List of Old Brightonians
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This is a List of Old Brightonians, they being notable former students - known as "Old Brightonians" of the co-educational, public school, Brighton College in Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom.
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[edit] Academic
- Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), socialist writer and campaigner for homosexual rights
- John Combridge (1897–1986), mathematician and Registrar of King's College London
- Raymond Cooper (1912– 2005), progressive schoolmaster, Headmaster of The Hall School Hampstead, founder of the Aberfan Trust and the IAPS Orchestra
- Harold Fox (1889–1967), Professor of Zoology, Birmingham University and then Bedford College, London; Darwin Medal winner; Fellow of the Royal Society
- Clive Gamble (born 1951), Profesor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Fellow of the British Academy
- Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862–1934), Egyptologist and pioneer of Nubian archaeology, first Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford
- G. B. Harrison (1894–1991), Shakespeare scholar
- Henry Henfrey (1852–1881), numismatist
- Alsager Hill (1839–1906), social reformer
- Sir Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist
- Michael Roberts (1908–1996), historian of Sweden, Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast, Fellow of the British Academy
- Sir Sydney Roberts (1887–1966), Dr Johnson scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Secretary of Cambridge University Press and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher and Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford
- Walford D. Selby (1845–1889), archivist and historian
[edit] Architecture, building and engineering
- Anthony Dale (1912–1989), architectural historian, historian of Brighton and saviour of Regency Brighton
- Sir Francis Fox (1844–1927), civil engineer
- Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924), architect and architectural historian, RA
- Douglas Earle Marsh (1862–1933), railway engineer
- Douglas Overall (1892–1978), surveyor and property developer
[edit] Business
- Neville Abraham (born 1937), restaurateur, founder of Chez Gerard
- Mervyn Cowie (1909–1996), founding Director of the Kenya National Parks Service
- Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen (1870–1947), Chairman of British American Tobacco
- Cuthbert Heath (1859–1939), insurance pioneer
- Sir Arthur Pease, Bt. (1866–1927), coal magnate
- Sir George Reeves-Smith (1863–1941), Managing Director of the Savoy Company (1862– 1933)
- John Simmons (1902–1985), office systems pioneer
- Ken Stevens (1922– 2005), Chief Executive The Scout Association
- Derek Winston (born 1916), Chairman & CEO Mann & Co.
[edit] Community and philanthropy
- F. N. Charrington (1850–1936), philanthropist and temperance reformer
[edit] Entertainment, media and the arts
- Dean Ayass (born 1976), TV wrestling commentator
- Ewan Bailey (born c.1966), actor and writer
- Tommy Boyd (born 1952), TV presenter & radio disc jockey
- John Castle (born 1940), actor
- Dave Clarke (born c.1969), techno producer and disc jockey
- Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
- Peter Copley (born 1962), composer and cellist
- Roland Curram (born c.1932) actor and novelist
- Wilfred de Glehn (1870–1951), impressionist painter, RA
- Simon Dee (born 1935), television interviewer and radio disk jockey
- John Denison (1911–2006), first Music Director of the Arts Council, Director of the South Bank Concert Halls
- Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), writer and librettist
- Tony Hawks (born c.1960), comedian and author
- Oliver Heath (born c.1970), interior designer and presenter featuring on the BBC's Changing Rooms
- Gavin Henderson (born c.1947), Principal of Trinity College of Music and Chairman of Youth Music
- MacDonald Hobley (1917–1987), actor and radio presenter
- Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), actor
- Menhaj Huda (born 1967), film producer and director
- Selwyn Image (1849-1930), designer, illustrator and poet, joint founder of the Century Guild
- Graham Kerr (born 1934), author, chef and television presenter
- Ewart Mackintosh (1893–1917), First World War poet, MC
- Miles Malleson (1888–1969), actor, playwright and scriptwriter
- Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), writer
- Francis St. Vincent Morris (1896–1917), poet
- David Nash (born 1945), sculptor, RA
- Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter, art educator and President of the Royal Academy
- George Sanders (1906–1972), actor
- Ian Serraillier (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator of Albert RN
- James Townsend (born 1975), film producer and screenwriter
- Frank Wilson (born 1914), abstract expressionist painter
- John Worsley (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator of Albert RN
[edit] Medicine and science
- Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851–1933), surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, cricketer for Sussex and the Gentlemen
- Sir Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), geologist, explorer and Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Fellow of the Royal Society
- Sir Ronald Hatton (1886–1965), horticulturist, Fellow of the Royal Society
- James Mangles (1832–1884), horticulturalist
- Noel Ewart Odell (1890–1987), geologist and mountaineer
- Ayan Panja (born 1973), doctor, author and presenter on BBC1's Street Doctor
- John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950), physician and Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge
- Sir George Savage (1842–1921), psychiatrist
[edit] Military
- Colonel Sir Charles Boxall (1851–1914), volunteer army officer and proponent of railway artillery
- Air Commodore Lionel Charlton (1879–1958), Royal Air Force officer and author
- Brigadier-General Frank Crozier (1879–1937), commander of the British Mission to Lithuania, 1919–20, commander of the Black and Tans, 1920–21, military author and co-founder of the Peace Pledge Union
- Sir Charles Elliott (1835–1911), Indian civil servant, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
- Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Eveleigh (1912–2006), Director-General of Signals, Royal Air Force
- Colonel Sir Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), army officer and proponent of physical training
- William Gill (1843–1882), soldier and explorer, Founders Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1879
- Admiral Sir Herbert Heath (1861–1954), Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron at Jutland in 1916 and Second Sea Lord
- Charles Herbert (1904–1988), soldier, Director of Transportation at the War Office
- Air Marshal Sir Humphrey Edwardes Jones (1905–1987), Commander-in-Chief, RAF Germany
- Sir Harry Moorhouse (1872–1934), Lieutenant-Governor of Nigeria
- Sir Hubert Murray (1861–1940), Lieutenant-Governor of Papua New Guinea
- Angus Nicholl (1896–1977), naval officer, Captain HMS Penelope, BBC Defence Correspondent
- General Sir William Peyton (1866–1931), Military Secretary to Sir Douglas Haig, 1916–1918
- General Sir Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), Victoria Cross, Indian Army soldier, commander of the Burma Field Force, 1885–86
- Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), army staff officer
- General Sir Cecil Sugden (1903–1963), Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Master-General of the Ordnance
- Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker (1894–1967), Indian Army officer and military historian
- Gordon Viner (1918–2005), soldier, Commander of the Federal Regular Army, Aden and art dealer
[edit] Politics, public service and the law
- Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister, banker, politician and Chancellor of the University of Exeter
- Sir Edmund Barnard (1856–1930), Chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, Chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, Liberal MP
- Sir Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire[1]
- Sir Richard Buxton (born 1938), Lord Justice of Appeal
- Andrew Cayley (born 1964), solicitor and war crimes prosecutor
- Sir John Chilcot (born 1939), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1990–1997
- Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845–1915), Indian civil servant, President of the Indian National Congress and Liberal MP
- Eric Gandar Dower (1894–1987), air pioneer and Conservative MP
- Andrew Gamble (born 1947), Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield and then University of Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy
- Alan Green (1911–1991), Conservative MP for Preston South, 1955–1964, 1970–1974, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1963–1964
- Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, University of Oxford and legal historian
- Augustus Margary (1846–1875), Chinese Consular Service officer and explorer in China
- Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), Liberal Unionist MP, Assistant Postmaster-General and Ecclesiastical Commissioner
- Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky of Tilton (born 1939), Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, SDP and Conservative politician
- Leonard Strong (1896–1958), writer and poet
[edit] Religion
- Timothy Bavin (born 1935), Anglican priest and Benedictine monk, Bishop of Johannesburg and then of Portsmouth
- Francis Noel Davey (1904–1973), Anglican priest, theologian and Director of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
- Frederick Dillistone (1903–1993), Dean of Liverpool and theologian
- John Neville Figgis (1866–1919), Anglican church historian, theologian and political theorist
- Brooke Lambert (1834–1901), clergyman and social reformer
- Frederick Meyer (1847–1929), Baptist minister
- Arthur Stretton Reeve (1907–1981), Cambridge rowing blue (1930) and Anglican priest, Bishop of Lichfield
[edit] Sport
- Holly Colvin (born 1989), England cricketer
- Clare Connor (born 1976), England female cricket captain
- George Cotterill (1868–1950), England footballer
- Joe Gatting (born 1987), footballer for Brighton and Hove Albion
- Leslie Gay (1871–1949), England footballer
- Duncan Hamilton (1920–1994), racing driver
- John Hart (born c.1982), Wasps rugby union player
- Bazid Khan (born 1981), Pakistan cricketer [2]
- Alex King (born 1975), Wasps and England rugby union player
- Hopper Levett (1908–1995), England and Kent cricketer
- Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), cricketer and unsuccessful Conservative politician
- Jonathan Palmer (born 1956), racing driver
- Ollie Phillips (born 1982), Newcastle Falcons rugby union player
- Matthew Prior (born 1982),[3] England cricketer[4]
- Kelvin Tatum (born 1964), British speedway captain
- Claude Wilson (1858–1881), England footballer
- Sammy Woods (1867–1931), county cricketer, Australian footballer and England rugby player
[edit] False alumni
Claims have been made that the following attended the school, although the College's admissions registers show that this was not so:
- Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), writer, poet, educator and Nobel laureate
- Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (1889–1939), art dealer and funder of numerous galleries
[edit] References
- ^ BEMROSE, Sir Max (John Maxwell) in Who Was Who 1897-2007, retrieved 5 June, 2008, from BEMROSE, Sir Max (John Maxwell)
- ^ OBA Cricket. Retrieved on 2007-01-22.
- ^ Cricket - Counties - Sussex - Sussex Squad. BBC Sport. Retrieved on 2006-10-07.
- ^ Brighton College Online: Achievements. Brighton College7. Retrieved on 2006-10-07.
