List of Old Rugbeians

Academia

L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne

Donald Beves (1896–1961), English modern linguist

R. G. Collingwood, English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford

Richard Congreve (1818–1899), English philosopher

Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer, author of Fowler's Modern English Usage

R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher

Fenton John Anthony Hort, English theologian

F. L. Lucas, Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, scholar, critic and writer

Edward Ellis Morris, Educationist, second Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School (1875–83), and miscellaneous writer

Edward Samuel Morris (1940-2016), art historian

Luke Pebody, British mathematician and child prodigy

Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford)

Henry John Stephen Smith, Irish mathematician

Jon Stallworthy, Professor of English at the University of Oxford

Sir Percy Sykes soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar

Richard Henry Tawney, one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian

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

Wynne Godley, economist

The Armed Forces

Field Marshal Sir Archibald James Cassels GCB, KBE, DSO, former Chief of the General Staff & Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine

Admiral Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, fought during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver GBE, KCB, DSO & Two Bars, British officer during the Second World War

Admiral Sir Guy Grantham GCB CBE DSO, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet; Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and Governor of Malta

General Arthur Clifton GCB, general who was a regimental commander during the Napoleonic Wars, and took over command of the Union Brigade during the Battle of Waterloo

General Sir Ivor Maxse KCB, CVO, DSO, General Officer Commanding XVIII Corps during World War One; renown for his innovative and effective training methods

General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, General Officer Commanding, British Troops in Egypt during World War Two

General Sir George Giffard GCB DSO, Commander-in-Chief, 11th Army Group in World War Two

General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt KCB, CMG, DSO, commanded 57th Brigade and then 38th (Welsh) Division during World War One and later was appointed Governor of Bermuda

General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn KCB, DSO, MC, General Officer Commanding, 5th Infantry Division during the retreat to Dunkirk & later Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces

General John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort, British General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; also a Whig politician

General Sir Richard Wakefield Goodbody GCB, KBE, DSO, Commander-in-Chief, Northern Command and Adjutant-General to the Forces

General Sir Horatio Shirley KCB, fought in the Crimean War

Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder KBE CB, UK Military Representative to NATO

Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercromby KB, General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who was Commander-in-Chief, Ireland; he was also MP for Clackmannanshire, and Governor of Trinidad

Lieutenant General William Augustus Johnson, fought as a junior officer in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Lieutenant General Arthur Ernest Percival CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, MC, OStJ, DL, the General Officer Commanding, Malaya during World War Two who surrendered Singapore to the Imperial Japanese Army

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Royds Pownall KCB, KBE, DSO & Bar, former Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff & Chief of Staff for the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France

Lieutenant General Henry Andrew Sarel CB fought in the Indian Mutiny and Second Opium War; later Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

Lieutenant General Jonathan Peel, general and politician

Lieutenant General Henry Hope Crealock CB CMG, commanded a division in the Anglo-Zulu War

Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Pelly KCSI, East India Company army officer and Conservative MP

Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot GCB, Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army and Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army

Lieutenant General Sir Robin Carnegie KCB, OBE, a former Military Secretary

Lieutenant General Timothy Radford CB DSO OBE, current Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

Major-General Sir George Forestier-Walker KCB, commanded 21st Division and 27th Division on the Western Front and as part of the British Salonika Army during World War One

Major-General William Donovan Stamer CB, CBE, DSO, MC, commanded 161st Infantry Brigade, Sudan Defence Force and 131st Infantry Brigade during World War Two

Major-General Sir Charles Sim Bremridge Parsons KCMG CB, Commander of the British Troops in Canada

Major-General Sir Harcourt Mortimer Bengough KCB, fought in the Crimean War, Anglo-Zulu War and Third Anglo-Burmese War

Major-General Sir William Eyre KCB, commanded 3rd Brigade and later 3rd Division in the Crimean War; later Commander-in-Chief, North America

Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton KBE CB DSO, instrumental in the development of the tank

Major-General Philip de Fonblanque DSO, commanded the Lines of Communication for the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France

Major-General Geoffrey Bruce CB, DSO, MC, Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Indian Army; also a member of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition and 1924 British Mount Everest expedition

Major-General Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin CB, MC, Divisional Commander in Persia, Iraq, Madagascar and Italy during World War Two

Major-General Sir William Godwin Michelmore KBE, CB, DSO, MC, TD, commanded Devon and Cornwall County Division, 77th Infantry Division and 45th Holding Division during World War Two; later Lord Mayor of Exeter

Major-General Victor Campbell CB DSO OBE

Air Vice Marshal Augustus Henry Orlebar CBE AFC & Bar, British Army and Royal Air Force officer who served in both world wars

Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes KCIE CB CMG, soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output

Brigadier-General John Tyson Wigan CB, CMG, DSO, commanded 12th Cavalry Brigade. After the war he was the MP for Abingdon, 1918-1921

Brigadier-General George MacLeay Macarthur-Onslow CMG, DSO, commanded 5th Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Army during World War I

Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb GBE CB FRS, Chief Engineer Ports Construction to the British Army in France and Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty

Brigadier Philip Bowden-Smith CBE, Commander of 125th Infantry Brigade which later became 10th Armoured Brigade; he also represented Great Britain at the 1924 Olympic Games

Brigadier Raymond Ladais Sandover DSO ED, Commander 2/11th Battalion (Australia) and 6th Australian Infantry Brigade

Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet VC, KCB, awarded the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny

Colonel Osmond Barnes, Chief Herald of the Indian Empire

Colonel Lionel Beaumont-Thomas MC MP, British Army officer during both World Wars and Conservative Member of Parliament for Birmingham King's Norton

Colonel James Duff Army Officer who fought in the Crimean War and later became a Conservative MP

Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn, commander of the 2nd (Central African) Battalion, King's African Rifles

Colonel Robin Evelegh, British Army officer who authored 'Peace-Keeping in a Democratic Society'

William Proby, Lord Proby, a British Royal Navy officer and Whig politician

Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Bushell VC DSO, won the Victoria Cross and Distinguished Service Order during World War One

Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading GCMG CBE MC TD PC QC, Liberal then Conservative politician and barrister who fought in World War One

Lieutenant-Colonel Kanwar Shumshere Singh, doctor in the Indian Medical Service

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander "Alec" Ogilvie CBE, early aviation pioneer

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, British officer during the First World War

Lieutenant Commander Robert Selby Armitage GC GM, won both the George Cross and George Medal for his bomb disposal work during the Second World War

Lieutenant Commander John Bryan Peter Duppa-Miller GC, Royal Navy officer who was awarded the George Cross for bomb disposal work during the Blitz

Major Arthur Willan Keen MC, British World War I flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories

William Hodson, commander during the 1857 Indian mutiny and founder of Hodson's Horse

Major Bruce Shand, MC, officer in the British Army and father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall

Squadron Leader William Spurrett Fielding-Johnson MC and Bar, DFC, army officer in World War One before joining the RFC and RAF in both World Wars

Squadron Leader Hedley Fowler MC, RAF officer who escaped from Colditz

Captain John Norwood VC won the Victoria Cross during World War One

Captain Charles Roger Lupton DSC*, British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories

Captain Kenneth Barbour Montgomery MC, British World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories

Lieutenant Frank Alexander de Pass VC, the first Jew and the first officer of the Indian Army to receive the Victoria Cross during World War One

Lieutenant Alfred Gordon Clark VC, won the Victoria Cross during World War One

Lieutenant Arthur Conolly, British Officer in 6th Bengal Native Light Cavalry. Coined the phrase 'The Great Game'

Lieutenant Donald Hankey, wrote two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in World War I both titled 'A Student in Arms'

Sir James Arnold Stacey Cleminson, KBE, MC

Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, British Army officer who was part of Henry Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886-89

Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor British Army Officer who fought in the Xhosa Wars

Aviation

Christopher Orlebar, British Concorde pilot, aviation lecturer and writer

John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator

Building, Engineering and Architecture

Sir Charles Brett, architectural historian

Will Butler-Adams, managing director of Brompton Bicycle Limited

William Grierson, civil engineer

David Ogle, industrial designer and car designer

Thomas Henry Poole, architect of numerous churches and schools in New York City

Reid Railton, automotive engineer and designer of land and water speed record vehicles

Sir Harry Ricardo, designer of the internal combustion engine and patentee of the two-stroke engine

Business

Richard Jewson, businessman and Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk

Clive Schlee, businessman, CEO of Pret a Manger

Civil Service

Sir Christopher Bullock KCB CBE, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Air Ministry

Sir Bertram Blakiston Cubitt KCB, civil servant in the War Office

Sir George Coldstream KCB KCVO QC, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office

Sir Arthur Franks KCMG, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

Sir Ernest Gowers GCB GBE, civil servant and author of The Complete Plain Words

John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken GCB, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India 1883-1909

Sir Godfrey Lushington, GCMG, KCB, Permanent Under-Secretary of the Home Office 1886-1895; championed prison reform

Sir Nicholas Montagu KCB, Chairman of H.M. Inland Revenue, 1997–2004

Colonial Service and Imperial Administration

Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot KCSI, colonial administrator and writer

Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, the 25th Governor of Hong Kong

Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines CSI, member of the Indian Civil Service

Sir Henry Conway Belfield KCMG JP, Resident of Negeri Sembilan; Resident of Selangor; British Resident of Perak and finally Governor of the British East Africa Protectorate

Maurice Collis colonial administrator in Burma; later a writer on South-East Asia

Henry Valentine Conolly, member of the Indian Civil Service

The Honourable Sir Ashley Eden KCSI CIE, Chief Commissioner of British Crown Colony of Burma and Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal

Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth KCSI CB, Administrator of the British Raj

Patrick William Forbes, Commander of the British South Africa Police, who invaded Matabeland in the First Matabele War; later Magistrate of Mashonaland 1893-1894; Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia 1895-1897

Sir Henry Paul Harvey KCMG, Egyptian Financial Advisor from 1907-1912 and 1919-1920

Sir Frederick James Halliday KCB, first Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal

Stephen Rumbold Lushington, Governor of Madras 1827-1832 and Tory politician

Leonard Fielding Nalder colonial administrator who served as Governor of Fung Province 1927-1930 and Mongalla province 1930-1936 in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

James Alexander Richey CIE, educational administrator in South Africa and India

Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, GCSI, CIE, PC, FRS, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal 1874-1877; Governor of Bombay 1877-1880 and also an MP

Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope KCSI CIE, civil servant of the Government of India, including Public Works

Sir George Chardin Denton, Governor of Gambia

Diplomatic Service

Sir Charles Bagot GCB, MP, diplomat and administrator

Sir Thomas Bromley KCMG, Ambassador to Somalia, Syria, Algeria & Ethiopia

Sir Julian Bullard GCMG, Ambassador to West Germany

Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock GCB GCMG GCVO KCIE, Ambassador to Spain; to Russia and finally Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs

Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle, Consul to the Canton of Geneva

Baron Charles de Chassiron, Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, 2001–06

Sir Leycester Coltman, Ambassador to Cuba from 1991–1994 and to Colombia 1994-1998; author of The Real Fidel Castro

Sir John Coulson KCMG, Ambassador to Sweden and Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association

Sir Moore Crosthwaite KCMG, Ambassador to Lebanon and to Sweden

Sir Patrick Henry Dean GCMG, Permanent Representative to the UN 1960-1964; Ambassador to the United States 1965-1969 and also Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee

Sir Henry Drummond-Wolff GCB GCMG PC, High Commissioner to Egypt; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Teheran; and Ambassador to Spain; also a Conservative Politician

Sir Ewen Fergusson GCMG GCVO, Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary 1975-1978; Ambassador to South Africa 1982-1984 and to France 1987-1992

Sir Anthony Figgis, KCVO CMG, Ambassador to Austria 1996-2000; Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 2001-2008 and the current Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod

Sir William Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet GCB GCMG GCVO PC, Ambassador to Serbia, to Denmark, to Austria-Hungary and to Germany; later Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State

Robert Maurice Alers Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey KCMG KCVO, Ambassador to Sweden 1954-1960

Sir James Hudson GCB, Ambassador to Turin

Augustus Henry Mounsey, Minister Resident and Consul General to Colombia

Sir Owen St Clair O'Malley KCMG Minister to Hungary 1939-1941; British ambassador to the Polish government in exile during World War II; and Ambassador to Portugal 1945-1957

Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson GCMG, Minister to Bulgaria 1936-1938; Ambassador to Iraq 1938-1939; to Spain 1939-1940; to Turkey 1944-1946 and to Russia 1946-1949

Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts GCMG GCVO, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954-1957; Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council 1957-1960; Ambassador to the USSR 1960-1962; to West Germany 1963-1968

Ian Samuel CMG CVO, diplomat and RAF officer during World War Two

Sir William Seeds KCMG, Ambassador to Brazil 1930-1935; and Ambassador to Russia 1939-1940

Sir Alan Bedford Urwick, KCVO, CMG, Ambassador to Jordan 1979-1984; to Egypt 1985-1987; British High Commissioner to Canada 1987-1989 and Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons 1989-1995

Sir Charles Richard Vaughan, GCH, PC, Minister to Switzerland 1823-1825 and Minister to the United States 1825-1835

Sir Peter Wilkinson, Ambassador to Vietnam in 1966-1967; also a SOE agent during World War Two

Sir Michael Sanigear Williams, KCMG, Ambassador to Guatemala 1962–1963; and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See 1965–1970

Ecclesiastics

Robert Barbour, lecturer in theology, moderator of the church of Scotland, and holder of the Military Cross

George Bradley, Dean of Westminster

Charles Boyd, Archdeacon of Colombo

Godwin Birchenough, Dean of Ripon Cathedral

John Bickersteth KCVO, Bishop of Bath and Wells and Clerk of the Closet

Geoffrey Clayton, Archdeacon of Chesterfield; Bishop of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town

Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of Rochester and Bishop of St Albans.

George Chase MC, Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge and Bishop of Ripon

Reverend William Lucas Collins

James Cotton, Dean of Bangor

Francis Cramer-Roberts, Bishop of Nassau and Archdeacon of Blackburn

Reverend Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet

Edwin Dodgson

Alan Campbell Don KCVO, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons 1936-1946 and Dean of Westminster 1946-1959

Nowell Twopeny, Archdeacon of Flinders

Edward Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland and Archdeacon of Bermuda

Launcelot Fleming, Bishop of Portsmouth and Bishop of Norwich

Rev. Thomas Valpy French, first Bishop of Lahore

Archibald Ronald Gordon, Bishop of Portsmouth, Bishop at Lambeth and Bishop to the Forces

Rupert Hoare, Dean of Liverpool and Bishop of Dudley

Percy Mark Herbert KCVO, the first Bishop of Blackburn; Bishop of Norwich and Clerk of the Closet

Hugh Hornby, Bishop of Hulme

Phipps Hornby, Archdeacon of Lancaster

Rev Francis Jayne, Bishop of Chester and academic

Thomas Jex-Blake, Dean of Wells also a teacher and Headmaster of Rugby

Edward Jones, Bishop of Willesden and Bishop of St Albans

Edwin Kempson, Bishop of Warrington

Francis Kilner, Bishop of Richmond

Carey Knyvett, Archdeacon of Northampton and Bishop of Selby

William Lake, Dean of Durham

John Lawton, Archdeacon of Warrington

Edward Legge, Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Oxford

William MacKennal, Archdeacon of Ely

Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Kingston 1970-1978 and Bishop of Birmingham 1977–1987

Frank Okell, Bishop of Stockport and Archdeacon of Macclesfield

Grandage Powell, Archdeacon of Carlisle and Bishop of Penrith

John Purchas, Church of England priest who was prosecuted for ritualist practices

Norman Rathbone, Dean of Hereford

Charles Waldegrave Sandford, Bishop of Gibraltar

Augustus Shears, clergyman who translated part of the Prayer Book into Burmese

Walter Waddington Shirley, churchman and ecclesiastical historian

Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole

Lovelace Stamer, Archdeacon of Stoke and Bishop of Shrewsbury

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, English churchman, and Dean of Westminster

Arthur Stanton Anglo-catholic priest

John Stott, evangelical minister who later was a curate of All Souls, Langham place and a leading figure involved in drafting the Lausanne Covenant

Alfred Swann, Dean and Archdeacon of Hong Kong

Henry Herbert Symonds, Anglican priest who was a driving force behind the creation of National Parks

Frederick Stephen Temple, Dean of Hong Kong and Bishop of Malmesbury

William Temple, Bishop of Manchester 1921–29; Archbishop of York 1929–42 and Archbishop of Canterbury 1942–44; an influential radical thinker, and father of the post-war Welfare State

David Urquhart, Bishop of Birkenhead and the current Bishop of Birmingham

Henry Wace, Dean of Canterbury

Richard Watson, Bishop of Burnley

Edward Were, Bishop of Derby 1889-1909, and Bishop of Stafford 1909-1915

Edward Winnington-Ingram, Archdeacon of Hereford

The Law

Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, judge and politician. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999.

Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen QC, PC, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Horace Davey, Baron Davey PC, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead KT PC, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Sir Edward Marshall-Hall KC, English barrister and orator

Sir Michael Kerry KCB, QC, former HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor

Robert Barton, Irish lawyer and statesman who worked on the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Major Sir Thomas Hetherington KCB, CBE, QC, TD , barrister and first head of the Crown Prosecution Service

Edmund Yorke, Legal scholar and barrister

Sir Robert Akenhead, High Court Judge and Head of the Technology and Construction Court

Wilfred Baugh Allen, judge

Sir Lewis Cave, judge

Sir George Farwell, Lord Justice of Appeal

Sir James Edmund Sandford Fawcett, DSC QC, barrister and member of the European Commission for Human Rights

Alfred Gordon Clark, judge

Charles Sprengel Greaves

Philip Guedalla, barrister

Sir Alfred van Waterschoodt Lucie-Smith, colonial judge who became Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago

Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, Lord Chancellor 1872-1874 & 1880-1885; Attorney General for England and Wales 1863-1866; and Solicitor General for England and Wales 1861-1863

Sir Lawrence Peel PC, Advocate-General of Bengal and Chief Justice of Bengal

Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle, county court judge and liberal party politician

Thomas Bateman Napier county court judge and politician

Sir Leslie Frederic Scott, KC, Lord Justice of Appeal and Liberal MP

William Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens KBE, PC, KC, Chief Justice of India

Roger John Laugharne Thomas, Baron Thomas of Cwmgiedd Kt PC, President of the Queen's Bench Division and the current Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Jonathan David Chattyn Turner, barrister specialising in intellectual property and competition law

Dudley Ward, New Zealand judge and politician

Literature

Matthew Arnold, Victorian poet and critic (son of Headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold)

Rupert Brooke, English poet

Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Richard Doyle, English author

Dominic Hibberd, English critic and biographer

Anthony Horowitz, English writer

Edmund George Valpy Knox, editor of Punch

Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet

Wyndham Lewis, British painter and author

John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator

Arthur Ransome, British children's author

Mario Reading, author

Sir Salman Rushdie, author and essayist, Booker Prize winner for Midnight's Children. Said of his time: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too."

J.K. Stanford, English author

Francis Stuart, IRA member, Nazi collaborator and Irish novelist.

Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and author of Tom Brown's School Days

Major Geoffrey Cecil Gilbert McNeill-Moss British army officer and novelist

Media, Entertainment and the Arts

Adnan Sami, Singer, Concert Pianist, Actor and Composer

Charles Acton, music critic at The Irish Times

Faris Badwan, aka Faris Rotter, vocalist from band The Horrors

Charlie Charters, Author, rugby union official, sports executive and journalist

Tom Cowan/Furse, Bassist from band The Horrors

Freddie Cowan, Guitarist from band The Vaccines

David Croft, (born David Sharland) Television writer, producer and director

David Haig, English actor and writer

Arthur fforde, former BBC Chairman

Isabel Fay, comedy actress and writer

Dan Haigh, Bassist in the rock band Fightstar

Robert Hardy, English stage and film actor

John Hawkesworth, television producer, who produced the drama Upstairs, Downstairs

Sir Charles Hawtrey, Victorian era stage actor

Francesca Hunt, actress

Marmaduke Hussey, former BBC Chairman

Hugh Johnson, British wine writer

Pete Kember, Popular musician

John Kentish, English operatic tenor

Wyndham Lewis, British painter and author

Richard Hey Lloyd, British organist and composer

William Charles Macready, English stage actor

Robin Milford, British musician

Sydney Nicholson, British musician

Anthony Quayle, British actor

Andrew Rawnsley, British political journalist

Alex Westaway, Guitarist and singer in the rock band Fightstar

A. N. Wilson, English writer and newspaper columnist

Medicine and Science

William Bateson, English geneticist

Miles Joseph Berkeley, English botanist

Humphry Bowen, British botanist and chemist

Dr Peter Brinsden, fertility expert

Abel Chapman, big game hunter and naturalist who started South Africa's first game reserve

Alex Hankey, English theoretical physicist

Walter W. Holland, public health physician

Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, physician and scholar, brother of economist John Maynard Keynes

Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr, zoologist and MD, MRCP, FRCP

David Marr, British psychologist

George Mitchell Seabroke, British astronomer

Nevil Sidgwick, English theoretical chemist

Frederick Courteney Selous, British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in South-East Africa

Donald Michie, British researcher in artificial intelligence who during World War II, worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, to break "Tunny," a German teleprinter cipher

Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet, won the Copley Medal

Politics

Richard Baker Wingfield-Baker, Liberal Party MP

Leonard Behrens Liberal Party Politician

William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick, PC, Tory politician and British Minister to Sardinia

Sir Thomas Birch, 2nd Baronet Whig politician

Sir Noël Vansittart Bowater, 2nd Baronet GBE MC, Lord Mayor of London

Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet Whig politician

Arthur Montagu Brookfield Conservative Politician, diplomat and army officer

Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet, Conservative Politician

Esmond Bulmer, Conservative MP

Marston Clarke Buszard QC Liberal Party MP and barrister

William John Dalzell Burnyeat, Liberal Party politician

Charles Howard, 10th Earl of Carlisle Liberal Unionist politician and army officer

Sir Thomas Cave, 5th Baronet, politician and lawyer

Harold Cawley Liberal Party MP, killed in World War One

Oswald Cawley Liberal Party MP, killed in World War One

Austen Chamberlain, British statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Neville Chamberlain, politician and former Prime Minister

Sir Sydney Chapman, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Handsworth and Chipping Barnet

James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin PC, Conservative MP and First Lord of the Admiralty

Samuel Clowes, Conservative politician

Herbert James Craig CBE Liberal politician

Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet Tory politician

William John Evelyn, Conservative politician

Sir Frederick William Fison, 1st Baronet, Conservative politician

Charles Berkeley, 3rd Baron FitzHardinge, Liberal politician

Tetley Gant, Tasmanian politician and Chancellor University of Tasmania

Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes, Current Deputy Speaker in the House of Lords

Sir Richard Gilpin, 1st Baronet, Conservative Politician and Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army

George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Liberal Unionist politician; served as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1887-1892, First Lord of the Admiralty 1871-1874 and 1895-1900

Captain Alan Graham Conservative politician

Frank Gray, inter-war Liberal politician

The Honourable Ronald Greville, Conservative MP

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen PC Conservative politician

Sir Jeremy James Hanley, KCMG, Conservative MP; Chairman of the Conservative Party 1994–1995 and Minister without portfolio 1994-1995

Sir Reginald Hanson, Conservative politician and Lord Mayor of London

Henry Peirson Harland Unionist politician

William Harrison-Broadley Conservative MP

Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton PC, Canningite Tory and later Whig politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland, also a major Staffordshire landowner, farmer and businessman

Sir Arthur Adlington Haworth, 1st Baronet, Liberal politician

Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson Liberal political advisor and economist

Charles Hendry, British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden

William Holbech Member of Parliament for Banbury

Edward Horsman PC PC(Ire), MP and Chief Secretary for Ireland

Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, Labour Party politician

Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe, Conservative health spokesman in the House of Lords

Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde, Edwardian Liberal Party politician and industrialist

Colonel Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel CB, CMG, TD, DL, JP, Liberal Unionist and later Conservative politician; the third Mayor of Westminster

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Edgar Mayne Keatinge CBE Soldier who was a Conservative politician

Wilfred Byng Kenrick, Lord Mayor of Birmingham and industrialist

Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, Conservative Party politician

William Kingan, Unionist politician

Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston, Irish peer and Victorian Conservative Party politician

Isaac Cowley Lambert Conservative MP and solicitor

Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, Conservative Party politician

Francis Charles Lawley Liberal party politician and journalist

Henry Lefroy, Western Australian politician

Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn Conservative politician

William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton Whig politician

Miles MacInnes Liberal MP and railway director

Sir Charles Tertius Mander, 1st Baronet, four times Mayor of Wolverhampton and an industralist

Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet Liberal MP and industrialist

Angus Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon, Conservative Party politician and father of Conservative Cabinet member Francis Maude

George Melly Liberal MP and shipowner

Arthur Mills Conservative MP

Charles Mills MP and Director of the East India Company

Andrew Mitchell, British Conservative politician and Secretary of State for International Development (from May 2010)

Edmund Morris MP

George Herbert Morrell Conservative MP and lawyer

Thomas Bateman Napier Liberal MP and judge

Sir John Holbrook Osborn Conservative MP

Francis Otter Liberal MP

Sukhumbhand Paribatra, Thai politician, 15th Governor of Bangkok

Sir William Pearce, 2nd Baronet Conservative politician and industrialist

Jonathan Peel Conservative MP; Surveyor-General of the Ordnance 1841-1846 and Secretary of State for War 1858-1859 & 1866-1867

Albert Pell Conservative MP and solicitor

Sir Edward Penton, Mayor of St Marleybone; Superintendent of the Royal Army Clothing Department (Boot Section) 1914–1919 and Chief Inspector of Clothing for the Central Ordnance Depot

Edwin Berkeley Portman Liberal MP and barrister

Thomas Bayley Potter Liberal MP

Walter Powell, Conservative MP and colliery owner

David Pugh, Liberal MP

Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle Liberal politician

John Bonfoy Rooper MP

Shane Ross, Irish politicians and journalist

Henry Bucknall Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe, GBE, PC, conservative politician and barrister who was Minister of Labour 1931-1934

Harold Rushworth New Zealand politician from the County Party

Sir Henry Bernhard Samuelson, 2nd Baronet Liberal MP

Sir Leslie Frederic Scott, KC, Lord Justice of Appeal and Liberal MP

Alexander Craig Sellar MP

Evelyn Shirley MP

Walter Shirley Shirley Liberal MP and barrister

Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet MP, mathematician and astronomer

Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, politician and industrialist

Sir Thomas Skipwith, 4th Baronet MP

Samuel George Smith Conservative MP and banker

Edward Smith Tory MP

Tim Smith, Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Richard Spooner MP

Harry Grey, 4th Earl of Stamford MP and peer

Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, prominent 19th century statesman

Lewis Randle Starkey, Conservative MP

George Strauss, Baron Strauss, Labour politician and Father of the House of Commons

Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet, PC Conservative MP, Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister of Labour

Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley Whig politician

Henry Tancred, 19th-century New Zealand politician.

Sir John Stradling Thomas, Welsh Conservative Party politician

Andrew Turner, British Conservative Party politician

Yevhenia Tymoshenko (Eugenia), Ukrainian entrepreneur and lobbyist on behalf of her mother, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko

William Henry Waddington, French statesman (eventually Prime Minister of France)

Sir George Gustavus Walker KCB JP, Conservative MP

Cathcart Wason MP in both New Zealand and Great Britain

Eugene Wason Liberal MP and lawyer

Samuel Whitbread, Liberal MP

Edward Whitley, Conservative MP

George Wilbraham, Whig MP

John Charles Williams Liberal Unionist MP

Sir Nicholas Winterton Conservative MP

Henry Christopher Wise Conservative MP

Sir John Wood, 1st Baronet Conservative MP

Sport

John Anton, English cricketer

David Barttelot (1821-1852), English cricketer

Chris Brasher, Olympic gold medalist in the steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics, co-founder of the London marathon and pace setter in Roger Bannister's world record mile

Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board

Granville Coghlan, rugby union international, represented Great Britain on 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina (1907–1983)

Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven, English nobleman and sportsman

John Marshall Dugdale, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.

Miles Giffard, English cricketer who was hanged for the murder of his parents.

Robert Johns Footballer who founded ORAFC. Holds the record for the most body checks in a single half of football. (12)

Joseph Fletcher Green, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.

Alex Grove, rugby player for Worcester Warriors and Scotland national rugby union team

A. G. Guillemard, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871 and later president of the Rugby Football Union.

Rupert Edward Inglis (1863–1916), England rugby international who was killed at the Battle of the Somme

Dar Lyon, first class cricketer

Charles McCarthy, cricketer who played in Burma's only first-class cricket match in 1927.

Richard Montgomerie, English cricketer

Gerard Rotherham, recipient of the Wisden Cricketer of the Year award in 1918.

Samuel Ruddock, Paralympic sprinter

Richard Seaman (1913-1939). One of the greatest British pre-war motor racing drivers. Infamously suffered a fatal crash at the 1939 Belgian Grand Prix.

Frederick Stokes (1850–1929) the first captain of the England national rugby union team.

Adrian Stoop, English rugby player

Richard Sykes, Rugby player and founder of towns in North Dakota

Dawson Turner, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.

Frank Tobin, rugby union international who represented England in the first international rugby match in 1871.

William Webb Ellis, the credited inventor of rugby football

Tom Wills, the inventor of Australian rules football

William Yardley, cricketer and dramatist

John Biggs, rugby union international who represented England from 1878-1879.

Fictional Old Rugbeians

Harry Paget Flashman, fictional Victorian anti-hero, originally created by author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical Tom Brown's Schooldays

Tom Brown, fictional hero from the novel Tom Brown's school days, which was create by author Thomas Hughes who is also an old Rugbeian.