plenty

* James Allan - British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique [1][2][3]
* Sir Eric Berthoud - British ambassador to Denmark and Poland[1][4][5]
* Erskine Childers - President of the Republic of Ireland[1][4][5][6]
* Sir Stewart Crawford - diplomat[1]
* Kenelm Hubert Digby (1912 - 2001), proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate and later Attorney General and judge in Sarawak
* Bernard Floud - Labour politician[1]
* Sir Cecil Graves - Director-General of the BBC[1][4]
* Sir Christopher Heydon - 16th century member of parliament[1][4][7]
* Paul Howell - Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk[3][2]
* Donald Maclean - diplomat and spy[1][4][5]
* 11th Earl of Northesk - parliamentarian[1]
* Terence O'Brien - British ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia[1][2][3]
* Laurance Reed - Conservative politician[1][2][3]
* Lord Reith - first Director-General of the BBC, politician[1][4][5]
* Wilfrid Roberts - Liberal politician[1]
* Christian Schiller - HM Inspector of Schools[1]
* 11th Lord Strabolgi - Labour politician[1][2][3]
* Dr Thomas Stuttaford - Conservative politician and journalist[1][2][3][4]
* C. G. H. Simon (1914 - 2002), Income Tax General Commissioner[1][2]
* Lord Simon of Glaisdale - Conservative politician and law lord[1][2][3][4]
* Lord Simon of Wythenshawe - socialist and journalist[1][3]
* Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp - Lord Justice of Appeal[1][4]
* Sir William Royden Stuttaford - President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations[8][4]
* Sir Gerald Thesiger - High Court Judge[1][9]
* Sir John Tusa - Director of BBC World Service[2][4]
* Lord Wilson of High Wray - governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria[1][4][10]
* Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - governor of The Gambia[1][4][5]

[edit] Military
General Sir Robert Bray

* General Sir Terence Airey - soldier, GOC Hong Kong[1][4]
* Joe Baker-Cresswell - Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to King George VI[1][4][5]
* General Sir Robert Bray - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe[1][4]
* Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet, killed on active service in Java, 1942[1][11]
* Donald Cunnell - World War I fighter pilot[1]
* Arthur Estcourt - World War I officer[1]
* Major-General Guy Gregson - soldier[1][12]
* Sir Christopher Heydon - took part in the capture of C?diz, 1596[1][4][7]
* General Sir William Holmes - Second World War general[1][12][13]
* Major-General John Lethbridge - soldier[1]
* Sir Philip Toosey - Bridge on the River Kwai commander[1][4][5]
* Peter Wilkinson MC - Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force[1][2]
* Tom Wintringham - soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist[1][4][5]
* Major-General A. E. Younger - soldier[1][2][3]

[edit] Church

* Edwin Boston - founder of the Cadeby Light Railway, "the Fat Clergyman" in the books of the Rev. W. Awdry[14]
* John Bradburne - Franciscan[1][4]
* John Daly - bishop of The Gambia, Accra, Korea and Taejon[1][4]
* Colin Forrester-Paton - missionary and Chaplain to H.M. The Queen in Scotland[1][2]
* Most Rev. David Hand - Archbishop of Papua New Guinea[1][2][3][4][15]
* Peter Lee - bishop of the diocese of Christ the King, Johannesburg[2][4]
* William Lubbock - 18th century divine, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge[1][7]
* John Moorman - Bishop of Ripon[1][4][5]
* Thomas Pyle - 18th century clergyman and writer[1][5][7]
* Robin Woods - Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester[1][4]

[edit] Medicine
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

* Richard Battle - plastic surgeon[1][16]
* Major-General Joseph Crowdy - Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps[1][2][3]
* Michael Fordham - psychiatrist[1]
* Thomas Girdlestone - physician and writer[1][4]
* John Grange - immunologist[2]
* William Henry Kelson, physician, President of the Hunterian Society[1][17]
* William Rushton FRS - physiologist[1][4][5]
* Thomas Stuttaford - doctor and politician[1][2][3][4]
* Anthony Yates - rheumatologist[1][2]

[edit] Nobel Prize-winner

* Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - Nobel Prize for Medicine, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge[1][2][4][5]

[edit] Writers
W. H. Auden

[edit] Poets

* W. H. Auden - poet[1][4][5]
* John Henry Colls, 18th century poet[18]
* Andrew Jefford - poet and wine writer[19]
* Michael Laskey - poet[2][20]
* John Pudney - poet and novelist[1][4][5]
* Sir Stephen Spender - poet[1][4][5]

[edit] Academics

* Norman Cohn - historian[1][3][21]
* Oliver Elton - literary critic, translator[5]
* Boris Ford - literary critic, editor[1][4][5]
* Alfred Gissing - biographer[1]
* John Davy Hayward - editor and critic[1][4][5]
* Michael Kitson - art historian[1][5]
* James Klugmann - Communist historian[1][5]
* 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker - political scientist[1][5]
* W. Wesley Pue - academic lawyer[22]
* Sir James Maude Richards - architectural writer[1][4][5]
* E. Clive Rouse - archaeologist[1][4]
* John Saltmarsh - historian[1][4]
* Brian Simon - educational historian[1][4][5]
* Peter J N Sinclair - economist[2]
* Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - academic lawyer[23]

[edit] Novelists

* John Lanchester - novelist[2][4]
* Sabin Willett - novelist[2]

[edit] Journalists

* Cedric Belfrage - journalist and author[1][4]
* Alastair Hetherington - journalist, editor of The Guardian[1][2][4][5]
* Sir John Tusa - BBC journalist[2][4]
* Edmund Rogers - journalist[1][4][5]
* Philip Pembroke Stephens - journalist

[edit] Other

* Erskine Childers - political writer[1][4]
* Maurice Ash - environmentalist writer[1][3]
* Sir Christopher Heydon - 17th century writer on astrology[1][4][7]
* Lady Flora McDonnell - children's author[2]
* Pat Simon - wine writer and Master of Wine[2][24]
* Kenneth Taylor - television scriptwriter[25]

[edit] Music

* Richard Austin - conductor[1][26]
* Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh - composer[1][4][5]
* Sir Lennox Berkeley - composer[1][4][5]
* Richard Hand - classical guitarist[2][27]
* Christopher J. Monckton - organist and conductor[2]
* George Stiles - composer[2][4]
* Roderick Watkins - composer[4]

[edit] Sciences

* L. E. Baynes - aeronautical engineer[1][4]
* David Bensusan-Butt - economist[1]
* Derek Bryan - sinologist[1][2]
* Anthony Bull - transport engineer[1][2][3]
* Sir Henry Clay, 6th Baronet - engineer[1]
* Sir Christopher Cockerell - inventor of the hovercraft[1][5]
* C. H. Gimingham - botanist[1][2][3]
* Dr Hildebrand Hervey FRS - marine biologist[1][5]
* Sir John Hammond - agricultural research scientist[1][4][5]
* Harry Hodson - economist[1][2][4][5]
* G. Evelyn Hutchinson - zoologist[1]
* Bryan Keith-Lucas - political scientist[1][5]
* David Keith-Lucas - aeronautical engineer[1][2][4][5]
* David Lack - biologist[1][4][5]
* Dr Colin Leakey - botanist[2]
* Maurice Lister - chemist[1][2]
* Jonathan Partington - mathematician
* Frank Perkins - engineer[1][5]
* Christopher Strachey - computer scientist[1][5]
* Sir Owen Wansbrough-Jones - chemist, weapons research scientist[1][4][5]
* Sir Martin Wood - engineer[1][2][3][4]

[edit] Artists

* Michael Cummings - cartoonist[1][2][4][5]
* Richard Chopping - book cover illustrator [28]
* William Lionel Clause, landscape artist[1][29]
* Sir Philip Dowson - architect and President of the Royal Academy[1][2][3][4]
* Molly Garnier - artist[30]
* Robert Medley RA - artist[1][4][5]
* Ben Nicholson, OM - artist[1][5]
* Christopher Nicholson - architect[1][4]
* Christopher Perkins - artist[1]
* Humphrey Spender - photographer[1][31]
* Tony Tuckson - artist[1]
* Charles Mayes Wigg - artist[1]

[edit] Sports
Ralph Firman

* Giles Baring - cricketer[1][32]
* Glyn Barnett - rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006[2]
* Tom Bourdillon - mountaineer[1][4][5][33]
* Gawain Briars - British No. 1 squash player[2]
* 11th Earl of Northesk - Olympic medallist (skeleton, 1928)[1]
* Andrew Corran - cricketer[1][2]
* Peter Croft, cricketer and Olympic field hockey player[1][4]
* Matthew Dickinson - mountaineer and adventurer[4]
* Natasha Firman - Formula Woman racing driver[2]
* Ralph Firman - Formula One racing driver[2]
* Richard Leman - hockey player and Olympic gold medallist[2][4]
* Peter Lloyd - mountaineer[1]
* Andy Mulligan - captain of the British Lions Rugby XV[4]
* Ben Pienaar - rugby union player and Junior National Champion at judo[34]
* Pat Symonds - Formula One racing[2]
* Nick Youngs - England rugby union footballer[2][4]
* Tom Youngs - member of England squad at Rugby sevens[35]
* Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - mountaineer[1][4]

[edit] Performing Arts

* Kat Alano - model, actress[36]
* Matt Arnold - television presenter[2]
* Michael Aldridge - actor[1][4]
* Bruce Belfrage - actor[1][4]
* Peter Brook - theatre director[1][4][3]
* Henry Daniell - actor[1]
* Nigel Dick - director[2]
* Stephen Frears - film director[2][4][3]
* Sienna Guillory - actress[2]
* Julian Jarrold - television and film director[2][4]
* Robert Mawdesley - actor[1][4]
* Bill Mason, documentary film maker[2]
* Ed Nell - radio presenter[2]
* Paddy O'Connell - television presenter[2]
* Sebastian Shaw - actor[1][4]
* Patrick Waddington - actor[1][4]
* Peter Whitbread - actor and scriptwriter[1][2][4]

[edit] Business

* Sir James Dyson - inventor and entrepreneur[2][4][3]
* Sir Robin Ibbs - banker[4][37]
* Charles Kearley - property developer and art collector[1]
* Sir Christopher Howes - chief executive of the Crown Estate[2][3][4]
* Sir William Stuttaford - stockbroker and business man[8][4]

[edit] Other

* Robert Aagaard - furniture maker and founder of the youth movement Cathedral Camps[2][38]
* Theodore Acland - headmaster of Norwich School[1][39]
* Sir Harold Atcherley - arts administrator[1][2][3]
* Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet - landowner, festivals organizer[2][3]
* Jeremy Bamber
* 3rd Baron Bradbury [2][3]
* Martin Burgess FSA - master clockmaker[1][2]
* Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron[1][40]
* Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd[1][41]
* Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester[1][42]
* James Halman, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (d. 1702)[43]
* George Hunt Holley
* Viscount Dunluce[2][3]
* Lady Alice McDonnell[2]
* Christopher Newbury - Council of Europe[44]
* John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk[1][45]
* Ian Proctor - yacht designer[1][4]
* William Joseph Spratling, Grand Sword Bearer of England[46]
* 8th Baron Suffield[1][47]

[edit] In fiction

Among fictional OGs, John Mortimer's television barrister Rumpole sent his son Nick to the school during the 1970s.

[edit] Notable Gresham's masters

* Logie Bruce Lockhart - Scotland rugby footballer, headmaster[2][4][3]
* Warin Foster Bushell - later headmaster of Michaelhouse and Birkenhead School and President of the Mathematical Association[48]
* Antony R. Clark, headmaster since 2002, first-class cricketer[3]
* C. V. Durell - writer of mathematics textbooks[5]
* Graeme Fife - writer, playwright and broadcaster
* Walter Greatorex - composer[1][4]
* Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick - research chemist[49]
* John Holmes - writer of textbooks on grammar, rhetoric and astronomy[1][4][5]
* George Howson - headmaster, 1900-1919[1][4]
* Charles W. Lloyd, Master of Dulwich College[50]
* Frank McEachran - author[51]
* Geoffrey Shaw - organist and composer[52]
* Patrick Thompson - Conservative Member of Parliament[2][3]
* Dr Michael Walker - headmaster of King Edward VI School, Chelmsford[3]
* Hugh Wright, Headmaster 1985-1991, later Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference[4][3]
* Denys Thompson - Editor of The Use of English (journal)[53]
* Professor Richard D'Aeth (later Master of Hughes Hall, Cambridge)[54]

Posted By: Tony Martin on February 19th 2009 at 21:48:38

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