List of Old Rugbeians
This is a List of Old Rugbeians, they being notable former students - known as "Old Rugbeians" of the Church of England school, Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Academic
- L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne
- R.G. Collingwood, English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford
- Richard Congreve (1818–1899), English philosopher
- Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer, author of Fowler's Modern English Usage
- R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher
- Fenton John Anthony Hort, English theologian
- F. L. Lucas, Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, scholar, critic and writer
- Edward Ellis Morris, Educationist, second Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School (1875–83), and miscellaneous writer [1]
- Luke Pebody, British mathematician and child prodigy
- Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford)
- Henry John Stephen Smith, Irish mathematician
- Jon Stallworthy, Professor of English at the University of Oxford
- Sir Percy Sykes soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar
- Richard Henry Tawney, one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian
- Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury
- Edmund Yorke, Legal scholar and barrister
Aviation
Building, engineering and architecture
Finance, banking and insurance
Media, entertainment and the arts
- Charles Acton, music critic at The Irish Times
- Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot, KCSI, writer
- Matthew Arnold, Victorian poet and critic (son of Headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold)
- Faris Badwan, aka Faris Rotter, vocalist from band The Horrors
- Rupert Brooke, English poet
- Charlie Charters, Author, rugby union official, sports executive and journalist
- Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet
- David Croft, (born David Sharland) Television writer, producer and director
- David Haig, English actor and writer
- Arthur fforde, former BBC Chairman
- Isabel Fay, comedy actress and writer
- Tomethy Furse/Cowan, Bassist from band The Horrors
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Richard Doyle, English author
- Dan Haigh, Bassist in the rock band Fightstar
- Robert Hardy, English stage and film actor
- John Hawkesworth, television producer, who produced the drama Upstairs, Downstairs
- Sir Charles Hawtrey, Victorian era stage actor
- Anthony Horowitz, English writer
- Francesca Hunt, actress
- Marmaduke Hussey, former BBC Chairman
- Hugh Johnson, British wine writer
- Pete Kember, Popular musician
- John Kentish, English operatic tenor
- Edmund George Valpy Knox, editor of Punch
- Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet
- Wyndham Lewis, British painter and author
- Richard Hey Lloyd, British organist and composer
- William Charles Macready, English stage actor
- John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator
- Robin Milford, British musician
- Sydney Nicholson, British musician
- Anthony Quayle, British actor
- Arthur Ransome, British children's author
- Andrew Rawnsley, British political journalist
- Sir Salman Rushdie, author and essayist, Booker Prize winner for Midnight's Children. Said of his time: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too."[2]
- Adnan Sami, Pakistani-Indian Singer, Actor, and Composer
- Robert Shaw, theatre director
- J.K. Stanford, English author
- Alex Westaway, Guitarist and singer in the rock band Fightstar
- A. N. Wilson, English writer and newspaper columnist
Medicine and science
- William Bateson, English geneticist
- Miles Joseph Berkeley, English botanist
- Humphry Bowen, British botanist and chemist
- Dr Peter Brinsden, fertility expert
- Abel Chapman, big game hunter and naturalist who started South Africa's first game reserve
- Colin Kennedy, president of the European Paediatric Neurology Society
- Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, physician and scholar, brother of economist John Maynard Keynes
- David Marr, British psychologist
- George Mitchell Seabroke, British astronomer
- Nevil Sidgwick, English theoretical chemist
Military
- Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver, British officer during the Second World War.
- Arthur Ernest Percival, British general who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese
- Colonel Osmond Barnes, Chief Herald of the Indian Empire
- Edward Joseph Todhunter, TD, DL, Lt.Col.,Royal Horse Artillery (RHA), Captured in Cyrenaica Apr 1941. POW in Castello di Vincigliata (PG12), near Florence. High Sheriff of Essex 1964–1965.
- Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, British officer during the First World War
- James Cassels, Field Marshal
- Lieutenant Arthur Conolly, British Officer in 6th Bengal Native Light Cavalry. Coined the phrase 'The Great Game'
- Major Bruce Shand, MC, officer in the British Army and father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall
- Sir Arthur Franks, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6
- Sir James Arnold Stacey Cleminson, KBE, MC
- William Hodson, commander during the 1857 Indian mutiny and founder of Hodson's Horse
Politics, public service and the law
- Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker, MP
- Robert Barton, Irish lawyer and statesman who worked on the Anglo-Irish Treaty
- Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen, lawyer and judge
- Austen Chamberlain, British statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Neville Chamberlain, politician and former Prime Minister
- Baron Charles de Chassiron, Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, 2001–06
- Sir Leycester Coltman, Her Majesty's Ambassador to Cuba from 1991–1994 and author of The Real Fidel Castro
- Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe, Conservative health spokesman in the House of Lords]
- Tetley Gant, Tasmanian politician and Chancellor University of Tasmania.
- George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Liberal Unionist statesman and businessman
- Wynne Godley, economist
- Sir Ernest Gowers, British civil servant and author of The Complete Plain Words
- Frank Gray, inter-war Liberal politician
- Sir Reginald Hanson, Conservative politician and Lord Mayor of London
- Charles Hendry, British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden
- Thomas Hetherington, barrister and first head of the Crown Prosecution Service
- Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, British politician
- David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
- Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and author of Tom Brown's School Days
- Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde, Edwardian politician and industrialist
- John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, British civil servant
- Sir Michael Kerry KCB, QC, former HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor
- Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, British politician
- Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston, Irish peer and Victorian politician
- Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, British politician
- Henry Lefroy, Western Australian politician
- Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, the 25th Governor of Hong Kong
- Sir Charles Tertius Mander, first baronet, industrialist and public servant
- Edward Marshall-Hall, English barrister and orator
- Angus Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon, Conservative Party politician and father of Conservative Cabinet member Francis Maude
- Andrew Mitchell, British Conservative politician and Secretary of State for International Development (from May 2010)
- Sir Nicholas Montagu KCB, Chairman of H.M. Inland Revenue, 1997–2004
- Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington, Lord Chief Justice of England 1958-71
- Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, Lord Chancellor twice.
- Sir Lewis Pelly, Conservative politician and East India Company officer
- Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, politician and industrialist
- Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, prominent 19th century statesman
- George Strauss, Baron Strauss, Labour politician and Father of the House of Commons
- Andrew Turner, British Conservative Party politician
- William Henry Waddington, French statesman (eventually Prime Minister of France)
- Sir George Coldstream, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
Religion
- Rev Francis Jayne, British bishop and academic
- Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Birmingham, 1977–87
- Augustus Shears, clergyman who translated part of the Prayer Book into Burmese
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, English churchman, and Dean of Westminster
- William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury during the Second World War, and an influential radical thinker, a father of the post-war Welfare State
- Rev. Thomas Valpy French, first Bishop of Lahore.
- John Stott, evangelical minister who later was a curate of All Souls, Langham place and a leading figure inolved in drafting the Lausanne Covenant
Sport
- John Anton, English cricketer
- Chris Brasher, Olympic gold medalist in the steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics, co-founder of the London marathon and pace setter in Roger Bannister's world record mile
- Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board
- Granville Coghlan, rugby union international, represented Great Britain on 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina (1907–1983)
- Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven, English nobleman and sportsman
- John Marshall Dugdale, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.
- Miles Giffard, English cricketer who was hanged for the murder of his parents.
- Joseph Fletcher Green, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.
- Alex Grove, rugby player for Worcester Warriors and Scotland national rugby union team
- A. G. Guillemard, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871 and later president of the Rugby Football Union.
- Rupert Edward Inglis (1863–1916), England rugby international who was killed at the Battle of the Somme[4]
- Dar Lyon, first class cricketer
- Charles McCarthy, cricketer who played in Burma's only first-class cricket match in 1927.
- Richard Montgomerie, English cricketer
- Gerard Rotherham, recipient of the Wisden Cricketer of the Year award in 1918.
- Frederick Stokes (1850–1929)[5] the first captain of the England national rugby union team.
- Adrian Stoop, English rugby player
- Richard Sykes, Rugby player and founder of towns in North Dakota
- Dawson Turner, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.
- Frank Tobin, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.
- William Webb Ellis, the credited inventor of rugby football
- Tom Wills, the inventor of Australian rules football
- William Yardley, cricketer and dramatist
Fictional Old Rugbeians
See also
References
- ^ "School Crest and Motto". History. Melbourne Grammar School. http://www.mgs.vic.edu.au/about/mgs_history_crest.php. Retrieved 2008-02-02.
- '^ Salman Rushdie: 'The Arab spring is a demand for desires and rights that are common to all human beings, Telegraph
- ^ "Rupert Edward Inglis". www.inglis.uk.com. http://www.inglis.uk.com/RUPERT%20EDWARD%20INGLIS%20thiepval.htm. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
- ^ Steve Lewis, One Among Equals, 2008, pp9-10 (Vertical Editions:London)
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