List of Old Gregorians

An Old Gregorian (usually abbreviated OG) is a former member of Downside School, situated near Bath, Somerset, in the United Kingdom.

Alumni are so-named of St Gregory the Great who is the patron saint of the Downside monastic community, that used to run and own the school.

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Contents:		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 References  – External links

Old Gregorians

A

• Sir Rudolph Agnew  – former chairman of Consolidated Goldfields
• Michael J. Alexander  – academic and poet
• Sir Mark Allen – United Kingdom spy, turned businessman and academic lecturer^{[ citation needed ]}
• Rupert Allason  – author (under the pen-name Nigel West) and former Conservative MP ^[1]
• Antony Nicholas Allott  – English academic, Professor of African Law at the University of London
• Alistair Asprey – Secretary for Security for Hong Kong Government, Commanding Officer of Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force

B

• Alex Barrow- cricketer
• Tom Bethell  – editor of the American Spectator ^[2]
• Robin Bennett - author and entrepreneur
• Fergus Blackie - Justice of The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe and Rhodesian Front MP
• Don Brennan  – English cricketer
• Andrew Bonaparte-Wyse - Irish civil servant
• Sir Rowland Blennerhasset, 4th Baronet - Liberal Party politician
• Edward Cuthbert Butler - historian

C

• Mark Canning- British diplomat and Former British Ambassador to Indonesia
• William Cash  – author and journalist
• Denis Caulfield Heron - Irish lawyer and politician
• Jeremy Campbell-Lamerton - Scottish Rugby Union player
• Max Emanuel Cenčić  - countertenor
• Alex Chisholm – Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Civil Service
• Desmond Chute – poet and artist
• John Clibborn – British Intelligence Officer, served as MI6 head of station in Washington D.C
• Ralph Clutton  – cricketer
• George Cooper  – British Army officer, served as Adjutant-General to the Forces
• Brian Cotter  – former Liberal Democrat MP ^[3]
• Archie Cotterell  – cricketer and novelist
• Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville  – former Archbishop of Birmingham ^[4]
• Thomas Clifford, 14th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
• William Craven, 6th Earl of Craven
• Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre  – British Conservative Party Politician

D

• John Charles Day  – amongst the first Catholic judges in England to be appointed after the English Reformation
• Pete de Freitas  – musician, member of Echo & The Bunnymen ^[5]
• Christian Louis de Massay – Monegasque royalty
• Arthur Denaro – County Donegal-raised Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars and later Commandant of Sandhurst
• Henry Eric Dolan – World War I flying ace
• John Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth  – Minister for Colonial Affairs ^[6]
• Neil Dexter  – former captain of Middlesex County Cricket Club

E

• Dominick Elwes – portrait painter
• Barry England  – novelist and playwright ^[7]
• Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet - Teachta Dála for Fine Gael
• Peter Evans-Freke, 11th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer
• Michael Evans-Freke, 12th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer

F

• Rocco Forte  – British hotelier and entrepreneur ^[8]
• Edward Fitzgerald KC
• James Percy FitzPatrick  – South African author, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. Responsible for the two-minute silence observed on Armistice Day
• Nicolás Franco  – nephew of Francisco Franco ^[9]
• William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness (1929–1995) ^[10]
• Gerard Fairlie  – writer, scriptwriter and Winter Olympian

G

• Joseph Gaggero – Gibraltarian businessman ^[11]
• Francis Aidan Gasquet  – Cardinal, Vatican librarian ^[12]
• Jan Gawroński  - Polish diplomat ^[13]
• Carlos Gereda y de Borbón  – Spanish aristocrat, engineering entrepreneur and philanthropist
• J. G. Greig  – first-class cricketer, soldier, and Catholic priest
• Brion Gysin  – author and artist ^[14]

H

• Denis Hanley  – electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician
• Jared Harris  – actor ^[15]
• Damian Harris  – film director and screenwriter
• Jamie Harris  – actor
• Simon Halliday  – former England rugby player ^[16]
• David Hawkins – Royal Air Force officer ^[17]
• Steve Henderson  – cricketer
• Bobby Henrey – child actor, star of 'The Fallen Idol' ^[18]
• Denis Caulfield Heron - first Catholic Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin and MP for Tipperary
• Tristram Hillier – surrealist painter
• Patrick Holcroft – Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire
• Richard Holmes  – biographer
• Henry Howard – first formal British envoy to the Vatican for over 300 hundred years
• Hubert Howard – intelligence officer
• Lord Hunt of Tanworth ^[19]

I

• Andrew Ibrahim - terrorist

J

• Christopher Jamison  – Abbot of Worth
• Philip Jebb – architect and Liberal Party politician

K

• Chris Kelly  – TV presenter and producer ^[20]
• Norbert Keenan - Irish barrister and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
• Ivone Kirkpatrick - Irish born Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, British High Commissioner at Allied High Commission and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See
• David Knowles - Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge
• Halik Kochanski - historian and writer
• William Keatinge - military chaplain and bishop

L

• Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet - Anglo-Irish baronet, soldier, and television presenter
• Dominic Lieven - professor at Cambridge University and Fellow of the British Academy
• John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton - British chartered surveyor, peer, and Member of the House of Lords

M

• Seán MacBride - Teachta Dála, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chief of Staff of the IRA and Nobel Peace Prize Winner ^[21]
• Frank MacDermot - Teachta Dála and founder of Fine Gael
• Guy Malet - artist
• Alex Mapelli-Mozzi  – alpine skier
• Patrick Marnham  – writer, journalist and biographer
• Pierce McCan- Teachta Dála and Easter Rising Veteran
• Pierre Maréchal- racing driver who died during 24 Hours of Le Mans
• Patrick Mason- Director of the Abbey Theatre
• Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim ^[22]
• Nicholas Mander – baronet, historian and businessman
• Gerald Maxwell MC – First World War flying ace ^[23]
• Prince Emmanuel de Merode – Director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Midland - DJ and Producer
• James Miller  – journalist and film-maker ^[24]
• David Mlinaric  – interior designer ^[25]
• Joseph Molony - Chairman of the General Council of the Bar
• Richard More O'Ferrall - Governor of Malta and high level politician, of the prominent More O'Ferrall family. ^[26]
• Peter Morgan  – Oscar nominated scriptwriter ^[27]
• John Mullan  – professor of English and writer ^[28]
• Helenus Milmo  – Irish lawyer and High Court Judge

N

• Albert Nelson, 6th Earl Nelson
• Henry Nelson, 7th Earl Nelson
• Martin Newland – former editor of The Daily Telegraph ^[23]
• Barry Nicholas – classicist, former Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford
• William Nicholson  – playwright ^[29] and Oscar winner
• Marek Niedużak - lawyer
• Patrick Nixon – diplomat
• Michael Noakes – artist
• John Norman – first-class cricketer ^[30]
• Stafford Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh

O

• Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet- England Cricket Team player
• John O'Brien- Ireland Cricket Team player
• Daniel O'Connell - leader of the movement for Catholic emancipation, Irish Nationalist and MP
• Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don - Liberal MP for Roscommon and President of Gaelic League
• Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor - hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor
• Denis Maurice O'Conor - Liberal MP for Sligo County
• Denis Armar O'Conor, O'Conor Don - Irish nobleman
• Denis Maurice O'Conor - former Lord Justice of Appeal
• Mervyn O'Gorman- British electrical and aircraft engineer
• Denis Ormerod- first Roman Catholic commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment

P

• Anthony Palliser – artist
• Tony Pearson – cricketer
• Nigel Poett – British Army Officer, commanded the 5th Parachute Brigade during the second world war
• John Bede Polding  – first Archbishop of Sydney ^[31]
• Francis Pollen – architect, worked on buildings at the Abbey and school
• Philip Pope – actor and composer ^[32]
• James Pope-Hennessy – biographer and travel writer
• John Pope-Hennessy  – former director of the British Museum ^[23]
• Nicholas Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston – art connoisseur and aristocrat
• Jonathan Pugh – cartoonist
• Edmund Purdom – film actor

R

• Timothy Radcliffe  – Master of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) from 1992 to 2001 ^[33]
• Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell – Solicitor General and Attorney General ^[34]
• George William Rendel  – diplomat
• Dan Riddiford  – New Zealand politician of the National Party
• Michael Richey  – navigator and author
• Paul Richey  – flying ace of the Second World War and author
• Michael Robinson  – flying ace of the Second World War
• Jerome Roche  – musicologist
• Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell  – Conservative peer - Scottish rugby international ^[35]
• Nicholas Rossiter  – TV producer ^[36]

S

• John de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio  – ICRC delegate and envoy
• Hilary St George Saunders  – author
• Wilfrid Sheed  – novelist and essayist ^[37]
• Todd Sharpville – musician
• Arthur Sidgreaves – businessman, head of Rolls-Royce during the Second World War
• Eugene Simon – actor ^[38]
• Sir John Smythe, 8th Baronet – cricketer
• Sir Robert Stapylton – courtier, dramatic poet and translator ^[39]
• Richard Stokes  – former Lord Privy Seal ^[40]
• Christopher Sykes – author
• John Sweetman - founder of Sinn Féin
• Roger Sweetman - Teachta Dála for Sinn Féin and abstentionist MP

T

• Artur Tarnowski  - politician
• Simon Tolkien  – author and novelist ^[41]
• Rudolph de Trafford  – aristocrat and banker
• Maurice Turnbull  – Welsh rugby international and Test cricketer ^[42]
• Bernard Turnbull  – former captain of Wales Rugby Team
• Paolo Tullio  – writer, radio/TV personality and Michelin star-winning chef

U

• James Underwood  – pathologist ^[43]
• William Bernard Ullathorne  – English prelate

V

• John Varley  – former CEO of Barclays ^[44]
• Hugh Vyvyan  – captain of Saracens Rugby ^[45]

W

• Auberon Waugh  – journalist ^[46]
• Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe  – former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Patrick Wall  – Royal Marines officer and Conservative politician ^[47]
• Charles Walmesley  – Procurator General, astronomer and mathematician
• Dennis Walters  – Conservative Party politician
• Charles Wegg-Prosser  – politician and solicitor
• Bob Wellings  – broadcaster
• Sir Christopher White - art historian and museum director
• Arthur B. Woods  – film director
• Douglas Woodruff  – editor of the Tablet

Z

• Adam Zamoyski  – historian ^[48]

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Bibliography

• List of Boys at St Gregory's, Downside Abbey, Bath, 1972: covers 1614–1972.
• List of Boys at St Gregory's: First Supplement, Downside Abbey, Bath, 1983: covers 1967–1982 and lists corrections to the 1972 publication.

External links

• Official OG website