Old Wykehamists are former pupils of

Winchester College Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of ...

, so called in memory of the school's founder,

William of Wykeham William of Wykeham (; 1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404) was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of wor ...

. He was

Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England. The bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire. The Bishop of Winchester has always held ''ex officio'' (except ...

and

Lord Chancellor The lord chancellor, formally the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. Th ...

of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school and a university college,

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at ...

, in 1382; both of them were set up to provide an education for 70 scholars. Winchester College opened in 1394. William of Wykeham provided that up to two pupils a year who could prove they were his descendants could attend the school at its expense; they were known as ''Consanguineus Fundatoris'', "Founder's Kin". Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes records that the tradition ended in 1868, by which time fourteen members of his family had received a free education. At first only a small number of pupils other than scholars were admitted; by the 15th century the school had around 100 pupils in total, nominally the 70 scholars, 16 choirboys and the rest "commoners". Demand for places for commoners was high, and though at first restricted, numbers gradually rose. From the 1860s, ten boarding houses, each for up to sixty pupils, were added, greatly increasing the school's capacity. By 2020, the number of pupils had risen to 690. The school's traditions include a 600-year-old ceremony in which the Warden, wearing the Founder's Ring, admits each new Scholar; "Illumina", an autumn celebration, in which candles are placed into niches all over the medieval walls around the playing fields; and "Morning Hills", held once a year, when all the school's pupils and teachers climb St Catherine's Hill for a roll call and prayers. The ''Ad Portas'' ("At the Gates") ceremony is held as an honour for distinguished guests and alumni; all members of the school stand in the medieval Chamber Court to hear the speeches. In 2011, nineteen alumni (and six more honoured in their absence), all

Fellows of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathemati ...

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, were welcomed ''Ad Portas'', with speeches in Latin and English. Among the Old Wykehamists listed here are four

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s, including one of the school's earliest pupils,

Henry Chichele Henry Chichele ( , also Checheley; – 12 April 1443) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1414–1443) and founded All Souls College, Oxford. Early life Chichele was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364; Chicheley told Pope Eug ...

; four

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s; commanders of both Fighter Command and Bomber Command during the

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— Hugh Dowding and

Charles Portal Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, (21 May 1893 – 22 April 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as a bomber pilot in the First World War, and rose to become fi ...

, respectively; and two

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Archibald Wavell Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded i ...

and Frederic Thesiger. The many politicians include six Chancellors of the Exchequer:

Henry Addington Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (30 May 175715 February 1844) was an English Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804. Addington is best known for obtaining the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, a ...

for the Tory Party;

Robert Lowe Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, GCB, PC (4 December 1811 – 27 July 1892), British statesman, was a pivotal conservative spokesman who helped shape British politics in the latter half of the 19th century. He held office under William E ...

for the Liberal Party;

Stafford Cripps Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer by background, he first entered Parliament at a by-election in 1931, and was one of a handful of La ...

and

Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant ...

for the Labour Party; and

Geoffrey Howe Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015) was a British Conservative politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1990. Howe was Margaret Thatch ...

and

Rishi Sunak Rishi Sunak (; born 12 May 1980) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since October 2022. He previously held two cabinet positions under Boris Johnson, lastly as ...

for the

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. Of these Henry Addington and Rishi Sunak went on to become

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. The individuals listed are classified by decade or century of birth, with a note of how each distinguished himself. Those who won military medals are listed at the foot of the page; six Old Wykehamists have won Britain's highest military award, the

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. Individuals are included here only if they have distinguished themselves at the highest level within their profession or achieved national recognition. Thus, for example, politicians are included only if they are members of the privy council or have a cabinet position; sportspeople, only if they have distinguished themselves in a national competition or represented their country; for soldiers, that they have reached a rank equivalent to major-general, or won a gallantry award; members of a profession, that they are recognised as distinguished by their profession's leading institution, such as being a fellow of the

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or the

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. As another example, national recognition in business means being chair or chief executive of a

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company.

Fourteenth century

Henry Chichely, Archbishop of Canterbury

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Thomas Beckington Thomas Beckington (also spelt Beckynton; c. 139014 January 1465) was the Bishop of Bath and Wells and King's Secretary in medieval England under Henry VI. Life Beckington was born at Beckington in Somerset, and was educated at Winchester a ...

, statesman

Fifteenth century

* Thomas Chaundler, playwright and illustrator *

William Horman William Horman (c. 1440 – April 1535) was a headmaster at Eton and Winchester College in the early Tudor period of English history. He is best known for his Latin grammar textbook the ''Vulgaria'', which created controversy at the time due to ...

, translator * William Grocyn, scholar * William Warham,

Hugh Inge Hugh Inge or Ynge(c. 1460 – 3 August 1528) was an English-born judge and prelate in sixteenth century Ireland who held the offices of Bishop of Meath, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Biography Inge was born at Shepton Malle ...

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Richard Pace Richard Pace (c. 148228 June 1536) was an English clergyman and diplomat of the Tudor period. Life He was born in Hampshire and educated at Winchester College under Thomas Langton. He attended the universities of Padua and Oxford. In 1509, he ...

, diplomat * Richard Risby, friar SirHenryWotton

Sixteenth century

* Henry Cole, Roman Catholic priest *

Nicholas Udall Nicholas Udall (or Uvedale Udal, Woodall, or other variations) (1504 – 23 December 1556) was an English playwright, cleric, schoolmaster, the author of ''Ralph Roister Doister'', generally regarded as the first comedy written in the English ...

, Headmaster of Eton and playwright * Henry Garnet, complicit in the

Gunpowder Plot The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who sough ...

* John White, bishop * Nicholas Harpsfield, Roman Catholic apologist *

Richard Reade Sir Richard Reade (1511–1576) was an English-born judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Background and early career He was born at Nether Wallop in Hampshire, second son of Richard Reade (d ...

Lord Chancellor of Ireland The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. From 1721 to 1801, it was also the highest political office of ...

Nicholas Sanders Nicholas Sanders (also spelled Sander; c. 1530 – 1581) was an English Catholic priest and polemicist. Early life Sanders was born at Sander Place near Charlwood, Surrey, one of twelve children of William Sanders, once sheriff of Surrey, who ...

, Roman Catholic priest, missionary and historian *

Thomas Bilson Thomas Bilson (1547 – 18 June 1616) was an Anglican Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of Winchester. With Miles Smith, he oversaw the final edit and printing of the King James Bible. Life Years under the Tudors (1547–1603) Thomas Bilson's fa ...

, bishop *

John Harmar John Harmar (ca. 1555–1613) was an English classical scholar and Warden of Winchester College. Life Harmar was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, (BA 1577, MA 1582) under the patronage of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leiceste ...

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of Winchester College, one of the translators of the

Authorised Version The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version, is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of ...

of the Bible * John Owen, Welsh

epigrammatist An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" from "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two millen ...

* Henry Wotton, author and diplomat * Arthur Lake, bishop * John Davies, poet * Thomas James, librarian *

Thomas Coryat Thomas Coryat (also Coryate) (c. 15771617) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through ...

, travel writer, court jester to

James I James I may refer to: People *James I of Aragon (1208–1276) *James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327) *James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu *James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347) *James I of Cyprus (1334–13 ...

* Henry Marten, Judge of Admiralty * Thomas Ryves, lawyer * Richard Zouch, judge and politician *

Edward Nicholas Sir Edward Nicholas (4 April 15931669) was an English officeholder and politician who served as Secretary of State to Charles I and Charles II. He also sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. He served as secretary ...

, statesman NathanielFiennes

Seventeenth century

* Nathaniel Fiennes,

Roundhead Roundheads were the supporters of the Parliament of England during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Also known as Parliamentarians, they fought against King Charles I of England and his supporters, known as the Cavaliers or Royalists, who ...

politician * Thomas Ken, bishop, non-juror and hymnwriter * Francis Turner, bishop and non-juror * Thomas Otway, dramatist *

Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne (; 19 October 160519 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curi ...

, doctor, polymath, scholar, prose stylist * Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and author *

William Somervile William Somervile or Somerville (2 September 167517 July 1742) was an English poet who wrote in many genres and is especially remembered for "The Chace", in which he pioneered an early English georgic. Life Somervile, the eldest son of a long es ...

, poet *

Edward Young Edward Young (c. 3 July 1683 – 5 April 1765) was an English poet, best remembered for ''Night-Thoughts'', a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the mo ...

, poet

Eighteenth century

Robert Lowth Robert Lowth ( ; 27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar. Life Lowth was born in Hampshire, England, ...

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Hebraist A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, a ...

and English grammarian * William Whitehead,

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* William Collins, poet *

Joseph Warton Joseph Warton (April 1722 – 23 February 1800) was an English academic and literary critic. He was born in Dunsfold, Surrey, England, but his family soon moved to Hampshire, where his father, the Reverend Thomas Warton, became vicar of Bas ...

, literary critic and Headmaster of Winchester * William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, nobleman, and a noted gambler * Thomas Warton,

* James Eyre, judge * Charles Wolfran Cornwall, Speaker of the House of Commons * James Woodforde, clergyman and diarist *

George Isaac Huntingford George Isaac Huntingford (1748–1832) was successively of Bishop of Gloucester and Bishop of Hereford The Bishop of Hereford is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury. The episcopal see is c ...

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and

Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east o ...

* Thomas Burgess, author * Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth,

John Hawkins John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

, geologist, traveller, and Fellow of the

William Lisle Bowles William Lisle Bowles (24 September 17627 April 1850) was an English priest, poet and critic. Life and career Bowles was born at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was vicar. At the age of 14 he entered Winchester College, where ...

, poet who revived the sonnet * William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury * William Sturges Bourne, Tory politician, Home Secretary *

Sydney Smith Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric. Early life and education Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith (1739–1827) and Maria Olier (1750–1801) ...

, essayist and satirist * Richard Mant,

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bishop and writer * John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, Field Marshal and colonial governor * William Buckland, theologian and geologist * William Ward (cricketer, born 1787), William Ward, record-scoring cricketer * Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School, Rugby * Walter Farquhar Hook, Tractarian vicar of Leeds * Thomas Oliphant (musician and artist), Thomas Oliphant, musician and lyricist

Nineteenth century

James Edwards Sewell, Vanity Fair, 1894-04-05

1800–1819

* William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley,

* George Moberly, Headmaster of Winchester College, later Bishop of Salisbury * William Sewell (author), William Sewell, divine and author * Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln * Thomas Adolphus Trollope, author * James Edwards Sewell,

of New College, Oxford. * Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, statesman * William George Ward, prominent in the Oxford Movement * William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, Liberal politician * Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne * Arthur Farmer (cricketer), Arthur Farmer, cricketer * Anthony Trollope, novelist * Nicholas Darnell (cricketer), Nicholas Darnell, cricketer * John Strange (cricketer), John Strange, cricketer

1820–1839

* William Grasett Clarke, cricketer and clergyman * Matthew Arnold, poet * Sir James Freeling, 7th Baronet, James Freeling, cricketer and clergyman * Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Frank Buckland, naturalist * Arthur Ridding, cricketer, educator and librarian * George Ridding, Headmaster of Winchester, later Bishop of Southwell * Henry Furneaux, scholar of Tacitus * William Tuckwell, Christian socialist clergyman and author of ''Reminiscences of Oxford'' * Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian * Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons, 1st Viscount and Earl Lyons, diplomat * Philip Lutley Sclater, lawyer, ornithologist (founder of ''Ibis (journal), Ibis''), zoogeographer, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years * Ford North, Judge of the High Court of Justice and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council * Ashley Eden, colonial administrator, member of the Council of India * Cecil Fiennes, cricketer, descendant of William of Wykeham * Philip Reginald Egerton, founder of Bloxham School * Arthur Faber, headmaster of Malvern College * Wingfield Fiennes, cricketer and clergyman, descendant of William of Wykeham

1840–1859

* Herbert Stewart, soldier * Robert Campbell Moberly, theologian * Samuel Rolles Driver, biblical scholar * Thomas Hughes (footballer), Thomas Hughes, association football, footballer who won the FA Cup twice in the 1870s * William Lindsay (footballer), William Lindsay, England footballer and three times FA Cup winner * Leonard Howell (footballer), Leonard Howell, Wanderers F.C., Wanderers and England footballer * Charles Marriott (cricketer, born 1848), Charles Marriott, cricketer and barrister * Francis Birley, association football, footballer who won the FA Cup three times in the 1870s * Theodore Dyke Acland, physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria * Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council * John Bain (footballer, born 1854), John Bain, England footballer and 1877 FA Cup Finalist * John Hewett (civil servant), John Hewett, Lieutenant Governor of United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Agra and Oudh * Ponsonby Ogle, writer and journalist * Montague John Druitt, suspected of being Jack the Ripper * David Samuel Margoliouth, orientalist * G. E. M. Skues, pioneer of fly fishing with nymphs * William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne,

* Percival Parr, footballer and barrister

1860–1869

* Francis J. Haverfield, historian of Roman BritainSabben-Clare, 1981. p. 187 * Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary 1905–16Leach, 1899. p. 510 * Arthur Cayley Headlam, Principal of King's College London (1903–16) Bishop of Gloucester (1923–45)Wainewright, 1907. p. 335 * Frederic G. Kenyon, classical scholar * Robert Laurie Morant, administrator and educator * Arthur Cobb, wicket-keeper on early tour of America * John Beresford Leathes, physiologist * Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise, cricketer and soldier * H. A. L. Fisher, historian, politician * Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, Arthur Pearson, newspaper magnate, founder of the ''Daily Express'' * Herbert Lyon (cricketer), Herbert Lyon, cricketer * Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Colonial Governor and Governor-General of India, Viceroy of India * Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 1915–1944 * General Reginald Byng Stephens, soldier'Stephens, General Sir Reginald Byng', in ''Who's Who (UK), Who Was Who, 1951–1960'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1984 reprint, ) * Ernest Makins, soldier, statesman and politician

1870–1879

* Bernard Granville Baker, soldier, author, military artist * Lord Lord Alfred Douglas, Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, poet and companion of Oscar Wilde * Edmund Fellowes, musicologist, clergyman * Alnod Boger, cricketer * Thomas Case (cricketer, born 1871), Thomas Case, cricketer and brewer * Udny Yule, statistician * Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, Edmund Backhouse, "The Hermit of Peking" * William Case (cricketer), William Case, cricketer * Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak * Ewart Grogan, explorer and colonist * Thomas Henderson (cricketer), Thomas Henderson, cricketer and surgeon * Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Savoy opera producer, hotelier * William Sealy Gosset, statistician with Guinness (inventor of Student's t-test) * G. H. Hardy, mathematician and mentor of RamanujanSabben-Clare, 1981. pp. 186–187 * Robert Lock Graham Irving, schoolmaster, writer and mountaineer * Leopold George Wickham Legg, historian and editor of the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' * Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, peer * Percy Bates, shipbuilder and The Inklings, Inkling * Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, first Head of the Home Civil Service * Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, colonial administrator and politician * Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum * Alan Reynolds (cricketer), Alan Reynolds, cricketer and soldier * Jack White (trade unionist), Jack White, trade union organiser, Irish republican and socialist who co-founded the Irish Citizen Army * Ralph Williams (cricketer), Ralph Williams, cricketer and barrister * Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Zionist historian and political scientist

1880–1889

* Maurice Bonham Carter, Maurice Bonham-Carter, politician and cricketer * Robert Darling, Scottish cricketer * Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman, politician * Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Battle of Britain commanderSabben-Clare, 1981. p. 172 * Henry Morshead, Himalayan explorer and mountaineer * Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Field Marshal and Viceroy of India * Adam Fox (poet), Adam Fox, theologian and Inklings, Inkling * Robert Hamilton Moberly, bishop * Charles Malan, postmaster-general of the United Provinces of British India, United Provinces. * Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare, peerLamb, 1974. p. 275 * George Mallory, mountaineer on first three British expeditions to Mount EverestSabben-Clare, 1981. p. 110 * William Reginald Halliday, Principal of King's College London (1928–1952) * Apsley Cherry-Garrard Member of Captain Scott's expedition of 1912Sabben-Clare, 1981. p. 190 * Arthur Stanley-Clarke, soldier * Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, Minister of Economic Warfare * Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland * Charles Bewley, Irish diplomatWainewright, 1907. p. 602 * Christopher Dawson, Roman Catholic historian *

, Labour Party (UK), Labour politicianSabben-Clare, 1981. p. 179 * Armstrong Gibbs, composer * Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator of Proust * Geoffrey Toye, composer and conductor * Arnold J. Toynbee, historian * Ralph H. Fowler, mathematical physicist Charles Portal 1947

1890–1899

* A. P. Herbert, humorist and law reformer * John William Fisher Beaumont, Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court * John Maurice Hardman Campbell, John Campbell, cardiologist * Olaf Caroe, writer and colonial administrator * Spencer Leeson, headmaster and bishop * Godfrey Rolles Driver, biblical scholar * Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force * Maxwell Woosnam, Olympic and The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon lawn tennis champion and England football captain * Robert Nichols (poet), Robert Nichols, war poet * Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe, barrister * George MacLeod, Very Rev Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Moderator, Church of Scotland * A. G. Macdonell, author, journalist and playwright * Egon Pearson, statistician * Gilbert Ashton, cricketer and schoolmaster * Oswald Mosley, British fascism, fascist leader * Henry Gurney, colonial administrator, assassinated in Malaya * John Sinclair (British Army officer), John Sinclair, former Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) * Edward Tennant (poet), Edward Tennant, war poet * Ronald Tree, Conservative MP and founder of Sandy Lane (resort), Sandy Lane, Barbados * Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett, industrialist * Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, landowner, far-right writer and politician * Hubert Ashton, footballer, cricketer and politician * Charles Brutton, cricketer * Arthur Norrington, President of Trinity College, Oxford

Twentieth century

1900–1909

* Douglas Jardine, England cricketer * David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, Minister of State for the Arts * Cecil Harmsworth King, newspaper publisher * Claude Ashton, Essex cricketer and England footballer * Anthony Asquith, film director * E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist, author of ''Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande'' * Francis Festing, Field Marshal * Nowell Myres, archaeologist, Bodley's Librarian * John Dring, Prime Minister of Bahawalpur (princely state), Bahawalpur * George D'Oyly Snow, headmaster of Ardingly College and Bishop of Whitby * Charles Bosanquet (academic), Charles Bosanquet, academic * Kenneth Clark, art historian and broadcaster * Frank Ramsey (mathematician), Frank Ramsey, philosopher, mathematician, economist * Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, writer on Islamic history * John Snagge, Second World War BBC announcer * Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, ambassador * Colin Clark (economist), Colin Clark, economist and statistician * Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes, archaeologistSabben-Clare, 1981. p. 136 * William Goodenough Hayter, diplomat, ambassador and

* John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, John Sparrow, literary critic and

of All Souls College, Oxford, All Souls * William Empson, literary critic *

, leader of the Labour Party * Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Law Lord * Richard Crossman, Labour Party (UK), Labour politician and diarist * Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, Labour Party (UK), Labour politician * Evelyn Shuckburgh, diplomat * Douglas Dodds-Parker, soldier and politician

1910–1919

* Nicholas Monsarrat, naval officer, diplomat and author of The Cruel Sea (novel), ''The Cruel Sea'' * John Stephenson (judge), John Stephenson, Lord Justice of Appeal * John Fiennes (lawyer), John Fiennes, lawyer and First Parliamentary Counsel, parliamentary draftsman * Roger Tredgold, fencer and psychiatrist * John William Sutton Pringle, John Pringle, zoologist * Bruce Campbell (ornithologist), Bruce Campbell, ornithologist, writer and broadcaster * D. G. Champernowne, economist and mathematician. * Charles Madge, poet, Communist party, Communist, sociologist * Basil William Robinson, Asian art scholar and author * Martin Wright (bioengineer), Basil Martin Wright, inventor of the Peak flow meter * Shaun Wylie, mathematician and Second World War Enigma machine, Enigma and Lorenz cipher, Tunny codebreaker * Robert Irving (conductor), Robert Irving, conductor * Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Richard Synge, Nobel prize winning biochemist * Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, Lord Aldington, politician and businessman * Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, government minister * Michael Carver, Baron Carver, Field Marshal and philosopher * Robert Conquest, historian specialising in Joseph Stalin's purges * Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington, Monty Woodhouse, Philhellene and politician * Julian Faber, businessman * James Joll, historian * William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Willie Whitelaw, politician * George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, George Jellicoe, aka Viscount Brocas, soldier, statesman, businessman, diplomat * M. R. D. Foot, historian * Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, politician

1920–1929

* Henry Brandon, Baron Brandon of Oakbrook, Henry Brandon, Law Lord * Frank Thompson (SOE officer), Frank Thompson, SOE officer * Anthony Storr, psychiatrist and author * John Latham (artist), John Latham, artist * Horace Barlow, neuroscientist * Mark Bonham Carter, publisher and politician * Tony Pawson (cricketer), Tony Pawson, angler and cricketer * Paul Britten Austin, translator of Swedish literature * Peter Fowler (physicist), Peter Fowler, physicist working on elementary particles * Hugh Beach, soldier, researcher into disarmament and ethics of war * Freeman Dyson, physicist and mathematician * H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist * Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher and academic * James Lighthill, applied mathematician working on fluid dynamics * Michael Gow (British Army officer), Michael Gow, general * Brian Trubshaw, Concorde test pilot * Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, mathematician and oceanographer * Hubert Doggart, cricketer and schoolmaster * Michael Dummett, philosopher * John Balcombe, Lord Justice of Appeal * Jack Boles, Director-General of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust *

, Lord Howe of Aberavon, politician * Edgar Anstey (psychologist), Edgar Anstey, Civil Service (United Kingdom), Civil Service psychologist to the Cuban Missile Crisis * Ian G. Macdonald, Ian Macdonald, mathematician * Martin Beale, applied mathematician and statistician * Jeremy Morse, banker and university chancellor * John Lucas (philosopher), John Lucas, philosopher * Raymond Bonham Carter, banker * Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, politician

1930–1939

* Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General * George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Secretary of State for Defence * Reginald Bosanquet, ITN newscaster * Antony Jameson, Guy Antony Jameson, aeronautical engineer and mathematician * David J. Thouless, David Thouless, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel prizewinning physicist * Nicholas Mackintosh, experimental psychologist * William Donaldson, writer and satirist; creator of Henry Root * Julian Mitchell, playwright and screenwriter * David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, ambassador to the United Nations Bishop Richard Williamson

* Jonathan D. Spence, historian and sinologist * John Albery, scientist * Ian Gow, politician * Jonathan Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal * Paul Bergne, intelligence officer, linguist and diplomat * Peter Jay (diplomat), Peter Jay, economist, journalist and ambassador * Christopher Miles, film director

1940–1949

* Richard Williamson (bishop), Richard Williamson, controversial bishop * Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, captain of India's cricket teamSabben-Clare, 1981. p. 95 * Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedian * Andrew Large, banker and businessman * Patrick Minford, economist * Hew Pike, soldier * Andrew Longmore, Lord Justice of Appeal * Madhavrao Scindia, Indian cabinet minister * Martin Nourse, Lord Justice of Appeal * Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme, Lord Jay of Ewelme, head of the Foreign Office * Antony Beevor, military historian * Richard Noble, designer of the ThrustSSC * Timothy Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal Robyn Hitchcock, Oct

* Charles Sinclair (businessman), Charles Sinclair, businessman, Warden of Winchester College 2014–2019 * David Clementi, financier, Warden of Winchester College 2008–2014

1950–1959

* Christopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester, Labour peer * Tim Eggar, Conservative politician * Anthony Pawson, biochemist * Nicholas Underhill, Lord Justice of Appeal * Robyn Hitchcock, singer, songwriter * Alan Lovell, businessman * Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, mathematician * James Mallet, evolutionary zoologist, winner of the Darwin–Wallace Medal * James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie, peer and politician * Richard Stagg, ambassador,

of Winchester College 2019– * Nicholas Shakespeare, novelist and journalist * Michael Hofmann, poet and translator * J.G. Sandom, author and interactive advertising pioneer * Francis Pott (composer), Francis Pott, composer and pianist * John Whittingdale, Culture Secretary * John Y. Campbell, John Campbell, economist Joss Whedon by Gage Skidmore 7

* Seumas Milne, journalist * Jon Leyne, BBC foreign correspondent * James Bucknall, soldier * Peter Neyroud, police chief * Nick Carter (British Army officer), Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom), Chief of the Defence Staff; ''Ad Portas'', 2021

1960–1969

* David Soskice, political economist * Korn Chatikavanij, banker and politician, finance minister of Thailand * Joss Whedon, screenwriter and film director * Nick Boles, Minister of State for Skills * Charles Edwards (English actor), Charles Edwards, actor

1970–1979

* Saif Ali Khan, actor * Alistair Potts, world champion cox * Simon Henderson, List of Head Masters of Eton College, Headmaster of Eton College * Hugh Dancy, actor

1980–1989

* James Forsyth (journalist), James Forsyth, journalist * Anthony Smith (sculptor), Anthony Smith, sculptor * George Nash (rower), George Nash, Olympic rower

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

Six Old Wykehamists have won the

(VC), four in the First World War, 1914–18 (of whom three were killed in action) and two prior to 1914. Also in the Second World War one Old Wykehamist won the George Cross and one the George Medal, both in military circumstances. *

**Indian Mutiny ***Lieutenant Alfred Spencer Heathcote VC (1832–1912) for his conduct during the Siege of Delhi **Boer War ***Lieutenant Gustavus Hamilton Blenkinsopp Coulson VC Distinguished Service Order, DSO (1879–1901) **First World War ***Captain Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby VC, Military Cross, MC (1885–1915) ***Second Lieutenant Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt VC, (1897–1917) ***Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie VC, (1868–1915) ***Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Burges VC, DSO, Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France), Croix de guerre avec Palme (1873–1946) *George Cross **

***Sub-Lieutenant Peter Victor Danckwerts George Cross, GC (1916–1984) for gallantry defusing mines dropped on London *George Medal **

***Lieutenant Geoffrey Ambrose Hodges, RNVR (military, but for gallantry not in the face of the enemy)

References

Cited sources

* Badcock, C. F.; La Corrie, J. R. ''Winchester College: A Register for the Years 1930 To 1975''. Winchester College, 1992. * Dilke, Christopher.
Dr Moberly's Mint-Mark: A Study of Winchester College
'. London, 1965. * John Firth (cricketer), Firth, J. D'E. ''Winchester College''. Winchester, 1961. * Hardy, H. J.
Winchester College, 1867–1920
' P. and G. Wells, 1923. * Lamb, L. H. ''Winchester College A Register 1915–1960''. P. & G. Wells, 1974. * Leach, Arthur F.
A History of Winchester College
'. London and New York, 1899. * Maclure, P. S. W. K.; Stevens, R. P. ''Winchester College, A Register''. Winchester College, 2014. * Sabben-Clare, James. ''Winchester College''. Paul Cave Publications, 1981. * Wainewright, John Bannerman (ed).
Winchester College 1836–1906: A Register
'. P. and G. Wells, 1907. {{DEFAULTSORT:Old Wykehamists Lists of people by English school affiliation, Winchester People educated at Winchester College, * Winchester College Hampshire-related lists, Wykehamists