List of Old Greshamians

The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt, Norfolk, England.

Public life

• James Allan – British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique[1][2][3]
• Duncan Baker (born 1979) – Conservative Member of Parliament.[4]
• Sir Eric Berthoud – British ambassador to Denmark and Poland[1][5][6]
• Robert Brightiffe (c. 1666–1749) barrister and Member of Parliament
• Derek Bryan – Diplomat, sinologist, writer
• Erskine Childers – President of Ireland[1][5][6][7]
• 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][5]
• Thomas George Greenwell – National Conservative member of parliament[8]
• Sir Christopher Heydon – 16th century member of parliament[1][5][9]
• Paul Howell – Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk[2][3]
• Donald Maclean – diplomat and spy[1][5][6]
• 11th Earl of Northesk – parliamentarian[1]
• Terence O'Brien – British ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia[1][2][3]
• John Playfair Price – diplomat, a President of the Oxford Union[1]
• Laurance Reed – Conservative politician[1][2][3]
• Lord Reith – first Director-General of the BBC – politician[1][5][6]
• 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][5]
• C. G. H. Simon (1914–2002), Income Tax General Commissioner[1][2]
• Lord Simon of Glaisdale – Conservative politician and law lord[1][2][3][5]
• Lord Simon of Wythenshawe – socialist and journalist[1][3]
• Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp – Lord Justice of Appeal[1][5]
• Sir William Royden Stuttaford – President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations[5][10]
• Sir Gerald Thesiger – High Court Judge[1][11]
• Sir John Tusa – Director of BBC World Service[2][5]
• Lord Wilson of High Wray – governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria[1][5][12]
• Sir Percy Wyn-Harris – governor of The Gambia[1][5][6]

Armed forces

General Sir Robert Bray

• General Sir Terence Airey – soldier, GOC Hong Kong[1][5]
• Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell – Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to King George VI[1][5][6]
• Peter Beck – soldier and schoolmaster[13][14]
• General Sir Robert Bray – Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe[1][5]
• Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet – killed on active service in Java, 1942[1][15]
• Donald Cunnell – First World War fighter pilot[1]
• Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion – Royal Air Force officer and British Overseas Airways Corporation executive[1][16]
• Arthur Estcourt – First World War officer[1]
• Major-General Guy Gregson – soldier[1][17]
• Sir Christopher Heydon – took part in the capture of Cádiz, 1596[1][5][9]
• General Sir William Holmes – Second World War general[1][17][18]
• Henry Howard – Second World War commander of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry[19]
• Brigadier Julian Jefferson, British Army officer[20]
• Major-General John Lethbridge – soldier[1]
• Rear Admiral Martin Lucey (1920–1992), Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland and Admiral President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich[21]
• Major-General Patrick Marriott – Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2009–2012[22]
• Rear-Admiral Brian Perowne – Chief of Fleet Support, Royal Navy[23]
• Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey – Bridge on the River Kwai commander[1][5][6]
• Tom Wintringham – soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist[1][5][6]
• Major-General A. E. Younger – soldier[1][2][3]
• Major General Alastair Duncan – soldier

Church

• Edwin Boston – founder of the Cadeby Light Railway, "the Fat Clergyman" in the books of the Rev. W. Awdry[24]
• John Bradburne – Franciscan[1][5]
• John Burrell (1762–1825), clergyman and entomologist[25]
• John Daly – bishop of The Gambia, Accra, Korea and Taejon[1][5]
• 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][5][26]
• Dr John Johnson (1769–1833) – clergyman and editor[27]
• Peter Lee – bishop of the diocese of Christ the King, Johannesburg[2][5]
• William Lubbock – 18th century divine, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge[1][9]
• Charles Abdy Marcon – Master of Marcon's Hall, Oxford, 1891 to 1918[28]
• John Moorman – Bishop of Ripon[1][5][6]
• Thomas Pyle – 18th century clergyman and writer[1][6][9]
• Herbert Reeve – Church of England missionary and clergyman in New Zealand[29]
• Robin Woods – Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester[1][5]

Medicine

• Richard Battle – plastic surgeon[1][30]
• Roger Carpenter – neurophysiologist[2]
• Major-General Joseph Crowdy – Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps[1][2][3]
• Michael Fordham – psychiatrist[1]
• Douglas Gairdner, paediatrician[31]
• Thomas Girdlestone – physician and writer[1][5]
• John Grange – immunologist[2]
• William Henry Kelson, physician, President of the Hunterian Society[1][32]
• Dermod MacCarthy – paediatrician[33]
• William Rushton FRS – physiologist[1][5][6]
• Thomas Stuttaford – doctor and politician[1][2][3][5]
• Hugh Christian Watkins – cardiologist[34]
• Anthony Yates – rheumatologist[1][2]

Nobel Prize-winner

• Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin – Nobel Prize for Medicine, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge[1][2][5][6]

Academics

Arts

• Norman Cohn – historian[1][3][35]
• Oliver Elton – literary critic, translator[6]
• Boris Ford – literary critic, editor[1][5][6]
• Alfred Gissing – biographer[1]
• John Davy Hayward – editor and critic[1][5][6]
• Michael Kitson – art historian[1][6]
• James Klugmann – Communist historian[1][6]
• 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker – political scientist[1][6]
• W. Wesley Pue – academic lawyer[36]
• Sir James Maude Richards – architectural historian[1][5][6]
• E. Clive Rouse – archaeologist[1][5]
• John Saltmarsh – historian[1][5]
• Brian Simon – educational historian[1][5][6]
• Peter J N Sinclair – economist[2]

Sciences

• L. E. Baynes – aeronautical engineer[1][5]
• Arnold Beck – electrical engineer, Professor of Engineering at Cambridge[37][38]
• 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][6]
• Nicholas Day - statistician and epidemiologist
• C. H. Gimingham – botanist[1][2][3]
• Dr Hildebrand Hervey FRS – marine biologist[1][6]
• Sir John Hammond – agricultural research scientist[1][5][6]
• Ian Hepburn, botanist and schoolteacher[39]
• Harry Hodson – economist[1][2][5][6]
• G. Evelyn Hutchinson – zoologist[1]
• Bryan Keith-Lucas – political scientist[1][6]
• David Keith-Lucas – aeronautical engineer[1][2][5][6]
• David Lack – evolutionary biologist
• The Honourable David Layton – economist and industrial relations specialist[40]
• Dr Colin Leakey – botanist[2]
• Maurice Lister – chemist[1][2]
• Jonathan Partington – mathematician
• Frank Perkins – engineer[1][6]
• Christopher Strachey – computer scientist[1][6]
• Sir Owen Wansbrough-Jones – chemist, weapons research scientist[1][5][6]
• Sir Martin Wood – engineer[1][2][3][5]

• Henry Snaith - FRS Professor of Physics, Oxford University
• James Durrant - FRS Professor of Photochemistry, Imperial College

Writers

W. H. Auden

Poets

• W. H. Auden – poet[1][5][6]
• John Henry Colls, 18th century poet[41]
• Andrew Jefford – poet and wine writer[42]
• Michael Laskey – poet[2][43]
• John Pudney – poet and novelist[1][5][6]
• Sir Stephen Spender – poet[1][5][6]

Novelists

• John Lanchester – novelist[2][5]
• Sabin Willett – novelist[2]

Journalists

• Matt Arnold – journalist and television presenter[2]
• Cedric Belfrage – journalist and author[1][5]
• Mark Brayne – BBC foreign correspondent and psychotherapist[44]
• Rupert Hamer – journalist killed in Afghanistan
• Alastair Hetherington – journalist, editor of The Guardian[1][2][5][6]
• Paddy O'Connell – journalist and main presenter of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House
• Edmund Rogers – journalist[1][5][6]
• Philip Pembroke Stephens – journalist
• Sir John Tusa – BBC journalist[2][5]

Other

• Maurice Ash – environmentalist writer[1][3]
• Robert Eagle – film and television writer and director[2]
• Sir Christopher Heydon – 17th century writer on astrology[1][5][9]
• Lady Flora McDonnell – children's author[2]
• Pat Simon – wine writer and Master of Wine[2][45]
• Kenneth Taylor – television scriptwriter[46]

Music

• Richard Austin – conductor[1][47]
• Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh – composer[1][5][6]
• Sir Lennox Berkeley – composer[1][5][6]
• Richard Hand – classical guitarist[2][48]
• Christopher J. Monckton – organist and conductor[2]
• Heathcote Dicken Statham – composer and organist[1]
• George Stiles – composer[2][5]
• Roderick Watkins – composer[5]

Artists

• Michael Cummings – cartoonist[1][2][5][6]
• Richard Chopping – book cover illustrator, painter and novelist [49]
• William Lionel Clause, landscape artist[1][50]
• Sir Philip Dowson – architect and President of the Royal Academy[1][2][3][5]
• Edward Frank Gillett – sporting artist[51]
• Robert Medley RA – artist[1][5][6]
• Ben Nicholson, OM – artist[1][6]
• Christopher Nicholson – architect[1][5]
• Christopher Perkins – artist[1]
• Humphrey Spender – photographer[1][52]
• Tony Tuckson – artist[1]
• Charles Mayes Wigg – artist[1]

Sport

Ralph Firman

• Giles Baring – cricketer[1]
• Glyn Barnett – rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006[2]
• Tom Bourdillon – mountaineer[1][5][6][53]
• 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][5]
• Matthew Dickinson – mountaineer and adventurer[5]
• Dennis Eagan – field hockey player, bronze medallist in the 1952 Summer Olympics[5]
• Natasha Firman – Formula Woman racing driver[2]
• Ralph Firman – Formula One racing driver[2]
• Julian Jefferson – cricketer[20]
• Richard Leman – hockey player and Olympic gold medallist[2][5]
• Peter Lloyd – mountaineer[1]
• Andy Mulligan – captain of Ireland and the British and Irish Lions Rugby XV[5]
• Tom Percival (1943–1984) – powerboat racer
• Ben Pienaar – rugby union player and Junior National Champion at judo[54]
• Harry Simmons – rugby footballer
• Pat Symonds – Formula One racing[2]
• Nick Youngs – England rugby union footballer[2][5]
• Ben Youngs – England Rugby Team, British Lion and member of Leicester Tigers and Heineken Cup medal winner
• Tom Youngs – England Rugby Team, British Lion
• Sir Percy Wyn-Harris – mountaineer[1][5]

Performing arts

• Kat Alano – model, actress[55]
• Michael Aldridge – actor[1][5]
• Bruce Belfrage – actor,[1][5] news reader, politician
• Peter Brook – theatre director[1][3][5]
• Olivia Colman (Sarah Colman) – actress
• Michael Culver – actor
• Henry Daniell – actor[1]
• Nigel Dick – music video and film director[2]
• Stephen Frears – film director[2][3][5]
• Sienna Guillory – actress[2]
• Julian Jarrold – television and film director[2][5]
• Ben Mansfield – actor
• Robert Mawdesley – actor[1][5]
• Bill Mason – documentary film maker[2]
• Ed Nell – radio presenter[2]
• Paddy O'Connell – television presenter[2]
• Joshua "JP" Patterson – cast member of Made in Chelsea
• Miranda Raison – actress
• Sebastian Shaw – actor[1][5]
• Patrick Waddington – actor[1][5]
• Peter Whitbread – actor and scriptwriter[1][2][5]

Business

• Sir Harold Atcherley – Royal Dutch Shell executive; Chairman of Tyzack & Partners
• Viscount Dunluce – Chairman of Sarasin and Partners
• Sir James Dyson – inventor and entrepreneur[2][3][5]
• Anthony Habgood – Chairman of Court, Bank of England. Chairman of Reed Elsevier and past chairman Whitbread
• Sir Robin Ibbs – banker[5][56]
• Charles Kearley – property developer and art collector[1]
• Sir Christopher Howes – chief executive of the Crown Estate[2][3][5]
• Sir William Stuttaford – stockbroker and business man[5][10]
• John L. Marden – Chairman of Wheelock and Marden Co. Ltd

Other

• Robert Aagaard – furniture maker and founder of the youth movement Cathedral Camps[2][57]
• Theodore Acland – headmaster of Norwich School[1][58]
• Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet – landowner, festivals organizer[2][3]
• Sir George Anthony Agnew, 7th Baronet – landowner
• Jeremy Bamber – convicted murderer[59][60]
• Bill Bell – chief legal adviser to Lloyds Bank[61]
• Thomas Blanco White QC, British patent lawyer
• John Bradbury, 3rd Baron Bradbury[2][3]
• Martin Burgess FSA – master clockmaker[1][2]
• Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron[1][62]
• Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd[1][63]
• Edward Charles Fitzroy – direct descendant of King Charles II, heir to the Barony of Southampton
• Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester[1][64]
• Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys CB DM FRCP
• David W. Doyle – CIA officer and author
• James Halman (died 1702), Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[65]
• George Hunt Holley
• Christopher Newbury – Council of Europe[66]
• John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk[1][67]
• Ian Proctor – yacht designer[1][5]
• William Joseph Spratling, Grand Sword Bearer of England[68]
• 8th Baron Suffield[1][69]
• Thomas Blanco White – patent barrister[70]

In fiction

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

Notable Gresham's masters

• Logie Bruce Lockhart – Scotland rugby footballer, headmaster[2][3][5]
• Warin Foster Bushell – later headmaster of Michaelhouse and Birkenhead School and President of the Mathematical Association[71]
• Antony R. Clark – headmaster since 2002, first-class cricketer[3]
• C. V. Durell – writer of mathematics textbooks[6]
• Graeme Fife – writer – playwright and broadcaster
• Walter Greatorex – composer[1][5]
• Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick – research chemist[72]
• John Holmes – writer of textbooks on grammar, rhetoric and astronomy[1][5][6]
• George Howson – headmaster, 1900-1919[1][5]
• Charles W. Lloyd – Master of Dulwich College[73]
• Frank McEachran – author[74]
• Geoffrey Shaw – organist and composer[75]
• Patrick Thompson – Conservative Member of Parliament[2][3]
• Hugh Wright – Headmaster 1985–1991, later Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference[3][5]
• Graeme Fife – Writer and broadcaster
• Professor Richard D'Aeth (later Master of Hughes Hall, Cambridge)[76]

Notable governors of the school

• A. C. Benson[77]
• Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood[78]
• Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet[79]
• Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark[80]
• Sir Angus Stirling[81]
• David Cairns, 5th Earl Cairns
• Anthony Duckworth-Chad
• Anne, Princess Royal
• James Dyson

See also

• Gresham's School
• List of Masters of Gresham's School

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