List of Old Gregorians

An Old Gregorian (usually abbreviated OG) is a former member of Downside School, situated near Bath, Somerset, in the United Kingdom.

Alumni are so-named of St Gregory the Great who is the patron saint of the Downside monastic community, that used to run and own the school.

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Contents:		A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z References – External links

Old Gregorians

A

• Sir Rudolph Agnew – former chairman of Consolidated Goldfields
• Michael J. Alexander – academic and poet
• Sir Mark Allen – United Kingdom spy, turned businessman and academic lecturer^{[citation needed]}
• Rupert Allason – author (under the pen-name Nigel West) and former Conservative MP^[1]
• Antony Nicholas Allott – English academic, Professor of African Law at the University of London
• Alistair Asprey – Secretary for Security for Hong Kong Government, Commanding Officer of Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force
• Jaime José Alique-Ortiz

B

• Alex Barrow- cricketer
• Tom Bethell – editor of the American Spectator^[2]
• Fergus Blackie - Justice of The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe and Rhodesian Front MP
• Don Brennan – English cricketer
• Andrew Bonaparte-Wyse - Irish civil servant
• Sir Rowland Blennerhasset, 4th Baronet - Liberal Party politician
• Edward Cuthbert Butler - historian

C

• Mark Canning- British diplomat and Former British Ambassador to Indonesia
• William Cash – author and journalist
• Denis Caulfield Heron- Irish lawyer and politician
• Jeremy Campbell-Lamerton- Scottish Rugby Union player
• Max Emanuel Cenčić - countertenor
• Alex Chisholm – Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Civil Service
• Desmond Chute – poet and artist
• John Clibborn – British Intelligence Officer, served as MI6 head of station in Washington D.C
• Ralph Clutton – cricketer
• George Cooper – British Army officer, served as Adjutant-General to the Forces
• Brian Cotter – former Liberal Democrat MP^[3]
• Archie Cotterell – cricketer and novelist
• Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville – former Archbishop of Birmingham^[4]
• Thomas Clifford, 14th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
• William Craven, 6th Earl of Craven
• Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre – British Conservative Party Politician

D

• John Charles Day – amongst the first Catholic judges in England to be appointed after the English Reformation
• Pete de Freitas – musician, member of Echo & The Bunnymen^[5]
• Christian Louis de Massay – Monegasque royalty
• Arthur Denaro – County Donegal-raised Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars and later Commandant of Sandhurst
• Henry Eric Dolan – World War I flying ace
• John Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth – Minister for Colonial Affairs^[6]
• Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj^[7]
• Neil Dexter – former captain of Middlesex County Cricket Club

E

• Dominick Elwes – portrait painter
• Barry England – novelist and playwright^[8]
• Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet - Teachta Dála for Fine Gael
• Peter Evans-Freke, 11th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer
• Michael Evans-Freke, 12th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer

F

• Rocco Forte – British hotelier and entrepreneur^[9]
• Edward Fitzgerald KC
• James Percy FitzPatrick – South African author, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. Responsible for the two-minute silence observed on Armistice Day
• Nicolás Franco – nephew of Francisco Franco^[10]
• William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness (1929–1995)^[11]
• Gerard Fairlie – writer, scriptwriter and Winter Olympian

G

• Joseph Gaggero – Gibraltarian businessman^[12]
• Francis Aidan Gasquet – Cardinal, Vatican librarian^[13]
• Jan Gawroński - Polish diplomat^[14]
• Carlos Gereda y de Borbón – Spanish aristocrat, engineering entrepreneur and philanthropist
• J. G. Greig – first-class cricketer, soldier, and Catholic priest
• Brion Gysin – author and artist^[15]

H

• Denis Hanley – electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician
• Jared Harris – actor^[16]
• Damian Harris – film director and screenwriter
• Jamie Harris – actor
• Simon Halliday – former England rugby player^[17]
• David Hawkins – Royal Air Force officer^[18]
• Steve Henderson – cricketer
• Bobby Henrey – child actor, star of 'The Fallen Idol'^[19]
• Denis Caulfield Heron - First Catholic Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin and MP for Tipperary
• Tristram Hillier – surrealist painter
• Patrick Holcroft – Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire
• Richard Holmes – biographer
• Henry Howard – first formal British envoy to the Vatican for over 300 hundred years
• Hubert Howard – intelligence officer
• Lord Hunt of Tanworth^[20]

I

• Andrew Ibrahim - terrorist

J

• Christopher Jamison – Abbot of Worth
• Philip Jebb – architect and Liberal Party politician

K

• Chris Kelly – TV presenter and producer^[21]
• Norbert Keenan - Irish Barrister and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
• Ivone Kirkpatrick - Irish born Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, British High Commissioner at Allied High Commission and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See
• David Knowles - Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge
• Halik Kochanski - Historian and writer
• William Keatinge - military chaplain and bishop

L

• Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet
• Dominic Lieven- professor at Cambridge University and Fellow of the British Academy
• John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton- British chartered surveyor, peer, and Member of the House of Lords

M

• Seán MacBride - Teachta Dála, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Chief of Staff of the IRA and Nobel Peace Prize Winner^[22]
• Frank MacDermot - Teachta Dála and founder of Fine Gael
• Guy Malet - Artist
• Alex Mapelli-Mozzi – alpine skier
• Patrick Marnham – writer, journalist and biographer
• Pierce McCan- Teachta Dála and Easter Rising Veteran
• Pierre Maréchal- Racing Driver who died during 24 Hours of Le Mans
• Patrick Mason- Director of the Abbey Theatre
• Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim^[23]
• Nicholas Mander – Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet
• Gerald Maxwell MC – First World War flying ace^[24]
• Prince Emmanuel de Merode – Director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Midland - DJ and Producer
• James Miller – journalist and film-maker^[25]
• David Mlinaric – interior designer^[26]
• Joseph Molony - Chairman of the General Council of the Bar
• Richard More O'Ferrall - Governor of Malta and high level politician, of the prominent More O'Ferrall family.^[27]
• Peter Morgan – Oscar nominated scriptwriter^[28]
• John Mullan – professor of English and writer^[29]
• Helenus Milmo – Irish lawyer and High Court Judge

N

• Albert Nelson, 6th Earl Nelson
• Henry Nelson, 7th Earl Nelson
• Martin Newland – former editor of The Daily Telegraph^[24]
• Barry Nicholas – classicist, former Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford
• William Nicholson – playwright^[30] and Oscar winner
• Marek Niedużak - lawyer
• Michael Noakes – artist
• John Norman – first-class cricketer^[31]
• Stafford Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh

O

• Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet- England Cricket Team Player
• John O'Brien- Ireland Cricket Team Player
• Daniel O'Connell - Leader of the movement for Catholic emancipation, Irish Nationalist and MP
• Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don - Liberal MP for Roscommon and President of Gaelic League
• Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor - hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor
• Denis Maurice O'Conor - Liberal MP for Sligo County
• Denis Armar O'Conor, O'Conor Don - Irish nobleman
• Denis Maurice O'Conor - former Lord Justice of Appeal
• Mervyn O'Gorman- British electrical and aircraft engineer
• Denis Ormerod- first Roman Catholic commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment

P

• Anthony Palliser – artist
• Tony Pearson – cricketer
• Nigel Poett – British Army Officer, commanded the 5th Parachute Brigade during the second world war
• John Bede Polding – first Archbishop of Sydney^[32]
• Francis Pollen – architect, worked on buildings at the Abbey and school
• Philip Pope – actor and composer^[33]
• James Pope-Hennessy – biographer and travel writer
• John Pope-Hennessy – former director of the British Museum^[24]
• Nicholas Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston – art connoisseur and aristocrat
• Jonathan Pugh – cartoonist
• Edmund Purdom – film actor

R

• Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP – Master of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) from 1992 to 2001^[34]
• Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell – Solicitor General and Attorney General^[35]
• George William Rendel – diplomat
• Dan Riddiford – New Zealand politician of the National Party
• Michael Richey – navigator and author
• Paul Richey – flying ace of the Second World War and author
• Michael Robinson – flying ace of the Second World War
• Jerome Roche – musicologist
• Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell – Conservative peer - Scottish rugby international^[36]
• Nicholas Rossiter – TV producer^[37]

S

• John de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio – ICRC delegate and envoy
• Hilary St George Saunders – author
• Wilfrid Sheed – novelist and essayist^[38]
• Todd Sharpville – musician
• Arthur Sidgreaves – businessman, head of Rolls-Royce during the Second World War
• Eugene Simon – actor^[39]
• Sir John Smythe, 8th Baronet – cricketer
• Sir Robert Stapylton – courtier, dramatic poet and translator^[40]
• Richard Stokes – former Lord Privy Seal^[41]
• Christopher Sykes – author
• John Sweetman - Founder of Sinn Féin
• Roger Sweetman - Teachta Dála for Sinn Féin and abstentionist MP

T

• Artur Tarnowski - politician
• Simon Tolkien – author and novelist^[42]
• Rudolph de Trafford – aristocrat and banker
• Maurice Turnbull – Welsh rugby international and Test cricketer^[43]
• Bernard Turnbull – former captain of Wales Rugby Team
• Paolo Tullio – writer, radio/TV personality and Michelin star-winning chef

U

• James Underwood – pathologist^[44]
• William Bernard Ullathorne – English prelate

V

• John Varley – former CEO of Barclays^[45]
• Hugh Vyvyan – captain of Saracens Rugby^[46]

W

• Auberon Waugh – journalist^[47]
• Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe – former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Patrick Wall – Royal Marines officer and Conservative politician^[48]
• Charles Walmesley – Procurator General, astronomer and mathematician
• Dennis Walters – Conservative Party politician
• Charles Wegg-Prosser – politician
• Bob Wellings – Broadcaster
• Arthur B. Woods – film director
• Douglas Woodruff – editor of the Tablet

Z

• Count Adam Zamoyski – historian^[49]