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]
• Jeremy Bamber (born 1961) - British convicted mass murderer, apprehended 29 September 1985.
• 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 – fourth 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]}
• Robert Lymbery - Common Serjeant of London
• 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 Terence Airey – soldier, GOC Hong Kong ^{[1] [5]}
• Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell – Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to 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]}
• 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

• John Astley – 18th-century Norfolk pluralist ^[24]
• Edwin Boston – founder of the Cadeby Light Railway, "the Fat Clergyman" in the books of the Rev. W. Awdry ^[25]
• John Bradburne – Franciscan ^{[1] [5]}
• John Burrell (1762–1825), clergyman and entomologist ^[26]
• 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] [27]}
• Dr John Johnson (1769–1833) – clergyman and editor ^[28]
• 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 ^[29]
• 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 ^[30]
• Robin Woods – Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester ^{[1] [5]}

Medicine

• Richard Battle – plastic surgeon ^{[1] [31]}
• Arthur Doyne Courtenay Bell – consultant paediatrician ^[32]
• 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 ^[33]
• Thomas Girdlestone – physician and writer ^{[1] [5]}
• John Grange – immunologist ^[2]
• William Henry Kelson, physician, president of the Hunterian Society ^{[1] [34]}
• Dermod MacCarthy – paediatrician ^[35]
• William Rushton FRS – physiologist ^{[1] [5] [6]}
• Thomas Stuttaford – doctor and politician ^{[1] [2] [3] [5]}
• Hugh Christian Watkins – cardiologist ^[36]
• 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

• John Bensusan-Butt – landscape painter ^[37]
• Norman Cohn – historian ^{[1] [3] [38]}
• 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]}
• Andrew Hurrell - Professor of International Relations, Oxford University
• 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 ^[39]
• 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 ^{[40] [41]}
• 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
• James Durrant - FRS Professor of Photochemistry, Imperial College
• 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 ^[42]
• 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
• David Layton – economist and industrial relations specialist ^[43]
• Dr Colin Leakey – botanist ^[2]
• Maurice Lister – chemist ^{[1] [2]}
• Jonathan Partington – mathematician
• Frank Perkins – engineer ^{[1] [6]}
• Henry Snaith - FRS Professor of Physics, Oxford University
• 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]}

Writers

W. H. Auden

Poets

• W. H. Auden – poet ^{[1] [5] [6]}
• John Henry Colls, 18th century poet ^[44]
• Andrew Jefford – poet and wine writer ^[45]
• Michael Laskey – poet ^{[2] [46]}
• 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]
• Bruce Belfrage - BBC Radio newsreader and actor
• Cedric Belfrage – journalist and author ^{[1] [5]}
• Mark Brayne – BBC foreign correspondent and psychotherapist ^[47]
• 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]}
• 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] [48]}
• Kenneth Taylor – television scriptwriter ^[49]
• William Osborne — screenwriter

Music

• Richard Austin – conductor ^{[1] [50]}
• Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh – composer ^{[1] [5] [6]}
• Sir Lennox Berkeley – composer ^{[1] [5] [6]}
• Richard Hand – classical guitarist ^{[2] [51]}
• Christopher J. Monckton – organist and conductor ^[2]
• Heathcote Dicken Statham – composer and organist ^[1]
• George Stiles – composer ^{[2] [5]}
• Roderick Watkins – composer ^[5]
• Hammond Witherley – singer ^[52]

Artists

• Michael Cummings – cartoonist ^{[1] [2] [5] [6]}
• Richard Chopping – book cover illustrator, painter and novelist ^[53]
• William Lionel Clause, landscape artist ^{[1] [54]}
• Sir Philip Dowson – architect and president of the Royal Academy ^{[1] [2] [3] [5]}
• Edward Frank Gillett – sporting artist ^[55]
• 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] [56]}
• 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] [57]}
• 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]
• Richard Millman - Squash national champion and coach
• 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 ^[58]
• 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 ^[59]
• 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 ^[60]
• Henry Daniell – actor ^[1]
• Nigel Dick – music video and film director ^[2]
• Stephen Frears – film director ^{[2] [3] [5]}
• Sienna Guillory – actress ^[2]
• Geoffrey Gwyther – singer, actor, and song-writer ^[61]
• Julian Jarrold – television and film director ^{[2] [5]}
• Ben Mansfield – actor
• Robert Mawdesley – actor ^{[1] [5]}
• Bill Mason – documentary film maker ^[2]
• Paddy O'Connell – television presenter ^[2]
• 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 ^[62]
• Randal McDonnell, 10th Earl of Antrim – Chairman of Sarasin and Partners LLP ^[63]
• Sir James Dyson – inventor and entrepreneur ^{[2] [3] [5]}
• Sir Nigel Foulkes –Chairman of the British Airports Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority ^[64]
• Anthony Habgood – Chairman of Court, Bank of England. Chairman of Reed Elsevier and past chairman Whitbread
• Sir Robin Ibbs – banker ^{[5] [65]}
• 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] [66]}
• Theodore Acland – headmaster of Norwich School ^{[1] [67]}
• Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet – landowner, festivals organizer ^{[2] [3]}
• Sir George Anthony Agnew, 7th Baronet – landowner
• Jeremy Bamber – convicted murderer ^{[68] [69]}
• Bill Bell – chief legal adviser to Lloyds Bank ^[70]
• 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] [71]}
• Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd ^{[1] [72]}
• Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester ^{[1] [73]}
• Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys CB DM FRCP
• David W. Doyle – CIA officer and author^{[ citation needed ]}
• James Halman (died 1702), Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ^[74]
• Christopher Newbury – Council of Europe ^[75]
• John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk ^{[1] [76]}
• Ian Proctor – yacht designer ^{[1] [5]}
• 8th Baron Suffield ^{[1] [77]}

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 ^[78]
• 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 ^[79]
• 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 ^[80]
• Frank McEachran – author ^[81]
• Geoffrey Shaw – organist and composer ^[82]
• Patrick Thompson – Conservative Member of Parliament ^{[2] [3]}
• Hugh Wright – Headmaster 1985–1991, later Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference ^{[3] [5]}
• Professor Richard D'Aeth (later Master of Hughes Hall, Cambridge) ^[83]

Notable governors of the school

• Graham George Able, 2013–2020 ^[84]
• Theodore Dyke Acland ^[85]
• A. C. Benson ^[86]
• Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood ^[87]
• Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet ^[88]
• Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark ^[89]
• Sir Angus Stirling ^[90]
• 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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