List of Old Marlburians
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College
, Wiltshire
, England
.
Marlborough College
Marlborough College is a British co-educational independent school for day and boarding pupils, located in Marlborough, Wiltshire.Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. Currently there are just over 800...
, Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Academia
- John RavenJohn RavenJohn Earle Raven , who published as J. E. Raven, was an English classical scholar, notable for his work on presocratic philosophy, and amateur botanist.-Early life and education:...
, classical scholar and botanist - Henry Wace, Principal of King's College LondonKing's College LondonKing's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
(1883–1897), former Dean of CanterburyDean of CanterburyThe Dean of Canterbury is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Canterbury, England. The office of dean originated after the English Reformation, and its precursor office was the prior of the cathedral-monastery...
Arts
- Anthony BluntAnthony BluntAnthony Frederick Blunt , was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life.Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London...
, art historian and communist spy - Lauren ChildLauren ChildLauren Child MBE is an English author and illustrator. She is best known for writing the Charlie and Lola books and Clarice Bean novels....
, writer and illustrator - Claude FerrierClaude FerrierClaude Waterlow Ferrier FRIBA was a Scottish architect, who specialised in the Art Deco style. He was the only son of the physician and neurologist Sir David Ferrier, and a nephew of the painter Ernest Albert Waterlow....
, architect - Susannah FiennesSusannah FiennesSusannah Fiennes is a British artist who has worked extensively with the Prince of Wales and is collected in Europe, Asia and America.-Biography:Fiennes is the daughter of Lord & Lady Saye and Sele who are the owners of Broughton Castle....
, artist - William MorrisWilliam MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
, artist and writer - Charles Saumarez SmithCharles Saumarez SmithCharles Robert Saumarez Smith CBE is a British art historian. He was Director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1994 to 2002. From 2002 to 2007 he was director of the National Gallery and is currently Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts...
, art historian, former Director of the National GalleryNational Gallery, LondonThe National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media... - Graham ShepardGraham ShepardGraham Shepard was an English illustrator and cartoonist.He was the son of E. H. Shepard, the illustrator of Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the Willows. He was educated at Marlborough College and Oxford...
, cartoonist and illustrator - Ellis WaterhouseEllis WaterhouseSir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse was an English art historian specialized in Roman baroque and English painting...
, art historian
Literature
- E.F. BensonEdward Frederic BensonEdward Frederic Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.-Life:E.F...
, novelist - John BetjemanJohn BetjemanSir John Betjeman, CBE was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture...
, poet - Humphrey CarpenterHumphrey CarpenterHumphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.-Biography:...
, biographer and broadcaster - Bruce ChatwinBruce ChatwinCharles Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill...
, novelist and travel writer - J. Meade FalknerJ. Meade FalknerJohn Meade Falkner was an English novelist and poet, best known for his 1898 novel, Moonfleet. An extremely successful businessman as well, he became chairman of the arms manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth during World War I.-Life and works:Falkner was born in Manningford Bruce, Wiltshire and spent...
, author of MoonfleetMoonfleetMoonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898. The book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mostly for its themes of adventure and gripping storyline...
and armaments manufacturer - Anthony HopeAnthony HopeSir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau...
, writer - Dick King-SmithDick King-SmithRonald Gordon King-Smith OBE, Hon.M.Ed. , better known by his pen name Dick King-Smith, was a prolific English children's author, best known for writing The Sheep-Pig, retitled in the United States as Babe the Gallant Pig, on which the movie Babe was based...
, writer - Louis MacNeiceLouis MacNeiceFrederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...
, poet - John Beverley Nichols, writer
- David NobbsDavid NobbsDavid Gordon Nobbs is an English comedy writer.Following an education at Marlborough College and Cambridge University, Nobbs wrote for many of Britain's comedy performers over the years, including Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies...
, comedy writer (Reginald PerrinThe Fall and Rise of Reginald PerrinThe Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a series of novels which developed into a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role...
) - Redmond O'HanlonRedmond O'HanlonRedmond O'Hanlon, FRGS, FRSL is a British writer and scholar.-Life:O'Hanlon was born in 1947 in Dorset, England. He was educated at Marlborough College and then Oxford University. After taking his M.Phil. in nineteenth-century English studies in 1971 he was elected senior scholar, and in 1974...
, travel writer - Ben PimlottBen PimlottBenjamin John Pimlott, known as Ben Pimlott , was a British historian of the post-war period in Britain...
, biographer - Siegfried SassoonSiegfried SassoonSiegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC was an English poet, author and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's...
, poet - Charles SorleyCharles SorleyCharles Hamilton Sorley was a British poet of World War I.Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College...
, poet - Bernard SpencerBernard SpencerCharles Bernard Spencer was an English poet, translator, and editor.He was born in Madras, India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Marlborough he knew John Betjeman and Louis MacNeice; at Oxford Stephen Spender, and he also came across W. H. Auden. He...
, poet - R.J. Yeatman, co-author of 1066 and All That1066 and All That1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates is a tongue-in-cheek reworking of the history of England. Written by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman and illustrated by John Reynolds, it first...
Music
- Chris de BurghChris de BurghChris de Burgh is a British/Irish singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1986 love song "The Lady in Red".-Early life:...
, musician - Nick DrakeNick DrakeNicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
, folk musician - Crispian Steele-Perkins, classical trumpeter
Theatre & cinema
- Robert AddieRobert AddieRobert Alastair Addie was an English actor who was best known for playing Sir Guy of Gisbourne in the television series Robin of Sherwood.-Career:...
, actor - Stephen BarryStephen BarryThe British drama producer and artistic director Stephen Leon Reid Barry was chief executive of two important Edinburgh theatres, the Festival and the King's, prime venues of the famed Edinburgh International Festival...
, director and administrator - Paul BrookePaul BrookePaul Brooke is an English actor of film, television, and radio. He is the father of actor Tom Brooke.He and Ernie Fosselius played Malakili the Rancor Keeper in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He played British Conservative politician Ian Gow in the 2004 BBC series The Alan Clark Diaries...
, actor - Guy du MaurierGuy du MaurierGuy Louis Busson du Maurier, D.S.O. was an English army officer and playwright. He was the son of the writer George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and the actor Gerald du Maurier. He was educated at Marlborough and Sandhurst, and became an officer in the Royal Fusiliers in 1885...
, dramatist and soldier - Wilfrid Hyde-WhiteWilfrid Hyde-WhiteWilfrid Hyde-White was an English character actor.-Early life and career:Wilfrid Hyde White was born at the rectory in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, the son of William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide Drought...
, actor - Harry Brodribb IrvingHarry Brodribb IrvingHarry Brodribb Irving , was a British stage actor and actor-manager; the eldest son of Sir Henry Irving and his wife Florence , and father of designer Laurence Irving and actress Elizabeth Irving....
, actor - Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, actor and dramatist
- James Robertson JusticeJames Robertson JusticeJames Robertson Justice was a popular British character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.-Biography:...
, actor - James MasonJames MasonJames Neville Mason was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry throughout his career and was nominated for three Academy Awards as well as three Golden Globes .- Early life :Mason was born in Huddersfield, in the...
, actor - Michael PenningtonMichael PenningtonMichael Vivian Fyfe Pennington is a British director and actor who, together with director Michael Bogdanov, founded the English Shakespeare Company...
, actor and director - Clive RobertsonClive RobertsonClive Gladstone Robertson is a British actor perhaps best known for his roles on the soap opera Sunset Beach, the Canadian science fiction series Starhunter, and the 2010 science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie.-Biography:Robertson spent much of his younger life abroad,...
, actor - Ernest ThesigerErnest ThesigerErnest Frederic Graham Thesiger CBE was an English stage and film actor. He is best known for his performance as Dr...
, actor - Jack WhitehallJack WhitehallJack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter and actor, best known for hosting the E4 show Big Brother's Big Mouth in 2008, Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth in January 2009, and the Channel 4 topical entertainment show the TNT Show.-Early life:Whitehall was born in...
, comedian - Nicholas WoodesonNicholas WoodesonNicholas Woodeson is an English film and television actor.-Education:Woodeson attended Marlborough College and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.-Film:...
, actor - Angus WrightAngus Wright (actor)-Biography:Angus Wright was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest child of Virginia and Patrick Wright. His father's career in the British Diplomatic Service took the family to the Lebanon, the United States, the U.K., Egypt, Bahrain, Luxembourg, Syria and Saudi Arabia.Angus gained an M.A...
, actor
Politics
- Tim BoswellTim BoswellTimothy Eric "Tim" Boswell, Baron Boswell of Aynho is an English Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Daventry from 1987 until he retired at the 2010 general election.-Education:...
, MP for Daventry - Stephen Bradley (diplomat)Stephen Bradley (diplomat)Stephen Edward Bradley is a British diplomat and Consul-General to Hong Kong from 2003 to 2008. From 1988 to 1993 he served in the Hong Kong Government as Deputy Political Adviser. He is known in Chinese as 柏聖文...
, former British Consul-General to Hong Kong - Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of CumnorHenry Brooke, Baron Brooke of CumnorHenry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor CH, PC was a British Conservative Party politician.-Political career:...
, Home Secretary - Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, Cabinet minister
- Rab ButlerRab ButlerRichard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG CH DL PC , who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician...
, statesman - Christopher ChopeChristopher ChopeChristopher Robert Chope OBE is a British barrister and Conservative politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Christchurch.-Early life:...
, MP for Christchurch - Otis FerryOtis FerryCharles Frederick Otis Ferry, born is a British fox hunting enthusiast and prominent pro-hunting protestor. He is the son of singer Bryan Ferry and model Lucy Helmore. Ferry is joint master huntsman of the South Shropshire hunt....
, hunt supporter and political activist, son of singer Bryan Ferry - Alastair GoodladAlastair Goodlad, Baron GoodladAlastair Robertson Goodlad, Baron Goodlad, KCMG, PC, is a British Conservative politician who served as the British High Commissioner to Australia from 2000 until 2005....
, former MP for Eddisbury and High CommissionerHigh CommissionerHigh Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:...
to AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... - Daniel HannanDaniel HannanDaniel John Hannan is a British journalist, author and politician who is currently a Member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party and the European Conservatives and Reformists political group...
, MEP for the South East of England - Leonard Trelawny HobhouseLeonard Trelawny HobhouseLeonard Trelawny Hobhouse was a British liberal politician and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, alongside that of writers such as T.H. Green and John A. Hobson, occupy a seminal position within the canon of New...
, British liberal politician and sociologist. One of the 'Fathers of Liberalism' - William JowittWilliam Jowitt, 1st Earl JowittWilliam Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC , was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Background and education:...
, Lord Chancellor - Peter KirkPeter Michael KirkSir Peter Michael Kirk, was a British Conservative politician and a junior minister in the governments of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath....
, politician, first leader of the British delegation to the European Parliament - Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeForeign and Commonwealth OfficeThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office, commonly called the Foreign Office or the FCO is a British government department responsible for promoting the interests of the United Kingdom overseas, created in 1968 by merging the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office.The head of the FCO is the...
- John MaplesJohn MaplesJohn Cradock Maples, Baron Maples is British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as a Member of Parliament representing Lewisham West from 1982 to 1992 and Stratford-upon-Avon from 1997 to 2010...
, MP for Stratford-upon-Avon - John ParkerJohn Parker (UK politician)Herbert John Harvey Parker , normally known as John Parker, was a long-serving British Labour politician....
, MP for Romford - Maurice PetherickMaurice PetherickMaurice Petherick was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Penryn & Falmouth from 1931 to 1945, and as Financial Secretary to the War Office, briefly, in 1945.-Early life:...
, MP for Penryn & Falmouth - Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, politician
- Hallam Tennyson, Lord TennysonHallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron TennysonHallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, GCMG, PC , the second Governor-General of Australia, was born at Chapel House, Twickenham, in Surrey, England. Named after his father's late friend Arthur Hallam, he was the elder son of Alfred Tennyson, the most popular and prominent poet of late Victorian...
, statesman - Dennis Forwood VosperDennis Forwood VosperDennis Forwood Vosper, Baron Runcorn TD PC was a British Conservative politician.Educated at The Leas, Hoylake, Marlborough College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he first worked with Wilson, Vosper & Coltart, Ships Store & Export Merchants, in Liverpool...
, MP for Runcorn
Sciences & engineering
- C. V. Boys, experimental physicist
- Francis CampsFrancis CampsFrancis Edward Camps, FRCP, FRCpath was a famous English pathologist notable for his work on the cases of serial killer John Christie and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.-Early life and training:...
, pathologist - Henry Hugh CluttonHenry Hugh CluttonHenry Hugh Clutton was an English surgeon who described painless symmetrical hydrarthrosis , especially of the knee joints: seen in hereditary syphilis...
, surgeon - John DolphinJohn DolphinJohn Robert Vernon Dolphin CBE was a British engineer and inventor who became the Commanding Officer of the top secret Second World War Special Operations Executive 'Station IX' where specialist military equipment was developed. During his time there his inventions included the Welman midget...
CBE, inventor and engineer - Sir Charles Galton DarwinCharles Galton DarwinSir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS was an English physicist, the grandson of Charles Darwin. He served as director of the National Physical Laboratory during the Second World War.-Early life:...
, physicist - Sir Nigel GresleyNigel GresleySir Herbert Nigel Gresley was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway . He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in Britain, including the LNER Class A1 and LNER Class A4...
, steam locomotive engineer - Donald Lynden-BellDonald Lynden-BellDonald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS is an English astrophysicist, best known for his theories that galaxies contain massive black holes at their centre, and that such black holes are the principal source of energy in quasars. He was a co-recipient, with Maarten Schmidt, of the inaugural Kavli Prize for...
, astronomer - Sir Peter MedawarPeter MedawarSir Peter Brian Medawar OM CBE FRS was a British biologist, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants...
, Nobel prize-winning biologist - Alex MoultonAlex MoultonDr. Alexander Eric Moulton CBE is an English engineer and inventor, specialising in suspension design.Moulton is the great-grandson of the rubber pioneer Stephen Moulton, the founder of the family business George Spencer Moulton & Co...
, engineer and inventor of the Moulton bicycleMoulton BicycleMoulton is an English bicycle manufacturer. The company was founded in 1962 by Dr Alex Moulton, who designed the "Hydrolastic" and rubber cone suspension systems for the BMC Mini motorcar, and the later "Hydragas" system used by its successor companies.... - Philip Sheppard, geneticist and lepidopterist
- Percy SladenPercy Sladen-Life and work:The son of a wealthy leather merchant, Sladen was born near Halifax, Yorkshire on 30 June 1849. He was educated at Hipperholme Grammar School and Marlborough College, but received no university training. As a young man he indulged his hobby of natural history, but soon become...
, marine zoologist - Edward ThompsonEdward Thompson (engineer)Edward Thompson was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway between 1941 and 1946.- Biography :Edward Thompson was the son of an assistant master at Marlborough College. He was educated at Marlborough before taking the Mechanical Science Tripos at Pembroke College,...
, steam locomotive engineer - John Zachary YoungJohn Zachary YoungJohn Zachary Young FRS , generally known as "JZ" or "JZY", was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as "one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century .....
, physiologist
Sport
- Robert BarkerRobert Barker (footballer)Robert Barker was an English footballer who played for England, first in goal and later as a forward, in the first international match against Scotland.-Career:...
, played for EnglandEngland national football teamThe England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
in the first international football matchScotland v England (1872)Scotland v England was the first ever official international football match to be played. It was contested by the national teams of Scotland and England. The match took place on 30 November 1872 at West of Scotland Cricket Club's ground at Hamilton Crescent in Partick, Scotland... - Francis ChichesterFrancis ChichesterSir Francis Charles Chichester KBE , aviator and sailor, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day overall.-Early life:Chichester was born in Barnstaple,...
, round the world yachtsman - Jason DunfordJason DunfordJason Edward Dunford is a swimmer from Kenya. He is predominantly a butterfly and freestyle sprinter. He has won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games, Universiade, All-Africa Games and African Championships, and reached finals at Olympics, World Championships and Short Course World Championships....
, swimmer - Alfred St. George HamersleyAlfred St. George HamersleyAlfred St. George Hamersley was a nineteenth-century solicitor and entrepreneur of great renown, an English MP and perhaps most notably an English rugby union international who played in the first ever international match, went on to captain his country and pioneered the sport in the south of New...
, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain - Arthur Sumner GibsonArthur Sumner GibsonArthur Gibson was a rugby union international who represented England in 1871 in the first international match.-Early life:Arthur Sumner Gibson was born at Fawley, near Southampton on 14 July 1844 and baptised there on 11 August 1844. He was the son of Rev William Gibson and his second wife...
, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871 - Jamie GibsonJamie GibsonJamie Gibson is an English rugby union player who plays at flanker for London Irish in the Aviva Premiership. He was a member of the Grand Slam winning England U18 side in 2008 and is currently a member of the England Under 20 team that reached the third place play off in the 2010 JWC...
, rugby union player - John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount EverestMount EverestMount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...
- Edward KewleyEdward KewleyEdward Kewley was an English sportsman who played rugby union for England and also played first class cricket for Lancashire...
, nineteenth century England Rugby captain - Robert KingsfordRobert KingsfordRobert Kennett Kingsford was an English footballer who made one appearance for England in 1874, and was a member of the Wanderers team that won the 1873 FA Cup Final.-Career:...
, England international footballer and FA CupFA CupThe Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
winner - Jake MeyerJake MeyerJake Meyer is a British climber. He achieved fame by becoming the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest in 2005, aged 21 years 4 months. The record is now held by Rob Gauntlett who was 19 at the time...
, mountaineer - Sydney MorseSydney MorseSydney Morse was a rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875. -Early life:Sydney Morse was born on June 1, 1854 in Birmingham. He was the son of Rev Francis Morse, MA, and his wife Clarissa Catharine Morse. Francis, at the time of Sydney's birth, was the incumbent of the...
rugby union international who represented EnglandEngland national rugby union teamThe England national rugby union team represents England in rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales. They have won this championship on 26 occasions, 12 times winning the Grand Slam, making them the most successful team in...
from 1873 to 1875 - Mark PhillipsMark Phillips-Ancestry:-Issue:-Sources:...
, Olympic horseman and former husband of The Princess RoyalAnne, Princess RoyalPrincess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... - Edward ShawEdward Shaw (cricketer, born 1892)Edward Alfred Shaw was an English cricketer and British Army officer. A bespectacled man, Shaw was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper...
, cricketer - Reggie SpoonerReggie SpoonerReginald Herbert Spooner was a cricketer who played for Lancashire and England. He also played Rugby Union for England.- Biography :...
, cricketer - Allan Steel, cricketer
- Mark TomlinsonMark TomlinsonMark Tomlinson is a professional polo player who plays for the England polo team, with a handicap of seven goals in Britain and six in Argentina.-Biography:...
, England International polo player - Charles Plumpton WilsonCharles Plumpton WilsonCharles Plumpton Wilson was an English amateur footballer who played at wing-half. He made two appearances for England in 1884...
, EnglandEngland national football teamThe England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
footballer
Religion
- Cyril AlingtonCyril AlingtonCyril Argentine Alington was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author. He was the headmaster of both Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He also served as chaplain to King George V and as Dean of Durham....
, headmaster, and Dean of Durham - Frederick CoplestonFrederick CoplestonFrederick Charles Copleston, SJ, CBE was a Jesuit priest and historian of philosophy.-Biography:...
, priest and philosopher - Nigel CornwallNigel CornwallNigel Edmund Cornwall CBE, was a British clergyman in the Anglican Church. He held the position of Bishop of Borneo from 1949 until 1962....
, Bishop of Borneo 1949-1962 - Geoffrey FisherGeoffrey FisherGeoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, GCVO, PC was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961.-Background:...
, Archbishop of CanterburyArchbishop of CanterburyThe Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group... - James NewcomeJames William Scobie NewcomeJames William Scobie Newcome is the current Bishop of Carlisle in the Diocese of Carlisle.-Early life:He was born in Aldershot, the son of an officer in the Royal Artillery. As a result of his father's army postings, he spent time in Malta and Germany during his childhood...
, Bishop of Carlisle - Edward PateyEdward PateyEdward Henry Patey was the Church of England Dean of Liverpool, England from 1964 to 1982.Patey was born in Bristol and educated at Marlborough College, Hertford College, Oxford and Westcott House, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1939 and in 1942 he became the Youth Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham...
, Dean of Liverpool - John RobinsonJohn A.T. RobinsonJohn Arthur Thomas Robinson was a New Testament scholar, author and a former Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, England....
, Bishop of Woolwich - Arthur Winnington-IngramArthur Winnington-IngramArthur Foley Winnington-Ingram KCVO PC was Bishop of London from 1901 to 1939.-Early life and career:He was born in Worcestershire, the fourth son of the Revd Edward Winnington-Ingram and of Louisa...
, Bishop of London - Hugh Richard Lawrie SheppardHugh Richard Lawrie SheppardHugh Richard Lawrie "Dick" Sheppard was an English Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury and pacifist....
, known as Dick Sheppard, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and founder of the Peace Pledge UnionPeace Pledge UnionThe Peace Pledge Union is a British pacifist non-governmental organization. It is open to everyone who can sign the PPU pledge: "I renounce war, and am therefore determined not to support any kind of war...
Journalism
- Frank GardnerFrank Gardner (journalist)Frank Rolleston Gardner OBE is an English journalist and correspondent. He is currently the BBC's Security Correspondent. He was appointed an OBE in 2005 for his services to journalism.-Background:...
, BBC security correspondent - Richard JebbRichard JebbRichard Jebb was an English journalist and author in the field of Empire and colonial nationalism. He was the nephew of the classical scholar and politician, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb...
, journalist - Derrick Somerset MacnuttDerrick Somerset MacnuttDerrick Somerset Macnutt was a British crossword compiler who provided crosswords for The Observer newspaper under the pseudonym Ximenes. He was one of the principal influences on the modern style of cryptic crossword.- Career :...
, crossword compiler under the pseudonym Ximenes - James MatesJames MatesJames Mates is a British newsreader and journalist.Mates is currently employed by ITN where he presents on ITV News whilst also being senior correspondent.-Personal life:James Mates is the son of Conservative party politician Michael Mates...
, ITN newsreader - NorrisNorris McWhirterNorris Dewar McWhirter, CBE was a writer, political activist, co-founder of the Freedom Association, and a television presenter. He and his twin brother, Ross, were known internationally for the Guinness Book of Records, a book they wrote and annually updated together between 1955 and 1975...
and Ross McWhirterRoss McWhirterAlan Ross Mayfield McWhirter , known as Ross McWhirter, was, with his twin brother, Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records and a contributor to Record Breakers...
, journalists, authors, and political activists - Christopher Martin-JenkinsChristopher Martin-JenkinsChristopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins MBE, also known as CMJ , is a cricket journalist and Past President of the MCC. He is also a commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio....
, BBC cricket correspondent - Julian PettiferJulian PettiferJulian Pettifer OBE is a British television journalist. He was President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and is Vice President of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts...
, ITV & BBC journalist - Edmund Penning-RowsellEdmund Penning-RowsellFor the geographer, click Edmund Lionel Penning-Rowsell was a British journalist considered the doyen of Britain's writers on wine, and possibly the world's longest-serving wine correspondent.-Biography:...
, wine writer - Hugh PymHugh PymHugh Pym is a British journalist and author. He is an instantly recognisable figure, standing at over two metres tall.-Early life and education:...
, BBC journalist - Sir Mark TullyMark TullySir William "Mark" Tully, OBE is the former Chief of Bureau, BBC, New Delhi. He worked for BBC for a period of 30 years before resigning in July 1994. He held the position of Chief of Bureau, BBC, Delhi for 20 years. Since 1994 he has been working as a freelance journalist and broadcaster based in...
, BBC India correspondent and author - T.C. Worsley, Writer, editor and television critic
Armed forces
- Nigel AndersonNigel AndersonNigel James Moffatt Anderson, MC, DL, FRGS was an Australian-born English soldier, landowner, and Conservative politician in Wiltshire...
, soldier and local politician - Phillip Scott BurgePhillip Scott Burge-Early life:Burge was a student at Marlborough College before World War I. He joined the British Army early in the First World War, and won the Military Medal during Summer 1916 while serving in the ranks...
, MCMilitary CrossThe Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....
, MMMilitary MedalThe Military Medal was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other services, and formerly also to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land....
, World War I flying aceFlying aceA flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...
KIAKilled in actionKilled in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to... - Edward Bradford, soldier and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
- Richard CorfieldRichard CorfieldRichard Conyngham Corfield was a British colonial police officer who saw service in South Africa, Nigeria, and Somalia in the early 20th century.-Early life:...
officer in charge of the Somaliland Camel Constabulary. - Charles ElworthyCharles Elworthy, Baron ElworthyMarshal of the Royal Air Force Samuel Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy KG, GCB, CBE, DSO, LVO, DFC, AFC was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force...
, Chief of the Defence Staff and Governor of Windsor CastleConstables and Governors of Windsor CastleThe Constables and Governors of Windsor Castle are in charge of Windsor Castle on behalf of the sovereign. The day-to-day operations are under the Superintendent, who is an officer of the Master of the Household's Department of the Royal Household.... - John KiszelyJohn KiszelyLieutenant General Sir John Panton Kiszely KCB, MC was Director of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. In December 2008 he was appointed as the National President of The Royal British Legion.-Military career:...
, Lieutenant General & Director of the Defence Academy - Ian MacfadyenIan MacfadyenAir Marshal Ian David Macfadyen, CB, OBE, RAF , is a British retired Air Marshal who was the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man until 14 October 2005...
, RAF officer and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of ManIsle of ManThe Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...
from 2000–2005 - Charles MacGregorCharles MacGregorMajor-General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor KCB CSI CIE was an Anglo-Indian explorer, geographer and officer of the British Indian Army. He was the Quartermaster General for the British Army in India, the head of the Intelligence Department for the British Indian Army and served under Frederick...
, General and head of intelligence for the British Indian ArmyBritish Indian ArmyThe British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947... - Nevil MacreadyNevil MacreadyGeneral Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready, 1st Baronet, GCMG, KCB, PC , known as Sir Nevil Macready and affectionately as Make-Ready , was a British Army officer...
, General and Metropolitan Police Commissioner - Patrick Palmer, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe and Governor of Windsor CastleConstables and Governors of Windsor CastleThe Constables and Governors of Windsor Castle are in charge of Windsor Castle on behalf of the sovereign. The day-to-day operations are under the Superintendent, who is an officer of the Master of the Household's Department of the Royal Household....
- John Wilfred Stanier, Field Marshal
- Henry Hughes Wilson, Field Marshal
VC
- Edward Kinder BradburyEdward Kinder BradburyCaptain Edward Kinder Bradbury VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
VC - Frederic Brooks DugdaleFrederic Brooks DugdaleFrederic Brooks Dugdale VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
VC - Charles Calveley FossCharles Calveley FossBrigadier Charles Calveley Foss VC, CB, DSO was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
VC - Reginald Clare HartReginald Clare HartGeneral Sir Reginald Clare Hart, VC, GCB, KCVO , was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:Hart was born at Scarriff, County Clare and educated at...
VC - Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De MontmorencyRaymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De MontmorencyRaymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De Montmorency VC was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
VC - Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies VC
- Lionel Ernest QueripelLionel Ernest QueripelLionel Ernest Queripel VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
VC - John Neil RandleJohn Neil RandleJohn Niel Randle VC was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.- Early life :...
VC - Nowell SalmonNowell SalmonAdmiral of the Fleet Sir Nowell Salmon VC, GCB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Naval career:Salmon was the son of Reverend H...
VC - Edward Talbot ThackerayEdward Talbot ThackerayColonel Sir Edward Talbot Thackeray VC, KCB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.The son of Rev Francis Thackeray and Mary Anne Shakespeare, he was the...
VC - Eric Charles Twelves WilsonEric Charles Twelves WilsonLieutenant Colonel Eric Charles Twelves Wilson VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:Wilson was born at Sandown, Isle of Wight, and was...
VC - Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC
- Sidney Clayton WoodroffeSidney Clayton WoodroffeSidney Clayton Woodroffe VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
VC
Commerce & industry
- Michael ClaphamMichael ClaphamMichael Clapham is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Barnsley West and Penistone from 1992 to 2010.-Early life:...
, industrialist (ICIImperial Chemical IndustriesImperial Chemical Industries was a British chemical company, taken over by AkzoNobel, a Dutch conglomerate, one of the largest chemical producers in the world. In its heyday, ICI was the largest manufacturing company in the British Empire, and commonly regarded as a "bellwether of the British...
) - Ernest DebenhamErnest DebenhamSir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1st Baronet , was a British businessman. He was responsible for the considerable expansion of the family's retail and wholesale drapery firm between 1892 and 1927....
, department store owner - Ambrose HealAmbrose HealSir Ambrose Heal was an English furniture designer, and businessman in the first half of the 20th century....
, retailer - IanIan MaxwellIan Maxwell is a British businessman, and the son of the media mogul, Robert Maxwell.-Early life:Ian Maxwell was educated at Marlborough College and Oxford University. His first involvement in his father's business was at Pergamon Press from 1978 to 1983...
and Kevin MaxwellKevin MaxwellKevin Francis Herbert Maxwell is a British businessman, son of Robert Maxwell and brother of Ian Maxwell.Educated at Oxford University, Maxwell spent most of his working life before 1991 employed by his father. Following the collapse of Robert Maxwell's Mirror Group media empire he became the...
, former bankrupts - Antony RootAntony RootAntony Root is an award-winning television executive and producer.- Education :He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge where he read Philosophy and English...
, television executive - Simon WoodroffeSimon WoodroffeSimon Woodroffe OBE is a British motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He started the sushi chain YO! Sushi in 1997, and has appeared as a 'Dragon' on the first UK series of Dragons' Den....
, founder of the Yo Sushi restaurant chain - Ed McDermott, Gold Mines of Wales, CEO
The Royal Family and the Court
- HRH Princess Eugenie of YorkPrincess Eugenie of YorkPrincess Eugenie of York Eugenie Victoria Helena; born 23 March 1990) is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York...
, daughter of HRH The Duke of YorkPrince Andrew, Duke of YorkPrince Andrew, Duke of York KG GCVO , is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... - HRH The Duchess of Cambridge (née Catherine Middleton), wife of HRH The Duke of Cambridge
- Robin JanvrinRobin JanvrinRobin Berry Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, GCB, GCVO, QSO, PC was the Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from February 1999 to September 2007. Janvrin was also a .-Early life:...
, courtier - Alan LascellesAlan LascellesSir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles, GCB, GCVO, CMG, MC was a British courtier and civil servant who held several positions in the first half of the twentieth century, culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both King George VI and to Queen Elizabeth II...
, courtier - James Middleton, brother of The Duchess of Cambridge, businessman
- Pippa MiddletonPippa MiddletonPhilippa Charlotte "Pippa" Middleton is an English party planner, socialite and younger sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge...
, sister of The Duchess of Cambridge
The Law
- Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of HarwichNigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of HarwichNigel Cyprian Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich PC was a British barrister and judge. Bridge was the presiding judge at the trial of the Birmingham six in 1975, the verdict of which was quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991, and he later served as a Law Lord.-Early and private life:Bridge's father...
, Law Lord - John Brightman, Baron BrightmanJohn Brightman, Baron BrightmanJohn Anson Brightman, Baron Brightman was an English Chancery barrister and judge, ultimately of the House of Lords.-Early life and career:...
, Law Lord - Rayner Goddard, Lord Chief Justice
- Sir Philip MargetsonPhilip MargetsonMajor Sir Philip Reginald Margetson KCVO MC QPM was an Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police.-Military service:...
, Assistant Commissioner of Police of the MetropolisAssistant Commissioner of Police of the MetropolisAssistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, usually just Assistant Commissioner , is the third highest rank in London's Metropolitan Police, ranking below Deputy Commissioner and above Deputy Assistant Commissioner. There are usually four officers in the rank... - William Moore, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
Miscellaneous
- Sir Grahame Clark, archaeologist
- Henry EverardHenry EverardLieutenant-Colonel Henry Breedon Everard DSO was a railway engineer and executive who became for a brief time the Acting President of Rhodesia during the U.D.I. period....
, railway executive and acting President of RhodesiaPresident of RhodesiaThe position of President of Rhodesia was the nominal head of state of Rhodesia from 1970 to 1979. As with Rhodesia itself, the position lacked international recognition for the entire period. The position of president, however, was mostly symbolic, and Rhodesia never had a presidential system of... - Charles FisherGeelong Grammar SchoolGeelong Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, co-educational, boarding and day school. The school's main campus is located at Corio, on the northern outskirts of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, overlooking Corio Bay and Limeburners Bay....
, Headmaster, Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Australia - Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of LonsdaleIan Fraser, Baron Fraser of LonsdaleWilliam Jocelyn Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale CH CBE, , known as Ian Fraser, was a British Conservative Party politician, a Governor of the BBC, a successful businessman and the first person to be awarded a life peerage under the Life Peerages Act 1958.Fraser was blinded in World War I and...
, promoter of the interests of blind people - Wilfred GrenfellWilfred GrenfellSir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.He was born at Parkgate, Wirral, England, the son of Algernon Grenfell, headmaster of Mostyn House School, and Jane Georgiana Hutchison and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago, Illinois, in...
, medical missionary and social reformer - Gordon Hamilton-FairleyGordon Hamilton-FairleyGordon Hamilton Fairley DM, FRCP was a professor of medical oncology. Born and raised in Australia, he moved to the United Kingdom where he studied and worked. He was killed by an IRA bomb intended to kill Sir Hugh Fraser....
, oncologist and IRA victim - Edward John Hugh Tollemache, private firm banker
- David TreffryDavid TreffryDavid Treffry, OBE, was a Cornish colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall.-Early life:David Treffry, a member of the old Cornish family of Treffry, was born at Porthpean in 1926...
, colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall - Prince WaranonthawatWaranonthawatPrince Varanonda Dhavaj , born Mom Chao Varananda Dhavaj Chudadhut was the son of Prince Chudadhut Dharadilok and Mom Rawee Kaiyanon...
, Thai prince, grandson of King Chulalongkorn - Gordon WelchmanGordon WelchmanGordon Welchman was a British-American mathematician, university professor, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park, and author.-Education and early career:...
, code-breaker - Tunku 'Abidin MuhrizTunku 'Abidin MuhrizYang Amat Mulia Tunku Zain Al-‘Abidin ibni Tuanku Muhriz, more popularly known as Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, is the Founding President of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs , Malaysia...
, Founding President of Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia - Samantha CameronSamantha CameronSamantha Gwendoline Cameron , often known simply as "Sam Cam", is a British business executive and wife of David Cameron, the current Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
, wife of Prime Minister David Cameron