List of people educated at St John's School, Leatherhead

This is a list of Old Johnians (abbreviated OJs), former pupils of St. John's School, Leatherhead, which is a public school in Surrey, England.

Politics

Former Chief of Defence Staff and First Sea Lord Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce

Actor Michael York

Wales rugby player Ben Broster

Archbishop of Yukon Walter Adams

• Eric Broadbridge, 2nd Baron Broadbridge, hereditary peer
• Peter Broadbridge, 3rd Baron Broadbridge, Crossbench peer
• Roger Casale, Labour Member of Parliament
• George Johnson, Member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly
• Richard Page, Conservative Member of Parliament
• Sir Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St Marylebone, Conservative peer
• John Greenwood Shipman, Liberal Member of Parliament

Diplomatic Service

• Sir Graham Boyce KCMG, British Ambassador to Egypt, British Ambassador to Qatar and British Ambassador to Kuwait
• Sir Bryan Cartledge KCMG, British Ambassador to Russia, British Ambassador to Hungary and Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
• Sir Derek Day KCMG, British High Commissioner to Canada, British Ambassador to Ethiopia and Olympic bronze medal winning field hockey player
• Sir Oliver Forster KCMG, LVO, British Ambassador to Pakistan
• Richard Lavers, British Ambassador to Ecuador and British Ambassador to Guatemala

Military

• Sir Roy Austen-Smith KBE, CB, CVO, DFC, Commander British Forces Cyprus
• Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce KG GCB OBE, First Sea Lord (1998–2001), Chief of Defence Staff (2001–2003), and Crossbench peer
• Richard Hutton Davies CB, army officer
• Sydney Dowse MC, POW escapee
• H. Dormer Legge, RAF and Army officer and philatelist
• Simon Pack CB CBE, Royal Marines officer

Media and arts

• Gavin Carr, conductor
• Tony Church, Shakespearean actor
• Robert Coote, actor
• Christopher Ellison, actor
• Douglas Goldring, writer and journalist
• Richard Hadfield, singer
• Edward Hibbert, actor and agent
• Sean Li, Hong Kong film actor
• Bertram Mitford, novelist
• Ronald Neame CBE, film director
• Barry Norman, film critic ^[1]
• H. A. Saintsbury, actor and playwright^[2][3]
• Tom Sutcliffe, opera critic
• Jamie Theakston, television and radio presenter^[4]
• Reginald Turner, author and member of the circle of Oscar Wilde
• John Ware, BBC Panorama reporter
• Patrick Wilson, composer
• Michael York OBE, actor

Sport

• Ben Broster, Wales and Biarritz Olympique rugby player
• Noah Cato, Newcastle Falcons rugby player
• Daniel Doram, Netherlands cricketer
• William Heasman, Sussex cricketer
• Matt Machan, Sussex cricketer
• Charlie Matthews, Harlequins rugby player
• Arthur Sharood, Sussex cricketer
• Martin Speight, Sussex, Durham and Northumberland cricketer

Religion

• Walter Robert Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon
• George Daniell, Archdeacon of Southwark
• Arthur Greaves, Bishop of Grimsby and Grantham

Other

• William Warwick Buckland, jurist
• Cecil Humphery-Smith OBE, genealogist and heraldist
• Edward Arthur Maund, explorer
• Jack Sangster, industrialist
• Bernard Sheldon, MI5 officer

References