List of Old Marlburians
The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England.
Academia
Arts
Literature
- E.F. Benson, novelist
- John Betjeman, poet
- Humphrey Carpenter, biographer and broadcaster
- Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer
- J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet and armaments manufacturer
- Anthony Hope, writer
- Dick King-Smith, writer
- Louis MacNeice, poet
- John Beverley Nichols, writer
- David Nobbs, comedy writer (Reginald Perrin)
- Redmond O'Hanlon, travel writer
- Ben Pimlott, biographer
- Siegfried Sassoon, poet
- Charles Sorley, poet
- Bernard Spencer, poet
- R.J. Yeatman, co-author of 1066 and All That
Music
Theatre & cinema
- Robert Addie, actor
- Stephen Barry, director and administrator
- Paul Brooke, actor
- Guy du Maurier, dramatist and soldier
- Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor
- Harry Brodribb Irving, actor
- Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, actor and dramatist
- James Robertson Justice, actor
- James Mason, actor
- Michael Pennington, actor and director
- Clive Robertson, actor
- Ernest Thesiger, actor
- Jack Whitehall, comedian
- Nicholas Woodeson, actor
- Angus Wright, actor
Politics
- Tim Boswell, MP for Daventry
- Stephen Bradley (diplomat), former British Consul-General to Hong Kong
- Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, Home Secretary
- Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, Cabinet minister
- Rab Butler, statesman
- Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch
- Otis Ferry, hunt supporter and political activist, son of singer Bryan Ferry
- Alastair Goodlad, former MP for Eddisbury and High Commissioner to Australia
- Daniel Hannan, MEP for the South East of England
- Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British liberal politician and sociologist. One of the 'Fathers of Liberalism'
- William Jowitt, Lord Chancellor
- Peter Kirk, politician, first leader of the British delegation to the European Parliament
- Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- John Maples, MP for Stratford-upon-Avon
- John Parker, MP for Romford
- Maurice Petherick, MP for Penryn & Falmouth
- Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, politician
- Hallam Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, statesman
- Dennis Forwood Vosper, MP for Runcorn
Sciences & engineering
- C. V. Boys, experimental physicist
- Francis Camps, pathologist
- Henry Hugh Clutton, surgeon
- John Dolphin CBE, inventor and engineer
- Sir Charles Galton Darwin, physicist
- Sir Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive engineer[1]
- Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer
- Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist
- Alex Moulton, engineer and inventor of the Moulton bicycle
- Philip Sheppard, geneticist and lepidopterist
- Percy Sladen, marine zoologist
- Edward Thompson, steam locomotive engineer[2]
- John Zachary Young, physiologist
Sport
- Robert Barker, played for England in the first international football match
- Francis Chichester, round the world yachtsman
- Jason Dunford, swimmer
- Alfred St. George Hamersley, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain
- Arthur Sumner Gibson, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871[3]
- Jamie Gibson, rugby union player
- John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest
- Edward Kewley, nineteenth century England Rugby captain
- Robert Kingsford, England international footballer and FA Cup winner
- Jake Meyer, mountaineer
- Sydney Morse rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875
- Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of The Princess Royal
- Edward Shaw, cricketer
- Reggie Spooner, cricketer
- Allan Steel, cricketer
- Mark Tomlinson, England International polo player
- Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer
Religion
- Cyril Alington, headmaster, and Dean of Durham
- Frederick Copleston, priest and philosopher
- Nigel Cornwall, Bishop of Borneo 1949-1962
- Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
- James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle
- Edward Patey, Dean of Liverpool
- John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich
- Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London
- Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, known as Dick Sheppard, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and founder of the Peace Pledge Union
Journalism
- Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent
- Richard Jebb, journalist
- Derrick Somerset Macnutt, crossword compiler under the pseudonym Ximenes
- James Mates, ITN newsreader
- Norris and Ross McWhirter, journalists, authors, and political activists
- Christopher Martin-Jenkins, BBC cricket correspondent
- Julian Pettifer, ITV & BBC journalist
- Edmund Penning-Rowsell, wine writer
- Hugh Pym, BBC journalist
- Sir Mark Tully, BBC India correspondent and author
- T.C. Worsley, Writer, editor and television critic
Armed forces
- Nigel Anderson, soldier and local politician
- Phillip Scott Burge, MC, MM, World War I flying ace KIA
- Edward Bradford, soldier and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
- Richard Corfield officer in charge of the Somaliland Camel Constabulary.
- Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff and Governor of Windsor Castle
- John Kiszely, Lieutenant General & Director of the Defence Academy
- Ian Macfadyen, RAF officer and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 2000–2005
- Charles MacGregor, General and head of intelligence for the British Indian Army
- Nevil Macready, General and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
- Patrick Palmer, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe and Governor of Windsor Castle
- John Wilfred Stanier, Field Marshal
- Henry Hughes Wilson, Field Marshal
Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
VC
GC
Commerce & industry
The Royal Family and the Court
The Law
Miscellaneous
- Sir Grahame Clark, archaeologist
- Henry Everard, railway executive and acting President of Rhodesia
- Charles Fisher, Headmaster, Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Australia
- Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale, promoter of the interests of blind people
- Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary and social reformer
- Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, oncologist and IRA victim
- Edward John Hugh Tollemache, private firm banker
- David Treffry, colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall
- Prince Waranonthawat, Thai prince, grandson of King Chulalongkorn
- Gordon Welchman, code-breaker
- Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, Founding President of Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia
- Samantha Cameron, wife of Prime Minister David Cameron
See also
References
- ^ Hughes, Geoffrey (2001). Sir Nigel Gresley: The Engineer and his Family. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Usk: Oakwood Press. pp. 23, 25. ISBN 0 85361 579 9. OL118.
- ^ Grafton, Peter (2007) [1971]. Edward Thompson of the LNER. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Usk: Oakwood Press. p. 11. ISBN 978 0 85361 672 6. OL145.
- ^ George Walter De Lisle (editor), Marlborough college register, from 1843 to 1869 inclusive, p57, 1870, (Marlborough college)
Bibliography
- A History of Marlborough College During Fifty Years from its Foundation to the Present Time by A.G. Bradley, A.C. Champneys and J.W. Baines (Macmillan & Co., 1893)
- Marlborough College Register from 1843 to 1904 Inclusive by Marlborough College (Oxford: Horace Hart, 1905).
- Paths of Progress: a history of Marlborough College by Thomas Hinde (John Catt, 1992) ISBN 0-907383-33-5
- Marlborough College - official site
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography