List of Old Marlburians

The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College , Wiltshire, England.

Academia and education

• Andrew Boggis, Master in College at Eton and chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, 2006 ^[1]
• Charles Fisher, Headmaster, Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Australia
• Peter Lamarque, philosopher
• John Raven, classical scholar and botanist
• Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury

Arts

William Morris, textile designer, novelist, and socialist activist

• Anthony Blunt, art historian and communist spy
• Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, writer and art teacher
• Lauren Child, writer and illustrator
• Claude Ferrier, architect
• Susannah Fiennes, artist
• Keith Henderson, artist
• William Morris, artist and writer
• Pontine Paus, designer, shipping heiress and socialite
• Charles Saumarez Smith, art historian, former Director of the National Gallery
• Graham Shepard, cartoonist and illustrator
• Ellis Waterhouse, art historian

Literature

Ben Pimlott, academic and biographer

John Betjeman, Poet Laureate

• E. F. Benson, novelist
• John Betjeman, poet
• Humphrey Carpenter, biographer and broadcaster
• Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer
• Cressida Cowell, ex-Children Laureate and creator of How to Train Your Dragon .
• J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet and armaments manufacturer
• Anthony Hope, writer
• Arthur Lewis Jenkins, poet
• Dick King-Smith, writer
• Louis MacNeice, poet
• James Michie, poet and translator ^[2]
• John Beverley Nichols, writer
• David Nobbs, comedy writer (Reginald Perrin)
• Redmond O'Hanlon, travel writer
• Ben Pimlott, biographer
• John Preston, journalist and novelist
• James Runcie, novelist and television producer
• Siegfried Sassoon, poet
• Charles Sorley, poet
• Bernard Spencer, poet
• Adam Thorpe, poet, novelist and playwright
• R. J. Yeatman, co-author of 1066 and All That

Music

• Toby Smith, keyboardist of Jamiroquai
• Bo Bruce, singer-songwriter
• Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter
• Nick Drake, singer-songwriter
• Anthony Inglis, conductor
• Crispian Steele-Perkins, classical trumpeter
• David Mahoney, conductor, producer and creative director
• Fred Again, producer and composer

Theatre, cinema and television

• Robert Addie, actor
• Bill Bankes-Jones Theatre and Opera Director
• Stephen Barry, director and administrator
• John Wingett Davies, film exhibitor
• Guy du Maurier, dramatist and soldier
• Michael Elwyn, actor
• Charles Furneaux, producer
• Colin Gordon, actor
• Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor
• Harry Brodribb Irving, actor
• Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, actor and dramatist
• Damian Jones, producer
• James Robertson Justice, actor
• James Mason, actor
• Simon McBurney, actor, writer and director
• Michael Pennington, actor and director
• Clive Robertson, actor
• Antony Root, television executive and producer
• William Desmond Taylor, director
• Ernest Thesiger, actor
• Nicholas Woodeson, actor
• Jack Whitehall, comedian, television writer/producer and actor
• Angus Wright, actor
• Emerald Fennell, actress, director and screenwriter
• Robert Watts, Hollywood film producer

Politics

• Harriett Baldwin, MP for West Worcestershire
• Sally Bercow, wife of Speaker John Bercow
• Tim Boswell, MP for Daventry
• Stephen Bradley, former British Consul-General to Hong Kong
• Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, Home Secretary
• Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, Cabinet minister
• Rab Butler, statesman
• Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron
• Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch
• Otis Ferry, hunt supporter and political activist, son of singer Bryan Ferry
• Diana Fox Carney, wife of Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
• Alastair Goodlad, former MP for Eddisbury and High Commissioner to Australia
• Daniel Hannan, MEP for the South East of England
• Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British liberal politician and sociologist; one of the 'Fathers of Liberalism'
• William Jowitt, Lord Chancellor
• Peter Kirk, politician, first leader of the British delegation to the European Parliament
• George Butler Lloyd, MP for Shrewsbury 1913–1922
• Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• John Maples, MP for Stratford-upon-Avon
• Frances Osborne, ex-wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne
• William Newton Dunn, Conservative, and later Liberal Democrat, MEP for the East Midlands.
• John Parker, MP for Romford
• Maurice Petherick, MP for Penryn & Falmouth
• Mark Reckless, MP for Rochester and Strood
• Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, politician
• Hallam Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, statesman
• Dennis Forwood Vosper, MP for Runcorn
• Lord Wright of Richmond, diplomat; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Montague Yeats-Brown, diplomat; consul to Genoa and Boston

Sciences and engineering

• J. Richard Batchelor, transplant immunologist
• C. V. Boys, experimental physicist
• Francis Camps, pathologist
• George Stuart Carter, zoologist
• Henry Hugh Clutton, surgeon
• Sir Charles Galton Darwin, physicist
• John Dolphin, inventor and engineer
• Sir Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive engineer ^[3]
• Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer
• Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist
• David Morley, child health pioneer
• Alex Moulton, engineer and inventor of the Moulton Bicycle
• Peter Dunn, paediatrician who improved the care of newborn babies
• Sir Hugh Pelham, cell biologist
• Philip Sheppard, geneticist and lepidopterist
• Percy Sladen, marine zoologist
• Edward Thompson, steam locomotive engineer ^[4]
• Thomas Valintine, doctor and New Zealand public health administrator
• Bernard Waddy, epidemiologist
• E. F. Warburg, botanist
• John Zachary Young, physiologist

Sport

Competitive swimmer Jason Dunford

• George Ainsworth, first-class cricketer
• Robert Barker, played for England in the first international football match
• Fred Beart, cricketer
• Henry Bell, cricketer
• Sir Hugh Bomford, cricketer
• John Bowley, cricketer
• Walter Brooks, cricketer
• Richard Busk, cricketer
• Francis Chichester, round the world yachtsman
• William Crawley, cricketer
• Charles Dewé, cricketer
• Arthur Duthie, cricketer
• John Dolphin, cricketer
• Jason Dunford, swimmer
• Eric Elstob, cricketer
• Edward Fellowes, cricketer
• Arthur Fortescue, cricketer
• John Fuller, cricketer
• Henry Gale, cricketer
• Edward Garnier, cricketer
• Arthur Sumner Gibson, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871 ^[5]
• Jamie Gibson, rugby union player
• John Gunner, cricketer
• Alfred St. George Hamersley, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain
• Anthony Hill, cricketer
• Sir John Hoskyns, 15th Baronet, cricketer
• Edward Hume, cricketer
• John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest
• Hector Jelf, first-class cricketer
• Nigel Jerram, first-class cricketer
• Maurice Jewell, first-class cricketer
• Edward Kewley, nineteenth century England Rugby captain
• Sir Henry King, first-class cricketer
• Robert Kingsford, England international footballer and FA Cup winner
• William Lipscomb, cricketer
• John Lloyd, Welsh cricketer
• Reginald Lord, cricketer
• John Maples, cricketer
• Iain MacDonald-Smith, Olympic sailor, Gold medal Mexico 1968
• Henry Maturin, Irish first-class cricketer
• Jake Meyer, mountaineer
• Michael Morgan, first-class cricketer
• John Morley, first-class cricketer
• Charles Morris, first-class cricketer
• Sydney Morse rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875
• Peter Nelson, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
• Richard Page, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
• Inglewood Parkin, cricketer
• Charles Patteson, cricketer
• Edward Phillips, first-class cricketer
• Gerald Phillips, cricketer
• Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of The Princess Royal
• Albert Porter, cricketer
• William Pulman, cricketer
• Francis Quinton, cricketer
• Nicholas Ross, cricketer
• John Scobell, cricketer
• Arthur Scott, cricketer
• Edward Shaw, cricketer
• Reggie Spooner, cricketer
• Allan Steel, cricketer
• Walter Thorburn, Scottish cricketer
• Mark Tomlinson, England International polo player
• Stirling Voules, cricketer
• Bernard Waddy, cricketer
• Charles Waller, cricketer
• Lancelot Ward, cricketer
• Ronald Watson, Scottish cricketer
• Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer
• Martin Winbolt-Lewis, Olympic athlete
• Andrew Wolfson, cricketer
• Sir John Wood, cricketer
• Kenneth Woodroffe, cricketer
• William Wright, cricketer

Religion

• Cyril Alington, headmaster, and Dean of Durham
• Henry Bather, Archdeacon of Ludlow 1892–1904
• Henry Bell, Canon of Carlisle
• Roy Henry Bowyer-Yin Canon and Chaplain of S Thomas College Mt Lavinia
• Alfred Blunt, Bishop of Bradford 1931–1955
• Frederick Nicholas Charrington, social reformer and founder of the Tower Hamlets Mission
• Frederick Copleston, priest and philosopher
• Nigel Cornwall, Bishop of Borneo 1949–1962
• Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester
• James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle
• Edward Patey, Dean of Liverpool
• John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich
• Mark Santer, Bishop of Birmingham 1987-2002
• Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, known as Dick Sheppard, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and founder of the Peace Pledge Union
• Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London
• Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield 1937–1953
• John Oliver Feetham, Bishop of North Queensland; recognized as a saint in the Anglican Church of Australia

Journalism

Mark Tully, BBC correspondent

• Rawdon Christie, English-born New Zealand television presenter
• Simon Fanshawe, writer and broadcaster
• Frank Gardner, BBC News Security Correspondent
• Richard Jebb, journalist
• Derrick Somerset Macnutt, crossword compiler under the pseudonym Ximenes
• Christopher Martin-Jenkins, BBC cricket correspondent
• James Mates, ITN newscaster
• Norris and Ross McWhirter, journalists, authors, and political activists
• Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of the Sun
• Edmund Penning-Rowsell, wine writer
• Julian Pettifer, ITV and BBC journalist
• Hugh Pym, ITN and BBC News journalist
• Emily Sheffield, Evening Standard Editor, newspaper and magazine journalist
• Sir Mark Tully, BBC India correspondent and author
• T.C. Worsley, writer, editor and television critic

Armed forces

Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

Hugh Stockwell, British Army Officer

• Nigel Anderson, soldier and local politician
• Lionel Ashfield, World War I flying ace, killed in action
• Phillip Scott Burge, World War I flying ace, killed in action
• Edward Bradford, soldier and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
• John Brigstocke, admiral, second sea lord, c-in-c Naval Home Command
• Michael Clapp senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the United Kingdom's amphibious assault group, Task Group 317.0, in the Falklands War
• Richard Corfield, officer in charge of the Somaliland Camel Constabulary
• Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff and Governor of Windsor Castle
• Peter Gillett, Major-General, Deputy Constable and Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle
• John 'Hoppy' Hopgood', pilot in 617 Squadron, killed on the Dambusters raid on 16 May 1943
• David Maltby, pilot in 617 Squadron who flew in the Dambusters raid
• John Kiszely, Lieutenant General and Director of the Defence Academy
• Ian Macfadyen, RAF officer and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man 2000–2005
• Charles MacGregor, General and head of intelligence for the British Indian Army
• Nevil Macready, General and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
• Patrick Palmer, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe and Governor of Windsor Castle
• Francis Quinton, British Army general (Royal Artillery)
• John Wilfred Stanier, Field Marshal
• Hugh Stockwell, General, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1960 to 1964
• Henry Hughes Wilson, Field Marshal
• Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

VC

Victoria Cross holders:

• Edward Kinder Bradbury
• Frederic Brooks Dugdale
• Charles Calveley Foss
• Reginald Clare Hart
• Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De Montmorency
• Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies
• Lionel Ernest Queripel
• John Neil Randle
• Nowell Salmon
• Edward Talbot Thackeray
• Eric Charles Twelves Wilson
• Sir Henry Evelyn Wood
• Sidney Clayton Woodroffe

GC

George Cross holders:

• Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls

Commerce and industry

• Michael Clapham, industrialist (ICI)
• Ernest Debenham, department store owner
• Sir Nicholas Goodison, - Finance, reforms, arts, philanthropy
• Olivia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, senior account manager
• Ambrose Heal, retailer
• Ian and Kevin Maxwell, former publishers and entrepreneurs
• Robert Noel, businessman, chief executive of Land Securities Group plc
• Rob Perrins, Managing Director of Berkeley Group Holdings
• George Duncan Rowe, stockbroker, co-founder of Rowe & Pitman ^[6]
• Sir Francis Towle, hotelier ^[7]
• Sir Michael Turner, General Manager (Chairman) of HSBC 1953–1962
• Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood, army officer and international ambassador for the Wedgwood Group
• Simon Woodroffe, founder of the Yo Sushi restaurant chain

The Royal Family and the Court

• Princess Eugenie of York, younger daughter of The Duke of York
• Catherine, Princess of Wales (née Catherine Middleton), wife of William, Prince of Wales
• Pippa Middleton, sister and Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales
• Robin Janvrin, courtier, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
• Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles, courtier, Private Secretary to George VI and Elizabeth II, and cousin to the husband of Mary, Princess Royal
• Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, Law Lord
• John Brightman, Baron Brightman, Law Lord
• Thomas William Cain, First Deemster of the Isle of Man
• Rayner Goddard, Lord Chief Justice
• Sir Philip Margetson, Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
• William Moore, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
• T. C. Kingsmill Moore, Irish judge, politician and author
• Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
• Sir Richard Gaskell, President of the Law Society of England and Wales ^[8]

Fashion

• Amanda Harlech, model and 'muse' to John Galliano
• Stella Tennant, model and fashion designer
• Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron and creative director at Smythson

Other professions

Tracy Philipps, intelligence officer and conservationist

• Sir Basil Blackett, civil servant and international finance expert
• Sir Hugh Bomford, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service
• Frederic Bonney, anthropologist and photographer
• Sir Grahame Clark, archaeologist
• O. G. S. Crawford, archaeologist
• Richard Dale, economist
• Stewart Donald, businessman and football club chairman
• Henry Everard, railway executive and acting President of Rhodesia
• Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale, promoter of the interests of blind people
• Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary and social reformer
• Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, oncologist and IRA victim
• Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, anthropologist
• Derrick Somerset Macnutt, Ximenes, cryptic crossword compiler for The Observer
• Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker
• Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, Founding President of Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia
• Tracy Philipps, colonial administrator, intelligence officer, and conservationist, Secretary-General of International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
• Edward John Hugh Tollemache, private firm banker
• David Treffry, colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall
• Prince Waranonthawat, Thai prince, grandson of King Chulalongkorn
• Gordon Welchman, code-breaker
• John Wood, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service

References

1. 'BOGGIS, Andrew Gurdon', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)
2. "James Michie" (obituary), The Independent , 21 November 2007, accessed 8 June 2023
3. Hughes, Geoffrey (2001). Sir Nigel Gresley: The Engineer and his Family. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Usk: Oakwood Press. pp. 23, 25. ISBN   0-85361-579-9. OL118.
4. Grafton, Peter (2007) [1971]. Edward Thompson of the LNER. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Usk: Oakwood Press. p. 11. ISBN   978-0-85361-672-6. OL145.
5. George Walter De Lisle (editor), Marlborough college register, from 1843 to 1869 inclusive, p57, 1870, (Marlborough college)
6. The Rowers of Vanity Fair/Rowe GD - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
7. "Towle, Lieut-Colonel Sir Francis William Kt, 1919; CBE 1918; MA (18 April 1876–19 Dec. 1951)", Who's Who , online edition, accessed 25 June 2025 (subscription required)
8. "Obituary: Sir Richard Gaskell (B3 1950-54)". 23 September 2016.

Bibliography

• A History of Marlborough College During Fifty Years from its Foundation to the Present Time by A.G. Bradley, A.C. Champneys and J.W. Baines (Macmillan & Co., 1893)
• Marlborough College Register from 1843 to 1904 Inclusive by Marlborough College (Oxford: Horace Hart, 1905).
• Paths of Progress: a history of Marlborough College by Thomas Hinde (John Catt, 1992) ISBN   0-907383-33-5
• Marlborough College – official site