List of Old Greshamians

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