List of Old Citizens
Encyclopedia
Former pupils of the City of London School
City of London School
The City of London School is a boys' independent day school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London, England. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and the co-educational City of London Freemen's School...

 are called Old Citizens, and more informally as Old Boys. The school's old boy association is called the John Carpenter Club, after John Carpenter, town clerk of London
John Carpenter, town clerk of London
John Carpenter, the younger , was a noted Town Clerk of London. He was elected as Town Clerk to the City of London during the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI. He was the author of the first book of English common law, called Liber Albus . He was a member of the English Parliament from London in 1425...

, whose bequest led to the founding of the school. The following is by no means a comprehensive list: over 140 people listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography were educated at the City of London School, and that includes only the names of those who are already dead.

Prominent Old Citizens

Most of the people listed here are cited from the Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Edwin Abbott Abbott
    Edwin Abbott Abbott
    Edwin Abbott Abbott , English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the satirical novella Flatland .-Biography:...

     - Headmaster of the school (after whom Abbot house is named), theologian and author
  • David Lindo Alexander
    David Lindo Alexander
    David Lindo Alexander was an English barrister and Jewish community leader.-Biography:David Lindo Alexander was born in the City of London on 5 October to solicitor Joshua Alexander and his wife Jemima...

     - Jewish community leader
  • Kingsley Amis
    Kingsley Amis
    Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism...

     - Writer
  • William Anderson
    William Anderson (collector)
    William Anderson FRCS was an Engish surgeon born in Shoreditch, London. He was Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in London, and an important collector and scholar of Japanese art. He was the first chairman of the Japan Society...

     - Physician, Anatomy professor and scholar of Japanese Art
  • Michael Apted
    Michael Apted
    Michael David Apted, CMG is an English director, producer, writer and actor. He is one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation but is best known for his work on the Up Series of documentaries and the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.On 29 June 2003 he was elected...

     - Actor, Producer and Director
  • Thomas Walker Arnold
    Thomas Walker Arnold
    Sir Thomas Walker Arnold was an eminent British orientalist and historian of Islamic art who taught at MAO College, Aligarh Muslim University, then Aligarh College, and Government College University, Lahore. He was a friend of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, and wrote his famous book "The preaching of Islam"...

     - Orientalist
  • Lord Ashby
    Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby
    Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby FRS was a British botanist and educator.Born in Leytonstone in Essex, he was educated at the City of London School and the Royal College of Science, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He was then demonstrator at the Imperial College from 1926 to 1929...

     - Botanist and university chancellor
  • Herbert Henry Asquith
    H. H. Asquith
    Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, KG, PC, KC served as the Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916...

     - Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party and...

     1908-1916
  • Roy Baker
    Roy Ward Baker
    Roy Ward Baker , born Roy Horace Baker, was an English film director, credited as Roy Baker for much of his career. His best known film is A Night to Remember which won a Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film in 1959...

     - Film director
  • Julian Barnes
    Julian Barnes
    Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer, and winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his book The Sense of an Ending...

     - Novelist
  • Jonathan Barnes
    Jonathan Barnes
    Jonathan Barnes is a British philosopher, translator and historian of ancient philosophy.-Education and career:He was educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford University....

     - Philosopher
  • Michael Barnett
    Michael Barnett
    Michael N. Barnett is a major constructivist scholar of international relations. His research has been in the areas of international organizations, international relations theory, and Middle Eastern politics. With Emanuel Adler, he reintroduced the concept of security community to international...

     - Fencer
  • Aaron Barschak
    Aaron Barschak
    Aaron Alexander Barschak styles himself as a "comedy terrorist" and fringe UK politician. In 2003, he attracted media attention by surreptitiously joining Prince William's 21st birthday party.-Background:...

     - Comedian
  • Henry Charles Beeching
    Henry Charles Beeching
    Henry Charles Beeching was an English clergyman, author and poet. He was educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford. He took holy orders in 1882, and began work in a Liverpool parish. He later became Dean of Norwich. He gave the Clark Lecture in 1900 on The history of...

     - Poet
  • David Blundy
    David Blundy
    David Blundy , was a British journalist and war correspondent. Son of an antiques dealer who had a shop at the Elephant and Castle, he was educated at the City of London School and Bristol University...

     - War Correspondent, killed in El Salvador, 17 November 1989
  • Bramwell Booth
    Bramwell Booth
    Bramwell Booth, CH was the first Chief of Staff and the second General of The Salvation Army , succeeding his father, William Booth.-Biography:...

     - General of the Salvation Army
  • Mike Brearley
    Mike Brearley
    John Michael Brearley OBE is a former cricketer who captained the England cricket team in 31 of his 39 Test matches, winning 17 and losing only 4. He was the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 2007–08.-Early life:...

     - Cricketer, captain of the England cricket team 1977–1981 and whose father Horace Brearley
    Horace Brearley
    Horace Brearley was an English cricketer and schoolmaster.Born in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, England, Brearley represented Yorkshire for a solitary County Championship appearance as a right-handed batsman in 1937, and played for Middlesex in 1949. He appearance with Yorkshire yielded seventeen runs...

     taught at CLS)
  • Clive Brooks
    Clive Brooks
    Clive Colin Brooks is a drummer, best known for his work in the English progressive rock band Egg.-Uriel/Egg:...

     - member of Egg (band)
    Egg (band)
    Egg were an English progressive rock band formed in January 1969.-Career:The founding members of the group were Dave Stewart who played organ , Mont Campbell on bass and vocals and drummer Clive Brooks...

  • Arthur Henry Bullen
    Arthur Henry Bullen
    Arthur Henry Bullen, often known as A. H. Bullen, was an English editor and publisher, a specialist in 16th and 17th century literature, and founder of the Shakespeare Head Press, which for its first decades was a publisher of fine editions in the tradition of the Kelmscott Press.His father George...

     - Publisher and scholar
  • Suma Chakrabarti
    Suma Chakrabarti
    Sir Suma Chakrabarti, KCB is Permanent Secretary at the UK's Ministry of Justice. He holds office as Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, and, as such, is responsible for the running of the Crown Office, under the directions of the Lord Chancellor.He was appointed on 15 November 2007...

     - Senior Civil Servant
  • Mont Campbell
    Mont Campbell
    Hugo Martin Montgomery Campbell , formerly known as Mont Campbell, now Dirk Campbell is a British progressive rock musician, best known as a member of progressive rock band Egg.-Biography:...

     - Member of Egg (band)
  • Lord Chalmers
    Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers
    Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers GCB PC , was a British civil servant.-Background and education:Chalmers was born in Stoke Newington, Middlesex, the son of John Chalmers and his wife Julia...

     - Colonial governor and minister
  • Sir Paul Chambers
    Sir Paul Chambers
    Sir Paul Chambers was a British civil servant and industrialist and Chairman of ICI.He was born in London and educated at the City of London School before going up to study economics at the London School of Economics....

     - Industrialist, Chairman of ICI
  • Danny Cohen
    Danny Cohen
    Danny Cohen is the current Controller of BBC One, the BBC's flagship television channel in the United Kingdom. He is the youngest person to be appointed as Controller of the channel.- Education :...

     - New Controller of BBC One
    BBC One
    BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

    , and formerly of BBC Three
    BBC Three
    BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...

  • Lord Collins - Supreme Court justice
  • Robert Seymour Conway
    Robert Seymour Conway
    Robert Seymour Conway was a British classical scholar and comparative philologist. Born in Stoke Newington, he was the older brother of Katharine St John Conway...

     - Classical scholar and philologist
  • Jim Cousins
    Jim Cousins
    James Mackay Cousins is an English Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central from 1987 to 2010.-Early life:...

     - Labour MP
  • Philip Dawid
    Philip Dawid
    Alexander Philip Dawid is Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge...

     - Statistician
  • John Diamond (journalist)
    John Diamond (journalist)
    John Diamond was a British broadcaster and journalist.- Education and training :Diamond was the son of a biochemist and a fashion designer. He grew up in Upper Clapton and Woodford Green, he then attended the City of London School and trained as an English teacher at Trent Park College of...

     - Journalist and broadcaster, & Sunday Times writer
  • Edward Divers
    Edward Divers
    Edward Divers FRS was a British experimental chemist who rose to prominence despite being visually impaired from young age. Between 1873 and 1899, Divers lived and worked in Japan and significantly contributed to the science and education of that country.-Biography:Divers was born in London and...

     - Chemist
  • Lord Evans - Royal physician
  • Stewart Farrar
    Stewart Farrar
    Frank Stewart Farrar , who always went by the name of Stewart Farrar, was an English screenwriter, novelist and prominent figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, which he devoted much of his later life to propagating with the aid of his seventh wife, Janet Farrar, and then his friend Gavin Bone...

     - Author
  • John Knight Fotheringham
    John Knight Fotheringham
    John Knight Fotheringham FBA was a British historian who was an expert on ancient astronomy and chronology. He established the chronology of the Babylonian dynasties.J.K...

     - Historian, an expert on ancient astronomy and chronology
  • Percy Gardner
    Percy Gardner
    Percy Gardner was an English classical archaeologist.Percy Gardner was born in London, and was educated at the City of London School and Christ's College, Cambridge...

     - Archaeologist
  • Edward Garnett
    Edward Garnett
    Edward Garnett was an English writer, critic and a significant and personally generous literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers published. His father Richard Garnett was a writer and librarian at the British Museum...

     - Editor and writer
  • Leo Genn
    Leo Genn
    - Early life :He was born at 144 Kyverdale Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney, London, England to a Jewish family. His father, Woolfe Genn, was a jewellery salesman and the maiden name of his mother, Rachel, was Asserson....

     - Stage and film actor
  • Israel Gollancz
    Israel Gollancz
    Sir Israel Gollancz was a scholar of early English literature and of Shakespeare. He was Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College, London, from 1903 to 1930....

     - Founding member of the British Academy
    British Academy
    The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...

  • Theodore Bayley Hardy - Victoria Cross
    Victoria Cross
    The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

     holder
  • Peter Higgs
    Peter Higgs
    Peter Ware Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC , is an English theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh....

     - theoretical physicist, predicted the so-called "God Particle" known as the Higgs boson
    Higgs boson
    The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive elementary particle that is predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. Its existence is postulated as a means of resolving inconsistencies in the Standard Model...

  • Frederick Hopkins
    Frederick Hopkins
    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. He also discovered the amino acid tryptophan, in 1901...

     - Nobel prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     winning biochemist
  • Paul Hough
    Paul Hough
    English born Paul Hough created and directed the multi-award winning film The Backyard . The Backyard received an original rating of NC-17 from the MPAA. The Backyard was named Dvd Of The Month and received the coveted 4 stars in Maxim Magazine . The Backyard was released in theaters in Germany...

     - Film Director
  • William Huggins
    William Huggins
    Sir William Huggins, OM, KCB, FRS was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy.-Biography:...

     - Astronomer
  • Joseph Oscar Irwin
    Joseph Oscar Irwin
    Joseph Oscar Irwin British statistician who advanced the use of statistical methods in biological assay and other fields of laboratory medicine. Irwin’s grasp of modern mathematical statistics distinguished him not only from older medical statisticians like Major Greenwood but contemporaries like...

     - Statistician
  • Steven Isserlis
    Steven Isserlis
    Steven Isserlis CBE is a British cellist. He is distinguished for his diverse repertoire, distinctive sound and total command of phrasing. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and was much influenced by the great iconoclast of Russian cello playing, Daniil Shafran...

     - Cellist
  • Tim Jackson - Entrepreneur and author
  • Anthony Julius
    Anthony Julius
    Anthony Julius is a prominent British lawyer and academic, best known for his actions on behalf of Diana, Princess of Wales, Deborah Lipstadt and more recently Heather Mills...

     - Lawyer
  • Skandar Keynes
    Skandar Keynes
    Skandar Keynes is a British actor. He is best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia film series since 2005. He has appeared in all three installments, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and most recently The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was...

     - Film Actor
  • Ralph Knott
    Ralph Knott
    Ralph Knott FRIBA was a British architect responsible for building the massive 6-storey "Edwardian Baroque" style County Hall building for the London County Council....

     - Architect
  • Peter B. Kronheimer
    Peter B. Kronheimer
    Peter Benedict Kronheimer is a British mathematician, known for his work on gauge theory and its applications to 3- and 4-dimensional topology. He is presently William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University....

     - Mathematician
  • James Leasor
    James Leasor
    James Leasor was a prolific British author, who wrote historical books and thrillers. Leasor's 1978 book, Boarding Party, about an incident that took place in the Second World War, was turned into a film, The Sea Wolves, starring Gregory Peck, Roger Moore and David Niven.-Biography:Leasor was born...

     - Author
  • Sidney Lee
    Sidney Lee
    Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic.He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the City of London School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1882. In the next year he became assistant-editor of the...

     - Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
    Dictionary of National Biography
    The Dictionary of National Biography is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885...

  • Peter Levene
    Peter Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken
    Peter Keith Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken KBE is chairman of NBNK Investments plc and was Lord Mayor of London 1998 to 1999.-Life:Lord Levene has enjoyed a long and varied career in business, government and banking...

     - Chairman of Lloyd's of London
    Lloyd's of London
    Lloyd's, also known as Lloyd's of London, is a British insurance and reinsurance market. It serves as a partially mutualised marketplace where multiple financial backers, underwriters, or members, whether individuals or corporations, come together to pool and spread risk...

     and Lord Mayor of London
    Lord Mayor of London
    The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...

     1998 & 1999
  • Joseph Hiam Levy
    Joseph Hiam Levy
    Joseph Hiam Levy was an English author and economist. He was educated at the City of London School and joined the Civil Service. He later became a lecturer in economics at Birkbeck College and an important figure in the Personal Rights Association....

  • David M. Lewis - Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford
  • Sir Patrick Linstead
    Patrick Linstead
    Sir Patrick Linstead CBE, DSc, HonDSc, DIC, HonFCGI, HonMIMM, FRS was an English chemist.-Career:...

     - Chemist and Rector of Imperial College London
    Imperial College London
    Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...

  • David Litman
    David Litman
    David Litman was born in New York in 1957. He lived in the UK from 1967-1975. He attended Sussex House School from 1968-1971 and City of London School from 1971-1975. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School ....

     - American Entrepreneur, founder of hotels.com
  • Ernest Lough
    Ernest Lough
    Ernest Arthur Lough was an English boy soprano who sang the famous solo O for the Wings of a Dove from Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer for the Gramophone Company in 1927. The record became HMV's biggest seller for 1927, and made the piece, the choir and the soloist world famous...

     - Boy soprano, singer, whose recording of Mendelssohn's "O for the Wings of a Dove" with the Temple Choir in 1927 made him world famous; it was the first classical record to sell (by 1962) more than a million copies.
  • Luigi Masi
    Luigi Masi
    Luigi Masi is a British singer who lives in London, but was born in Brazil. His first single "Strobelight" was released on 20 October 2008 and was a top 10 UK club hit. His second single "Armed With Love" was released on 25 May 2009 and again reached top 10 on the club chart...

     - Singer & musician
  • Sir Wylie McKissock
    Wylie McKissock
    Sir Wylie McKissock, OBE was a British neurosurgeon. He set up the neurosurgical unit at the Atkinson Morley Hospital, was Britain's most prolific leucotomist , and president of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons.McKissock was born in Staines, Surrey. His parents were Alexander Cathie...

     - neurosurgeon
  • Luke McShane
    Luke McShane
    Luke James McShane is an English chess player. A former World Youth Champion and prodigious talent in chess, he has become one of England's leading players and a member of the Olympiad team. He has also been a trader in London's financial sector.- Early career :McShane won the World Under-10...

     - Chess
    Chess
    Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

     Grandmaster
    International Grandmaster
    The title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....

  • Lord Mishcon
    Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon
    Victor Mishcon, Baron Mishcon, QC, DL was a leading British solicitor and a Labour politician. His firm acted for Diana, Princess of Wales in her divorce...

     - Solicitor and politician who represented Princess Diana in her divorce. Home affairs spokesman in the House of Lords from 1983–1990 and shadow Lord Chancellor 1990–1992.
  • Max Newman
    Max Newman
    Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS was a British mathematician and codebreaker.-Pre–World War II:Max Newman was born Maxwell Neumann in Chelsea, London, England, on 7 February 1897...

     - mathematician and World War II codebreaker
  • George Newnes
    George Newnes
    Sir George Newnes, 1st Baronet was a publisher and editor in England.-Background and education:...

     - publisher and editor
    Editing
    Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

  • Denis Norden
    Denis Norden
    Denis Mostyn Norden CBE is a former English comedy writer and television presenter. After an early career working in cinemas, he began scriptwriting during World War II. From 1948 to 1959, he co-wrote the successful BBC Radio comedy programme Take It from Here with Frank Muir...

     - Writer and broadcaster
  • Richard Packer - Senior Civil Servant
  • Suhrid Patel - Sierra Leone International Cricketer & Founder of the LSE Cultural Show (Now known as Timeless)
  • Howard John Stredder Pearce - Former Governor of the Falkland Islands
    Falkland Islands
    The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland...

     and Civil Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI)
  • Sir William Henry Perkin FRS
    FRS
    -Education:* Frontier Regional School, a regional school located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts-Government:*FRS 567 states that, an accountant shall perfom his/ her duty with due care...

     - Chemist
    Chemist
    A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

     best known for his discovery of the first aniline
    Aniline
    Aniline, phenylamine or aminobenzene is an organic compound with the formula C6H5NH2. Consisting of a phenyl group attached to an amino group, aniline is the prototypical aromatic amine. Being a precursor to many industrial chemicals, its main use is in the manufacture of precursors to polyurethane...

     dye mauveine
    Mauveine
    Mauveine, also known as aniline purple and Perkin's mauve, was the first synthetic organic chemical dye.Its chemical name is3-amino-2,±9-dimethyl-5-phenyl-7-phenazinium acetate...

     at the age of 18.
  • Henry Thomas Herbert Piaggio
    Henry Thomas Herbert Piaggio
    Henry Thomas Herbert Piaggio was an English mathematician. Educated at the City of London School and St John's College Cambridge, he was appointed lecturer in mathematics at the University of Nottingham in 1908 and then the first Professor of Mathematics in 1919...

     - Physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

  • Arthur Rackham
    Arthur Rackham
    Arthur Rackham was an English book illustrator.-Biography:Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art.In 1892 he left his job and started working for The...

     - Illustrator
  • Daniel Radcliffe
    Daniel Radcliffe
    Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor who rose to prominence playing the titular character in the Harry Potter film series....

     - Actor in the Harry Potter
    Harry Potter
    Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

    series of film adaptations.
  • Gervais Rentoul
    Gervais Rentoul
    Sir Gervais Squire Chittick Rentoul K.C.,M.A. , commonly known as Gervais Rentoul, was a British Conservative politician....

     - Politician and first chairman of the 1922 Committee
    1922 Committee
    In British politics, the 1922 Committee is a committee of Conservative Members of Parliament. Voting membership is limited to backbench MPs although frontbench Conservative MPs have an open invitation to attend meetings. While the party was in opposition, frontbench MPs other than the party leader...

  • Charles Thomson Ritchie
    Charles Thomson Ritchie
    Charles Thomson Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee PC was a British businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 until 1905 when he was raised to the peerage...

     - Chancellor of the Exchequer
    Chancellor of the Exchequer
    The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters. Often simply called the Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister of Finance or Secretary of the...

     1902-1903
  • Edward Linley Sambourne
    Edward Linley Sambourne
    Edward Linley Sambourne was a cartoonist for Punch. He was born in Pentonville, London, the son of Edward Moot Sambourne....

     - Punch
    Punch (magazine)
    Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration...

     cartoonist
  • John Robert Seeley
    John Robert Seeley
    Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG was an English essayist and historian.-Life:He was born in London, the son of R.B. Seeley, a publisher. Seeley developed a taste for religious and historical subjects...

     - Historian and essayist
  • John Shrapnel
    John Shrapnel
    John Shrapnel is an English actor.Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel....

     - Film and stage actor
  • William Johnson Sollas
    William Johnson Sollas
    William Johnson Sollas FRS was a British geologist and anthropologist. After studying at the City of London School, the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines he matriculated to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded First Class Honours in geology...

    , geologist and anthropologist
  • Dave Stewart (keyboardist) - Keyboardist with the band Egg
  • Edward Stanford
    Edward Stanford
    Edward Stanford was the founder of Stanford's Ltd now a duo of Map and book stores based in London, and Bristol, UK.-Biography:Born in 1827, and educated at the City of London School, Edward got into maps after being employed by Mr Trelawney Saunders, at his map and stationers. He became a partner...

     - Mapmaker
  • Alfred Sutro
    Alfred Sutro
    Alfred Sutro OBE was a British author and dramatist.He was a translator and friend of Maeterlinck. Educated at the City of London School and in Brussels, he began his career with a series of translations of Maeterlinck's works, all of which except the dramas he translated from the French...

     - Playwright
  • Joshua Rose
    Joshua Rose
    Joshua Rose is an Australian football player who currently plays for the Central Coast Mariners.-Club career:...

     - Essex Hockey Player and Comedian
  • Derek Taunt
    Derek Taunt
    Derek Roy Taunt was a British mathematician who worked as a codebreaker during World War II at Bletchley Park....

     - Mathematician and cryptologist
  • John Lawrence Toole
    John Lawrence Toole
    John Lawrence Toole was an English comic actor and theatrical producer. He was famous for his roles in farce and in serio-comic melodramas in a career that spanned more than four decades...

     - Actor and theatre manager
  • Thomas Fisher Unwin
    Thomas Fisher Unwin
    Thomas Fisher Unwin was an English publisher. He founded the publishing house T. Fisher Unwin in 1882 and was a joint founder of the First Council of Publishing Association.-References:...

     - Publisher
  • David Walker
    David Allan Walker
    Air Marshal Sir David Allan Walker, KCVO OBE is a former senior RAF officer and current Master of the Household of the Royal Household.-Career:...

     - Master of the Household
    Master of the Household
    The Master of the Household is the operational head of the "below stairs" elements of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom...

     of the Royal Household
    Royal Household
    A Royal Household in ancient and medieval monarchies formed the basis for the general government of the country as well as providing for the needs of the sovereign and his relations....

  • Alan Arthur Wells
    Alan Arthur Wells
    -Early life:He was born in Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire to Arthur John Wells, a British Oxygen Company engineer and educated at the City of London School as a day boy. He left school in 1940 to become an apprentice fitter and studied for a London University external degree via day release and weekend...

     – Structural engineer, developer of Wells turbine
    Wells turbine
    The Wells turbine is a low-pressure air turbine that rotates continuously in one direction in spite of the direction of the air flow. Its blades feature a symmetrical airfoil with its plane of symmetry in the plane of rotation and perpendicular to the air stream.It was developed for use in...

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