List of people educated at Stonyhurst College
This article lists notable alumni/ae of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England, and its lineal antecedents at St Omer, Bruges and Liège. Alumni/ae are referred to in school contexts as O.S. (Old Stonyhurst). Inter alia the school counts among its most distinguished former pupils: three Saints,[1] twelve Beati,[1] twenty-two martyrs,[1] seven archbishops, and seven Victoria Cross winners.[1]
Alumni of the College at St Omer, Bruges, & Liège (1593–1794)
Saints, Beati and Martyrs
- Bl. Edward Bamber, executed at Lancaster in 1646.[1]
- Bl. William Barrow SJ (aka Fr Harcourt), executed at Tyburn in 1679.[1]
- Bl. Arthur Bell OSF, executed at Tyburn in 1643.[1]
- Bl. Ralph Corbie, executed at Tyburn in 1644.[1]
- Bl. John Fenwick SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1679.[1]
- Bl. John Gavan SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1679.[1]
- Bl. Thomas Holland SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1642.[1]
- Bl. William Ireland SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1679.[1]
- Bl. Thomas Thwing, executed at York in 1680.[1]
- Bl. Thomas Whitaker, executed at Lancaster in 1646.[1]
- Bl. Thomas Whitbread SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1679.[1]
- Bl. John Woodcock OSF, executed at Lancaster in 1646.[1]
- Fr Thomas Blount SJ, died in Shrewsbury gaol awaiting execution in 1647.[1]
- Fr Brian Cansfield SJ, died whilst imprisoned in York in 1645.[1]
- Fr Thomas Downes SJ, died in prison in 1678.[1]
- Fr John Goodman, executed at Lancaster in 1646.[1]
- Fr Thomas Jenison, died in Newgate prison in 1679.[1]
- Fr Edmund Mico SJ, died in London gaol in 1678.[1]
- Fr Francis Neville SJ, killed by pursuivants in 1679.[1]
Others
- Prince Louis Aloy de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, General, Marshall of France.
- Henry Blundell, art collector; owner of the largest private art collection in England.[5]
- Aedanus Burke, soldier, judge and United States Representative from South Carolina; served in the militia forces of South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War; appointed judge of the State circuit court; member of the South Carolina House of Representatives; served in the Revolutionary Army; appointed one of three commissioners to prepare a digest of the State laws; member of the convention in 1788 called to consider ratification of the Constitution of the United States, which he opposed; elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the First United States Congress; elected a chancellor of the courts of equity; senior member of the South Carolina appellate courts; Chief Justice of South Carolina.[6]
- Philip Calvert, Public Servant and Keeper of the Conscience of Maryland; Governor of Maryland.[7]
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving and only Catholic signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Continental Congress and later US Senator for Maryland.[8]
- Daniel Carroll, helped draft the US Constitution.[9]
- John Carroll, first bishop and archbishop in the USA, first Archbishop of Baltimore, founder of Georgetown University (the oldest Catholic university in the USA) and the Georgetown Preparatory School, (the oldest Catholic school in the USA). John Carroll University is named in his honour.[10]
- John Caryll, 1st Baron Caryll of Durford, in the Jacobite Peerage, poet, dramatist, and diplomat; translated Ovid's Epistle of Briseïs to Achilles and Virgil's first Eclogue; during the "Popish Plot" was committed to the Tower of London, but was soon let out on bail; when James II of England succeeded to the throne, he sent him as his agent to the court of Pope Innocent XI; secretary to Queen Mary of Modena, after the Glorious Revolution, he followed the exiled royal family to Saint-Germain; implicated in a plots to overthrow William of Orange (William III), whilst in exile he was created by the dethroned James II Baron Caryll of Durford (or Dunford) in West Sussex and appointed his Joint Secretary of State; his son, the so-called Old Pretender, James Francis Edward Stuart, recognised by Jacobites as "King James III and VIII" re-appointed him one of his Secretaries of State.[11]
- Christopher G. Champlin, United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; president of the Rhode Island Bank.[12]
- Ambrose Corbie, Jesuit, teacher and author; appointed confessor at the English College, Rome.[13]
- Sir Henry Gage, Royalist Governor of Oxford during the Civil War.[14]
- Thomas Gage, recusant Catholic, clergyman, ordained Dominican priest; later publicly abandoned the Catholic Church; testified against Thomas Holland, Francis Bell, Ralph Corby and Peter Wright. All were executed on his evidence; during the Civil War aligned himself with Oliver Cromwell.[15]
- William Habington, poet, works include Castara (1634),a tragi-comedy, The Queen of Arragon (1640) and six essays on events in modern history, Observations upon History (1641).[16]
- Francis Hawkins, Jesuit, child prodigy and translator; translated (aged 10) An Alarum for Ladyes, translated from de La Serre (aged 13) Youths Behaviour, or, Decency in Conversation amongst Men (1641).[17]
- Emmanuel Lobb, SJ, received King James II into the Catholic Church.[18]
- William Kilty (1757–1821), Federal Judicial Service: Chief Judge, Circuit Court of the District of Columbia USCC. Received a recess appointment from Thomas Jefferson on March 23, 1801, to a new seat created by 2 Stat. 103; nominated on January 6, 1802; Confirmed by the Senate on January 26, 1802, and received commission on January 26, 1802. Service terminated on January 27, 1806, due to resignation. Compiler, Laws of Maryland, State of Maryland, 1798–1800; State Governor, Maryland, 1806–21
- Thomas Lloyd, stenographer; known as the “Father of American Shorthand", published the most complete and official record of the First Continental Congress from the notes taken in his shorthand; worked for the United States Treasurer; reported the first Inaugural Address given by George Washington.[19]
- Henry More, Jesuit provincial and church historian; great-grandson St Thomas More; sent on the English Mission where he was twice arrested and imprisoned, whilst chaplain to Lord Petre; as provincial negotiationed with Panzani, Conn and Rossetti (the papal agents at the court of Queen Henrietta Maria); Rector of St. Omer.[20]
- Arthur Murphy, author, biographer and barrister, also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger; friend of Henry Thrale and Samuel Johnson; introduced Thale to Johnson; Commissioner of Bankruptcy; coined the legal term "wilful misconstruction".[21]
- Leonard Neale, the first Catholic bishop ordained in the United States, second Archbishop of Baltimore, President of Georgetown University.[22]
- Edward Petre SJ, Jesuit, Privy Councillor during the reign of James II.[22]
- Ambrose Rookwood, Gunpowder Plotter, executed 1606 at Westminster with Guy Fawkes.[22]
- Marmaduke Stone, Jesuit Provincial (England, Ireland and Maryland), first President of Stonyhurst.[23]
- Louis de Sabran, French Jesuit, associated with the court of James II, engaged in vigorous theological debates with both Church of England and Puritan spokesmen; royal chaplain to James II; chaplain to the infant Prince of Wales; visitator of the Neopolitan Jesuits; provincial superior; rector of St. Omer; spiritual father of the English College in Rome.[22]
- Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury (1660–1718); a signatory to the letter of invitation to William of Orange 1688; Secretary of State for the Southern Department; Lord Chamberlain; Ambassador to France; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Lord Treasurer; Knight of the Garter and Privy Counsellor (Reference St Omers, Bruge and Liege Lists. Published by Catholic Record Society)
- Anthony Terill, theologian and Jesuit; Penitentiary at Loreto, Professor of philosophy at Florence, Professor of philosophy and scholastic theology at Parma, Director of theological studies and Professor of theology and mathematics at the English College, Liège.[24]
- Thomas Weld, benefactor of Stonyhurst College to the Society of Jesus.[25]
- James White, American physician, lawyer and politician; early settler Tennessee and Louisiana; delegate for North Carolina in the Continental Congress and a non-voting member of the U.S. House for the Southwest Territory.[26]
Alumni/ae of the College at Stonyhurst (1794–present)
Alumnae (1990s-present)
Alumni
Victoria Cross Holders
Seven Stonyhurst Alumni have won the Victoria Cross.
Others
- George Archer-Shee, cause célèbre, his case was the inspiration for the play The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan.[30]
- Nicholas Ardizzone, cinematographer and student of the graphic arts; catalogued and promoted his father Edward 's artistic legacy as a war artist.[31]
- Joe Ansbro, Scottish rugby international
- Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate.[32]
- James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour, admitted to the House of Lords with the Catholic Emancipation Act.[33]
- Patrick Baladi, actor (Neil in "The Office").[34]
- Edmund (“Teddy”) Barclay (1898–1961), radio dramatist and writer, maintained that he was educated at Stonyhurst[35]
- Judge Nicholas Ball, the second Catholic to be elevated to the Irish Bench.[36]
- Iain Balshaw, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner.[37]
- Joseph Cyril Bamford, founder of the JCB company.[38]
- Edmund Piers Barclay, radio dramatist and writer, winner of the Military Cross
- Philip Bell, Member of Parliament (Conservative).[39]
- Count Michael de la Bédoyère, author and journalist, editor of the Catholic Herald.[40]
- John Desmond Bernal, FRS, scientist known for pioneering X-ray crystallography, Master of Birkbeck College, London, Professor of Physics and Crystallography, Fellow of the Royal Society, Communist, awarded the Lenin Peace Prize, joint inventor of the Mulberry Harbour.[41]
- Sir Hugh Charles Philip Bidwell, Lord Mayor of London.[42]
- Charles Joseph Blake, JP for Queen's County and County Galway, High Sheriff of Queen's County in 1895.[43]
- Colonel Maurice Blake, CB, Lieutenant commanding the 6th Battalion of the Connaught Rangers from 1885 to 1897, JP for Galway and Mayo, and D.J. for Mayo, where he was High Sheriff in 1864.[43]
- Captain Valentine Joseph Blake, J.P. for County Roscommon and County Mayo, and Secretary of the Mayo Grand Jury.[43]
- Fr Charles Boardman, S.J., sub-editor of Jesuit publication, The Month, scholar, founder rector of the mission of St Wilfred, Longridge.[44]
- Sir Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), Diplomat, Poet and Traveller. Opposed British rule in Egypt and policy in Sudan, Muslim sympathiser and champion of Irish Home Rule. Founder of Crabbet Arabian Stud[45]
- HRH Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Prince Consort of the Grand Dutchess Charlotte of Luxembourg.
- Major Leo Bodkin, British military officer and Irish author.
- Fr William Bodkin, S.J., founder of the Catholic Grammar School, Leeds, and Rector of Stonyhurst in 1907.[43]
- John Bowen, Grand President of the Catenian Association.[46]
- Kyran Bracken, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner. Captained England briefly.[47]
- Mark Conrad Brenninkmeijer, Chairman of Matlock Bank, formerly Group Executive with Amcena (Retail) and President of Maurices ARG (Retail) in the USA, Chairman of C&A United Kingdom (Retail), CEO of Laroque and Chairman of ESS(Miscellaneous) in the UK.[48]
- Fr Charles Brigham, S.J., author of The Enormities of the Confessional Examined.[44]
- Fr Dean Brindle, S.J., Rector of St Patrick's, Oldham.[44]
- Robert Brinkley, British High Commissioner to Pakistan, former Ambassador to the Ukraine.[49]
- Professor Chris Buckley, professor of medicine at the University of Birmingham
- Sir Edward Bulfin KCB CVO, general during World War I, established a reputation as an excellent commander; noted for his actions during the First Battle of Ypres, when he organized impromptu forces to slow down the German assault.[50]
- Mullah John Butt, Broadcaster and Cambridge University Islamic chaplain.[51]
- Various alumni hold high ranking positions for the Catholic Association Pilgrimage to Lourdes, including the Chief Brancardier (Matt Betts), Chief Doctor (Adam Farmer) and various trustees.
- Brendan Callaghan, SJ, Master of Campion Hall, Oxford.[52]
- Bill Cash, Member of Parliament (Conservative), Shadow Attorney General.[53]
- Baron Chitnis of Rydale, life peer, chief executive and director of the Liberal Party.[54]
- Sir Charles Chichester, Brigadier-General under General De Lacy Evans in the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain in 1835, traveller and diarist, acting Governor in Trinidad.
- Sir Charles Clifford New Zealand politician, first Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- Hugh Charles Clifford, 7th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, whig politian, leading advocate of Catholic Emancipation, attended Cardinal Consalvi to the Congress of Vienna
- Colin Clive, actor (Frankenstein (1931 film); Journey's End)[55]
- Sir Cecil Clothier Judge of Appeal of the Isle of Man, Parliamentary Ombudsman
- Charles Allston Collins, artist and author, proposed for membership of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood but was rejected
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author of Sherlock Holmes
- John Coope MBE (1929–2006), doctor and founder of the Bollington Festival and founder of the Bollington Arts Centre[56]
- John Desmond Cronin, Member of Parliament (Labour)
- Edward Micklethwaite Curr, Australian pastoralist and squatter
- John da Cunha, barrister and judge, member of the British delegation to the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
- Guillermo de Landa y Escandon, Governor of the Federal District of Mexico[57]
- Alexander de Romana, Prime Minister of Peru (brother of Eduardo López de Romaña, President of Peru)
- Baron Devlin of West Wick, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; High Steward of the University of Cambridge; Privy Counsellor; legal writer and moral philosopher
- Fr William Doyle, S.J., chaplain to the 8th Royal Irish Fusiliers 16th (Irish) Division during the First World War, awarded the Military Cross, subject of a canonisation petition.[58]
- Charles Gavan Duffy (1855–1932), Australian public servant, Assisted drafting the Commonwealth of Australia’s Constitution; Clerk of the House of Representatives; Clerk of the Senate[59]
- Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
- John Gavan Duffy (1844–1917), Australian solicitor and politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly; President of the Board of Land and Works, Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey and Minister of Agriculture; Postmaster-General; Attorney-General[35]
- Archibald Matthias Dunn – Catholic ecclesiastical architect.[60]
- Manuel Escandón y Barrón, Marqués de Villavieja, Mexican entrepreneur and sportsman, introduced polo to Spain and Latin America
- Pablo Escandón y Barrón, Governor of Morelos (Mexico) and aide-de-camp of President Porfirio Díaz
- Frank Foley, Soldier and British secret agent in World War II, he is primarily remembered as the "British Schindler". As an undercover passport control officer he helped thousands of Jews escape from Nazi Germany. In October 1999 he was accorded the status of a Righteous Among the Nations by Israel's Yad Vashem.
- Sir Iain Foulis, 13th Baronet of Colinton and Baronet of Ravelston
- Gerald Gallagher, Colonial Administrator Service, noted as the first officer-in-charge of the Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme, the last colonial expansion of the British Empire
- Major General Sir Montagu Gerard, Head of the British Military Mission to the Russian army in Manchuria
- Fr John Gerard S.J., writer on scientific, historical and controversial subjects
- Eulogio Gillow y Zavala, Archbishop of Antequera (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Peter Glenville, film and theatre director and producer and script writer; winner BAFTA (Best British Film – "Becket"); nominated for 4 Tony Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards, 1 Academy Award "Oscar" (Best Director) and 1 Golden Lion.
- Oliver St John Gogarty, poet, writer and wit, Senator of the Irish Free State, inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses
- Alban Goodier, Archbishop of Bombay
- Maurice Gorham, journalist and broadcaster, Controller of BBC Television Service, Director of RTÉ (Ireland)
- Morgan Grace, Member of the Legislative Council (New Zealand), Member of Parliament
- Matt Greenhalgh, screenwriter and BAFTA winner
- Will Greenwood, English Rugby international, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
- Richard Guilly, Bishop of Georgetown, Guyana
- Richard Gwyn, Canadian civil servant, journalist and author, awarded the Order of Canada.
- Archduke Franz Karl Habsburg of Austria
- Sir William Hackett, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Ceylon
- Alban J. X. Hart, poet[61]
- Macdonald Hastings, World War II war correspondent; journalist
- 1st Baron Herries of Carlaverock
- Tim Hetherington, British photojournalist and documentary maker[62], Oscar nominee
- Vyvyan Holland, son of Oscar Wilde
- Crispian Hollis, Bishop of Portsmouth
- Leo Hollis, author.[63]
- Major General JCOR Hopkinson CB, Colonel of the Queen's Own Highlanders Regiment
- Anthony Horton, English Rugby international, British and Irish Lion
- William Horton, English cricketer; represented Middlesex and the Europeans in India
- John Hughes (1857–1912) Australian solicitor and politician; Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory; Member of the Legislative Council; Vice-President of the Executive Council; Minister of Justice[35]
- Sir Thomas Hughes, first Lord Mayor of Sydney. Edward VII conferred the title of Lord Mayor on the position of Mayor. This was the first Lord Mayoralty created outside the British Isles.
- Giles Hussey, artist, painted a number of portraits, specializing in drawings in profile. Examples of his portraiture in oils include a portrait of Sir John Swinburne and a portrait of William Meredith
- Leonard Ingrams, founder of the Garsington Opera Festival
- Colonel R Irwin, reportedly the first man ever to ride a bicycle in Ireland
- Peter Isola, Gibraltarian politician; member of the House of Assembly; leader of the Democratic Party of British Gibraltar; Minister for Education; Leader of the Opposition; Deputy Chief Minister; appeared before the UN to resist demand to integrate Gibraltar into Spain
- Valentine Irwin, introduced polo to the British Isles
- Dom Bede Jarrett, Provincial of the Dominicans
- Admiral Arthur Jerningham, attached to the personal guard of Queen Victoria during the alarms of the Chartist disturbance
- Paul Johnson, journalist, editor of the New Statesman, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (USA)
- Baron John Josika(OS 1807)
- Bruce Kent, British peace campaigner; Chairman of the CND; laicised priest
- Miles Gerard Keon, journalist, novelist, colonial secretary and lecturer
- Thomas Kenny, Canadian Member of Parliament (Conservative Party)
- Brian Killick, novelist (The Heralds, The Nannies)
- Fr Nicholas King SJ., Translator of the New Testament, academic and tutor in Theology at Campion Hall, Oxford
- The Hon. Charles Langdale, one of the foremost Catholic leaders of Emancipation days, Member of Parliament (Whig), wrote the memoirs of Maria Fitzherbert
- Charles Laughton, actor, director; winner Academy Award "Oscar" for best actor (first British actor to do so) and a Grammy; nominated for 2 further Academy Awards (both best actor) and a Golden Globe
- Guillermo de Landa y Escandón, entrepreneur, Alderman, Mayor, and Governor of Mexico City
- Professor Gabriel Leung, JP, Under-secretary for Food and Health of Hong Kong
- James Lomax, Lord of the Manor of Great Harwood, benefactor to Stonyhurst College
- Fr Randall Lythgoe, Provincial of the Society of Jesus
- Eduardo López de Romaña, President of Peru.
- Giuseppe Lorenzo 6th Marquis de Piro, Chamberlain to Pope Leo XIII, Knight of Malta
- Robert Loughnan, Member of the Legislative Council (New Zealand), Member of Parliament, journalist, critic and inventor.[64]
- Enoch Louis Lowe, Governor of Maryland, USA (1851–54)
- Dermot MacDermot, Prince of Coolavin
- Sir Peter MacAdam, Chairman of British American Tobacco
- Donald McDonald, Canadian Member of Parliament, Member of the Legislative Council
- John Maguire, Archbishop of Glasgow
- Henry McGee, British actor
- Noel McGrath, Irish Rugby international
- Alfonso Merry del Val y Alzola, Private Secretary to King Alfonso XIII of Spain
- Don Carlos Martinez De Irujo y De Alcazar, Duke of Sotomajor, Spanish politician, High Chamberlain
- José Pablo Martinez del Rio, Mexican politician, President of Congress
- Pablo Martínez del Río, Historian, founder National School of Anthropology and History (1942).
- Hon. Joseph Constable Maxwell-Scott, J.P. for Roxburghshire.
[65]
- Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish patriot; Member of Parliament (Repeal Party), introduced the tricolour to Ireland; General in the American Civil War; Governor of Montana
- Patrick Millen, New Zealand civil servant, Secretary to the cabinet
- Francisco Moreno y Herra, Conde de Los Andes, Spanish politician, Secretary of the Falange Party
- James Monahan, Director of the Royal Ballet School
- Joseph Sheridan Moore (1828–1891), teacher, publicist and man of letters[35]
- Anthony Moorhouse, abducted and murdered by Egyptians during the Suez Crisis. His fate was the inspiration for Brendan Behan's play The Hostage.[66]
- John Moriarty, Attorney General for Ireland, inspiration for Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes novels
- Chris Morris, satirist and comedian; creator of "Brass Eye" (brother of Tom Morris, Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic), BAFTA winner
- Tom Morris, Artistic Director of Bristol Old Vic; Associate Director of popular stage play War Horse (brother of Chris Morris, satirist & comedian)
- Bryan Mullanphy, philanthropist, often called America's first millionaire; established a collection of native American artefacts (now held in the British Museum); alderman, judge and a mayor of St. Louis, Missouri
- James Moulton, soldier; dubbed “Captain Courageous” by Time magazine after deliberately going into the line of fire of Iraqi soldiers so that British snipers and artillery could see where they were and fire at them
- Francis Neale, President of Georgetown University
- John Nelson, Argentinian polo player, Olympic gold medalist for polo in 1924 and 1936
- John Nolan, campaigner for Irish “Home Rule”, Member of Parliament (Irish Parliamentary Party)
- The Rt. Hon. Sir Nicholas O'Conor, British Ambassador at St. Petersburg and at Constantinople
- Daniel, The O'Donoghue of the Glens, Member of Parliament (Irish Nationalist)
- Michael O'Donnell, physician, journalist and broadcaster, father of Lucy, a pencil drawing of whom inspired John Lennon to write the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (see The Times 29 September 2009)
- John O'Driscoll, Irish Rugby international, British and Irish Lion
- Barry O'Driscoll, Irish Rugby international
- Rt Hon Richard More O'Ferrall, Member of Parliament (Whig) and Privy Counsellor, he and the Archbishop of Dublin were the only Catholics to sit on the Royal Commission to report into the condition of the poor in Ireland; adviser to the Catholic University; friend of Cardinal Wiseman and supporter of Daniel O'Connell. In 1835, under Lord Melbourne appointed Lord of the Treasury, First Secretary of the Admiralty; Secretary to the Treasury; first civilian to hold the post of Governor of Malta.
- John Lewis More O'Ferrall, barrister; Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police
- Brendan O'Friel, Governing Governor of HM Prison Service, Governor of HM Prison Strangeways (renamed Manchester) during the Strangeways riots
- Henry O'Hara (1853–1921), Australian surgeon[35]
- Valentine O'Hara (1875–1941), noted author and authorty on Russia and The Baltic States
- Dr. George Oliver, antiquary and Church annalist
- Count Luis Ossa (OS, 1880)
- Dermod Owen-Flood, lawyer, Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia (Canada)
- Sir Bernard Partridge, Punch cartoonist.[67]
- Hubert Patch, Air Chief-Marshall, Chief of Fighter Command
- John Pinasco, President of the University of San Francisco
- Fr Charles Plowden, Jesuit, Rector of Stonyhurst, writer and orator
- Francis Plowden, barrister, legal and political writer, Professor at the Scots College at Paris
- Jonathan Plowright, concert pianist, Gold Medallist at the Royal Academy of Music and a Fulbright Scholar, winner of the European Piano Competition
- Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish patriot who helped draft the Irish Proclamation of Independence, which he signed; executed for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916
- George Oliver Plunkett, younger brother of Joseph Plunkett, Irish Republican and leading IRA man 1916–40.[68]
- George Porter, Archbishop of Bombay
- Paul Hugh Howard Potts, Poet
- Patrick Power, MP for the Eastern Division of Waterford
- Bishop Riddell, (Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District)
- Anthony Rickards, cardiologist; devised a revolutionary pacemaker that responded to the demands of the body during exercise and foreshadowed the technology used in nearly all pacemakers; created the first computerised cardiac database in Britain; the driving force in the formation of the Central Cardiac Audit Database
- John Rogers (1842–1908), Australian educationist and politician; Member of the Legislative Assembly[69]
- William Foster Rogers MP, politician (OS, 1858)
- John Gage Rokewode, antiquarian, Fellow and later Director of the Society of Antiquaries, Fellow of the Royal Society
- Ted Russell, Irish senator, businessman and five times Mayor of Limerick City
- Louis Sabran SJ, Chaplain to James III, the Old Pretender
- Sir Edward Strickland (CB), army officer, author, vice-president of the Geographical Society of Australasia, a founder and president of the society's New South Wales branch, president of the Australian Geographical Conference in 1884 and vice-president of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science; Promoted to Commissary-General (ranking with Major-General); served in Ireland as senior commissariat officer. The Strickland River in New Guinea is named after him[35]
- Charles Sturridge, TV and film director (most notably for the TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited)
- Francis L. Sullivan, actor, best known for portrayals of Dickensian characters Jaggers in Great Expectations and Bumble in David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948), also appeared in Non-Stop New York (1937), Pimpernel Smith (1941), After Night and the City (1950), Caribbean (1952), Plunder of the Sun (1953) and Drums of Tahiti (1954), friend of Agatha Christie.[70]
- Major Francis Suttill, British special agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) inside France; organized and coordinated the Physician network, better known by his own code name Prosper; captured and killed by the Nazis
- John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury
- Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC
- William Tobin (1859–1904), Australian Cricket International[71]
- Sir Colman Treacy, British jurist, Birmingham Crown Court
- Arthur Turcotte, Quebec lawyer, journalist and politician; Mayor of Trois-Rivières; member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (independent Conservative; later Liberal); Speaker of the Assembly; helped found La Concorde, becoming its editor; minister without portfolio and attorney general under Honoré Mercier; appointed protonotary for the Superior Court in Montreal district
- Sir Edgar Unsworth, KC, QC, CMG, KBE, British lawyer and judge; Chief Justice of Gibraltar and Attorney-General for Northern Rhodesia
- Fr Bernard Vaughan, Jesuit, preacher, ardent social reformer, worked among the poor of Westminster and in the East End. His sermons on "The Sins of Society" attracted large audiences. He preached at Montreal in 1910, traveled in Canada, the United States, and Alaska, and lectured in China, Japan, Italy, and France. In 1915 he became chaplain to Catholic troops of the British expeditionary army on the Continent
- Herbert Vaughan, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
- Sir George Wakeman, physician to Queen Catherine of Braganza, accused by Titus Oates of trying to poison her husband Charles II, subsequently acquitted
- George Herbert Walker, banker and businessman, grandfather (and namesake) of President George H. W. Bush and great-grandfather of ex-President George W. Bush, golf enthusiast, president of the United States Golf Association, the Walker Cup (the famous biennial golf match) acquired Walker's namessake for his role in the event's creation
- General Vernon A. Walters, General US Army; Deputy Director of the CIA; US Ambassador to the United Nations
- Sir Christopher Waterlow, 5th Baronet, Senior Cameraman at QVC; Fellow and Executive committee Member of the Institute of Videography
- Edmund Waterton, antiquary, formed a collection of rings, awarded the Order of Christ (the highest Papal decoration)
- Charles Waterton, Naturalist and creator of the world's first national park
- James Waterworth, missionary priest who published “Faith of Catholics”, a translation of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent and of Veron's "Rule of Faith"; his last book, England and Rome was on the relations of the Popes to post-Reformation England. He was made canon and later provost of Nottingham
- Sir Frederick Weld, New Zealand politician; elected to the first House of Representatives; member of the Stafford Executive; Native Affairs Minister; Prime Minister; Governor of West Australia; Governor of Tasmania; Governor of the Straits Settlements; Knight of the Order of St Pius
- Christopher Wenner. journalist and television presenter for Blue Peter; war correspondent – his footage that brought the plight of the East Timorese to world attention; winner Rory Peck award for hard news war journalism
- George J. Wigley, architect, journalist, co-founder of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, co-founder of the Peterspence Association, awarded the Cross of St Gregory the Great by Pius IX.[72]
- Douglas Wilmer, actor (primarily associated with the role of Sherlock Holmes)
- Paul Woodroffe, stained glass artist and book illustrator, produced the 15 windows for the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
- Hugh Wooldridge, theatre and television director and producer
- Sir Thomas Wyse, Member of Parliament (Liberal – second Irish Catholic), advocate of Catholic Emancipation, Junior Lord of the Treasury, Secretary to the Board of Control, British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Greece
Miscellaneous accolades
The following were awarded to former Stonyhurst pupils:[73]
Great War:
- 30 Distinguished Service Orders
- 77 Military Crosses
- 4 Distinguished Flying Crosses
- 2 Air Force Crosses
Second World War:
- 12 Distinguished Service Orders
- 8 Distinguished Service Crosses, one with Bar
- 30 Military Crosses
- 9 Distinguished Flying Crosses
- 4 Croix-de-Guerre, one with Palm
- 1 Air Force Cross
Six O.S. were killed serving in the Boer War.
Fictional alumni/ae
See also
References
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