Famous folk from your school

[matty_doh]

Copying of wikipedia here;

J. R. Ackerley - Author, Diarist and Memoirist

Bill Ashton - Founder of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra

Sir Thomas Beecham - Conductor and founder of numerous orchestras including the London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic.

Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham - Private Secretary to Queen Victoria and King George V. Responsible for the change in royal name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

Little Boots - Singer/Songwriter - Winner of the BBC's Sound of 2009

David Brown - Owner of the David Brown Tractor Company (Huddersfield) and owner of both Aston Martin and Lagonda car companies from 1947 - 72. Aston Martin models are all designated "DB" (David Brown)

Father Thomas R.D. Byles - Catholic priest who refused to leave the Titanic so he could help fellow passengers. He perished as it sank.

Leslie Charteris - author and creator of "The Saint" books The Saintbooks later portrayed on television by Roger Moore in the 1960s and Ian Ogilvy in the 1970s
Michael Dickinson - World Record Holding National Hunt trainer

James Donald - Scottish character actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Great Escape)

J.G. Farrell - novelist and winner of the Booker Prize

F. W. Harvey - First World War Poet

Rev. Rupert Jones - Clergyman and Successful International Rally Driver and Touring Car Driver 1956 - 65. Nick named "The Bishop" Won RAC Rally 1956 in an Aston Martin DB2. He later helped develop many of the successful BMC competition cars of the 1960s particularly the Mini, Austin Healey and MG.

Lord Frederick Lugard - Governor of Nigeria and Hong Kong, also founder of the University of Hong Kong

Lieutenant General Sir John Nixon - Senior officer in the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I, who was ultimately responsible for the surrender of the British 6th Indian Division at Kut

Charles Kay Ogden - Linguist, psychologist, philosopher and inventor of Basic English

Brian Redman - The most successful endurance racing car driver of all time, still racing regularly in USA. 3 times Formula 5000 World Champion. Drove for Porsche, Ferrari, Aston Martin, Shadow, McLaren, Cooper BRM, and Chevron and Rossall's only ever Formula 1 Grand Prix driver.

Walter Clopton Wingfield - The Inventor of Lawn Tennis

Peter Winterbottom - Former England Rugby Union Captain. He also played for the Lions.

[TubbyTommy]

Someone I went to school with was on a league of there own the other night. Was the double for the cricket player.

[Negative Creep]

Footballer Neil Shipperly. Erm, yeah...............

[yellowtr]

A Jazz Pianist called Jason Rebello and "Matthew" from Desmonds.

[Switch`]

Currently the person who started our school way back when (Sir John Hawkins and his money)

and Ellenor Goulding (she of Radio1 noise making and brit awarded-ness). Spent 5 years in her company in school, every day. Fun times

[Mrs Trackside]

Shirley Eaton
James Hanratty - Murderer and rapist hanged in 1962
George Michael
Stuart Pearce
Terence 'Jet' Harris - Member of The Shadows
Courtney Pine
Charlie Watts
William Woolard
Mutya and Keisha - FOUNDING members of the Sugababes

If you're old enough to remember the original series of Grange Hill, you'll have seen my school on telly

[Robin Hood]

Peter Bowles (Actor)

Dr Harold Shipman (Murderer)

Edited by Robin Hood on Sunday 14th March 23:05

[koolchris99]

cyberface said:

Not something I paid too much attention to really, and looking at the Wiki page there's not a huge amount of note (apart from Haile Selassie sending most of his kids there ages ago). All I remember is that actress Stephanie Beacham's two daughters Phoebe and Chloe were there - Phoebe in my year, Chloe a couple of years below. Phoebe was alright really, though carried the 'famous mother' thing badly. Not a great looker but since I wasn't in the 'in-crowd' (perpetual outsider, me) and hence not likely to be pursuing her for the 'status' or indeed pursuing her at all, she was surprisingly open with me. Seemed terribly fragile TBH and whilst she could do the 'haughty' incredibly well, it was a pretty brittle front. I felt sorry for her really.

Chloe on the other hand was better looking, arrogant, irresponsible and just plain irritating. If I was stuck in the beer bar (we had some weird ancient licence that let the 6th formers drink long drinks (no spirits, just beer, lager and cider) on Wednesday and Saturday nights) alone with them, I'd stay as far away from Chloe as possible and talk to Phoebe instead. But I've always been drawn to mixed-up girls like a moth to a flame.

And no, if you asked her I expect the chances of her remembering me are zero

Wasn't a bad school TBH - some outstanding teachers really put me on the right path, and beggars can't be choosers (poor boy with a full scholarship, you don't turn down a free education!) - and got into a decent university as a result (where LOTS of famous folk went) so whilst I had a troubled childhood, I still look back fondly at the place. Nearly got expelled though when I wrote a virus for the school's network of new Acorn Archimedes computers... spread by floppy discs and caused some aggro at the time...

I went to the same school. I think. kings Taunton..

1995-2005

Tuckwell boy, my little bro is HC at the mo.

[...Karl...]

Philip Schofield.

What do I win?!

[Killer2005]

Joseph Preistly

He was a few years before me though

[Vixpy1]

cut and paste special

* 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)

[Famous Graham]

perdu said:

I think I go with Cock Womble as winner

You wouldn't if I'd included the SAS commander, 4 Admirals, 6 Air Marshals and 3 Generals

[Rufus]

Vixpy1 said:

cut and paste special

What more could we expect from a Stoic

[jaybkay]

SmartTowelGS401 said:

poached from wiki and edited:

Arts and Broadcasting

* Kenneth Adam, Controller of the BBC
* Jonathan Charles, BBC Foreign Correspondent
* Leslie Crowther, comedian and quiz show host
* D. H. Lawrence[10], writer and publisher

I was in the year below this next one, vaguely famous i guess:
* Jonny Sweet, comedian and actor

The Armed Forces

* Albert Ball, the first Royal Flying Corps winner of the Victoria Cross
* Theodore Hardy, (former master) non-combatant chaplain during the Great War, awarded the Victoria Cross

Sports

Knew both of these two not that they're desperately famous!!

• Andy Turner, Professional sprint hurdles
• Anthony Douglas Great Britain Short Track Speed Skating Team.

Politics, some big guns in here!!

* Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, Labour Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), current Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, former Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
* Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP[5], former Chancellor of the Exchequer,current Shadow Business Secretary and perennial Conservative Party leadership candidate
* Edward Davey MP[12], Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, Liberal Democrat Chief of Staff.
* Rt Hon Geoff Hoon MP, Current Transport Secretary and former Minister of State for Europe,Secretary of State for Defence and Leader of the House of Commons
* Piers Merchant former Conservative Member of Parliament, resigned in disgrace in 1997

Civil and Diplomatic Service and some more big guns!

* Sir Peter Gregson KCB, former Permanent Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry
* Sir Richard Lloyd-Jones KCB, former Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Office
* Lord Richardson of Duntisborne KG, sometime Governor of the Bank of England
* Sir Douglas Wass GCB, sometime Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Home Civil Service
* G. O. Whittaker OBE, Governor of Anguilla
* Norman Turner CBE, Official Solicitor 1970–1980[13]

Commerce

* Jesse Boot later Lord Trent, founder of the chemist's Boots (now the Boots Group)
* Frank Bowden engineer and businessman, founder of Raleigh Bicycle Company, inventor of the Bowden Cable
* John Player, tobacconist (John Player & Sons)

Science and Technology

* J. P. Knight, inventor of the traffic light

Nottingham Boys High School. Left in 1975, still in rehabilitation.

[Matt_Tilda]

Getragdogleg said:

That actress Thandi Newton.

Her brother Isaac went to my old school.

[maximm]

And apparently Frank Lampard wasn't even the best footballer at school at the time. My old football coach reckoned Neil "Mr Millwall" Harris was a much better natural footballer.


David Acfield (born 1947), cricketer
Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Keith Allen (born 1953), comedian, actor, singer and writer (father of the singer Lily Allen)
Peter Allen, BBC broadcaster and journalist, [3]
Sir Hardy Amies (1909–2003), Couturier and Dressmaker by Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen
Peter Barker (born 1983), squash player and influential member of winning English team in European Team Championships 2006[6]
Charlie Bean (born 1953), Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Bank of England
Guy Black (born 1964), former Press Secretary to Michael Howard, and Director of PCC
Patrick Carter, Baron Carter of Coles (born 1946), politician and life peer
Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (1856–1944), army officer, Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary and inventor of snooker
Philip Arthur William Collins (1923-2007), Dickensian scholar and emeritus professor of English, Leicester University
Roger Cowley (born 1939), professor of experimental philosophy at the University of Oxford
Alan Cuell (born 1953), printing tycoon and founder of MC Print Services
Sir Robin Day (1923 - 2000) attended the school 1934 - 1938[7]
Ralph Dellor, (born 1952), cricket broadcaster and journalist
Hugo Drayton, former Managing Director of The Daily Telegraph newspaper
David Eldridge (born 1973), playwright
Noel Edmonds (born 1948), disc jockey and broadcaster
Dr Stephen Fleet (1936-2006), Master of Downing College, Cambridge
Howard Flight (born 1948), politician
Prof. Sir Roderick Floud, academic, Vice-President of the European Universities Association
Fabian Hamilton (born 1955), politician
Neil Harris (born 1977), footballer
Keith Hopkins (1934-2004), Influential historian and sociologist, professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge
David Irving (born 1938), controversial historian
Chris Jarvis (born 1969), television presenter
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (1952–2004) poet and butt of Douglas Adams' jokes in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Nic Jones (born 1947), musician
Frank Lampard (born 1978), footballer
Andrew Lansley (born 1956), politician
Frank Godbould Lee (1903–1971), civil servant and Master of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
Sir Ralph Murray, diplomat
Jodie Marsh (born 1978), glamour model
Robert Andrew Muter Macindoe Ogilvie (1853-1938), England international footballer[8]
Hal Ozsan (born 1976), actor
Eric Peters (born 1969), rugby player
David Pickthall (born 1958), conductor and composer (see Drama and Music above)
Griff Rhys Jones (born 1953), comedian and actor
Stewart Robson (born 1964), footballer
Sir John Rogers (1928), Air Marshall in the Royal Air Force
Vivian Rosewarne (1917 - May 1940) Wellington bomber pilot memorialised in the 1941 film An Airman's Letter to His Mother[9],
Sir Nick Scheele (born 1943), former President of the Ford Motor Company
Sir Peter Stothard (born 1951), Former editor of The Times
Jack Straw (born 1946), Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain since June 2007
Charles Thomson (born 1953), founder of the Stuckists art movement
Mark Philpott(born 1955), Oxford academic and senior tutor at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford
Teerathep Winothai (born 1985), footballer
Michael Peppiatt (born 1941), Writer and Art Historian
Alexander O'Connell (born 1988), Sabre Fencing Individual World and Commonwealth Champion

[Syndrome]

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.

Edited by Syndrome on Monday 15th March 08:28

[pugwash4x4]

cyberface said:

Not something I paid too much attention to really, and looking at the Wiki page there's not a huge amount of note (apart from Haile Selassie sending most of his kids there ages ago). All I remember is that actress Stephanie Beacham's two daughters Phoebe and Chloe were there - Phoebe in my year, Chloe a couple of years below. Phoebe was alright really, though carried the 'famous mother' thing badly. Not a great looker but since I wasn't in the 'in-crowd' (perpetual outsider, me) and hence not likely to be pursuing her for the 'status' or indeed pursuing her at all, she was surprisingly open with me. Seemed terribly fragile TBH and whilst she could do the 'haughty' incredibly well, it was a pretty brittle front. I felt sorry for her really.

Chloe on the other hand was better looking, arrogant, irresponsible and just plain irritating. If I was stuck in the beer bar (we had some weird ancient licence that let the 6th formers drink long drinks (no spirits, just beer, lager and cider) on Wednesday and Saturday nights) alone with them, I'd stay as far away from Chloe as possible and talk to Phoebe instead. But I've always been drawn to mixed-up girls like a moth to a flame.

And no, if you asked her I expect the chances of her remembering me are zero

Wasn't a bad school TBH - some outstanding teachers really put me on the right path, and beggars can't be choosers (poor boy with a full scholarship, you don't turn down a free education!) - and got into a decent university as a result (where LOTS of famous folk went) so whilst I had a troubled childhood, I still look back fondly at the place. Nearly got expelled though when I wrote a virus for the school's network of new Acorn Archimedes computers... spread by floppy discs and caused some aggro at the time...

You went to Kings taunton- probably the same year as my Brother KA'91 - although possibly 2 years above as i "think" was same year as Chloe- i remember her as being utterly gorgeous though.

Tom Voyce
Roger Twose (Rather good cricketer)
Dom Wood- kids TV- "Dick and Dom"

[The Prophet]

Can't be bothered with Wikipedia, most of the people it lists aren't all that famous anyway. From memory my school was attended by:

Andy Baddeley - Olympic 1500m runner

Daniel Craig - James Bond (although he was only at the school for about 2 weeks)

Ray Holmes - Battle of Britain fighter pilot (look him up on Wikipedia, he should be more famous than he is)

[FamilyGuy]

No-one from my school appears to be famous - I'm not surprised. I thought the murderer from my year might have shown up somewhere but his cover-up was an epic fail. Apparently he wrapped the body in chains and placed it on an airbed at high tide so it would be carried out to sea. This is a really cunning way of disposing of a body if you remember to make the tiny hole in the airbed that causes it to sink some way offshore. Of course he didn't so it just floated back in on the next tide, causing a bit of a stir.

Edited by FamilyGuy on Monday 15th March 09:05