List of Old Greshamians
The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, Norfolk, England.
Public life
Military
- General Sir Terence Airey - soldier, GOC Hong Kong[1][4]
- Joe Baker-Cresswell - Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to King George VI[1][4][5]
- General Sir Robert Bray - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe[1][4]
- Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet, killed on active service in Java, 1942[1][12]
- Donald Cunnell - World War I fighter pilot[1]
- Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion, Royal Air Force officer and British Overseas Airways Corporation executive[1][13]
- Arthur Estcourt - World War I officer[1]
- Major-General Guy Gregson - soldier[1][14]
- Sir Christopher Heydon - took part in the capture of Cádiz, 1596[1][4][8]
- General Sir William Holmes - Second World War general[1][14][15]
- Major-General John Lethbridge - soldier[1]
- Major-General Patrick Marriott - Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since 2009
- Rear-Admiral Brian Perowne
- Sir Philip Toosey - Bridge on the River Kwai commander[1][4][5]
- Peter Wilkinson MC - Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force[1][2]
- Tom Wintringham - soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist[1][4][5]
- Major-General A. E. Younger - soldier[1][2][3]
Church
Medicine
Nobel Prize-winner
Academics
Arts
Sciences
Writers
Poets
Novelists
Journalists
Other
Music
Artists
Sports
Performing arts
Business
Other
- Robert Aagaard - furniture maker and founder of the youth movement Cathedral Camps[2][43]
- Theodore Acland - headmaster of Norwich School[1][44]
- Sir Harold Atcherley - arts administrator[1][2][3]
- Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet - landowner, festivals organizer[2][3]
- Jeremy Bamber - convicted as murderer, has had appeal turned down in 2001
- 3rd Baron Bradbury [2][3]
- Martin Burgess FSA - master clockmaker[1][2]
- Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron[1][45]
- Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd[1][46]
- Edward Charles Fitzroy, direct descendant of King Charles II, heir to the barony of Southampton
- Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester[1][47]
- David W. Doyle, CIA officer and author[48]
- James Halman, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (d. 1702)[49]
- George Hunt Holley
- Viscount Dunluce[2][3]
- Lady Alice McDonnell[2]
- Christopher Newbury - Council of Europe[50]
- John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk[1][51]
- Ian Proctor - yacht designer[1][4]
- William Joseph Spratling, Grand Sword Bearer of England[52]
- 8th Baron Suffield[1][53]
In fiction
Among fictional OGs, John Mortimer's television barrister Rumpole sent his son Nick to the school during the 1970s.
Notable Gresham's masters
- Logie Bruce Lockhart - Scotland rugby footballer, headmaster[2][4][3]
- Warin Foster Bushell - later headmaster of Michaelhouse and Birkenhead School and President of the Mathematical Association[54]
- Antony R. Clark, headmaster since 2002, first-class cricketer[3]
- C. V. Durell - writer of mathematics textbooks[5]
- Graeme Fife - writer, playwright and broadcaster
- Walter Greatorex - composer[1][4]
- Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick - research chemist[55]
- John Holmes - writer of textbooks on grammar, rhetoric and astronomy[1][4][5]
- George Howson - headmaster, 1900-1919[1][4]
- Charles W. Lloyd, Master of Dulwich College[56]
- Frank McEachran - author[57]
- Geoffrey Shaw - organist and composer[58]
- Patrick Thompson - Conservative Member of Parliament[2][3]
- Dr Michael Walker - headmaster of King Edward VI School, Chelmsford[3]
- Hugh Wright, Headmaster 1985-1991, later Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference[4][3]
- Denys Thompson - Editor of The Use of English (journal)[59]
- Professor Richard D'Aeth (later Master of Hughes Hall, Cambridge)[60]
Notable governors of the school
See also
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