Famous folk from your school
Discussion
Syndrome said:
My secondary school was full of pikey low life scum suckers. A lot of them have gone on to be dead or in prison, but none of them have reached notorioty for anything as far as I'm aware. 
Of the mixed Y5 and 6 class (as would be now) at my Junior School at least 5 (plus 2 brothers and 2 more I know of, one older than me, one a couple of years younger) went to Secure School(?)/ Young Offenders Institutions or whatever they'd be called back then, or prison. A pretty high proportion but no surprise given what it was like. Several for the same offence, conspiracy to steal building machinery including vehicles from sitesEdited by Syndrome on Monday 15th March 08:28
Only one a bit famous - a national level rally driver who quite often made it into Motoring News (as was) but got done for some fraud to do with the sport, sponsorship related maybe but its so far back I can hardly remember. He was SCUM!!! His younger brother went to Glen Parva (no not another school) for pulling a pistol on some neighbour in a dispute; equally charming. I remember how they described with real surprise that their neighbour actually objected to their Nov 5th bonfire . . . sourced by nipping over the fence and chopping one of the neighbour's trees down!
Puggit said:
Historian P. J. Marshall, architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, impressionist Rory Bremner, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, author Sebastian Faulks, political journalist Robin Oakley, actor Sir Christopher Lee, writer George Orwell, poet Gavin Ewart, composer John Gardner, world champion motor racing driver James Hunt, Opposition Leader of the House of Lords Lord Strathclyde, journalist and television presenter Peter Snow, the UK Pop Idol winner Will Young, and BRIT Award-nominated singer Nerina Pallot, and the rugby union players James Haskell and the brothers Max and Thom Evans.
Croydon Comp?All from Wiki. Excuse the length of it.
15th century
* John Hygdon (c. 1472 – 1532), first dean of Cardinal College /Christ Church, Oxford
16th century
* Nicholas Udall (1504–1556), playwright
* Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552 – 1616), travel writer
* William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet
* Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), antiquarian
* Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist
* Arthur Dee (1579–1651), physician
* Richard Corbet (1582–1635), poet
* Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet
* Charles Chauncy (1592–1672), President of Harvard 1654 – 72
* Henry King (1592–1669), poet
* George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet
17th century
* Jasper Mayne (1604–1672), dramatist
* Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet and dramatist
* Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
* Richard Lower (1631–1691), pioneering physician
* John Dryden (1631–1700), poet and playwright
* John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
* Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723), architect, scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society
* Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society
* Thomas Gale (c. 1636 – 1702), classical scholar and antiquarian
* Henry Aldrich 1647 – 1710), philosopher
* George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648–1689), Lord Chief Justice of the Bloody Assize, Lord Chancellor (also ed. by Thomas Chaloner at Shrewsbury and attended St Paul's)[1]
* Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724), Dean of Norwich
* Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743), Archbishop of York
* Henry Purcell (1659–1695), composer
* Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), creator of the Bank of England
* James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (1661–1734), Privy Counsellor
* William King (1663–1712), poet
* Matthew Prior (1664–1771), poet
* Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate 1715
* William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684–1764), Cabinet Minister
* John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690–1763), statesman and Cabinet Minister
* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1693–1768), First Lord of the Treasury 1754 – 1756, Prime Minister
* James Bramston (1694–1744), satirist
* Henry Pelham (1696–1754), First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1743 – 1754, Prime Minister
* John, Lord Hervey,(1696–1743), statesman and writer
* John Dyer (1699–1748), poet
18th century
* Sir Thomas Clarke, Master of the Rolls
* Charles Wesley (1707–1788), Methodist preacher and writer of over 6,000 hymns
* William Beckford (1709–1770), politician, twice Lord Mayor of London
* John Cleland (1709–1789), author of the first erotic novel
* Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709-1792), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
* Robert Hay Drummond (1711-1776), Archbishop of York
* James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715–1763), First Lord of the Treasury, Prime Minister for five days in 1757
* Francis Lewis (1713–1803), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
* General Thomas Gage (1721–1787), C in C North America, Governor of Massachusetts 1774
* John Burgoyne (1723–1792), Lieutenant-General who surrendered British Army at Saratoga
* Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799), Admiral of the Fleet
* Frederick Hamilton (1728–1811), deacon
* Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782), Prime Minister
* William Cowper (1731–1800), poet and hymnodist
* Henry Constantine Jennings (1731–1819), collector
* Charles Churchill, George Colman the Elder, Bonnell Thornton and Robert Lloyd (1731–1764, 1732–1794, 1725–1768, and 1733–1764), satirists and poets; founders of the satirists' Nonsense Club
* Warren Hastings (1732–1818), impeached Governor-General of Bengal
* Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), Astronomer Royal
* Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist
* Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735–1811), Prime Minister
* Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735–1806), reforming politician
* John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), politician and philologist
* Edward Gibbon, FRS (1737–1794), historian
* William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), Prime Minister
* Arthur Middleton (1742–1787), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
* Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), ADC to Washington 1777, defeated by Jefferson in 1804 in contest for Presidency
* Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher, lawyer and eccentric
* Archibald James Edward Stewart, 1st Baron Douglas of Douglas (1748–1827), Winner of the Douglas Cause. MP and Lord Lieutenant of Forfarshire. [1]
* Henry William Bunbury (1750–1811), caricaturist
* Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828), American ambassador to Britain
* James Bland Burgess (1752-1824), dramatist and playwright
* Richard Burke Jr. (1758-1794), Member of Parliament
* Richard Bingham, Earl of Lucan (1764–1839), Member of Parliament
* Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), ambassador to Constantinople, bringer of parthenon marbles to Britain
* Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854), cavalry and horse artillery officer at Waterloo, where he lost a leg
* Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (1770–1844), Radical parliamentarian and parliamentary reformer
* Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate 1813
* Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775–1818), dramatist
* Benjamin Hall (1778–1817), Welsh industrialist, father of 1st Baron Llanover (below).
* Henry Fynes Clinton (1781–1852), scholar
* John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), companion and ally of Byron
* FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855), lost his right arm at Waterloo, C-in-C in the Crimea
* William Sellon (died 1790), Deacon
* Sir James Graham (1792–1861), politician
* John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878), Prime Minister
* William Mure (1799–1860), scholar and politician
19th century
* John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), Irish clergyman
* Thomas Henry Lister (1800–1842), novelist and first Registrar General
* Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (1802–1867), Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings responsible for, amongst others, the current Palace of Westminster, likely to have given his name to Big Ben
* Zerah Colburn (1804–1840), Canadian child mathematics prodigy
* William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), scientist
* Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore (1810–1885), Judge of the Arches
* Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), writer
* Sir Charles Dilke, 1st Baronet (1811–1869) reformer, instigator of the Great Exhibition
* Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), reforming and satirical journalist ; chronicler of London's poor and founder of Punch
* Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), author
* George Henty (1832–1902), author
* Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter
* Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet (1843–1911), Liberal statesman
* Herbert Rawson (1852 - 1924), England international footballer
* Norman Bailey (1857 - 1923), England international footballer
* Sir Guy Francis Laking (1875–1919), art historian and Keeper of the London Museum
* Sir K. A. C. Creswell (1879–1974), architectural historian specialising in Egyptian Islamic architecture
* A. A. Milne (1882–1956), author and journalist
* Hussein Ala (1882-1964), Prime Minister of Iran
* Adrian Stephen (1883–1948), Bloomsbury psychoanalyst
* Henry Tizard (1885–1959), scientist and inventor
* Harry St. John Philby (1885-1960), Arabist, explorer, author, agent
* Gustav Hamel (1889–1914), pioneer aviator
* Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1984), conductor
* Edgar Adrian (1889–1977), scientist and Nobel Prizewinner
* Jack Hulbert (1892–1978), actor
* Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos (1893–1972), Cabinet Minister during World War II, chaiman of the National Theatre Board
* Fred Melville (1882-1940), philatelist
20th century
* R.A. Bevan (1901-1974), media pioneer
* Gregory Dix (1902–1952), liturgical scholar
* C.W.A. Scott (1903-1946) Pioneer Aviator
* Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), novelist and playwright
* Sir John Gielgud (1904–2000), actor and director
* Sir John Aitken (1910–1985), Conservative newspaper owner
* H. A. R. "Kim" Philby (1912–1988), agent who defected to USSR 1963
* Professor Sir Richard Doll, CH FRS (1912–2005), epidemiologist
* Sir Richard Stone (1913–1991), Nobel prizewinner
* Angus Wilson (1913–1991), novelist
* Norman Parkinson (1913–1990), photographer
* Sir William Deakin (1913–2005), historian and literary assistant to Winston Churchill
* John Freeman (born 1915), Labour politician, broadcaster, diplomat and television chairman
* Sir Andrew Huxley FRS (born 1917), scientist
* Cecil Gould (1918–1994), art historian
* Brian Urquhart (born 1919) UN undersecretary-general and pioneer of peacekeeping
* Sir Peter Ustinov (1921–2004), actor, writer and director
* Michael Flanders and Donald Swann (1922–1975 and 1923–1994), performers, writers and musicians
* Neville Sandelson (1923–2002), founder member of the SDP
* Michael Havers (1923–1992), lord chancellor
* Richard Wollheim (1923–2003), philosopher
* Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), literary critic
* Colin Turnbull (1924–1994), anthropologist
* Tony Benn (born 1925), politician
* Peter Brook (born 1925), theatre director
* Tristram Cary (born 1925), composer
* Anthony Sampson (1926–2004) , author, founder member of the SDP
* Edward Enfield (born 1929), broadcaster
* Sir Crispin Tickell (born 1930), environmentalist, diplomat and academic
* Nigel, Lord Lawson (born 1932), former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Anthony Howard (born 1934), journalist
* Sir Roger Norrington (born 1934), musician
* Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), (born 1934), theologian
* Simon Gray (1936-2008), playwright
* William Cookson (1939–2004), literary critic
* Julian, Lord Hunt,(born 1942), climate change authority and Labour peer
* Peter Bottomley (born 1944), Conservative politician
* Peter Asher and Gordon Waller (born 1944 and 1945), musicians
* William, Baron Bach (born 1946), Labour politician
* Andrew, Lord Lloyd-Webber (born 1948), musician and producer
* Martin Amis (born 1949), novelist
* Michael Attenborough (born 1950), theatre director
* Tim Sebastian (born 1952) , television correspondent and interviewer
* Stephen Poliakoff (born 1952), playwright
* Robbie Fields (born 1952), record producer
* Nigel Planer (born 1953), novelist and actor
* Chris Huhne (born 1954), Liberal Democrat politician
* Adam Mars-Jones (born 1954), novelist and critic
* James Robbins (born 1955), diplomatic correspondent
* Tim Gardam (born 1955), journalist and educator, former director of Channel 4
* Andrew Graham-Dixon (born 1956), broadcaster and art historian
* Dominic Grieve (born 1956), shadow Attorney-General
* Dominic Lawson (born 1956), journalist
* Shane McGowan (born 1957), musician
* James Lasdun (born 1957), poet and novelist
* Thomas Dolby (born 1958), musician
* Nigella Lawson (born 1960), broadcaster
* Edward St Aubyn (born 1960), author
* Tom Holt (born 1960), novelist
* Timothy Winter (born 1960), islamic scholar
* Michael Reiss (born 1960), anglican bioethicist
* George Benjamin (born 1960), composer
* David Heyman (born 1961), film producer
* Imogen Stubbs (born 1961), actress
* Matt Frei (born 1963), foreign correspondent
* Ian Bostridge (born 1964), tenor
* Lucasta Miller (born 1966), literary journalist
* Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966), actress
* Noreena Hertz (born 1967), economist and author
* Gavin Rossdale (born 1967), musician and actor
* Julian Anderson (born 1967), composer
* Nick Clegg (born 1967), Liberal Democrat leader
* Alexander Williams (born 1967), artist and animator
* Richard Harris (born 1968), composer and pianist
* Ruth Kelly MP (born 1968), former Education Secretary
* Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish (born 1968 and 1969), TV performers and journalists
* Marcel Theroux (born 1969), novelist
* Louis Theroux (born 1970), broadcaster
* Tobias Hill (born 1970), poet and novelist
* Dido Armstrong (born 1971), musician under the name of "Dido"
* Martha Lane Fox (born 1973), dot.com entrepreneur
* James Reynolds (born 1974), BBC Beijing Correspondent
* Conrad Shawcross (born 1977), artist
* Christian Coulson (born 1978), actor
* Pinny Grylls (born 1978), filmmaker
* Benjamin Yeoh (born 1978), playwright
* James Brandon (born 1980), journalist
* Clemency Burton (born 1981), writer and actress
* Alice Eve (born 1982), actress
* Mica Penniman (born 1983), musician under the name "Mika"
* Max Vergara Poeti (born 1983), novelist and essayist
* Rudolf von Ribbentrop (born 1921), German solder and the son of Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop
* IforB
15th century
* John Hygdon (c. 1472 – 1532), first dean of Cardinal College /Christ Church, Oxford
16th century
* Nicholas Udall (1504–1556), playwright
* Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552 – 1616), travel writer
* William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet
* Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), antiquarian
* Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist
* Arthur Dee (1579–1651), physician
* Richard Corbet (1582–1635), poet
* Robert Herrick (1591–1674), poet
* Charles Chauncy (1592–1672), President of Harvard 1654 – 72
* Henry King (1592–1669), poet
* George Herbert (1593–1633), public orator and poet
17th century
* Jasper Mayne (1604–1672), dramatist
* Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet and dramatist
* Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
* Richard Lower (1631–1691), pioneering physician
* John Dryden (1631–1700), poet and playwright
* John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
* Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723), architect, scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society
* Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society
* Thomas Gale (c. 1636 – 1702), classical scholar and antiquarian
* Henry Aldrich 1647 – 1710), philosopher
* George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648–1689), Lord Chief Justice of the Bloody Assize, Lord Chancellor (also ed. by Thomas Chaloner at Shrewsbury and attended St Paul's)[1]
* Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724), Dean of Norwich
* Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743), Archbishop of York
* Henry Purcell (1659–1695), composer
* Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), creator of the Bank of England
* James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (1661–1734), Privy Counsellor
* William King (1663–1712), poet
* Matthew Prior (1664–1771), poet
* Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate 1715
* William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684–1764), Cabinet Minister
* John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690–1763), statesman and Cabinet Minister
* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1693–1768), First Lord of the Treasury 1754 – 1756, Prime Minister
* James Bramston (1694–1744), satirist
* Henry Pelham (1696–1754), First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1743 – 1754, Prime Minister
* John, Lord Hervey,(1696–1743), statesman and writer
* John Dyer (1699–1748), poet
18th century
* Sir Thomas Clarke, Master of the Rolls
* Charles Wesley (1707–1788), Methodist preacher and writer of over 6,000 hymns
* William Beckford (1709–1770), politician, twice Lord Mayor of London
* John Cleland (1709–1789), author of the first erotic novel
* Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709-1792), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
* Robert Hay Drummond (1711-1776), Archbishop of York
* James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715–1763), First Lord of the Treasury, Prime Minister for five days in 1757
* Francis Lewis (1713–1803), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
* General Thomas Gage (1721–1787), C in C North America, Governor of Massachusetts 1774
* John Burgoyne (1723–1792), Lieutenant-General who surrendered British Army at Saratoga
* Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726–1799), Admiral of the Fleet
* Frederick Hamilton (1728–1811), deacon
* Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782), Prime Minister
* William Cowper (1731–1800), poet and hymnodist
* Henry Constantine Jennings (1731–1819), collector
* Charles Churchill, George Colman the Elder, Bonnell Thornton and Robert Lloyd (1731–1764, 1732–1794, 1725–1768, and 1733–1764), satirists and poets; founders of the satirists' Nonsense Club
* Warren Hastings (1732–1818), impeached Governor-General of Bengal
* Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), Astronomer Royal
* Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist
* Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735–1811), Prime Minister
* Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735–1806), reforming politician
* John Horne Tooke (1736–1812), politician and philologist
* Edward Gibbon, FRS (1737–1794), historian
* William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), Prime Minister
* Arthur Middleton (1742–1787), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
* Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), ADC to Washington 1777, defeated by Jefferson in 1804 in contest for Presidency
* Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher, lawyer and eccentric
* Archibald James Edward Stewart, 1st Baron Douglas of Douglas (1748–1827), Winner of the Douglas Cause. MP and Lord Lieutenant of Forfarshire. [1]
* Henry William Bunbury (1750–1811), caricaturist
* Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828), American ambassador to Britain
* James Bland Burgess (1752-1824), dramatist and playwright
* Richard Burke Jr. (1758-1794), Member of Parliament
* Richard Bingham, Earl of Lucan (1764–1839), Member of Parliament
* Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), ambassador to Constantinople, bringer of parthenon marbles to Britain
* Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768–1854), cavalry and horse artillery officer at Waterloo, where he lost a leg
* Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (1770–1844), Radical parliamentarian and parliamentary reformer
* Robert Southey (1774–1843), Poet Laureate 1813
* Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775–1818), dramatist
* Benjamin Hall (1778–1817), Welsh industrialist, father of 1st Baron Llanover (below).
* Henry Fynes Clinton (1781–1852), scholar
* John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786–1869), companion and ally of Byron
* FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855), lost his right arm at Waterloo, C-in-C in the Crimea
* William Sellon (died 1790), Deacon
* Sir James Graham (1792–1861), politician
* John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878), Prime Minister
* William Mure (1799–1860), scholar and politician
19th century
* John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), Irish clergyman
* Thomas Henry Lister (1800–1842), novelist and first Registrar General
* Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (1802–1867), Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings responsible for, amongst others, the current Palace of Westminster, likely to have given his name to Big Ben
* Zerah Colburn (1804–1840), Canadian child mathematics prodigy
* William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), scientist
* Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore (1810–1885), Judge of the Arches
* Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), writer
* Sir Charles Dilke, 1st Baronet (1811–1869) reformer, instigator of the Great Exhibition
* Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), reforming and satirical journalist ; chronicler of London's poor and founder of Punch
* Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), author
* George Henty (1832–1902), author
* Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter
* Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet (1843–1911), Liberal statesman
* Herbert Rawson (1852 - 1924), England international footballer
* Norman Bailey (1857 - 1923), England international footballer
* Sir Guy Francis Laking (1875–1919), art historian and Keeper of the London Museum
* Sir K. A. C. Creswell (1879–1974), architectural historian specialising in Egyptian Islamic architecture
* A. A. Milne (1882–1956), author and journalist
* Hussein Ala (1882-1964), Prime Minister of Iran
* Adrian Stephen (1883–1948), Bloomsbury psychoanalyst
* Henry Tizard (1885–1959), scientist and inventor
* Harry St. John Philby (1885-1960), Arabist, explorer, author, agent
* Gustav Hamel (1889–1914), pioneer aviator
* Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1984), conductor
* Edgar Adrian (1889–1977), scientist and Nobel Prizewinner
* Jack Hulbert (1892–1978), actor
* Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos (1893–1972), Cabinet Minister during World War II, chaiman of the National Theatre Board
* Fred Melville (1882-1940), philatelist
20th century
* R.A. Bevan (1901-1974), media pioneer
* Gregory Dix (1902–1952), liturgical scholar
* C.W.A. Scott (1903-1946) Pioneer Aviator
* Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962), novelist and playwright
* Sir John Gielgud (1904–2000), actor and director
* Sir John Aitken (1910–1985), Conservative newspaper owner
* H. A. R. "Kim" Philby (1912–1988), agent who defected to USSR 1963
* Professor Sir Richard Doll, CH FRS (1912–2005), epidemiologist
* Sir Richard Stone (1913–1991), Nobel prizewinner
* Angus Wilson (1913–1991), novelist
* Norman Parkinson (1913–1990), photographer
* Sir William Deakin (1913–2005), historian and literary assistant to Winston Churchill
* John Freeman (born 1915), Labour politician, broadcaster, diplomat and television chairman
* Sir Andrew Huxley FRS (born 1917), scientist
* Cecil Gould (1918–1994), art historian
* Brian Urquhart (born 1919) UN undersecretary-general and pioneer of peacekeeping
* Sir Peter Ustinov (1921–2004), actor, writer and director
* Michael Flanders and Donald Swann (1922–1975 and 1923–1994), performers, writers and musicians
* Neville Sandelson (1923–2002), founder member of the SDP
* Michael Havers (1923–1992), lord chancellor
* Richard Wollheim (1923–2003), philosopher
* Michael Hamburger (1924–2007), literary critic
* Colin Turnbull (1924–1994), anthropologist
* Tony Benn (born 1925), politician
* Peter Brook (born 1925), theatre director
* Tristram Cary (born 1925), composer
* Anthony Sampson (1926–2004) , author, founder member of the SDP
* Edward Enfield (born 1929), broadcaster
* Sir Crispin Tickell (born 1930), environmentalist, diplomat and academic
* Nigel, Lord Lawson (born 1932), former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer
* Anthony Howard (born 1934), journalist
* Sir Roger Norrington (born 1934), musician
* Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), (born 1934), theologian
* Simon Gray (1936-2008), playwright
* William Cookson (1939–2004), literary critic
* Julian, Lord Hunt,(born 1942), climate change authority and Labour peer
* Peter Bottomley (born 1944), Conservative politician
* Peter Asher and Gordon Waller (born 1944 and 1945), musicians
* William, Baron Bach (born 1946), Labour politician
* Andrew, Lord Lloyd-Webber (born 1948), musician and producer
* Martin Amis (born 1949), novelist
* Michael Attenborough (born 1950), theatre director
* Tim Sebastian (born 1952) , television correspondent and interviewer
* Stephen Poliakoff (born 1952), playwright
* Robbie Fields (born 1952), record producer
* Nigel Planer (born 1953), novelist and actor
* Chris Huhne (born 1954), Liberal Democrat politician
* Adam Mars-Jones (born 1954), novelist and critic
* James Robbins (born 1955), diplomatic correspondent
* Tim Gardam (born 1955), journalist and educator, former director of Channel 4
* Andrew Graham-Dixon (born 1956), broadcaster and art historian
* Dominic Grieve (born 1956), shadow Attorney-General
* Dominic Lawson (born 1956), journalist
* Shane McGowan (born 1957), musician
* James Lasdun (born 1957), poet and novelist
* Thomas Dolby (born 1958), musician
* Nigella Lawson (born 1960), broadcaster
* Edward St Aubyn (born 1960), author
* Tom Holt (born 1960), novelist
* Timothy Winter (born 1960), islamic scholar
* Michael Reiss (born 1960), anglican bioethicist
* George Benjamin (born 1960), composer
* David Heyman (born 1961), film producer
* Imogen Stubbs (born 1961), actress
* Matt Frei (born 1963), foreign correspondent
* Ian Bostridge (born 1964), tenor
* Lucasta Miller (born 1966), literary journalist
* Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966), actress
* Noreena Hertz (born 1967), economist and author
* Gavin Rossdale (born 1967), musician and actor
* Julian Anderson (born 1967), composer
* Nick Clegg (born 1967), Liberal Democrat leader
* Alexander Williams (born 1967), artist and animator
* Richard Harris (born 1968), composer and pianist
* Ruth Kelly MP (born 1968), former Education Secretary
* Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish (born 1968 and 1969), TV performers and journalists
* Marcel Theroux (born 1969), novelist
* Louis Theroux (born 1970), broadcaster
* Tobias Hill (born 1970), poet and novelist
* Dido Armstrong (born 1971), musician under the name of "Dido"
* Martha Lane Fox (born 1973), dot.com entrepreneur
* James Reynolds (born 1974), BBC Beijing Correspondent
* Conrad Shawcross (born 1977), artist
* Christian Coulson (born 1978), actor
* Pinny Grylls (born 1978), filmmaker
* Benjamin Yeoh (born 1978), playwright
* James Brandon (born 1980), journalist
* Clemency Burton (born 1981), writer and actress
* Alice Eve (born 1982), actress
* Mica Penniman (born 1983), musician under the name "Mika"
* Max Vergara Poeti (born 1983), novelist and essayist
* Rudolf von Ribbentrop (born 1921), German solder and the son of Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop
* IforB
Edited by IforB on Tuesday 16th March 01:20
Not sure about all this Wiki stuff, but I was in the same class as Olympic gold medallist rower, Tom James. My old man went to Oundle where he was in the same year as Charles Morgan and remembers Raymond Mays attending to give a talk. My grandfather was at Uppingham with Donald Campbell.
swerni said:
Vixpy1 said:
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* Michael Alexander
* Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill
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* 3rd Earl Attlee (House of Lords)
* Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (former television executive and a Labour Party member of the House of Lords)
* Oliver Bertram (Motor racing driver)
* Richard Boston (English journalist and author)
* John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter (British Conservative Party politician)
* Sir Richard Branson (business man)
* Lord Justice Simon Brown (law lord)
* Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster OBE
* James Burnell-Nugent, (Admiral in the Royal Navy)
* Henry Cavill (actor)
* Leonard Cheshire VC (airman and founder of the Cheshire Foundation)
* Simon Clegg (Former CEO of the British Olympic Association and current CEO of Ipswich Town Football Club)
* John C. Corlette, became an architect and later teacher at Gordonstoun; founded Aiglon College, Switzerland, in 1949.
* John Cornford (poet)
* Andrew Croft (explorer and SOE agent)
* Alki David (Director, Actor, Screenwriter, Businessman, Philanthropist and Explorer)
* Chelsy Davy (ex-girlfriend of Prince Harry)
* Simon Digby, oriental scholar
* John David Eaton (Merchant - Canada)
* Martin Edwards (former chairman of Manchester United)
* Howard Goodall (Musician)
* Michael Grade (TV executive)
* Harry Gregson-Williams (Composer and 1st Music Scholar 1975)
* 2nd Earl Haig
* Edward Hardwicke, (actor)
* Lee Harris (musician and manager of The Blockheads)
* Sir Jack Hayward - (entrepreneur and owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers)
* Sir Nicholas Henderson (British diplomat)
* John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker (British diplomat)
* Roger Hodgson (musician) - founding member and vocalist of Supertramp
* Oscar Humphries (Journalist)
* Marc Koska, OBE (Inventor) (Designed K1 auto-disable syringe and credited with saving in excess of one million lives)
* Nicholas Lyell (former Solicitor-General and Attorney-General)
* Gavin Maxwell, author and naturalist
* Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine
* George Melly (jazz singer & art historian)
* Crispian Mills (musician)
* Christopher Robin Milne (son of A.A Milne)
* George Monbiot (left-wing journalist and political activist)
* Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk - herald
* David Niven, (actor)
* Toby O'Brien, journalist and public relations expert
* HSH Prince Rainier III of Monaco
* James Reeves (poet)
* Graham Riddick (British Conservative Party politician)
* John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover (Grocer)
* David Shepherd (artist)
* Henrik Takkenberg (singer, songwriter)
* Karan Thapar (journalist)
* Michael Ventris (linguist who deciphered Linear B)
* Rollo Weeks (actor)
* Graeme White, (Cricketer, Northamptonshire)
* Peregrine Worsthorne (journalist)
I can't believe they all went to an approved school * Michael Alexander
* Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill
* Lord Annan (author and Provost of King's College, Cambridge)
* 3rd Earl Attlee (House of Lords)
* Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (former television executive and a Labour Party member of the House of Lords)
* Oliver Bertram (Motor racing driver)
* Richard Boston (English journalist and author)
* John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter (British Conservative Party politician)
* Sir Richard Branson (business man)
* Lord Justice Simon Brown (law lord)
* Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster OBE
* James Burnell-Nugent, (Admiral in the Royal Navy)
* Henry Cavill (actor)
* Leonard Cheshire VC (airman and founder of the Cheshire Foundation)
* Simon Clegg (Former CEO of the British Olympic Association and current CEO of Ipswich Town Football Club)
* John C. Corlette, became an architect and later teacher at Gordonstoun; founded Aiglon College, Switzerland, in 1949.
* John Cornford (poet)
* Andrew Croft (explorer and SOE agent)
* Alki David (Director, Actor, Screenwriter, Businessman, Philanthropist and Explorer)
* Chelsy Davy (ex-girlfriend of Prince Harry)
* Simon Digby, oriental scholar
* John David Eaton (Merchant - Canada)
* Martin Edwards (former chairman of Manchester United)
* Howard Goodall (Musician)
* Michael Grade (TV executive)
* Harry Gregson-Williams (Composer and 1st Music Scholar 1975)
* 2nd Earl Haig
* Edward Hardwicke, (actor)
* Lee Harris (musician and manager of The Blockheads)
* Sir Jack Hayward - (entrepreneur and owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers)
* Sir Nicholas Henderson (British diplomat)
* John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker (British diplomat)
* Roger Hodgson (musician) - founding member and vocalist of Supertramp
* Oscar Humphries (Journalist)
* Marc Koska, OBE (Inventor) (Designed K1 auto-disable syringe and credited with saving in excess of one million lives)
* Nicholas Lyell (former Solicitor-General and Attorney-General)
* Gavin Maxwell, author and naturalist
* Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine
* George Melly (jazz singer & art historian)
* Crispian Mills (musician)
* Christopher Robin Milne (son of A.A Milne)
* George Monbiot (left-wing journalist and political activist)
* Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk - herald
* David Niven, (actor)
* Toby O'Brien, journalist and public relations expert
* HSH Prince Rainier III of Monaco
* James Reeves (poet)
* Graham Riddick (British Conservative Party politician)
* John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover (Grocer)
* David Shepherd (artist)
* Henrik Takkenberg (singer, songwriter)
* Karan Thapar (journalist)
* Michael Ventris (linguist who deciphered Linear B)
* Rollo Weeks (actor)
* Graeme White, (Cricketer, Northamptonshire)
* Peregrine Worsthorne (journalist)
Puggit said:
Historian P. J. Marshall, architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, impressionist Rory Bremner, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, author Sebastian Faulks, political journalist Robin Oakley, actor Sir Christopher Lee, writer George Orwell, poet Gavin Ewart, composer John Gardner, world champion motor racing driver James Hunt, Opposition Leader of the House of Lords Lord Strathclyde, journalist and television presenter Peter Snow, the UK Pop Idol winner Will Young, and BRIT Award-nominated singer Nerina Pallot, and the rugby union players James Haskell and the brothers Max and Thom Evans. The new Page 3 model Kelly Jayne Hall was in my brothers class! 2 years below me
BigBen said:
Gretchen said:
A fair few, including this boy a year above me who's in this band called Jamiroquai now. Still say hello as he lives locally, his Mother drives a lovely old Merc too.
He sometimes plays with the keyboardest from Deep Purple in the pub in Gransdenandy400 said:
chevronb37 said:
Not sure about all this Wiki stuff, but I was in the same class as Olympic gold medallist rower, Tom James.
We went to the same school then, though I don't think we were there at the same time!chevronb37 said:
andy400 said:
chevronb37 said:
Not sure about all this Wiki stuff, but I was in the same class as Olympic gold medallist rower, Tom James.
We went to the same school then, though I don't think we were there at the same time!Jon C said:
MrFlibbles said:
Jon C said:
MrFlibbles said:
James Allen aka the cock.
Crescat, Dead cat Crosbeia? floriat fortuna floriat? What year?
(How could i forget Ben Kay?)
I have to say my time at Merchants wasn't really the happiest in my life (I left in 1981 after my dad had to retire with ill health). I left just in time for them to stop making you go in on a Saturday morning. They still send my the 'Old Crosbean's' magazine, and it actually looks quite a nice place now. I guess had I recognised the opportunity at the time I would have made more of it. We were far too common to fit in, and Working Class to boot. Amusing given the number of nouveau riche scallys who sent their vile offspring there. None of them knew what order to use cutlery though!
Working Class: Check
Assisted Places Scheme: Check
andy400 said:
chevronb37 said:
andy400 said:
chevronb37 said:
Not sure about all this Wiki stuff, but I was in the same class as Olympic gold medallist rower, Tom James.
We went to the same school then, though I don't think we were there at the same time!Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff