List of Old Oundelians

The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians, alumni of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, England:

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Armed forces

• Air Vice Marshal David Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer
• Major-General Llewellyn William Atcherley, British army officer and Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Constabulary
• Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1949 and 1951
• Bernard Beanlands, Canadian World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories
• Patrick Beesly, wartime intelligence officer and author
• James Bradley, prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II
• Rear Admiral Benjamin Bryant CB DSO** DSC, the most successful British submarine ace to survive the war
• Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, World War II Royal Air Force Pilot and later in the war an operative with the Special Operations Executive
• Denis Eadie MC, British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross by Field Marshal Lord Wavell for his conduct during the relief of Kohima
• Gerald Edge, British World War II flying ace credited with 20 aerial victories
• Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs, RAF pilot and journalist
• Alan Jerrard VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
• Norman Jewell, World War II Royal Navy officer
• Cecil Knox VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
• John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest ^[1]
• William Howard Livens, soldier and inventor
• Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, soldier and mining executive
• General Sir Richard Shireff, British army officer and former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
• Air Marshal Sir Charles Steele, former Commander-in-Chief of RAF Coastal Command
• Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers VC, lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist
• Vice Admiral Sir John Michael Villiers, Royal Navy officer and Fourth Sea Lord
• General Sir Charles John Waters, former Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces
• Harold Whistler, fighter pilot and flying ace
• Air Commodore John Whitworth, Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War
• Sir Charles Rodger Winn, Royal Navy intelligence officer and judge
• Major General Sir John Winterton, Governor and Commander of Trieste
• Captain William Wright, WW1 flying ace and civil servant
• Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Royal Navy officer

Arts

• Christopher Alexander, architect, academic and author
• Al Alvarez, poet
• John Davys Beresford, author
• Peter Bicknell, architect and art historian
• George Blagden, actor, singer
• Michael Broadbent MW, wine critic and auctioneer
• Lucy Brown, actress
• Thomas Carr, artist
• Allan Chappelow, writer and photographer
• Joanna Christie, actress
• Jim Clark, Academy Award-winning film editor
• Peter J. Conradi, writer and academic
• Charles Crichton, film director
• Bruce Dickinson, lead singer in the band Iron Maiden, commercial pilot, fencer
• John Dreyfus, book designer and historian of printing
• David Edgar, playwright
• John Maxwell Edmonds, poet, dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs
• Adrian Fisher, maze designer
• Colin Franklin, writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller
• Roderick Gordon, author
• Anthony Holden, biographer
• Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, broadcaster and former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
• Fred Inglis, professor of Cultural Studies
• Christopher Joll, historian and author
• Jon Jones, BAFTA winning film and television director
• Frederick Knott, playwright
• Andrew Pettegree, historian and professor at St Andrews University
• David Pickering, writer
• George Sassoon, writer
• Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical impresario
• Sir Peter Scott, conservationist and painter
• Paul Seabright, academic and writer
• Keith Shackleton, conservationist and painter
• Judge Smith, musician, Van der Graaf Generator
• Robert Speechly, architect
• John Charles Traylen, architect
• Kenneth Hotham Vickers, historian
• Bill Ward, actor
• Ivo Watts-Russell, music producer, president 4AD Records
• Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, designer of Portmeirion
• Martin Woodhouse, author and scriptwriter

Business and finance

• John Allwood, businessman
• Alex Baldock, businessman, banker, CEO of Currys
• Alan Budd, economist
• Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther, businessman, economist and journalist
• David Fleming, economist and environmental writer
• Sir Roland Franklin, Antigua and Barbuda-based merchant banker
• Jason Gissing, entrepreneur, co-founder of Ocado Group
• Colin Matthews, businessman and Chairman of Highways England
• Sir David Newbigging, businessman and Hong Kong politician
• Nazir Razak, banker
• Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO Sony Corporation
• Sir John Timpson, founder of British retailer Timpson
• John Ward, economist and trade union leader
• James Kenneth Weir, peer and businessman

Engineering

• Tony Blackman, aviator and test pilot for Avro
• James Boyd (1904–1987), American mining engineer and director of the United States Bureau of Mines; did not graduate ^{[2] : xix, 8, 11–14}
• Major Patrick Hunter Gordon, soldier and electrical engineer
• Sir Richard O'Brien, engineer and industrial relations expert
• Raymond Mays, racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of ERA and BRM
• Kenyon Taylor, electrical engineer and inventor
• Amherst Villiers, engineer (automotive, aeronautical, astronautical), portrait painter
• Rex Wailes, engineer and historian

Media

• Barrie Edgar, TV producer
• Damian Grammaticas, BBC Europe Correspondent
• Cecil Lewis, co-founder of the BBC, flying ace and author of 'Sagittarius Rising'
• David Loyn, International Development Correspondent of BBC News
• Arthur Marshall, writer and broadcaster
• Rufus Pollock, economist and founder of Open Knowledge International
• Norman Smith, Assistant Political Editor of BBC News
• Charles Wintour, newspaper editor

Politics, civil service and the law

• Baron Allan of Hallam, Liberal Democrat M.P.
• Major Basil Barton, solicitor and M.P.
• Michael Beaumont, Conservative M.P.
• Sir Roy Beldam, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Caroline Criado Perez, feminist campaigner and writer
• Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Conservative M.P.
• Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Conservative M.P.
• Ailwyn Fellowes, 3rd Baron de Ramsey, peer and Lord-lieutenant of Huntingdonshire
• Charles Finch-Knightley, 11th Earl of Aylesford, peer styled "Lord Guernsey", Justice of the peace and Deputy lieutenant for Warwickshire
• Gary Flather, judge and disability campaigner
• Abraham Flint, barrister and judge
• Donald Gorrie, Scottish Liberal Democrat M.P. and former M.S.P. for Central Scotland
• John Grimston, 6th Earl of Verulam, peer and M.P.
• John Hanscomb, politician
• Denis Keegan, barrister and M.P.
• Alastair John Naisbitt King, Financier and 696th Lord Mayor of London
• David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin, UK Supreme Court Justice
• Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, peer
• Sir William Laxton, grocer and school founder
• Sir William Montagu, judge
• Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, Law Lord
• Mark Ormerod, civil servant and chief executive of The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Sir Herbert Palmer, Governor of Gambia and Cyprus
• Ralph Bonner Pink, Conservative M.P.
• Christian Herbert, 6th Earl of Powis ^[3]
• James Provan, farmer, businessman and M.E.P.
• Janil Puthucheary, Malaysian-born Singaporean politician and paediatrician
• David Reddaway, diplomat
• David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Conservative M.P.
• Sir David Richards, UK Supreme Court Justice
• John Vernon Rob, diplomat and first High Commissioner to Singapore
• The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson, Labour M.P. and Minister of Health 1964-1968
• Sir Colin Shepherd, Conservative M.P.
• Sir Joseph Simpson, Metropolitan Police commissioner
• Michael Tatham, diplomat
• Peter Thurnham, Conservative and Liberal Democrat M.P.
• Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
• Sir George Mark Waller, judge and former Lord Justice of Appeal
• Arthur Wynn, civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies, known as "Agent Scott"

Science, medicine and religion

• Michael Ashby, neurologist, witness in John Bodkin Adams case
• David Barker, epidemiologist
• Colin Bibby, ornithologist and conservationist
• Sir Cyril Clarke, physician
• Richard Dawkins, ethologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer
• George Dawson Preston, physicist and crystallographer
• William Dillingham, clergyman and academic
• Charles Fagge, surgeon
• Hartley T. Ferrar, geologist who accompanied Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition
• Alister Hardy, marine biologist
• John B. Harman, former chairman of the British National Formulary
• Leslie Hilton Brown, ornithologist and agriculturalist
• Hugh Jackson, paediatrician
• Richard Keynes, physiologist
• Stephen Keynes, chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust
• Milo Keynes, doctor and author
• Thomas Layng, clergyman and soldier
• Alan Lindsay Mackay, crystallographer
• Bobby Milburn, clergyman
• Clive Minton, ornithologist
• David Nabarro, senior UN system coordinator
• C. H. Nash, clergyman and founder of the Melbourne Bible Institute
• Joseph Needham, biochemist
• Guy Newton, biochemist and rower
• Robin Nicholson, metallurgist, Chief Scientific Advisor to cabinet
• David Oates, archaeologist and Ancient Near East specialist
• P. D. Orton, mycologist
• Derek Richter, neuroscientist
• John Smith, clergyman and philosopher, one of the Cambridge Platonists
• John Speechly, bishop
• Simon Tavaré, founding director of the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics
• Ronald F. Tylecote, archaeologist and metallurgist

Sport

• Matthew Austin, cricketer
• Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal, 1928 Coxless fours rowing
• Rollo Brandt, bobsledder, competed for Great Britain at 1956 Winter Olympics ^[4]
• Farn Carpmael, rower
• Carston Catcheside, former England rugby player
• Alexander Crawford, cricketer
• Ben Curry, England rugby player
• Tom Curry, England rugby player
• Bill Elsey, racehorse trainer ^[5]
• Patrick Foster, cricketer
• Christopher Gimson, cricketer and civil servant
• Eric Gore-Browne, cricketer
• Tom Harrison, fmr. cricketer and current CEO of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
• Iain Henderson, cricketer
• Reggie Ingle, cricketer
• Will Jefferson, professional cricketer
• David Jennens, Olympic rower
• Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet, showjumper
• Robert Martin, cricketer
• Michael Maw, cricketer
• John Michael Mills, cricketer
• Peter Morley, president Crystal Palace Football Club
• Sam Olver, rugby player
• Richard Pearsall, cricketer
• Mark Phythian, cricketer
• Alfred Graham Skinner, cricketer
• Greg Smith, cricketer
• John Willoughby Dixie Smith, cricketer
• Tom Stallard, Olympic rower
• Arthur Sutthery, cricketer
• Tim Swinson, rugby player
• Cameron Wake, cricketer
• Dave Walder, professional rugby player
• Legh Winser, cricketer and golfer
• Arthur Woodhouse, cricketer
• James Wykes, cricketer and schoolmaster
• Norman Wykes, cricketer

References

1. "The Rev John Langdon" . The Times . 21 November 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
2. Swent, Eleanor (1986). Western Mining in the Twentieth Century Oral History Series - James Boyd (PDF). University of California, Berkeley . Retrieved 22 March 2023.
3. “Powis, 6th Earl of (Christian Victor Charles Herbert)” in Who Was Who 1981–1990 (1991) ISBN   0-7136-3336-0, p. 321
4. "Johnian Winter Olympians". St John's College, Cambridge . Retrieved 23 January 2019.
5. https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-telegraph/20190302 – via PressReader.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)