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Some examples of notable Old Gowers include:

Politics / Judiciary

• C.H.J. O'Neill Conroy K.C., O.B.E. (OG 1886-88), Attorney-General for Newfoundland.
• The Hon Sir Thomas Urwick (OG 1877-84), British Member of the Reparations Commission, Paris.
• The Hon Sir Andrew McFadyean, 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 Hon Sir Lionel Davidson K.C.S.I. (OG 1877-84), Leader of the House, Madras Legislative Council, Vice-President of Executive Council of Governor of Madras.
• The Rt. Hon. Albert James Edmondson, 1st Baron Sandford, Conservative politician.
• 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.
• Sir Michael Day OBE (OG 1946-52), Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality.
• Gordon Samuels A.C. C.V.O. Q.C. Governor of New South Wales (1996-2001).
• Sir Alan Greengross, Former Conservative Leader on the Greater London Council, Vice-Chair of the Council of University College London.
• The Hon Sir Brian Keith QC, Justice of the High Court.
• Stephen Joseph OBE, Executive Director of Transport 2000 (1988-2005?).
• Matthew Taylor (politician), MP (1987-present), Shadow Chancellor (1999-2003), Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party (2003-2005).
• Jonathan Djanogly, MP (2001-present) Shadow Solicitor General and Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry (2005-).

The Arts / Journalism

• Dion Boucicault 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.
• Alec. L. Rea (OG 1887-94), Dramatic Producer.
• Ford Maddox Ford (OG 1888-90), Novelist, Editor.
• John William Van Druten (OG 1911-17), Playwright.
• Edmund Leighton, artist.
• Richard Arnell, (OG 1927-35) Composer
• David Sylvester CBE, art critic and curator.
• Walter Bayes, Artist and influential art critic, part of the Camden Town Group.
• Richard Eckersley, deconstructionist graphic designer, appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 1999.
• The Rt. Hon Brer Ruthven, Viscount Ruthven of Canberra, Publisher.
• Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL Honn. Litt.D, Dramatist.
• Raymond Gubbay, impresario.
• Hugh Dennis, Actor (My Hero, Have I got News for You, Mock the Week).
• Ben Schott, author of Schott's Miscellanies.
• Guy Wingate FRSA, Brand Strategic and media producer.
• Ed Vulliamy, Journalist and author.
• Oliver Gledhill, Cellist, regularly broadcast on classic FM.

Academia / Invention / Medicine

• James Joseph Sylvester (OG 1828), attended aged 14 at a time when the distinctions between the school and college were blurred (According to British Society for the History of Mathematics). Distinguished mathematician, amongst other things, professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, inaugural professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, Professor at Oxford University and private tutor to Florence Nightingale.
• G.S. Carr Mathematician.
• Richard Bissell Prosser, Engineer and inventor.
• Philip Wicksteed, Economist and Clergyman.
• Walter William Rouse Ball, prominent Mathematician and Historian, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His bequests founded the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics and Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, both senior chairs at the University of Cambridge. The Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford is named after him as well, possibly due to another bequest.
• Edward John Routh RS, Mathematician, winner of the Adams Prize in 1877, fellow of the Royal Society, also contributed to Routh-Hurwitz theorem and Routh stability criterion.
• Colonel H.F. Stephens (OG 1877-83), Railway engineer and manager.
• Professor Percy Furnivall F.R.C.S. (OG 1878-83), Hunterian Professor of Pathology and surgery, Royal College of Surgeons.
• Sir George Buchanan C.B. M.D. F.R.C.P. (OG 1878-85), Chief Medical Officer for England, 1879 - 1892.
• 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.
• 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.
• G.F. Hill C.B. (OG 1882-4), Director of the British Museum.
• W. McAdam Eccles M.S. F.R.C.S. (OG 1882-84), Prominent surgeon.
• Elmore W. Brewerton F.R.C.S., (OG 1882-6).
• Dr Bernard W. Henderson (OG 1883-89), fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, prominent classical historian.
• William Speirs Bruce (OG 1885-7?), Polar scientist and oceanographer.
• The Hon Sir Walter Morley Fletcher K.B.E. C.B. F.R.C.P. F.R.S. (OG 1886-91), physiologist, Secretary of the Medical Research Council, Senior Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Wilfred Trotter M.S. F.R.C.S. (OG 1888-90), pioneer in neurosurgery, Hon. Surgeon to His Majesty the King.
• Professor Henry Bassett DSc, PhD, D ès Sc (OG 1892-98), Professor of Chemistry at the University of Reading from 1912-46.
• Dr G.T. Bennett, noted anthropologist.
• Professor William Bradshaw Tuck, Professor (Chemistry) Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1937).
• 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".
• Professor J.P. Quilliam, Peter Quilliam, General Secretary of the British Pharmacology Society (1968-71), Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London, Chairman of the BMA Board of Science, Trustee of the University of London.
• 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.
• Sir Eric Ash CBE FRS FEng FIEE, Distingushed Electrical Engineer and Rector of Imperial College (1985-93).
• Professor Paul Brand CBE, 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.
• Mayer Hillman, Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute. Author.
• Dr Geoffrey Klempner, Philosopher, Director of Studies, International Society for philosophers, author of books.
• Dr Mark Turin (OG 1981-91), linguistic anthropologist, directs the Digital Himalaya project which is jointly based at the University of Cambridge and Cornell University.

Religion

• The Rt. Rev Dr. John Howard Bertram Masterman D.D., Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth and author.
• The Rev William Stainton Moses, Christian Spiritualist Leader and medium, President of the London Spiritualist Alliance (1884-death).
• The Rev. Cannon S.C. Carpenter, Spencer Carpenter, B.D. (OG 1886-96), Master of the Temple, Vice-Principle of Westcott House, Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Military

• Major General M.P. Babbage (OG 1834-40).
• Major General T.H. Sibley (1834-41).
• Major General Hutchinson (OG 1839-41), probably Charles Scrope Hutchinson, Inspector of Railways for the board of trade.
• Major General Sir J Rose Bradford K.C.M.G., C.B., F.R.S., M.D. (OG 1875-80).
• Lieutenant Horace Robert Martineau recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and rarest British award for gallantry.
• Lord? W.H. Cozens-Hardy K.C., Commander of the RNR in World War One.
• The Hon Sir JRA (Bart?) Clark F.R.C.S. C.B. C.M.G.. (Possibly military, but not sure).
• The Hon Sir G.S. Buchanan K.C.B. C.B. M.D.. (Possibly military, but not sure).
• Air Vice-Marshal William Edward Barnes (OG 1911-14).
• Major General Horace Leslie Birks C.B. D.S.O. (OG 1912-14).
• Major General Henry H Stansfield.

Business

• The Hon Sir Henry Doulton (OG 1833-36), Inventor and manufacturer of pottery. Winner of the Albert Medal.
• The Hon Sir Percy Simmons K.B.E. (OG 1885-90), Chairman of L.C.C.
• The Hon Apurv Bagri (OG 1972-79), Deputy Chairman of governing body of London Business School, Managing Director of Metdist Group, Board member of Dubai Financial services authority, trustee of the Royal Parks Foundation, a commissioner of the Crown Estate Paving Commission, and a trustee of Asia House, visiting Professor at Cass Business School and a member of the Governing Council of the City University, London, member of the UCS coroporation, and son of Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri.
• Nick Denton, Internet businessman.

Sport

• Greville Stevens, England Cricketer, Ashes winner, Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918, at UCS scored 466 in a house match.
• Jonny Blue, (Somerset Cricket - injured knee and never got to play for England)