List of Old Mancunians

This is a List of Old Mancunians, former pupils of Manchester Grammar School, in Manchester, England.

Owls on every post along the school's playing fields fence.

Scientists

Mathematicians
  • Henry Clarke (died 1818), mathematics teacher in Manchester, Salford and Liverpool.
  • Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (born 1929) is a prolific geometer who studied at the school for two years as preparation for Cambridge. He went on to attain a Fields Medal, the Abel Prize and the Order of Merit, as well as the positions of President of the Royal Society and Master of Trinity, his former college.
  • Clifford Cocks and Malcolm J. Williamson were peers at the school and also Maths students at Cambridge. They achieved silver and gold medals respectively at the 1968 IMO in Moscow while studying at MGS. They both went on to become cryptographers at GCHQ, a British intelligence agency, dealing with security of communications. While both made their own contributions to cryptography in the mid 70s, their results were considered national secrets and when they were discovered independently (about four years later in both cases) they received no credit for their work. It was only in 1997 that GCHQ chose to reveal their achievements. Clifford Cocks had developed RSA encryption, used in all online commerce, but named after the three men who first published the work; likewise, Malcolm J. Williamson had developed what is now known as Diffie–Hellman key exchange, a cryptographic key-agreement protocol, named after the original publishers of the work.
  • Jonathan Mestel (born 1957) is an applied mathematician at Imperial College who works on magnetohydrodynamics and biological fluid dynamics. He was the first person to be awarded chess International Grandmaster titles by FIDE in both over-the-board play and problem solving.
  • John Frankland Rigby (1933–2014) was an academic at Cardiff University, a specialist in complex analysis[1]
  • Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873–1956) also went on to study at Trinity settling at Edinburgh to make significant contributions to Mathematical Physics.

Politicians

Members of Parliament

Members of the European Parliament

Cricketers

Writers

Musicians
  • Graham Clark, improvising violinist
  • Greg Morris, assistant organist at Temple Church and conductor
  • John Ogdon, pianist

Comedians

Others
Poster for a dramatic performance from 1920 featuring actor George Coulouris; his stage debut

References
  1. John Frankland Rigby (obituary) at cardiff.ac.uk, accessed 2 May 2019
  2. University of London (487). "Graduates and Undergraduates". University of London: General Register: Part III: May 1st 1901. London: University of London. p. 324.
  3. On Translating Nietzsche into English at archiveshub.ac.uk, accessed 1 May 2012
  4. Dinmore Manor and the Commandery of the Knights Hospitaller od St John of Jerusalem at Dinmore, Herefordshire (4th ed.). Hereford: The Trustees of Dinmore Manor. 1991. p. 33.
  5. Konečni, Vladimir J. (1978). "Daniel E. Berlyne (1924–1976)". American Journal of Psychology 91 (1): 133–137. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  6. "The Rev. Joseph Wood, D. D." in The Spectator dated 5 November 1898, p. 3
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