List of Old Salopians

List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable alumni of Shrewsbury School, a leading UK independent boarding and day school in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England. They have excelled or gained fame in such fields as business, culture, the military, politics, science, or sport.

Old Salopians

Contents:

Top · 0–9 · A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer
• John Adams (cartographer), (before 1670 − 1738), cartographer
• Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65
• Cyril Argentine Alington (1872–1955), headmaster 1908-1917 and dean of Durham
• Thomas Ashton (d. 1578), headmaster 1562-1571
• John Langshaw Austin, philosopher of language

B

• William Henry Bateson, (1812–1881), college head
• Sir Cecil Beadon (1816–1880), administrator in India
• Christopher Booker, journalist
• Tim Booth, lead singer of the band James)
• John Breynton (1719–1799), minister and missionary in Nova Scotia^[1]
• John Brockbank, (1848–1896), footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
• Peter Brown, historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
• Samuel Browne, (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
• Donald Boumphrey MC, (1892-1971), cricketer, educator and British Army officer
• Charles Burney (1726–1814), music historian
• Omar 'Ali Bolkiah (1986–), Crown Prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
• Samuel Butler (1774–1839), headmaster 1798-1836 and Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
• Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

C

• Thomas Chaloner (Challoner) (c.1600–1664), headmaster 1637–1645
• George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975), historian
• William George Clark (1821–1878), literary and classical scholar
• William Clarke (1695–1771), antiquary
• Richard Charles Cobb (1917–1996), historian and essayist
• Edward Meredith Cope (1818–1873), classical scholar
• Edward Corbet, (1601x3–1658), Anglican clergyman
• John Corbet (Corbett) (1609–1670), politician and judge
• Sir Randolph Crewe (Crew) (bap. 1559, d. 1646), judge^[2]
• Julian Critchley (1930–2000), politician
• Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft (1881–1947), politician
• Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow (1912–), diplomat
• Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce (1912–2000), judge

D

• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
• Peter Davis (1941-), former Chairman Sainsbury's
• Francis Day (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
• Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
• Miles Dempsey (1896–1969), army officer
• Hal Dixon (1928–2008), biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College Cambridge
• John Freeman Milward Dovaston, (1782–1854), naturalist and poet ^[3]
• Andrew Downes (c.1549–1628), Greek scholar
• Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, Fourth Baronet of Ambrosden, Seventh Baronet of Canons-Ashby, archaeologist and antiquary^[4]

E

• Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide
• Alexander John Ellis (formerly Sharpe), (1814–1890), phonetician and mathematician
• Sir (Robert) Charles Evans (1918–1995), surgeon and mountaineer
• William Addams Williams Evans (1853–1919), Wales international footballer^[5]

F

• Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), Church of England clergyman and Roman Catholic priest
• Freddie Fisher(1985–), Big Brother UK Series 10 contestant
• James Fleming (1830–1908), Church of England clergyman
• Paul Foot, journalist
• James Fraser (1818–1885), bishop of Manchester
• Abraham Fraunce (France) (1559?–1592/3?), poet and lawyer

G

• Arthur Herman Gilkes (1849–1922), headmaster, Dulwich College
• Geoffrey Green (1911-1990), football writer
• Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
• Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851–1941), administrator in India and philologist
• Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), historian and theologian

H

• James Hall (1800–1854), painter
• Nick Hancock (1962–), actor and TV presenter
• John Hanmer (1575/6–1629), bishop of St Asaph
• Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), politician
• Thomas Emerson Headlam (1813–1875), barrister and politician
• William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
• Michael Heseltine (1933-), politician
• Richard Henry Heslop (alias Xavier) (1907–1973), army officer and resistance organizer
• Sir Thomas Hewett, (1656–1726), architect and landowner^[6]
• Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (1824–1908), politician
• James Hildyard, (1809–1887), classical scholar
• Richard Hillary (1919–1943), air force officer and author
• Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), classical scholar
• William Walsham How (1823–1897), bishop of Wakefield
• Robert Hudson (1920–2010), BBC broadcaster and administrator
• James Humphreys (lawyer) (1768–1830), law reformer
• Sir Travers Humphreys (1867-1956), judge

I

• Brian St John Inglis (1916–1993), journalist
• Andrew Irvine (1902–1924), mountaineer

J

• Frederick John Jackson (1860–1929), colonial governor and naturalist
• William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson (1917–1999), army officer and military historian
• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge
• (William) Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
• John Jones of Gellilyfdy (before 1585 − in or before 1658), copyist and manuscript collector
• Sir Thomas Jones (1614–1692), judge and law reporter
• Thomas Jones (1756–1807), college teacher

K

• Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), headmaster and classical scholar
• Charles Rann Kennedy (1808–1867), lawyer and classical scholar
• Bryan King (1811–1895), Church of England clergyman

L

• Lord Lane (1918–2005), Law Lord, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• John Austin (1911–1960), philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy
• Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine (1901–1980), politician
• Aubrey Trevor Lawrence (1875–1930), barrister and author
• Sir William Leighton (c.1565–1622), poet and composer
• Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909), dean of Lichfield
• Sir Daniel Lysons (1816–1898), army officer

M

• Humphrey Mackworth (1603–1654), government official and politician
• Richard Madox (1546–1583), Church of England clergyman and diarist
• George Augustus Chichester May (1815–1892), judge
• George Osborne Morgan (1826–1897), lawyer and politician
• Henry Whitehead Moss (1841–1917), headmaster 1866–1908
• Gerard Moultrie (1829–1885), third master, chaplain, hymnographer
• Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819–1885), classical scholar

N

• Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
• Charles Thomas Newton (bap. 1816, d. 1894), archaeologist
• Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer

O

• Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet (1751–1826), administrator in India
• William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill (1813–1883), Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
• Julian Orchard (1930–1979), film and television actor
• Sir Roger Ormrod (1911–1992), judge
• Hugh Owen (1760–1827), Church of England clergyman and antiquary
• Thomas Owen (d. 1598), judge

P

• Bernard Charles Tolver Paget (1887–1961), army officer
• Edward Francis Paget (1886–1971), archbishop of central Africa
• Francis Paget (1851–1911), bishop of Oxford
• Stephen Paget (1855–1926), writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
• Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), classical scholar and writer
• Michael Palin, CBE (1943– ), member of Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
• John Peel (1939–2004), DJ and journalist
• Arthur Purves Phayre (1812–1885), administrator in Burma
• Robert Phayre (1820–1897), army officer
• Ambrose Philips (bap. 1674, d. 1749), poet and playwright
• John Arthur Pilcher (1912–1990), diplomatist
• (Henry) Graham Pollard (1903–1976), bookseller and bibliographer
• Sir Thomas Powys (1649–1719), judge and politician

R

• Henry Cecil Raikes (1838–1891), politician
• Martin Rees (President of Royal Society, Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)
• John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
• George Rudé (1910–1993), British Marxist Historian
• Willie Rushton (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, founder of Private Eye'
• Ed Reardon fictional character

S

• George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633-1695)
• Nevil Shute (1899–1960), writer
• Simon Shackleton (b1968), DJ, musician
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet, courtier and soldier
• Sandy Singleton (1914–1999), cricketer
• John Stuttard (1945– ), Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07

T

• Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907–1995), music critic
• John Taylor (bap. 1704, d. 1766), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
• Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
• William Thomson (1819–1890), archbishop of York
• Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), hymn writer
• Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring (1818–1907), parliamentary draftsman
• J. C. Thring
• Richard Todd, Actor
• Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), headmaster of Eton College and Fettes College
• Sir Thomas Trevor (c.1573–1656), judge
• James Taylor (cricketer) (1990–)

V

• Sir William Vaughan (d. 1649), royalist army officer

W

• Alan Wace (1879–1957), archaeologist
• Henry Wace (1853–1947), England international footballer^[7]
• Henry William Rawson Wade (1918–2004), academic lawyer
• Graham Wallas (1858–1932), political psychologist and educationist
• John Wood Warter (1806–1878), Church of England clergyman and antiquary^[8]
• John Weaver (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
• Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
• Edgar Whitehead (1905–1971), prime minister of Rhodesia
• Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885), Unitarian minister^[9][10]
• Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
• Sir William Williams (1633/4–1700), lawyer and politician
• H. de Winton
• John Wylie, (c.1853 – 1924), 1878 FA Cup winner and England international

Y

• Charles Edward Yate (1849–1940), administrator in India and politician

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