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    This is a List of Notable Old Gowers - former pupils of University College School.

    This list is extensive - but it does not claim to be definitive.


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    [edit] A

    • The Very Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler (OG 1852-54), Chief Rabbi of UK
    • The Rev. Canon Ainger, Alfred Ainger (OG 1847-49), Master of the Temple

    [edit] B

    • Major General MP Babbage (OG 1834-40).
    • The Most Rev. E.G. Bagshawe (OG 1836-38), Archbishop of Selucia. Might have been Edward Gilpin Bagshawe in which case he was also RC Bishop of Nottingham.
    • Commander William Eric Banks C.B.E. (OG ?-?) (Commander of H.M.S. Firedrake).
    • Professor Dennis Neville Baron (OG 1936-41).
    • Air Vice-Marshal William Edward Barnes (OG 1911-14).
    • Sir G.C.T. Bartley (OG 1852-59), MP
    • Professor Henry Bassett DSc, PhD, D ès Sc (OG 1892-98), Professor of Chemistry at the University of Reading from 1912-46.
    • Tony Bastable, (OG ?-?) former ITV presenter and independent producer.
    • Walter Bayes, (OG ?-?) Artist and influential art critic, part of the Camden Town Group.
    • Victor Bayley C.B.E. (OG 1891-98).
    • George Arthur Beggs (Og 1893-1901).
    • Robert Anning Bell RA (OG 1876-78), Important painter and illustrator
    • Hymen William Benjamin (OG ?-?)
    • Dr G.T. Bennett, noted anthropologist.
    • John Hamilton Betts (OG 1903?)
    • Eric Latham Beverly (OG 1928-36) Chairman of Council (1979-1980), CBE, D.F.C., F.R.A.e. S.
    • Louis Bielinky (OG 1931-40).
    • Raymond William Birch C.B.E. (OG 1913-19).
    • Major General Horace Leslie Birks CB DSO (OG 1912-14).
    • Jonny Blue, (OG ?-?) Somerset Cricket – (injured knee and never got to play for England)
    • Dion Boucicault (OG ?-?) Irish author and playwright. Helped to get the first dramatic US copyright law passed in 1856, and was involved in the setting up of the UK royalty system. The Templeman Library.
    • H. Clarence Bourne CMG (OG 1872-75), Colonial Secretary of Jamaica
    • Robert Lawrence Bowes, Wing Commander (OG ?-?)
    • Major David Charles Bowser - film maker? (OG 1913-16).
    • Major General Sir J Rose Bradford KCMG, CB, FRS, MD (OG 1875-80) Possibly Sir John Rose Bradford, Bart.– If so, President of the Royal College of Physicians
    • Professor Paul Brand CBE, (OG ?-?) orthopaedic surgeon who helped thousands of sufferers of leprosy. Emeritus Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Washington, international president of the Leprosy Mission, Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons.
    • Elmore W. Brewerton FRCS, (OG 1882-6).
    • Oscar Frank Brown C.B.E. (OG 1897-06)
    • Sir George Buchanan CB MD FRCP (OG 1878-85), Chief Medical Officer for England, 1879 - 1892.
    • Professor Benedict Delisle Burns (OG 1922-31), author of "The Mammalian Cerebral Cortex".

    [edit] C

    • G.S. Carr (OG ?-?) Mathematician.
    • The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Charles,PC, (OG 1848-54), Judge of the High Court
    • Sir William Christie (astronomer)?, Astronomer Royal in 1881-1910. Biographical details don't seem to mention his education below university level, but as he actively participated in UCS fundraising and applied to be a member of the corporation, he may well be an Old Gower.
    • Sir JRA Clark (Bart?) (OG ?-?) FRCS CB CMG
    • Sir Wilfred Collett KCMG (OG 1870-73), Governor of British Guiana 1914-1918
    • C.H.J. O'Neill Conroy KC, OBE (OG 1886-88), Attorney-General for Newfoundland.
    • Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart., KCMG, G.C.M.G (OG 1835-39), First Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, New South Wales. He was also a member of the sub-committee of four that completed the drafting of a bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia.
    • Allan Corduner, (OG ?-?) actor, his most notable role is perhaps Sir Arthur Sullivan in the film Topsy Turvy. [2]
    • Lord? W.H. Cozens-Hardy KC, (OG ?-?) Commander of the RNR in World War One

    [edit] D

    • The Hon Sir Lionel Davidson (Politician) KCSI (OG 1877-84), Leader of the House, Madras Legislative Council, Vice-President of Executive Council of Governor of Madras.
    • Sir Michael Day OBE (OG 1946-52), Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality
    • Paul Jose De Mayo F.R.S. (OG ?-?)
    • William Frend De Morgan (OG 1849-55), may or may not be William De Morgan, possibly not, because his entry in the register says he was a novelist.
    • Hugh Dennis, (OG ?-?) Actor (My Hero, Have I got News for You, Mock the Week)
    • Julian Diggle (OG ?-?) Percussionist
    • Jonathan Djanogly, MP (2001-present) Shadow Solicitor General and Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry (2005-)
    • H John Dunster (OG ?-?) UK representative to the UNSCEAR (atomic Radiation), Direcotr of NRPB (National Radiological Safety Board), Deputy Director General of the Health and Safety Executive.
    • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bart. (OG 1847-52), Professor at University College London. There is to this day a Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at UCL, and the main hall at UCS is officially known as the Durning-Lawrence Hall.

    [edit] E

    • W. McAdam Eccles MS FRCS (OG 1882-84), Prominent surgeon.
    • Richard Eckersley, deconstructionist graphic designer, appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 1999.
    • Sir Barrow Ellis KCSI,(OG 1883-37), Member of Governor-General's Council and of the Council of India

    [edit] F

    • Sir George Faudel-Phillips, Bart. (OG 1853-55), Lord Mayor of London 1896-97
    • Shayne Fontayne (OG ?-?) Guitarist.
    • Sir Michael Foster KCB, FRS, MP (OG 1849-52), Psychologist, Professor and MP
    • The Hon Sir T. Gregory Foster Bart, Ph.D (OG 1881-4), Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, the first Provost of University College London.
    • Maj.-Gen Sir T. Fraser KCB, CSI, CMG (OG 1876-82)
    • Professor Percy Furnivall FRCS (OG 1878-83), Hunterian Professor of Pathology and surgery, Royal College of Surgeons.

    [edit] G

    • Simon Garfield, (OG ?-?) Journalist, The Observer, and author
    • Paul Gilroy, (OG ?-?) Giddens Professor at the London School of Economics & writer.
    • Oliver Gledhill, (OG ?-?) Cellist, regularly broadcast on classic FM.
    • Sir John Grandy, (OG ?-?) GCB GCVO KBE DSO KStJ, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Chief of the Air Staff from 11 April 1967 to 31 March 1971. Governor of Gibraltar from 3 October 1973 to 30 May 1978.
    • Sir Alan Greengross, (OG ?-?) Former Conservative Leader on the Greater London Council, Vice-Chair of the Council of University College London.
    • J.G. Greenwood, (OG 1835-37) Principal of Owens College, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University (UK) and possibly founded it
    • Maurice Greiffenhagen RA (OG 1872-76), Artist

    [edit] H

    • H. W. Halton (OG 1877-80), Vice-President Court of Appeal, President Mixed Tribunal, Cairo
    • Numa E. Hartog (OG 1857-61), First Jewish Senior Wrangler, prominent figure in the movement to remove Jewish disabilities. His evidence before a committee of the House of Lords helped considerably to secure the passing of the Universities Tests Act in 1871.
    • His Excellency Viscount Hayashi (OG 1867-68), Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's
    • Sir Harry Haward (OG 1877-81), Controller of the L.C.C., Electricity Commissioner
    • Professor Clive Hawood (spelling mistake?) (OG 1897-03).
    • Sir John Heathcote-Amory, Bart (of Tiverton)(OG 1843-45), Textile Baron, builder of Knightshayes Court
    • Dr Bernard W. Henderson (OG 1883-89), fellow of Exeter College, Cambridge, prominent classical historian.
    • Dr Alexander Hill MA, MD, FRCS (OG 1870-72), Master of Downing College, Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1897-99).
    • Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Hill, KCB, KCMG, CVO, FRCS, (OG 1871-81), Director-General of the Admiralty Medical Department, Hon. Surgeon to H.M. the King
    • Jeremy Hillman, (OG ?-?) Editor of BBC world, previously BBC New York Bureau Chief.
    • Mayer Hillman, (OG ?-?) Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute. Author.
    • The Rt. Rev. J.E. Hine DD, MD (OG 1870-74), Bishop of Zanzibar, Archdeacon of Lincoln
    • Nigel Holloway (OG ?-?)
    • Sir Henry Greenway Howse MS, FRCS (OG 1856-58), President of the Royal College of Surgeons
    • Major General Hutchinson (OG 1839-41), probably Charles Scrope Hutchinson, Inspector of Railways for the board of trade.
    • Leonard Huxley LL.D. (OG 1872-77), Editor of "The Cornhill Magazine"

    [edit] I

    • Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (OG 1873-74), Lord Chief Justice, Foreign Secretary (briefly), Leader of the House of Lords, solicitor and attorney general (held separately), Ambassador to the USA, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Viceroy of India.

    [edit] J

    • Stephen Joseph OBE, Executive Director of Transport 2000 (OG 1988-2005?).

    [edit] K

    • Sir Brian Keith QC, (OG ?-?) Justice of the High Court.
    • Dairoku Kikuchi, (OG ?-?) Japanese mathematician and Minister of Education
    • Dr Geoffrey Klempner, (OG ?-?) Philosopher, Director of Studies, International Society for philosophers, author of books.
    • G.W. Knox (OG 1856-59), President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

    [edit] L

    • Martin Lamble, (OG ?-?) musician Fairport Convention
    • Cecil Arthur Lewis, (OG ?-?) one of the 4 founders of the BBC, won an Oscar for adapting the screen play of Pygmalion.
    • Dennis Lloyd (OG 1929-31, Chairman of Council 1971-79), The rt. Hon Lord Lloyd of Hampstead QC, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence University of London, Chairman of the National Film School 1970-1988, chairman of the British Film Institute 1973-1976.
    • Simon Long (OG ?-?) Journalist


    [edit] M

    • Sir Philip Magnus, Bart., (OG 1854-58), English educationalist and MP
    • H.J. Manning
    • Sir Edward Manville M.Inst. E.E., (OG 1874-78), Chairman of the Imperial Council of Commerce
    • Lieutenant Horace Robert Martineau (OG ?-?) recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and rarest British award for gallantry.
    • The Rt. Rev Dr. John Howard Bertram Masterman DD, (OG ?-?) Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth and author.
    • John Preston Maxwell, (OG ?-?) Missionary, President of the Chinese Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
    • Justin H. McCarthy MP (OG 1871-73), Member of Parliament and author and possibly son of Justin McCarthy
    • Sir Andrew McFadyean, (OG ?-?) senior civil servant, General Secretary to the Reparation Commission 1919, Chairman of S.G. Warburg and Co, Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
    • The Rt. Hon. J.W. Mellor KC, MP (OG 1844-51), Chairman of Committees, House of Commons
    • Sir W.S. Meyer GCIE, KCSI. (OG 1873-76), Member of the Governor-General's Council, First High Commissioner for India
    • SirE.W. Moir Bart. (OG 1875-77), Engineer
    • Professor F.C. Montague MA (OG 1871-74), Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Historian
    • Sir Theodore Morison KCSI, KCI.E., CBE. (OG 1874-77), Member of the Council of India, Principal of Armstrong College
    • The Rev William Stainton Moses, (OG ?-?) Christian Spiritualist Leader and medium, President of the London Spiritualist Alliance (1884-death).

    [edit] N

    • Sir Nathaniel Nathan (OG 1851-58), Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, 1901-1903
    • Sir W. Phené Neal (OG 1876-80), Lord Mayor of London 1930-31

    [edit] O

    [edit] P

    • Professor Karl Pearson FRS (OG 1866-73), Founder of Department of Applied Statistics of University College London which was the first statistics department in the world. He was a major contributor to the development of statistics. Contemporary and close friend of Kikuchi Dairoku.
    • Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, Mathematician, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford. Winner of De Morgan Medal (See Notable Staff for De Morgan himself). Sir Roger has the honour of holding a Chair and medal named after two different people involved with the school (a pupil and a teacher). Author of popular physics books.
    • Augustus Pulszky LL.D (OG 1858-60), Professor of Law, University of Buda-Pesth

    [edit] Q

    • Professor J.P. Quilliam, Peter Quilliam, General Secretary of the British Pharmacology Society (1968-71), Professor of Pharmacology King's College London, Chairman of the BMA Board of Science, Trustee of the University of London.

    [edit] R

    • Sir Josiah Rees, (OG 1835-38), Chief Justice of Bermuda
    • Sir Boverton Redwood, 1st Baronet Boverton (OG 1857-61), Prominent chemist and petroleum expert, co-founded the B & R Redwood consulting practice. He also co-founded, and became the first President of, the Institution of Petroleum Technologists, now known as the Institute of Petroleum, in 1913. He was instrumental in persuading the Royal Navy to change from coal fired ships to oil fired ones.
    • The Rt. Hon. Lord Romilly, (OG 1843-50), There seems to be some confusion in Internet sources. He may have had something to do with the 1867 Reform Act.
    • Sir C.A. Russell QC, (OG 1862-71), was probably Charles Russell QC who defended at least one of the three social campaigners in the famous case of Eliza Armstrong (1885): social campaigners proved the existence of under age prostitution by "buying a girl", they were then prosecuted.

    [edit] S

    • Lt.-General Sir Robert I. Scallon KCB, KCI.E., DSO (OG 1869-73)
    • Admiral Sir Percy Scott, Bart., KCB. (OG 1865-66), Often regarded in the Royal Navy as "the father of modern gunnery". Scott was also instrumental in developing other equipment for the fleet such as the masthead flashing lamp (and possibly the masthead semaphore) and the shutter "for the emission of signs" to put on the searchlights so they could be used to send Morse Code. He was Military Commandant of Durban when martial law was declared during the Boer War. In a controversial letter to the Times he foresaw the vulnerability of battleships to new technology such as submarines. He was made Head of the anti-submarine department of the Admiralty months into the First World War. He is one of three Naval officers who (working independently) are credited with the development of depth charges. [2], [3], [4]
    • Sir Francis Michie Shepherd KBE, British Ambassador to Persia 1950-52, Ambassador to Poland 1952-54.
    • Major General T.H. Sibley (1834-41).
    • The Hon Sir Percy Simmons KBE (OG1885-90), Chairman of L.C.C.
    • Professor Edward Adolf Sonnenschein, Litt. D. (OG 1867-68), Philologist, Professor of Classics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the University of Birmingham
    • Marion Harry Spielmann (OG 1872-66), Historian of "Punch", influential editor of 'The Magazine of Art'.
    • The Rt. Rev. Edward Steere (OG 1842-44), Bishop of Central Africa.
    • Colonel H.F. Stephens (OG 1877-83), Railway engineer and manager.
    • Greville Stevens, England Cricketer, Ashes winner, Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918, at UCS scored 466 in a house match.
    • The Most Rev. Arthur Sweatman (OG 1848-50), Archbishop of Toronto and Primate of all Canada
    • Maj.-Gen. Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, sometimes spelled Ernst Dunlop Swinton KBE, CB, DSO (OG 1878-83), On outbreak of World War One became, Assistant Secretary (Military), Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet. Directed the creation of the first successful Tank in 1916, (he is sometimes referred to as the "originator" of the tank see Landships Committee for reason), later Chichele Professor of Military History, University of Oxford.

    [edit] T

    • Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS (OG 1899-1905?), Physicist and Mathematician, part of British delegation to the Manhattan project, has been described as "one of the greatest physical scientists of the 20th century".
    • Matthew Taylor (politician), MP (1987-present), Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman (1999-2003), Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party (2003-2005)
    • Professor William Bradshaw Tuck, Professor (Chemistry) Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1937).

    [edit] U

    • The Hon Sir Thomas Urwick (OG 1877-84), British Member of the Reparations Commission, Paris.

    [edit] V

    [edit] W

    • Professor O. K. Williamson MA, MB (OG 1876-82), University of Witwatersrand
    • Jonathan Wittenberg, prominent Masorti Rabbi
    • Clive A Woolf OBE, (OG 1943-46) Solicitor honoured for representing death row inmates in Caribbean (pro bono) on their appeals to the Privy Council.


    [edit] X

    [edit] Y

    • Sir Alfred Yarrow, Bart., FRS (OG 1855-58), Ship building industrialist and philanthropist

    [edit] Z

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