This is a List of Old Rugbeians, they being notable former students – known as "Old Rugbeians" of the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...

school,

Rugby School Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...

Rugby, Warwickshire Rugby is a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England, close to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, its population was 78,117, making it the List of Warwickshire towns by population, secon ...

, England.

Academia

* L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of

Wesley College, Melbourne Wesley College is a co-educational, open-entry private school in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1866, the college is the only school in Victoria to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) from early childhood to Year 12. The college ...

Donald Beves Donald Howard Beves (6 March 1896 – 6 July 1961) was an English academic whose subject was modern languages, and dean and later vice-provost of King's College, Cambridge. Life Beves was the son of Edward Leslie Beves, a prosperous Brighton tim ...

(1896–1961), English modern linguist *

R. G. Collingwood Robin George Collingwood (; 22 February 1889 – 9 January 1943) was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist. He is best known for his philosophical works, including ''The Principles of Art'' (1938) and the posthumously published ' ...

, English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

Richard Congreve Richard Congreve (4 September 1818 – 5 July 1899) was the first English philosopher to openly espouse the Religion of Humanity, the godless form of religious humanism that was introduced by Auguste Comte, as a distinct form of positivism. Con ...

(1818–1899), English philosopher * Marcus Flather, Clinical Professor in Medicine at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...

Henry Watson Fowler Henry Watson Fowler (10 March 1858 – 26 December 1933) was an English schoolmaster, Lexicography, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language. He is notable for both ''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'' and his wor ...

, English lexicographer, author of ''

Fowler's Modern English Usage ''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'' (1926), by H. W. Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage and writing. It covers a wide range of topics that relate to usage, including: plurals, nouns, verbs, punctuation, case ...

'' *

T. H. Green Thomas Hill Green (7 April 183626 March 1882), known as T. H. Green, was an English philosopher, political Radicalism (historical), radical and Temperance movement, temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement. Like ...

, moral and political philosopher and reformer *

R. M. Hare Richard Mervyn Hare (21 March 1919 – 29 January 2002), usually cited as R. M. Hare, was a British moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. He subseque ...

, English moral philosopher *

Fenton John Anthony Hort Fenton John Anthony Hort (23 April 1828 – 30 November 1892), known as F. J. A. Hort, was an Irish-born theologian and editor, with Brooke Foss Westcott of a critical edition of '' The New Testament in the Original Greek''. Life He w ...

, English theologian *

F. L. Lucas Frank Laurence Lucas (28 December 1894 – 1 June 1967) was an English Classics, classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Pa ...

, Reader in English Literature at the

University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...

, scholar, critic and writer *

Edward Ellis Morris Edward Ellis Morris (25 December 1843 – 1 January 1902) was an English educationist and miscellaneous writer and latterly in colonial Australia. Biography Morris was born in Madras, British India, the fourteenth child of John Carnac Morris, ...

, Educationist, second Headmaster of

Melbourne Grammar School Melbourne Grammar School is an Australian private school, private Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican Day school, day and boarding school. It comprises a co-educational preparatory school from Prep to Year 6 and a middle school and senior s ...

(1875–83), and miscellaneous writer * Edward Samuel Morris (1940–2016), art historian *

Frederick York Powell Frederick York Powell (4 January 1850 – 8 May 1904) was an English historian and scholar. Biography He was born on 4 January 1850 at 43 Woburn Place, Bloomsbury, London, the son of Frederick Powell, a commissariat merchant, and his wife Ma ...

Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford) The Regius Professor of Faculty of History, University of Oxford, History (until 2011, Modern History) at the University of Oxford is a long-established professorial position. Holders of the title have often been Middle Ages, medieval historians. ...

Henry John Stephen Smith Henry John Stephen Smith (2 November 1826 – 9 February 1883) was an Irish mathematician and amateur astronomer remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. In m ...

, Irish mathematician *

Jon Stallworthy Jon Howie Stallworthy, (18 January 1935 – 19 November 2014) was a British literary critic and poet. He was Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000, and Professor Emeritus in retirement. He was also a Fellow of Wolfso ...

, Professor of English at the

* Sir

Percy Sykes Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, (28 February 1867 – 11 June 1945) was a British soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output. He wrote historical, geographical, and biographical works, as well as describin ...

soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar * Richard Henry Tawney, one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian * Henry Wace,

Principal Principal may refer to: Title or rank * Principal (academia), the chief executive of a university ** Principal (education), the head of a school * Principal (civil service) or principal officer, the senior management level in the UK Civil Ser ...

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 ...

(1883–1897), former

Dean of Canterbury The Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter (religion), Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, the Cathedral of Christ Church, Canterbury, England. The current office of dean (religion), Dean originated after the English Reformation, although Dea ...

Wynne Godley Wynne Godley (26 September 192613 May 2010) was an economist famous for his pessimism about the British economy and his criticism of the British government. In 2007, he and Marc Lavoie wrote a book about the " Stock-Flow Consistent" model, an a ...

, economist * Sir

Will Spens Sir William Spens, CBE (31 May 1882 – 1 November 1962) was a Scottish educationalist, academic and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Life Born in Glasgow on 31 May 1882, one of four sons of John Spens and Sophia Nicol, Spens was ed ...

, educationalist and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1927-1952) * Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan,

Chichele Professor of the History of War Henry Chichele ( ; also Checheley; – 12 April 1443) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1414–1443) and founded All Souls College, Oxford. Early life Chichele was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364; Chichele told Pope Eu ...

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 ...

Sir Archibald James Cassels, former Chief of the General Staff & Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine * Admiral Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, fought during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars * Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver, British officer during the Second World War * Admiral Sir Guy Grantham, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet;

Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. The commanders-in-chief were based at premises in High Street, Portsmouth from the 1790s until the end of Thomas Williams (Royal Navy officer), Si ...

and

Governor of Malta A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' may ...

* General Arthur Clifton, general who was a regimental commander during the Napoleonic Wars, and took over command of the Union Brigade during the Battle of Waterloo * General Sir Ivor Maxse, General Officer Commanding XVIII Corps during World War I; renown for his innovative and effective training methods * General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall, General Officer Commanding,

British Troops in Egypt British Troops in Egypt was a command of the British Army. History A British Army commander was appointed in the late 19th century after the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882. The British Army remained in Egypt throughout the First World War and, after t ...

during World War II * General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief,

11th Army Group The 11th Army Group was the main British Army force in Southeast Asia during the Second World War. Although a nominally British formation, it also included large numbers of troops and formations from the British Indian Army and from British Africa ...

in World War II * General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, commanded 57th Brigade and then

38th (Welsh) Division The 38th (Welsh) Division (initially the 43rd Division, later the 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division and then the 38th Infantry (Reserve) Division) of the British Army was active during both the First and Second World Wars. In 1914, the division ...

during World War I and later was appointed

Governor of Bermuda The governor of Bermuda (officially Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Somers Isles (alias the Islands of Bermuda)) is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. For the purposes of this arti ...

* General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, General Officer Commanding, 5th Infantry Division during the withdrawal to Dunkirk & later

Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces was a senior officer in the British Army during the First World War, First and Second World Wars. The role of the appointment was firstly to oversee the military training, training and Military equipment, equipmen ...

* General John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort, British General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; also a Whig politician * General Sir Richard Wakefield Goodbody, Commander-in-Chief, Northern Command and Adjutant General * General Sir Horatio Shirley, fought in the Crimean War * Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder, UK Military Representative to NATO * Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercromby, General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who was

Commander-in-Chief, Ireland Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, was title of the commander of the British forces in Ireland before 1922. Until the Act of Union in 1800, the position involved command of the distinct Irish Army of the Kingdom of Ireland. History Marshal of Ireland ...

; he was also MP for

Clackmannanshire Clackmannanshire (; ; ), or the County of Clackmannan, is a Shires of Scotland, historic county, Council areas of Scotland, council area, registration counties, registration county and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area in Scotland ...

, and Governor of Trinidad * Lieutenant General William Augustus Johnson, fought as a junior officer in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars *

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 ...

Arthur Ernest Percival Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival, (26 December 1887 – 31 January 1966) was a British Army officer. He saw service in the World War I, First World War and built a successful military career during ...

, the General Officer Commanding, Malaya during World War II who surrendered Singapore to the Imperial Japanese Army *

Sir ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part ...

Henry Royds Pownall Lieutenant General Sir Henry Royds Pownall, (19 November 1887 – 10 June 1961) was a senior British Army officer who held several command and staff positions during the Second World War. In particular, he was chief of staff to the British Expe ...

, former Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff & Chief of Staff for the British Expeditionary Force during the

Battle of France The Battle of France (; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (), the French Campaign (, ) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the Nazi Germany, German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembour ...

* Lieutenant General Henry Andrew Sarel fought in the

Indian Mutiny The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form ...

and

Second Opium War The Second Opium War (), also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or ''Arrow'' War, was fought between the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and the United States against the Qing dynasty of China between 1856 and 1860. It was the second major ...

; later

Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey The lieutenant governor of Guernsey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown. The role of the lieutenant governor is to act as the ''de facto'' head of state in Guern ...

* Lieutenant General Jonathan Peel, general and politician * Lieutenant General Henry Hope Crealock, commanded a division in the Anglo-Zulu War * Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Pelly,

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

army officer and Conservative MP * Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot, Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army and Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army * Lieutenant General Sir Robin Carnegie, a former Military Secretary * Lieutenant General Timothy Radford, current Commander,

Allied Rapid Reaction Corps The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) is a rapid reaction force maintained by NATO. It is capable of deploying a High Readiness Force (Land) Headquarters at short notice for operations and crisis response. History The ARRC was created on 1 ...

* Lieutenant General Willoughby Cotton Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army * Major-General Sir George Forestier-Walker, commanded 21st Division and 27th Division on the Western Front and as part of the

British Salonika Army The British Salonika Army was a field army of the British Army during World War I. After the armistice in November 1918, it was disbanded, but component units became the newly formed Army of the Black Sea, and General Milne remained in command. Fi ...

during World War I * Major-General William Donovan Stamer, commanded 161st Infantry Brigade,

Sudan Defence Force The Sudan Defence Force (SDF) was a British Colonial Auxiliary Forces unit raised in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1925 to assist local police in internal security duties and maintain the condominium's territorial integrity. During World War II, ...

and 131st Infantry Brigade during World War II * Major-General Sir Charles Sim Bremridge Parsons,

Commander of the British Troops in Canada This is a list of officers who commanded the British Regulars, Regular Troops of the British Army in Canada until 1906, when the last British garrison was withdrawn. From 1875 there was a separate commander of the Canadian Militia. This officer w ...

* Major-General Sir Harcourt Mortimer Bengough, fought in the Crimean War, Anglo-Zulu War and Third Anglo-Burmese War * Major-General Sir William Eyre, commanded 3rd Brigade and later 3rd Division in the

Crimean War The Crimean War was fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont fro ...

; later

Commander-in-Chief, North America The office of Commander-in-Chief, North America was a military position of the British Army. Established in 1755 in the early years of the Seven Years' War, holders of the post were generally responsible for land-based military personnel and a ...

* Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, instrumental in the development of the tank * Major-General Philip de Fonblanque, commanded the Lines of Communication for the British Expeditionary Force during the

* Major-General Geoffrey Bruce, Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Indian Army; also a member of the

1922 British Mount Everest expedition The 1922 British Mount Everest expedition was the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making the first ascent of Mount Everest. It was also the first expedition that used bottled oxygen while climbing Everest. The attempt wa ...

and 1924 British Mount Everest expedition * Major-General Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin, Divisional Commander in Persia, Iraq, Madagascar and Italy during World War II * Major General John Fielden Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough * Major-General Sir William Godwin Michelmore, commanded

Devon and Cornwall County Division The Devon and Cornwall County Division was a British County Divisions, County Division of the British Army created during the World War II, Second World War. It was formed on 28 February 1941, from recently recruited soldiers, in response to the ...

77th Infantry Division 77th Division or 75th Infantry Division may refer to: *77th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), Germany * 77th Infantry Division of Khurasan, Iran * 77th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) * 77th Division (People's Republic of China) *77th Division (Sp ...

and 45th Holding Division during World War II; later Lord Mayor of Exeter * Major-General Victor Campbell * Air Vice Marshal Augustus Henry Orlebar,

British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...

and

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...

officer who served in both world wars * Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output * Brigadier-General John Tyson Wigan, commanded 12th Cavalry Brigade. After the war he was the MP for Abingdon, 1918–1921 * Brigadier-General George MacLeay Macarthur-Onslow, commanded

5th Light Horse Brigade The 5th Light Horse Brigade was a mounted infantry brigade of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) that served during World War I. The brigade was initially formed as a part-time Australian Army Reserve, militia formation in the early 1900s ...

of the Australian Army during World War I * Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb, Chief Engineer Ports Construction to the British Army in France and Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty * Brigadier-General Anthony Courage, Regimental Colonel of the

15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars The 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed by the amalgamation of the 15th The King's Hussars and the 19th Royal Hussars in 1922 and, after service in the Second World War, it was a ...

. * Brigadier Philip Bowden-Smith, Commander of 125th Infantry Brigade which later became 10th Armoured Brigade; he also represented Great Britain at the

1924 Olympic Games 1924 Olympics may refer to: *The 1924 Winter Olympics, which were held in Chamonix, France *The 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an inter ...

* Brigadier Raymond Ladais Sandover, Commander

2/11th Battalion (Australia) The 2/11th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army which saw service during World War II. Raised shortly after the outbreak of war in 1939, the 2/11th was formed from Second Australian Imperial Force volunteers who were recr ...

and 6th Australian Infantry Brigade * Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet, awarded 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 ...

during the

* Colonel Osmond Barnes, Chief Herald of the

Indian Empire Indian Empire may refer to: * Maurya Empire (322 BCE – 185 BCE) * Gupta Empire ( 240– 550) * Chola Empire (848–1279) * Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526) * Mughal Empire (1526–1857) * Sur Empire (1538–1555) * Maratha Empire (1674–1818) * ...

* Colonel Lionel Beaumont-Thomas,

officer during both World Wars and

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 ...

Member of Parliament for Birmingham King's Norton * Colonel James Duff Army Officer who fought in the Crimean War and later became a Conservative MP * Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn, commander of the 2nd (Central African) Battalion, King's African Rifles * Colonel Robin Evelegh,

officer who authored 'Peace-Keeping in a Democratic Society' *

William Proby, Lord Proby William Allen Proby, Lord Proby (19 June 1779 – 6 August 1804) was a British Royal Navy officer and Whig politician. Background and education Proby was the eldest son of John Proby, 2nd Baron Carysfort (later 1st Earl of Carysfort, and his ...

, a British

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...

officer An officer is a person who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization. The term derives from Old French ''oficier'' "officer, official" (early 14c., Modern French ''officier''), from Medieval Latin ''officiarius'' "an officer," fro ...

and Whig politician * Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Bushell, won the

and

Distinguished Service Order The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a Military awards and decorations, military award of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, awarded for operational gallantry for highly successful ...

during World War I * Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading, Liberal then Conservative politician and barrister who fought in World War I * Lieutenant-Colonel Kanwar Shumshere Singh, doctor in the

Indian Medical Service The Indian Medical Service (IMS) was a military medical service in British India, which also had some civilian functions. It served during the two World Wars, and remained in existence until the independence of India in 1947. Many of its officer ...

* Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander "Alec" Ogilvie, early aviation pioneer * Lieutenant Colonel Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, British officer during the First World War * Lieutenant Commander Robert Selby Armitage, won both the

George Cross The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational Courage, gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy. In the British honours system, the George Cross, since its introduction in 1940, ...

and

George Medal The George Medal (GM), instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI,''British Gallantry Medals'' (Abbott and Tamplin), p. 138 is a decoration of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth, awarded for gallantry, typically ...

for his bomb disposal work during the Second World War * Lieutenant Commander John Bryan Peter Duppa-Miller,

officer who was awarded the

for bomb disposal work during the

Blitz Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to: Military uses *Blitzkrieg, blitz campaign, or blitz, a type of military campaign *The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War *, several ships of the Prussian, Imperia ...

* Major Arthur Willan Keen, British World War I flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories * William Hodson, commander during the 1857 Indian mutiny and founder of

Hodson's Horse 4th Horse (Hodson's Horse) is a part of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army, which had its beginnings as an irregular cavalry regiment during the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Formation The regiment was raised during the turbulent ti ...

* Major Bruce Shand, officer in the British Army and father of Camilla, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall * Squadron Leader William Spurrett Fielding-Johnson MC and Bar, DFC, army officer in World War I before joining the RFC and RAF in both World Wars * Squadron Leader Hedley Fowler, RAF officer who escaped from

Colditz Colditz () is a small town in the district of Leipzig (district), Leipzig, in Saxony, Germany. It is best known for Colditz Castle, the site of the Oflag IV-C prisoner-of-war camp, POW camp for officers in World War II. Geography Colditz is situa ...

* Captain John Norwood won the

during World War I * Captain Charles Roger Lupton, British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories * Captain Kenneth Barbour Montgomery, British World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories * Lieutenant Frank Alexander de Pass, the first

Jew Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly inte ...

and the first officer of the Indian Army to receive the

during World War I * Lieutenant Alfred Gordon Clark, won the

during World War I * Lieutenant Arthur Conolly, British Officer in 6th Bengal Native Light Cavalry. Coined the phrase 'The Great Game' * Lieutenant Donald Hankey, wrote two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in World War I both titled 'A Student in Arms' * Sir

James Arnold Stacey Cleminson Sir James Arnold Stacey Cleminson (31 August 1921 – 14 September 2010) was a prominent British soldier and businessman who was decorated for his service during the Battle of Arnhem after fighting in the North African Campaign and escaping wh ...

Edmund Musgrave Barttelot Edmund Musgrave Barttelot (28 March 1859 – 19 July 1888) was a British army officer, who became notorious after his allegedly brutal and deranged behaviour during his disastrous command of the rear column in the Congo during Henry Morton St ...

, British Army officer who was part of Henry Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886-89 *

Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor Henry William Crosbie Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor Deputy Lieutenant, DL, Justice of the Peace, JP (26 July 1828 – 23 February 1911), styled The Honourable from birth until 1881, was an Irish peer, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician a ...

British Army Officer who fought in the Xhosa Wars

Aviation

Christopher Orlebar Christopher John Dugmore Orlebar (4 February 1945 – 24 February 2018) was a former British Concorde pilot with British Airways. He was well known as a lecturer, writer, and frequent contributor to TV aviation documentaries on aviation subjects ...

, British

Concorde Concorde () is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the United Kingdom signed a treaty establishin ...

pilot, aviation lecturer and writer * John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator

Building, engineering and architecture

* Sir Charles Brett, architectural historian *

Will Butler-Adams William David Butler-Adams (born 11 May 1974 in London) Order of the British Empire, OBE FRGS is the managing director of Brompton Bicycle Limited a manufacturer based in the United Kingdom, published by the Made in Britain (campaign), Made in Br ...

, managing director of

Brompton Bicycle Brompton Bicycle Limited, trading as Brompton, is a British manufacturer of folding bicycles based in Greenford, London. The Brompton folding bicycle and accessories are the company's core product, noted for its self-supporting compact size w ...

Limited * William Grierson, civil engineer *

Sir Charles Nicholson Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet (born Isaac Ascough; 23 November 1808 – 8 November 1903) was an English-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist. The Nicholson Museum at the Universit ...

, ecclesiastical designer and architect *

David Ogle David Slingsby Ogle (1921''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007'' – 25 May 1962) was a British industrial and car designer. He founded the design consultancy company Ogle Design in 1954. He was educated at Rugby Scho ...

, industrial designer and car designer * Thomas Henry Poole, architect of numerous churches and schools in New York City *

Reid Railton Reid Anthony Railton (25 June 1895 – 1 September 1977) was a British automotive engineer, and designer of land and water speed record vehicles. Biography Reid Anthony Railton was the son of a Manchester stockbroker: Charles Withingon Railton a ...

, automotive engineer and designer of land and water speed record vehicles *

Sir Harry Ricardo Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo (26 January 1885 – 18 May 1974) was an English engineer who was one of the foremost engine designers and researchers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine. Among his many other works, ...

, designer of the internal combustion engine and patentee of the

two-stroke A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston, one up and one down, in one revolution of the crankshaft in contrast to a four-stroke engine which re ...

engine * Clement E. Stretton, consulting engineer and author.

Business

* Richard Jewson, businessman and

Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk. Since 1689, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Norfolk. * William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, 1549 – *Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of S ...

Charles Tertius Mander Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Baronet JP, DL, TD (16 July 1852 – 8 April 1929) was a Midland manufacturer (and as such Royal Warrant holder), philanthropist and public servant, of Wolverhampton, England. Biography Mander was the eldest s ...

, first baronet, manufacturer, public servant and philanthropist. * Clive Schlee, businessman, CEO of

Pret a Manger Pret a Manger (; French for "ready to eat") is a British multinational sandwich shop chain founded in London, England, in 1983. It is popularly referred to simply as Pret. As of January 2025, Pret had over 700 locations across 19 countries and ...

Nusli Wadia Nusli Neville Wadia (born 15 February 1944) is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman of the Wadia Group, a conglomerate with interests in various industries such as textiles, aviation, chemicals, and real estate. His father, Neville Wadia, ...

, businessman, Chairman of the

Wadia Group Wadia Group is an Indian multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate, founded in Surat, headquartered in Mumbai. It was founded by Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia in 1736 and is the List of oldest companies in India, ...

, son of

Neville Wadia Neville Ness Wadia (22 August 1911 – 31 July 1996) was a British born Indian businessman, philanthropist and a member of the Wadia family, an old Parsi family which, by the 1840s, was one of the leading forces in the Indian shipbuildin ...

and

Dina Wadia Dina Wadia (; 15 August 1919 – 2 November 2017) was the only daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, and his second wife, Rattanbai Petit. Born in London, she grew up in an influential and politically active family. Her pat ...

, grandson of

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Muhammad Ali Jinnah (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 187611 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pa ...

and

Rattanbai Jinnah Rattanbai Jinnah ( Petit, also known as Maryam Jinnah; 20 February 1900 – 20 February 1929), informally known as Ruttie, was the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, an important figure in the creation of Pakistan and the country's founder. Petit b ...

Civil Service

* Sir Christopher Bullock,

Permanent Under-Secretary A permanent under-secretary of state, known informally as a permanent secretary, is the most senior civil servant of a ministry in the United Kingdom, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis. Permanent secretaries are appointe ...

at the

Air Ministry The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force and civil aviation that existed from 1918 to 1964. It was under the political authority of the ...

* Sir Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, civil servant in the

War Office The War Office has referred to several British government organisations throughout history, all relating to the army. It was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, at ...

* Sir George Coldstream,

Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office The Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department was the most senior civil servant in the Lord Chancellor's Department and a senior member of Civil Service (United Kingdom), Her Majesty's Civil Service. Officially titled Her Majesty's Pe ...

* Sir Arthur Franks,

Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service The Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service serves as the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also commonly known as MI6), which is part of the United Kingdom intelligence community. The chief is appointed by the Secretary of State fo ...

Sir Ernest Gowers Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers (; 2 June 1880 – 16 April 1966) was a British civil servant and author who is best remembered for his book '' Plain Words,'' first published in 1948, and his revision of Fowler's classic '' Modern English Usage''. Bef ...

, civil servant and author of ''

The Complete Plain Words ''The Complete Plain Words'', titled simply ''Plain Words'' in its 2014 revision, is a style guide written by Sir Ernest Gowers, published in 1954. It has never been out of print. It comprises expanded and revised versions of two pamphlets that ...

'' * Sir Godfrey Lushington,

of the

Home Office The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is the United Kingdom's interior ministry. It is responsible for public safety and policing, border security, immigr ...

1886–1895; championed prison reform * Sir Nicholas Montagu, Chairman of H.M.

Inland Revenue The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation ta ...

, 1997–2004 *

Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, (1 April 1877 – 26 January 1963) was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office. ...

, Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence; and 1st Cabinet Secretary *

J. M. Bruce Lockhart John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart OBE CMG CB (9 May 1914 – 7 May 1995) was a British schoolmaster, soldier, diplomat, intelligence officer, and university administrator. Life Born at Rugby, Lockhart was one of the four sons of John Bruce Lockhart, ...

, intelligence officer

Colonial Service and imperial administration

* Sir

Alexander John Arbuthnot Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot (11 October 1822 – 10 June 1907) was a British official and writer. Early life He was born at Farmhill, County Mayo, the third son of Alexander Arbuthnot and his second wife Margaret Phoebe Bingham, daughter of ...

, colonial administrator and writer *

Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, ( zh, t=麥理浩; 16 October 1917 – 27 May 2000), was a British politician, diplomat and colonial official who served as the 25th Governor of Hong Kong, from 1971 to 1982. He was the lo ...

, the 25th Governor of Hong Kong * Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines, member of the

Indian Civil Service The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British Raj, British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 3 ...

* Sir Henry Conway Belfield, Resident of Negeri Sembilan; Resident of Selangor; British Resident of Perak and finally Governor of the British East Africa Protectorate *

Maurice Collis Maurice Stewart Collis (10 January 1889 – 12 January 1973) was an administrator in Burma (Myanmar) when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects. Life He was born in Du ...

colonial administrator in Burma; later a writer on South-East Asia * Arthur Conolly (1807–1842), captain in the East India Company's service * Henry Valentine Conolly, member of the

* The Honourable Sir Ashley Eden,

Chief Commissioner A chief commissioner is a commissioner of high rank, usually in chief of several commissioners or similarly styled officers. Colonial In British India the gubernatorial style was chief commissioner in various (not all) provinces (often after bein ...

of British Crown Colony of

Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

and

Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal In 1644, Gabriel Boughton procured privileges for the East India Company which permitted them to build a factory at Hooghly district, Hughli, without fortifications. Various chief agents, Governors and presidents were appointed to look after co ...

* Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth, Administrator of the British Raj *

Patrick William Forbes Major Patrick William Forbes (1861 – 1918) was a British South Africa Police officer who commanded a British South Africa Company force which invaded Matabeland during the First Matabele War. Life Forbes was born in 1861 at Whitechurch, Engl ...

, Commander of the

British South Africa Police The British South Africa Police (BSAP) was, for most of its existence, the police force of Southern Rhodesia and Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe in 1980). It was formed as a paramilitary force of mounted infantrymen in 1889 by Cecil Rhodes' Britis ...

, who invaded Matabeland in the

First Matabele War The First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in modern-day Zimbabwe. It pitted the British South Africa Company against the Ndebele (Matabele) Kingdom. Lobengula, king of the Ndebele, had tried to avoid outright war with the compa ...

; later Magistrate of Mashonaland 1893–1894; Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia 1895–1897 * Sir Robert Allason Furness, classicist and representative of the

British Council The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities. It works in over 100 countries: promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language (and the Welsh lang ...

in Egypt, 1945-1950 * Sir Henry Paul HarveyKCMG, Egyptian Financial Advisor from 1907 to 1912 and 1919–1920 * Sir Frederick James Halliday, first

* Stephen Rumbold Lushington,

Governor of Madras This is a list of the governors, agents, and presidents of colonial Madras, initially of the English East India Company, up to the end of British colonial rule in 1947. English Agents In 1639, the grant of Madras to the English was finalized ...

1827–1832 and Tory politician * Leonard Fielding Nalder colonial administrator who served as Governor of Fung Province 1927–1930 and Mongalla province 1930–1936 in

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Anglo-Egyptian Sudan ( ') was a condominium (international law), condominium of the United Kingdom and Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt between 1899 and 1956, corresponding mostly to the territory of present-day South Sudan and Sudan. Legally, sovereig ...

* James Alexander Richey, educational administrator in South Africa and India *

Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (8 March 1826 – 15 March 1902), was a British colonial administrator in the British Raj, 19th-century India, who served as Governor of Bombay from 1877 to 1880. Early life Temple was the son of Richard Temple ...

1874–1877;

Governor of Bombay Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea. These seven islands were part of a larger archipelago in the Arabian sea, off the western coast of India. The date of city's founding is unclear—historians tr ...

1877–1880 and also an MP * Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope, civil servant of the Government of India, including Public Works * Sir George Chardin Denton, Governor of Gambia * John Loader Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby, Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province; Governor-General of the Sudan; and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies * John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken,

Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India This is a list of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State and Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Permanent Under-Secretaries of State at the India Office during the British India, period of British rule be ...

1883–1909 * Sir William Frederick Gowers, Governor of Uganda *

John Claude White John Claude White (1October 18531918) was an engineer, photographer, author and civil servant in British India. From 1889 to 1908, White was the political officer in Sikkim, then a British protectorate. As part of his remit, he also managed Br ...

, Deputy Commissioner of the Tibet Frontier Commission

Diplomatic Service

* Sir Charles Bagot, diplomat and administrator *

Sir Thomas Bromley Sir Thomas Bromley (153011 April 1587) was a 16th-century lawyer, judge and politician who established himself in the mid-Tudor period and rose to prominence during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was successively Solicitor General and Lord Chance ...

, Ambassador to Somalia, Syria, Algeria & Ethiopia * Sir Julian Bullard, Ambassador to West Germany *

Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock, (19 September 1849 – 5 November 1928), known as Sir Arthur Nicolson, 11th Baronet, from 1899 to 1916, was a British diplomat and politician during the last quarter of the 19th century to the middle of World ...

, Ambassador to Spain; to Russia and finally Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs *

Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle (8 December 1868, Walton-on-Thames – 4 May 1920, Vallon) was a Swiss botanist and was British consul to the Canton of Geneva between 1912 and 1918. Early life and education Richard Émile Augustin de Ca ...

, Consul to the Canton of Geneva * Baron Charles de Chassiron, Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, 2001–2006 * Sir Leycester Coltman, Ambassador to Cuba from 1991 to 1994 and to Colombia 1994–1998; author of ''The Real Fidel Castro'' * Sir John Coulson, Ambassador to Sweden and Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association * Sir Moore Crosthwaite, Ambassador to Lebanon and to Sweden * Sir Patrick Henry Dean, Permanent Representative to the UN 1960–1964;

Ambassador to the United States The following table lists ambassadors to the United States, , sorted by the representative country or organization. See also *Ambassadors of the United States Notes {{reflist, 30em External linksCurrent and former Ambassadors to the United Sta ...

1965–1969 and also Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee * Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, High Commissioner to Egypt; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Teheran; and Ambassador to Spain; also a

Politician * Sir Ewen Fergusson, Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary 1975–1978; Ambassador to South Africa 1982–1984 and

to France "To France" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It is from the album ''Discovery'' and features Maggie Reilly on vocals. The musical theme used in "To France" was also used on the first track on side two of the ''Discovery' ...

1987–1992 * Sir Anthony Figgis, Ambassador to Austria 1996–2000;

Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps His Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps is a senior member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. He is the King's link with the diplomatic community in London, arranges the annual diplomatic corps reception by th ...

2001–2008 and the current

Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod The usher of the Blue Rod, formally known as the Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod or Lady Usher of the Blue Rod is the Usher to the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, established in 1818. The office was simply designated a ...

Sir Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet Sir William Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet (18 July 1847 – 20 May 1924), was a British diplomat. Background and education Goschen was born at Eltham, England, the twelfth child and sixth son of Wilhelm Heinrich Göschen, originally of Leipzig ...

, Ambassador to Serbia, to Denmark, to Austria-Hungary and to Germany; later Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State *

Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey Robert Maurice Alers Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, (4 July 1905 – 28 October 1996) was a British diplomat and public servant. Background and education Born on 4 July 1905, Hankey was the eldest son of Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, and Adeline ...

, Ambassador to Sweden 1954–1960 * Hon.

Richard Gilbert Hare Richard Gilbert Hare (5 September 190714 September 1966) was a British diplomat who later became the first Professor of Russian Literature at London University. His interests encompassed Russian art, literature and politics which he taught at ...

Head of Russian propaganda, Ministry of Information, WW2 *

Sir James Hudson Sir James Hudson GCB (1810 – 20 September 1885) was a British diplomat. He is noted for his time as British ambassador to Turin between 1852 and 1863, as an italophile and strong supporter of Italian unification, and a collector of Italian a ...

, Ambassador to Turin * Augustus Henry Mounsey, Minister Resident and Consul General to Colombia * Sir Owen O'Malley, Minister to Hungary 1939–1941; British ambassador to the Polish government in exile during World War II; and Ambassador to Portugal 1945–1957 * Sir Maurice Peterson, Minister to Bulgaria 1936–1938;

Ambassador to Iraq This is a list of United States ambassadors, or lower-ranking heads of a diplomatic mission to Iraq. * Alexander K. Sloan (1931), chargé d'affaires * Paul Knabenshue (1932–1942), minister * Thomas M. Wilson (1942), minister * Loy W. Henderson ...

1938–1939; to Spain 1939–1940; to Turkey 1944–1946 and to Russia 1946–1949 * Sir Frank Roberts, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954–1957; Permanent Representative on the

North Atlantic Council The North Atlantic Council (NAC) is the principal political decision-making body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), consisting of permanent representatives of its member countries. It was established by wikisource:North Atlantic ...

1957–1960; Ambassador to the USSR 1960–1962; to West Germany 1963–1968 *

Ian Samuel Adrian Christopher Ian Samuel (20 August 1915 – 26 December 2010) was a Royal Air Force pilot, British diplomat, and director of chemical and agrochemical trade associations. Career Ian Samuel was educated at Rugby School and St John's College ...

, diplomat and RAF officer during World War II * Sir William Seeds, Ambassador to Brazil 1930–1935; and Ambassador to Russia 1939–1940 *

Sir Alan Urwick Sir Alan Bedford Urwick (2 May 1930 – 8 December 2016) was a British diplomat, who served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1989 to 1995. Early life Alan Bedford Urwick was born on 2 May 1930, in London. He was the youn ...

, Ambassador to Jordan 1979–1984; to Egypt 1985–1987; British High Commissioner to Canada 1987–1989 and

Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons The Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons is a parliamentary official responsible for order in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The office dates to 1415 and traditionally included responsibility for security. The role is now mainly ...

1989–1995 * Sir Charles Richard Vaughan, Minister to Switzerland 1823–1825 and Minister to the United States 1825–1835 * Sir Peter Wilkinson, Ambassador to Vietnam in 1966–1967; also a SOE agent during World War II * Sir Michael S. Williams, Ambassador to Guatemala 1962–1963; and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See 1965–1970

Ecclesiastics

* Robert Barbour, lecturer in theology, moderator of the church of Scotland, and holder of the Military Cross *

George Bradley George Washington Bradley (July 13, 1852 – October 2, 1931), nicknamed "Grin", was an American professional baseball player who was a pitcher and infielder. He played for multiple teams in the early years of the National League, the oldest le ...

Dean of Westminster The Dean of Westminster is the head of the chapter at Westminster Abbey. Due to the abbey's status as a royal peculiar, the dean answers directly to the British monarch (not to the Bishop of London as ordinary, nor to the Archbishop of Canterb ...

* Charles Boyd, Archdeacon of Colombo *

Godwin Birchenough Godwin Birchenough (27 October 1880 – 3 March 1953) was an Anglican cleric and Dean of Ripon. Birchenough was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, the only son of Walter Edwin Birchenough and the grandson of John Birchenough, a prominent Mac ...

Dean of Ripon Cathedral The Dean of Ripon is a senior cleric in the Church of England Diocese of Leeds. The dean is the head of the chapter at Ripon Cathedral – his predecessors were deans of the same church when it was previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Rip ...

John Bickersteth John Monier Bickersteth (6 September 1921 – 29 January 2018) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1975 to 1986, and Clerk of the Closet from 1979 to 1989. Bickersteth descended from a clerical fam ...

Bishop of Bath and Wells The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of D ...

and

Clerk of the Closet The College of Chaplains of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is under the Clerk of the Closet, an office dating from 1437. It is normally held by a diocesan bishop, who may, however, remain in office after leav ...

* Geoffrey Clayton,

Archdeacon of Chesterfield The three Archdeacons in the Diocese of Derby are senior ecclesiastical officers in the Church of England Diocese of Derby. Each archdeacon has responsibility for church buildings and clergy discipline in her/his respective archdeaconry. History ...

; Bishop of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town *

Thomas Legh Claughton Thomas Legh Claughton (6 November 1808 – 25 July 1892) was a British academic, poet, and clergyman. He was professor of poetry at Oxford University from 1852 to 1857; Bishop of Rochester; and the first Bishop of St Albans.Sutton, C. W. "Cla ...

Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Rochester is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury. The town of Rochester, Kent, Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Rochester Cathedral, Cathedral Chur ...

and

Bishop of St Albans The Bishop of St Albans is the Ordinary (officer), Ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of St Albans in the Province of Canterbury. The bishop is supported in his work by two suffragan bishops, the Bishop of Hertford and the Bishop o ...

. * George Chase, Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge and

Bishop of Ripon The Bishop of Ripon is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The bishop is one of the area bishops of the Diocese of Leeds in the Province of York. The area bishop of Ripon has oversight o ...

* Reverend William Lucas Collins *

James Cotton James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many fellow blues artists and with his own band. He also played drums early in his career. ...

Dean of Bangor Bangor Cathedral () is the cathedral church of Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. It is dedicated to its founder, Saint Deiniol. The site of the present building of Bangor Cathedral has been in use as a place of Christian worship since the sixth century. ...

Francis Cramer-Roberts Francis Alexander Randal Cranmer Cramer-Roberts (né Roberts; 3 December 18409 February 1901) was an Anglican priest and colonial bishop in the 19th century. Early life Cramer-Roberts was born in Dublin in 1841, the son of Lieut-Col. John Crame ...

, Bishop of Nassau and

Archdeacon of Blackburn The Archdeacon of Blackburn is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Blackburn. Originally created on 17 August 1877 within the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Manchester, the office became a part of the new Diocese of B ...

* Reverend Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet *

Edwin Dodgson Edwin Heron Dodgson (30 June 1846 – 3 January 1918) was a clergyman in the Church of England and the youngest brother of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), author of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. He is primarily remembered fo ...

* Alan Campbell Don,

Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons The Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, also known as the Speaker's Chaplain, is a Church of England priest who officiates at services held at the Palace of Westminster and its associated chapel, St Mary Undercroft. The Chaplain ...

1936–1946 and

1946–1959 * Nowell Twopeny, Archdeacon of Flinders *

Edward Feild Edward Feild (7 June 1801 – 8 June 1876) was a university tutor, university examiner, Anglican clergyman, inspector of schools, and second Bishop of Newfoundland. Early years Born in Worcester, England, Feild was educated at Rugby School and ...

, Bishop of Newfoundland and Archdeacon of Bermuda *

Launcelot Fleming William Launcelot Scott Fleming (7 August 1906 – 30 July 1990) was a Scottish Church of England, Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Portsmouth (Anglican), Bishop of Portsmouth and later the Bishop of Norwich. He was also noted as a geol ...

, Bishop of Portsmouth and

Bishop of Norwich The Bishop of Norwich is the Ordinary (Catholic Church), ordinary of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Norwich, Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers most of the county of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. Th ...

* Rev. Thomas Valpy French, first Bishop of

Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

* Archibald Ronald Gordon, Bishop of Portsmouth,

Bishop at Lambeth The Bishop to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York is a position within the hierarchy of the Church of England. It is a non-diocesan appointment in which a bishop acts as head of staff or general assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury and to ...

and

Bishop to the Forces The Anglican church in the British Armed Forces falls under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury; however, for all practical purposes the function is performed by the Bishop to the Forces. His full title is "The Archbishop of Canterbu ...

Rupert Hoare Rupert William Noel Hoare (born 3 March 1940) is a former dean of Liverpool and Anglican area Bishop of Dudley. Biography Hoare was born on 3 March 1940 in Sussex, England. He attended the Dragon School in Oxford before attending Rugby School. Up ...

Dean of Liverpool The Dean of Liverpool is based in Liverpool and is head of the chapter of Liverpool Cathedral. Sue Jones (priest), Sue Jones was installed as Dean on 5 May 2018. A former dean, Edward Patey, said that being Dean of Liverpool was "the best job in ...

and

Bishop of Dudley The Bishop of Dudley is an Episcopal polity, episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Worcester, Diocese of Worcester, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town ...

* Percy Mark Herbert, the first

Bishop of Blackburn The Bishop of Blackburn is the Ordinary (officer), Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Blackburn in the Province of York. The diocese covers much of the county of Lancashire and has its Episcopal see, see in the Blackburn, town of Black ...

;

and

Hugh Hornby Hugh Leycester Hornby (20 November 1888 – 24 March 1965) was an Anglican clergyman. Hornby was born at St. Michael's-on-Wyre, near Preston, Lancashire. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was curate of St. Annes-o ...

Bishop of Hulme The Bishop of Hulme was an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Manchester, in the Province of York, England. The See was created by Order in Council on 11 October 1923 (under the Suffragans Nomination ...

Phipps Hornby Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby, (27 April 1785 – 19 March 1867) was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Hornby served on frigates throughout most of his wartime experience, which included witnessing the ...

Archdeacon of Lancaster The Archdeacon of Lancaster is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Blackburn. Originally created in the Diocese of Manchester it became part of the new Diocese of Blackburn in 1926. As Archdeacon, they are responsible for the d ...

* Rev Francis Jayne,

Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York. The diocese extends across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the ...

and academic *

Thomas Jex-Blake Thomas William Jex-Blake (1832–1915) was an Anglican priest and educationalist. He was born on 26 January 1832, the son of lawyer Thomas Jex-Blake and the brother of Sophia Jex-Blake, who was a pioneer in women doctors in the United Kingdom. H ...

Dean of Wells The Dean of Wells is the head of the Chapter of Wells Cathedral in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. The dean's residence is The Dean's Lodging, 25 The Liberty, Wells. List of deans High Medieval *1140–1164: Ivo *1164–1189: ...

also a teacher and Headmaster of Rugby *

Michael Gresford Jones Edward Michael Gresford Jones (called Michael; 21 October 19017 March 1982) was a Church of England bishop. He was the son of Herbert Gresford Jones who was also a bishop. He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge and ...

Bishop of Willesden The Bishop of Willesden is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Willesden, an area of the London Borough of Brent; the See ...

and

* Edwin Kempson,

Bishop of Warrington __NOTOC__ The Bishop of Warrington is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Liverpool, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Warrington in Cheshire; the current b ...

* Francis Kilner, Bishop of Richmond *

Carey Knyvett Carey Frederick Knyvett (1885–1967) was the 2nd Bishop of Selby. Knyvett was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1912. His first post was as Curate at Petworth. Subsequently, he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Shef ...

Archdeacon of Northampton The Archdeacon of Northampton is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Anglican Diocese of Peterborough, Diocese of Peterborough. As such she or he is responsible for the disciplinary supervision of the clergy within its six Rural Dean, rura ...

and

Bishop of Selby The Bishop of Selby 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 refers to the town of Selby in North Yorkshire; the See was erected under the Suffragans Nom ...

* William Lake,

Dean of Durham The Dean of Durham is the "head" (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the Chapter, the ruling body of Durham Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the ''Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cu ...

* John Lawton,

Archdeacon of Warrington The archdeacons in the Diocese of Liverpool are senior ecclesiastical officers in the Church of England in a highly irregular area surrounding the city of Liverpool. They are the archdeacons of Liverpool, of St Helens and Warrington, of Knows ...

* Edward Legge,

Dean of Windsor The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the Canon (priest), canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as ''primus inter pares''. The post of Dean of Wolverhampton was assimilat ...

and

Bishop of Oxford The Bishop of Oxford is the diocesan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford in the Province of Canterbury; his seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. The current bishop is Steven Croft (bishop), Steven Croft, following the Confirm ...

* William MacKennal,

Archdeacon of Ely The Archdeacon of Cambridge is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Diocese of Ely. The archdeacon is responsible for some clergy discipline and pastoral care in the Archdeaconry of Cambridge. The archdeaconry has existed, as the Archdeaconry o ...

Hugh Montefiore Hugh William Montefiore (born Hugh William Sebag-Montefiore; 12 May 1920 – 13 May 2005) was an English Anglican bishop and academic, who served as Bishop of Kingston from 1970 to 1978 and Bishop of Birmingham from 1978 to 1987. Early life and ...

Bishop of Kingston The Bishop of Kingston (technically of ''Kingston upon Thames'' or, originally, of ''Kingston-on-Thames'') is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Southwark, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The ti ...

1970–1978 and

Bishop of Birmingham The Bishop of Birmingham heads the Church of England Diocese of Birmingham, in the Province of Canterbury, in England. The diocese covers the North West of the historical county of Warwickshire and has its see in the City of Birmingham, Wes ...

1977–1987 * Frank Okell, Bishop of Stockport and Archdeacon of Macclesfield * Grandage Powell,

Archdeacon of Carlisle The Archdeacon of Carlisle is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Carlisle. The archdeacon is responsible for some pastoral care and discipline of the clergy in the ancient archdeaconry of Carlisle. Sources would seem to indicate ...

and

Bishop of Penrith The Bishop of Penrith is an Episcopal polity, episcopal title named after the town of Penrith, Cumbria, Penrith in Cumbria. The title was first mentioned "as Pereth" in the Suffragan Bishops Act 1534 (alongside a see for Penreth – now called Bi ...

John Purchas John Purchas, (born at Cambridge, 14 July 1823; died at Brighton, 18 October 1872), was an author and a priest of the Church of England who was prosecuted for ritualist practices. Life He was the son of William Jardine Purchas RN and his wife Jan ...

, Church of England priest who was prosecuted for ritualist practices * Norman Rathbone,

Dean of Hereford The Dean of Hereford is the head (''primus inter pares'' – first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons, the ruling body of Hereford Cathedral. The dean and chapter are based at the ''Cathedral Church of Blessed Virgin Mary and St Et ...

* Charles Waldegrave Sandford, Bishop of Gibraltar *

Augustus Shears The Reverend Augustus Shears (25 July 1827 - 25 May 1911) was the sixth and youngest son of Daniel Towers Shears (1784–1860), a partner of James Shears and Sons, and Frances Spurrell (1788–1834), daughter of John Spurrell of Bessingham, Norfolk ...

, clergyman who

translated Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...

part of the

Prayer Book A prayer book is a book containing prayers and perhaps devotional readings, for private or communal use, or in some cases, outlining the liturgy of religious services. Books containing mainly orders of religious services, or readings for them are ...

into

Burmese Burmese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia * Burmese people * Burmese language * Burmese alphabet * Burmese cuisine * Burmese culture Animals * Burmese cat * Burmese chicken * Burmese (horse), a ...

Walter Waddington Shirley Prof. Rev. Walter Waddington Shirley (1828–1866) was an English churchman and ecclesiastical historian. Life The only son of Walter Augustus Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man, he was born at Shirley, Derbyshire, on 24 July 1828. In 1837 he bec ...

, churchman and ecclesiastical historian *

Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and ...

Lovelace Stamer The Right Reverend Sir Lovelace Tomlinson Stamer, 3rd Baronet, VD (18 October 182929 October 1908) was the first Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury in the modern era. Early life and education Lovelace Stamer was born in York into an Anglo-Irish nobl ...

, Archdeacon of Stoke and Bishop of Shrewsbury *

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, (13 December 1815 – 18 July 1881) known as Dean Stanley, was an English Anglican priest and ecclesiastical historian. He was Dean of Westminster from 1864 to 1881. His position was that of a Broad Churchman and he wa ...

, English churchman, and

* Arthur Stanton Anglo-catholic priest *

John Stott John Robert Walmsley Stott (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was a British Anglican pastor and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. I ...

evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...

minister who later was a curate of All Souls, Langham place and a leading figure involved in drafting the

Lausanne Covenant The Lausanne Covenant is a July 1974 religious manifesto promoting active worldwide Christian evangelism. One of the most influential documents in modern evangelicalism, it was written at the First International Congress on World Evangelization ...

* Alfred Swann,

Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean * Dean Sw ...

and Archdeacon of Hong Kong *

Henry Herbert Symonds The Reverend Henry Herbert Symonds (1885 – 28 December 1958) was an English Anglican priest, teacher and conservationist. From 1909 to 1935 he followed a career as a teacher, first at Clifton College and Rugby School, and later as headmaster ...

, Anglican priest who was a driving force behind the creation of National Parks * Frederick Stephen Temple, Dean of Hong Kong and

Bishop of Malmesbury The Bishop of Swindon is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Bristol, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after the town of Swindon in Wiltshire. The title of Bishop of ...

* William Temple,

Bishop of Manchester The Bishop of Manchester is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Manchester, Diocese of Manchester in the Province of York.) The current bishop is David Walker (Bishop of Manchester), David Walker who w ...

1921–29;

Archbishop of York The archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the archbishop of Canterbury. The archbishop is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers the ...

1929–42 and

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the Primus inter pares, ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the diocese of Canterbury. The first archbishop ...

1942–44; an influential radical thinker, and father of the post-war Welfare State *

David Urquhart David Urquhart (1 July 180516 May 1877) was a British diplomat, writer and politician, serving as a Member of Parliament for Stafford from 1847 to 1852. He also was an early promoter in the United Kingdom of the hammam (known to westerners as th ...

, Bishop of Birkenhead and the current

bishop of Birmingham The Bishop of Birmingham heads the Church of England Diocese of Birmingham, in the Province of Canterbury, in England. The diocese covers the North West of the historical county of Warwickshire and has its see in the City of Birmingham, Wes ...

* Henry Wace,

* Richard Watson,

Bishop of Burnley The Bishop of Burnley is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Blackburn, in the Province of York, England. The title takes its name after the town of Burnley in Lancashire. Originally, the suffragan b ...

Edward Were Edward Ash Were (14 November 1846–8 April 1915) was an Anglican suffragan bishop in the latter part of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. He was educated at Rugby School and New College, Oxford. After graduation, he was a ...

Bishop of Derby The Bishop of Derby is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Derby in the Province of Canterbury.''Crockford's Clerical Directory'', 100th edition, (2007), Church House Publishing. . The diocese was formed from part of the Diocese o ...

1889–1909, and

Bishop of Stafford The Bishop of Stafford is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Stafford, the county town of Staffordshire. The Bishop o ...

1909–1915 * Edward Winnington-Ingram,

Archdeacon of Hereford The Archdeacon of Hereford is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Hereford. The archdeacon is the senior priest with responsibility over the area of the archdeaconry of Hereford. History The first recorded archdea ...

Law

Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington Hubert Lister Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington, (28 May 1900 – 15 September 1972) was a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1958 to 1971. His term was marked by much less controversy than that of his predecessor ...

Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales The Lord or Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary of England and Wales and the president of the courts of England and Wales. Until 2005 the lord chief justice was the second-most senior judge of the English and ...

Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross John Mark Alexander Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross (19 July 1933 – 8 April 2010), was a British judge and politician. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. ...

, judge and politician. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999. * Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary *

Horace Davey, Baron Davey Horace Davey, Baron Davey, PC, FRS, FBA (30 August 183320 February 1907) was an English judge and Liberal politician. Background and education Davey was the son of Peter Davey, of Horton, Buckinghamshire and Caroline Emma Pace, and was ...

, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary *

David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead (born 27 June 1938) is a retired Scottish judge who served as the Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General, Scotland's most senior judge, and later as first Deputy Presid ...

, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary * Sir Edward Marshall-Hall, English barrister and orator * Sir Michael Kerry, former

HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor The Government Legal Department (previously called the Treasury Solicitor's Department) is the largest in-house legal organisation in the United Kingdom's Government Legal Profession. The department is headed by the Treasury Solicitor (formal ...

Robert Barton Robert Childers Barton (14 March 1881 – 10 August 1975) was an Anglo-Irish politician, Irish nationalist and farmer who participated in the negotiations leading up to the signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. His father was Charles William Bar ...

, Irish lawyer and statesman who worked on the Anglo-Irish Treaty * Major Sir Thomas Hetherington, barrister and first head of the

Crown Prosecution Service The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The main responsibilities of the CPS are to provide legal adv ...

* Edmund Yorke, Legal scholar and barrister * Sir Robert Akenhead, High Court Judge and Head of the Technology and Construction Court * Wilfred Baugh Allen, judge * Sir Lewis Cave, judge * Sir George Farwell,

Lord Justice of Appeal A Lord Justice of Appeal or Lady Justice of Appeal is a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the court that hears appeals from the High Court of Justice, the Crown Court and other courts and tribunals. A Lord (or Lady) Just ...

* Sir James Edmund Sandford Fawcett, barrister and member of the

European Commission for Human Rights The European Commission of Human Rights was a special body of the Council of Europe. From 1954 to the 1998 entry into force of Protocol 11 to the European Convention on Human Rights, individuals did not have direct access to the European Court ...

Alfred Gordon Clark Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark (4 September 1900 – 25 August 1958) was an English barrister, judgeHis Honour A. A. Gordon Clark (Obituaries) The Times Tuesday, 26 August 1958; pg. 10; Issue 54239; col E and crime writer under the pseudonym Cyr ...

, judge *

Charles Sprengel Greaves Charles Sprengel Greaves MA QC (1802–1881), eldest son of William Greaves MD (1771–1848) of Mayfield, Staffordshire, by his first wife, Anne-Lydia, was born at Burton on 18 July 1802.Rupert Simms. Bibliotheca Staffordiensis. Printed for t ...

* Philip Guedalla, barrister * Sir Alfred van Waterschoodt Lucie-Smith, colonial judge who became

Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago The chief justice of Trinidad and Tobago is the highest judge of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and presides over the Supreme Court of Judicature of Trinidad and Tobago. He is appointed by a common decision of the President, the prime ministe ...

Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, (27 November 1812 – 4 May 1895) was an English lawyer and politician. He served twice as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Background and education Palmer was born at Mixbury in Oxfordshire, where ...

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 ...

1872–1874 & 1880–1885;

Attorney General for England and Wales His Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales is the chief legal adviser to the sovereign and Government in affairs pertaining to England and Wales as well as the highest ranking amongst the law officers of the Crown. The attorney gener ...

1863–1866; and

Solicitor General for England and Wales His Majesty's Solicitor General for England and Wales, known informally as the Solicitor General, is one of the law officers of the Crown in the government of the United Kingdom. They are the deputy of the Attorney General for England and Wales ...

1861–1863 * Sir Lawrence Peel,

Advocate-General of Bengal The Advocate-General of Bengal was charged with advising the Government of the British administered Bengal Presidency on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1765 to 1947. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the East India Company, t ...

and

Chief Justice of Bengal Chief may refer to: Title or rank Military and law enforcement * Chief master sergeant, the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force * Chief of police, the head of a police department * Chief of the boat ...

* Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle, county court judge and liberal party politician *

Thomas Bateman Napier His Hon. Thomas Bateman Napier LLD (1854-6 November 1933), was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician and judge. Family He was a son of Richard Clay Napier of Preston, Lancashire, Preston, and Sarah Bateman of City of Salford, Sa ...

county court judge and politician * John Sandford, judicial commissioner of Burma and Mysore * Sir Leslie Frederic Scott,

and Liberal MP *

Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens William Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens, KBE, PC, KC (9 August 1885 – 15 November 1973) was a British lawyer, judge and Conservative politician. He served as Chief Justice of India from 1943 to 1947. Biography Spens was the eldest of the s ...

Chief Justice of India The chief justice of India (CJI) is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India and the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary. The Constitution of India grants power to the President of India to appoint, as recommended by the outg ...

* Roger John Laugharne Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd,

President of the Queen's Bench Division The King's Bench Division (or Queen's Bench Division when the monarch is female) of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases and has supervisory responsibility over certain lower courts. It hears appeals on point ...

and the current

* Jonathan David Chattyn Turner, barrister specialising in intellectual property and competition law * Dudley Ward, New Zealand judge and politician

Literature

Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold (academic), Tom Arnold, literary professor, and Willi ...

, Victorian poet and critic (son of Headmaster Dr

Thomas Arnold Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widel ...

) *

Rupert Brooke Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915The date of Brooke's death and burial under the Julian calendar that applied in Greece at the time was 10 April. The Julian calendar was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar.) was an En ...

, English poet *

Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh Clough ( ; 1 January 181913 November 1861) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough and father of Blanche Athena Clough, who both becam ...

, English poet * Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and reluctant Anglicanism, Anglican deacon. His most notable works are ''Alice ...

, famous for ''

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (also known as ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English Children's literature, children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics university don, don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a ...

'' * Richard Doyle, English author *

Dominic Hibberd John William Dominic Hibberd FRSL (3 November 1941 – 12 August 2012) was an English freelance author, academic and broadcaster, best known for his biographies of the poets Wilfred Owen and Harold Monro and his collections (edited with John ...

, English critic and biographer *

Anthony Horowitz Anthony John Horowitz (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the '' Alex Rider'' series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spi ...

, English writer *

Edmund George Valpy Knox Edmund George Valpy Knox (10 May 1881 – 2 January 1971) was a British poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of '' Punch'' 1932–1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years. Life K ...

, editor of Punch *

Walter Savage Landor Walter Savage Landor (30 January 177517 September 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist. His best known works were the prose ''Imaginary Conversations,'' and the poem "Rose Aylmer," but the critical acclaim he received from contempora ...

, English writer and poet *

Wyndham Lewis Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited ''Blast (British magazine), Blast'', the literary magazine of the Vorticists. His ...

, British painter and author * John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator *

Arthur Ransome Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing and illustrating the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of childre ...

, British children's author *

Mario Reading Mario Gilbert Priester-Reading (10 August 1953 – 29 January 2017) was a British author. Reading was born in Bournemouth in 1953, son of Gordon and Lieselotte Reading. He was brought up in England, Germany, and the South of France, and educated ...

, author *

Sir Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( ; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern an ...

, author and essayist, Booker Prize winner for ''

Midnight's Children ''Midnight's Children'' is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a pos ...

''. Said of his time: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too." *

J.K. Stanford John Keith Stanford Order of the British Empire, OBE Military Cross, MC (29 April 1892 – 24 September 1971) was a British civil servant who worked in Burma and wrote many books on sport, humour, and natural history. Stanford was born in Aldri ...

, English author *

Francis Stuart Henry Francis Montgomery Stuart (29 April 19022 February 2000) was an Irish writer. He was awarded one of the highest artistic accolades in Ireland, being elected a Saoi of Aosdána, before his death in 2000. His associations with the IRA an ...

, IRA member, Nazi collaborator and Irish novelist. *

Thomas Hughes Thomas Hughes (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel ''Tom Brown's School Days'' (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had atte ...

, English lawyer and author of ''

Tom Brown's Schooldays ''Tom Brown's School Days'' (sometimes written ''Tom Brown's Schooldays'', also published under the titles ''Tom Brown at Rugby'', ''School Days at Rugby'', and ''Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby'') is a novel by Thomas Hughes, published in 18 ...

'' * Major Geoffrey Cecil Gilbert McNeill-Moss British army officer and novelist

Media, entertainment and the arts

* Charles Acton, music critic at ''

The Irish Times ''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It was launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is Ireland's leading n ...

'' *

Dolly Alderton Dolly Alderton (born 31 August 1988) is a British author and screenwriter. She is also columnist for ''The Sunday Times''. Her memoir '' Everything I Know About Love'' won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography and was shortlisted for the ...

, author *

Faris Badwan Faris Adam Derar Badwan (born 21 September 1986) is an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the Horrors and as half of the duo Cat's Eyes. Early life Born in Bexley, Kent on 21 September 1986 to a Palestinian father and Englis ...

, aka Faris Rotter, vocalist from band

The Horrors The Horrors are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Southend-on-Sea in 2005 by lead vocalist Faris Badwan, guitarist Joshua Hayward, keyboardist and synthesizer player Tom Furse, bassist Rhys Webb, and drummer and percussionist Joe Spurg ...

Roy Beddington Roy Beddington (16 June 1910 – 31 May 1995) was a British painter, illustrator, fisherman, poet, writer on fishing, and journalist. As an artist he was known for his watercolours, with his first one-man shows being at Grafton and Walker's gall ...

, painter, illustrator, author, and journalist *

Sir Arthur Bliss Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor. Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he qui ...

, composer and conductor.

Master of the Queen's Music Master of the King's Music (or Master of the Queen's Music, or earlier Master of the King's Musick) is a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom. The holder of the post originally served the Kingdom of England, monarch of England, dire ...

(1953-75) * William Bullock, journalist at '' The Daily News'' *

David Carritt Hugh David Graham Carritt (15 April 1927 – 3 August 1982) was a British art historian, dealer and critic, who was described by ''The New York Times'' as being "responsible for more sensational discoveries in the field of Old Master painting sin ...

(1927–1982), British art historian, dealer and critic * Charlie Charters, Author, rugby union official, sports executive and journalist *

Tom Cowan Thomas Cowan (born 28 August 1969) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a defender. During his career he played for Clyde, Rangers, Sheffield United, Stoke City, Huddersfield Town, Burnley, Cambridge United, Peterborough United, Yor ...

/Furse, Bassist from band

* Freddie Cowan, Guitarist from band

The Vaccines The Vaccines are an English indie rock band, formed in West London in 2010 by Justin Hayward-Young and Freddie Cowan. The band currently consists of Young (lead vocals, guitars), Árni Árnason (bass, vocals), Timothy Lanham (guitars, keys, ...

* Frank Barrington Craig, British portrait painter * David Croft, (born David Sharland) Television writer, producer and director *

David Haig David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955) is an English actor and playwright. He has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades. Haig wrote the play '' My Boy Jack'', whic ...

, English actor and writer *

Arthur fforde Sir Arthur Frederic Brownlow fforde GBE (23 August 1900 – 26 June 1985) was an English solicitor, civil servant, headmaster, writer and businessman. Arthur fforde was educated at Rugby School (SH 1914–1919, Head of School) and Trinity College ...

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 ...

chairman *

Isabel Fay Isabel Fay is a British children's screenwriter, formerly a comedy writer and performer. Early life and education Fay was born in Bath in 1979 and graduated from Royal Holloway University of London in 2001 with a 2:1 BA (Hons). Career TV, ...

, comedy actress and writer *

Dan Haigh Dan Haigh (born 5 December 1980) is an English musician, film director, video game designer, writer and visual effects artist. He is best known as co-founder of synthwave band Gunship and as the bass player in the English rock band Fightsta ...

, bassist,

Fightstar Fightstar were a British rock band from London that formed in 2003. The band is composed of lead vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Charlie Simpson, guitarist and co-vocalist Alex Westaway, bassist Dan Haigh and drummer Omar Abidi. Genera ...

Gunship (band) Gunship is a British synthwave band formed in 2014 by Dan Haigh and Alex Westaway; they were later joined by drummer Alex Gingell. The group has released three studio albums under their own label Horsie in the Hedge. History After Westaway ...

Robert Hardy Timothy Sydney Robert Hardy (29 October 1925 – 3 August 2017) was an English actor who had a long career in theatre, film and television. He began his career as a classical actor and later earned widespread recognition for roles such as Siegf ...

, English stage and film actor * John Hawkesworth, television producer, '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' * Sir Charles Hawtrey,

Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used. The era followed the ...

stage actor * Marmaduke Hussey, BBC chairman * Hugh Johnson, British wine writer *

Pete Kember Peter Kember (born 19 November 1965), also known by his stage name Sonic Boom, is an English singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He was a founding member, vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist of neo-psychedelic band Spacemen 3, las ...

, musician,

Spacemen 3 Spacemen 3 were an English rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire, by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, known respectively under their pseudonyms Sonic Boom and J Spaceman. Their music is known for its brand of "trance-like neo-psyched ...

* John Kentish, English operatic tenor *

, British painter and author * Richard Hey Lloyd, British organist and composer *

William Charles Macready William Charles Macready (3 March 179327 April 1873) was an English stage actor. The son of Irish actor-manager William Macready the Elder he emerged as a leading West End theatre, West End performer during the Regency era. Career Macready wa ...

, English stage actor *

Robin Milford Robin Humphrey Milford (22 January 1903 – 29 December 1959) was an English composer and music teacher. Biography Milford was born in Oxford, son of Sir Humphrey Milford, publisher with Oxford University Press. He attended Rugby School ...

, British musician *

Sydney Nicholson Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson (9 February 1875 – 30 May 1947) was an English choir director, organist, composer, and founder of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) and the compiler of ''The Parish Psalter''. Life Nicholson was born in Lon ...

, British musician * Sir Anthony Quayle, British actor *

Andrew Rawnsley Andrew Nicholas James Rawnsley (born 5 January 1962) is a British political journalist and broadcaster. A columnist and chief political commentator for ''The Observer'', he has written two books on New Labour. Early life Rawnsley was born in Le ...

, British political journalist *

Andy Richards Andrew John Richards (born 26 October 1952) is an English pianist, Film score, composer, music producer and keyboardist. Richards has played with artists including Frankie Goes to Hollywood, George Michael, Propaganda (band), Propaganda, Grace ...

, British / Australian musician, composer and organist *

Adnan Sami Adnan Sami Khan (born 15 August 1969) is an Indian singer, musician, composer, actor and pianist. He performs Indian and Western music in many languages, such as Hindi, Urdu, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. He has been awarded ...

, singer, pianist, actor and composer *

F. H. S. Shepherd Frederick Hawkesworth Sinclair Shepherd (1877 – 28 May 1948), usually known as F. H. S. Shepherd, was an English painter of portraits, landscapes, and interiors. Early life The son of the Rev. Frederick Shepherd, Vicar of Stoke under Ham, Somerse ...

, painter * Richard Talbot Kelly, soldier and artist *

Alex Westaway Alex Westaway is an English musician. He is the lead vocalist of Gunship and co-vocalist and guitarist of the rock band Fightstar alongside Charlie Simpson, Omar Abidi and Dan Haigh. Early life Westaway was born and raised in Northamptonshire ...

, guitarist and singer, Fightstar,

* A. N. Wilson, English writer and newspaper columnist * Sophie Xeon, Singer and musician

Medicine and science

William Bateson William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscover ...

, English geneticist *

Miles Joseph Berkeley Miles Joseph Berkeley (1 April 1803 – 30 July 1889) was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology. Life Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Benefield, Northamptonshire, and educated at ...

, English botanist *

Humphry Bowen __NOTOC__ Humphry John Moule Bowen (22 June 1929 – 9 August 2001) was a British botanist and chemist. Early life and education Bowen was born in Oxford, son of the chemist Edmund Bowen and Edith Bowen (nee Moule). He attended the Dragon Sc ...

, British botanist and chemist * Dr Peter Brinsden, fertility expert *

Abel Chapman Abel Chapman (1851–1929) was an English, Sunderland-born hunter-naturalist. He contributed in saving the Spanish Ibex from extinction and helped in the establishment of South Africa's first game reserve. Early life Chapman was born at 212 Hi ...

, big game hunter and naturalist who started South Africa's first game reserve *

Alex Hankey Alexander Maurice Alers Hankey (born 18 August 1947), known as Alex Hankey, is a theoretical physicist from Boston University, trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford Li ...

, English theoretical physicist * Walter W. Holland, public health physician *

Andrew Karney Andrew Karney, FIET, CEng, FRSA (born 24 May 1942) is a British electrical engineer, businessman and company director. He is also an accredited European Engineer. Career Karney studied engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge. He started h ...

, scientist, chartered engineer, businessman and entrepreneur * Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, physician and scholar, brother of economist

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist and philosopher whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originall ...

* Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr,

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

and

Doctor of Medicine A Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated MD, from the Latin language, Latin ) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the ''MD'' denotes a professional degree of ph ...

* David Marr, British psychologist *

Donald Michie Donald Michie (; 11 November 1923 – 7 July 2007) was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve " Tunny ...

, British researcher in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

who during World War II, worked for the

Government Code and Cypher School The Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) was a British signals intelligence agency set up in 1919. During the First World War, the British Army and Royal Navy had separate signals intelligence agencies, MI1b and NID25 (initially known as R ...

Bletchley Park Bletchley Park is an English country house and Bletchley Park estate, estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allies of World War II, Allied World War II cryptography, code-breaking during the S ...

, to break " Tunny", a German teleprinter cipher * George Mitchell Seabroke, British astronomer *

Frederick Courteney Selous Frederick Courteney Selous, Distinguished Service Order, DSO (; 31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917) was a British people, British explorer, army British Army, officer, professional hunter, and conservation movement, conservationist, famous for ...

, British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, known for his exploits in South-East Africa * Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet, won the

Copley Medal The Copley Medal is the most prestigious award of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom, conferred "for sustained, outstanding achievements in any field of science". The award alternates between the physical sciences or mathematics and the bio ...

Nevil Sidgwick Nevil Vincent Sidgwick FRS (8 May 1873 – 15 March 1952) was an English theoretical chemist who made significant contributions to the theory of valency and chemical bonding. Biography Sidgwick was born in Park Town, Oxford, the elder of two ...

, English theoretical chemist * E. Barton Worthington (1905-2001), ecologist and science administrator *

Babulal Sethia Babulal Sethia is a British Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. He was president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2014-2017. Early life and education Babulal Sethia was born in Edinburgh to Babula ...

, President of the Royal Society of Medicine and cardiac surgeon

Politics

* Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker, Liberal Party MP *

Leonard Behrens Sir Leonard Frederick Behrens CBE (15 October 1890 – 12 March 1978) was a British Liberal Party politician and public figure. Born in Manchester, Behrens studied at Manchester Grammar School, Rugby School and Manchester University. He was activ ...

Liberal Party Politician *

William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick, PC, FSA (21 October 1773 – 4 August 1842) was a British peer, politician and diplomatist. Cokayne et al., ''The Complete Peerage'', volume II, p. 168. Born William Hill, he was the second son of Noel ...

, Tory politician and British Minister to Sardinia * Sir Thomas Birch, 2nd Baronet Whig politician * Sir Noël Vansittart Bowater, 2nd Baronet,

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 ...

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (27 April 1678 – 5 December 1746) was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1707 and 1738. He faked his own death in 1738 and spent the rest of his life in prison. ...

Whig politician * Arthur Montagu Brookfield Conservative Politician, diplomat and army officer *

Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet, (30 September 1819 – 9 June 1900) was an English barrister, banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1869 and 1892. Life Brooks was the son of Samuel Brooks, a ...

, Conservative Politician *

Esmond Bulmer James Esmond Bulmer (born 19 May 1935) is a retired British Conservative Party politician. He is the son of Edward Charles Bulmer (b. 1907) and his wife Margaret Leigh (Roberts) Bulmer (b. 1908). His father, a Royal Air Force flight lieutenant, w ...

, Conservative MP * Marston Clarke Buszard Liberal Party MP and barrister * William John Dalzell Burnyeat, Liberal Party politician *

Charles Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle Charles James Stanley Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (8 March 1867 – 20 January 1912), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1889 to 1911, was a British soldier, peer, and Liberal Unionist politician. Early life Howard was the e ...

Liberal Unionist politician and army officer * Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet, politician and lawyer * Harold Cawley Liberal Party MP, killed in World War I *

Oswald Cawley Oswald Cawley (7 October 1882 – 22 August 1918), styled The Honourable from January 1918, was a British soldier and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was the fourth and youngest son of Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley and ...

Liberal Party MP, killed in World War I *

Austen Chamberlain Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of ...

, British statesman and recipient of the

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish language, Swedish and ) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the Will and testament, will of Sweden, Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobe ...

Neville Chamberlain Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party (UK), Leader of the Conservative Party from ...

, politician and former

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

* Sir Sydney Chapman,

Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Handsworth and

Chipping Barnet Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a suburban market town in north London, forming part of the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a suburban development built around a 12th-century settlement, and is located north-northwest of Charing C ...

James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin James Purdon Lewes Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin, KStJ Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC (pronounced "Kilkennin"; 13 October 1903 – 13 July 1960), sometimes known as Jim Thomas, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative polit ...

, Conservative MP and

First Lord of the Admiralty First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the title of the political head of the English and later British Royal Navy. He was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs, responsible f ...

* Samuel Clowes, Conservative politician *

Herbert James Craig Captain Herbert James Craig (30 September 1869 – 18 March 1934) was a British Liberal Party politician, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve officer, businessman, barrister and amateur sportsman who played cricket for Cambridge University and lawn t ...

Liberal politician * Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet Tory politician *

William John Evelyn William John Evelyn JP DL (27 July 1822 - 26 July 1908) was a British Member of Parliament, landowner and philanthropist. He was MP for Surrey West in 1849 and again for Deptford in 1885.

, Conservative politician * Sir Frederick William Fison, 1st Baronet, Conservative politician *

Charles Berkeley, 3rd Baron FitzHardinge Charles Paget Fitzhardinge Berkeley, 3rd Baron FitzHardinge (19 April 1830 – 5 December 1916), styled The Honourable Charles Berkeley between 1861 and 1896, was a British Liberal politician. Berkeley was the son of Admiral Maurice Berkeley, 1s ...

, Liberal politician *

Tetley Gant Tetley Gant, Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (9 July 1853 – 7 February 1928) was an Australian barrister, Tasmanian politician and Chancellor (education), chancellor. Early life – England Tetley was born in Manningham, Bradford, Mann ...

, Tasmanian politician and Chancellor

University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College (University of Tasmania), Christ College, one of the unive ...

Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes Euan Michael Ross Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes (born 3 September 1937) is a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative peer and politician and current deputy speaker of the House of Lords. Early life and education Geddes is the son of the Ross G ...

, Current Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords * Sir Richard Gilpin, 1st Baronet, Conservative Politician and Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army *

George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen (10 August 1831 – 7 February 1907), was a British statesman and businessman best remembered for being "forgotten" by Lord Randolph Churchill. He was initially a Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist be ...

, Liberal Unionist politician; served as

Chancellor of the Exchequer The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of HM Treasury, His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, t ...

1887–1892,

1871–1874 and 1895–1900 * Captain Alan Graham Conservative politician *

Frank Gray Francis Tierney Gray (born 27 October 1954) is a Scottish football manager and former player. He played for Leeds United, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland and Darlington, while he also represented Scotland 32 times. He managed Darlington, Farnbo ...

, inter-war Liberal politician * The Honourable Ronald Greville, Conservative MP * Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen Conservative politician * Sir Jeremy James Hanley, Conservative MP;

Chairman of the Conservative Party The chairman of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom is responsible for party administration and overseeing the Conservative Campaign Headquarters, formerly Conservative Central Office. When the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives are ...

1994–1995 and

Minister without portfolio A minister without portfolio is a government minister without specific responsibility as head of a government department. The sinecure is particularly common in countries ruled by coalition governments and a cabinet with decision-making authorit ...

1994–1995 * Sir Reginald Hanson, Conservative politician and

* Henry Peirson Harland Unionist politician *

William Harrison-Broadley William Henry Harrison-Broadley (August 1820 – 1896) was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885. Harrison-Broadley was the son of William Henry Harrison of Ripon and Sinderly and his wife Mary Broad ...

Conservative MP *

Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton PC, FRS (18 March 17914 May 1863), was a British politician from the extended Littleton/Lyttelton family, of first the Canningite Tories and later the Whigs. He had a long political career, active ...

, Canningite Tory and later Whig politician,

Chief Secretary for Ireland The Chief Secretary for Ireland was a key political office in the British Dublin Castle administration, administration in Ireland. Nominally subordinate to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Lieutenant, and officially the "Chief Secretar ...

, also a major

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

landowner, farmer and businessman * Sir Arthur Adlington Haworth, 1st Baronet, Liberal politician * Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson Liberal political advisor and economist *

Charles Hendry Charles Hendry, (born 6 May 1959) is a British Conservative Party politician. Formerly the member of parliament for High Peak between the 1992 and 1997 general elections, he was returned as the MP for Wealden in 2001. In May 2010 he was ...

, British politician and the

Member of Parliament for Wealden * William Holbech Member of Parliament for Banbury *

Edward Horsman Edward Horsman PC, PC (Ire) (8 February 1807 – 30 November 1876), was a British politician. Background and education Horsman was the son of William Horsman, a well-to-do gentleman of Stirling, Scotland, who died 22 March 1845, aged 86. Hi ...

, MP and

Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, (born 11 June 1944), is a British Labour Party politician and life peer who was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2005. First elected as a Conservative before defecting to Labour in 1995, ...

, Labour Party politician *

Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe Frederick Richard Penn Curzon, 7th Earl Howe (born 29 January 1951), is a British peer who has been the Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords since 2024. A member of the Conservative Party, he served previously as the Deputy Leader of th ...

, Conservative minister and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords *

Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde (5 February 1855 – 1 May 1933), was a British industrialist, philanthropist, Liberal politician and peer. Early life and career Ashton was born at Fallowfield, Manchester, Lancashire, the son of ...

, Edwardian Liberal Party politician and industrialist * Colonel Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel, Liberal Unionist and later Conservative politician; the third

Mayor of Westminster This is a list of mayors and the later lord mayors of the City of Westminster. After having elected a mayor since its creation as a Metropolitan Borough in 1900, the City of Westminster was awarded the dignity of a Lord Mayoralty by letters pa ...

* Lieutenant Colonel Sir Edgar Mayne Keatinge Soldier who was a Conservative politician *

Wilfred Byng Kenrick Alderman Wilfred Byng Kenrick (4 December 1872 – 7 August 1962) was an English industrialist, politician and educationalist, who served as Lord Mayor of Birmingham. Family Kenrick was born on 4 December 1872. He was the son of another Birm ...

Lord Mayor of Birmingham Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are ...

and industrialist *

Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater Thomas Jeremy King, Baron King of Bridgwater, (born 13 June 1933) is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1983 to 1992, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bridgwa ...

, Conservative Party politician * William Kingan, Unionist politician *

Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ernest Newcomen King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston (31 July 1848 – 13 January 1896), was an Irish peer and Conservative politician. Early life and education Henry Newcomen King was born 31 July 1848 to Anne Gore- ...

, Irish peer and Victorian Conservative Party politician * Isaac Cowley Lambert Conservative MP and solicitor * Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Conservative Party politician *

Francis Charles Lawley Francis Charles Lawley (24 May 1825 – 18 September 1901) was a British journalist and Liberal Party politician. He was the youngest son of Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock, and after schooling in Hatfield attended Rugby School in May 1837. In ...

Liberal party politician and journalist *

Henry Lefroy Sir Henry Bruce Lefroy (24 March 1854 – 19 March 1930) was the eleventh Premier of Western Australia. Biography Lefroy was born in Perth, Western Australia on 24 March 1854. His father was Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, Colonial Treasurer of Wes ...

, Western Australian politician * Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn Conservative politician *

William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton William Henry Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton (3 April 1782 – 30 April 1837) was an English Whig politician from the Lyttelton family. Early life and education Born on 3 April 1782, William Lyttelton was the son of William Henry Lyttelton, ...

Whig politician * Miles MacInnes Liberal MP and railway director * Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Baronet, four times

Mayor of Wolverhampton This is a list of mayors of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England, historically part of Staffordshire. Wolverhampton has elected a town council, which in turn has elected a Mayor, since 1848. Mayors of Wolverhampton 19th century 20th ...

and an industrialist *

Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet Sir Arthur Basil Markham, 1st Baronet (25 August 1866 – 5 August 1916) was a British industrialist and politician. Life Markham was born on 25 August 1866 at Brimington Hall in Brimington, near Chesterfield. He was the son of Charles Markham ...

Liberal MP and industrialist * Angus Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon, Conservative Party politician and father of Conservative Cabinet member

Francis Maude Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham, (born 4 July 1953) is a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2010 to 2015. He also served ...

George Melly Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer, and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973, he was a film and television critic for ''The Observer''; he also lectured on art history, with an ...

Liberal MP and shipowner * Arthur Mills Conservative MP *

Charles Mills Charles, Charlie or Chuck Mills may refer to: Academics * C. Wright Mills (Charles Wright Mills) (1916–1962), American academic sociologist * Charles Henry Mills Charles Henry Mills (January 29, 1873 – July 23, 1937) was an England, En ...

MP and Director of the East India Company *

Andrew Mitchell Sir Andrew John Bower Mitchell Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG (born 23 March 1956) is a British politician who was Shadow Foreign Secretary from July to November 2024 and served as Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom), Deputy Foreign S ...

, British Conservative politician and

Secretary of State for International Development The minister of state for development, formerly the minister of state for development and Africa and the secretary of state for international development, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The offic ...

(from May 2010) * Edmund Morris MP *

George Herbert Morrell George Herbert Morrell MA, MP, JP, DL (1845, Adderbury – 30 September 1906, Bad Nauheim) was an English politician and lawyer. George Herbert Morrell was the son of the Rev. G. K. Morrell, fellow of St John's College, Oxford.'Mr G. H. Morre ...

Conservative MP and lawyer *

Liberal MP and judge * Sir John Holbrook Osborn Conservative MP *

Francis Otter Francis Otter (1831 – 29 May 1895) was an English Liberal politician. Otter was the son of Francis Otter of Ranby Hall, Wragby, and his wife Elizabeth Younger. He was educated at Gainsborough, Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. ...

Liberal MP *

Sukhumbhand Paribatra Mom Rajawongse Sukhumbhand Paribatra (; , ; born 22 September 1953) is a Thai politician belonging to the Democrat Party. From 2009 to 2016 he was the Governor of Bangkok. He was removed from the post in October 2016 by Prime Minister Prayu ...

, Thai politician, 15th

Governor of Bangkok The governor of Bangkok (, ) is the head of the local government of Bangkok. The governor is also the chief executive of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). The governor is elected to a renewable term of four years, currently it is one ...

* Sir William Pearce, 2nd Baronet Conservative politician and industrialist *

Jonathan Peel Jonathan Peel, PC (12 October 1799 – 13 February 1879) was a British soldier, Conservative politician and racehorse owner. Background and education Peel was the fifth son of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, and his first wife Ellen (née Yat ...

Conservative MP;

Surveyor-General of the Ordnance The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance, a British government body, from its constitution in 1597. Appointments to the post were made by the crown under ...

1841–1846 and

Secretary of State for War The secretary of state for war, commonly called the war secretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, which existed from 1794 to 1801 and from 1854 to 1964. The secretary of state for war headed the War Offic ...

1858–1859 & 1866–1867 *

Albert Pell Albert Pell (12 March 1820 – 7 April 1907) was an English solicitor and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. Early life Pell was born in 1820, the eldest son of Sir Albert Pell, a judge of the Bankruptcy Courts and Margaret ...

Conservative MP and solicitor * Sir Edward Penton, Mayor of St Marylebone; Superintendent of the Royal Army Clothing Department (Boot Section) 1914–1919 and Chief Inspector of Clothing for the Central Ordnance Depot *

Edwin Berkeley Portman Edwin Berkeley Portman (3 August 1830 – 27 April 1921) was an English barrister and Liberal politician. Portman was born at Bryanston, Dorset, the son of Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman and his wife Lady Emma Lascelles. He was educat ...

Liberal MP and barrister *

Thomas Bayley Potter Thomas Bayley Potter Deputy Lieutenant, DL, Justice of the Peace, JP (29 November 1817 – 6 November 1898) was an English merchant in Manchester and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Early life Born in Polefield, Lancashire, he was ...

Liberal MP * Walter Powell, Conservative MP and colliery owner * David Pugh, Liberal MP * Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle Liberal politician *

John Bonfoy Rooper John Bonfoy Rooper (8 August 1778 – March 1855) was a British Member of Parliament. Life He was born the eldest son of John Rooper of Berkhampstead Castle, Hertfordshire and Abbots Ripton Hall, Huntingdonshire, and was educated at Rugby School ...

MP *

Shane Ross Shane Peter Nathaniel Ross (born 11 July 1949) is an Irish former Independent politician who served as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport from May 2016 to June 2020. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Rathdown constituency from 2 ...

, Irish politicians and journalist *

Henry Bucknall Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe Henry Bucknall Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe, (15 August 1872 – 18 November 1949), known as Sir Henry Betterton, Bt, between 1929 and 1935, was a British barrister and Conservative politician. He served as Minister of Labour under Ramsay MacD ...

, conservative politician and barrister who was

Minister of Labour Minister of labour (in British English) or labor (in American English) is typically a cabinet-level position with portfolio responsibility for setting national labour standards, labour dispute mechanisms, employment, workforce participation, traini ...

1931–1934 *

Harold Rushworth Harold Montague Rushworth (18 August 1880 – 25 April 1950) was a New Zealand politician of the Country Party. Early life Rushworth was born in Croydon, England and was educated at Rugby School and Jesus College, Oxford, graduating with a ...

New Zealand politician from the County Party * Sir Henry Bernhard Samuelson, 2nd Baronet Liberal MP * Sir Leslie Frederic Scott,

and Liberal MP *

Alexander Craig Sellar Alexander Craig Sellar (17 October 1835 – 16 January 1890) was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal Party (later Liberal Unionist) politician. Sellar was the son of Patrick Sellar of Westfield, Morayshire, a lawyer, factor and sheep farmer, and his ...

MP * Evelyn Shirley MP *

Walter Shirley Shirley Walter Shirley Shirley (1851 – 1 May 1888) was an English barrister and law writer and a Liberal politician. Shirley was born Walter Shirley Smith at Doncaster, the son of William Edwood Smith twice Lord Mayor of Doncaster and Town Clerk, and ...

Liberal MP and barrister * Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet MP, mathematician and astronomer *

Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe Ernest Emil Darwin Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe (9 October 1879 – 3 October 1960) was a British industrialist, politician and public servant. Lord Mayor of Manchester in 1921–1922, he was a member of parliament for two terms betwee ...

, politician and industrialist *

Sir Thomas Skipwith, 4th Baronet Sir Thomas George Skipwith, 4th Baronet (''c.'' 1735 – 28 January 1790) of Newbold Revel Hall was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1769 to 1784. He was the eldest son of Sir Francis Skipwith, 3rd Baronet (''c.'' 170 ...

MP *

Samuel George Smith Samuel George Smith (5 June 1822 – 6 July 1900) was an English banker and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1880. Smith was the grandson of Samuel Smith, Member of Parliament (MP) for Wendover from 18 ...

Conservative MP and banker * Edward Smith Tory MP *

Tim Smith Tim, Timothy or Timmy Smith may refer to: Musicians * T. V. Smith (born 1956), British singer and songwriter *Tim Smith (Cardiacs) (1961–2020), English singer-songwriter and frontman of Cardiacs **"Tim Smith", a 2009 song by the Wildhearts from ...

Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia (LP) is the prominent centre-right political party in Australia. It is considered one of the two major parties in Australian politics, the other being the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The Liberal Party was fo ...

member of the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ...

* Richard Spooner MP *

Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford (18 June 1715 – 30 May 1768) was an English peer, styled Lord Grey from 1720 to 1739. Biography Harry Grey was born at Enville Hall, the eldest son of Henry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford. He was educated at R ...

MP and peer * Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, prominent 19th century statesman *

Lewis Randle Starkey Lewis Randle Starkey (13 March 1836 – 16 September 1910) was a British Conservative politician. Biography He was the eldest son of John Starkey of Spring Lodge, Huddersfield and his wife, Sarah Anne, daughter of Joseph Armitage, a millowner of ...

, Conservative MP *

George Strauss George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss PC (18 July 1901 – 5 June 1993) was a long-serving British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979. Early lif ...

, Baron Strauss, Labour politician and

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* Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet Conservative MP,

and

Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley (28 December 1778 – 10 February 1858), known as Charles Hanbury until 1798 and as Charles Hanbury Tracy from 1798 to 1838, was a British Whig Party (UK), Whig politician. Early life Hanbury-Tracy was ...

Whig politician * Henry Tancred, 19th-century New Zealand politician. * Sir John Stradling Thomas, Welsh Conservative Party politician * Andrew Turner, British Conservative Party politician * Yevhenia Tymoshenko (Eugenia), Ukrainian entrepreneur and lobbyist on behalf of her mother, former

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Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( Hrihyan born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first and only woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She has been ...

William Henry Waddington William Henry Waddington (11 December 182613 January 1894) was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister in 1879, and as an Ambassador of France to London. Early life and education Waddington was born at the Château of Saint-Rémy in E ...

, French statesman (eventually

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) * Sir George Gustavus Walker, Conservative MP *

Cathcart Wason John Cathcart Wason (17 November 1848 – 19 April 1921), generally known as Cathcart Wason, was a Scotland, Scottish farmer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament in two countries: first in Ne ...

MP in both New Zealand and Great Britain *

Eugene Wason Eugene Wason (26 January 1846 – 19 April 1927) was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1885 and 1918. Family Eugene Wason came from a Liberal family. His father, brother and son-in ...

Liberal MP and lawyer * Samuel Whitbread, Liberal MP * Edward Whitley, Conservative MP * James Wigley, Tory MP *

George Wilbraham George Wilbraham, FRS (8 March 1779 – 24 January 1852) of Delamere, Cheshire was an English Whig MP. He was the eldest surviving son of George Wilbraham, MP of Delamere Lodge (but previously of Nantwich, Cheshire) and educated at Rugby Scho ...

, Whig MP * John Charles Williams Liberal Unionist MP * Sir Nicholas Winterton Conservative MP * Henry Christopher Wise Conservative MP *

Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet Deputy Lieutenant, DL (8 September 1857 – 28 January 1951) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stalybridge (UK Parliament constituency) ...

Conservative MP *

Dennis Kwok Dennis Kwok Wing-hang (; born 15 April 1978) is a Canadian lawyer and former Hong Kong politician who represented the legal constituency in the Hong Kong Legislative Council from 2012 to 2020. He is a founding member of Civic Party. Once the ...

Hong Kong Legislative Council Member

Sport

* John Anton, English cricketer * George Barker, English cricketer * Robert Barlow (1827–1907), cricketer * David Barttelot (1821–1852), English cricketer *

Samuel Bateson Samuel Stephen Bateson (13 October 1821 – 9 March 1879) was an Irish first-class cricketer and barrister. Life The son of Sir Robert Bateson, he was born at Belfast in October 1821. He was educated in England at Rugby School, before going ...

, Irish cricketer * Denis Bingham, Irish cricketer * Henry Boden, cricketer and founding member of Derbyshire County Cricket Club * Frederick Bowden-Smith, first-class cricketer * Trevor Bowring, first-class cricketer * Edward Bradby (cricketer), Edward Bradby, first-class cricketer * Henry Bradby, first-class cricketer * Henry Brandt, first-class cricketer * Chris Brasher, Olympic gold medalist in the Steeplechase (athletics), steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics, co-founder of the London marathon and pace setter in Roger Bannister's world record mile * John Bridger, first-class cricketer * William Bullock, first-class cricketer * Walter Byles, first-class cricketer * Frederick Capron, first-class cricketer * Henry Cholmondeley, first-class cricketer * Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board * John Clayton (rugby union), international who represented England national rugby union team, England in the 1871 Scotland versus England rugby union match, First international rugby match. * Richard Clement (cricketer), Richard Clement, first-class cricketer * Louis Cockerell, first-class cricketer * Granville Coghlan, rugby union international, represented British and Irish Lions, Great Britain on 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina (1907–1983) * George Cooke (cricketer), George Cooke (1826–1862), cricketer * Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven, English nobleman and sportsman * Frederick Crowder (cricketer, born 1845), Frederick Crowder (1845–1938), cricketer and tennis player * James Crowdy (cricketer), James Crowdy, first-class cricketer * Joseph Dacre, first-class cricketer * Peter Dowson, first-class cricketer * John Marshall Dugdale, rugby union international who represented England national rugby union team, England in the 1870–71 Home Nations rugby union matches, first international rugby match in 1871.Marshall, Francis, ''Football; the Rugby union game'', p141, (1892) (London Paris Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited) * Frederick Morton Eden (cricketer), Frederick Morton Eden, first-class cricketer * Edmund Ellis (cricketer), Edmund Ellis, first-class cricketer * Francis Evelyn, first-class cricketer * Nigel Fenton, first-class cricketer * Patrick Fraser (cricketer), Patrick Fraser, Scottish first-class cricketer * Cornelius Fryer, first-class cricketer * Miles Giffard, English cricketer who was hanged for the murder of his parents. * Joseph Fletcher Green, rugby union international who represented England national rugby union team, England in the 1870–71 Home Nations rugby union matches, first international rugby match in 1871. * James Ford (cricketer, born 1836), James Ford (1836–1877), cricketer * Alex Grove, rugby player for Worcester Warriors and Scotland national rugby union team * A. G. Guillemard, rugby union international who represented England national rugby union team, England in the 1870–71 Home Nations rugby union matches, first international rugby match in 1871 and later president of the Rugby Football Union. * Thomas Hale (cricketer), Thomas Hale (1829–1899), first-class cricketer * Octavius Hanbury (1826–1882), first-class cricketer * William Harrison (cricketer, born 1838), William Harrison (1838–1912), first-class cricketer * George Hughes (cricketer), George Hughes (1821–1872), first-class cricketer and the basis for the literary character Tom Brown (character), Tom Brown * Rupert Edward Inglis (1863–1916), England rugby international who was killed at the Battle of the Somme * Kenneth Jackson (sportsman), Kenneth Jackson, Scottish rugby union international and first-class cricketer * Edward Kenney (cricketer), Edward Kenney, first-class cricketer * Charles Langton, first-class cricketer * Alexander Law, first-class cricketer * Henry Lindow, first-class cricketer * Algernon Lushington, first-class cricketer * Arthur Lyon (rugby union), who represented England national rugby union team, England in the first 1871 Scotland versus England rugby union match. * Dar Lyon, first class cricketer * John Macartney-Filgate, Irish first-class cricketer * Charles McCarthy (cricketer), Charles McCarthy, cricketer who played in Burma national cricket team, Burma's only first-class cricket match in 1927. * Douglas Mackessack (1903–1987), Scottish first-class cricketer, brother of the below * Kenneth Mackessack (1902–1982), Scottish first-class cricketer, brother of the above * Richard Montgomerie, English cricketer * David Noble (cricketer), David Noble, first-class cricketer * Rollo O'Dwyer, Argentine first-class cricketer * Henry Pickard, first-class cricketer * Abram Rawlinson, first-class cricketer * Gerard Rotherham, recipient of the Wisden Cricketer of the Year award in 1918. * Samuel Ruddock (paralympian), Samuel Ruddock, Paralympic sprinter * Eustace Rutter, first-class cricketer * John Sandford (1832–1892), first-class cricketer * Richard Seaman (1913–1939). One of the greatest British pre-war motor racing drivers. Infamously suffered a fatal crash at the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix. * Alfred Seymour (cricketer), Alfred Seymour (1843–1897), first-class cricketer * Ian Shield (1914–2005), first-class cricketer * Frank Smallwood (1867–1919), first-class cricketer * Stephen Soames (1826–1908), first-class cricketer * Francis Speed (cricketer, born 1859), Francis Speed, first-class cricketer * Frederick Stokes (rugby union), Frederick Stokes (1850–1929)Steve Lewis, ''One Among Equals'', 2008, pp9-10 (Vertical Editions:London) the first captain of the England national rugby union team. * Adrian Stoop, English rugby player * William Surtees, World Rackets Champion * Richard Sykes (Rugby player), Richard Sykes, Rugby player and founder of towns in North Dakota * Theodore Tapp, first-class cricketer * Henry Taswell, first-class cricketer * Henry Tubb, first-class cricketer * Dawson Turner (rugby union), Dawson Turner, rugby union international who represented England national rugby union team, England in the 1870–71 Home Nations rugby union matches, first international rugby match in 1871. * Frank Tobin, rugby union international who represented England national rugby union team, England in the 1870–71 Home Nations rugby union matches, first international rugby match in 1871. * Richard Townsend (cricketer), Richard Townsend (1829–1852), first-class cricketer * Rowland Venables, first-class cricketer * Sir Pelham Warner, England cricket captain and cricket administrator * William Webb Ellis, the credited inventor of rugby football * John Weston (cricketer), John Weston, cricketer * Tom Wills, the inventor of Australian rules football * Alfred Wilson (cricketer), Alfred Wilson (1828–1908), first-class cricketer * William Yardley (cricketer), William Yardley, cricketer and dramatist

Fictional Old Rugbeians

* Harry Paget Flashman, fictional Victorian anti-hero, originally created by author

in his semi-autobiographical ''

'' * Tom Brown (character), Tom Brown, fictional hero from the novel ''Tom Brown's Schooldays''

References

External links

The Rugbeian Society
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