List of Old Marlburians

The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England.

Academia

• Peter Lamarque, philosopher
• John Raven, classical scholar and botanist
• Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury

Arts

• Anthony Blunt, art historian and communist spy
• Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, art teacher
• Lauren Child, writer and illustrator
• Claude Ferrier, architect
• Susannah Fiennes, artist
• Keith Henderson, artist
• William Morris, artist and writer
• Charles Saumarez Smith, art historian, former Director of the National Gallery
• Graham Shepard, cartoonist and illustrator
• Ellis Waterhouse, art historian

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
• James Runcie, novelist and television producer
• Siegfried Sassoon, poet
• Charles Sorley, poet
• Bernard Spencer, poet
• Adam Thorpe, poet, novelist and playwright
• R.J. Yeatman, co-author of 1066 and All That

Music

• Bo Bruce, singer-songwriter
• Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter
• Nick Drake, singer-songwriter
• Anthony Inglis, conductor
• Crispian Steele-Perkins, classical trumpeter

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
• Damian Jones, producer
• James Robertson Justice, actor
• James Mason, actor
• Simon McBurney, actor, writer and director
• Michael Pennington, actor and director
• Clive Robertson, actor
• William Desmond Taylor, director
• Ernest Thesiger, actor
• Nicholas Woodeson, actor
• Angus Wright, actor

Politics

• Sally Bercow, wife of Speaker John Bercow
• Tim Boswell, MP for Daventry
• Stephen Bradley, 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
• Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron
• 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
• Frances Osborne, wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne
• John Parker, MP for Romford
• Maurice Petherick, MP for Penryn & Falmouth
• Mark Reckless, MP for Rochester and Strood.
• Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, politician
• Hallam Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, statesman
• Dennis Forwood Vosper, MP for Runcorn
• Harriett Baldwin, MP for West Worcestershire

Sciences & engineering

• C. V. Boys, experimental physicist
• Francis Camps, pathologist
• George Stuart Carter, zoologist
• Henry Hugh Clutton, surgeon
• Sir Charles Galton Darwin, physicist
• John Dolphin CBE, inventor and engineer
• Sir Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive engineer^[1]
• Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer
• Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist
• David Morley, much-awarded child health pioneer
• Alex Moulton, engineer and inventor of the Moulton Bicycle
• Philip Sheppard, geneticist and lepidopterist
• Percy Sladen, marine zoologist
• Edward Thompson, steam locomotive engineer^[2]
• E. F. Warburg, botanist
• 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
• Arthur Sumner Gibson, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871^[3]
• Jamie Gibson, rugby union player
• Alfred St. George Hamersley, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain
• 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
• Iain MacDonald-Smith, Olympic sailor, Gold medal Mexico 1968)
• 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
• Roy Henry Bowyer-Yin Canon and Chaplain of S Thomas College Mt Lavinia
• Alfred Blunt, Bishop of Bradford 1931-1955
• Frederick Nicholas Charrington, social reformer and founder of the Tower Hamlets Mission
• Frederick Copleston, priest and philosopher
• Nigel Cornwall, Bishop of Borneo 1949–1962
• Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester
• James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle
• Edward Patey, Dean of Liverpool
• John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich
• Mark Santer, Bishop of Birmingham 1987-2002
• Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, known as Dick Sheppard, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and founder of the Peace Pledge Union
• Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London
• Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield 1937–1953

Journalism

• Rawdon Christie, English-born New Zealand television presenter
• Simon Fanshawe, writer and broadcaster
• Frank Gardner, BBC News Security Correspondent
• Richard Jebb, journalist
• Derrick Somerset Macnutt, crossword compiler under the pseudonym Ximenes
• Christopher Martin-Jenkins, BBC cricket correspondent
• James Mates, ITN newscaster
• Norris and Ross McWhirter, journalists, authors, and political activists
• Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of the Sun
• Edmund Penning-Rowsell, wine writer
• Julian Pettifer, ITV & BBC journalist
• Hugh Pym, ITN and BBC News 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
• Lionel Ashfield, DFC, World War I flying ace KIA
• 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 'Hoppy' Hopgood', Pilot in 617 Squadron and killed on the Dambusters raid on 16 May 1943.
• John Kiszely, Lieutenant General and 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
• Hugh Stockwell, General, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1960 to 1964
• Henry Hughes Wilson, Field Marshal
• Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

VC

• Edward Kinder Bradbury VC
• Frederic Brooks Dugdale VC
• Charles Calveley Foss VC
• Reginald Clare Hart VC
• Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De Montmorency VC
• Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies VC
• Lionel Ernest Queripel VC
• John Neil Randle VC
• Nowell Salmon VC
• Edward Talbot Thackeray VC
• Eric Charles Twelves Wilson VC
• Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC
• Sidney Clayton Woodroffe VC

GC

• Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls GC

Commerce & industry

• Michael Clapham, industrialist (ICI)
• Ernest Debenham, department store owner
• Ambrose Heal, retailer
• Ian and Kevin Maxwell, former bankrupts
• Robert Noel, businessman, chief executive of Land Securities Group plc
• Rob Perrins, Managing Director of Berkeley Group Holdings
• Antony Root, television executive
• Sir Michael Turner, General Manager (Chairman) of HSBC 1953 to 1962.
• Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood, army officer and international ambassador for the Wedgwood Group.
• Simon Woodroffe, founder of the Yo Sushi restaurant chain

The Royal Family and the Court

• HRH Princess Eugenie of York, daughter of HRH The Duke of York
• HRH The Duchess of Cambridge (née Catherine Middleton), wife of HRH The Duke of Cambridge
• Robin Janvrin, courtier
• Alan Lascelles, courtier

The Law

• Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, Law Lord
• John Brightman, Baron Brightman, Law Lord
• Thomas William Cain, First Deemster of the Isle of Man
• Rayner Goddard, Lord Chief Justice
• Sir Philip Margetson, Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
• William Moore, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
• T. C. Kingsmill Moore, Irish judge, politician and author

Miscellaneous

• Andrew Boggis, Master in College at Eton and chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, 2006^[4]
• Frederic Bonney, anthropologist and photographer
• 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
• Amanda Harlech, model and 'muse' to John Galliano
• Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, anthropologist
• Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, Founding President of Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia
• 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
• Jack Whitehall, comedian, television writer/producer and actor

See also

• Marlborough College

References

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