List of Old Salopians

Old Salopians

A

• Francis William Lauderdale Adams, writer
• Sir James Adams , ambassador to Tunisia and Egypt
• John Adams,, cartographer
• Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65
• Harold Ackroyd , soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Sir John Lawson Andrews , Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and son of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews
• John Langshaw Austin, philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy

  B

• Alan Barber, cricketer and headmaster of Ludgrove
• Robert Bardsley , cricketer and colonial administrator
• Edward Barnard, cricketer
• Mike Barnard, cricketer
• Sir Alexander Fitzwilliam Barrington, 7th Baronet, landowner
• Douglas Bartles-Smith, priest and Archdeacon of Southwark 1985–2004
• William Henry Bateson, scholar and Master of St. John's College, Cambridge 1857–1881
• Sir Cecil Beadon , administrator in India
• Andrew Berry, evolutionary biologist and historian of science at Harvard
• John Best, politician and barrister
• Henry Edward James Bevan , Archdeacon of Middlesex
• Peter Blagg, cricketer and soldier
• Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker , politician
• David Blakely, murder victim. He was shot dead by Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
• The Ven. Charles Blakeway, Archdeacon of Stafford 1911–22
• Christopher Booker, journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
• Tim Booth, lead singer of the band James
• Sir James Bourne, 1st Baronet, politician
• John Breynton, minister and missionary in Nova Scotia
• Lieutenant General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker , senior British Army commander
• Mynors Bright, academic and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
• John Brockbank, footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
• Peter Brown , historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
• Samuel Browne,, Church of England clergyman
• Lieutenant-Colonel Barwick Sharpe Browne, officer and librarian in the Institute of Archaeology
• Colin Boumphrey , cricketer and Royal Air Force officer
• Donald Boumphrey , cricketer, educator and British Army officer
• Samuel Hawksley Burbury , mathematician
• John Burrell, theatre director
• Robert Burn, classical scholar, archeologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
• John Burrough, cricketer
• Charles Burney , musician, composer, music historian
• Omar 'Ali Bolkiah, Crown Prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
• Samuel Butler, iconoclastic author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

  C

• Sir Edward John Cameron,, British colonial administrator, Governor of Gambia 1914–1920
• Sir Philip Montgomery Campbell , Editor-in-Chief of Nature
• Sir Frederick Catherwood, politician, writer, and Vice-President of European Parliament
• Bruce Clark, journalist and author
• Miles Clark, author, journalist and explorer
• George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark, historian
• William George Clark, literary and classical scholar
• William Clarke, antiquary
• Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill, politician
• Richard Charles Cobb , historian and essayist
• Edward Meredith Cope, classical scholar
• Edward Corbet,, Anglican clergyman
• Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet, MP for Cheshire 1780–1796
• Sir Randolph Crewe , judge
• Sir Julian Critchley, journalist and politician
• Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft , Conservative politician
• Assheton Henry Cross, 3rd Viscount Cross, racing driver and soldier
• John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney, industrialist, civil servant, and peer
• Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow , diplomat
• Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce , judge

  D

• Charles Darwin , naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
• Peter Davis, businessman, former chairman of Sainsbury's
• William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane , politician and MP for Kensington South
• Francis Day , military surgeon and ichthyologist
• Paul Edward Dehn, writer and film critic
• Charles Spencer Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 2nd Baronet , businessman and peer
• General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey , D-Day 2nd Army Commander
• Hal Dixon , biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College, Cambridge
• Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet , Scottish businessman
• John Freeman Milward Dovaston,, naturalist and poet
• Andrew Downes, Greek scholar
• Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, 4th Baronet of Ambrosden, 7th Baronet of Canons-Ashby, archaeologist and antiquary
• Cyril Henty-Dodd, interviewer and radio disc jockey, commonly known as ‘Simon Dee’

  E

• Humphrey Edwards, politician and regicide of King Charles I
• Alexander John Ellis , phonetician and mathematician
• Charles Evans, surgeon and mountaineer
• William Addams Williams Evans, international footballer
• Canon Thomas Saunders Evans, Latin scholar and poet, was schoolmaster at Rugby and Durham.
• Walter Ewbank, priest and author

  F

• Edmund Ffoulkes, clergyman
• George Fielding , Major in the SOE
• Frederick Fisher, Big Brother 10 contestant
• Paul Foot, journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
• William Orme Foster, ironmaster, MP for South Staffordshire 1857–1868, owner of Apley Hall
• Nigel Forman, Conservative politician, MP for Carshalton and Wallington
• James Fraser, bishop of Manchester
• Abraham Fraunce , poet and lawyer

  G

• William Garnett, cricketer and clergyman
• David Gay , British Army officer awarded the Military Cross in World War II, cricketer, and educator
• Arthur Herman Gilkes, Headmaster of Dulwich College
• Edwin Gifford Anglican priest and author
• Geoffrey Green, football writer
• Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke of Beauchamps Court, courtier and author
• Lawrence Grossmith, actor
• Sir George Abraham Grierson , administrator in India and philologist
• George Gore, landowner and Attorney-General for Ireland
• Richard Goulding, actor
• Henry Melvill Gwatkin, historian and theologian
• Lieutenant General Willoughby Gwatkin , officer and Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Militia

  H

• Nick Hancock, actor and TV presenter
• John Hanmer, bishop of St Asaph
• Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook , politician
• Sir Jack Ashford Harris, 2nd Baronet, businessman
• Sir Paul Harris, 2nd Baronet, politician and Surveyor of the Ordnance
• Thomas Emerson Headlam, barrister and politician
• William Henry Herford, educationist
• Sir Denis Maurice Henry , barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
• Michael Heseltine , Conservative politician, Deputy Prime Minister 1995–1997
• Major Richard Henry Heslop , army officer and resistance organiser
• Sir Thomas Hewett,, architect and landowner
• Edward Hewetson cricketer
• Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert , politician
• Horatio Hildyard, cricketer and clergyman
• James Hildyard, classical scholar
• Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone,, Tory MP and religious revivalist
• Richard Hillary, RAF officer and author
• Hubert Ashton Holden, classical scholar
• William Walsham How, bishop of Wakefield
• Robert Hudson, BBC broadcaster and administrator
• Edward Hopkins, politician and Governor of Connecticut
• Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow , diplomat and colonial governor
• Sir James Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
• James Humphreys, law reformer
• Sir Travers Humphreys, barrister judge
• David Lafayette Hunter , officer

  I

• William Inge, cricketer, clergyman and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
• Brian St John Inglis, journalist
• Richard Ingrams, journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
• Andrew Irvine, mountaineer

  J

• Jamie Catto, economist and programmer
• Frederick John Jackson, , Governor of Uganda and naturalist
• Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, , army officer, military historian, and Governor of Gibraltar
• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, judge
• Basil Jones, bishop of St David's
• Vice Admiral Clive Carruthers Johnstone, Royal Navy Officer
• John Jones of Gellilyfdy, copyist and manuscript collector
• Sir Thomas Jones, judge and law reporter
• Thomas Jones, academic and Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge

  K

• Benjamin Hall Kennedy, headmaster and classical scholar
• Charles Rann Kennedy, lawyer and classical scholar
• Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster , governor of British Somaliland 1926-31, British Honduras 1932–34 and the Nyasaland protectorate 1934-39
• Francis King , novelist and poet
• George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale , politician, businessman, soldier and cricketer

  L

• Richard Cornthwaite Lambert, barrister and politician
• John Heath Lander, Olympic rower and soldier
• Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane , Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Sir John Langford-Holt, politician and MP for Shrewsbury 1945–83
• Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine , politician and son of Prime Minister Bonar Law
• Aubrey Trevor Lawrence , barrister and author
• Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet, English horticulturalist and hospital administrator
• Sir Martin Le Quesne , diplomat, ambassador to Mali and Algeria, high commissioner to Nigeria
• Steve Leach, cricketer
• Blessed Richard Leigh, beatified English Catholic priest
• Sir Charlton Leighton, 4th Baronet, politician and owner of Loton Park
• Sir William Leighton, poet and composer
• Very Rev Herbert Mortimer Luckock, Dean of Lichfield
• Alexander Loveday, economist and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford
• General Sir Daniel Lysons , army officer

  M

• Humphrey Mackworth, member of Shropshire parliamentary committee in English Civil War, governor of Shrewsbury, member of Protector's Council, MP
• Thomas Mackworth, Parliamentarian soldier and MP
• Humphrey Mackworth, military governor of Shrewsbury under Protectorate, MP
• Christopher MacLehose , publisher
• Richard Madox, Church of England clergyman and diarist
• Harry Mallaby-Deeley, politician, MP for Harrow and Willesden East
• George Augustus Chichester May , judge
• Sir Mark Moody-Stuart , ex-chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and chairman of UN Global Compact Committee
• John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor , classicist and librarian of Cambridge University
• Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen, peer
• Claas Mertens, rower for the German national team
• Sotherton Micklethwait, cricketer and clergyman
• Terry Milewski, journalist
• Henry Arthur Morgan, academic and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
• Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet , lawyer and politician
• Henry Whitehead Moss, headmaster 1866–190
• Francis Morse, priest
• Sydney Morse, rugby player
• Gerard Moultrie, third master, chaplain, hymnographer
• Douglas Muggeridge, Controller, BBC Radio 1 between 1968 and 1976
• Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, classical scholar
• General Sir Geoffrey Musson , officer and Adjutant-General to the Forces

  N

• William Napper, Irish cricketer and British Army officer
• The Very Rev. Stephen Nason, priest
• Robert Needham, 1st Viscount Kilmorey, politician
• Christopher Nevinson , artist
• Henry Woodd Nevinson, social activist and journalist
• John Nottingham, colonial administrator and politician
• Sir Charles Thomas Newton , archaeologist
• Nevil Shute Norway, novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer

  O

• Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet, administrator in India
• William Oakley, footballer for England
• Mark Oakley, Church of England priest
• William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill, Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
• Julian Orchard, film and television actor
• Sir Roger Ormrod , judge, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Sir Francis Ottley, royalist politician and soldier, military governor of Shrewsbury
• Richard Ottley, royalist soldier and Restoration MP

  P

• Thomas Ethelbert Page , classicist
• General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget , army officer
• Edward Francis Paget, Archbishop of Central Africa
• Francis Paget, 33rd Bishop of Oxford
• Luke Paget, 34th Bishop of Chester
• Stephen Paget, writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
• Frederick Apthorp Paley, classical scholar and writer
• Sir Michael Palin , member of Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
• John Parker Ravenscroft, DJ and journalist, known professionally as ‘John Peel’
• Sir Nicholas Penny , art historian and Director of the National Gallery
• Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre , British Indian Army officer; 1st Commissioner of British Burma and Governor of Mauritius
• General Sir Robert Phayre GCB, ADC
• Ambrose Philips, poet and playwright
• John Arthur Pilcher , diplomat, ambassador to Austria, ambassador to Japan
• Graham Pollard, bookseller and bibliographer
• Angus Pollock, cricketer
• Henry Steven Potter, Chief Secretary of Uganda and Kenya, later British Resident in Zanzibar
• Michael Proctor, physicist, mathematician, academic and Provost of King’s College, Cambridge
• Sir Thomas Powys, MP, Attorney General to King James II, judge, and politician

  R

• Henry Cecil Raikes , Conservative politician
• Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow , British cosmologist and astrophysicist
• John Hamilton Reynolds, poet
• James Riddell, classical scholar and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
• George Rudé, British Marxist Historian
• Willie Rushton, cartoonist, comedian, co-founder of Private Eye
• Ed Reardon, fictional character

  S

• Colonel Thomas Sandys, officer and politician
• George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax , statesman, writer, and politician
• John Sayer , first-class cricketer and officer in the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy
• Robert Gould Shaw III, American-born English socialite
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor, music critic
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor , art historian, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
• Nevil Shute, writer
• Richard Shilleto, classical scholar
• Sir Philip Sidney, poet, courtier and soldier
• Air Marshall Sir Michael Simmons , Royal Air Force Officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
• Sandy Singleton, cricketer
• Sir Norman Skelhorn , barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales 1964–77
• Ruaidhri Smith, Scottish cricketer
• Philip Snow, cricketer
• William Starkie, Greek scholar, translator of Aristophanes, and President of Queen's College, Galway
• Christopher Steel, composer of classical music
• Thomas Stevens , Bishop of Barking
• John Stuttard , Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07
• Sir Basil Smallpiece , businessman
• Martin Ferguson Smith , scholar and writer, classics and ancient history professor at Durham
• HH Thakore Sahib Shri Sir Bahadursinhji Mansinhji, 26th Thakore Sahib of Palitana , Ruler of Palitana

  T

• James Taylor, cricketer
• John Taylor, classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
• John Taylor, Baron Ingrow , soldier and politician
• Percy Beart Thomas , Inspector-General of Police of Madras
• Oliver Thomas, nonconformist minister and author
• Sir William Beach Thomas , author and journalist
• William Thomson, , Archbishop of York
• Godfrey Thring, hymn writer
• Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring , parliamentary draftsman
• J. C. Thring, notable figure in the early history of association football
• Robert Morton Tisdall, Olympic athlete
• Richard Todd, , actor
• Anthony Chenevix-Trench, headmaster of Eton College and Fettes College
• Sir Thomas Trevor, judge
• Patrick Trimby, cricketer

  V

• Sir Harry Bevir Vaisey, High Court of Justice judge
• Sir William Vaughan, royalist army officer
• Lieutenant-Colonel Francis William Voelcker , officer and High Commissioner of Western Samoa

  W

• Alan Wace, archaeologist at Cambridge University 1934-44 and professor at the Farouk I University in Egypt 1943–52
• Henry Wace, England international footballer
• Henry William Rawson Wade , academic lawyer
• Graham Wallas, political psychologist, leader of the Fabian Society and co-founder of the London School of Economics
• Sir Francis Bagott Watson , art historian
• John Weaver, dancer and choreographer
• Stanley J. Weyman, novelist
• Sir Edgar Whitehead , prime minister of Rhodesia
• Selby Whittingham, art expert and author
• Charles Wicksteed, Unitarian minister
• Sir Kyffin Williams, Landscape & Portrait Artist
• Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, lawyer and politician
• Major General Dare Wilson , SAS officer who introduced attack helicopters to the British military
• Jack Wilson, Olympic rower
• H. de Winton, co-creator of the rules of football
• Samuel Woodhouse, priest and Archdeacon of London
• Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, 3rd Baronet, writer
• Chandos Wren-Hoskyns , English landowner, agriculturist, politician and author
• Jonathan Wright, journalist and literary translator
• John Wylie, 1878 FA Cup winner and England international

  Y

• Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate, 1st Baronet , administrator in India and politician