List of Old Citizens
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Former pupils of the City of London School are called Old Citizens, and more informally as Old boys. The school's old boy association is called the John Carpenter Club, after John Carpenter, town clerk of London, whose bequest led to the founding of the school. The following is by no means a comprehensive list: over 140 people listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography were educated at the City of London School, and that includes only the names of those who are already dead.
[edit] Prominent Old Citizens
- Edwin Abbott Abbott - Headmaster of the school (after whom Abbot house is named), theologian and author
- David Lindo Alexander - Jewish community leader
- Kingsley Amis - Writer
- William Anderson - Anatomy professor and scholar of Japanese Art
- Michael Apted - Actor, Producer and Director
- Thomas Walker Arnold - Orientalist
- Lord Ashby - Botanist and university chancellor
- Herbert Henry Asquith - Prime Minister 1908-1916
- Julian Barnes - Novelist
- Aaron Barschak - Comedian
- Henry Charles Beeching - Poet
- Bramwell Booth - General of the Salvation Army
- Mike Brearley - Cricketer (whose father Horace Brearley taught at CLS)
- Arthur Henry Bullen - Publisher and scholar
- Suma Chakrabarti - Senior Civil Servant
- Lord Chalmers - Colonial governor and minister
- Robert Seymour Conway - Classical scholar and philologist
- Jim Cousins - Labour MP
- Philip Dawid - Statistician
- John Diamond - Journalist and broadcaster
- Edward Divers - Chemist
- Lord Evans - Royal physician
- Stewart Farrar - Author
- Percy Gardner - Archaeologist
- Edward Garnett - Editor and writer
- Leo Genn - Stage and film actor
- Israel Gollancz - Founding member of the British Academy
- Theodore Bayley Hardy Victoria Cross holder
- Frederick Hopkins - Nobel prize winning biochemist
- William Huggins - Astronomer
- Joseph Oscar Irwin - Statistician
- Steven Isserlis - Cellist
- Anthony Julius - Lawyer
- Ralph Knott - Architect
- Sidney Lee - Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
- Peter Levene - Chairman of Lloyd's of London and Lord Mayor of London 1998 1999
- Joseph Hiam Levy
- David M. Lewis - Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford
- Ernest Lough - Boy soprano
- Max Newman - mathematician and World War II codebreaker
- Lord Mishcon - Solicitor and politician
- Luke McShane - Chess Grandmaster
- George Newnes - publisher and editor
- Denis Norden - Writer and broadcaster
- Richard Packer - Senior Civil Servant
- Howard Pearce - Former governor of the Falkland Islands
- Henry Thomas Herbert Piaggio - Physicist
- Arthur Rackham - Illustrator
- Daniel Radcliffe - Actor in the Harry Potter series of film adaptations.
- Gervais Rentoul - Politician and first chairman of the 1922 Committee
- Charles Thomson Ritchie - Chancellor of the Exchequer 1902-1903
- Edward Linley Sambourne - Punch cartoonist
- John Robert Seeley - Historian and essayist
- Edward Stanford - Mapmaker
- Alfred Sutro - Playwright
- Derek Taunt - Mathematician and cryptologist
- John Lawrence Toole - Actor and theatre manager
- Francis Tusa - Broadcaster and Editor of Defence Analysis
- Thomas Fisher Unwin - Publisher
- David Walker - Master of the Household of the Royal Household
