List of Old Wellingtonians

This is a list of notable Old Wellingtonians, being former pupils of Wellington College in Berkshire, England.

Politics

• Hammad Azhar (1982–), Member of National Assembly of Pakistan, Federal Minister.
• David Blomfield (1934–2016), leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, writer, book editor and local historian
• Michael Blundell (1907–1993), politician and government minister in Kenya
• Crispin Blunt (1960–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate since 1997, and chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
• Julian Brazier (1953–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Canterbury from 1987 to 2017 and former government minister
• Lord Campbell of Croy (1921–2005), British Cabinet Minister who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the whole of Edward Heath's government
• Lord Colnbrook (1922–1996), British Cabinet Minister
• John Dugdale (1905–1963), journalist, Labour Member of Parliament for the English constituency of West Bromwich between 1941 and 1962, and former government minister
• James Malcolm Monteith Erskine (1863–1944), Anti-Waste League, Independent Conservative, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Westminster St George's, 1921–1929^[1]
• Christopher Ewart-Biggs (1921–1976), British Ambassador who was assassinated by the IRA
• The Viscount Falkland (1935–), Politician and former member of the House of Lords
• George Ferguson (1947–), the first elected Mayor of Bristol (2012–16)
• Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde (1960–), Former leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
• Sir Edward Garnier (1952–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Harborough since 1992, and former Solicitor General for England and Wales
• Lord Gordon-Walker (1907–1980), British Cabinet Minister who served as Foreign Secretary under Harold Wilson
• The Lord Faulks KC (1950–), Conservative Member in the House of Lords
• Sir Alexander Grantham, (1899–1978) British colonial administrator who governed Hong Kong
• Lord Luce (1936–) Governor of Gibraltar and Lord Chamberlain to HM The Queen
• Antony Rivers Marlow (1940–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Northampton North between 1979 and 1997
• Sir Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), British diplomat, author and politician
• Sir Michael Spicer (1943–2019), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituencies of West Worcestershire and South Worcestershire between 1974 and 2010 and former chairman of the 1922 Committee
• Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (1865–1948), British Secretary of State for War (two separate times) and founder of the Lord Derby Cup
• Sir Edmund Stockdale (1903–1989), Lord Mayor of London
• Lord Stodart of Leaston (1916–2003), Scottish Tory politician who served under Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath
• Robin Tilbrook (1958–), leader and founder of the English Democrats

Religion

• The Lord Harries of Pentregarth (1936–) retired Church of England bishop, the 41st Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006
• David Watson (1933–1984) evangelical Church of England clergyman, evangelist and author

Sport

• Henry Beaumont (1881–1964), cricketer
• Lionel Booth (1850–1912), cricketer
• Frederick Browning (1870–1929) cricketer and rackets amateur champion
• Simon Clarke (1938–2017) England rugby player and first-class cricketer
• Ben Curran (1996–) Northamptonshire Cricketer, brother of Tom and Sam
• Sam Curran (1998–) England and Surrey Cricketer, brother of Tom Curran
• Thomas Curran (1995–) England and Surrey Cricketer, brother of Sam Curran
• Ernest Denny (1872–1949), cricketer
• Paul Doran-Jones (1985–) England International Rugby player
• Sean Edwards (1986–2013) British racing driver
• Max Evans (1983–) Scotland International Rugby player^[2]
• Thom Evans (1985–) Scotland International Rugby player^[2]
• David Fasken (1932–2006), First-class cricketer^[3]
• James Haskell (1985–) England International Rugby player
• Sir Patrick Head (1946–) co-founder of the Williams Formula One team
• Percy Heath (1877–1917), cricketer
• Madison Hughes (1992–) USA International Rugby player
• James Hunt (1947–1993) 1976 F1 World Champion
• Norman Grace (1894–1975), cricketer
• Peter Gracey (1921–2006), cricketer
• Eric Grimley (1899–1969), cricketer
• Max Lahiff (1989–) Rugby union player (Bath Rugby & London Irish)
• Morgan Lake (1997–) Olympic athlete and twice World Junior Athletics Champion
• Henry Lawrence (1848–1902) England international rugby player and captain
• Rear-Admiral Spencer Login, Royal Navy (1851–1909), rugby union international who represented England in 1875^[4]
• Tim Mayer (1966–) US motorsports organizer and official.
• Richard Raphael (1872–1910), cricketer
• Donald Ray (1903–1944), cricketer
• Jamie Salmon (1959–) dual rugby international (New Zealand All Blacks and England)
• James Scott Douglas (1930–1969) Scottish racing driver (and Baronet Douglas)
• Ernest Tomkins (1869–1927), cricketer
• Tom Townsend (1971–) Britain and England international bridge player and writer
• Chris Wakefield (1991–), cricketer
• Geoffrey Warren (1908–1941), cricketer
• Louis Weigall (1873–1957), cricketer
• Maximillian Wood DSO (1873–1915), cricketer
• Richard Worsley (1879–1917), cricketer
• Murray Wyatt Marshall (1873–1978), England International Rugby player and captain
• Ed Young (1989–), cricketer
• Peter Young (1986–), cricketer

Arts and entertainment

• Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942) one of the prime movers of the English Arts and Crafts movement
• Ellie Bamber (1997–) actress
• Sir Hugh Beaver (1890–1967) founder of the Guinness Book of Records
• James Bernard (1925–2001) film composer and Academy Award winner
• Trevor Blakemore (1879–1953) poet^[5]
• Josh Bowman (1988–) star of ABC drama Revenge
• Rory Bremner (1961–) impressionist and comedian, noted for political satire
• Heather Cameron-Hayes semi-finalist of BBC1's The Voice
• Bob Carlos Clarke (1950–2006) photographer
• Richard Curle (1883–1968) author, critic and journalist^[6]
• Henry Danton (1919–2022) ballet dancer Henry Danton
• Caggie Dunlop star of E4 reality series Made in Chelsea
• Elize du Toit (1980–) actress and model best known for the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks
• Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) poet
• Jim Field Smith (1979–) film director, writer and comedian
• Sebastian Faulks (1953–) novelist whose works include Birdsong and Charlotte Gray
• Nicola Formby (1965– ) journalist^[7]
• John Gardner (1917–2011) composer
• John Keane (1954–) painter and official artist, Gulf War
• Sir Christopher Lee (1922–2015) film actor
• John Masters (1914–1983) British Army officer and novelist
• Robert Morley (1908–1992) theatre and film actor
• John Nash (1893–1977) painter and war artist
• Frederick Noad (1929–2001) guitarist, lutenist, author and teacher
• Gregory Norminton (1976–) novelist
• George Orwell (1903–1950) author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (Easter Term 1917 only; in May 1917 he became a King's Scholar at Eton)
• Nerina Pallot (1974–) singer, songwriter and producer
• Harry Ricketts (1950–) writer and biographer
• Guy Siner (1947–) actor
• Count Nikolai Tolstoy (1935–) Russo-British historian and author
• Martin Windrow (1944–) historian
• Will Young (1979–) singer and actor

Broadcasting

• Daniel Farson (1927–1997) broadcaster and writer
• Gerald Hine-Haycock (1951–) journalist, Correspondent for ITN and BBC News; Presenter for HTV West and BBC West
• Robin Oakley (1941–) journalist, Political Editor of CNN International, formerly Political Editor of the BBC
• Peter Snow CBE (1938–) British television and radio presenter

Military

• Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, British Army commander during World War II
• Blondie Hasler, Royal Marine, Cockleshell hero
• Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall, Chief of the General Staff
• Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Salmond, Chief of the Air Staff
• Field Marshal Sir Geoffrey Baker, Chief of the General Staff 1968 to 1971
• Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
• General Sir Charles Richardson, Chief Royal Engineer and Master-General of the Ordnance
• General Sir Harry Tuzo, General Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland and other senior British Army commands
• General Sir Charles Huxtable, Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces 1988 to 1990
• General Sir Richard O'Connor, British Army general during World War II
• General Sir Peter Hunt, Chief of the General Staff 1973
• General Sir James Glover, Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces 1985 to 1987
• General Sir Roland Guy, Adjutant General to the British Army 1984 to 1986
• General Sir Chris Deverell, Commander of the UK's Joint Forces Command and member of the UK Chiefs of Staff Committee April 2016 to May 2019.
• Lieutenant General Sir Noel Beresford-Peirse, General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps and later General Officer Commander-in-Chief, Southern Army, India during the Second World War
• Lieutenant General Sir Alistair Irwin, Adjutant General to the British Army 2003 to 2005
• Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford, Commander of British forces during the Battle of Kohima
• Lieutenant General Sir Maurice Johnston, Assistant Chief of the General Staff, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
• Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Loch, Director of Anti-Aircraft and Coastal Defence (1939–1941), Master-General of Ordnance, India (1944–1947), and head of the board of governors at Wellington
• Major-General George Erroll Prior-Palmer, General Officer Commanding, 6th Armoured Division^[8]
• Major-General Douglas Wimberley, British Divisional Commander in World War II
• Roger Bushell, Mastermind of the Great Escape
• Lieutenant Colonel Sir Wolseley Haig (1865–1938)^[9] Lieutenant-Colonel
• Sir John Rennie, former Director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

Fifteen Old Wellingtonians have won the Victoria Cross; one Old Wellingtonian has won the George Cross.^[10] They are as follows:

• Victoria Cross
  • Zulu War
    • Lieutenant Henry Lysons, VC (He later achieved the rank of colonel and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)) (1858–1907)
  • South African War (Boer War)
    • Captain Charles FitzClarence, VC (He later achieved the rank of brigadier general. He was killed in action, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 12 November 1914) (1865–1914)
    • Captain Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse, VC (He later became a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO), and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE) (1864–1948)
  • Third Ashanti Expedition
    • Captain Charles John Melliss, VC (later to become Major General Sir Charles John Melliss VC, KCB, KCMG) (1862–1936)
  • Second Somaliland Expedition
    • Captain Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC, (He later achieved the rank of general) (1870–1931)
  • First World War
    • Captain John Franks Vallentin, VC (1882–1914)
    • Lieutenant James Anson Otho Brooke VC (1884–1914)
    • Captain John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler VC (1888–1916)
    • Second Lieutenant Alexander Buller Turner, VC (1893–1915)
    • Lieutenant Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson, VC (1894–1916)
  • Second World War
    • Flight Lieutenant Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd, VC (1913–1996)
    • Commander Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, VC (Later to become Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Cecil Capel Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar) (1906–1985)
    • Captain Patrick Porteous, VC (1918–2000) (he later achieved the rank of colonel)
    • Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner, VC (brother of Alexander Buller Turner, VC)(1900–1972)
    • Lieutenant Claud Raymond, VC (1923–1945)
• George Cross
  • 1935 Quetta earthquake
    • Lieutenant John Cowley GC (Originally awarded the Albert Medal which was converted to the George Cross. He was later to become Lieutenant General Sir John Cowley GC KBE CB)

Other

• Joseph Arthur Arkwright, bacteriologist
• John Arnold
• David Boyle, British intelligence officer
• Ranald Boyle, British diplomat
• C.R. Boxer, historian
• Matthew Restall, historian
• W S Bristowe, arachnologist^[11]
• Michael Brock, British historian
• Patrick de Maré, psychiatrist
• Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
• Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, British peer and soldier
• The Marquess of Cambridge, brother of Queen Mary
• Anthony Fletcher, English historian
• Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect who is behind the Eden Project
• Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
• The 9th Duke of Portland
• Prince Francis of Teck
• John F. C. Turner, architect and theorist
• Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms, 1995–2010
• Professor Klaus Dodds, Notable Academic and Professor of Geopolitics. Royal Holloway, University of London
• John Haycraft, founder of International House World Organisation
• Esmond Romilly, socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist
• Sir Rudolph Peters FRS, biochemist
• Princess Maria Olympia of Greece and Denmark
• Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark
• Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark
• Richard Skemp, mathematician, psychologist and academic

See also

• Category:People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire