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Old Malvernians are alumni of Malvern College, an independent day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire, England that was founded in 1865. Originally a school for boys aged 9 to 18, it merged in 1992 with a private boys' primary school and an independent school for girls to become coeducational for pupils aged 3 to 18. Many alumni have gained recognition in such fields as the military, politics, business, science, culture and sport - especially first-class cricket and the eighteen County cricket, county cricket clubs. Among the most famous Old Malvernians are spymaster James Jesus Angleton, former head of the CIA's counter-intelligence; Aleister Crowley, the controversial but influential occultist; actor Denholm Elliott, sportsman R. E. Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football; and novelist C. S. Lewis, author of ''The Chronicles of Narnia''. Other well-known personalities include businessman Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth, Baron MacLaurin, a former Chairman of Tesco and Vodafone; Jeremy Paxman, journalist, author, and BBC presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge; and Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, the former Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons. Old Malvernians who have become heads of state or Head of government, government include the eponymously titled Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, Viscount Malvern and Najib Tun Razak, the 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia. The former was the British Commonwealth's longest serving Prime Minister by the time he left office. Old Malvernian Nobel Prize winners include Francis William Aston, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and James Meade, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1977.


A

*Lascelles Abercrombie , (1881–1938), poet, journalist, critic * Diran Adebayo Royal Society of Literature, FRSL, novelist, cultural critic and academic, tales of London and the lives of African diasporans * Brian Aherne, stage, screen, radio and television actor. Hollywood Walk of Fame and Oscar nominee. * Douglas Allday, First-class cricket, First-class cricket cricketer for the Europeans cricket team and British Army officer * John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley * James Jesus Angleton, chief of counter-intelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA from 1954 to 1974. Source of inspiration for the character ''Edward Wilson'' in the film ''The Good Shepherd (film), The Good Shepherd''. * Nicholas Argenti, stockbroker, British Army officer, Royal Air Force officer, and Philately, philatelist * Michael Arlen, prolific essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. * Alban Arnold, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club and Hampshire County Cricket Club * Francis William Aston, chemist and physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for work on History of mass spectrometry, mass spectrometry.


B

* Ralph Bagnold, geo-morphologist, pioneering desert explorer, founder & commander of the Long Range Desert Group * James Balfour-Melville (1882–1915), British Army officer, association football, footballer for Oxford University A.F.C., and cricketer for Scotland national cricket team, Scotland * Charles Bambridge (1858–1935), England national football team, England international footballer and captain * Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes, British Indian administrator * Varyl Begg, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, First Sea Lord, Governor of Gibraltar * Princess Astrid of Belgium#Marriage and issue, Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este * Humphry Berkeley, politician, humourist, early supporter for LGBT rights in the United Kingdom , Gay rights in the UK, and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament. * Wilfred Bird, played first-class cricket, first-class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and Oxford University Cricket Club * Walter Bromley-Davenport, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport, British Army officer, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament, British Army welterweight boxing champion, * Stephen Brown (judge), Sir Stephen Brown Order of the British Empire, GBE, Knight Bachelor, Kt., Privy council, PC, Court of Appeal judge (England and Wales), Lord Justice of Appeal, President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice, Royal Navy officer * Peter Buchanan (Royal Navy officer), Vice Admiral Sir Peter Buchanan, naval officer * Cuthbert Burnup, England footballer, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University, Marylebone Cricket Club, Kent County Cricket Club, Kent, and London County Cricket Club, London county cricket clubs * Claude Burton (cricketer), Claude Burton, cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club, Oxford University and Yorkshire County Cricket Club. * Philip Bushill-Matthews, politician, former Member of the European Parliament


C

* Henry Montgomery Campbell, bishop * Duncan Carter-Campbell of Possil, Lieutenant ColonelDuncan Carter-Campbell of Possil OBE, British Army officer * George Chesterton Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE, cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, cricket author, and former deputy head of Malvern College * David Chipp, journalist, former chief editor of Reuters and the Press Association * Prof Geoffrey Duncan Chisholm Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE, surgeon and urologist * Peter Churchill, intelligence officer in Special Operations Executive F Section (1940−1945) * Horatio Clare, writer of travel, memoir, nature and children's books, and BBC Radio producer * Andrew Cohen (colonial administrator), Sir Andrew Cohen , Governor of Uganda, UK representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Council, U.N. Trusteeship Council and Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development. * Bernard Collins, Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, cricketer * Geoffrey Cornu, cricketer for the Free Foresters Cricket Club and British Army officer * George Cottrell, former politician and deputy treasurer of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), financier, and Felony#United States, convicted felon. * Aleister Crowley, occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, mountaineer, and prolific author of poetry and novels * Denis Crowley-Milling, Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling, flying fighter ace, ace in the Battle of Britain * Edward Cuthbertson, cricketer, stockbroker, and British Army officer


D

* Arthur Day (Kent cricketer), Arthur Day, cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, stockbroker, and British Army officer * Samuel Day (sportsman), Samuel Day, cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, footballer for Corinthian F.C., and England national football team, England * James Delingpole, journalist, columnist, novellist, Bastiat Prize winner. * Sir Edward Brandis Denham, colonial governor * Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet * Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, (1895–1966), Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar * Guy Disney, (1982—), First amputee jockey to win a horse race at a professional race-course in Britain (February 2017). * Monty Don, BBC television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture * Ignazio Dracopoli, Anglo-French cartographer and explorer * Nigel Draffan, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club * Sandy Duncan (athlete), Sandy Duncan, athlete, general secretary of the British Olympic Association (1949-1975)


E

* Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet of the Province of Maryland, English writer on poverty and pioneering social investigator * Ricardo Ellcock, cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire and Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex county cricket clubs and the England team * Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet, shipping magnate, natural historian and philanthropist * Denholm Elliott Order of the British Empire, CBE, actor with 125 film and television credits and 3 times British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA award winner. * Lloyd Embley, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Reach plc, Trinity Mirror group * William Evans (cricketer, born 1883), William Evans, cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire and Hampshire County Cricket Club, Hampshire county cricket clubs * Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, international business editor of ''The Daily Telegraph'' and author of ''The Secret Life of Bill Clinton''.


F

* John Ferraby, Hands of the Cause, Hand of the Cause in the Baháʼí Faith, Bahá’í Faith * Edward Fielden (RAF officer), Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Fielden, pilot, Captain of Air transport of the British royal family and government, The Queen's Flight * Eustace Fiennes, Sir Eustace Fiennes, 1st Baronet of Banbury, politician, colonial governor * Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, barrister, judge * Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke, politician and Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) , Conservative MP, barrister (Queen's Counsel, QC), and Member of the European Parliament * Giles Foden, author of ''The Last King of Scotland'' * "Fostershire", the Foster brothers who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club: * Basil Foster, Geoffrey Foster, Harry Foster (cricketer), Harry Foster, Maurice Foster (English cricketer), Maurice Foster, Neville Foster, R. E. Foster, Reginald "Tip" Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football,Betts, Graham (2006) p.102 and Wilfrid Foster, Wilfrid "Bill" Foster * J. F. C. Fuller, Major General John F. C. Fuller, , military historian, strategist, occultist


G

* Sir Anthony Hastings George, British Consul-General in Shanghai and Boston * Peter Gibson, Sir Peter Gibson, judge and Court of Appeal judge (England and Wales), Lord Justice of Appeal * Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill (1911–1963), doctor, naturalist and Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore * Penrhyn Grant Jones, CBE, Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China * Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers and England national football team, England international footballerBetts, Graham (2006) p.114 * William Mitchell Grundy, English headmaster, son of Rev. W. Grundy, a former Headmaster of Malvern College.


H

* Sir William Henry Hadow, English educationist, musicologist * St. John Emile Clavering Hankin, Edwardian essayist and playwright * Prince Christian of Hanover * Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1983), Prince Ernst August of Hanover * Donald Hardman, Air Chief Marshal Sir Donald Hardman, flying ace, Chief of Air Force (Australia), CAF (RAAF) * Fred Hargreaves,footballer for Blackburn Rovers F.C., Blackburn Rovers and the England national football team, England team , cricketer for Lancashire County Cricket Club. * Jack Haynes (born 2001), cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club and England squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup * Josh Haynes (cricketer), Josh Haynes (born 1999), cricketer for Leeds/Bradford MCC University * Charles Harington (British Army officer, born 1910), General Sir Charles Harington, Deputy Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom), Chief of the General Staff * George Harrison (cricketer, born 1860), George Harrison (1860–1900), cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club * Oliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh (1893–1968), diplomat * Peter Hatch (cricketer), Peter Hatch, British Army officer, first-class cricketer for the Combined Services cricket team * Peter Hilton (British Army officer), Colonel Sir Peter Hilton WWII vetera awarded the Military Cross and two Medal bar, bars * Errol Holmes, cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club, Oxford University, Surrey County Cricket Club and English cricket team, England * Sir Peter Holmes, businessman, Chairman of Shell plc, Royal Dutch Shell * Owen Hughes (cricketer), Owen Hughes Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), DFC, cricketer and officer in both the British Army and the Royal Flying Corps * Christmas Humphreys, Travers Christmas Humphreys, Queen's Counsel, QC, barrister, judge, founder of the London Buddhist Society and prolific author of books on the Buddhist tradition


J

* Arnold Jackson (British Army officer), Arnold Jackson, athlete (1912 Summer Olympics, 1500m gold medallist, 1912 Summer Olympics); youngest ever British Army Brigadier-General, awarded Distinguished Service Order, DSO & Three Bars; barrister. * Ivan Johnson, cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club and journalist * Donald Johnston (cricketer), Donald Johnston, British Army officer and cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club


K

* Shapur Kharegat journalist, editor and Asia Director of ''The Economist'' * Donald Knight (cricketer), Donald Knight, first-class cricket for Surrey County Cricket Club, Oxford University Cricket Club and English cricket team, England * Tom Kohler-Cadmore (cricketer) for Worcestershire and Yorkshire county cricket clubs.


L

* Sir Paul Ogden Lawrence, barrister (Queen's Counsel, QC), Court of Appeal judge, and Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Privy Council member * Geoffrey Legge, pilot in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II, cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club and England team. * Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon shipping, motor racing * C. S. Lewis, novelist, scholar, Author of ''The Chronicles of Narnia''. * Warren Lewis (brother of C.S.Lewis), historian * Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale * Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, second in the Succession to the Liechtensteiner throne , line of succession to the Liechtensteiner throne and third in the Jacobite succession, Jacobite line of succession to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.


M

* Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth, businessman, sports administrator * Neil MacLaurin, son of Ian MacLaurin, and cricketer for Hertfordshire County Cricket Club and Middlesex County Cricket Club * Bill Maidlow, cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club * Godfrey Huggins, Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia and of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, once described as the longest serving Prime Minister in Commonwealth of Nations, British Commonwealth history. * Frank Mann (cricketer), Frank Mann, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club, Middlesex County Cricket Club, and List of England cricket captains, England cricket captain * Ronald Mansbridge, publisher, author * Eric Marx, South African cricketer, holder of a batting world record that stood for 73 years * James Meade, economist, 1977 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize in Economics * Brian Mears, chairman of Chelsea F.C., Chelsea Football Club * Joe Mears, chairman of The Football Association * General Sir John Mogg (British Army officer), John Mogg, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) * Air chief marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar, 9th Chief of Staff of the Indian Air Force * Raymond Mortimer, writer, critic, literacy editor * Edward Moss (cricketer), Edward Moss, cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club, Berkshire County Cricket Club, and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve officer * Eric Moxey, recipient of the George Cross * Kenneth Muir (British Army officer), Kenneth Muir, recipient of the Victoria Cross * Jonathan Myles-Lea, artist (landscape painter)


N

* Najib Razak, 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia * David Nash (cricketer), David Nash, cricketer for Middlesex County Cricket Club * Ivor Norton , cricketer for Marylebone Cricket Club, and British Army officer * Thomas Nussey, Sir Thomas Willans Nussey, 1st Baronet, barrister, Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician, Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament


O


P

* Hubert Parker, Australian politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia * Norman Partridge (cricketer), Norman Partridge, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University and Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Warwickshire * James Paul (cricketer), James Paul, Argentine cricketer * Giles Paxman, diplomat, HM Ambassador to Spain. * Jeremy Paxman, journalist, author, broadcaster, presenter of ''University Challenge'', brother of Giles Paxman * Thelwell Pike (1866–1957), footballer for Cambridge University A.F.C., Cambridge University, Crusaders F.C. (England), Crusaders, Brentwood Town F.C. , Brentwood Town, Swifts F.C., Swifts, Thanet Wanderers and Corinthian F.C., Corinthian, and England national football team, EnglandBetts, Graham (2006) p.193 * James Plowden-Wardlaw, barrister and Church of England priest. * Mark Pougatch, radio and television broadcaster, journalist, author, and presenter for ITV Sport, * Sir Ghillean Prance, botanist, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1988 to 1999


R

* Ahmed Rashid, Pakistani journalist, author * John Rawlinson (cricketer, born 1867), John Rawlinson (1867–1945), cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club, and stockbroker * Christopher Reginald Reeves, banker (Morgan, Grenfell & Co. and Merrill (company), Merrill Lynch) * Charles Ridsdale, Anglican Bishop * Howard Robertson (architect), Sir Howard Robertson, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1952 to 1954 and winner of the Royal Gold Medal for architecture. * Alan S. C. Ross, linguist and ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage. * Francis Routh, composer of some 85 published works, including three symphonies, chamber music, large scale solo piano and organ works and several song cycles * Peter Russell (poet), Irwin Peter Russell, poet, translator, critic, World War II British Army officer


S

* Dominic Sandbrook, historian, author and journalist * Guy Sanderson, Bishop of Plymouth (Anglican), Bishop of Plymouth * Dennis W. Sciama , astrophysicist, PhD supervisor to cosmologists, including Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees and David Deutsch; he is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology, author of ''The Unity of the Universe'' (1959) * Major General Logan Scott-Bowden , first commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment, Colonel commandant, Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers from 1975 to 1980 * Oliver Selfridge, computer scientist and a pioneer of artificial intelligence. * Hugh Sells (1922–1978), cricketer for Royal Air Force cricket team, and Royal Air Force officer * Sir Tom Shebbeare, Director of Charities to Prince of Wales, Charles, Prince of Wales * Roger Short, diplomat, expert on Turkish affairs, and served as consul-general in Oslo and was the British ambassador to Bulgaria * George Simpson-Hayward, cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club (captain) where he was captain, and for the England cricket team * Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, artist, dramatist and novelist * Christopher Storrs, priest, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Grafton, New South Wales * Alfred Stratford, cricketer for Marylebone Cricket Club and Middlesex County Cricket Club. Footballer for England national football team, England and three times FA Cup winner with Wanderers F.C.Betts, Graham (2006) p.231 * I. M. B. Stuart (1902–1969), Ireland rugby footballer, schoolmaster, and author * Stewart Symes, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Stewart Symes , colonial governor


T

* Eddy Temple-Morris, DJ, record producer, TV presenter * Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, barrister, politician, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament, member of the House of Lords as a Labour Party (UK), Labour peer * Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, politician, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament * Meredith Thring, inventor and writer on energy conservation * Roger Tolchard, cricketer for Leicestershire County Cricket Club and List of England Test cricketers, England * Thomas Trotter (musician), Thomas Trotter, concert organist. Organist of Birmingham City Organist, Birmingham City, St Margaret's, Westminster, and president of St Albans International Organ Festival. * Frank Tuff, cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club, Oxford University and the Free Foresters Cricket Club, Free Foresters * O. Tommy Turnquest, Orville Turnquest Order of the British Empire, OBE , politician (The Bahamas)


V

* James Vivian, Director of Music of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.


W

*Neville Wadia, Chairman of Bombay Dyeing * Fulke Walwyn (1910–1991), racehorse jockey and trainer * Bernard Weatherill, Baron Bernard Weatherill, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons * Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, historian * John Baker White (British politician), John Baker White, political writer, secret agent, politician, Member of Parliament for Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency), Canterbury * Tim Whitmarsh, Classicist at Cambridge University, Fellow in Greek at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Ancient Literatures at the University of Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy * Chris Whitty, epidemiologist and Chief Medical Officers (United Kingdom), Chief Medical Officer for England during the COVID-19 pandemic * Maurice Wilks (1904–1963), motor and aeronautical engineer, businessman. Conceived and developed the Land Rover. * Cecil Williamson, screenwriter, editor and film director and influential Modern Paganism, Neopagan and Warlock * Robert Nichol Wilson, Robert Wilson, politician, Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland * Charles Wittenoom, Australian politician, Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council * John Woodhouse (British Army officer), Lieutenant-Colonel John Woodhouse , pioneer of the Special Air Service selection systems, and creator of the soft drink Nichols plc, Panda Pops


X, Y, Z

* David Younger, British Army officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross (posthumously)Capt David Reginald Younger
The Malvern Register, 1865-1904. 1905. pp 215.


References


External links


Malvernian Society
(Old Malvernians) web page
Malvern College web site
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