King James's School, Almondbury

History

The school today

Publications

Notable former pupils

King James's Grammar School

• Felix Aylmer, actor
• Jon Barton, Editor from 1996-98 of Today, and Editor from 1994-96 of the One O'Clock and Six O'Clock TV news
• Sir John George Beharrell, former managing director of the Dunlop Rubber Company and a director of Imperial Airways
• David Brown, Managing Director David Brown & Sons and owner of Aston Martin Ltd.
• Peter Carter QC, Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee from 2003–05
• Rev Prof Benjamin Franklin Cocker, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
• Prof Paul Crowther, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sheffield
• Prof Alex Danchev, military, politics and art historian and biographer
• Maj-Gen Henry Evans CB, Director of Army Education from 1969–72
• Prof Ian Graham Gass, Professor of Earth Sciences at the Open University from 1969–82
• Philip Goldsmith, President of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1982–85
• Michael Hardcastle prolific author of Children's literature
• Sir Harold Percival Himsworth, former Honorary Physician to the Queen
• Derek Ibbotson, athlete
• Michael Jackson, writer and beer connoisseur
• Gorden Kaye, actor
• Prof Henry Laycock, Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada
• Herbert Morley CBE, Director General and Manager of Steel, Peech and Tozer from 1965–68
• David Morphet, author
• Prof Alan Prout, sociologist, University of Leeds
• Ryan Sidebottom, England cricketer
• Robert Stephenson, Metropolitan Police detective
• Prof Keith Vickerman, Regius Professor of Zoology from 1984–98 at the University of Glasgow
• Prof James Pounder Whitney, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge from 1919–39
• Dr Judy Hirst,, Deputy Director of the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit at the University of Cambridge