This is a list of notable Old Cliftonians, former pupils of Clifton College in Bristol in the West of England.
See also Category:People educated at Clifton College.
Public life and the law
Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet
Sir James Allen, New Zealand politician
Mirza Osman Ali Baig, MBE, Indian Army officer, Pakistani diplomat and statesman, and Secretary-General of CENTO
Michael Bear, Lord Mayor of London 2010/11
Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood, Conservative member of the House of Lords
Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel, KBE Conservative MP.
Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of War, 1937–1940
Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter, KCMG CIE Barrister
John Bonham-Carter (1817-1884) Liberal Party Politician
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, GCMG, PC
Sir John Biggs-Davison, Conservative politician
Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP
Viscount Caldecote, Sir Thomas Inskip, Lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, Master of the Rolls and Law Lord
Geoff Gollop, OBE, Deputy Mayor of Bristol, former Lord Mayor and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol
Sir James Heath Bt, MP North West Staffordshire.
Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol, Diplomat
Sir Thomas Little Heath, Treasury Secretary and scholar and author.
Lord Henley 8th Baron Henley. Tory Politician
Sir Roger Hollis, journalist, secret-service agent and director general of MI5
Syed Fakhar Imam, the 11th Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan.
Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, Conservative politician
Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet, Irish Politician, Senator 1st, 2nd, 3rd Seanad
Neville Laski QC Judge and leader of Anglo Jewry
Sir John May, Judge
Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta, English judge, leader of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the UK
Edwin Samuel Montagu, Liberal politician
Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling
Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet, Industrialist and Liberal MP
Sir Peter Newsam chairman of Commission for Racial Equality and Inner London Education Authority chief education officer.
Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton GCMG
Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services Authority
Colin Sleeman, Assistant Judge Advocate General, senior defence counsel for Japanese accused of war crimes
Abel Thomas, Welsh Liberal MP
Col. Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, brother of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet, Liberal and Labour, Minister in Ramsay MacDonald government.
Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood, 1st Bt
Philip William Wheeldon Bishop of Whitby
Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet KC MP, barrister and politician
John Henry Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons 1921–1928
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, Conservative politician
Baron Wyfold, Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, Bt MP.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig
Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan
Sir Francis Younghusband, British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist
Sir Hugh Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO, general
Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, General of the Territorial Army and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta.
Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Watt, Australian flying ace in First World War
Percy Hobart KBE CB DSO MC, military engineer
Cecil Rawling, CMG CIE DSO FRGS, soldier, explorer and author
Alexander Kearsey, OBE, DSO, soldier, cricketer and military historian
Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
Jock Hamilton-Baillie MC
Eight Old Cliftonians have won the Victoria Cross, one in the Second Boer War, five in the First World War (1914–1918), one in the Russian Civil War (North Russia Relief Force, 1919), and one in the Second World War.
Second Boer War:
Sergeant Horace Robert Martineau VC (at Clifton 1888–1889) (1874–1916). He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant.
First World War:
Richard Douglas Sandford VC (11 May 1891 – 23 November 1918) was a Royal Navy officer who took part in the Zeebrugge Raid and won the Victoria Cross.
Captain Theodore Wright, VC (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1883–1914)
Lieutenant Cyril Gordon Martin, VC, CBE, DSO (at Clifton 1910-1910) (1891–1980). He later achieved the rank of Brigadier.
Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew, VC (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1882–1961). He later achieved the rank of Captain.
Captain George Henry Tatham Paton, VC, MC (at Clifton 1909–1914) (1895–1917)
Russian Civil War:
Commander Claude Congreve Dobson, VC, DSO (at Clifton 1893–1900) (1885–1940)
Second World War:
Lance-Corporal John Pennington Harman, VC, (at Clifton 1923–1925) (1914–1944)
C. E. W. Bean, War Correspondent and Official Historian of Australia during the First World War
Joyce Cary, writer
L. P. Hartley, author
Robert Smythe Hichens, Author and playwright
Geoffrey Household, author
Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin, author
Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author and television presenter
Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Author
Henry Newbolt, poet
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, poet (pseudonym “Q”).
Montague Summers, Author, translator, Occultist, scandalous Clergyman and member of Uranian poets- bards of Greco-Roman pederasty.
John Cleese, Monty Python actor
Manuel del Campo, film editor, actor, and third husband to Mary Astor
Thorold Dickinson, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Donald Hewlett, actor
John Houseman, actor, director and producer
Trevor Howard, actor
John Inverdale, television presenter
John Madden, film director
Roger Michell, film & theatre director
Alan Napier, actor
Sir Michael Redgrave, actor
Simon Russell Beale CBE, actor
Chris Serle, television presenter
Simon Shepherd, actor
Clive Swift, actor
David Swift, actor
Naunton Wayne, actor
Joseph Cooper
Scott Ford, musician
C. S. Lang, organist and composer
Boris Ord, conductor
Ian Partridge, tenor
Harry Plunket Greene
A. J. Potter, composer
Martina Topley-Bird, musician
Peter Tranchell, composer
Sir David Willcocks, conductor
Jonathan Willcocks, composer
Nicky Chinn, songwriter
Kitty Brucknell, singer/songwriter
Roger Fry, artist
Derek Gillman, President of the Barnes Foundation
Peter Lanyon (1918–1964) Cornish painter of Euston Road School.
Henry Tonks, English surgeon, artist, like Fry, Slade Professor of Fine Art
Roger Alton, editor of The Observer
Leigh Brownlee, cricketer and former editor of the Daily Mirror
William Hanson, columnist for Mail Online, author, etiquette coach and broadcaster
David Henshaw, investigative journalist and managing director of Hardcash Productions
Francis Wrigley Hirst, editor of The Economist
Hugh Schofield, BBC Paris Correspondent
Steve Scott, ITV newscaster and former ITN foreign correspondent
Richard Stott, journalist
Andrew Wilson, Sky News news presenter and former foreign correspondent
Eric Birley, Vindolanda archaeologist, Classical scholar
Simon Blackburn, philosopher, founder of quasi-realism
Frederick S. Boas
Horatio Brown, historian
Norman O. Brown, author, philosopher
Charles Alfred Coulson, chemist
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Classical scholar
Sir Charles Harding Firth, historian
Peter Geach, philosopher
Philip D'Arcy Hart (1900–2006), pioneer in tuberculosis treatment
Herbert Paul Grice, philosopher
Sir Thomas Little Heath, polymath, civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator and mountaineer
Arthur Wilberforce Jose, historian and journalist
Martin Lings, scholar
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, philosopher
John Pinkerton, designer of world's first business computer, the LEO computer
Harold Arthur Prichard, philosopher
Reginald Punnett, geneticist
Ivor Armstrong Richards scholar, critic, rhetorician author The Meaning of Meaning
Darrell P. Rowbottom, philosopher
Sir Richard Threlfall, physicist and chemical engineer
Herbert Hall Turner, Professor of Astronomy and seismologist
Conrad Hal Waddington, developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher
Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, Professor of Poetry and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
R. P. Winnington-Ingram, scholar of Greek tragedy, Professor of Greek at King's College, London
John Kendrew (Chemistry)
John Hicks (Economics)
Nevill Mott (Physics)
WG Grace, Jr., Gloucestershire and MCC cricketer
Sir Kingsmill Key, Bt., captain of Surrey, MCC and England cricketer.
John Daniell (cricketer), captain of Somerset, England rugby international
Basil Allen, cricketer, Gloucestershire captain
Edwin Field, Middlesex cricketer, England rugby international
James Kirtley, England cricketer
Matt Windows, Gloucestershire cricketer and England 'A' cap.
A. E. J. Collins, cricketer, world record holder (highest individual score as batsman)
R. P. Keigwin, England cricketer and hockey player
Edward Tylecote, England cricketer
George Whitehead, England cricketer
Charlie Townsend, England cricketer
Dr. Edward Scott, Gloucestershire & MCC cricketer, England rugby international (captain).
Sir Stephen Finney, England rugby international
James Bush Gloucestershire cricketer, England rugby international
Robert Edwin Bush Gloucestershire cricketer
William Brain, English cricketer and footballer
Archibald Fargus, English cricketer, scholar, clergyman
Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
Hannah Leith, International England Croquet captain
Sir George Lockwood Morris, 8th Baronet Welsh Rugby International
Jerry Cornes, English Olympic runner
Walter Gibb, world record holder (altitude)
Rowley Leigh, English chef
Michael Francis Middleton, Businessman and father of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Both Middleton's father, Capt. Peter Francis Middleton (d.2010) and his grandfather, solicitor and company director Richard Noel Middleton (d.1951) also boarded at Clifton
William Pollock, English chess master
Lily Owsley, Hockey GB and England
Walter Owen Bentley, founder of Bentley Motors
John Wyndham Beynon, entrepreneur of the fossil fuel and metals industry
Sir Trevor Chinn, Tycoon and Philanthropist
Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet, business man, chairman of British-American Tobacco Company
Sir Roy Fedden, engineer
Andy Hornby, former Chief Executive of HBOS
Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs, entrepreneur
Sir Horace Kadoorie, industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
Lord Kadoorie, industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
Julian Richer, entrepreneur, owner of Richer Sounds
Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet, industrialist
Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services Authority
Sir Clive Thompson former Chairman of Farepak and Chief executive of Rentokil Initial
Sir Robert Waley Cohen, industrialist and prominent leader of Anglo-Jewry
Sir Bernard Waley Cohen, business man and Lord Mayor of London
Henry Herbert Wills, tobacco baron and philanthropist
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, business man, chairman of GUS
David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, politician, businessman, chairman of Next
Christopher Tietjens, the protagonist of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End.
