk ...

– Theologian and librarian *

Percy Henn Reverend Canon Percy Umfreville Henn (21 January 1865 – 25 February 1955) was a clergyman and teacher in England and later Western Australia. He is best known for his time as Headmaster at Guildford Grammar School and later for the building o ...

– Clergyman and schoolmasterAustralian Dictionary of Biography listing for Henn, Percy Umfreville
(accessed 4 March 2007)AustLit Agent Listing for Percy Henn
(accessed 4 March 2007) *

James Horstead James Lawrence Cecil Horstead CMG, CBE (16 February 1898 - 9 June 1989) was an Anglican bishop of Sierra Leone who later became Archbishop of West Africa. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and (after World War I service) Durham University. Hor ...

– Bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa * Ross Hook – Anglican bishop *

Marcus Knight Marcus Larae Knight (born June 19, 1978) is an American football coach and former wide receiver who is currently the wide receivers coach at Ball State University. He played college football at Michigan and professionally as a wide receiver a ...

– Anglican priest * John Townsend – Congregationalist minister and philanthropist

Science and academia

Donald Allan Donald John Allan (born 24 September 1949) is an Australian former cyclist who rode at the Olympic Games and Tour de France. Allan began cycling with the Blackburn Cycling Club in Melbourne. In 1970, he was paralysed in a car accident, breaki ...

– Classical scholar *

W. Sidney Allen William Sidney Allen, (1918–2004), was a British linguist and philologist, best known for his work on Indo-European phonology. Early life and undergraduate education Allen was born in north London, the elder son of William Percy Allen, a m ...

– Linguist and philologist *

Richard Appleton Richard Appleton (17 January 1932 – 27 April 2005) was an Australian poet, raconteur and editor who became editor-in-chief of the '' Australian Encyclopaedia'' and, in 1987, was co-editor with Alex Galloway of the posthumous Lex Banning ...

– Lecturer in mathematics and theology * Andrew Barker – Classical scholar'BARKER, Prof. Andrew Dennison', ''

Who's Who 2017 ''Who's Who'' is a reference work. It is a book, and also a CD-ROM and a website, giving information on influential people from around the world. Published annually as a book since 1849, it lists people who influence British life, according to i ...

'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201
accessed 16 Oct 2017
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Joshua Barnes Joshua Barnes FRS (10 January 1654 – 3 August 1712), was an English scholar. His work ''Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies'' (1675) was an Utopian romance.LeTellier (1997), p. 186. Life ...

– English scholar *

John Beazley Sir John Davidson Beazley, (; 13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the U ...

– Classical scholar * T. A. M. Bishop – Palaeographer, historian, and academic *

Arthur Lyon Bowley Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley, FBA (6 November 1869 – 21 January 1957) was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys. Early life Bowley's father, James Wil ...

– Statistician and economist *

Rupert Bruce-Mitford Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford, FBA, FSA (14 June 1914 – 10 March 1994) was a British archaeologist and scholar, best known for his multi-volume publication on the Sutton Hoo ship burial. He was a noted academic as the Slade Professor of F ...

– Archaeologist and scholar *

Andrew Burn (professor) Andrew Burn (born 1954) is an English professor and media theorist. He is best known for his work in the fields of media arts education, multimodality and play, and for the development of the theory of the Kineikonic Mode. He is a professor of ...

– Media scholar and educationist *

William Burnside :''This English mathematician is sometimes confused with the Irish mathematician William S. Burnside (1839–1920).'' __NOTOC__ William Burnside (2 July 1852 – 21 August 1927) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early rese ...

– Mathematician *

Cyril Burt Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA (3 March 1883 – 10 October 1971) was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who also made contributions to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ. Shortly after he died, his s ...

– Psychologist *

Ida Busbridge Ida Winifred Busbridge (1908–1988) was a British mathematician who taught at the University of Oxford from 1935 until 1970. She was the first woman to be appointed to an Oxford fellowship in mathematics. Early life and education Ida Busbridg ...

– Mathematician *

William Camden William Camden (2 May 1551 – 9 November 1623) was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of ''Britannia'', the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and the ''Annal ...

– Antiquarian and historian *

Ruth Deech Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, DBE (''née'' Fraenkel; born 29 April 1943) is a British academic, lawyer, bioethicist and politician, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994 to 2002, and as t ...

– Academic, lawyer and bioethicist * Robin Du Boulay – Medieval historian * Frederick Field – Theologian and biblical scholar *

John Forsdyke Sir Edgar John Forsdyke KCB (12 September 1883 – 3 December 1979) was Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1936 to 1950. Under his tenure, an attempt was made to clean the Elgin Marbles in 1937, which lasted until 1938 a ...

– Classical scholar and Director of the British Museum *

Cyril Fox Sir Cyril Fred Fox (16 December 1882 – 15 January 1967) was an English archaeologist and museum director. Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales, and subsequently served as director from 1926 to 1948. His most ...

– Archaeologist *

Louis Harold Gray Louis Harold Gray FRS (10 November 1905 – 9 July 1965) was an English physicist who worked mainly on the effects of radiation on biological systems. He was one of the earliest contributors of the field of radiobiology. A summary of his work ...

– Physicist *

George Greenhill Sir Alfred George Greenhill, FRS FRAeS (29 November 1847 in London – 10 February 1927 in London), was a British mathematician. George Greenhill was educated at Christ's Hospital School and from there he went to St John's College, Cambridge ...

– Mathematician *

Jasper Griffin Jasper Griffin (29 May 1937 – 22 November 2019) was a British classicist and academic. He was Public Orator and Professor of Classical Literature in the University of Oxford from 1992 until 2004. Early life Griffin was born on 29 May 1937. H ...

– Professor of Classics at Oxford *

Philip Hall Philip Hall FRS (11 April 1904 – 30 December 1982), was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups. Biography He was educated first at Christ's Hospital, where he won the Thomps ...

– Mathematician *

Roger Highfield Roger Ronald Highfield (born 1958 in Griffithstown, Wales) is an author, science journalist, broadcaster and Science Director at the Science Museum Group. Education Highfield was educated at Chase Side Primary School in Enfield and Christ's Ho ...

– Science author, journalist and broadcaster * Sydney Samuel Hough – Astronomer and mathematician * Beresford Kidd – Anglican priest and Church historianFoster, J. (1888).
''Alumni Oxoniensis: The Members of the University of Oxford 1715–1886, Vol. II, p. 792''
London: Joseph Foster. *

Philip Kitcher Philip Stuart Kitcher (born 20 February 1947) is a British philosopher who is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He specialises in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of mathema ...

– Professor of philosophy *

Norman Longmate Norman Longmate (15 December 1925 – 4 June 2016) was an English author and social and military historian. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. Author of 31 books, and of various r ...

– Author, historian and broadcaster *

Jeremiah Markland Jeremiah Markland (18 October (or 29) 1693 – 7 July 1776) was an English classical scholar. Life He was born in Childwall in Lancashire (now Liverpool) on 29 (or 18) October 1693. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Peterhouse, Cambrid ...

– Classical scholar *

Russell Meiggs Russell Meiggs (20 October 1902 – 24 June 1989) was a British ancient historian. He did extensive research on the Roman port city of Ostia. Early life and education Meiggs was born at Balham, south London, son of William Herrick Meiggs (1866 ...

– Historian *

Peter Padfield Peter L. N. Padfield (3 April 1932 – 14 March 2022) was a British author, biographer, historian, and journalist who specialised in naval history and in the Second World War period. His early journalism appeared under the name P. L. N. Padfield. ...

– Historian *

Rex Paterson Rex Munro Paterson OBE (1902 in London – 1978 in Hampshire) was an English agricultural pioneer whose extensive business and meticulous record keeping enabled him to carry out research and development in dairy farming systems on a scale that w ...

– Agricultural researcher *

Alan Ryan Alan James Ryan (born 9 May 1940) is a British philosopher. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was also Warden of New College, Oxford, from 1996 to 2009.. He retired as Professor Emeritus in September 2015PeAlan Ryan' ...

– Professor *

James Scholefield James Scholefield (15 November 1789 – 4 April 1853), English classical scholar, was born at Henley-on-Thames. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was in 1825 appointed professor of Greek in the university. H ...

– Classical scholar *

Barnes Wallis Sir Barnes Neville Wallis (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979) was an English engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air Force in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack ...

– Scientist, engineer and inventor *

Gerald James Whitrow Gerald James Whitrow (9 June 1912 – 2 June 2000) was a British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian. Biography Whitrow was born on 9 June 1912 at Kimmeridge in Dorset, the elder son of William and Emily (née Watkins) Whitrow. Af ...

– Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian *

F. L. Woodward Frank Lee Woodward (1871–1952) was an English educationist, Pali scholar, author and theosophist. Woodward studied and researched on Theravada Buddhism and wrote numerous work based on them. He is admired among the Pali scholars for compiling ...

– Educationist,

Pali Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pāli Canon'' or ''Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of ''Theravāda'' Buddhism ...

scholar, author and theosophist *

Erik Christopher Zeeman Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS (4 February 1925 – 13 February 2016), was a British mathematician, known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Overview Zeeman's main contributions to mathematics were in topology, partic ...

– Mathematician

Sport

* Jack Bailey – Cricketer and cricket administrator * Cecil Boden – Cricketer * Robert Edwards – Cricketer and clergyman *

Henry Franklin Henry "Skipper" Franklin (born Henry Carl Franklin on October 1, 1940) is an American jazz double bassist. Career Franklin played on Hugh Masekela's 1968 number one single, "Grazing in the Grass," as well as with Masekela's band at the Monte ...

– Cricketer, headmaster and rugby union playerFRANKLIN, Henry William Fernehough
''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) * Jack Gentry – Cricketer * Ælfric Harrison – Cricketer * Ben Allison, Former NCAA D1 Basketball Player for

Davidson Wildcats The Davidson Wildcats are the NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletics teams representing Davidson College of Davidson, North Carolina, United States. A member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10), Davidson College sponsors teams in ten men ...

Andrew Higgins Andrew Jackson Higgins (28 August 1886 – 1 August 1952) was an American businessman and boatbuilder who founded Higgins Industries, the New Orleans-based manufacturer of "Higgins boats" (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel, or LCVPs) during W ...

– Rugby union player * George Hill – Rugby union administrator, official and referee *

Joe Launchbury Joseph Oliver Launchbury (born 12 April 1991) is an English rugby union lock. He represents England at international level and previously played for the under-18s and under-20s before making his Test debut in 2012. Launchbury plays mainly ...

– Rugby union player * James McInerny – Cricketer *

Dennis Silk Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk (8 October 193119 June 2019) was an English first-class cricketer and a public school headmaster. He was a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, of whom he spoke and wrote extensively. In the 1990s he chaired ...

– Schoolmaster and international cricketer * Geoff Smith – Kent cricketerCarlaw D (2017) Geoffrey Smith, Deaths in 2016, ''Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017'', pp.245–246. Canterbury:

Kent County Cricket Club Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Kent. A club representing the county was first founded in 1842 but Ke ...

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Obituaries in 2016, ''

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– Cricketer *Stu Whittingham – Cricketer *Douglas Wright (cricketer, born 1894), Douglas Wright – Cricketer

Writers, Poets, and Journalists

*Cyrus Andrews – Journalist and radio scriptwriter *Thomas Barnes (journalist), Thomas Barnes – Journalist *Robert Black (author), Robert Black – Author, journalist and translator *Edmund Blunden – Poet, author and critic *Guy Boothby - Author *Mark Burgess (children's author), Mark Burgess – Children's authorLee.
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'. Fantasy Book Review. 10 November 2009. *Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher *Kira Cochrane – Journalist and author *Con Coughlin – Journalist and author *James Coomarasamy – Correspondent *Keith Douglas – Poet *Charles Lamb (writer), Charles Lamb – Essayist *James Henry Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt – Critic, essayist, and poet *Bernard Levin – Journalist, author and broadcaster"Bernard Levin Obituary"
''The Times'', 10 August 2004 *Bryan Magee – Broadcaster, politician, and author *Aylmer and Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude – Translator *John Middleton Murry – Writer *Samuel Richardson - Writer *Rupert Thomson – Novelist *Samuel Cobb (poet) – Poet *Horace Newte, Horace W. C. Newte – Author *George Dyer (poet), George Dyer – Poet

Politics

*Jenkin Coles – Australian politician *Owen Cox – Australian businessman and politician *Samuel Hayden – Canadian politician *Steve Hilton – Political strategist *Stuart Holland – Labour politician and academic *David Graham Hutton, Graham Hutton – Economist, author and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician‘HUTTON, (David) Graham’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201
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Other

*Bob Allen (surgeon), Bob Allen – Army surgeon and journalist *William Bankes Amery – Civil servant and accountant *Edmund Bartley-Denniss – Barrister, Member of parliament#United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, member of parliament, freemason and British cycling pioneer *Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet, Francis Bullen - Judge *Thomas Cass (surveyor), Thomas Cass – Surveyor *Richard Cavendish (occult writer), Richard Cavendish – Occult writer *Richard W. B. Clarke, Richard Clarke – Civil servant *Henry Cole – Civil servant and inventor *Edward Colston – Slave trader *Richard Dagley – Painter and illustrator *Arthur Dorman – Industrialist *Death of Jeremiah Duggan, Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003 * John Edmonds (trade unionist), John Edmonds – Trade Union Leader *Thomas Everard (mayor), Thomas Everard – Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia *Alan Fletcher (graphic designer), Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram *Rob Gauntlett – Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker *David Green (Director of the SFO), David Green – Director of the Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom), Serious Fraud Office *Francis Seymour Haden – Etcher and surgeon *Harold Harding – Civil engineer *Daniel Harper (headmaster), Daniel Harper – Headmaster and List of Principals and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford *Msizi Africa#Founder, Lucy Herron – Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa *James Hooper – Adventurer *Donald Hopson – Diplomat *Rupert Jackson – Lord Justice of Appeal *Geraint Jennings – Jersey politician and linguist *Gabriel Jones (Virginia), Gabriel Jones – Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia *Edward Keane (politician), Edward Keane – Australian engineer, businessman, and politicianRoberts, Kim
Keane, Edward Vivien Harvey (1844–1904)
– Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 8 November 2017. *W. C. G. Knowles, William Charles Goddard Knowles – British businessman in Hong Kong *Arthur Ling – architect and urban planner *Henry James Sumner Maine – Comparative jurist and historian *David Norgrove – Businessman *William Nye (courtier), William Nye – Principal Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–2015 *Phillip Osborne – Explorer *Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – Architect, designer, and theorist of design *Percy Pyne – President of Citigroup, City National Bank in the United States *Tony Ray-Jones – PhotographerRichard Ehrlich, "Introduction", ''Tony Ray-Jones'' (Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1990) *John Septimus Roe – Surveyor-General of Western Australia *George Ritchie Sandford – Barrister, Financial Secretary of Palestine (1940–1944), Chief Secretary of Tanganyika (1944–1946), Governor of the Bahamas (1950) *Jonathan Scott (zoologist), Jonathan Scott – Wildlife photographer and TV presenter *Stephan Shakespeare – Business man and entrepreneur *David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury – Business man *Charles Robert Smith – Governor of North Borneo *Chris Steele-Perkins – Photographer *William Alder Strange, DD, William Alder Strange – Headmaster and author *Mark Thomas – Comedian and political activist *Edward Thornton (1766–1852), Edward Thornton – Diplomat *Richard Thornton – Merchant and trader *Ian Trethowan, Sir Ian Trethowan – Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist *Keith Vaughan – Painter *Alexander Vidal – US Land surveyor, banker and political figure *Holly Walsh – Comedian *E F Watling – Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator *James White (1775-1820) – Advertising agent

References

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