List of Old Edwardians (Sheffield)

Notable alumni of King Edward VII School, Sheffield include the following, arranged roughly chronologically. People who attended its various predecessor schools are listed first.

See also Category:People educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield.

• John Balguy (1686–1748), divine and philosopher (Sheffield Grammar School)
• John Roebuck FRS (1718–1794), inventor known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid (Sheffield Grammar School)
• Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908), microscopist and geologist (Sheffield Collegiate School)
• Joseph Bennett (1829–1908), merchant and Liberal politician (Wesley College)
• George Rolleston FRS (1829–1881), physician and zoologist, Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Oxford (Sheffield Collegiate School)
• Samuel Danks Waddy (1830–1902), politician and MP (Wesley College)
• Sir Nathaniel Creswick (1831–1917), footballer and solicitor, co-founded Sheffield FC (Sheffield Collegiate School)
• Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden (1833–1912), Liberal Party politician and MP (Wesley College)
• Joseph Ruston (1835–1897), engineer, manufacturer, Liberal Party politician (Wesley College)
• Sir Samuel Gillott (1838–1913), lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Melbourne (Sheffield Grammar School)
• Henry Jackson OM (1839–1921), classicist, Regius Professor of Greek (Cambridge) (Sheffield Collegiate School)
• Sir Swire Smith (1842–1918), woollen manufacturer, educationalist and Liberal Party politician (Wesley College)
• Henry Arnold Favell (1845–1896), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Sheffield (Sheffield Collegiate School)
• Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley (1850–1937), businessman and Liberal Party politician (Wesley College)
• Leonard Cockayne FRS (1855–1934), New Zealand botanist (Wesley College)
• Frank Wilson (1859–1918), Premier of Western Australia (Wesley College)
• Walter Sugg (1860–1933), first-class cricketer (Sheffield Grammar School)
• George William Kinman (1862–1927), Headmaster of Hertford Grammar School (Sheffield Collegiate School)
• Arthur Neal (1862–1933), politician and Liberal MP (Wesley College)
• Cecil Wilson (1862–1945), pacifist Labour Party MP (Wesley College)
• Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and author of regional interest books about the Peak District (Sheffield Royal Grammar School)
• W. S. Senior (1876–1938), scholar, poet and member of the Church Missionary Society (Sheffield Royal Grammar School)
• Edward Keble Chatterton (1878–1944), prolific author on maritime and naval themes (Sheffield Royal Grammar School)
• Ludwig Glauert (1879–1963), paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator (Sheffield Royal Grammar School)
• Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (1885–1934), sculptor on the theme of war, best known for his war memorials (Sheffield Royal Grammar School)
• Kenneth Kirk (1886–1954), Bishop of Oxford (Sheffield Royal Grammar School)

King Edward VII School, 1905 onwards

• Ephraim Lipson (1888–1960), economic historian
• Hermann Glauert (1892–1934), aerodynamicist, who developed the Prandtl–Glauert transformation
• Sir John Sterndale Bennett (1895–1969) CMG, ambassador^[1]
• Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899–1963) – FRS, Oxford Mathematician, and Savilian Professor of Geometry
• George Butler (1904–99), artist^[2]
• Geoffrey Gledhill Turner (1904–59), GC GM^[3]
• Frank Ellis (1905–2006) – eminent radiation oncologist
• Edward Linfoot (1905–82), Astronomer. Assistant Director of the Observatory, University of Cambridge 1948–70^[4][5]
• Prof Albert Goodwin (1906–95), Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester from 1953–69^[6]
• Sir Charles Husband CBE (1908–83), civil engineer, President of the Institution of Structural Engineers from 1964–5, and Chairman of the Association of Consulting Engineers from 1967–8, and designed the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory
• Rt Rev Leslie Stradling (1908–1998), Bishop of Johannesburg 1961–1974
• Sir Harold Warris Thompson CBE (1908–1983) – English physical chemist; Chairman of the Football Association
• Prof Ronald Graveson CBE (1911–91), Professor of Law at King's College London from 1947–74, Joint Editor of the The International and Comparative Law Quarterly from 1955–61, and President of the International Association of Legal Science from 1960–2 and of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (became The Society of Legal Scholars in 2002) from 1972–3^[7]
• Prof Eric Laughton (1911–88), Firth Professor of Latin at the University of Sheffield from 1952–76^[8]
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Stanley Miles CB (1911–87)
• Sir Eric Gardner Turner CBE (1911–1983), papyrologist and classicist
• Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale CB (1912–2007) – British civil servant
• Cecil King CMG (1912–81), Ambassador to Lebanon from 1967–70
• Sir Geofroy Tory (born 1912), Ambassador to Ireland from 1964–67
• Brigadier Sir Edgar "Bill" Williams (1912–1995) – academic and warrior^[9]
• Gordon Nornable MC (1915–2002) won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre in 1944 fighting with the French Maquis in eastern France.^[10]
• Sir Peter Youens (1916–2000) – British administrator in Nyasaland and Malawi, and director of Lonrho
• Prof Deryck Allen (1918–2010), Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sheffield from 1955–80, a Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Sheffield from 1966 to 1970, and Chairman of the Joint Matriculation Board from 1973–6^[11]
• Sir Norman Siddall (1918–2002) – Chairman of the National Coal Board from 1982–3^[12]
• Sir Robert Scholey (born 1921, Bob Scholey, known as 'Black Bob'), deputy chairman of British Steel (1972–1985), Chairman of British Steel (1985–1988), succeeding Sir Robert Haslam^[13]
• Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997), chemist and Cambridge academic^[14]
• John Gatenby Bolton (1922–1993) – British-Australian astronomer
• Prof Donald Nicol (1923–2003), Koraës Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1970–88, and President of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 1975–6
• Prof John Phillipps Kenyon (1927–96), Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor in Early Modern British History at the University of Kansas from 1987–94
• Francis Cheetham OBE (1928–2005), museum curator
• Sir Michael Carlisle (born 1929) – Pro-Chancellor, University of York
• John Farnsworth Wright (1929–2001) was a British economist and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.^[15]
• Peter Landin (1930–2009), computer scientist and academic at Queen Mary College, London^[16]
• John Lemmon (1930–1966) – logician and philosopher
• Sir Norman Adsetts OBE (born 1931) Knight Bachelor, OBE – Hon Life President SIG plc since 1996
• Dick Charlesworth (1932–2008), jazz clarinettist and bandleader
• Prof Ian Fells CBE (born 1932) – Professor of Energy Conversion at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and President of the Institute of Energy from 1978–9, and broadcaster
• George MacBeth (1932–1992) – Poet and author
• Alan Jinkinson (born 1935), General Secretary of UNISON from 1993–6
• Prof David Downes (born 1938), Professor of Social Administration at the LSE from 1987–2003, and Editor of the British Journal of Criminology from 1985–90
• Ted Wragg (1938–2005) – E C (Ted) Wragg, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter
• Eric Dancer CBE (born 1940), Managing Director of Dartington Crystal from 1986–2000, and Lord Lieutenant of Devon since 1998
• Ted Powell (1940–2005), amateur footballer who went on to coach the Malawi national football team and the England Under–18 side which won the European Championship in 1993.^[17]
• Rony Robinson (born 1940) – writer and broadcaster
• Dave Sheasby (1940–2010), playwright, director, dramatist and radio producer
• Sir John Goulden CMG (born 1941) – diplomat and Ambassador to Turkey from 1992–5
• Alan Wood (born 1947) – CEO of Siemens Plc
• Roy Galley (born 1947) – Conservative MP for Halifax from 1983–7
• John Ramsden (1947–2009), Professor of History at Queen Mary College, an authority on the history of the Conservative party^[18]
• Bob Davies (born 1948) – CEO of Arriva Plc until April 2006
• Prof Paul Collier CBE (born 1949), Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford since 1993, and Director since 1991 of the Centre for the Study of African Economies
• Peter Horbury (born 1950), car designer, Executive Design Director of all Ford's American brands from 2004
• Martin Smith (born 1949) – Car designer (Porsche, Audi, Ford)
• Clive Betts (born 1950) – Current Labour MP
• Air Commodore Jon Chitty (born c. 1952), OBE RAF
• Dr David Thomson, current Bishop of Huntingdon^[19]
• Phil Oakey (born 1955) – singer, Human League
• Martyn Ware (born 1956), founder member of The Human League and Heaven 17^[20]
• Simon Collis (born 1956), Ambassador to Syria since 2007, and to Qatar from 2005–7
• Matthew Bannister (born 1957) – British radio administrator and broadcaster
• John Rawling (born 1957), main boxing commentator on ITV since 2005
• Simon Wessely (born 1956) – professor of epidemiological and liaison psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research.
• Graham Fellows (born 1959) – comedian and actor, aka John Shuttleworth
• Joe Elliott (born 1959) – lead singer of Def Leppard
• Carl Shutt (born 1961) – former Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United and Bradford City footballer
• Paul Heaton (born 1962) – leader, The Beautiful South and The Housemartins
• Julia Bradbury (born 1970) – presenter of Watchdog
• Emily Maitlis (born 1970) – newscaster for BBC television
• Tyrone Thompson (born 1981) – footballer with Torquay United
• Ben Purkiss (born 1984) – footballer with Oxford United
• Toddla T (born 1985) – musician and DJ^[21]

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