List of notable Old Carthusians

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Old Carthusians are former pupils of Charterhouse School.

Contents 1 Born in 17th century 2 Born in 18th century 3 Born in 19th century 4 Born in 20th century

[edit] Born in 17th century

• Joseph Henshaw (1603–1679), Bishop of Peterborough, 1663–1679
• Roger Williams (c.1603–1683), religious dissenter and co-founder of Rhode Island
• Thomas Greaves (1611–1676), orientalist
• Richard Crashaw (1612/3–1648), poet
• Christopher Gibbons (c.1615–1676), organist and composer
• Edward Williams (c.1616–?), writer on Virginia
• Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet and soldier
• Thomas Ross (c.1620–1675), courtier and librarian to Charles II
• Francis Beale (c.1621–c.1666), writer on chess
• Samuel Barrow (c.1625–1683), military physician and judge-advocate (may have attended Charterhouse)
• John Collop (c.1625–?), poet
• William Reynolds (1625–1698), Presbyterian minister
• John Grosnold (c.1626–1678), General Baptist minister
• Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), mathematician and theologian
• Matthew Clarke (c.1630–c.1708), nonconformist minister
• Francis Fullwood (c.1630–1693), anti-nonconformist writer
• Carl Monstirle (c.1635–1673), physiologist
• William Durham (1639–1686), clergyman
• Nathaniel Resbury (c.1643–1711), clergyman
• Thomas Wagstaffe (1645–1712), non-juring Bishop of Ipswich
• James Vernon (c.1646–1727), Secretary of State
• Nathaniel Lee (c.1647–1692), dramatist and poet
• Samuel Bradford (1652–1731), Bishop of Carlisle, 1718–1723, and Bishop of Rochester, 1723–1731
• Henry Levett (c.1668–1725), physician
• Sir Erasmus-Henry Dryden (1669–1710), youngest son of John Dryden, Dominican priest
• Joseph Addison (1672–1719), writer and politician
• Sir Richard Steele (c.1672–1729), writer and politician, founder of The Tatler
• Philip Horneck (1673/4–1728), journalist
• Andrew Tooke (c.1673–1732), writer and Professor of Geometry, Gresham College, 1704–1729
• John Davies (1679–1732), President of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1717–1732
• Henry Felton (1679–1740), clergyman
• Martin Benson (1689–1752), Bishop of Gloucester, 1735–1752
• Francis Peck (1692–1743), antiquary
• Philip Bearcroft (1695–1761), antiquary and Master of Charterhouse School, 1753–1761
• John Thomas (1696–1781), Bishop of Winchester, 1761–1781
• Robert Paltock (1697–1767), writer
• John Ryder (c.1697–1775), Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, 1743–1752, and Archbishop of Tuam, 1752–1775
• Mark Hildesley (1698–1772), Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1755–1772
• John Jortin (1698–1770), ecclesiastical historian and literary critic
• Benjamin Martyn (1698–1763), writer and agent for Georgia

[edit] Born in 18th century

• Lewis Crusius (1701–1775), classicist
• Daniel Wray (1701–1783), antiquary
• John Wesley (1703–1791), founder of Methodism
• Peter Templeman (1711–1769), physician, Keeper of the Reading Room of the British Museum, 1758–1769, and Secretary of the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 1760–1769
• Samuel Salter (c.1713–1778), Master of Charterhouse School, 1761–1778
• Edmund Keene (1714–1781), Bishop of Chester, 1752–1771, and Bishop of Ely, 1771–1781
• Francis Okely (1719–1794), Moravian minister and translator of mystical writings
• Lieutenant-General Sir Adolphus Oughton (c.1719–1780), Commander-in-Chief, North Britain, 1778–1780, and antiquary
• Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), first Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1758–1766, politician and judge
• Sir William Ashhurst (1725–1807), judge
• William Jones of Nayland (1726–1800), controversial clergyman
• Thomas Hull (1728–1808), actor and dramatist
• Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729–1808), Secretary at War, 1778–1782, first President of the Board of Trade, 1786–1804, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1786–1803
• Francis Stone (c.1738–1813), controversial clergyman
• Samuel Berdmore (1739–1802), Master of Charterhouse School, 1769–1802
• James Bindley (1739–1818), book collector
• Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), surgeon, botanist, and Bath King of Arms, 1771–1800
• Robert Morris (1743–1793), radical
• Sir Horatio Mann (1744–1814), politician and patron of cricket
• Sir William Watson (1744–1824), physician and naturalist
• Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745–1816), music historian
• John Law (1745–1810), Bishop of Clonfert, 1782–1787, Bishop of Killala, 1787–1795, and Bishop of Elphin, 1795–1810
• William Cawthorne Unwin (1745–1786), clergyman
• William Seward (1747–1799), collector of anecdotes
• John Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher, traveller and eccentric
• Thomas Day (1748–1789), author
• Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818), Lord Chief Justice, 1802–1818
• Sir Henry Russell (1751–1836), Chief Justice of Bengal, 1807–1813
• Thomas Thornton (1751/2–1823), sportsman
• Peter Coxe (c.1753–1844), poet
• George Matcham (1753–1833), traveller
• Henry William Majendie (1754–1830), Bishop of Chester, 1800–1809, and Bishop of Bangor, 1809–1830
• Charles Manners-Sutton (1755–1828), Bishop of Norwich, 1792–1805, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1805–1828
• Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners of Foston (1756–1842), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1807–1827
• Charles Burney (1757–1817), book collector
• Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757–1849), Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, 1801–1806, and Commander-in-Chief in India, 1811–1813
• William Pilkington (1758–1848), architect
• John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1789–1794, and Lord Privy Seal, 1798–1827
• Matthew Raine (1760–1811), Master of Charterhouse School, 1791–1811
• George Henry Law (1761–1845), Bishop of Chester, 1812–1824, and Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1824–1845
• Francis Wollaston (1762–1823), Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1792–1813
• Thomas Rodd (1763–1822), antiquarian bookseller
• James Beresford (1764–1840), novelist
• James Smithson (1764–1829), mineralogist, traveller and founder of the Smithsonian Institution (probable Old Carthusian)
• Sir Samuel Toller (1764–1821), Advocate-General of Madras Presidency, 1812–1821
• William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), metallurgist, crystallographer and physiologist, discoverer of palladium and rhodium, researcher into platinum
• William Heberden the Younger (1767–1845), physician to George III
• Henry Luttrell (1768–1851), wit and poet
• Alexander John Scott (1768–1840), Chaplain of HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar
• Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), Prime Minister, 1812–1827
• Basil Montagu (1770–1851), author, barrister and Accountant-General in Bankruptcy, 1835–1846
• Samuel Wix (1771–1861), author, antiquary and theologian
• George Palmer (1772–1853), shipowner, politician and prominent supporter of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
• William Madocks (1773–1828), property developer and politician, founder of Tremadog and Porthmadog
• James Scotland (1774–1849), newspaper proprietor and editor in Antigua and abolitionist (expelled)
• Henry Siddons (1774–1818), actor and dramatist, son of Sarah Siddons
• Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (c.1780–1843), surgeon, philosopher and writer
• Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), Royal Navy officer and rake (left after 9 days)
• David Montagu Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine (1776–1855), Minister-Plenipotentiary to the United States, 1806–1809, Minister-Plenipotentiary to Württemberg, 1824–1828, and Minister-Plenipotentiary to Bavaria, 1828–1843
• James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776–1845), politician and Lord President of the Council, 1841–1845
• Frederick Beadon (1777–1879), centenarian
• William Fuller Boteler (1777/8–1845), judge
• John Adam (1779–1825), Acting Governor-General of India, 1823
• Major-General Sir James Carmichael-Smyth (1779–1838), Royal Engineers officer, Governor of the Bahamas, 1829–1833, and Governor of British Guiana, 1833–1838
• Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), merchant banker
• Henry Kaye Bonney (1780–1862), Archdeacon of Bedford, 1821–1845, and Archdeacon of Lincoln, 1845–1862
• John Higgs Hunt (1780–1859), journal editor and translator
• Samuel March Phillipps (1780–1862), legal writer and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, 1827–1848
• George Cecil Renouard (1780–1867), classicist and orientalist
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Squire (1780–1812), Royal Engineers officer
• Edward Hovell-Thurlow, 2nd Baron Thurlow (1781–1829), poet
• Robert Walpole (1781–1856), classicist
• Assistant Commissary-General Sir George Head (1782–1855), army commissary, Deputy Knight-Marshal to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1831–1855
• Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783–1862), surgeon and physiologist, Sergeant-Surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1832–1862
• General Sir Frederick Adam (1784–1853), army officer, commander of the 3rd Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, commander in the Mediterranean, 1817–1824, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1824–1832, and Governor of Madras, 1832–1837
• John Kenyon (1784–1856), poet and patron of the arts
• James Henry Monk (1784–1856), theologian and classicist, Bishop of Gloucester, 1830–1836, and Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1836–1856
• George Burges (1785/6–1864), classicist
• John Thomas James (1786–1828), Bishop of Calcutta, 1826–1828, and art historian
• John Russell (1786–1863), Master of Charterhouse School, 1811–1832
• Sir Edward Hall Alderson (c.1787–1857), judge
• John Fonblanque (1787–1865), barrister and legal writer
• John Cazenove (1788–1879), political economist
• Redmond William Pilkington (1789–1844), architect
• Thomas Gilbank Ackland (1791–1844), poet
• Sir Cresswell Cresswell (1793–1863), judge and politician
• Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), painter and first Director of the National Gallery, 1855–1865
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Havelock (1793–1848), war hero
• Samuel Hinds (1793–1872), Bishop of Norwich, 1849–1857
• Sir William Hay Macnaghten (1793–1841), Chief Secretary, Indian Secret and Political Department, 1833–1841
• William Thompson (1793–1854), ironmaster, financier and politician
• George Waddington (1793–1869), traveller and ecclesiastical historian
• John Walpole Willis (1793–1877), controversial judge in Canada, British Guiana and Australia
• Benjamin Guy Babington (1794–1866), physician and orientalist, inventor of the laryngoscope
• Richard Cotton (1794–1880), Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, 1839–1880
• George Grote (1794–1871), historian and radical politician
• John Hothersall Pinder (1794–1868), first Principal of Wells Theological College, 1839–1865
• William Hale Hale (1795–1870), Master of Charterhouse School and Archdeacon of London, 1842–1870
• Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), theological writer
• Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), commander in the Indian Mutiny
• Sir Charles George Young (1795–1869), Garter King of Arms, 1842–1869
• Robert Fane (1796–1864), Commissioner in Bankruptcy, 1823–1864
• Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), Bishop of St David's, 1840–1874, and historian
• Frederick Henry Yates (1797–1842), actor-manager
• James Shergold Boone (1798–1859), writer
• Philip Cazenove (1798–1880), stockbroker
• Sir George James Turner (1798–1867), Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, 1853–1867
• Sir Frederick Currie (1799–1875), Foreign Secretary of India, 1844–1847, and British Resident at Lahore, 1847–1849
• William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868), astronomer
• Henry Raper (1799–1859), writer on navigation
• John Scott (1799–1846), surgeon
• George Trevor Spencer (1799–1866), Bishop of Madras, 1837–1849
• Edward Churton (1800–1874), theologian and Spanish language scholar
• Joseph Hewlett (c.1800–1847), novelist

[edit] Born in 19th century

• Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1801–1874), Secretary at War, 1846–1852, and Secretary of State for War, 1855–1858
• Colonel Sir Proby Cautley (1802–1871), civil engineer and palaeontologist, Superintendent of the Doab Canal, India, 1831–1843, and Superintendent of Canals, North-Western Provinces, 1843–1854, architect of the Ganges Canal
• Sir Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), Solicitor-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1825–1833, Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1833–1837, Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1844–1873, and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, 1875–1891
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), dramatist and poet
• William Godwin (1803–1832), journalist and writer, half-brother of Mary Shelley
• Frederic Farre (1804–1886), physician
• Woronzow Greig (1805–1865), barrister
• William John Hamilton (1805–1867), geologist and politician
• John Edward Jackson (1805–1891), archivist at Longleat
• Sir George Barrow (1806–1876), civil servant
• Rawdon Brown (1806–1883), historian in Venice
• Thomas Millner Gibson (1806–1884), radical politician, President of the Board of Trade, 1859–1866
• Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), clergyman and writer
• Sir Thomas Erskine Perry (1806–1882), Judge of the Supreme Court of Bombay, 1840–1847, Chief Justice of Bombay, 1847–1852, and politician
• Sir Christopher Rawlinson (1806–1888), Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca, 1847–1850, and Chief Justice of Madras, 1850–1859
• W. P. Roberts (1806–1871), trade union solicitor and Chartist
• Henry W. Torrens (1806–1852), administrator in India and writer
• Sir Charles Trevelyan (1807–1886), Assistant Secretary to HM Treasury, 1840–1859, Governor of Madras, 1859–1860, and Minister of Finance of India, 1862–1865
• Cardale Babington (1808–1895), Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge, 1861–1895
• John Barrow (1808–1898), writer on exploration
• Charles Freshfield (1808–1891), solicitor
• John Allen Giles (1808–1884), translator and editor
• John Murray (1808–1892), publisher
• Ralph Bernal Osborne (c.1808–1882), politician, Secretary of the Admiralty, 1852–1858
• William Tayler (1808–1892), Commissioner of Patna, 1855–1857
• G. T. Clark (1809–1898), civil engineer and antiquary, Manager, Dowlais Ironworks, 1855–1897
• Owen Jones (1809–1874), architect, printer and designer
• Sir Thomas Murdoch (1809–1891), Chief Secretary of Canada, 1839–1842, and Chairman of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, 1847–1876
• Sir George E. Paget (1809–1892), physician, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge, 1872–1892
• Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche of Harringworth (1810–1873), traveller and manuscript collector
• John Leader (1810–1903), radical politician, art collector in Florence
• Martin Tupper (1810–1889), poet and writer
• George Stovin Venables (1810–1888), barrister and journalist
• Thomas Webster (barrister) (1810–1875), patent law barrister
• Arthur Farre (1811–1887), obstetrician, Professor of Obstetric Medicine, King's College, London, 1841–1862
• Henry George Liddell (1811–1898), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1855–1891, editor of the Greek-English Lexicon
• Edmund Lushington (1811–1893), classicist, Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow, 1838–1875, and Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, 1884–1893
• Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Storks (1811–1874), last High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands, 1859–1863, Governor of Malta, 1864–1865, Governor of Jamaica, 1864–1866, Controller-in-Chief of the War Office, 1866–1870, and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 1870–1874
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist
• Edward Parry Thornton (1811–1893), Commissioner of Rawalpindi, 1849–1858, and Judicial Commissioner for the Punjab, 1858–1862
• Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812–1855), architect
• Michael Edgeworth (1812–1881), botanist
• Edward Elder (1812–1858), Master of Charterhouse School, 1853–1858
• Sir Frederic Winn Knight (1812–1897), ironmaster and politician
• Henry Lushington (1812–1855), Chief Secretary of Malta, 1847–1855
• William Macpherson (1812–1893), barrister and legal writer
• Brigadier-General Sir Richmond Shakespear (1812–1861), army officer and political officer in India
• Fereday Smith (1812–1891), General Manager, Bridgewater Canal, 1855–1887
• John Armstrong (1813–1856), first Bishop of Grahamstown, 1853–1856
• Sir Joseph Arnould (1813–1886), Judge of the Supreme Court of Bombay, 1859–1869, and expert on marine insurance
• Alfred Gatty (1813–1903), clergyman and writer
• George Dennis (1814–1898), archaeologist and diplomat
• Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), orientalist, diplomat and politician, Professor of Urdu, East India College, 1845–1857
• Henry Freshfield (1814–1895), solicitor
• Kirkman Hodgson (1814–1879), financier and politician, Governor of the Bank of England, 1863–1865
• William Alexander Ayton (1816–1909), clergyman, alchemist, and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
• John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), clergyman and poet
• Sir John Drummond-Hay (1816–1893), diplomat in Morocco
• Henry Thomas Riley (1816–1878), literary scholar and translator
• John Leech (1817–1864), caricaturist
• Sir James Cockle (1819–1895), Chief Justice of Queensland, 1863–1879, and mathematician
• Sir George Ferguson Bowen (1821–1899), Chief Secretary of the Ionian Islands, 1854–1859, first Governor of Queensland, 1859–1867, Governor of New Zealand, 1867–1873, Governor of Victoria, 1873–1879, Governor of Mauritius, 1879–1882, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1882–1885
• Henry Hayter (1821–1895), first Government Statist of Victoria, 1874–1895
• Greville Phillimore (1821–1884), clergyman and author
• Edward Walford (1823–1897), biographer
• Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), critic and poet
• Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1824–1871), gynaecologist and obstetrician
• William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), traveller and diplomat
• Sir Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919), economist and banker
• George David Boyle (1828–1901), Dean of Salisbury, 1880–1901
• Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886), first Professor of Helminthology, Royal Veterinary College, 1873–1886
• Arthur Locker (1828–1893), novelist and journalist
• Sir Reginald Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the House of Commons, 1886–1900
• William Douglas Parish (1833–1904), dialectologist
• Sir William Des Vœux (1834–1909), Administrator of St Lucia, 1869–1878, Governor of Fiji, 1880–1885, Governor of Newfoundland, 1886–1887, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1887–1891
• George Edward Jelf (1834–1908), clergyman and author
• Sheldon Amos (1835–1886), Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London, 1869–1879, and University of London, 1873–1879, and lawyer and judge in Egypt
• Thomas Welbank Fowle (1835–1903), theologian and writer on social issues
• Frederic William Madden (1839–1904), numismatist and librarian
• Henry Nettleship (1839–1893), classicist, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford, 1878–1893
• Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), clergyman and hymn writer
• Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905), classicist and politician, Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow, 1875–1889, and Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge, 1889–1905
• Basil Champneys (1842–1935), architect and author
• Sir Evan MacGregor (1842–1926), Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty, 1884–1907
• Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), judge and politician, Attorney-General, 1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1900, Master of the Rolls, 1900, and Lord Chief Justice, 1900–1913
• Edward Stuart Talbot (1844–1934), first Warden of Keble College, Oxford, 1869–1888, Vicar of Leeds, 1889–1895, Bishop of Rochester, 1895–1905, first Bishop of Southwark, 1905–1911, and Bishop of Winchester, 1911–1923
• Edward Ross Wharton (1844–1896), philologist and genealogist
• Sir Courtenay Edmund Boyle (1845–1901), civil servant, Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, 1893–1901
• Gerald Stanley Davies (1845–1927), writer, Master of Charterhouse
• Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), Sinologist, Professor of Chinese, University of Cambridge, 1897–1932, co-inventor of Wade-Giles transliteration system
• Kenneth Augustus Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie (1845–1930), barrister and civil servant, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1880–1915, and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, 1884–1915
• Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer (1852–1903), explorer of Baluchistan and Egypt, Inspector-General of Egyptian Telegraphs, 1878–1903
• Chauncy Maples (1852–1895), missionary, Archdeacon of Nyasa, 1886–1895, and first Bishop of Likoma, Nyasaland, 1895
• Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937), actor-manager
• Samuel Edward Keeble (1853–1946), Wesleyan Methodist minister and social reformer
• Lancelot Ridley Phelps (1853–1936), social administration expert, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, 1914–1929
• George Edward Wade (1853–1933), sculptor
• Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), soldier and founder of the Scouting Movement, commander of Mafeking garrison, 1899–1900, founder and first commander of the South African Constabulary, 1900–1902, Inspector of Cavalry, 1902–1908, General Officer Commanding Northumbrian Division, 1908–1910
• Charles John Cornish (1858–1906), naturalist and journalist
• Sir John Dewrance (1858–1937), mechanical engineer
• John Norman Collie (1859–1942), organic chemist and mountaineer, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University College, London, 1902–1928
• Sir Arthur Lowes Dickinson (1859–1935), accountant
• Basil Harwood (1859–1949), organist and composer
• Horatio Gordon Hutchinson (1859–1932), golfer and writer
• Sir Henry Head (1861–1940), neurologist
• Lionel Monckton (1861–1924), composer and songwriter
• Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861–1936), judge and politician, Solicitor-General, 1919–1922, Attorney-General, 1922, and Master of the Rolls, 1923–1935
• Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane (1861–1934), soldier, social reformer and Boy Scout leader, leader of the breakaway British Boy Scouts, pacifist
• William "Nuts" Cobbold (1862–1922), England international footballer
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), political scholar
• Cyril Francis Maude (1862–1951), actor-manager
• Philip Napier Waggett (1862–1939), clergyman, missionary and theologian
• Henry Balfour (1863–1939), Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 1891–1939
• Walter Howard Frere (1863–1938), founder member of the Community of the Resurrection, Bishop of Truro, 1923–1935
• Sir Cyril Jackson (1863–1924), Inspector-General of Schools, Western Australia, 1896–1903, Chief Inspector of Elementary Schools, 1903–1905, and Chairman of London County Council, 1915–?
• William May (1863–1932), solicitor, co-founder of Slaughter and May
• Bertram Pollock (1863–1943), Master of Wellington College, 1893–1910, and Bishop of Norwich, 1910–1942
• Sir C. Aubrey Smith (1863–1948), actor and cricketer
• Charles Alfred Howell Green (1864–1944), Archdeacon of Monmouth, 1914–1921, first Bishop of Monmouth, 1921–1928, Bishop of Bangor, 1928–1944, and Archbishop of Wales, 1934–1944
• Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864–1958), art, porcelain and book collector and benefactor
• Sir Keith Buller Elphinstone (1865–1941), electrical engineer
• General Sir Thomas Morland (1865–1925), Inspector-General of the West African Frontier Force, 1905–1909, General Officer Commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1910–1913, GOC 5th Division, 1914–1915, GOC X Corps, 1915–1918, 1919–1920, GOC XIII Corps, 1918–1919, Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1920–1922, GOC-in-C Aldershot, 1922–1923
• Frederick Craufurd Goodenough (1866–1934), Secretary, 1896–1903, General Manager, 1903–1917, and Chairman, 1917–1934, Barclays Bank
• Charles Wreford-Brown (1866–1951), English international football captain and cricketer
• Ronald Montagu Burrows (1867–1920), Professor of Greek, University College, Cardiff, 1898–1908, Hulme Professor of Greek, University of Manchester, 1908–1913, and Principal of King's College, London, 1913–1920
• Sir Charles Reed Peers (1868–1952), architect and archaeologist, (Chief) Inspector of Ancient Monuments, 1910–1933
• Sir Peter Rylands (1868–1948), wire manufacturer
• Sir Eustace Tennyson-D'Eyncourt (1868–1951), naval architect, Director of Naval Construction, 1912–1924
• Arthur Shearley Cripps (1869–1952), missionary in Mashonaland and poet
• Henry Vivian Phillipps (1870–1955), barrister and politician, Chief Whip of the Independent Liberal Party, 1923–1925, and Chairman of the Liberal Party, 1925–1927
• Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1870–1945), philologist and lexicographer, first Baines Professor of English Language and Philology, University of Liverpool, 1904–1920, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 1920–1945
• Sir Farquhar Buzzard (1871–1945), physician, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1928–1943
• Sir Guy Marshall (1871–1959), entomologist, Director, Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1913–1942
• Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (1871–1947), Chief of Staff, Fourth Army, 1916–1918, Chief of Staff, British Army of the Rhine, 1918–1920, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, India, 1920–1925, General Officer Commanding Southern Command, Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1931–1933, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1933–1936
• Sir Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), satirist and caricaturist
• Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944), composer
• Gilbert Oswald Smith (1872–1943), England international football captain and cricketer
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer
• Sir John Jacob Fox (1874–1944), Deputy Government Chemist, 1929–1936, and Government Chemist, 1936–1944
• Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (1874–1953), archaeologist and palaeographer, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1927–1939
• Air Marshal Sir John Higgins (1875–1948), founder member of the Royal Flying Corps, Commander, No.2 Brigade, RFC, 1916–1918, Royal Air Force commander, British Army of the Rhine, Air Officer Commanding Northern Area, Director of Personnel, AOC Inland Area, 1922–1924, AOC Iraq, 1924–?, Air Member for Supply and Research, and AOC-in-C India, 1939–1940
• Hubert Maitland Turnbull (1875–1955), pathologist, Director, Bernhard Baron Institute of Pathology, London Hospital, 1906–1946, and Professor of Morbid Anatomy, University of London, 1919–1947
• Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game (1876–1961), Director of Training and Organisation, Royal Air Force, 1919–1923, Air Officer Commanding India, 1923, Air Member for Personnel, 1923–1929, Governor of New South Wales, 1930–1935, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1935–1945
• Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950), composer
• Kelville Ernest Irving (1877–1953), musical director and composer
• Colonel Arthur Hugh Bell (1878–1968), soldier and publisher
• Adolph Paul Oppé (1878–1957), art historian and collector
• William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal (1879–1963), civil servant, politician, economist and social reformer, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Food, 1919, Director of the London School of Economics, 1919–1937, and Master of University College, Oxford, 1937–1944
• Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie (1879–1964), Inspector, Royal Engineers, 1933–1935, General Officer Commanding Malaya and Singapore, 1935–1939, and Governor-General of Malta, 1940–1942
• Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879–1963), Egyptologist
• Sir Patrick Hastings (1880–1952), barrister and politician, first Labour Attorney-General, 1924
• Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Leachman (1880–1920), intelligence officer and traveller
• Herbert Warner Allen (1881–1968), journalist and writer
• Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom (1881–1965), architect and politician
• James Leslie Brierly (1881–1955), barrister, Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, University of Oxford, 1922–1947, and Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Edinburgh, 1948–1951
• Gathorne Robert Girdlestone (1881–1950), pioneering orthopaedic surgeon,
• Sir George Schuster (1881–1982), public servant and politician, Financial Secretary to the Sudan, 1922–1927, and Finance Member of the Viceroy's Council, India, 1928–1934
• Sir Walford Selby (1881–1965), diplomat and author, Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, 1924–1932, Minister in Vienna, 1933–1937, and Ambassador to Portugal, 1937–1940
• Colonel Sir Ronald Storrs (1881–1955), Oriental Secretary in Cairo, 1909–1915, Governor of Jerusalem, 1917–1926, Governor of Cyprus, 1926–1932, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia, 1932–1934
• Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882–1974), poet and novelist
• Wyndham Halswelle (1882–1915), sprinter
• Kenneth Searight (1883–1957), linguist
• Malcolm Donaldson (1884–1973), obstetrician and gynaecologist, pioneer in treatment of cervical cancer
• Lieutenant-General Edward Felix Norton (1884–1954), soldier and mountaineer, Acting Governor of Hong Kong, 1940–1941, and General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India, 1941–1942
• Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), diplomat and traveller in Central Asia, Chinese Secretary in Peking, 1922–1936
• Ben Travers (1886–1980), dramatist
• General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887–1965), Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1938–1946, Chief of Staff to the Viceroy of India, 1947–1948, and first Secretary-General of NATO, 1952–1957
• Eric George Millar (1887–1966), Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1944–1947
• Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887–1944), Governor of Victoria, 1926–1931, Deputy Chief Scout, 1936–1941, and Chief Scout, 1941–1944
• John Burgon Bickersteth (1888–1979), first Warden of Hart House, University of Toronto, 1921–1940, 1944–1947
• Sir Valentine Holmes (1888–1956), barrister
• John Fergusson Roxburgh (1888–1954), first Headmaster of Stowe School, 1923–1949
• Sir Harold Boldero (1889–1960), physician, Dean of Middlesex Hospital Medical School, 1935–1954, and Registrar of the Royal College of Physicians, 1942–1960
• Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889–1982), painter and gardener
• Claud Lovat Fraser (1890–1921), artist and designer
• Lieutenant-General Ronald Morce Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks (1890–1960), Chairman, Pilkington, 1939, Director-General of Army Equipment, 1941–1942, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1942–1945, Deputy Chairman, 1946–1949, and Chairman, 1949–1956, Vickers
• General Sir Kenneth Anderson (1891–1959), General Officer Commanding First Army, 1942–1943, GOC Second Army, 1943–1944, GOC Eastern Command, 1944–1945, GOC-in-C East Africa, 1945–1946, and Governor of Gibraltar, 1947–1952
• Geoffrey Fenwick Jocelyn Cumberlege (1891–1979), Publisher to the University of Oxford, 1945–1956
• Spencer Bernau Wilks (1891–1971), Managing Director, Hillman, ?–1929, Works Manager, 1929–1934, and Managing Director, 1934–1962, Rover, co-designer of the Land Rover
• Sir Clavering Fison (1892–1985), Chairman and Managing Director, Fisons
• John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir (1894–1954), politician, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1936–1938, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1938–1940, and Governor of Bombay, 1943–1948
• Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965), Australian barrister, politician and judge, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs, 1941–1949, Leader of the Labor Party, 1951–1960, and Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1960–1962
• Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman (1894–1982), cryptographer, Chief Cryptographer, Bletchley Park
• Sir Eric Bowater (1895–1962), paper manufacturer, Managing Director, 1924–1927, and Chairman, 1927–1962, Bowater
• Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist
• Sir Anthony Hawke (1895–1964), barrister and judge, Recorder of Bath, 1939–1950, Common Sergeant of the City of London, 1954–1959, and Recorder of London, 1959–1964
• Sir Thomas Kendrick (1895–1979), Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities, 1938–1950, and Director, 1950–1959, British Museum
• Oliver Joseph Simon (1895–1956), printer
• General Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge (1896–1974), Managing Director, Dunlop, South Africa, 1935–1940, Chief Administrative Officer, Allied Forces in Italy, 1944–1945, Deputy Military Governor of the British Zone of Germany, 1945–1947, Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1947–1949, British Commissioner, Allied High Commission, 1949–1950, C-in-C Middle East Land Forces, 1950–1953, and Chairman of the British Transport Commission, 1953–1961
• Sir Lionel Heald (1897–1981), barrister and politician, Attorney-General, 1951–1954
• Frederick William Winterbotham (1897–1990), intelligence officer
• Harold Greville Hanbury (1898–1993), jurist, Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1949–1964
• Sir Eric Sachs (1898–1979), barrister and judge, Recorder of Stoke-on-Trent, 1943–1954, High Court Judge, 1954–1966, and Lord Justice of Appeal, 1966–1973
• Brigadier Dudley Clarke (1899–1974), founder and commander of A Force, 1940–1945
• David Llewelyn Jenkins, Baron Jenkins (1899–1969), barrister and judge, High Court Judge, 1947–1949, Lord Justice of Appeal, 1949–1959, and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1959–1963
• Maurice Herbert Dobb (1900–1976), economist
• Richard Hughes (1900–1976), novelist and dramatist
• John Samuel Tunnard (1900–1971), painter

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• Edward Armand Guggenheim (1901–1970), chemist, physicist and statistician, Professor of Chemistry, University of Reading, 1946–1966
• Edward Holroyd Pearce, Baron Pearce (1901–1990), barrister and judge, High Court Judge, 1948–1957, Lord Justice of Appeal, 1948–1962, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1962–1969, and Chairman of the Press Council, 1969–1974
• Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow (1901–1965), cricketer and journalist
• Adrian Maurice Daintrey (1902–1988), artist and critic
• Sir Milner Holland (1902–1969), barrister
• Arthur Seymour John Tessimond (1902–1962), poet
• Major-General Orde Wingate (1903–1944), guerrilla warfare specialist, founder and commander of the Chindits
• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist and co-founder of cybernetics
• Augustine Courtauld (1904–1959), Arctic explorer
• Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904–2003), film producer
• Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), anthropologist and author
• John Henderson Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley (1905–1987), general practitioner and politician, co-founder of the Royal College of General Practitioners
• Sir George Labouchere (1905–1999), diplomat and art collector, Minister in Budapest, 1953–1955, Ambassador to Belgium, 1955–1960, and Ambassador to Spain, 1960–1966
• Sir Harold Ridley (1906–2001), ophthalmic surgeon, inventor of the intraocular lens implant
• Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon (1906–1989), advocate and judge, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1957–1959, Lord of Session, 1959–1965, Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, 1965–1971, and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1971–1976
• Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke (1907–1989), author and screenwriter
• Peter Isaac Alfred Gorer (1907–1961), immunologist and geneticist
• Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull (1907–1989), Commander, Blade Force, 1942, General Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division, 1944–1945, GOC 5th Infantry Division, 1945–1946, Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, 1946–1948, Director of Staff Duties, 1948–1950, Chief Army Instructor, Imperial Defence College, 1950–1952, Chief of Staff, Middle East Land Forces, 1953–1954, GOC British Troops in Egypt, 1954–1956, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1956–1958, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, 1958–1961, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1961–1965, and Chief of the Defence Staff, 1965–1967
• Bernard Kettlewell (1907–1979), lepidopterist
• Richard Murdoch (1907–1990), actor and comedian
• Geoffrey Morse Binnie (1908–1989), civil engineer, builder of the Dokan Dam and Mangla Dam
• Sir Denis Dobson (1908–1995), solicitor, barrister and civil servant, Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Office, 1968–1977
• Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), cartoonist and designer
• Sir David Smithers (1908–1995), Professor of Radiotherapy, Institute of Cancer Research, University of London, 1946–1973
• Henry Carpenter Longhurst (1909–1978), golf journalist and commentator
• Arthur Cope Pilkington (1909–1981), glass manufacturer
• Thomas Argyll Robertson (1909–1994), MI5 officer
• John Humphrey Carlile Morris (1910–1984), jurist, Reader in the Conflict of Laws, University of Oxford, 1951–1977
• Geoffrey Toone (1910–2005), actor
• Sir John Lovegrove Waldron (1910–1975), Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1968–1972
• Philip Adrian Hope-Wallace (1911–1979), music and theatre critic
• Lieutenant-General Sir George Lea (1912–1990), Commanding Officer, Special Air Service, 1955–1957, General Officer Commanding Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1963–1965, and Director of Operations, Borneo, 1965–1967
• John Sinclair Morrison (1913–2000), Professor of Greek, University of Durham, 1945–1950, Vice-Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, 1960–1965, first President of University College (later Wolfson College), Cambridge, 1965–1980, expert on Greek triremes
• Ronald Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir (1917–1996), businessman and banker
• Cuthbert Wilfrid Francis Noyce (1917–1962), mountaineer and writer, member of the 1953 Everest Expedition
• Kent Walton (1917–2003), wrestling commentator
• Alexander Wallace Fielding (1918–1991), SOE officer and author
• Arthur James Rook (1918–1991), dermatologist and author
• Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), historian, Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University, 1963–1990
• John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls
• Peter Lawrence Frederick Heyworth (1921–1991), music critic
• Michael Hoban (1921–2003), headmaster of Harrow School
• W. Stanley Moss (1921–1965), intelligence officer and writer
• Sir Anthony Caro (born 1924), sculptor
• Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith (born 1924), politician
• Gerald Francis Priestland (1927–1991), broadcaster and writer
• Simon Arthur Noël Raven (1927–2001), writer
• William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (born 1928), politician and journalist
• Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne (born 1928), politician
• David Nightingale Hicks (1929–1998), interior designer and author
• Peter May (1929–1994), cricketer
• Peter Yates (born 1929), film director
• John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham (born 1932), politician
• David Dimbleby (born 1938), TV presenter
• Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance (born 1943), Law Lord
• Jonathan Dimbleby (born 1944), TV presenter
• Jonathan King (born 1944), pop music impresario
• Charles Goodson-Wickes (born 1945), politician
• Sir Max Hastings (born 1945), journalist, writer and broadcaster
• Tim Yeo (born 1945), politician
• General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman (born 1947), Adjutant-General to the Forces, 2000–2003, Commander-in-Chief Land, 2003–2005, and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, 2005–
• Tony Banks (born 1950), founder member of Genesis
• Peter Gabriel (born 1950), founder member of Genesis
• Mike Rutherford (born 1950), founder member of Genesis
• Anthony Phillips (born 1951), founder member of Genesis
• Anthony Coombs (born 1952), politician
• Karl Wallinger (born 1957), rock musician
• Jeremy Hunt (born 1966), Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey
• Douglas Carswell (born 1971), Member of Parliament (MP) for Harwich