List of people educated at St John's School, Leatherhead

This is a list of Old Johnians (abbreviated OJs), former pupils of St. John's School, Leatherhead, which is a public school in Surrey, England.

Contents: 

• Top
• 0–9
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

St. John's School, Leatherhead

A

• Richard Acworth (born 1936), Archdeacon of Wells from 1993 to 2003[1][2][3]
• David Alesworth, ARBS (born 1957), artist based in Pakistan[4]
• The Rt Rev. Hugh Ashdown (1904–1977), 8th Bishop of Newcastle[3]

B

• David Balcombe (born 1984), cricketer[5]
• Edward Alexander Bannister CMG QC (born 1942), former Commercial Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court based in the BVI[3]
• Thomas Barfett MA (1916–2000), Archdeacon of Hereford, Canon Residentiary at Hereford Cathedral between 1977 and 1982[6]
• Robert Stanley Warren Bell (1871–1921), novelist, journalist and first editor of The Captain[7]
• The Rev. Dr. Anthony Bird (1931-2016), priest, physician and academic[8]
• The Rt Rev. Jim Bishop (1908-1994), Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury[9]
• John Blair FSA, FBA (born 1955), Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford[3]
• Paul Boissier (1881–1953), former headmaster of Harrow School, wartime civil servant and cricketer[3]
• John Westerdale Bowker (born 1935), Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, consultant to UNESCO, BBC broadcaster, author and editor[10]
• Peter Bruinvels (born 1950), former Conservative MP[11]
• Septimus Brutton (1869–1933), cricketer[12]
• Sir Paul Bryan DSO MC (1913-2004), former Conservative MP[13]
• The Rt Rev. Mark Bryant (born 1949), 2nd Bishop of Jarrow[3]
• John Burgess (1928–2015), Ireland Rugby International[14]
• Ronald Burroughs CMG (1917–1980), diplomat, Her Majesty's Ambassador to Algeria between 1971 and 1973[15]
• Rupert Bursell QC (born 1942), barrister and priest[3]

C

Walter Crawley

• Sir Henry Calley DL DFC DSO (1914–1997), senior officer in the RAF during World War II, local politician and owner of a stud farm[16]
• Basil Fulford Lowther Clarke (1908–1978), priest and architectural historian[17]
• Rear Admiral Christopher Clayton (born 1951), former senior officer in the Royal Navy[3]
• Victor Clube (born 1934), first class cricketer and astrophysicist[18]
• John Collinson (1911–1979), cricketer[19]
• John Cook (1918-1984), composer, organist and church musician[20]
• James Cope (born 1966), cricketer[21]
• The Ven. Alexander Cory (1890-1973), Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight[3]
• Air Commodore James Baird Coward AFC (1915–2012), senior officer in the Royal Air Force[22]
• Walter Crawley (1880–1940), lawn tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics[23]
• Sir Peter Cresswell DL (born 1944), former judge of the High Court[3]

D

Lancelot Driffield

• The Rt Rev. Edward Darling (born 1933), Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe between 1985 and 2000[3]
• Jenkin Alban Davies (1885-1976), Wales Rugby International[24]
• The Rt Rev. Stephen Davies (1883-1961), Bishop of Carpentaria[3]
• Giles Dilnot (born 1971), BBC Daily Politics Political Correspondent and co-presenter[25]
• Wing Commander John Dowland GC (1914-1942), senior officer in the Royal Air Force who was awarded the GC[26]
• Lancelot Driffield (1880-1917), cricketer[27]
• Peter Drury (born 1967), football commentator
• Kenneth Durham (1954-2016), educator[28]

E

Paymaster J.T. Gedge

• Basil Ede (1931-2016), wildlife artist[29]
• John Hugh David Eland FRS (born 1941), chemist[3]
• Mohamed A. El-Erian (born 1958), businessman[30]
• The Ven. John Mascal Evans (1915-1996), Archdeacon of Surrey between 1968 and 1980[3]
• Arthur Evanson (1859-1934), England Rugby International[31]
• Wyndham Evanson (1851-1934), England Rugby International[31]
• Sir Anthony Ewbank QC (1925–2011), judge[32]

G

• Sir Richard Lavenham Gardner FRSB FRS (born 1943), embryologist and geneticist[3]
• Paymaster J.T. Gedge (1878-1914), first British officer to be killed in the First World War[33]
• Professor Nigel Glendinning (1929–2013), authority on Goya and 18th Century Spanish literature[34]
• The Rt Rev. Ronald Goodchild (1910-1998), Bishop of Kensington 1964-80[35]
• Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985), poet, anthologist and critic[36]
• Air Commodore John William Boldero "Jack" Grigson DSO, DFC & Two Bars (1893–1943), senior British officer in the Royal Air Force[3]
• Sir Wilfrid Vernon Grigson CSI (1896–1948), soldier, senior civil servant and colonial administrator[3]

H

Sir Anthony Hope

• John Harvey (1911-1997), architectural historian[37][38]
• Sir David Hatch CBE (1939-2007), BBC Radio manager and producer[39][40]
• Richard Haughton (born 1980), rugby sevens referee and former rugby union player[41]
• Gavin Hewitt (born 1951), Europe Editor of BBC News[42]
• Robert Lockhart Hobson CB (1872–1941), Keeper, Department of Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum[43]
• The Ven. George Hodges (1851–1921), Archdeacon of Sudbury[44]
• Paymaster-Captain Basil Hood CBE DSO (1886-1941), senior officer in the Royal Navy[3]
• Sir Anthony Hope (1863-1933), author of adventure novels such as The Prisoner of Zenda[45]
• Major-General Malcolm Hunt OBE RM (born 1938), Commanding Officer of 40 Commando RM during the Falklands War[3]

J

• Michael James (born 1934), cricketer[46]
• Gwilliam Iwan Jones (1904–1995), photographer and anthropologist[47]

K

• George Kruis (born 1990), England Rugby International[48]

M

James Morwood

• Claudia MacDonald (born 1996), England Rugby International[49]
• Alex Macqueen (born 1973), actor[50]
• The Rt Rev. Morris Maddocks (1928-2008), bishop[51]
• Humfrey Malins CBE (born 1945), former Conservative MP[52]
• Sir Arthur Wellington Marshall DL (1841-1918), High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1890[53]
• Very Rev. Peter Jerome Marshall (born 1940), Dean of Worcester, 1997–2006, now Emeritus[3]
• Christopher Matthews (1950-2004), businessman[54]
• Air Vice Marshal Forster Herbert Martin "Sammy" Maynard, CB, AFC (1893–1976), World War II flying ace[3]
• The Very Rev. John Methuen (1947-2010), Dean of Ripon between 1995 and 2005[3][55]
• Guy Michelmore, composer and former news presenter[56]
• Patrick Ferguson Millard (1902-1972), artist[57][58]
• Philip Morgan, cricketer, athlete, clergyman and educator[59]
• James Morwood (1943-2017), classicist[60]

N

• L. Everard Napier CIE FRCP (1888–1957), physician specialising in tropical medicine[3][61]
• Lllewellyn Charles Nash (1868–1918), Ireland Rugby International[31]
• Andrew Norriss (born 1947), author and TV sitcom writer

P

• The Very Rev. John Penfold (1864-1922), Dean of the Island and Bailiwick of Guernsey and its Dependencies[3]
• Thomas Perkins (1870-1946), cricketer[62]
• Sir Stephen Herbert Pierssené (1899-1966), General Director of Conservative Central Office between 1945 and 1957[63]
• Denys Campion Potts (1923–2016), scholar and authority on French literature[64]

R

Lord Richard Rogers

• Reverend Vivian Redlich, missionary in Papua New Guinea when the Japanese invaded in 1942, beheaded in August that year[65]
• Jonathan Rendall (1964-2013), author[66]
• Lieutenant Commander Eric Gascoigne Robinson VC (1882-1965)[67]
• Tom Rogan (born 1986), journalist
• Lord Richard Rogers (born 1933), architect[68]
• Sir Robert Romer GCB PC FRS (1840–1918), judge[69]
• The Rt Rev. David Rossdale (born 1953), former Bishop of Grimsby[3]
• Squadron Leader Peter Rothwell (1920-2010), bomber pilot, key figure in the defence of Malta during World War II[70]

S

Charles Shannon

• Dr Louis Charles Arthur Savatard Hon.M.Sc., L.S.A. (1874–1962), dermatologist[71]
• Lt.-Col. Derek Seagrim VC (1903–1943)[72]
• Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863-1937), artist[73]
• The Rt Rev. E.D. Shaw (1860–1937), cricketer and later Bishop of Buckingham[74]
• Victor Silvester OBE (1900-1978), dancer, musician and bandleader[75]
• Nicholas Smith (1934–2015), actor[76]
• Air Commodore Ian Stewart, senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Claude Stokes CIE DSO OBE (1875-1948), Indian Army officer, later diplomat[3]
• Raymond Toole Stott MBE (1910–1982), bibliographer, historian of the circus and its allied arts[77]
• Patrick Sykes (1925-2014), England Rugby International[31]
• Wymond Cory Symes (1867–1961), businessman, sportsman and member of the Bombay Legislative Council[78]

T

Sir Shenton Thomas

• Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas GCMG GCStJ (1879–1962), last Governor of the Straits Settlements[3]
• Simon Thomas (born 1973), former Blue Peter presenter[79]
• John Henry Thorpe OBE (1887-1944), Conservative MP[80][81]
• Sir Arthur Charles Trevor, KCSI (1841–1920), senior civil servant and colonial administrator[3]
• Dr Robert Twycross FRCP FRCR (born 1941), Macmillan Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University, 1988–2001, now Emeritus[3]

W

• The Ven. Ted Ward (1919-2005), Archdeacon of Sherborne and Chaplain of the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Park[82]
• Sir Telford Waugh KCMG (1865-1950), diplomat[83]
• John Wells (born 1939), Professor of Phonetics, University College London, 1988–2006, now Emeritus[3]
• Edward Allan Wicks CBE (1923−2010), Organist, Canterbury Cathedral, 1961–88[3][84]
• William Williams (1866–1945), Wales Rugby International[31]
• The Rt Rev. Leonard Wilson (1897–1970), priest, Bishop of Singapore 1941-49, Dean of Manchester 1949-53, Bishop of Birmingham 1953-69[85]
• The Ven. Mark Wilson (born 1946), Archdeacon of Dorking, 1996–2005[3]
• Sir Wilfrid Wentworth Woods KCMG KBE (1876–1947), colonial administrator[3]
• Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC (1892-1968), the first Territorial Army officer to win the VC[86]
• Sir Leonard Woolley (1880-1960), archaeologist[87]

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