List of Old Greshamians

The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, Norfolk, England.----

Public life

*James Allan - British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique Lidell, Charles Lawrence Scruton & Douglas, A. B., "The History and Register of Gresham's School, 1555-1954" (Ipswich, 1955)] "Old Greshamian Club Address Book" (Cheverton & Son Ltd., Cromer, 1999)] "Who's Who 2003" (A. & C. Black, London, 2003)]
*Sir Eric Berthoud - British ambassador to Denmark and Poland"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" (Oxford University Press, 2004)]
*Erskine Childers - President of the Republic of Ireland"I Will Plant Me a Tree: an Illustrated History of Gresham's School" by S.G.G. Benson and Martin Crossley Evans (James & James, London, 2002)]
*Sir Stewart Crawford - diplomat
*Bernard Floud - Labour politician
*Sir Cecil Graves - Director-General of the BBC
*Sir Christopher Heydon - 16th century member of parliament
*Paul Howell - Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk
*Donald Maclean - diplomat and spy
*11th Earl of Northesk - parliamentarian
*Terence O'Brien - British ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia
*Laurance Reed - Conservative politician
*Lord Reith - first Director-General of the BBC, politician
*Wilfrid Roberts - Liberal politician
*Christian Schiller - HM Inspector of Schools
*11th Lord Strabolgi - Labour politician
*Dr Thomas Stuttaford - Conservative politician and journalist
*C. G. H. Simon (1914 - 2002), Income Tax General Commissioner
*Lord Simon of Glaisdale - Conservative politician and law lord
*Lord Simon of Wythenshawe - socialist and journalist
*Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp - Lord Justice of Appeal
*Sir Gerald Thesiger - High Court Judge ["Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage", ed. Charles Mosley (107th edition, 3 volumes, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 759]
*Sir John Tusa - Director of BBC World Service
*Lord Wilson of High Wray - governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria [ [http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6209274 WILSON OF HIGH WRAY, Paul Norman Wilson, Baron cr 1976 (Life Peer), of Kendal, Cumbria] in Who's Who online at Credo Plus (accessed 30 November 2007)]
*Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - governor of The Gambia

Military

*General Sir Terence Airey - soldier, GOC Hong Kong
*Joe Baker-Cresswell - Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to King George VI
*General Sir Robert Bray - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
*Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet, killed on active service in Java, 1942 [ [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6134351 "Bull, Sir Stephen John"] in "Who Was Who 1897-2006", retrieved August 16, 2007]
*Donald Cunnell - World War I fighter pilot
*Arthur Estcourt - World War I officer
*Major-General Guy Gregson - soldier"Who's Who 1969" (A. & C. Black, London, 1969)]
*Sir Christopher Heydon - took part in the capture of Cádiz, 1596J. Venn and J. A. Venn, "Alumni Cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates, and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900", 2 pts in 10 vols.(1922–54); repr. in 2 vols.(1974–8)]
*General Sir William Holmes - Second World War general ["Speech Days: A New Tradition At Gresham's" in The Times, Monday, June 27, 1938, page 20]
*Major-General John Lethbridge - soldier
*Sir Philip Toosey - Bridge on the River Kwai commander
*Peter Wilkinson MC - Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force
*Tom Wintringham - soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist
*Major-General A. E. Younger - soldier

Church

*Edwin Boston - founder of the Cadeby Light Railway, "the Fat Clergyman" in the books of the Rev. W. Awdry [Scott, Peter, "A History of the Alton Towers Railway: Including Other Railways & Transport" [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xsVyeQh3_GUC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=Boston&source=web&ots=9AfEl4O8dw&sig=a8_fbXLwCHtMlsFtHGq5cEwLY04&hl=en Appendix Eight: Cadeby Light Railway] online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 13 April 2008)]
*John Bradburne - Franciscan
*John Daly - bishop of The Gambia, Accra, Korea and Taejon
*Colin Forrester-Paton - missionary and Chaplain to H.M. The Queen in Scotland
*Most Rev. David Hand - Archbishop of Papua New Guinea [ [http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/gods-colourful-and-inspirational-soldier/2006/04/27/1145861482101.html God's colourful and inspirational soldier] Obituary at the Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2006 (accessed 21 October 2007)]
*Peter Lee - bishop of the diocese of Christ the King, Johannesburg
*William Lubbock - 18th century divine, Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge
*John Moorman - Bishop of Ripon
*Thomas Pyle - 18th century clergyman and writer
*Robin Woods - Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Worcester

Medicine

*Richard Battle - plastic surgeon ["Battle, Richard John Vulliamy" in "Who Was Who 1897-2006", from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6128288 Battle, Richard John Vulliamy] (accessed 22 August, 2007)]
*Major-General Joseph Crowdy - Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps
*Michael Fordham - psychiatrist
*Thomas Girdlestone - physician and writer
*John Grange - immunologist
*Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - Nobel Prize for Medicine, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
*William Henry Kelson, physician, President of the Hunterian Society [" [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U212216 KELSON, William Henry] " in "Who Was Who", A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by OUP, December 2007 (subscription required)accessed 23 August 2008]
*William Rushton FRS - physiologist
*Thomas Stuttaford - doctor and politician
*Anthony Yates - rheumatologist

Writers

Poets

*W. H. Auden - poet
*John Henry Colls, 18th century poet [Chambers, John, ed., "A General History of the County of Norfolk" Volume II (Norwich & London, 1829) pp. 781-782]
*Andrew Jefford - poet and wine writer [ [http://www.andrewjefford.com/cv.htm Andrew Jefford CV] at andrewjefford.com (accessed 15 October 2007)]
*Michael Laskey - poet [ [http://www.michael-laskey.co.uk/#bio Biography of Michael Laskey] at michael-laskey.co.uk (accessed 9 September 2007)]
*John Pudney - poet and novelist
*Sir Stephen Spender - poet

Academics

*Norman Cohn - historian"Norman Cohn: Historian who drew parallels between apocalyptic medieval movements and Marxism and nazism", The Guardian (London, England) Obituary August 9, 2007]
*Oliver Elton - literary critic, translator
*Boris Ford - literary critic, editor
*Alfred Gissing - biographer
*John Davy Hayward - editor and critic
*Michael Kitson - art historian
*James Klugmann - Communist historian
*2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker - political scientist
*W. Wesley Pue - academic lawyer [ [http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/ilac/Profiles/pue.htm W. Wesley Pue (Canada)] , profile at faculty.law.ubc.ca, accessed 17 July 2008]
*Sir James Maude Richards - architectural writer
*E. Clive Rouse - archaeologist
*John Saltmarsh - historian
*Brian Simon - educational historian
*Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - academic lawyer [ [http://www.law.suffolk.edu/faculty/addinfo/rounds/ Biography of Charles E. Rounds Jr.] at official web site of Suffolk University Law School (accessed 5 September 2007)]

Novelists

*John Lanchester - novelist
*Sabin Willett - novelist

Journalists

*Cedric Belfrage - journalist and author
*Alastair Hetherington - journalist, editor of "The Guardian"
*Sir John Tusa - BBC journalist
*Edmund Rogers - journalist
*Philip Pembroke Stephens - journalist

Other

*Erskine Childers - political writer
*Maurice Ash - environmentalist writer
*Sir Christopher Heydon - 17th century writer on astrology
*Lady Flora McDonnell - children's author
*Pat Simon - wine writer and Master of Wine [ [http://www.masters-of-wine.org/MembersWhoAre.aspx Pat Simon at Masters of Wine] (accessed 8 September 2007)]

Music

*Richard Austin - conductor ['AUSTIN, Richard', in "Who Was Who", A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press (subscription required) December 2007: " [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U161620 AUSTIN, Richard] ", accessed 23 Aug 2008]
*Benjamin Britten, Lord Britten of Aldeburgh - composer
*Sir Lennox Berkeley - composer
*Richard Hand - classical guitarist [ [http://www.richardhand.net/ Biography at richardhand.net] official web site (accessed 8 September 2007)]
*Christopher J. Monckton - organist and conductor
*George Stiles - composer
*Roderick Watkins - composer

ciences

*L. E. Baynes - aeronautical engineer
*David Bensusan-Butt - economist
*Derek Bryan - sinologist
*Anthony Bull - transport engineer
*Sir Henry Clay, 6th Baronet - engineer
*Sir Christopher Cockerell - inventor of the hovercraft
*C. H. Gimingham - botanist
*Dr Hildebrand Hervey FRS - marine biologist
*Sir John Hammond - agricultural research scientist
*Harry Hodson - economist
*G. Evelyn Hutchinson - zoologist
*Bryan Keith-Lucas - political scientist
*David Keith-Lucas - aeronautical engineer
*David Lack - biologist
*Dr Colin Leakey - botanist
*Maurice Lister - chemist
*Jonathan Partington - mathematician
*Frank Perkins - engineer
*Christopher Strachey - computer scientist
*Sir Owen Wansbrough-Jones - chemist, weapons research scientist
*Sir Martin Wood - engineer

Artists

*Michael Cummings - cartoonist
*Richard Chopping - book cover illustrator [ [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-chopping-versatile-illustrator-best-known-for-his-distinctive-bond-book-jackets-813974.html Richard Chopping: Versatile illustrator best known for his distinctive Bond book jackets - Obituaries, News - The Independent ] ]
*William Lionel Clause, landscape artist [ [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U223830, CLAUSE, William Lionel] in "Who Was Who 1920–2007"; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 6 May 2008]
*Sir Philip Dowson - architect and President of the Royal Academy
*Molly Garnier - artist [ [http://www.mollygarnier.co.uk/biography.htm Biography of Molly Garnier] at mollygarnier.co.uk (accessed 3 November 2007)]
*Robert Medley RA - artist
*Ben Nicholson, OM - artist
*Christopher Nicholson - architect
*Christopher Perkins - artist
*Humphrey Spender - photographer [*"Humphrey Spender: Artist whose photographs of the working classes became regarded as an invaluable historical record", obituary in Daily Telegraph (London, England) March 15, 2005, from [http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=SPN.SP00 "Humphrey Spender"] at Newspapers Online Gale (accessed 22 August 2007)]
*Tony Tuckson - artist
*Charles Mayes Wigg - artist

ports

*Giles Baring - cricketer [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p990.htm#i9893 Giles Baring at thepeerage.com] (accessed 5 September 2007)]
*Glyn Barnett - rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006
*Tom Bourdillon - mountaineer [Audrey Salkeld, "Bourdillon, Thomas Duncan (1924–1956)" in "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, 2007)]
*Gawain Briars - British No. 1 squash player
*11th Earl of Northesk - Olympic medallist (skeleton, 1928)
*Andrew Corran - cricketer
*Matthew Dickinson - mountaineer and adventurer
*Natasha Firman - Formula Woman racing driver
*Ralph Firman - Formula One racing driver
*Richard Leman - hockey player and Olympic gold medallist
*Peter Lloyd - mountaineer
*Andy Mulligan - captain of the British Lions Rugby XV
*Ben Pienaar - rugby union player and Junior National Champion at judo [ [http://www.tigers.co.uk/9660_3255.php Ben Pienaar] at Leicester Tigers profiles online (accessed 20 February 2008)]
*Pat Symonds - Formula One racing
*Nick Youngs - England rugby union footballer
*Tom Youngs - member of England squad at Rugby sevens [ [http://www.irishrugby.ie/6855_3546.php Good Win For Ireland Schools] report dated 8 April 2004 at irishrugby.ie (accessed 19 April 2008)]
*Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - mountaineer

Performing Arts

*Kat Alano - model, actress [ [http://www.katalano.com/profile.html Biography of Kat Alano] at her official web site, katalano.com (accessed 5 September 2007)]
*Matt Arnold - television presenter
*Michael Aldridge - actor
*Bruce Belfrage - actor
*Peter Brook - theatre director
*Henry Daniell - actor
*Nigel Dick - director
*Stephen Frears - film director
*Sienna Guillory - actress
*Julian Jarrold - television and film director
*Robert Mawdesley - actor
*Bill Mason, documentary film maker
*Ed Nell - radio presenter
*Paddy O'Connell - television presenter
*Sebastian Shaw - actor
*Patrick Waddington - actor
*Peter Whitbread - actor and scriptwriter

Business

*Sir James Dyson - inventor and entrepreneur
*Charles Kearley - property developer and art collector
*Sir Christopher Howes - chief executive of the Crown Estate

Other

*Robert Aagaard - furniture maker and founder of the youth movement Cathedral Camps ['AAGAARD, Robert', in "Who Was Who", A. & C. Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007: [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U4890 AAGAARD, Robert] (subscription required), accessed 10 August 2008]
*Theodore Acland - headmaster of Norwich School ['ACLAND, Rev. Theodore William Gull', in "Who Was Who", A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007 " [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U233888 ACLAND, Rev. Theodore William Gull] " (subscription required), accessed 23 Aug 2008]
*Sir Harold Atcherley - arts administrator
*Sir John Agnew, 6th Baronet - landowner, festivals organizer
*Jeremy Bamber
*3rd Baron Bradbury
*Martin Burgess FSA - master clockmaker
*Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron ["Byron, Rupert Frederick George Byron" in "Who Was Who 1897-2006" online, from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6135341 Byron, Rupert Frederick George Byron] (accessed 22 August 2007)]
*Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd ["Clywd, John Trevor Roberts" in "Who Was Who 1897-2006" online, from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/6138957 Clywd, John Trevor Roberts] (accessed 22 August 2007)]
*Anthony Coke, 6th Earl of Leicester ["Who's Who 1993" (A. & C. Black, London, 1993)]
*Viscount Dunluce
*Lady Alice McDonnell
*Christopher Newbury - Council of Europe [ [http://www.westwilts-communityweb.com/site/Christopher-Newbury/CV.htm Biography] at westwilts-communityweb.com (accessed 5 September 2007)]
*John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk ['NORTHESK, 12th Earl of" in "Who Was Who", A. & C. Black, 1920–2007; online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2007 " [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U158040 NORTHESK, 12th Earl of] ", accessed 11 Aug 2008]
*Ian Proctor - yacht designer
*William Joseph Spratling, Grand Sword Bearer of England [Anon., "Representative British Freemasons" (reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0766135896) [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6DtvwH_Dfl8C&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248&dq=Gresham&source=web&ots=P0ya5Tb0mR&sig=hxWUtmchNAjNSQSaHKhsJbyZCX4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA248,M1 p. 248] online]
*8th Baron Suffield [ [http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6199904 "Suffield, John Harbord, 8th baron"] in "Who Was Who 1897-2006" (A. & C. Black, London)]

Simon James Nicholas Dimitri Sedric Pablo Fabio Gomm - Mexican beastiality pornstar, Member of the RSPCA, Empire builder, Monty Python appreciation society and Pirate. Activities including, plotting, pilaging and badminton.

Notable Gresham's masters

*Logie Bruce Lockhart - Scotland rugby footballer, headmaster
*Warin Foster Bushell - later headmaster of Michaelhouse and Birkenhead School and President of the Mathematical Association ["BUSHELL, Warin Foster", in "Who Was Who 1897-2007" online, retrieved 24 May 2008 from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7335507 BUSHELL, Warin Foster] (2008)]
*Antony R. Clark, headmaster since 2002, first-class cricketer
*C. V. Durell - writer of mathematics textbooks
*Graeme Fife - writer, playwright and broadcaster
*Walter Greatorex - composer
*Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick - research chemist ["Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick, 1887-1966" by E. J. Bowen in "Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society", vol. 13, November 1967, pp. 107-124]
*John Holmes - writer of textbooks on grammar, rhetoric and astronomy
*George Howson - headmaster, 1900-1919
*Charles W. Lloyd, Master of Dulwich College ["Who’s Who 1997" (A.& C. Black, London, 1997) page 1186]
*Dr Geoffrey Shaw, organist and composer [ [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Shaw-Geoffrey.htm Geoffrey Shaw (Composer, Arranger)] at www.bach-cantatas.com]
*Patrick Thompson - Conservative Member of Parliament
*Dr Michael Walker - headmaster of King Edward VI School, Chelmsford
*Hugh Wright, Headmaster 1985-1991, later Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference
*Denys Thompson - Editor of "The Use of English" (journal) [ [http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/dow_server/info/danl/D-News98.pdf#search=%22%22Boris%20Ford%22%20Downing%22 Obituary] of Boris Ford in "College Record 1998" of Downing College, Cambridge (accessed 22 October 2007)]
*Professor Richard D'Aeth (later Master of Hughes Hall, Cambridge) ["Professor Richard D'Aeth", obituary in "The Independent" dated May 5, 2008]

ee also

*Gresham's School
*List of Masters of Gresham's School

References