List of notable Old Greshamians
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The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, Norfolk, England.
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[edit] Public life
- Erskine Childers - President of the Republic of Ireland
- Bernard Floud - Labour politician
- Alastair Hetherington - editor of The Guardian
- James Klugmann - historian of the Communist Party
- Donald Maclean - diplomat and spy
- 11th Earl of Northesk - parliamentarian
- Laurance Reed - Conservative politician
- Lord Reith - first director general of the BBC, politician
- Wilfrid Roberts - Liberal politician
- 11th Lord Strabolgi - Labour politician
- Dr Thomas Stuttaford - Conservative politician and journalist
- Lord Simon of Glaisdale - Conservative politician and law lord
- Lord Simon of Wythenshawe - socialist and journalist
- Sir John Tusa - Director of BBC World Service
- Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - governor of The Gambia
[edit] Military
- General Sir Terence Airey - soldier
- Donald Cunnell - World War I fighter pilot
- Major General John Lethbridge - soldier
- Sir Philip Toosey - Bridge on the River Kwai commander
- Tom Wintringham - soldier, military historian, communist
- Major General A. E. Younger - soldier
[edit] Church
- Colin Forrester-Paton - missionary and Chaplain to H.M. The Queen in Scotland
- Most Rev. David Hand - Archbishop of Papua New Guinea
- William Lubbock - 18th century divine
- John Moorman - Bishop of Ripon
[edit] Arts
- Wystan Hugh Auden - poet
- Kat Alano - model, actress
- Maurice Ash - writer, environmentalist
- Matt Arnold - television presenter
- Michael Aldridge - actor
- Bruce Belfrage - actor
- Sir Lennox Berkeley - composer
- Peter Brook - theatre director
- Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh - composer
- Erskine Childers - author
- Norman Cohn - historian
- Michael Cummings - cartoonist
- Nigel Dick - director, screenwriter
- Sir Philip Dowson - architect and President of the Royal Academy
- Boris Ford - literary critic, editor
- Stephen Frears - film director
- Stephen Fry - actor and comedian
- Alfred Gissing - biographer
- Sienna Guillory - actress
- John Davy Hayward - editor and critic
- Andrew Jefford - wine writer and poet
- John Lanchester - novelist
- Michael Laskey - poet
- Lady Flora McDonnell - children's author
- Robert Mawdesley - actor
- Robert Medley RA - artist
- Christopher J. Monckton - organist and conductor
- Ben Nicholson, OM - artist
- Christopher Nicholson - architect
- Paddy O'Connell - television presenter
- Christopher Perkins - artist
- John Pudney - poet and novelist
- Sir James Maude Richards - architectural writer
- Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - lawyer
- John Saltmarsh - historian
- Sebastian Shaw - actor
- Humphrey Spender - photographer
- Sir Stephen Spender - poet
- George Stiles - composer
- Tony Tuckson - artist
- Patrick Waddington - actor
- Roderick Watkins - composer
- Charles Mayes Wigg - artist
- Sabin Willett - novelist
[edit] Sciences
- L.E. Baynes - aeronautical engineer
- Derek Bryan - sinologist
- Sir Christopher Cockerell - inventor of the hovercraft
- C.H. Gimingham - botanist
- Dr John Grange - immunologist
- Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - Nobel Prize for Medicine, President of the Royal Society
- Sir John Hammond - agricultural research scientist
- Harry Hodson - economist
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson - zoologist
- David Keith-Lucas - aeronautical engineer
- David Lack - biologist
- Dr Colin Leakey - botanist
- Maurice Lister - chemist
- Jonathan Partington - mathematician
- Christopher Strachey - computer scientist
- Sir Owen Wansbrough-Jones - chemist, weapons research scientist
- Sir Martin Wood - engineer
- Dr Anthony Yates - rheumatologist
[edit] Sports
- Giles Baring - cricketer
- Glyn Barnett - rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006
- Tom Bourdillon - mountaineer
- Gawain Briars - British No. 1 squash player
- 11th Earl of Northesk - Olympic medallist (skeleton, 1928)
- Matthew Dickinson - mountaineer and adventurer
- Natasha Firman - Formula Woman racing driver
- Ralph Firman - Formula One racing driver
- Richard Leman - hockey player and Olympic gold medallist
- Peter Lloyd - mountaineer
- Andy Mulligan - captain of the British Lions Rugby XV
- Pat Symonds - Formula One racing
- Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - mountaineer
[edit] Other
- Sir Harold Atcherley - arts administrator
- Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet - landowner, festivals organizer
- Jeremy Bamber - mass murderer
- Sir James Dyson - inventor and entrepreneur
- Viscount Dunluce
- Sir Christopher Howes - chief executive of the Crown Estate
- Charles Kearley - property developer and art collector
- 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker
- Christopher Newbury - Council of Europe
- Lady Alice McDonnell
[edit] Notable Gresham's masters
- Logie Bruce Lockhart - Scotland rugby footballer
- Graeme Fife - writer, playwright and broadcaster
- Walter Greatorex - composer
- Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick - research chemist
- Patrick Thompson - Conservative Member of Parliament
- Dr Michael Walker - headmaster of King Edward VI School, Chelmsford
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- The History and Register of Gresham's School, 1555-1954 (Ipswich, 1955);
- I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School (James & James, London, 2002)
- Old Greshamian Club Address Book (1999)
