Old Malvernians are alumni of Malvern College, an independent day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire, England that was founded in 1865. Originally a school for boys aged 9 to 18, it merged in 1992 with a private boys primary school and an independent school for girls to become coeducational for pupils aged 3 to 18.
Many alumni have gained recognition in such fields as the military, politics, business, science, culture and sport. Among the most famous are spymaster James Jesus Angleton, former head of the CIA's counter-intelligence; Aleister Crowley, the controversial but influential occultist; actor Denholm Elliott, sportsman R. E. Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football; and novelist C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. Other well-known personalities include businessman Baron MacLaurin, a former Chairman of Tesco and Vodafone; Jeremy Paxman, journalist, author, and BBC presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge; and Baron Weatherill, the former Speaker of the British House of Commons. Old Malvernians who have become heads of state or government include the eponymously titled Viscount Malvern and Najib Tun Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2009. The former was the British Commonwealth's longest serving Prime Minister by the time he left office. Old Malvernian Nobel Prize winners include Francis William Aston, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and James Meade, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1977.
Lascelles Abercrombie, (1881–1938), poet, journalist, critic
Diran Adebayo, novelist, critic
Brian Aherne, actor
John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley
James Jesus Angleton, spymaster. Source of inspiration for the character Edward Wilson in the film The Good Shepherd.
Nicholas Argenti, philatelist.
Michael Arlen, author, playwright
Francis William Aston, chemist and physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for work on mass spectrometry.
Frederick Eden, 6th Baron Auckland
Nick Baam, author, Malvern.
Ralph Alger Bagnold, geo-morphologist, pioneering desert explorer, founder & commander of the LRDG
Charles Bambridge (1858–1935), England international footballer and captain
Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes, British Indian administrator
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg, First Sea Lord, Governor of Gibraltar
Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
Humphry Berkeley, politician, humourist
Walter Bromley-Davenport, politician
Sir Stephen Brown, judge
Vice Admiral Sir Peter Buchanan, naval officer
Tej Bunnag, eminent Thai diplomat, politician
Cuthbert Burnup, England footballer, cricketer
Claude Burton, cricketer
Philip Bushill-Matthews, politician
Henry Montgomery Campbell, bishop
Benedict Carpenter, sculptor
Colonel Duncan Carter-Campbell of Possil
George Chesterton, cricketer
David Chipp, journalist, former chief editor of Reuters and the Press Association
Prof Geoffrey Duncan Chisholm FRSE, surgeon and urologist
Peter Churchill, intelligence officer in SOE F Section (1940−1945)
Horatio Clare, writer
Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda, UK representative to the U.N. Trusteeship Council and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Overseas Development.
Aleister Crowley, occultist
Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling, flying ace in the Battle of Britain
Arthur Day, cricketer.
Samuel Day, cricketer, England international footballer
James Delingpole, journalist
Sir Edward Brandis Denham, colonial governor
Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet
K.S Digvijaysinhji, (1895–1966) Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar
Monty Don, BBC television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture.
Sandy Duncan, athlete, general secretary of the British Olympic Association (1949-1975)
Ricardo Ellcock, cricketer
Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet, shipping magnate, natural historian and philanthropist
Denholm Elliott, actor
Lloyd Embley, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Trinity Mirror group
William Evans, cricketer
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, international business editor of the Daily Telegraph and author of The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Fielden, Captain of The King's Flight and of The Queen's Flight
Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 1st Baronet of Banbury, politician, colonial governor
Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, barrister, judge
Charles Fletcher-Cooke, politician
Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland
"Fostershire", the Foster brothers who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club:
Basil Foster, Geoffrey Foster, Harry Foster, Maurice Foster, Neville Foster, Reginald "Tip" Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football, and Wilfrid "Bill" Foster
Sir Murray Fox, surveyor, businessman, liveryman, Lord Mayor of London in 1974/75
Major General John F. C. Fuller, military historian, strategist, occultist
Sir Anthony Hastings George, British Consul-General in Shanghai and Boston
Sir Peter Gibson, judge
Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill (1911–1963), doctor, naturalist and Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore
Penrhyn Grant Jones, CBE, Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China
Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), Blackburn Rovers and England international footballer
William Mitchell Grundy, English headmaster
Sir William Henry Hadow, English educationist, musicologist
St. John Emile Clavering Hankin, Edwardian playwright
Prince Christian of Hanover
Prince Ernst August of Hanover
Air Chief Marshal Sir James Donald Innes Hardman, flying ace, CAF (RAAF)
Fred Hargreaves, England footballer
General Sir Charles Henry Pepys Harington, Deputy Chief of the General Staff
Oliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh (1893–1968), diplomat
Sir Peter Hilton WWII veteran
Prince Alexander of Hohenzollern
Errol Holmes, England cricketer
Sir Peter Holmes, businessman, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell
Christmas Humphreys, lawyer, Buddhist author
Arnold Jackson, athlete (1500m gold medallist, 1912 Summer Olympics); youngest ever British Army Brigadier-General, awarded DSO & Three Bars; barrister.
Ivan Johnson, cricketer and journalist
Shapur Kharegat journalist, editor and Asia Director of The Economist
Donald Knight, England international cricketer
Rory Laing, contestant on The Apprentice
Sir Paul Ogden Lawrence, judge
Geoffrey Legge, England cricketer
Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon shipping, motor racing
C. S. Lewis, novelist, scholar, Christian apologist. Author of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Warren Lewis (brother of C.S.Lewis), historian
Robert Foljambe, 4th Earl of Liverpool
Lancelot Edward Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale
HSH Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein, second in the line of succession to the Liechtensteiner throne and third in the Jacobite line of succession to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth, businessman, sports administrator
Neil MacLaurin, cricketer, son of the above
Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia and of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, once described as the longest serving Prime Minister in British Commonwealth history.
Frank Mann, England cricket captain
Ronald Mansbridge, publisher, author
James Meade, economist, 1977 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Brian Mears, chairman of Chelsea FC
Joe Mears, chairman of the Football Association
General Sir John Mogg, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR)
Air Chief Marshal Hrushikesh Moolgavkar, 9th Chief of Staff of the Indian Air Force
Raymond Mortimer, writer, critic, literacy editor
Eric Lawrence Moxey, recipient of the George Cross
Kenneth Muir, recipient of the Victoria Cross
Jonathan Myles-Lea, artist (landscape painter)
Najib Tun Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia
David Nash, cricketer
Sir Thomas Willans Nussey, 1st Baronet, barrister, politician
Hubert Parker, Australian politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
Norman Partridge, cricketer
Giles Paxman, diplomat, HM Ambassador to Spain.
Jeremy Paxman, journalist, broadcaster, author, Giles's brother
Thelwell Pike (1866–1957), England footballer
James Tait Plowden-Wardlaw, clergyman
Mark Pougatch, sports presenter
Sir Ghillean Prance, botanist
Ahmed Rashid, Pakistani journalist, author
Christoper Reeves, banker
Charles Henry Ridsdale, Anglican Bishop
Sir Howard Robertson, architect
Alan S C Ross, linguist and ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage.
Irwin Peter Russell, poet, translator, critic
Dominic Sandbrook, historian, author and journalist
Wilfrid Guy Sanderson, clergyman
Dennis Sciama (SH, 39-44), astrophysicist, author of The Unity of the Universe (1959)
Major General Logan Scott-Bowden
Oliver Selfridge, computer scientist
Sir Tom Shebbeare, Director of Charities to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
Roger Short, diplomat
George Simpson-Hayward, England cricketer
Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, artist
Christopher Evelyn Storrs, clergyman
Alfred Stratford (1853–1914), England footballer and three times FA Cup winner with Wanderers F.C.
I. M. B. Stuart (1902–1969), Ireland rugby footballer, schoolmaster, and author
Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Stewart Symes, colonial governor
Eddy Temple-Morris, DJ, record producer, TV presenter
Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, politician
Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet, politician
Meredith Thring, inventor and writer on energy conservation
Roger Tolchard, England cricketer
Thomas Trotter, organist
Orville Turnquest, Bahamian politician
James Vivian, organist and Director of Music of Temple Church
Neville Wadia, Bombay industrialist and philanthropist
Fulke Walwyn (1910–1991), racehorse jockey and trainer
Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, politician, Speaker of the British House of Commons
Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, historian
John Baker White, politician, political writer, secret agent
Maurice Wilks (1904–1963), motor and aeronautical engineer, businessman. Conceived and developed the Land Rover.
Cecil Williamson, neopagan Witch
Robert Wilson, Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons
Charles Wittenoom, Australian politician
Lieutenant-Colonel John Woodhouse, pioneer of the SAS's selection systems
David Younger, recipient of the Victoria Cross
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