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List of Old Greshamians

The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, Norfolk, England.

Contents

Armed forces

  • General Sir Terence Airey - soldier, GOC Hong Kong
  • Joe Baker-Cresswell - Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to King George VI
  • Peter Beck, soldier and schoolmaster
  • General Sir Robert Bray - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
  • Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet, killed on active service in Java, 1942
  • Donald Cunnell - First World War fighter pilot
  • Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion, Royal Air Force officer and British Overseas Airways Corporation executive
  • Arthur Estcourt - First World War officer
  • Major-General Guy Gregson - soldier
  • Sir Christopher Heydon - took part in the capture of Cádiz, 1596
  • General Sir William Holmes - Second World War general
  • Henry Howard - Second World War commander of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • Major-General John Lethbridge - soldier
  • Rear Admiral Martin Lucey (1920–1992), Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland and Admiral President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
  • Major-General Patrick Marriott - Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2009–2012
  • Rear-Admiral Brian Perowne - Chief of Fleet Support, Royal Navy
  • Sir Philip Toosey - Bridge on the River Kwai commander
  • Peter W. Wilkinson MC - Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force
  • Tom Wintringham - soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist
  • Major-General A. E. Younger - soldier

    • Medicine

  • Richard Battle - plastic surgeon
  • Roger Carpenter - neurophysiologist
  • Major-General Joseph Crowdy - Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Michael Fordham - psychiatrist
  • Douglas Gairdner, paediatrician
  • Thomas Girdlestone - physician and writer
  • John Grange - immunologist
  • William Henry Kelson, physician, President of the Hunterian Society
  • William Rushton FRS - physiologist
  • Thomas Stuttaford - doctor and politician
  • Hugh Christian Watkins - cardiologist
  • Anthony Yates - rheumatologist

    • Nobel Prize-winner

  • Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin - Nobel Prize for Medicine, President of the Royal Society, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

    • Poets

  • W. H. Auden - poet
  • John Henry Colls, 18th century poet
  • Andrew Jefford - poet and wine writer
  • Michael Laskey - poet
  • John Pudney - poet and novelist
  • Sir Stephen Spender - poet

    • Novelists

  • John Lanchester - novelist
  • William Osborne - novelist, screenwriter, film producer
  • Sabin Willett - novelist

    • Journalists

  • Cedric Belfrage - journalist and author, spy
  • Mark Brayne, BBC foreign correspondent and psychotherapist
  • Rupert Hamer (journalist) - killed in Afghanistan
  • Alastair Hetherington - journalist, editor of The Guardian
  • Paddy O'Connell - journalist and main presenter of BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House
  • Edmund Rogers - journalist
  • Philip Pembroke Stephens - journalist
  • Sir John Tusa - BBC journalist

    • Sport

  • Giles Baring - cricketer
  • Glyn Barnett - rifleman, Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2006
  • Tom Bourdillon - mountaineer
  • Gawain Briars - British No. 1 squash player
  • 11th Earl of Northesk - Olympic medallist (skeleton, 1928)
  • Andrew Corran - cricketer
  • Peter Croft, cricketer and Olympic field hockey player
  • Matthew Dickinson - mountaineer and adventurer
  • Dennis Eagan - field hockey player, bronze medallist in the 1952 Summer Olympics
  • Natasha Firman - Formula Woman racing driver
  • Ralph Firman - Formula One racing driver
  • Richard Leman - hockey player and Olympic gold medallist
  • Peter Lloyd - mountaineer
  • Andy Mulligan - captain of Ireland and the British and Irish Lions Rugby XV
  • Ben Pienaar - rugby union player and Junior National Champion at judo
  • Pat Symonds - Formula One racing
  • Nick Youngs - England rugby union footballer
  • Ben Youngs - England Rugby Team, British Lion and member of Leicester Tigers and Heineken Cup medal winner
  • Tom Youngs - England Rugby Team, British Lion
  • Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - mountaineer

    • Business

  • John L. Marden - Chairman of Wheelock and Marden Co. Ltd
  • Trevor Yang - Chairman, Strawberry Cosmetics Holdings Ltd; Non-Executive Director, Jebsen Group

    • In fiction

    Among fictional OGs, John Mortimer's television barrister Rumpole sent his son Nick to the school during the 1970s.

    Notable governors of the school

  • A. C. Benson
  • Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood
  • Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet
  • Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark
  • Sir Angus Stirling
  • David Cairns, 5th Earl Cairns
  • Anthony Duckworth-Chad

    • References

    List of Old Greshamians Wikipedia
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