Graham William Allen is a British Labour Party politician,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham North from 1987 to 2017. He stood down at the 2017 general election.
Ian Colin Taylor MBE is a British former Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher from 1987 to 1997,and then for Esher and Walton from 1997 to 2010.
Archibald Ronald Bevis is an Australian Labor Party politician who served as the Member for Brisbane from 1990 to 2010. Bevis held a variety of ministerial,shadow ministerial,and parliamentary leadership positions.
Simon Charles Jonathan Danielli is a Scottish former rugby union footballer who played on the wing for Ulster and Scotland.
Joseph Ward Roff is an Australian former professional rugby union footballer who played on the wing or at fullback for ACT Brumbies and Australia. He also had a spell at the French club Biarritz and in 2005–06 at Kubota Spears in Japan's Top League Of his 86 caps,62 were won in consecutive games from 1996 to 2001. His final game saw him captain Oxford against Cambridge in the 2007 Varsity Match.
Sittingbourne and Sheppey is a constituency in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Kevin McKenna,a Labour politician and qualified nurse.
Anne Frances Milton is a former British politician and lobbyist who served as Minister of State for Skills and Apprenticeships from 2017 to 2019. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Guildford from 2005 to 2019. Elected as a Conservative,she had the whip removed in September 2019 and subsequently sat as an independent politician.
The Hawks' Club,founded in 1872,is a members-only social club for the leading sportsmen at the University of Cambridge. Membership is by election only,and the usual criterion is that the candidate should have his Blue. Many notable individuals have been,or are,members,including King George VI,King Charles III,Rob Andrew,Mike Atherton,Chris Brasher,Gavin Hastings and Hugh Laurie.
Sir Roger Denis Moate was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.
A blue is an award of sporting colours earned by athletes at some universities and schools for competition at the highest level. The awarding of blues began at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England. They are now awarded at a number of other British universities and at some universities in Australia and New Zealand.
The Oxford University Rugby Football Club is the rugby union club of the University of Oxford. The club contests The Varsity Match every year against Cambridge University at Twickenham.
Westcliff High School for Boys (WHSB) is an 11–18 selective boys academy grammar school in Westcliff-on-Sea,Essex,England. In September 2001 the school was awarded ‘Beacon’status for its breadth of achievements and quality of work. The school was classed as a humanities college in early 2007 and received a further specialism in science,technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) on 1 April 2009. The school converted to academy status in 2010.
The Harvey Grammar School is located in Folkestone,Kent,England. It is a grammar school with academy status founded by the family of William Harvey in 1674.
Mark David Bailey,is a British academic,headteacher and former rugby union player. Since 2020,he has been Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. In 2019,he delivered the James Ford Lectures in British History at Oxford University,which were later published as a book,After the Black Death:Economy,society,and the law in fourteenth-century England.
Patrick Munro,also known as Pat Munro,was a Scotland international rugby union player and later a British Conservative politician.
Ian Davey is a rugby union player for CR El Salvador in the Spanish División de Honor,having arrived there in 2010 after two seasons with Bedford Blues in England. He signed for Bedford in the summer of 2008 under the recommendation of former Bath player and Bedford player-coach Nick Walshe. Davey's decision to drop down a league was due to his desire to gain regular first-team rugby in order to progress his career. He Came up through the Bath Academy and made the decision to move after being with the club for nearly ten years,four of which with the Bath first team squad in the Guinness Premiership.
Gordon Herbert Waddell was a Scottish rugby union player,a South African politician,and the son of Herbert Waddell. He played for Scotland,the Barbarians and on two British and Irish Lions tours. In fact he is the only Scottish stand off to be a double Lion. He had 18 caps between 1957 and 1962 - this record for a Scotland fly-half was only later broken by John Rutherford. He played 12 times for the Barbarians between 1957 and 1960,scoring in three matches including their 1958 match against East Africa in Nairobi on 28 May 1958. In 1962 he was the controlling influence in Scotland's first win in Wales since the 1930s,a feat not repeated for another twenty years.
Gordon Henderson is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency in Kent from 2010 to 2024.
Michael Rolfe is the former national chair of the British POA trade union until May 2017,and lead figure within which represents prison officers,related grades of staff and others working in secure custodial settings. He stepped down from this position on 3 May 2017 having been selected as a parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party for the Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency at the snap general election that took place on 8 June 2017. However,despite an 11% swing to Labour and a 62% increase in votes for Labour compared to 2015,Rolfe failed to be elected and finished in second place to the sitting Conservative MP,Gordon Henderson who was re-elected with a majority of 15,211 votes.
Kevin McKenna is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sittingbourne and Sheppey since 2024. He flipped the seat from the Conservative Party.
