List of Old Marlburians

Academia

Peter Lamarque, philosopher

John Raven, classical scholar and botanist

Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury

Arts

Anthony Blunt, art historian and communist spy

Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, art teacher

Lauren Child, writer and illustrator

Claude Ferrier, architect

Susannah Fiennes, artist

Keith Henderson, artist

William Morris, artist and writer

Charles Saumarez Smith, art historian, former Director of the National Gallery

Graham Shepard, cartoonist and illustrator

Ellis Waterhouse, art historian

Literature

E.F. Benson, novelist

John Betjeman, poet

Humphrey Carpenter, biographer and broadcaster

Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer

J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet and armaments manufacturer

Anthony Hope, writer

Dick King-Smith, writer

Louis MacNeice, poet

John Beverley Nichols, writer

David Nobbs, comedy writer (Reginald Perrin)

Redmond O'Hanlon, travel writer

Ben Pimlott, biographer

James Runcie, novelist and television producer

Siegfried Sassoon, poet

Charles Sorley, poet

Bernard Spencer, poet

Adam Thorpe, poet, novelist and playwright

R.J. Yeatman, co-author of 1066 and All That

Music

Bo Bruce, singer-songwriter

Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter

Nick Drake, singer-songwriter

Anthony Inglis, conductor

Crispian Steele-Perkins, classical trumpeter

Theatre & cinema

Robert Addie, actor

Stephen Barry, director and administrator

Paul Brooke, actor

Guy du Maurier, dramatist and soldier

Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor

Harry Brodribb Irving, actor

Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, actor and dramatist

Damian Jones, producer

James Robertson Justice, actor

James Mason, actor

Simon McBurney, actor, writer and director

Michael Pennington, actor and director

Clive Robertson, actor

William Desmond Taylor, director

Ernest Thesiger, actor

Nicholas Woodeson, actor

Angus Wright, actor

Politics

Sally Bercow, wife of Speaker John Bercow

Tim Boswell, MP for Daventry

Stephen Bradley, former British Consul-General to Hong Kong

Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, Home Secretary

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, Cabinet minister

Rab Butler, statesman

Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron

Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch

Otis Ferry, hunt supporter and political activist, son of singer Bryan Ferry

Alastair Goodlad, former MP for Eddisbury and High Commissioner to Australia

Daniel Hannan, MEP for the South East of England

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British liberal politician and sociologist. One of the 'Fathers of Liberalism'

William Jowitt, Lord Chancellor

Peter Kirk, politician, first leader of the British delegation to the European Parliament

Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

John Maples, MP for Stratford-upon-Avon

Frances Osborne, wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne

John Parker, MP for Romford

Maurice Petherick, MP for Penryn & Falmouth

Mark Reckless, MP for Rochester and Strood.

Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, politician

Hallam Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, statesman

Dennis Forwood Vosper, MP for Runcorn

Harriett Baldwin, MP for West Worcestershire

Sciences & engineering

C. V. Boys, experimental physicist

Francis Camps, pathologist

George Stuart Carter, zoologist

Henry Hugh Clutton, surgeon

Sir Charles Galton Darwin, physicist

John Dolphin CBE, inventor and engineer

Sir Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive engineer

Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer

Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist

David Morley, much-awarded child health pioneer

Alex Moulton, engineer and inventor of the Moulton Bicycle

Philip Sheppard, geneticist and lepidopterist

Percy Sladen, marine zoologist

Edward Thompson, steam locomotive engineer

E. F. Warburg, botanist

John Zachary Young, physiologist

Sport

Robert Barker, played for England in the first international football match

Francis Chichester, round the world yachtsman

Jason Dunford, swimmer

Arthur Sumner Gibson, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871

Jamie Gibson, rugby union player

Alfred St. George Hamersley, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain

John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest

Edward Kewley, nineteenth century England Rugby captain

Robert Kingsford, England international footballer and FA Cup winner

Iain MacDonald-Smith, Olympic sailor, Gold medal Mexico 1968)

Jake Meyer, mountaineer

Sydney Morse rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875

Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of The Princess Royal

Edward Shaw, cricketer

Reggie Spooner, cricketer

Allan Steel, cricketer

Mark Tomlinson, England International polo player

Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer

Religion

Cyril Alington, headmaster, and Dean of Durham

Roy Henry Bowyer-Yin Canon and Chaplain of S Thomas College Mt Lavinia

Alfred Blunt, Bishop of Bradford 1931-1955

Frederick Nicholas Charrington, social reformer and founder of the Tower Hamlets Mission

Frederick Copleston, priest and philosopher

Nigel Cornwall, Bishop of Borneo 1949–1962

Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury

Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester

James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle

Edward Patey, Dean of Liverpool

John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich

Mark Santer, Bishop of Birmingham 1987-2002

Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, known as Dick Sheppard, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and founder of the Peace Pledge Union

Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London

Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield 1937–1953

Journalism

Rawdon Christie, English-born New Zealand television presenter

Simon Fanshawe, writer and broadcaster

Frank Gardner, BBC News Security Correspondent

Richard Jebb, journalist

Derrick Somerset Macnutt, crossword compiler under the pseudonym Ximenes

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, BBC cricket correspondent

James Mates, ITN newscaster

Norris and Ross McWhirter, journalists, authors, and political activists

Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of the Sun

Edmund Penning-Rowsell, wine writer

Julian Pettifer, ITV & BBC journalist

Hugh Pym, ITN and BBC News journalist

Sir Mark Tully, BBC India correspondent and author

T.C. Worsley, Writer, editor and television critic

Armed forces

Nigel Anderson, soldier and local politician

Lionel Ashfield, DFC, World War I flying ace KIA

Phillip Scott Burge, MC, MM, World War I flying ace KIA

Edward Bradford, soldier and Metropolitan Police Commissioner

Richard Corfield, officer in charge of the Somaliland Camel Constabulary.

Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff and Governor of Windsor Castle

John 'Hoppy' Hopgood', Pilot in 617 Squadron and killed on the Dambusters raid on 16 May 1943.

John Kiszely, Lieutenant General and Director of the Defence Academy

Ian Macfadyen, RAF officer and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 2000–2005

Charles MacGregor, General and head of intelligence for the British Indian Army

Nevil Macready, General and Metropolitan Police Commissioner

Patrick Palmer, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe and Governor of Windsor Castle

John Wilfred Stanier, Field Marshal

Hugh Stockwell, General, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1960 to 1964

Henry Hughes Wilson, Field Marshal

Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

VC

Edward Kinder Bradbury VC

Frederic Brooks Dugdale VC

Charles Calveley Foss VC

Reginald Clare Hart VC

Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De Montmorency VC

Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies VC

Lionel Ernest Queripel VC

John Neil Randle VC

Nowell Salmon VC

Edward Talbot Thackeray VC

Eric Charles Twelves Wilson VC

Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC

Sidney Clayton Woodroffe VC

GC

Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls GC

Commerce & industry

Michael Clapham, industrialist (ICI)

Ernest Debenham, department store owner

Ambrose Heal, retailer

Ian and Kevin Maxwell, former bankrupts

Robert Noel, businessman, chief executive of Land Securities Group plc

Antony Root, television executive

Sir Michael Turner, General Manager (Chairman) of HSBC 1953 to 1962.

Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood, army officer and international ambassador for the Wedgwood Group.

Simon Woodroffe, founder of the Yo Sushi restaurant chain

The Royal Family and the Court

HRH Princess Eugenie of York, daughter of HRH The Duke of York

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge (née Catherine Middleton), wife of HRH The Duke of Cambridge

Robin Janvrin, courtier

Alan Lascelles, courtier

The Law

Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, Law Lord

John Brightman, Baron Brightman, Law Lord

Thomas William Cain, First Deemster of the Isle of Man

Rayner Goddard, Lord Chief Justice

Sir Philip Margetson, Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

William Moore, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

T. C. Kingsmill Moore, Irish judge, politician and author

Miscellaneous

Andrew Boggis, Master in College at Eton and chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, 2006

Frederic Bonney, anthropologist and photographer

Sir Grahame Clark, archaeologist

Henry Everard, railway executive and acting President of Rhodesia

Charles Fisher, Headmaster, Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Australia

Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale, promoter of the interests of blind people

Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary and social reformer

Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, oncologist and IRA victim

Amanda Harlech, model and 'muse' to John Galliano

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, anthropologist

Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, Founding President of Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia

Edward John Hugh Tollemache, private firm banker

David Treffry, colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall

Prince Waranonthawat, Thai prince, grandson of King Chulalongkorn

Gordon Welchman, code-breaker

Jack Whitehall, comedian, television writer/producer and actor