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.[1]
Business
- Edward Colston – Merchant, slave trader, philanthropist, and Member of Parliament[2]
- Arthur Dorman – Industrialist[3]
- William Charles Goddard Knowles – British businessman in Hong Kong[4]
- David Norgrove – Businessman[5]
- Stephan Shakespeare – Business man and entrepreneur
- David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury – Business man[6]
- James White – Advertising agent[7]
- Richard Thornton – Merchant and trader[8]
Law
- Edmund Bartley-Denniss – Barrister, Member of Parliament, freemason and British cycling pioneer
- Francis Bullen – Judge[9]
- Rupert Jackson – Lord Justice of Appeal[10]
- Gabriel Jones – Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia[11]
- Henry James Sumner Maine – Comparative jurist and historian[12]
Medicine
- Russell Brock – Chest and heart surgeon[13][14]
- Raanan Gillon – Medical doctor, philosopher, journal editor and professor of medical ethics[15][16]
- Norman Guthkelch – British paediatric neurosurgeon[17]
- Caesar Hawkins – Surgeon[18]
- James Jurin – Physician and scientist[19]
- Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan – Abdominal surgeon[20]
Military
- Bertram Allen – Paymaster Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy
- Bob Allen – Army surgeon and journalist[21]
- Thomas Bertie – Rear-admiral in the Royal Navy[22][23]
- Edward Felix Baxter – Soldier (awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916)[24]
- Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari – Military administrator[25]
- John Colborne – British Army Field Marshal[26]
- Hugh Constantine – Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal[27]
- Edgar William Cox – Intelligence officer[28]
- Alexander Cunningham – Army engineer and archaeologist[29]
- James Alfred Davidson – Royal Navy commander[30]
- Edward Mortlock Donaldson – Royal Air Force pilot[31]
- William F.S. Edwards – commonly referred to as Brig General W. F. S. Edwards, 1st colonial Commissioner of Police in East Africa[32]
- Michael Gray – Soldier[33]
- Wilfrith Elstob – Soldier (awarded the Vitoria Cross in 1918)[34]
- Buster Howes – Commando and Royal Marines officer[35]
- Llewelyn Hughes – Soldier, priest and army chaplain[36]
- Robert Hunter – Soldier[37]
- Joshua Leakey – Soldier (awarded the Victoria Cross in 2013)[38]
- Henry Ralph Lumley – Royal Flying Corp pilot and burn victim[39]
- Philip Mayne – Soldier[40]
- Henry William Pitcher – British Indian Army officer (awarded the Victoria Cross in 1863)[41]
- Laurence Sinclair – Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Air Force (Awarded the George Cross in 1941)[42]
- John Robin Stephenson – British Army officer and cricket administrator[43]
- Harold Edward Whittingham – Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War[44]
- Thomas Withers, a naval officer who served with Nelson[45]
Music
- Basil Allchin – Oxford organist[46]
- Adrian Bawtree – Organist
- Sydney Carter – Poet, songwriter, musician[47]
- Sir Colin Davis – Conductor[48]
- Tim Benjamin – Composer[49]
- Catherine Ennis – organist[50]
- Charles Hazlewood – Conductor and broadcaster[51]
- Constant Lambert – Composer and conductor[52]
- Edward Lambert – Composer[53]
- Christopher Tambling – Composer, organist and choirmaster[54]
Performing arts
- Roger Allam – Actor[55][56]
- James D'Arcy – Actor[57]
- Howard Davies – Theatre and television director[58]
- Tenniel Evans – Actor[59]
- Susannah Fielding – Actor[60][61]
- Jason Flemyng – Actor[62]
- Jimmy Godden – Actor
- Leo Gregory – Actor[63]
- George Peele – Dramatist[64]
- Michael Wilding – Actor[65]
Politics
- Jenkin Coles – Australian politician[66]
- Owen Cox – Australian businessman and politician[67][68]
- Thomas Everard – Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
- Samuel Hayden – Canadian politician
- Steve Hilton – Political strategist[69][70]
- Stuart Holland – Labour politician and academic[71]
- Graham Hutton – Economist, author and Liberal Party politician[72]
- Martin Linton – former Labour Member of Parliament
- Sir Richard Nichols – Lord Mayor of London[73]
- Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham – Labour politician[74]
- Alexander Vidal – Canadian land surveyor, banker and political figure[75]
Religion
- John Arnold – Anglican priest and author[76]
- John Ashe – Priest[77]
- Reginald Bazire – Anglican priest[78]
- Raymond Birt – Archdeacon of Berkshire[79]
- Constance Bryant – Medical missionary[80]
- Edmund Campion – Jesuit priest, martyr and saint[81]
- Mordecai Cary – Bishop[82]
- Thomas Dale – Anglican priest, poet and theologian[83][84]
- John Delight – Archdeacon of Stoke[85]
- Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne – Priest and missionary to China[86]
- Robert Newton Flew – Methodist theologian[87]
- Bede Griffiths – Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East–West religious dialogue[88]
- Thomas Hartwell Horne – Theologian and librarian[89]
- Percy Henn – Clergyman and schoolmaster[90][91]
- James Horstead – Bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa[92]
- Ross Hook – Anglican bishop[93]
- Marcus Knight – Anglican priest[94]
- John Townsend – Congregationalist minister and philanthropist[95]
Science and academia
- Donald Allan – Classical scholar[96]
- W. Sidney Allen – Linguist and philologist[97]
- Richard Appleton – Lecturer in mathematics and theology[98]
- Andrew Barker – Classical scholar[99]
- Joshua Barnes – English scholar[100]
- John Beazley – Classical scholar[101]
- T. A. M. Bishop – Palaeographer, historian, and academic[102]
- Arthur Lyon Bowley – Statistician and economist[103]
- James Boyer – Clergyman and headmaster of Christ's Hospital[104]
- Rupert Bruce-Mitford – Archaeologist and scholar[105]
- Andrew Burn (professor) – Media scholar and educationist[106]
- William Burnside – Mathematician[107]
- Cyril Burt – Psychologist[108]
- Ida Busbridge – Mathematician[109]
- William Camden – Antiquarian and historian[110]
- T. H. Clark – Geologist[111]
- Ruth Deech – Academic, lawyer and bioethicist[112][113]
- Robin Du Boulay – Medieval historian[114]
- Frederick Field – Theologian and biblical scholar[115]
- John Forsdyke – Classical scholar and Director of the British Museum[116]
- Cyril Fox – Archaeologist[117]
- Louis Harold Gray – Physicist[118][119]
- George Greenhill – Mathematician[120]
- Jasper Griffin – Professor of Classics at Oxford[121]
- Philip Hall – Mathematician[122]
- Roger Highfield – Science author, journalist and broadcaster[123]
- Sydney Samuel Hough – Astronomer and mathematician[124]
- Beresford Kidd – Anglican priest and Church historian[125]
- Philip Kitcher – Professor of philosophy[126][127]
- Norman Longmate – Author, historian and broadcaster[128]
- Jeremiah Markland – Classical scholar[129]
- Russell Meiggs – Historian[130]
- Peter Padfield – Historian[131]
- Rex Paterson – Agricultural researcher[132]
- Alan Ryan – Professor[133][134]
- James Scholefield – Classical scholar[135]
- Barnes Wallis – Scientist, engineer and inventor[136]
- Gerald James Whitrow – Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian[137]
- F. L. Woodward – Educationist, Pali scholar, author and theosophist[138]
- Erik Christopher Zeeman – Mathematician[139]
Sport
- Jack Bailey – Cricketer and cricket administrator[140]
- Cecil Boden – Cricketer[141]
- Robert Edwards – Cricketer and clergyman[142]
- Henry Franklin – Cricketer, headmaster and rugby union player[143]
- Jack Gentry – Cricketer[144]
- Ælfric Harrison – Cricketer[145]
- Andrew Higgins – Rugby union player[146]
- George Rowland Hill – Rugby union administrator, official and referee[147]
- Joe Launchbury – Rugby union player[148]
- James McInerny – Cricketer[149]
- Dennis Silk – Schoolmaster and international cricketer[150]
- Geoff Smith – Kent cricketer[151][152]
- John Snow – Cricketer[153]
- Stu Whittingham – Cricketer[154]
- Douglas Wright – Cricketer[155]
Visual arts
- Richard Dagley – Painter and illustrator[156]
- Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram[157]
- Francis Seymour Haden – Etcher and surgeon[158][159]
- Arthur Ling – architect and urban planner[160]
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – Architect, designer, artist and critic[161][162]
- Tony Ray-Jones – Photographer[163]: 7
- Jonathan Scott – Wildlife photographer and TV presenter[164]
- Chris Steele-Perkins – Photographer[165]
- Keith Vaughan – Painter[166]
Writers, poets and journalists
- Cyrus Andrews – Journalist and radio scriptwriter
- Attila the Stockbroker (John Baine) – Punk poet and musician[167]
- Thomas Barnes – Journalist[168]
- Robert Black – Author, journalist and translator[169]
- Edmund Blunden – Poet, author and critic[170]
- Guy Boothby – Author[171]
- Mark Burgess – Children's author[172][173]
- Samuel Cobb (poet) – Poet[174]
- Kira Cochrane – Journalist and author[175]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher[176]
- James Coomarasamy – Correspondent[177]
- Con Coughlin – Journalist and author[178]
- Keith Douglas – Poet[179]
- George Dyer – Poet[180]
- Nicholas Foulkes – Journalist, writer, and broadcaster[181]
- Leigh Hunt – Critic, essayist, and poet[182]
- Charles Lamb – Essayist[183]
- Bernard Levin – Journalist, author and broadcaster[184]
- Bryan Magee – Broadcaster, politician, and author[185]
- Aylmer Maude – Translator[186]
- John Middleton Murry – Writer[187]
- Horace W. C. Newte – Author[188]
- Thomas Richards (Tasmania) – Surgeon, Author, Journalist, Editor[189]
- Samuel Richardson – Writer[190]
- Michael Schmidt – Poet, Author, Scholar and Publisher[191]
- Thomas Skinner Surr – Writer[192]
- Rupert Thomson – Novelist[193]
- Sir Ian Trethowan – Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist[194]
Other
- William Bankes Amery – Civil servant and accountant[195]
- Thomas Cass – Surveyor[196]
- Richard Cavendish – Occult writer[197]
- Richard Clarke – Civil servant[198]
- Henry Cole – Civil servant and inventor[199]
- Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003[200]
- John Edmonds – Trade union leader[201]
- Rob Gauntlett – Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker[202]
- David Green – Director of the Serious Fraud Office[203]
- Harold Harding – Civil engineer[204][205]
- Daniel Harper – Headmaster and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford[206]
- Lucy Herron – Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa[207]
- James Hooper – Adventurer[208][209]
- Donald Hopson – Diplomat[210]
- Geraint Jennings – Jersey politician and linguist[211]
- Edward Keane – Australian engineer, businessman, and politician[212]
- William Nye – Principal Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–2015[213]
- Percy Pyne – President of City National Bank in the United States[214]
- John Septimus Roe – Surveyor-General of Western Australia[215]
- George Ritchie Sandford – Barrister, Financial Secretary of Palestine (1940–1944), Chief Secretary of Tanganyika (1944–1946), Governor of the Bahamas (1950)[216]
- Charles Robert Smith – Governor of North Borneo[217]
- William Alder Strange – Headmaster and author
- Mark Thomas – Comedian and political activist[218]
- Edward Thornton – Diplomat[219]
- Holly Walsh – Comedian[220][221]
- E F Watling – Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator[222]
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