List Of People Educated At Christ's Hospital

This is a list of alumni of Christ's Hospital school, who are known as Old Blues.

Medicine

* Russell Brock – Chest and heart surgeon
* Raanan Gillon – Medical doctor, philosopher, journal editor and professor of medical ethicsGillon, R.
Ploughing a Furrow in Ethics
. Personal Histories in Health Research (2005): 83–97.
* Norman Guthkelch – British paediatric neurosurgeon
* Caesar Hawkins – Surgeon
* James Jurin – Physician and scientist
*Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan – Abdominal surgeon

Military

* Bertram Allen – Paymaster Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy
* Thomas Bertie – Rear-admiral in the Royal Navy
*Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari – Military administrator
*John Colborne – British Army Field Marshal
*Hugh Constantine – Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal
* Edgar William Cox – Intelligence officer
*Alexander Cunningham – Army engineer and archaeologist
*Edward Mortlock Donaldson – Royal Air Force pilot
* William F.S. Edwards - commonly referred to as Brig General W. F. S. Edwards, 1st colonial Commissioner of Police in East Africa.
* Michael Gray – SoldierObituary of Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Gray, The Daily Telegraph, 11 April, 2011
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* Buster Howes – Commando and Royal Marines officer
* Llewelyn Hughes – Soldier, priest and army chaplain
* Robert Hunter - Soldier
* Henry Ralph Lumley – Royal Flying Corp pilot and burn victim
* Philip Mayne – Soldier
* John Robin Stephenson – British Army officer and cricket administrator
* Harold Edward Whittingham – Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War
* James Alfred Davidson – Royal Navy commander

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

Four Old Blues have been awarded the Victoria Cross and two the George Cross.

Victoria Cross

* Umbeyla Campaign
**Major Henry William Pitcher (1841–1875) (CH 1848–1856)
*First World War
** Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrith Elstob (1889–1918) (CH 1898–1905)
** Second Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter (1885–1916) (CH 1896–1901)
*War in Afghanistan
**Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey (CH 1999–2006)

George Cross

*Second World War
**Air Vice Marshal Sir Laurence Sinclair (1908–2001) (CH 1919–1924)

Music

* Basil Allchin (1878-1957), Oxford organist.
*Sydney Carter – Poet, songwriter, musician
* Sir Colin Davis – Conductor
* Tim Benjamin – Composer
* Catherine Ennis, organist
*Charles Hazlewood – Composer and conductor
* Edward Lambert – Composer
* Christopher Tambling – Composer, organist and choirmaster

Performing arts

*Roger Allam – Actor
*James D'Arcy – Actor
* Howard Davies – Theatre and television director
*Tenniel Evans – Actor"Drama: High profile OB actors"
''The Blue'' (Christ's Hospital). 2011. p. 55. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
*Jason Flemyng – Actor
* Jimmy Godden – Actor
* Leo Gregory – Actor
*George Peele – Dramatist
*Michael Wilding – Actor

Politics

* Jenkin Coles – Australian politician
*Owen Cox – Australian businessman and politician
* Samuel Hayden – Canadian politician
*Steve Hilton – Political strategist
*Stuart Holland – Labour politician and academic
*Graham Hutton – Economist, author and Liberal Party politician‘HUTTON, (David) Graham’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201
accessed 6 November 2017
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* Martin Linton – former Labour Member of Parliament
*Sir Richard Nichols - Lord Mayor of London
*Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham – Labour politician

Religion

* John Arnold – Anglican priest and author
* John Ashe – Priest
*Reginald Bazire – Anglican priest
* Raymond Birt – Archdeacon of Berkshire
* Constance Bryant – Medical missionary
*Edmund Campion – Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
* Mordecai Cary – Bishop
*Thomas Dale – Anglican priest, poet and theologian
* John Delight – Archdeacon of Stoke
* Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne – Priest and missionary to China
* Robert Newton Flew – Methodist theologian
* Bede Griffiths – Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East–West religious dialogue
*Thomas Hartwell Horne – Theologian and librarian
*Percy Henn – Clergyman and schoolmasterAustralian Dictionary of Biography listing for Henn, Percy Umfreville
(accessed 4 March 2007)AustLit Agent Listing for Percy Henn
(accessed 4 March 2007)
* James Horstead – Bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa
* Ross Hook – Anglican bishop
*Marcus Knight – Anglican priest
* John Townsend – Congregationalist minister and philanthropist

Science and academia

*Donald Allan – Classical scholar
*W. Sidney Allen – Linguist and philologist
*Richard Appleton – Lecturer in mathematics and theology
* Andrew Barker – Classical scholar'BARKER, Prof. Andrew Dennison', ''Who's Who 2017'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201
accessed 16 Oct 2017
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*Joshua Barnes – English scholar
*John Beazley – Classical scholar
* T. A. M. Bishop – Palaeographer, historian, and academic'BISHOP, (Terence) Alan (Martyn)', ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201
accessed 4 Sept 2017
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*Arthur Lyon Bowley – Statistician and economist
*Rupert Bruce-Mitford – Archaeologist and scholar
* Andrew Burn (professor) – Media scholar and educationist
*William Burnside – Mathematician
*Cyril Burt – Psychologist
* Ida Busbridge – Mathematician
*William Camden – Antiquarian and historian
* Ruth Deech – Academic, lawyer and bioethicist
* Robin Du Boulay – Medieval historian
* Frederick Field – Theologian and biblical scholar
* John Forsdyke – Classical scholar and Director of the British Museum
*Cyril Fox – Archaeologist
*Louis Harold Gray – Physicist
* George Greenhill – Mathematician
*Jasper Griffin – Professor of Classics at Oxford
*Philip Hall – Mathematician
*Roger Highfield – Science author, journalist and broadcaster
* Sydney Samuel Hough – Astronomer and mathematician
* Beresford Kidd – Anglican priest and Church historianFoster, J. (1888).
''Alumni Oxoniensis: The Members of the University of Oxford 1715–1886, Vol. II, p. 792''
London: Joseph Foster.
*Philip Kitcher – Professor of philosophy
* Norman Longmate – Author, historian and broadcaster
* Jeremiah Markland – Classical scholar
*Russell Meiggs – Historian
* Peter Padfield – Historian
*Rex Paterson – Agricultural researcher
*Alan Ryan – Professor
* James Scholefield – Classical scholar
*Barnes Wallis – Scientist, engineer and inventor
*Gerald James Whitrow – Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian
* F. L. Woodward – Educationist, Pali scholar, author and theosophist
* Erik Christopher Zeeman – Mathematician

Sport

* Jack Bailey – Cricketer and cricket administrator
* Cecil Boden – Cricketer
* Robert Edwards – Cricketer and clergyman
*Henry Franklin – Cricketer, headmaster and rugby union playerFRANKLIN, Henry William Fernehough
''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
* Jack Gentry – Cricketer
*Ælfric Harrison – Cricketer
* Ben Allison, Former NCAA D1 Basketball Player for Davidson Wildcats
*Andrew Higgins – Rugby union player
* George Hill – Rugby union administrator, official and referee
*Joe Launchbury – Rugby union player
* James McInerny – Cricketer
* Dennis Silk – Schoolmaster and international cricketer
* Geoff Smith – Kent cricketerCarlaw D (2017) Geoffrey Smith, Deaths in 2016, ''Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017'', pp.245–246. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.Smith, Geoffrey
Obituaries in 2016, ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 2017. Retrieved 2018-12-16.
*John Snow – Cricketer
*Stu Whittingham – Cricketer
* Douglas Wright – Cricketer

Visual arts

* Richard Dagley – Painter and illustrator
* Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram
* Francis Seymour Haden – Etcher and surgeon
*Arthur Ling – architect and urban planner
*Tony Ray-Jones – PhotographerRichard Ehrlich, "Introduction", ''Tony Ray-Jones'' (Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1990)
* Jonathan Scott – Wildlife photographer and TV presenter
* Chris Steele-Perkins – Photographer
* Keith Vaughan – Painter

Writers, poets and journalists

* Cyrus Andrews – Journalist and radio scriptwriter
* Thomas Barnes – Journalist
* Robert Black – Author, journalist and translator
*Edmund Blunden – Poet, author and critic
*Guy Boothby - Author
* Mark Burgess – Children's authorLee.
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood review
'. Fantasy Book Review. 10 November 2009.
* Samuel Cobb (poet) – Poet
* Kira Cochrane – Journalist and author
*Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher
* James Coomarasamy – Correspondent
* Con Coughlin – Journalist and author
*Keith Douglas – Poet
* George Dyer – Poet
* Nicholas Foulkes – Journalist, writer, and broadcaster
*Leigh Hunt – Critic, essayist, and poet
*Charles Lamb – Essayist
*Bernard Levin – Journalist, author and broadcaster"Bernard Levin Obituary"
''The Times'', 10 August 2004
*Bryan Magee – Broadcaster, politician, and author
*Aylmer Maude – Translator
*John Middleton Murry – Writer
* Horace W. C. Newte – Author
* Thomas Richards (Tasmania) - Surgeon, Author, Journalist, Editor
*Samuel Richardson - Writer
* Michael Schmidt - Poet, Author, Scholar and Publisher
*Thomas Skinner Surr - Writer
*Rupert Thomson – Novelist

Other

* Bob Allen – Army surgeon and journalist
* William Bankes Amery – Civil servant and accountant
* Edmund Bartley-Denniss – Barrister, member of parliament, freemason and British cycling pioneer
* Francis Bullen - Judge.
* Thomas Cass – Surveyor
* Richard Cavendish – Occult writer
* Richard Clarke – Civil servant
*Henry Cole – Civil servant and inventor
*Edward Colston – Slave trader
* Arthur Dorman – Industrialist
* Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003
* John Edmonds – Trade Union Leader
* Thomas Everard – Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
* Rob Gauntlett – Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker
* David Green – Director of the Serious Fraud Office
*Harold Harding – Civil engineer
* Daniel Harper – Headmaster and
Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
* Lucy Herron – Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
* James Hooper – Adventurer
* Donald Hopson – Diplomat
* Rupert Jackson – Lord Justice of Appeal
*Geraint Jennings – Jersey politician and linguist
* Gabriel Jones – Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia
* Edward Keane – Australian engineer, businessman, and politicianRoberts, Kim
Keane, Edward Vivien Harvey (1844–1904)
– Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
* William Charles Goddard Knowles – British businessman in Hong Kong
*Henry James Sumner Maine – Comparative jurist and historian
* David Norgrove – Businessman
* William Nye – Principal Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–2015
*Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – Architect, designer, and theorist of design
*Percy Pyne – President of City National Bank in the United States
*John Septimus Roe – Surveyor-General of Western Australia
* George Ritchie Sandford – Barrister, Financial Secretary of Palestine (1940–1944), Chief Secretary of Tanganyika (1944–1946), Governor of the Bahamas (1950)
*Stephan Shakespeare – Business man and entrepreneur
* David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury – Business man
*Charles Robert Smith – Governor of North Borneo
* William Alder Strange – Headmaster and author
*Mark Thomas – Comedian and political activist
* Edward Thornton – Diplomat
* Richard Thornton – Merchant and trader
* Sir Ian Trethowan – Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist
* Alexander Vidal – US Land surveyor, banker and political figure
* Holly Walsh – Comedian
* E F Watling – Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator
*James White (1775-1820) – Advertising agent

References

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