List of Old Cliftonians

Academics

• John Barron, classicist and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford
• Eric Birley, Vindolanda archaeologist, Classical scholar
• Simon Blackburn, philosopher, founder of quasi-realism
• Frederick S. Boas
• Horatio Brown, historian
• Norman O. Brown, author, philosopher
• Charles Alfred Coulson, chemist
• G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Classical scholar
• Sir Charles Harding Firth, historian
• Herbert Paul Grice, philosopher
• Philip D'Arcy Hart, pioneer in tuberculosis treatment
• Sir Thomas Little Heath, polymath, civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator and mountaineer
• Professor Arthur Hutchinson OBE FRS, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Arthur Wilberforce Jose, historian and journalist
• Martin Lings, scholar
• John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, philosopher
• John Pinkerton, designer of world's first business computer, the LEO computer
• Harold Arthur Prichard, philosopher
• Reginald Punnett, geneticist
• Ivor Armstrong Richards scholar, critic, rhetorician author The Meaning of Meaning
• Sir Richard Threlfall, physicist and chemical engineer
• Herbert Hall Turner, Professor of Astronomy and seismologist
• Conrad Hal Waddington, developmental biologist, palaeontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher
• Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, Professor of Poetry and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
• R. P. Winnington-Ingram, scholar of Greek tragedy, Professor of Greek at King's College, London

  Public life and the law

• Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet
• Sir James Allen, New Zealand politician
• Mirza Osman Ali Baig, MBE, Indian Army officer, Pakistani diplomat and statesman, and Secretary-General of CENTO
• Michael Bear, Lord Mayor of London 2010/11
• Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood, Conservative member of the House of Lords
• Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel, KBE Conservative MP.
• Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of War, 1937–1940
• Sir Edward John Cameron,, colonial administrator
• Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
• Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter, CIE Barrister
• John Bonham-Carter Liberal Party Politician
• Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, GCMG, PC
• Sir John Biggs-Davison, Conservative politician
• Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP
• Viscount Caldecote, Sir Thomas Inskip, lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
• Alban Dobson, civil servant, secretary of the International Whaling Commission, president of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, Master of the Rolls and Law Lord
• Geoff Gollop, OBE, Deputy Mayor of Bristol, former Lord Mayor and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol
• Sir James Heath Bt, MP North West Staffordshire.
• Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol, Diplomat
• Sir Thomas Little Heath, Treasury Secretary and scholar and author.
• Lord Henley 8th Baron Henley. Tory Politician
• Sir Roger Hollis, journalist, secret-service agent and director general of MI5
• Syed Fakhar Imam, the 11th Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan.
• Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, Conservative politician
• Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet, Irish Politician, Senator 1st, 2nd, 3rd Seanad
• Neville Laski QC Judge and leader of Anglo Jewry
• Sir John May, Judge
• Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta, English judge, leader of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the UK
• Edwin Samuel Montagu, Liberal politician
• Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling
• Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet, Industrialist and Liberal MP
• Sir Peter Newsam chairman of Commission for Racial Equality and Inner London Education Authority chief education officer.
• Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton GCMG
• Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services Authority
• Colin Sleeman, Assistant Judge Advocate General, senior defence counsel for Japanese accused of war crimes
• Abel Thomas, Welsh Liberal MP
• Col. Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, brother of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet, Liberal and Labour, Minister in Ramsay MacDonald government.
• Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood, 1st Bt
• Philip William Wheeldon Bishop of Whitby
• Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet KC MP, barrister and politician
• John Henry Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons 1921–1928
• Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, Conservative politician
• Baron Wyfold, Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, Bt MP.
• Jeremy Hackett British fashion designer, founder of Hackett clothing

  Military

• Field Marshal Douglas Haig
• Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
• Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan
• Sir Francis Younghusband, British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist
• Sir Hugh Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO, general
• Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, General of the Territorial Army and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta.
• Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Watt, Australian flying ace in First World War
• Percy Hobart KBE CB DSO MC, military engineer
• Cecil Rawling, CMG CIE DSO FRGS, soldier, explorer and author
• Alexander Kearsey, OBE, DSO, soldier, cricketer and military historian
• Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
• Jock Hamilton-Baillie MC
• John Whitty, MC DSO

  Holders of the Victoria Cross

• Second Boer War:
• *Sergeant Horace Robert Martineau VC . He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant.
• First World War:
• *Richard Douglas Sandford VC was a Royal Navy officer who took part in the Zeebrugge Raid and won the Victoria Cross.
• *Captain Theodore Wright, VC
• *Lieutenant Cyril Gordon Martin, VC, CBE, DSO . He later achieved the rank of Brigadier.
• *Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew, VC . He later achieved the rank of Captain.
• *Captain George Henry Tatham Paton, VC, MC
• Russian Civil War:
• *Commander Claude Congreve Dobson, VC, DSO
• Second World War:
• *Lance-Corporal John Pennington Harman, VC,

  Arts

Literature

• C. E. W. Bean, War Correspondent and Official Historian of Australia during the First World War
• Joyce Cary, writer
• L. P. Hartley, author
• Robert Smythe Hichens, Author and playwright
• Geoffrey Household, author
• Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin, author
• Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author and television presenter
• Alan Noel Latimer Munby, author
• Henry Newbolt, poet
• Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, poet.
• George Shipway, novelist
• Montague Summers, author, translator, Occultist, scandalous Clergyman and member of Uranian poets- bards of Greco-Roman pederasty.

  Drama, Theatre and Performing Arts

• John Cleese, Monty Python actor
• Manuel del Campo, film editor, actor, and third husband to Mary Astor
• Thorold Dickinson, film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Donald Hewlett, actor
• John Houseman, actor, director and producer
• Trevor Howard, actor
• John Inverdale, television presenter
• John Madden, film director
• Roger Michell, film & theatre director
• Alan Napier, actor
• Sir Michael Redgrave, actor
• Simon Russell Beale CBE, actor
• Chris Serle, television presenter
• Simon Shepherd, actor
• Tim Sullivan, film and television director and screenwriter
• Clive Swift, actor
• David Swift, actor
• Naunton Wayne, actor
• Neil Constable, Chief Executive of Shakespeare's Globe, Executive Director and Chief Executive of Almeida Theatre

  Music

• Joseph Cooper
• Scott Ford, musician
• C. S. Lang, organist and composer
• Boris Ord, conductor
• Ian Partridge, tenor
• Harry Plunket Greene
• A. J. Potter, composer
• Martina Topley-Bird, musician
• Peter Tranchell, composer
• Sir David Willcocks, conductor
• Jonathan Willcocks, composer
• Nicky Chinn, songwriter
• Kitty Brucknell, singer/songwriter

  Education

• J. R. Eccles, schoolmaster and author

  Fine arts

• Roger Fry, artist
• Derek Gillman, President of the Barnes Foundation
• Peter Lanyon Cornish painter of Euston Road School.
• Henry Tonks, English surgeon, artist, like Fry, Slade Professor of Fine Art
• Dr Charles J F Coombs. Founder member of the society of wildlife artists.

  Journalism

• Sir William Emsley Carr, Chairman of The News of the World
• Roger Alton, editor of The Observer
• Leigh Brownlee, cricketer and former editor of the Daily Mirror
• William Hanson, columnist for Mail Online, author, etiquette coach and broadcaster
• Francis Wrigley Hirst, editor of The Economist
• Hugh Schofield, BBC Paris Correspondent
• Steve Scott, ITV newscaster and former ITN foreign correspondent
• Richard Stott, journalist
• Andrew Wilson, Sky News news presenter and former foreign correspondent

  Nobel Prize winners

• John Kendrew
• John Hicks
• Nevill Mott

  Sports (in alphabetical order)

Cricket, rugby and football

• Basil Allen, cricketer, Gloucestershire captain
• Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
• William Brain, English cricketer and footballer
• James Bush Gloucestershire cricketer, England rugby international
• Robert Edwin Bush Gloucestershire cricketer
• A. E. J. Collins, cricketer, world record holder
• John Daniell, captain of Somerset, England rugby international
• David Dickinson, cricketer
• Alban Dobson, cricketer
• Archibald Fargus, English cricketer, scholar, clergyman
• Edwin Field, Middlesex cricketer, England rugby international
• Sir Stephen Finney, England rugby international
• W. G. Grace junior, Gloucestershire and MCC cricketer
• George Harrison, cricketer
• R. P. Keigwin, England cricketer and hockey player
• Sir Kingsmill Key, Bt., captain of Surrey, MCC and England cricketer.
• James Kirtley, England cricketer
• Ioan Lloyd, Bristol Bears rugby player
• Thomas Penny, cricketer
• Rowland Raw, Royal Navy cricketer
• Henry Schwann, cricketer
• Dr. Edward Scott, Gloucestershire & MCC cricketer, England rugby international.
• Louie Shaw, cricketer
• Thomas Stubbs, cricketer
• Charlie Townsend, England cricketer
• Edward Tylecote, England cricketer
• Henry Tylecote, cricketer
• George Whitehead, England cricketer
• John Whitty, cricketer and British Army officer
• Matt Windows, Gloucestershire cricketer and England 'A' cap.

  Other

• Jerry Cornes, English Olympic runner
• Walter Gibb, world record holder
• Rowley Leigh, English chef
• Michael Francis Middleton, Businessman and father of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Both Middleton's father, Capt. Peter Francis Middleton and his grandfather, solicitor and company director Richard Noel Middleton also boarded at Clifton
• Ernest Geoffrey Parsons CVO, CBE, farmer and a commissioner of the crown estates.
• William Pollock, English chess master
• Lily Owsley, Hockey GB and England
• Simon Hazlitt, Hockey GB and England

  Business

• Walter Owen Bentley, founder of Bentley Motors
• John Wyndham Beynon, entrepreneur of the fossil fuel and metals industry
• Sir Trevor Chinn, Tycoon and Philanthropist
• Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet, business man, chairman of British-American Tobacco Company
• Sir Roy Fedden, engineer
• Patrick Seager Hill T.D. clothing manufacturer, who was a pioneer & developer of safety & fire protective clothing.
• Andy Hornby, former Chief Executive of HBOS
• Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs, entrepreneur
• Sir Horace Kadoorie, industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
• Lord Kadoorie, industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
• Julian Richer, entrepreneur, owner of Richer Sounds
• Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet, industrialist
• Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services Authority
• Sir Clive Thompson former Chairman of Farepak and Chief executive of Rentokil Initial
• Sir Robert Waley Cohen, industrialist and prominent leader of Anglo-Jewry
• Sir Bernard Waley Cohen, business man and Lord Mayor of London
• Henry Herbert Wills, tobacco baron and philanthropist
• Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, business man, chairman of GUS
• David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, politician, businessman, chairman of Next

  Fictional

• Christopher Tietjens, the protagonist of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End.