This is a list of notable Old Cliftonians, former pupils of

Clifton College Clifton College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862 and offering both boarding school, boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18. In its early years, unlike mo ...

in Bristol in the West of England. :See also :People educated at Clifton College.

Academics

* John Barron – classicist and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford *

Eric Birley Eric Barff Birley Vindolanda Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort ('' castrum'') just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD. Located near th ...

archaeologist, classical scholar *

Simon Blackburn Simon Walter Blackburn (born 12 July 1944) is an English philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language. More recently, he has gained a large general audience from his efforts ...

– philosopher, founder of quasi-realism * Frederick S. Boas – English scholar *

Horatio Brown Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 – 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian who specialized in the Venice#History, history of Venice and history of Italy, Italy. Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in E ...

– historian *

Norman O. Brown Norman Oliver Brown (September 25, 1913 – October 2, 2002) was an American scholar, writer, and social philosopher. Beginning as a classical scholar, his later work branched into wide-ranging, erudite, and intellectually sophisticated consi ...

– author, philosopher *

Charles Coulson Charles Alfred Coulson (13 December 1910 – 7 January 1974) was a British applied mathematician and theoretical chemist. Coulson's major scientific work was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of ...

– mathematician and theoretical chemist *

G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, (; 8 February 1910 – 5 February 2000), known informally as Croicks, was a British historian who specialised in examining Ancient Greece from a Marxist perspective. He was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Histo ...

Classical scholar * Sir Charles Firth – historian *

Paul Grice Herbert Paul Grice (13 March 1913 – 28 August 1988), usually publishing under the name H. P. Grice, H. Paul Grice, or Paul Grice, was a British philosopher of language who created the theory of implicature and the cooperative principle ( ...

– philosopher of language *Sir Thomas Heath –

polymath A polymath or polyhistor is an individual whose knowledge spans many different subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. Polymaths often prefer a specific context in which to explain their knowledge, ...

, civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator and

mountaineer Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas that have become sports ...

Geoffrey Hinton Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". Hinton is Univer ...

– computer scientist and cognitive psychologist * Arthur Hutchinson – mineralogist, professor, and Master of

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...

Arthur Jose Arthur Wilberforce Jose (4 September 1863 – 22 January 1934) was an English-Australian historian and editor of the Australian Encyclopaedia. Jose was born at Bristol, South West England, eldest son of William Wilberforce Jose, and his wife ...

– historian and journalist *

John Kendrew Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Labo ...

– biochemist and crystallographer, joint winner of 1962

Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outst ...

Martin Lings Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shak ...

– scholar *

Patrick McGuinness Patrick McGuinness (born 1968) is a British academic, critic, novelist, and poet. He is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Oxford, where he is fellow and tutor at St Anne's College. He is a Fellow of the Roy ...

– academic, critic, novelist and poet * John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart – philosopher *

John Pinkerton John Pinkerton (17 February 1758 – 10 March 1826) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic peoples, Germanic Supremacism, racial supremacy theory. He was born in Edinburg ...

– designer of world's first business computer, the

LEO computer The LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) was a series of early computer systems created by J. Lyons and Co. The first in the series, the LEO I, was the first computer used for commercial business applications. The prototype LEO I was modelled closely ...

Harold Arthur Prichard Harold Arthur Prichard (30 October 1871 – 29 December 1947) was an English philosopher. Biography He was born in London in 1871, the eldest child of Walter Stennett Prichard (a solicitor) and his wife Lucy. Harold Prichard was a scholar at ...

– philosopher *

Reginald Punnett Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS (; 20 June 1875 – 3 January 1967) was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the ''Journal of Genetics'' in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett ...

– geneticist * Ivor Armstrong Richards – scholar, critic,

rhetorician Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse (trivium) along with grammar and logic/dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or write ...

, author ''

The Meaning of Meaning ''The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism'' (1923) is a book by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards. It is accompanied by two supplementary essays by Bronisław Malinowski and F. G ...

'' *

Edgar Samuel Edgar Samuel (13 December 1928 – 9 January 2023) was the director of the London Jewish Museum from 1983 to 1995, before its move to Camden. He was President of the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1988. He was particularly known for his ...

– Director of the

London Jewish Museum The Jewish Museum London was a museum of British Jewish life, history and identity. The museum was situated in Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden, north London. It was a place for people of all faiths to explore Jewish history, culture, ...

* Sir Richard Threlfall – physicist and chemical engineer *

Herbert Hall Turner Herbert Hall Turner (13 August 1861 – 20 August 1930) was a British astronomer and seismologist. Biography Herbert Hall Turner was educated at the Leeds Modern School, Clifton College, Bristol and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1884 he ...

– Professor of Astronomy and seismologist *

Conrad Hal Waddington Conrad Hal Waddington (8 November 1905 – 26 September 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary developme ...

– developmental biologist, palaeontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher * Sir Thomas Herbert Warren – Professor of Poetry and

Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford is the chief executive and leader of the University of Oxford. The following people have been vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford (formally known as The Right Worshipful the Vice-Chancel ...

* R. P. Winnington-Ingram – scholar of Greek tragedy, Professor of Greek at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

Public life and the law

Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet (13 May 1939 – 26 September 2009) was the eldest son of Sir Richard Acland, 15th Baronet and Anne Stella Alford. John Acland attended the Dragon School in Oxford, Clifton College, Magdalene College, Cambridge ...

* Sir James Allen – New Zealand politician * Osman Ali Baig – MBE, Indian Army officer, Pakistani diplomat and statesman, and Secretary-General of

CENTO Cento (; Bolognese dialect, Northern Bolognese: ; Bolognese dialect, City Bolognese: ; Bolognese dialect, Centese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. History The name Cento is a reference to the centur ...

Michael Bear Michael John Bear (23 February 1934 – 7 April 2000) played first-class cricket as a left-handed batsman for Essex between 1954 and 1968. As a player, he was generally referred to as "Micky" or "Mickey" Bear. Cricket style Bear was a pugnacio ...

–

Lord Mayor of London The Lord Mayor of London is the Mayors in England, mayor of the City of London, England, and the Leader of the council, leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded Order of precedence, precedence over a ...

(2010/11) *

Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood {{Infobox noble, type , honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable , name = The Lord Birdwood , honorific-suffix = MVO , image = , caption = , alt = , CoA = , more ...

– Conservative member of the

House of Lords The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. One of the oldest ext ...

Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel, (20 December 1858 – 13 June 1937), known as Sir Arthur Benn, Bt, between 1926 and 1936, was a British businessman and politician. Early life He was born on 20 December 1858, in Cork, Ireland, the son ...

– KBE Conservative MP. *

Leslie Hore-Belisha Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, PC (; 7 September 1893 – 16 February 1957) was a British Liberal, then National Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) and Cabinet Minister. He later joined the Conservative Party. He proved h ...

– Minister of War (1937–1940) * Sir

Edward John Cameron Sir Edward John Cameron, KCMG (14 May 1858 – 20 July 1947) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Gambia from February 1914 to 1920. Early life and education Born 14 May 1858, Cameron was the third son of John C ...

– colonial administrator *

Lothian Bonham-Carter Lothian George Bonham-Carter (29 September 1858 – 1 January 1927) was an English first-class cricketer and businessman involved in brewing. The son of the politician John Bonham-Carter, he was born in September 1858 at Adhurst St Mary, Ham ...

– English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier * Sir

Edgar Bonham-Carter Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter (2 April 1870 – 24 April 1956) was a British barrister and administrator in Sudan and Iraq. In his younger days he was a rugby player of some note and represented England at international level. Early life and rugby c ...

– CIE Barrister *

John Bonham-Carter (1817–1884) John Bonham-Carter DL JP (13 October 1817 – 26 November 1884) was an English Liberal politician. Early life Jack Bonham-Carter was the son of Joanna Maria Smith (1792–1884) and the Portsmouth Member of Parliament John Bonham-Carter ...

–

Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. For example, while the political systems ...

politician *

Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton Sydney Charles Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, (25 October 1853 – 15 October 1934) was a radical British Liberal politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also served as the second Governor-General of South Africa from 1914 to 1920 ...

GCMG The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince of Wales (the future King George IV), while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III ...

PC * Sir

John Biggs-Davison Sir John Alec Biggs-Davison (7 June 1918 – 17 September 1988) was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Chigwell from 1955 and then, after boundary changes in 1974, Epping Forest until his death. He was a leading figu ...

–

Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civiliza ...

politician *

Sir Richard Cooper, 2nd Baronet Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet (11 August 1874 – 5 March 1946) was a British politician and a member of the Cooper Baronets, of Shenstone Court. Biography Cooper was educated at Clifton College, and succeeded to the baronetcy in 1913 ...

– Conservative MP *

Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, (5 March 1876 – 11 October 1947) was a British Conservative politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940. Despite legal posts d ...

– lawyer, politician and

Lord Chancellor The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The lord chancellor is the minister of justice for England and Wales and the highest-ra ...

* Alban Dobson – civil servant, secretary of the

International Whaling Commission The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is a specialised regional fishery management organisation, established under the terms of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) to "provide for the proper conservation ...

, president of the

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES; , ''CIEM'') is a regional fishery advisory body and the world's oldest intergovernmental science organization. ICES is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, where its multinational s ...

Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed Francis Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, PC (8 August 1899 – 3 October 1966) was a British judge who served as Master of the Rolls, and subsequently became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Law Lor ...

–

Master of the Rolls The Keeper or Master of the Rolls and Records of the Chancery of England, known as the Master of the Rolls, is the President of the Court of Appeal (England and Wales)#Civil Division, Civil Division of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales ...

and

Law Lord Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords, as a committee of the House, effectively to exercise the judicial functions of the House of ...

Geoff Gollop Geoffrey Richard Gollop, OBE (born 23 February 1955)

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

– Deputy Mayor of

Bristol Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by t ...

, former

Lord Mayor Lord mayor is a title of a mayor of what is usually a major city in a Commonwealth realm, with special recognition bestowed by the sovereign. However, the title or an equivalent is present in other countries, including forms such as "high mayor". A ...

and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol * Jeremy Hackett – British fashion designer, founder of Hackett clothing * Sir James Heath, 1st Baronet Bt – MP North West Staffordshire. *

Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol Herbert Arthur Robert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol (10 October 1870 – 5 April 1960), styled Lord Herbert Hervey from 1907 to 1951, was a British peer and diplomat. Early life The 5th Marquess was born on 10 October 1870 at the family home o ...

– diplomat * Sir Thomas Heath – Treasury Secretary and scholar and author. *

Baron Henley Baron Henley is a title that has been created twice: first in the Peerage of Great Britain and then in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in 1760 in favour of Sir Robert Henley, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, when he was cr ...

8th Baron Henley.

Tory A Tory () is an individual who supports a political philosophy known as Toryism, based on a British version of traditionalist conservatism which upholds the established social order as it has evolved through the history of Great Britain. The To ...

Politician * Sir

Roger Hollis Sir Roger Henry Hollis (2 December 1905 – 26 October 1973) was a British intelligence officer who served with MI5 from 1938 to 1965. He was Director General of MI5 from 1956 to 1965. Some commentators, including the journalist Chapman Pinc ...

– journalist, secret-service agent and director general of

MI5 MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Gov ...

* Syed Fakhar Imam – the 11th Speaker of National Assembly of

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. *

Patrick Jenkin Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, (7 September 1926 – 20 December 2016) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government. Life and career Jenkin w ...

– Conservative politician *

Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet, DSO (3 June 1873 – 30 January 1956) was an Irish barrister and politician. Early life Keane was the son of Sir Richard Keane, 4th Baronet and Adelaide Vance, daughter of John Vance MP. He was educated at Clifto ...

– Irish Politician, Senator 1st, 2nd, 3rd Seanad *

Neville Laski Neville Jonas Laski (18 December 1890 – 24 March 1969) was an English judge and leader of Anglo-Jewry. Family Laski came from a distinguished family. His father was Nathan Laski (1863-1941), a Lithuanian Jewish Manchester cotton merchant ...

QC – Judge and leader of Anglo Jewry * Sir John May – Judge *

Navendu Mishra Navendu Prabhat Mishra (born 22 August 1989) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport since 2019. Early life and career Navendu Mishra was born on 22 August 1989 to Indian parents, wit ...

– Labour MP * Sir Alan Mocatta – English judge, leader of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the UK *

Edwin Montagu Edwin Samuel Montagu PC (6 February 1879 – 15 November 1924) was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. Montagu was a "radical" Liberal and the third practising Jew (after Sir Herber ...

–

Liberal Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * Generally, a supporter of the political philosophy liberalism. Liberals may be politically left or right but tend to be centrist. * An adherent of a Liberal Party (See also Liberal parties by country ...

politician * Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling * Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet – Industrialist and

MP * Sir Peter Newsam – chairman of

Commission for Racial Equality In-Commission or commissioning may refer to: Business and contracting * Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered ** Commission (art), the purchase or the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of anot ...

and

Inner London Education Authority The Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) was the local education authority for the City of London and the 12 Inner London boroughs from 1965 until its abolition in 1990. From 1965 to 1986 it was an ad hoc committee of the Greater London Co ...

chief education officer. *

Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton Arthur Frederick Richards, 1st Baron Milverton (21 February 1885 – 27 October 1978), was a British colonial administrator who over his career served as Governor of North Borneo, Gambia, Fiji, Jamaica, and Nigeria. Early life and education ...

Hector Sants Sir Hector William Hepburn Sants (born 15 December 1955) is a British investment banker. He was appointed chief executive officer of the Financial Services Authority in July 2007 and stepped down in June 2012. He took up a new position with Bar ...

– head of the

Financial Services Authority The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was a quasi-judicial body accountable for the regulation of the financial services industry in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2013. It was founded as the Securities and Investments Board (SIB) in 1985 ...

Colin Sleeman Stuart Colin Sleeman (10 March 1914 – 14 June 2006) was a British judge. As an assistant judge advocate general, he was appointed as senior counsel for the defence in two trials of Japanese soldiers accused of war crimes held in Singapore aft ...

– Assistant Judge Advocate General, senior defence counsel for Japanese accused of war crimes * Abel Thomas – Welsh

MP *

Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, (16 March 1872 – 26 July 1943), sometimes referred to as Josiah Wedgwood IV, was a British Liberal and Labour politician who served in government under Ramsay MacDonald. He was a promin ...

– brother of

Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood, 1st Baronet, ( ; 2 March 1874 – 5 September 1956) was the chief officer of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) for 16 years from its inauguration in 1923. He was chairman of the wartime Railway Executive Commi ...

and Labour Minister in

Ramsay MacDonald James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The first two of his governments belonged to the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, where he led ...

government. *

* Philip William Wheeldon

Bishop of Whitby The Bishop of Whitby is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of York, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire; the See was erected under the ...

Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet Sir Rowland Edward Whitehead, 3rd Baronet KC MP (1 September 1863 – 9 October 1942) was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. Early life The second son of Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet, he was educated at Clifton College and U ...

KC MP – barrister and politician *

John Henry Whitley John Henry Whitley (8 February 1866 – 3 February 1935), often known as J. H. Whitley, was a British politician and Georgist. He was the final Liberal to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons, a role he held from 1921 to 1928. Family a ...

–

Speaker of the House of Commons Speaker of the House of Commons is a political leadership position found in countries that have a House of Commons, where the membership of the body elects a speaker to lead its proceedings. Systems that have such a position include: * Speaker of ...

(1921–1928) *

Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson Leonard Gordon Wolfson, Baron Wolfson (11 November 1927 – 20 May 2010) was a British businessman, the former chairman of GUS, and son of GUS magnate Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet. He is the father of Janet Wolfson de Botton. He attended T ...

– conservative politician *

Baron Wyfold Baron Wyfold, of Accrington in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 May 1919 for Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold, Sir Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baronet, the former Conserva ...

– Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, Bt MP.

Military

Field Marshal Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the most senior military rank, senior to the general officer ranks. Usually, it is the highest rank in an army (in countries without the rank of Generalissimo), and as such, few persons a ...

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until t ...

* Field Marshal

William Birdwood Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (13 September 1865 – 17 May 1951), was a British Army officer. He saw active service in the Second Boer War on the staff of Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl ...

– 1st Baron Birdwood *

Lieutenant General Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on the battlefield, who was norma ...

Frederick E. Morgan Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Edgworth Morgan, (5 February 1894 – 19 March 1967) was a senior officer of the British Army who fought in both world wars. He is best known as the chief of staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (COSSAC), the o ...

* Sir Francis Younghusband – British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist * Sir Hugh Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO – general * Sir Charles Bonham-Carter – General of the Territorial Army and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta. * Lieutenant Colonel

Oswald Watt Walter Oswald Watt, (11 February 1878 – 21 May 1921) was an Australian aviator and businessman. He served as a pilot during World War I with, firstly, the French Foreign Legion and, secondly, the Australian Flying Corps (AFC). Th ...

– Australian flying ace in First World War *

Percy Hobart Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, (14 June 1885 – 19 February 1957), also known as "Hobo", was a British military engineer noted for his command of the 79th Armoured Division during the Second World War. He was responsible for ...

KBE CB DSO MC – military engineer *

Cecil Rawling Brigadier-General (British Army), Brigadier-General Cecil Godfrey Rawling, (16 February 1870 – 28 October 1917) was a British soldier, explorer and author whose expeditions to Tibet and Dutch New Guinea brought acclaim from the Royal Geograph ...

CMG CIE DSO FRGS – soldier, explorer and author * Alexander Kearsey OBE, DSO – soldier, cricketer and military historian *

– English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier *

Jock Hamilton-Baillie John Robert Edward Hamilton-Baillie MC (1 March 1919 – 16 April 2003), was a British Royal Engineers officer famed for numerous escapes from German prisoner of war camps during World War II. During his later life he was a founder of the Fortr ...

MC * John Whitty MC DSO * Sir Charles Cuyler, 4th Baronet OBE, soldier and cricketer * Leslie Innes Jacques CB, CBE, MC – British Army engineer officer

Holders of the Victoria Cross

Eight Old Cliftonians have won the

Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, British decorations system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British ...

– one in the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War (, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Transvaal War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and ...

, five in the First World War (1914–1918), one in the

Russian Civil War The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. I ...

(North Russia Relief Force, 1919), and one in the Second World War. *Second Boer War: **Sergeant Horace Robert Martineau VC (at Clifton 1888–1889) (1874–1916). He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant. *First World War: **

Richard Douglas Sandford Richard Douglas Sandford, VC (11 May 1891 – 23 November 1918) was a Royal Navy officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He ...

VC (11 May 1891 – 23 November 1918) was a Royal Navy officer who took part in the

Zeebrugge Raid The Zeebrugge Raid (; ) on 23 April 1918, was an attempt by the Royal Navy to block the Belgium, Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. The British intended to sink obsolete ships in the canal entrance, to prevent German vessels from leaving port. ...

and won the

. **

Captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police depa ...

Theodore Wright :''This is about the British soldier; for others, see Theodore Wright (disambiguation).'' Captain Theodore Wright, VC (15 May 1883 – 14 September 1914) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highe ...

VC (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1883–1914) **Lieutenant

Cyril Gordon Martin Brigadier Cyril Gordon Martin VC CBE DSO (19 December 1891 – 14 August 1980) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that ...

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

DSO (at Clifton 1910-1910) (1891–1980). He later achieved the rank of

Brigadier Brigadier ( ) is a military rank, the seniority of which depends on the country. In some countries, it is a senior rank above colonel, equivalent to a brigadier general or commodore (rank), commodore, typically commanding a brigade of several t ...

. **Lieutenant

Edward Donald Bellew Edward Donald Bellew, (28 October 1882 – 1 February 1961, Kamloops, British Columbia), Captain of the 7th Bn British Columbia Regiment, CEF was a Canadians, Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for g ...

VC (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1882–1961). He later achieved the rank of

. **

George Henry Tatham Paton George Henry Tatham Paton Victoria Cross, VC Military Cross, MC (3 October 1895 – 1 December 1917) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded ...

VC MC (at Clifton 1909–1914) (1895–1917) *Russian Civil War: **

Commander Commander (commonly abbreviated as Cmdr.) is a common naval officer rank as well as a job title in many army, armies. Commander is also used as a rank or title in other formal organizations, including several police forces. In several countri ...

Claude Congreve Dobson Rear-Admiral Claude Congreve Dobson VC, DSO (1 January 1885 – 26 June 1940) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Co ...

VC DSO (at Clifton 1893–1900) (1885–1940) *Second World War: **

Lance-Corporal Lance corporal is a military rank, used by many English-speaking armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organisations. It is below the rank of corporal. Etymology The presumed origin of the rank of lance corp ...

John Pennington Harman Lance Corporal John Pennington Harman VC (20 July 1914 – 9 April 1944) was a British Army soldier and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be ...

VC (at Clifton 1923–1925) (1914–1944)

Arts and sciences

Literature

Charles Bean Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (18 November 1879 – 30 August 1968), also commonly identified as C. E. W. Bean, was an Australian historian and one of Australia's official war correspondents. He was editor and principal author of the 12-volume ...

– War Correspondent and Official Historian of Australia during the First World War *

Joyce Cary Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957), known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official. His most notable novels include '' Mister Johnson'' and '' The Horse's Mouth''. Early life and education Art ...

– writer *

Robin Fedden Henry Robin Romilly Fedden, CBE (26 November 1908 – 20 March 1977) was an English writer, diplomat and mountaineer. He was the son of artist Romilly Fedden and novelist Katherine Waldo Douglas. Life Raised mostly in Chantemesle, Seine-et-Oise, ...

– writer *

L. P. Hartley Leslie Poles Hartley (30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972) was an English novelist and short story writer. Although his first fiction was published in 1924, his best-known works are the '' Eustace and Hilda'' trilogy (1944–1947) and '' Th ...

– author * Robert Hichens – Author and playwright *

Geoffrey Household Geoffrey Edward West Household (30 November 1900 – 4 October 1988) was a prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel '' Rogue Male'' (1939). Personal life He was born in Bristol; his father Hora ...

– author * C. H. B. Kitchin – author *

Tim Mackintosh-Smith Tim Mackintosh-Smith (born 17 July 1961) is a British Arabist, writer, traveller, lecturer and translator. He has written numerous books on the Middle East, won several awards and has presented a major BBC television series. Early life and educa ...

– author and television presenter *

Alan Noel Latimer Munby Alan Noel Latimer Munby (25 December 1913 – 26 December 1974) was an English librarian, bibliographical scholar and book collector. He is also remembered as the author of a volume of ghost stories written in the tradition of M. R. James. Early ...

– author *

Henry Newbolt Sir Henry John Newbolt, Order of the Companions of Honour, CH (6 June 1862 – 19 April 1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a role as a government adviser with regard to the study of English in England. He is perhaps ...

– poet *

Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 186312 May 1944) was a Cornish people, British writer who published using the pen name, pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication ''The Oxfor ...

– poet (pseudonym "Q"). *

George Shipway George Shipway (25 May 1908 – 1982) was a British author best known for his historical novels, but he also tried his hand at political satire in his book ''The Chilian Club''. Military career George Frederick Morgan Shipway was born on 25 May ...

– novelist *

Montague Summers Augustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher. As an independent scholar, he published many works on the English drama of the Stuart Restoration (1660–1688) and helped to organise ...

– author, translator,

occultist The occult () is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mystic ...

, scandalous clergyman and member of Uranian bards of

Greco-Roman The Greco-Roman world , also Greco-Roman civilization, Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture (spelled Græco-Roman or Graeco-Roman in British English), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and co ...

pederasty.

Drama, theatre, television and performing arts

John Cleese John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and Television presenter, presenter. Emerging from the Footlights, Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinbur ...

–

Monty Python Monty Python, also known as the Pythons, were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The group came to prominence for the sketch comedy ser ...

actor *

Manuel del Campo Manuel Martínez del Campo y Cuevas (14 November 1913 – 16 February 1969) was a Mexican film editor working in Hollywood and British film. Early life Manuel Martínez del Campo y Cuevas was born on 14 November 1913 in Mexico City. He was the so ...

– film editor, actor, and third husband to

Mary Astor Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in '' The Maltese ...

Thorold Dickinson Thorold Barron Dickinson (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow direct ...

– film director, screenwriter and producer. * William Hanson – television presenter, podcaster and etiquette coach. *

Chris Harris Chris Harris may refer to: Sportspeople * Chris Harris (basketball) (1933–2022), English basketballer * Chris Harris (cricketer) (born 1969), New Zealand cricketer * Chris Harris (darts player) (born 1977), Welsh darts player * Chris Harris (rowe ...

– automotive journalist and television presenter *

Donald Hewlett Donald Marland Hewlett (30 August 1920 – 4 June 2011) was an English actor who was best known for his sitcom roles as Colonel Charles Reynolds in ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum'' and Lord Meldrum in '' You Rang, M'Lord?'', both written by Jimmy Perry ...

– actor *

John Houseman John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a Romanians, Romanian-born British Americans, British-American theatre and film producer, actor, director, and teacher. He became known for his highly publ ...

– actor, director and producer *

Trevor Howard Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film '' Brief Encounter'' (1945), followed by '' The Third M ...

– actor *

John Inverdale John Ballantyne Inverdale (born 27 September 1957) is an English broadcaster who works for both the BBC and ITV. During his radio career, he has presented coverage of many major sporting events including the Olympic Games, Wimbledon, the Gran ...

– television presenter *

Elliot Levey Elliot Levey (born 6 December 1973) is an English Olivier award-winning actor. Career Two-time Olivier award winner for the roles of Herr Schultz in Cabaret (2022) and Tom Maschler in Giant (2025). Known for his work in British Theatre, he ha ...

– actor *

John Madden John Earl Madden (April 10, 1936 – December 28, 2021) was an American professional football coach and sports commentator in the National Football League (NFL). He served as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978, leading them ...

– film director *

Roger Michell Roger Harry Michell (5 June 1956 – 22 September 2021) was a British theatre, television and film director. He was best known for directing films such as ''Notting Hill'' and ''Venus'', as well as the 1995 made-for-television film ''Persuasi ...

– film & theatre director *

Alan Napier Alan William Napier-Clavering (7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988), better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatre, he had a long film career in Britain and later on in Hollywood. Napier is best remembered f ...

– actor * Sir

Michael Redgrave Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English actor and filmmaker. Beginning his career in theatre, he first appeared in the West End in 1937. He made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Lady Vanishes'' ...

– actor * Sir

Simon Russell Beale Sir Simon Russell Beale (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor. He has been described by ''The Independent'' as "the greatest stage actor of his generation". He has received various accolades, including two BAFTA Awards, three Olivier Awar ...

– actor *

Chris Serle Christopher Richard Serle (13 July 1943 – 16 September 2024) was a British television presenter, reporter, and actor, best known for being a presenter on ''That's Life!'' Early life and career Serle was born in Henleaze, Bristol, on 13 July ...

– television presenter *

Simon Shepherd Simon Stephen Shepherd (born 20 August 1956) is an English actor best known to TV audiences from many appearances, including as Dr Will Preston in eight series of ITV's '' Peak Practice'' and Doctor Jonathan Barling in '' Casualty''. Shephe ...

– actor * Tim Sullivan – film and television director and screenwriter *

Clive Swift Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936 – 1 February 2019) was an English actor and songwriter. A classically trained actor, his stage work included performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, but he was best known to television viewers for h ...

– actor * David Swift – actor *

Naunton Wayne Naunton Wayne (born Henry Wayne Davies, 22 June 1901 – 17 November 1970), was a Welsh character actor, born in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales. He was educated at Clifton College. His name was changed by deed poll#Use for changing name, deed po ...

– actor

Music

* Joseph Cooper * Scott Ford – musician * John Rippiner Heath – physician and composer *

Craig Sellar Lang Craig Sellar Lang (13 May 1891 – 24 Nov 1971) was a New Zealand-born British organist, composer and music teacher. Education Born in Hastings, New Zealand, C. S. Lang (known to his friends as "Robin") was educated at Clifton College, and w ...

– organist and composer *

Boris Ord Boris Ord (born Bernhard Ord), (9 July 1897 – 30 December 1961) was a British organist and choirmaster of King's College, Cambridge (1929-1957). During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force. He is best known for his choral setting of ...

– conductor *

Ian Partridge Ian Partridge (born 12 June 1938) is a retired English lyric tenor, whose repertoire ranged from Monteverdi, Bach and Handel, the Elizabethan lute songs, German, French and English songs, through to Schoenberg, Weill and Britten, and on to co ...

– tenor *

Harry Plunket Greene Harry Plunket Greene (24 June 1865 – 19 August 1936) was an Irish baritone who was most famous in the formal concert and oratorio repertoire. He wrote and lectured on his art, and was active in the field of musical competitions and examinatio ...

A. J. Potter Archibald James Potter (22 September 1918 – 5 July 1980) was an Irish composer and teacher, who wrote hundreds of works including operas, a mass, and four ballets, as well as orchestral and chamber music. Early years Potter was born in Belfas ...

– composer *

Martina Topley-Bird Martina Gillian Topley-Bird (''née'' Topley; born 7 May 1975) is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who first gained fame as the featured female vocalist on trip hop pioneer Tricky (musician), Tricky's debut album, ''Maxi ...

– musician *

Peter Tranchell Peter Andrew Tranchell (14 July 1922 – 14 September 1993) was a British composer. Life and career Tranchell was born at Cuddalore, India, on 14 July 1922, and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, Clifton College and King's College, Cambrid ...

– composer *

Sir David Willcocks Sir David Valentine Willcocks, (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015) was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, ...

– conductor *

Jonathan Willcocks Jonathan Peter Willcocks (born 9 January 1953) is an English composer and conductor. Willcocks was born in Worcester, the son of conductor and composer Sir David Willcocks. He was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, and an Open Music Sc ...

– composer *

Nicky Chinn Nicholas Barry Chinn (born 16 May 1945) is an English-American songwriter and record producer. Together with Mike Chapman he had a long string of hit singles in the US and UK in the 1970s and early 1980s, including several international record c ...

– songwriter *

Kitty Brucknell Kimberley Dayle Edwards (born 15 November 1984), formerly known professionally as Kitty Brucknell, is an English pop singer. She rose to fame as a contestant on the eighth series of ''The X Factor'' in 2011, where she finished in seventh place ...

– singer/songwriter

Education

* C. T. Atkinson – tutor in history at

Exeter College, Oxford Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and the fourth-oldest college of the university. The college was founde ...

(1898–1955). * J. R. Eccles – schoolmaster and author

Fine arts

Roger Fry Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and art critic, critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent ...

– artist *

Derek Gillman Derek Anthony Gillman (born 7 December 1952) was executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation from August 2006 to January 2014. In 2014, Gillman took up a position at Drexel University as a distinguished visiting professor in the Depar ...

– President of the

Barnes Foundation The Barnes Foundation is an art collection and educational institution promoting the appreciation of art and horticulture. Originally in Merion, the art collection moved in 2012 to a new building on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, ...

Peter Lanyon George Peter Lanyon (8 February 1918 – 31 August 1964) was a British painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. Lanyon was one of the most important artists to emerge in post-war Britain. Despite his early death at the ag ...

– Cornish painter of

Euston Road School The Euston Road School is a term applied to a group of English painters, active either as staff or students at the School of Drawing and Painting in London between 1937 and 1939. The School opened in October 1937 at premises in Fitzroy Street, Lo ...

. *

Henry Tonks Henry Tonks, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a Caricature, caricaturist. He became an influentia ...

– English surgeon, artist, like Fry,

Slade Professor of Fine Art The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London. History The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...

Science

Philip D'Arcy Hart Philip Montagu D'Arcy Hart, CBE (25 June 1900 – 30 July 2006) was a seminal British medical researcher and pioneer in tuberculosis treatment. Personal life Philip D'Arcy Hart was the grandson of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. He was ...

– pioneer in tuberculosis treatment * Victor Riddell FRCS – cricketer and surgeon *

Frank Yates Frank Yates FRS (12 May 1902 – 17 June 1994) was one of the pioneers of 20th-century statistics. Biography Yates was born in Manchester, England, the eldest of five children (and only son) of seed merchant and botanist Percy Yates and ...

FRS – statistician

Nobel Prize winners

(Chemistry) *

John Hicks Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics ...

(Economics) *

Nevill Francis Mott Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductor ...

(Physics)

Journalism

* Sir William Emsley Carr – Chairman of ''

News of the World The ''News of the World'' was a weekly national "Tabloid journalism#Red tops, red top" Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published every Sunday in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the world's highest-selling ...

'' *

Roger Alton Roger Alton (born 20 December 1947) is an English journalist. He was formerly editor of ''The Independent'' and ''The Observer'', and executive editor of ''The Times''. Early life and education He was educated at Clifton College and Exeter Co ...

– editor of ''

The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. First published in 1791, it is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. In 1993 it was acquired by Guardian Media Group Limited, and operated as a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' ...

'' * Ian Black, reporter and editor for ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

'' * Leigh Brownlee – cricketer and former editor of the ''

Daily Mirror The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is part of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the tit ...

'' *

Francis Wrigley Hirst Francis Wrigley Hirst (10 June 1873 – 22 February 1953) was a British journalist, writer and editor of ''The Economist'' magazine. He was a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal in party terms and a classical liberalism, classical liberal in ideology. ...

– editor of ''

The Economist ''The Economist'' is a British newspaper published weekly in printed magazine format and daily on Electronic publishing, digital platforms. It publishes stories on topics that include economics, business, geopolitics, technology and culture. M ...

'' *

Hugh Schofield Hugh Robert Armstrong Schofield (born 19 August 1961''Clifton College Register 1962–1978''. Page no: 360. Entry no: 17112. Publisher: The Council of Clifton College. Published: October 1979. Retrieved: 7 March 2013.'Births, Marriages & Deaths ...

–

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

Paris Correspondent * Angus Scott – sports broadcaster * Steve Scott – ''

ITV ITV or iTV may refer to: Television TV stations/networks/channels ITV *Independent Television (ITV), a British television network and company, including: **ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network in the United Kingd ...

'' newscaster and former ''

ITN Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based media production and broadcast journalism company. ITN is based in London, with bureaux and offices in Beijing, Brussels, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, New York City, New York, Paris, Sydney and Washin ...

'' foreign correspondent *

Richard Stott Richard Keith Stott (17 August 1943 – 30 July 2007) was a British journalist and editor. Born in Oxford, he attended Clifton College in Bristol. He began his career in journalism with the '' Bucks Herald'', aged 19. After the Great Train Ro ...

– journalist * Andrew Wilson – ''

Sky News Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel, live stream news network and news organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of ...

'' news presenter and former foreign correspondent

Sports (in alphabetical order)

Cricket, rugby and football

* Basil Allen – cricketer, Gloucestershire captain * Joseph Beardsell – cricketer *

– English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier *

William Brain William Henry Brain (21 July 1870 – 20 November 1934) was an English first-class cricketer and Football (soccer), footballer: a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Gloucestershire, Oxford U ...

– English cricketer and footballer * Bernard Brodhurst – cricketer * James Bush Gloucestershire cricketer, England rugby international * Robert Edwin Bush Gloucestershire cricketer * Charles Carnegy , cricketer * A. E. J. Collins – cricketer, world record holder (highest individual score as

batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball, ball with a cricket bat, bat to score runs (cricket), runs and prevent the dismissal (cricket), loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since Septembe ...

) * John Daniell – captain of Somerset, England rugby international *

David Dickinson David Dickinson (born David Gulesserian; 16 August 1941) is an English antiques dealer and television presenter. Between 2000 and 2004, Dickinson hosted the BBC One antiques show '' Bargain Hunt'', where he was succeeded by Tim Wonnacott. D ...

– cricketer * Alban Dobson – cricketer *

Archibald Fargus Rev. Archibald Hugh Conway Fargus MA (15 December 1878 – 6 October 1963) was an English cricketer who was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. He was also a scholar and clergyman and served in the Royal Navy. Early life and cr ...

– English cricketer, scholar, clergyman *

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (born 20 December 2002) is an English professional rugby union player who plays as a wing for Premiership Rugby club Exeter Chiefs and England. Early life and education Feyi-Waboso is one of six siblings, born to parents w ...

– England and Exeter Chiefs rugby player *

Edwin Field Edwin Field (16 December 1871 – 9 January 1947) was an English rugby union forward who played club rugby for Cambridge University, Clifton R.F.C., Richmond, Barbarians and Middlesex Wanderers and international rugby for England. He also pl ...

– Middlesex cricketer, England rugby international * Sir Stephen Finney – England rugby internationalEdmund Burke, ''The Annual register of world events: a review of the year, Volume 166'', p119, Longmans, Green, 1925 * W. G. Grace Jr – Gloucestershire and MCC cricketer * Paul Green-Armytage – cricketer *

George Harrison George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Culture ...

– cricketer * Hubert Johnston – Scottish cricketer *

R. P. Keigwin Richard Prescott Keigwin ( ; 8 April 1883 – 26 November 1972) was an English schoolmaster, sportsman, translator, and author. He played first-class cricket for University of Cambridge, Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club, Essex ...

– England cricketer and hockey player * Sir Kingsmill Key – Bt., captain of Surrey, MCC and England cricketer. *

James Kirtley Robert James Kirtley (born 10 January 1975) is a former English Test cricketer. He is a right arm fast medium bowler and a right hand batsman. After prep school at St. Andrews School, Eastbourne, he was educated at Clifton College. Kirtley is p ...

– England cricketer * Ioan Lloyd – Wales and Scarlets rugby player * Leslie Lloyd – cricketer *

Meredith Magniac Meredith Magniac (27 June 1880 – 25 April 1917) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. The son of Major-General Francis Magniac, Francis Lane Magniac, he was born at Hitchin in June 1880. He was educated at Clifton Co ...

– cricketer * Frank May – cricketer * Thomas Penny – cricketer *

Rowland Raw Rowland Raw (16 July 1884 – 7 August 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Raw was born at Pietermaritzburg in the Colony of Natal to George and Edith Raw. He was educated in England at Clifton College, bef ...

– cricketer *

Henry Schwann Henry Sigismund Schwann (19 November 1868 – 27 May 1931) was an English first-class cricketer and stockbroker. The son of Frederick Sigismund Schwann, he was born in November 1868 at North Houghton, Hampshire. He was educated at Clifton Co ...

– cricketer * Dr. Edward Scott – Gloucestershire & MCC cricketer, England rugby international (captain). * Louie Shaw – cricketer * Thomas Stubbs – cricketer *

Charlie Townsend Charles Lucas Townsend (7 November 1876 – 17 October 1958) was a Gloucestershire cricketer. An all-round cricketer, Townsend was classically stylish, left-handed batsman, who was able to hit well despite his slender build. His off-side stro ...

– England cricketer *

Edward Tylecote Edward Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote (23 June 1849 – 15 March 1938) was an English cricketer. He was born in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire and was educated at Clifton CollegeOakley EM (ed) (1890) ''Clifton College Register'', pp. 14–15. Lond ...

– England cricketer *

Henry Tylecote Henry Grey Tylecote (24 July 1853 – 8 March 1935) was an English first-class cricketer and educator. Tylecote appeared in 29 first-class matches between 1874 and 1886, playing the majority of these for Oxford University, as well as appearing ...

– cricketer *

William van Someren William Weymouth van Someren (17 September 1876 – 16 June 1939) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Indian Army. The son of the barrister Godlieb van Someren, he was born in British India at Madras in September ...

– cricketer * George Whitehead – England cricketerGeorge Whitehead
at cricinfo.com. Retrieved 25 November 2008 * John Whitty – cricketer and British Army officer *

Matt Windows Matthew Guy Newman Windows (born 5 April 1973) is a former English cricketer. He attended Clifton College in Bristol, representing the First XI for many years as well as being a double foster cup champion at rackets. He is a right-handed batsman ...

– Gloucestershire cricketer and England 'A' cap.

Other

Jerry Cornes John Frederick Cornes also known as Jerry Cornes (23 March 1910 – 19 June 2001) was an English middle distance runner, colonial officer, and schoolmaster. He was born in Darjeeling, British India. Early life The son of a judge in the India ...

– English Olympic runner * Justin Chaston – Welsh athlete who competed at three Olympic Games for Great Britain * Walter Gibb – world record holder (altitude) * Sir Edward

Atholl Oakeley Sir Edward Atholl Oakeley, 7th Baronet, of Shrewsbury (31 May 1900 – January 1987), known under the ring name Atholl Oakeley, was a British professional wrestler and wrestling promoter who was one of the pioneers of professional wrestling ...

– Baronet, pioneer of professional wrestling *

William H. K. Pollock William Henry Krause Pollock (21 February 1859 – 5 October 1896) was an English chess master, and a surgeon. Early life Pollock was born in Cheltenham, England, the son of the Rev. William J. Pollock and Eliza Angelina Krause (daughter of Re ...

– English chess master *

Lily Owsley Lily Isabelle Owsley (born 10 December 1994) in Bristol, England is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Argentine club https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Atlético_Banco_de_la_Provincia_de_Buenos_Aires and the ...

– Hockey GB and England *

Boris Schapiro Boris Schapiro (22 August 1909 – 1 December 2002) was a British international bridge player. He was a Grandmaster of the World Bridge Federation, and the only player to have won both the Bermuda Bowl (the world championship for national teams ...

– bridge player *

Simon Hazlitt Simon Charles Hazlitt (born 16 October 1966) is a British former field hockey player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Biography Hazlitt played club hockey for Hounslow in the Men's England Hockey League having previously played for ...

– Hockey GB and England

Business

W. O. Bentley Walter Owen Bentley, (16 September 1888 – 13 August 1971) was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircraft and automobile engin ...

– founder of

Bentley Motors Bentley Motors Limited is a British designer, manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs. Headquartered in Crewe, England, the company was founded by W. O. Bentley (1888–1971) in 1919 in Cricklewood, North London, and became widely ...

Sir John Beynon, 1st Baronet Sir John Wyndham Beynon, 1st Baronet, CBE (2 December 1864 – 13 October 1944) was a Welsh iron and steel manufacturer and coal owner. Beynon was born in Castleton, Monmouthshire. He was educated at Clifton College, after which he went into bu ...

– entrepreneur of the fossil fuel and metals industry * Sir

Trevor Chinn Sir Trevor Edwin Chinn (born 24 July 1935) is a British businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. He is a Labour Party supporter and donor as well as active in Jewish and pro-Israel causes. Career Chinn was educated at Clifton Coll ...

–

tycoon A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who is a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or industry whose goods or ser ...

and philanthropist *

Edward Cruttwell George Edward Wilson Cruttwell (5 December 1857 – 10 November 1933) was an English civil engineer. He worked with John Wolfe Barry and Henry Marc Brunel, was the resident engineer in charge of the construction, and then first superintending ...

– civil engineer particularly associated with London's

Tower Bridge Tower Bridge is a Listed building#Grade I, Grade I listed combined Bascule bridge, bascule, Suspension bridge, suspension, and, until 1960, Cantilever bridge, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones ...

* Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet – business man, chairman of

British-American Tobacco Company British American Tobacco p.l.c. (BAT) is a British multinational company that manufactures and sells cigarettes, tobacco and other nicotine products including electronic cigarettes. The company, established in 1902, is headquartered in London, E ...

* Sir

Roy Fedden Sir Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden MBE, FRAeS (6 June 1885 – 21 November 1973) was an engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Company's successful piston aircraft engine designs. Early life Fedden was born in the Bristol area to fairly weal ...

– engineer * Jeremy Hackett – fashion designer and entrepreneur *

Patrick Seager Hill Patrick Seager Hill, T.D. (16 January 1915 – 17 December 2010) was a British clothing manufacturer, who was a pioneer and developer of safety and fire protective clothing. Early life and military service Hill was born on 16 January 1915 in Bri ...

T.D. – clothing manufacturer, pioneer & developer of safety & fire protective clothing *

Andy Hornby Andy Hornby (born 21 January 1967) is an English businessman, currently chief executive of The Restaurant Group, a British chain of restaurants and public houses. Biography Hornby was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, but brought up in Br ...

– former Chief Executive of

HBOS HBOS plc is a banking and insurance company in the United Kingdom, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Lloyds Banking Group, having been taken over in January 2009. It was the holding company for Bank of Scotland, Bank of Scotland plc, which ...

* Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs – entrepreneur * Sir

Horace Kadoorie Sir Horace Kadoorie, CBE (28 September 1902 – 22 April 1995) was an industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist. He was a member of the Kadoorie family. Early life and education In 1913–14, he spent a year at Clifton College in Bristol, E ...

– industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist * Lord Kadoorie – industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist *

Julian Richer Julian Richer (born 1959) is an English retail entrepreneur, philanthropist and author, best known as the founder of Richer Sounds, the UK's largest hi-fi retailer. Richer has gained a reputation for his motivational style of management and hi ...

– entrepreneur, owner of Richer Sounds * Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet – industrialist *

– head of the

* Sir

Clive Thompson Clive Thompson may refer to: *Clive Thompson (businessman) (born 1943), Deputy Chairman of Strategic Equity Capital *Clive Thompson (journalist) Thomas Clive Thompson III (born 30 October 1968) is a Canadian freelance journalist, blogger, and sc ...

– former Chairman of

Farepak European Home Retail plc (EHR) was a listed UK company, operating in home retail. Though registered in Swindon, Wiltshire, its head office was based in Warmley, Bristol. On 13 October 2006, it was announced EHR and its subsidiary Farepak had gone ...

and Chief Executive of

Rentokil Initial Rentokil Initial is a British business services group based in Crawley, England. It was founded in 1925 as a pest-control business. It subsequently expanded and diversified, in part through growth under the leadership of Sir Clive Thompson in ...

* Sir

Robert Waley Cohen Sir Robert Waley Cohen, KBE (8 September 1877 – 27 November 1952) was a British industrialist and prominent leader of Anglo-Jewry. Early life Robert Waley Cohen was born on 8 September 1877 to a prominent Jewish family. His father was Na ...

– industrialist and leader of Anglo-Jewry * Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen – business man and

Henry Herbert Wills Henry Herbert 'Harry' Wills (20 March 1856 – 11 May 1922) was a businessman and philanthropist from Bristol, and a member of the Wills tobacco family. He was the son of Henry Overton Wills III and Alice Hopkinson and was born in Clifton, Bri ...

– tobacco baron and philanthropist *

– business man, chairman of

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David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale (3 November 1935 – 10 March 2021) was a British Conservative politician and businessman. Early life David Wolfson was born on 3 November 1935 in Willesden, London. The son of Charles and Hylda Wol ...

– politician, businessman, chairman of

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Rowley Leigh Rowley Leigh (born 23 April 1950) is a British chef, restaurateur and journalist who lives in Shepherd's Bush, London. Born in Manchester, Leigh attended Rushmoor school in Bedford before going to Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge ...

– English chef *

Michael Francis Middleton Michael Francis Middleton (born 23 June 1949) is a British businessman. He is the father of Catherine, Princess of Wales, Pippa Middleton, Philippa Matthews and James Middleton. Born in Leeds, Middleton was educated at the University of Surre ...

– Businessman and father of

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. Both Middleton's father, Capt. Peter Francis Middleton (d.2010) and his grandfather, solicitor and company director Richard Noel Middleton (d.1951) also boarded at Clifton * Ernest Geoffrey Parsons CVO, CBE, farmer and a commissioner of the crown estates.

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* Christopher Tietjens – the protagonist of

Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review (1924), The Transatlant ...

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