List of notable Old Olavians
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This is a List of notable Old Olavians, they being former pupils of St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School and its predecessors, St Olave's and St Saviour's.
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[edit] Clergy
- John Harvard, (1607–1638) founder of Harvard University
- William Sherlock, (1641–1707) English church leader
- William Van Mildert, (1765–1836) Bishop of Durham; founder of the University of Durham
- Peter Sterry, became Oliver Cromwell’s private chaplain
- Most Rev. Leonard James Beecher, Bishop of Mombasa 1953–1964; Archbishop of East Africa 1960
[edit] Academic
- Sir William Ashley (1860-1927), economic historian
- William Heberden, (1710–1801) physician, coined the term 'angina'
- Sir Michael Scholar, (born 1942) President, St John's College, Oxford
- Thomas Frederick Tout, (1855-1929) historian
- Francis Brockett, Master of Dulwich College 1664–1680 when he died
- Rev. Professor Frank Bertram Clogg, Principal of Richmond College
- Professor Harry Burrows Acton (1908–1974), philosopher
- Sir Cyril Pitts, Chairman of Governors of University of Westminster
[edit] Politics
- Paul Dimond, (born 1944) HM Ambassador to the Philippines
- Abba Eban, (1915–2002) Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations; Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs; Israeli Deputy Prime Minister
- Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, (1830–1911) politician
- Sir Lawrence Wensley Chubb, first secretary of the National Trust; secretary of the Commons
- Sir Leonard Day Wakely, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for India, 1934–1941
- Sir Norman Gibb Scorgie, Deputy Controller, H.M. Stationery office, 1919–1940; Controller 1942–1949
- William Burton, Chief Justice of Straits Settlements and Singapore
- Sir Thomas St. Quintin Hill, Senior Civil Servant in Board of Trade
- Sir Wilfred Neden, Chief Industrial Commissioner, Ministry of Labour, 1954–1958
- Kenneth M. Lindsay, M.P. for Kilmarnock Burghs 1933–1945; Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1935–1937; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education 1937–1940
- Sir Maurice Dean, Ministry of Defence (Deputy Secretary); Treasury (Third Secretary); Board of Trade (Second Secretary); Treasury (Second Secretary)
- Sir Alan Marre, K.C.B., Civil Servant; Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Health 1964-66; Ministry of Labour 1966; Joint Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and Social Security 1968; Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (the Ombudsman) 1971.
- S. P. Kennan, Irish Ambassador to the United Nations.
- Sir Leonard Williams, civil servant
- Sir John Smith, Deputy Commissioner of Metropolitan Police
- Sir Roger Sims Member of Parliament for Chislehurst
[edit] Business
- Sir Leon Bagrit, pioneer of automation; Chairman and Managing Director of Elliot Automation Ltd. Since 1963, and Deputy Chairman of English Electric Company since 1967; a director of the Royal Opera House; Reith Lecturer 1964.
[edit] Media
- Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton, (1904-1989) Chairman of the BBC and the ITA
[edit] The Arts
- Samuel Laman Blanchard, (1804–1845) author and journalist
- Lawrence Durrell, (1912–1990) novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
- Som Wardner, (1990-1997) singer, guitarist, songwriter
[edit] Sport
- Andy Green, (1962– ) past team leader of RAF Red Arrows Display Team; current holder of the world land speed record
- David Akinluyi, (1984– ) Signed professionally with Northampton Saints 2006
- Edmond Warner, Chairman of UK Athletics
