List of Old Carthusians

Born in the 17th century

Joseph Henshaw (1603–1679), Bishop of Peterborough, 1663–1679

Roger Williams (c. 1603–1683), religious dissenter and co-founder of Rhode Island

Richard Crashaw (1612/3–1648), poet

Christopher Gibbons (c. 1615–1676), organist and composer

Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet and soldier

Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), mathematician and theologian

John Washington (1633–1677), Virginia planter and great grandfather of George Washington

James Vernon (c. 1646–1727), Secretary of State

Nathaniel Lee (c. 1647–1692), dramatist and poet

Samuel Bradford (1652–1731), Bishop of Carlisle and Rochester

John King (c. 1655–1737), Master of Charterhouse 1715-1737

Dr. Henry Levett (1668–1725), chief physician, Charterhouse 1712-1725

Joseph Addison (1672–1719), writer and politician

Sir Richard Steele (c. 1672–1729), writer and politician, founder of The Tatler

Andrew Tooke (1673–1731), Headmaster of Charterhouse

John Davies (1679–1732), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

Martin Benson (1689–1752), Bishop of Gloucester

Francis Peck (1692–1743), antiquary

John Thomas (1696–1781), Bishop of Winchester

Robert Paltock (1697–1767), writer

John Ryder (c. 1697–1775), Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, 1743–1752, and Archbishop of Tuam, 1752–1775

Mark Hildesley (1698–1772), Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1755–1772

John Jortin (1698–1770), ecclesiastical historian and literary critic

Born in the 18th century

Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet (c. 1700–1776), judge

John Wesley (1703–1791), founder of Methodism

Edmund Keene (1714–1781), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Ely

Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), first Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1758–1766, politician and judge

William Jones of Nayland (1726–1800), controversial clergyman

Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729–1808), Secretary at War, 1778–1782, first President of the Board of Trade, 1786–1804, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1786–1803

John Buckner (1734–1824), Bishop of Chichester

Samuel Berdmore (1739–1802), Master of Charterhouse School, 1769–1802

Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), surgeon, botanist, and Bath King of Arms, 1771–1800

Sir Horatio Mann (1744–1814), politician and patron of cricket

John Law (1745–1810), bishop

William Cawthorne Unwin (1745–1786), clergyman

John Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher, traveller and eccentric

William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist and conversationalist

Thomas Day (1748–1789), author

Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818), Lord Chief Justice, 1802–1818

Charles Manners-Sutton (1755–1828), Bishop of Norwich, 1792–1805, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1805–1828

Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757–1849), Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, 1801–1806, and Commander-in-Chief in India, 1811–1813

John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1789–1794, and Lord Privy Seal, 1798–1827

George Henry Law (1761–1845), Bishop of Chester, 1812–1824, and Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1824–1845

Francis Wollaston (1762–1823), Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1792–1813

James Beresford (1764–1840), novelist

Henry Majendie (1764–1830), Bishop of Chester and Bangor

James Smithson (1764–1829), mineralogist, traveller and founder of the Smithsonian Institution (probable Old Carthusian)

William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), metallurgist, crystallographer and physiologist, discoverer of palladium and rhodium, researcher into platinum

William Heberden the Younger (1767–1845), physician to George III

Henry Luttrell (1768–1851), wit and poet

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), Prime Minister, 1812–1827

Basil Montagu (1770–1851), author, barrister and Accountant-General in Bankruptcy, 1835–1846

William Madocks (1773–1828), property developer and politician, founder of Tremadog and Porthmadog

Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), Royal Navy officer and rake (left after 9 days)

James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776–1845), politician and Lord President of the Council, 1841–1845

John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), Governor of the Bank of England

George Cecil Renouard (1780–1867), classicist and orientalist

Assistant Commissary-General Sir George Head (1782–1855), army commissary, Deputy Knight-Marshal to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1831–1855

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783–1862), surgeon and physiologist, Sergeant-Surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1832–1862

General Sir Frederick Adam (1784–1853), army officer, commander of the 3rd Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, commander in the Mediterranean, 1817–1824, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1824–1832, and Governor of Madras, 1832–1837

James Henry Monk (1784–1856), theologian and classicist, Bishop of Gloucester, 1830–1836, and Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1836–1856

George Burges (1785/6–1864), classicist

William Forbes Raymond (1785–1860), Archdeacon of Northumberland

John Thomas James (1786–1828), Bishop of Calcutta, 1826–1828, and art historian

Sir Edward Hall Alderson (c. 1787–1857), judge

John Fonblanque (1787–1865), barrister and legal writer

John Fisher (1788–1832), Archdeacon of Berkshire

John Ramsden Wollaston (1791-1856), Archdeacon of Western Australia

Gilbert Ainslie (1793–1870), clergyman, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

Sir Cresswell Cresswell (1793–1863), judge and politician

Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), painter and first Director of the National Gallery, 1855–1865

Samuel Hinds (1793–1872), Bishop of Norwich, 1849–1857

Sir William Hay Macnaghten (1793–1841), Chief Secretary, Indian Secret and Political Department, 1833–1841

John Walpole Willis (1793–1877), controversial judge in Canada, British Guiana and Australia

Benjamin Guy Babington (1794–1866), physician and orientalist, inventor of the laryngoscope

Richard Lynch Cotton (1794–1880), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

George Grote (1794–1871), historian and radical politician

Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), theological writer

Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), commander in the Indian Mutiny

Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), Bishop of St David's, 1840–1874, and historian

Frederick Henry Yates (1797–1842), actor-manager

William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868), astronomer

Henry Raper (1799–1859), writer on navigation

Born in the 19th century

Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1801–1874), Secretary at War, 1846–1852, and Secretary of State for War, 1855–1858

Colonel Sir Proby Cautley (1802–1871), civil engineer and palaeontologist, Superintendent of the Doab Canal, India, 1831–1843, and Superintendent of Canals, North-Western Provinces, 1843–1854, architect of the Ganges Canal

Sir Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), Solicitor-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1825–1833, Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1833–1837, Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1844–1873, and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, 1875–1891

William John Hamilton (1805–1867), geologist and politician

John Edward Jackson (1805–1891), archivist at Longleat

William Bruère Otter (1805–1876), Archdeacon of Lewes

Sir George Barrow (1806–1876), civil servant

Rawdon Brown (1806–1883), historian in Venice

Thomas Milner Gibson (1806–1884), radical politician, President of the Board of Trade, 1859–1866

Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), clergyman and writer

Sir Christopher Rawlinson (1806–1888), Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca, 1847–1850, and Chief Justice of Madras, 1850–1859

Sir Charles Trevelyan (1807–1886), Assistant Secretary to HM Treasury & responsible for famine relief during the disastrous Irish famine, 1840–1859, Governor of Madras, 1859–1860, and Minister of Finance of India, 1862–1865

Cardale Babington (1808–1895), Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge, 1861–1895

Charles Freshfield (1808–1891), solicitor

John Murray (1808–1892), publisher

Ralph Bernal Osborne (c. 1808–1882), politician, Secretary of the Admiralty, 1852–1858

G. T. Clark (1809–1898), civil engineer and antiquary, Manager, Dowlais Ironworks, 1855–1897

Owen Jones (1809–1874), architect, printer and designer

William Hornby (1810–1899), Archdeacon of Lancaster

Martin Tupper (1810–1889), poet and writer

George Stovin Venables (1810–1888), barrister and journalist

Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), Member of Parliament for Clitheroe

Henry Liddell (1811–1898), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1855–1891, editor of the Greek-English Lexicon

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Storks (1811–1874), last High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands, 1859–1863, Governor of Malta, 1864–1865, Governor of Jamaica, 1864–1866, Controller-in-Chief of the War Office, 1866–1870, and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 1870–1874

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist

George Whitaker, (1811–1882), clergyman and first provost of Trinity College, Toronto

Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812–1855), architect

Sir Frederick Knight (1812–1897) Conservative MP

Henry Lushington (1812–1855), Chief Secretary of Malta, 1847–1855

George Samuel Fereday Smith (1812–1891), industrialist and canal manager

William Macpherson (1812–1893), barrister and legal writer

John Armstrong (1813–1856), first Bishop of Grahamstown, 1853–1856

Alfred Gatty (1813–1903), clergyman and writer

George Dennis (1814–1898), archaeologist and diplomat

Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), orientalist, diplomat and politician, Professor of Urdu, East India College, 1845–1857

Kirkman Daniel Hodgson (1814–1879), Member of Parliament for Bridport and Bristol, and Governor of the Bank of England

Henry Ray Freshfield (1814–1895), solicitor and conservationist

William Alexander Ayton (1816–1909), clergyman, alchemist, and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), clergyman and poet

John Leech (1817–1864), caricaturist

Sir James Cockle (1819–1895), Chief Justice of Queensland, 1863–1879, and mathematician

Sir George Bowen (1821–1899), Chief Secretary of the Ionian Islands, 1854–1859, first Governor of Queensland, 1859–1867, Governor of New Zealand, 1867–1873, Governor of Victoria, 1873–1879, Governor of Mauritius, 1879–1882, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1882–1885

Greville Phillimore (1821–1884), clergyman and author

Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), critic and poet

Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1824–1871), physician and medical writer

William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), traveller and diplomat

Sir Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919), economist and banker

Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886), first Professor of Helminthology, Royal Veterinary College, 1873–1886

Sir Reginald Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the House of Commons, 1886–1900

Mordaunt Roger Barnard, Rev. (1828–1906),translator and author

Sir William Des Vœux (1834–1909), Administrator of St Lucia, 1869–1878, Governor of Fiji, 1880–1885, Governor of Newfoundland, 1886–1887, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1887–1891

Sheldon Amos (1835–1886), Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London, 1869–1879, and University of London, 1873–1879, and lawyer and judge in Egypt

Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer (1836–1914), Governor of Natal 1882–1885

Henry Nettleship (1839–1893), classicist, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford, 1878–1893

Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), clergyman and hymn writer

Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905), classicist and politician, Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow, 1875–1889, and Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge, 1889–1905

Albert Seymour (1841–1908), Archdeacon of Barnstaple

Basil Champneys (1842–1935), architect and author

Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), judge and politician, Attorney-General, 1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1900, Master of the Rolls, 1900, and Lord Chief Justice, 1900–1913

Warin Foster Bushell (1885–1974), educationalist and President of the Mathematical Association

Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy (1885–1963), hereditary peer

Edward Talbot (1844–1934), first Warden of Keble College, Oxford, 1869–1888, Vicar of Leeds, 1889–1895, Bishop of Rochester, 1895–1905, first Bishop of Southwark, 1905–1911, and Bishop of Winchester, 1911–1923

Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), Sinologist, Professor of Chinese, University of Cambridge, 1897–1932, co-inventor of Wade-Giles transliteration system

Kenneth Augustus Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie (1845–1930), barrister and civil servant, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1880–1915, and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, 1884–1915

Arthur Clarke (1848–1932), Archdeacon of Lancaster and Rochdale

Edgar Gibson (1848–1924), Bishop of Gloucester

William Wyatt "Nipper" Pinching (1851–1878), surgeon and early rugby union international who represented England in 1872.

Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937), actor-manager

Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), soldier and founder of the Scouting Movement, commander of Mafeking garrison, 1899–1900, founder and first commander of the South African Constabulary, 1900–1902, Inspector of Cavalry, 1902–1908, General Officer Commanding Northumbrian Division, 1908–1910

Leonard Burrows (1857–1940), Bishop of Lewes and Sheffield

William Hayter (1858–1935), Dean of Gibraltar

John Norman Collie (1859–1942), organic chemist and mountaineer, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University College, London, 1902–1928

Basil Harwood (1859–1949), organist and composer

William Foxley Norris (1859–1949), Dean of York and Westminster

William Douglas Young (1859–1943), Governor of the Falkland Islands

William Hurrell (1860–1952), Archdeacon of Loughborough

Henry Southwell (1860–1937), Bishop of Lewes

Sir Henry Head (1861–1940), neurologist

Lionel Monckton (1861–1924), composer and songwriter

Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861–1936), judge and politician, Solicitor-General, 1919–1922, Attorney-General, 1922, and Master of the Rolls, 1923–1935

William "Nuts" Cobbold (1862–1922), England international footballer

James Cropper (1862–1938), Dean of Gibraltar

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), political scholar

Cyril Francis Maude (1862–1951), actor-manager

Andrew Amos (1863–1931), England international footballer and clergyman

Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley (1863–1946), Member of Parliament for Leeds East and East Grinstead

Walter Howard Frere (1863–1938), founder member of the Community of the Resurrection, Bishop of Truro, 1923–1935

Sir Cyril Jackson (1863–1924), Inspector-General of Schools, Western Australia, 1896–1903, Chief Inspector of Elementary Schools, 1903–1905, and Chairman of London County Council, 1915–?

Sir Reginald Neville, 1st Baronet (1863–1950), barrister and politician

Bertram Pollock (1863–1943), Bishop of Norwich

Sir C. Aubrey Smith (1863–1948), actor and cricketer

Percy Melmoth Walters (1863–1936), England and Corinthian footballer

Henry Wilson-Fox (1863–1921), Member of Parliament for Tamworth

Brigadier Guy Hudleston Boisragon (1864–1931), Victoria Cross

Andrew Burn (1864–1927), Dean of Salisbury

Brien Cokayne, 1st Baron Cullen of Ashbourne (1864–1932), Governor of the Bank of England

Charles Alfred Howell Green (1864–1944), Archdeacon of Monmouth, 1914–1921, first Bishop of Monmouth, 1921–1928, Bishop of Bangor, 1928–1944, and Archbishop of Wales, 1934–1944

Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864–1958), art, porcelain and book collector and benefactor

John Percival Gulich (1864–1898) illustrator, engraver and artist

Arthur Melmoth Walters (1865–1941), England and Corinthian footballer

Charles Wreford-Brown (1866–1951), English international football captain and cricketer

Ronald Montagu Burrows (1867–1920), Principal of King's College London (1913–1920)

Coningsby Disraeli (1867–1936), Member of Parliament for Altrincham

Granville Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans (1867–1942), hereditary peer

Oswald Parry (1868–1936), Bishop of Guyana

Sir Eustace Tennyson-D'Eyncourt (1868–1951), naval architect, Director of Naval Construction, 1912–1924

Sir Henry Gollan, (1868–1949), Chief Justice of various British colonies, retired as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong

Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr (1869–1915), hereditary peer and cricketer

Walter Gilliat (1869–1963), England international footballer and clergyman

Colonel James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (1870–1945), Victoria Cross

Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans (1870–1960), hereditary peer

Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870–1943), hereditary peer

Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1870–1945), philologist and lexicographer, first Baines Professor of English Language and Philology, University of Liverpool, 1904–1920, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 1920–1945

Sir Farquhar Buzzard (1871–1945), physician, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1928–1943

Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (1871–1947), Chief of Staff, Fourth Army, 1916–1918, Chief of Staff, British Army of the Rhine, 1918–1920, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, India, 1920–1925, General Officer Commanding Southern Command, Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1931–1933, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1933–1936

Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll (1872–1949), hereditary peer

Sir Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), satirist and caricaturist

Richard Clewin Griffith (1872–1955), British chess champion (1912) and chess author

Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944), composer

Gilbert Oswald Smith (1872–1943), England international football captain and cricketer

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer

Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (1874–1953), archaeologist and palaeographer, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1927–1939

Air Marshal Sir John Higgins (1875–1948), founder member of the Royal Flying Corps, Commander, No.2 Brigade, RFC, 1916–1918, Royal Air Force commander, British Army of the Rhine, Air Officer Commanding Northern Area, Director of Personnel, AOC Inland Area, 1922–1924, AOC Iraq, 1924–?, Air Member for Supply and Research, and AOC-in-C India, 1939–1940

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game (1876–1961), Director of Training and Organisation, Royal Air Force, 1919–1923, Air Officer Commanding India, 1923, Air Member for Personnel, 1923–1929, Governor of New South Wales, 1930–1935, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1935–1945

Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950), composer

Kelville Ernest Irving (1877–1953), musical director and composer

Horace Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan (1878–1950), Irish peer

William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (1879–1963), civil servant, politician, economist and social reformer, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Food, 1919, Director of the London School of Economics, 1919–1937, and Master of University College, Oxford, 1937–1944

Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie (1879–1964), Inspector, Royal Engineers, 1933–1935, General Officer Commanding Malaya and Singapore, 1935–1939, and Governor-General of Malta, 1940–1942

Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879–1963), Egyptologist

Sir Patrick Hastings (1880–1952), barrister and politician, first Labour Attorney-General, 1924

Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Leachman (1880–1920), intelligence officer and traveller

Hampton Weekes (1880–1948), Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight

Tom Rowlandson MC (1880–1916), England amateur football goalkeeper

Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom (1881–1965), architect and politician

Thomas Leopold McClintock-Bunbury, 3rd Baron Rathdonnell (1881–1937), soldier and peer

Colonel Sir Ronald Storrs (1881–1955), Oriental Secretary in Cairo, 1909–1915, Governor of Jerusalem, 1917–1926, Governor of Cyprus, 1926–1932, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia, 1932–1934

Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake (1881–1964), Mayor of Maidstone, zoo keeper

Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882–1974), poet and novelist

Henry FitzHerbert (1882–1958), Archdeacon of Derby

Wyndham Halswelle (1882–1915), sprinter who won Olympic gold in 1908 in the 400m and was killed in battle during World War One. The school refused an offer to host his Olympic medals and other trophies in 2008. They are now displayed in the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.

Thomas Wilson (1882–1961), Archdeacon of Worcester

Arthur Preston (1883–1936), Bishop of Woolwich

Kenneth Searight (1883–1957), linguist

Lieutenant-General Edward Felix Norton (1884–1954), soldier and mountaineer, Acting Governor of Hong Kong, 1940–1941, and General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India, 1941–1942

Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), diplomat and traveller in Central Asia, Chinese Secretary in Peking, 1922–1936

John Woodhouse (1884–1955), Bishop of Thetford

Ben Travers (1886–1980), dramatist

Hedley Burrows (1887–1983), Dean of Hereford

General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887–1965), Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1938–1946, Chief of Staff to the Viceroy of India, 1947–1948, and first Secretary-General of NATO, 1952–1957

Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887–1944), Governor of Victoria, 1926–1931, Deputy Chief Scout, 1936–1941, and Chief Scout, 1941–1944

J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), first head master of Stowe School, 1923–1949

Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889–1982), painter and gardener

Arthur Stuart, 7th Earl Castle Stewart (1889–1961), Member of Parliament for Harborough

Claud Lovat Fraser (1890–1921), artist and designer

Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks (1890–1960), Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff

General Sir Kenneth Anderson (1891–1959), General Officer Commanding First Army, 1942–1943, GOC Second Army, 1943–1944, GOC Eastern Command, 1944–1945, GOC-in-C East Africa, 1945–1946, and Governor of Gibraltar, 1947–1952

Eric Archibald McNair (1894–1918), First World War Victoria Cross

John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir (1894–1954), politician, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1936–1938, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1938–1940, and Governor of Bombay, 1943–1948

Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965), Australian barrister, politician and judge, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs, 1941–1949, Leader of the Labor Party, 1951–1960, and Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1960–1962

Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman (1894–1982), cryptographer, Chief Cryptographer, Bletchley Park

Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist

Alfred Bower (1895–1970), England footballer

Edward Anthony Hawke (1895-1964), Common Serjeant of London and Recorder of London

General Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge (eldest son of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, the only man to rise to the rank of Field Marshal from private), Managing Director, Dunlop, South Africa, 1935–1940, Chief Administrative Officer, Allied Forces in Italy, 1944–1945, Deputy Military Governor of the British Zone of Germany, 1945–1947, Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1947–1949, British Commissioner, Allied High Commission, 1949–1950, C-in-C Middle East Land Forces, 1950–1953, and Chairman of the British Transport Commission, 1953–1961

Sir Lionel Heald (1897–1981), barrister and politician, Attorney-General, 1951–1954

Frederick William Winterbotham (1897–1990), intelligence officer

Harold Greville Hanbury (1898–1993), jurist, Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1949–1964

Dudley Clarke (1899–1974), leading World War II deception planner and founder of the Commandos

David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins (1899–1969), Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster

John McNeill QC (1899–unknown) Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China and Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association

Born in the 20th century

Maurice Herbert Dobb (1900–1976), economist

Richard Hughes (1900–1976), novelist and dramatist

John Samuel Tunnard (1900–1971), painter

Horace Geoffrey "H.G." Quaritch Wales (1900–1981), Southeast Asian studies

Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce (1901–1990), Law Lord

Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow (1901–1965), cricketer and journalist

Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent (1901–1986), politician

Arthur Seymour John Tessimond (1902–1962), poet

Sir Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet (1902–1971), landowner, Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

Major-General Orde Wingate (1903–1944), guerrilla warfare specialist, founder and commander of the Chindits

Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist and co-founder of cybernetics

Ralph Etherton (1904–1987), Conservative Member of Parliament for Stretford

Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904–2003), film producer

Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), anthropologist and author

John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley (1905–1987), founder of the Royal College of General Practitioners

John Pelloe (1905–1983), Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech

Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster (1906–1975), Paymaster General

Sir Harold Ridley (1906–2001), ophthalmic surgeon, inventor of the intraocular lens implant

Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon (1906–1989), advocate and judge, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1957–1959, Lord of Session, 1959–1965, Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, 1965–1971, and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1971–1976

Ronald Cartland (1907–1940), Conservative MP and rebel against Chamberlain's appeasement policies, killed near Dunkirk in 1940; portrayed in Lynne Olson's "Troublesome Young Men."

Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke (1907–1989), author and screenwriter

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull (1907–1989), Commander, Blade Force, 1942, General Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division, 1944–1945, GOC 5th Infantry Division, 1945–1946, Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, 1946–1948, Director of Staff Duties, 1948–1950, Chief Army Instructor, Imperial Defence College, 1950–1952, Chief of Staff, Middle East Land Forces, 1953–1954, GOC British Troops in Egypt, 1954–1956, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1956–1958, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, 1958–1961, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1961–1965, and Chief of the Defence Staff, 1965–1967

Terence Kealey (born 1952), biochemist

Bernard Kettlewell (1907–1979), lepidopterist

Richard Murdoch (1907–1990), actor and comedian

Yashwant Rao Holkar II (1907–1990), Maharaja of Indore

Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908–1961), cartoonist and designer

Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (1908–2000), Chairman of De Beers

Alexander Clifford (1909–1952), journalist and author

William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood (1909–1989), Conservative Member of Parliament for Westmorland and government minister

Henry Carpenter Longhurst (1909–1978), golf journalist and commentator

Alec Pearce (1910–1982), cricketer Kent, Hong Kong and MCC.

Geoffrey Toone (1910–2005), actor

Jack Whittingham (1910–1972), James Bond screenwriter

Sir John Lovegrove Waldron (1910–1975), Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1968–1972

Peter Bostock (1911–1999), Archdeacon of Mombassa and Doncaster

John Hill (1912–2007), barrister, farmer and Conservative Member of Parliament for South Norfolk

John Lewis (typographer) (1912–1996), typographer and illustrator

Hilary Wayment (1912–2005), author and historian of stained glass

Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913–1962), hereditary peer

John Sinclair Morrison (1913–2000), Professor of Greek, University of Durham, 1945–1950, Vice-Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, 1960–1965, first President of University College (later Wolfson College), Cambridge, 1965–1980, expert on Greek triremes

Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom (1913–1992), Conservative Member of Parliament for Nottingham Central

William Robert McClintock-Bunbury, 4th Baron Rathdonnell MC (1914–1959), soldier and Irish peer

Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, later Baron Dacre of Glanton

Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist (witness before the Wolfenden Committee)

Ronald Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir (1917–1996), soldier, Governor of the Bank of Scotland

Wilfrid Noyce (1917–1962), mountaineer and writer, member of the 1953 Everest Expedition

Kent Walton (1917–2003), wrestling commentator

Alexander Wallace Fielding (1918–1991), SOE officer and author

Peston Padamji Ginwala (1918–2008), Indian barrister

Ian Wallace (1919–2009), singer and broadcaster

Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), historian and Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University, 1963–1990

John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls

Michael Hoban (1921–2003), headmaster of Harrow School

W. Stanley Moss (1921–1965), SOE officer, author and traveller

David Dane (1923–1998), virologist

Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths (1923–2015), soldier, cricketer, barrister, judge and life peer

Sir Anthony Caro (1924–2013), sculptor

Professor Peter Green (born 1924), classical scholar, historian and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Murray Irvine (1924–2005), churchman and Provost of Southwell Minster

Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith (1924–2010), Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras South, East Grinstead and Wealden

Robert Neild (born 1924) Cambridge economist and peace researcher.

Kenneth Newton (1927–2010), novelist

Gerald Francis Priestland (1927–1991), broadcaster and writer

Simon Arthur Noël Raven (1927–2001), writer

Oliver Popplewell (born 1927), judge

Jim Prior, Baron Prior (born 1927), former Member of Parliament for Lowestoft and Waveney, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1970–72), Secretary of State for Employment (1979–81)

William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928–2012), public servant, journalist, and editor of The Times (1967–81)

Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne (born 1928), Labour Member of Parliament for Lincoln, founder of Democratic Labour, co-founder of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Liberal Democrat peer

Richard Eyre (1929–2012), Dean of Exeter

David Nightingale Hicks (1929–1998), interior designer and author

Peter May (1929–1994), England cricket captain

Peter Yates (1929–2011), film director

Peter Vaughan (born 1930), churchman and former Bishop of Ramsbury

Michael Whinney (born 1930), churchman and former Bishop of Aston and Bishop of Southwell

Frederic Raphael (born 1931), writer

Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist

John Finney (born 1932), churchman and former Bishop of Pontefract

Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford (1932–1989), former Member of Parliament for The Wrekin

John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham (born 1932), former Member of Parliament for Maldon and South Colchester and Maldon and government minister

Peter Walwyn (born 1933), racehorse trainer

Don Cupitt (born 1934), philosopher of religion and Christian theologian

Sir Richard Sorabji (born 1934), historian of ancient philosophy

Sir Anthony Buzzard, 3rd Baronet (born 1935), biblical scholar and Christian theologian

Dr Richard Godwin-Austen Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (born 1935), consultant neurologist

Major John Gouriet (1935–2010), Conservative political campaigner and founder of The Freedom Association

Peter Grant (1935–1995), manager of (Led Zeppelin)

Alan Evans (born 1938), housing economist

David Dimbleby (born 1938), TV presenter

David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 1938), hereditary peer

Adam Raphael (born 1938), journalist

Thomas Benjamin McClintock-Bunbury, 5th Baron Rathdonnell (born 1938), Irish peer

Gillon Aitken (born 1938), publisher and literary agent

Sir (Marsom) Henry Boyd-Carpenter, courtier

Peter Cowie (born 1939), film historian

Sir John Banham (born 1940), diplomat and business leader

Hubert Chesshyre (born 1940), courtier

Tom Bruce Jones (born 1941), Scottish forestry owner

Graeme Dunlop (born 1942), former chairman of P&O Ferries and the UK Chamber of Shipping

Andrew Graham (born 1942), Master of Balliol College, Oxford

Professor Richard Collin (born 1943), Moorfields ophthalmic surgeon

Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance (born 1943), Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Michael Prestwich (born 1943), former Professor of Medieval History at the University of Durham

Dr Robin Bidwell (born 1944), environmentalist

Jonathan Dimbleby (born 1944), TV and radio presenter

Jonathan King (born 1944), pop music impresario

Peter de Savary (born 1944), entrepreneur and former chairman of Millwall F.C.

Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes DL (born 1945), former soldier, businessman, consulting physician, and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Wimbledon

Sir Max Hastings (born 1945), journalist, writer and broadcaster

Tim Yeo (born 1945), former Member of Parliament (MP) for South Suffolk and former chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee

Sir Philip Bailhache (born 1946), Bailiff of Jersey, Channel Islands 1995–2009

John Campbell (born 1947), political writer and biographer

General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman (born 1947), Adjutant-General to the Forces, 2000–2003, Commander-in-Chief Land, 2003–2005, and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, 2005–

Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (born 1947), Labour peer and Treasury minister in the 2010 Coalition government

David Walter (1948–2012), ITN and BBC correspondent, radio and television producer and later political advisor (President of the Oxford Union and winner of the Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster (born 1949), hereditary peer

Jim Powell (born 1949), novelist

Tony Banks (born 1950), keyboardist and founder member of Genesis

Peter Gabriel (born 1950), singer-songwriter and founder member of Genesis

Sir John Watson Gieve KCB (born 1950), Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

Rivers Jobe (1950–1979), bass guitarist and member of The Anon

Richard MacPhail (born 1950), vocalist for The Anon

Mike Rutherford (born 1950), guitarist and founder member of Genesis; also leader of Mike + The Mechanics

Rob Tyrell (born 1950), drummer for The Anon

Graham Seed (born 1950), actor who played Nigel Pargetter in BBC radio programme The Archers

Chris Stewart (born 1950), founder member of Genesis

Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook (born 1951), hereditary peer

Ian Davies (born 1951), chairman of Rolls Royce Group plc

Sir Nigel Davis (born 1951), Lord Justice of Appeal

Anthony Phillips (born 1951), guitarist and founder member of Genesis

Anthony Coombs (born 1952), former Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest

Charles Burton (born 1952), economist

Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 1952), crossbench peer

Sir Andrew Caradoc Hamilton, 10th Baronet (born 1953), mill owner

Mike Thornton (born 1953), former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh

Sir James Goss Kt QC (born 1953), Justice of the High Court

Sir Michael Briggs (judge) (born 1954), Justice of the High Court

Axel Chaldecott (born 1954), creative director for J. Walter Thomson, Royal Dutch Shell, First Direct and Go (airline)

Stephen Drury (born 1954), shipping lawyer at Holman Fenwick Willan

Archie Norman (born 1954), businessman, chairman of ITV plc and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells

John Peet (born 1954), journalist for The Economist

Stephen Venables (born 1954), mountaineer and writer

Christopher Cunliffe (born 1955), Archdeacon of Derby

Colin Blumenau (born 1956), Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

Martin Ephson (born 1956), director at Farrow & Ball, winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise (2004)

Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956), poet and critic

Karl Wallinger (born 1957), rock musician

Richard Milner, 3rd Baron Milner of Leeds, hereditary peer

Rachel Portman (born 1960), composer

Joseph Neill (born 1961), surgeon and soldier

Tim Judah (born 1962), journalist and author

Mark Garnier (born 1963), Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest

Matthew Harris (born 1965), head chef at Bibendum London

Jeremy Hunt (born 1966), Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey and Secretary of State for Health

Maxwell Barclay (born 1970), entomologist

Nicholas de Wolff (born 1970), digital media pioneer, founder of New Media Council

Douglas Carswell (born 1971), UKIP Member of Parliament for Clacton

Ladi Balogun (born 1972), CEO of First City Monument Bank

Jonathan Goodwin (born 1972), businessman and former managing director of Talk Radio UK

James Innes (born 1975), author

Clement Power (born 1980), conductor

Fictional Old Carthusians

Giles Wemmbley-Hogg (created 2002, born c. 1984), fictional BBC Radio 4 character

Major Quive-Smith (created 1939, born c.1900) from Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male; a British-educated gestapo officer and the book's chief antagonist.