List of people educated at Bedford School

Academia

Revd James Dennis (1815–1861), paleontologist and natural historian

Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth FRS (1817–1890), geologist

Francis Penrose FRIBA FRS (1817–1903), Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, architect, archaeologist and astronomer

Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth FRSE FRS FRAS FRSSA (1819–1900), Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, and Astronomer Royal for Scotland, 1846–1888

John Thompson Platts (1830–1904), Indian and Persian language scholar

Richard Daintree CMG (1832–1878), geologist who gave his name to the Daintree National Park, the Daintree Rainforest and the Daintree River, Australia

Thomas Gwyn Elger FRAS (1836–1897), selenographer who gave his name to the lunar crater Elger

Dr Arthur Coke Burnell (1840–1882), Sanskrit scholar

Dr Charles Heycock FRS (1858–1931), Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, chemist, winner of the Royal Society's Davy Medal, 1920

Dr Walter Gardiner FLS FRS (1859–1941), Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, botanist, winner of the Royal Society's Royal Medal, 1898

Professor Sir Wyndham Dunstan KCMG FRS FCS (1861–1949), chemist and Director of the Imperial Institute, 1903–1924

Professor Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (1870–1946), Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge, 1932–1935

Dr Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick (1881–1931), President of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1906–1931, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1915–1917 and 1928–1929

Dr Charles Meek FRAI FRGS (1885–1965), Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, anthropologist

Revd Canon Thomas Wentworth Pym DSO (1885–1945), Fellow in Theology, Balliol College, Oxford

Dr Laurence Beddome Turner (1886–1963), Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Reader in Engineering, University of Cambridge

Professor William Rowan FRSC (1891–1957), Canadian biologist

Sir Karl Parker CBE FBA (1895–1992), art historian and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 1945–1962

Professor John Desmond Bernal FRS (1901–1971), pioneer of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology

Professor Herbert Squire FRS (1909–1961), Zaharoff Professor of Aviation, Imperial College London, 1952–1961

Dr Archer John Porter Martin FRS (1910–2002), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1952

Professor Richard D'Aeth (1912–2008), educationalist and President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, 1978–1984

Professor John Selwyn Bromley (1913–1985), Fellow in Modern History, Keble College, Oxford, 1947–1960, and Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton, 1960–1977

Professor Harry Cranbrook Allen MC FRHS (1917–1998), Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Lincoln College, Oxford, 1946–1955, and Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History, University College London, 1955–1971

Professor Peter Corbett (1920–1992), Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University College London, 1961–1982

Professor Paul Talalay (born 1923), John Jacob Abel Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1974–

Professor Roger Sargent FIChemE FIMA FREng (born 1926), Courtaulds Professor of Chemical engineering, Imperial College London, 1966–1992

Professor Frank Adams FRS (1930–1989), Fielden Professor of Mathematics, University of Manchester, 1964–1970, and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, University of Cambridge, 1970–1989

Professor Robert Cassen OBE (born 1935), Professor of the Economics of Development, University of Oxford, 1986–1997

Professor Quentin Skinner FRHS FBA (born 1940), Fellow in History, Christ's College, Cambridge, 1962–1996, and Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, 1996–2008

Professor Richard Hills FRAS FRS (born 1945), Professor of Radio Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 1990–2007

Professor Andrew O'Shaughnessy FRHS (born 1959), Saunders Director, International Centre for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, and Professor of History, University of Virginia

Actors, directors and entertainers

Cyril Harcourt (1872–1924), actor and playwright

H B Warner (1875–1958), actor nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, 1937

H F Maltby (1880–1963), actor, playwright and screenwriter

Roy Limbert (1893–1954), theatre director and producer

Torin Thatcher (1905–1981), actor

Bob Kellett (1927–2012), film director, producer and screenwriter

John Wood CBE (1930–2011), actor noted for his performances in Shakespeare and for his long association with Tom Stoppard

Andrew McCulloch (born 1945), actor and writer

Michael Radford (born 1946), film director and screenwriter, noted for films including Nineteen Eighty-Four, White Mischief and Il Postino

Simon Chandler (born 1953), actor

Richard Hopkins (1964–2012), television producer

Bob Barrett (born 1966), actor

Al Murray (born 1968), comedian

Joel Beckett (born 1973), actor

David Lloyd Vitty (born 1974), BBC Radio 1 presenter

Adventurers and nonconformists

Revd Stainton Moses (1839–1892), spiritualist

Colonel Frederick Burnaby (1842–1885), adventurer, army officer, author, balloonist, and correspondent for The Times

Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), occultist

Ardern Hulme Beaman (1857–1929), adventurer, author, diplomat, and war correspondent

Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Blacker OBE (1887–1964), adventurer, army officer, author of First over Everest, and weapons designer

John de Vars Hazard MC (1888–1968), mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, famous for the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine

Reginald Teague-Jones MBE (1890–1988), intelligence officer active in the Caucasus and Central Asia during the Russian Civil War

Norman Baillie-Stewart (1909–1966), traitor known as 'The Officer in the Tower'

Simon Murray CBE (born 1940), adventurer, author, French Foreign Legionnaire, and the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupported

Architecture

John Pollard Seddon FRIBA (1827–1906), architect

Harry Bulkeley Creswell FRIBA (1869–1960), architect and author

Oswald Milne FRSA FRIBA (1881–1968), architect

Peter "Joe" Chamberlin CBE FRIBA (1919–1978), architect and town planner responsible for the Barbican Centre and the Barbican Estate in London

Sir Bernard Feilden CBE FRIBA (1919–2008), conservation architect whose work encompassed cathedrals, the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal

Victoria Cross and George Cross

First World War

Lieutenant Colonel George Campbell Wheeler VC (1880–1938)

Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Walderne St. Clair Tisdall VC (1890–1915)

Major Montague Shadworth Moore VC (1896–1966)

Second World War

Commander Richard Jolly GC (1896–1939)

Major General Henry Bowreman Foote VC CB DSO (1904–1993), General Officer Commanding, 11th Armoured Division, 1950–1953

Navy

Rear Admiral Alfred Ransom CBE (1871–1953), served during the Gambia Expedition, 1894, the Boxer Rebellion, 1900–1901, and the First World War

Vice Admiral Fawcet Wray DSO (1873–1932), commanded HMS Talbot at Gallipoli, 1915

Vice Admiral Arthur Kemmis Betty DSO (1877–1961), Aide-de-camp to King George V, Commander First Destroyer Flotilla, 1920–1922

Rear Admiral Edward Dyke Acland MVO CB (1878–1968), Naval Attaché to King George V

Rear Admiral James Ashton DSO (1883–1951), Aide-de-camp to King Edward VIII

Vice Admiral Sir Richard Lane-Poole KBE CB (1883–1971), Commander Australian Fleet, 1936–1938

Rear Admiral Julian Patterson OBE (1884–1972), commanded HMS Hood

Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Ponsonby Talbot KCB KBE DSO & Bar (1884–1970), Aide-de-camp to King George V and Director of Dockyards at the Admiralty, 1937–1946

Major General Robert Glunicke DL (1886–1963), Aide-de-camp to King George VI, 1939–1940, and Commandant, Plymouth Division, Royal Marines, 1939–1941

Admiral Sir Robert Burnett GBE KCB CStJ DSO (1887–1959), Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic, 1944–1946, and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, 1946–1950

Rear Admiral Hector Mackenzie Woodhouse CB OBE (1889–1971)

Admiral Sir Geoffrey Audley Miles KCB KCSI (1890–1986), Head of British Military Mission, Moscow, 1941–1943, Commander-in-Chief, Levant, 1943, Naval Force Commander, Eastern Expeditionary Force, 1943, Deputy Naval Commander, South East Asia Command, 1943–1944, Flag officer, Western Mediterranean, 1944–1945, Senior British Representative on the Tripartite Naval Commission, 1945–1946, and last Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy of the unified Royal Indian Navy, 1946–1947

Rear Admiral Laurence Boutwood CB OBE KStJ (1898–1982), Fleet Supply Officer, British Pacific Fleet, 1945–1946, Assistant Director of Plans at the Admiralty, 1946–1948, Fleet Supply Officer, Mediterranean Station, 1950–1953, and Command Supply Officer, Portsmouth, 1953–1956

Vice Admiral Sir Charles Hughes-Hallet KCB CBE (1898–1985), Chief of Staff, Home Fleet, 1950–1951, Head of British Naval Mission, Washington, 1952–1954

Vice Admiral John Hughes-Hallett CB DSO (1901–1972), Naval Commander during the Dieppe Raid, 1942, Commodore commanding Channel Assault Force and Naval Chief of Staff, 1942–1943, Head of Naval Branch, Supreme Allied Command, 1943, Vice-Controller of the Navy, 1950–1952, Flag Officer, Heavy Squadron, Home Fleet, 1952–1953, Conservative MP for Croydon, 1954–1964, credited with proposing the idea of the Mulberry harbour

Rear Admiral Keith McNeil Campbell-Walter CB (1904–1976), Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, Flag Officer, Germany, and Commander of Allied Naval Forces Northern Area, Central Europe, 1955–1958

Vice Admiral Sir Raymond Hawkins KCB (1909–1987), Fourth Sea Lord and Vice Controller of the Navy, 1963–1964, Chief of Fleet Support, 1964–1967

Rear Admiral Kenneth Farnhill CB OBE (1913–1983), Director of the Management of Intelligence, Ministry of Defence, 1966–1969

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu GCB DSC (1913–1970), Director-General, Naval Weapons, 1958–1960, Controller of the Navy, 1961–1965, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, 1965–1968, and First Sea Lord, 1968–1970

Rear Admiral James Dunbar Cook CB DL (1921–2007), Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, 1973–1975

Rear Admiral Robin Trower Hogg CB FRSA (born 1932), Flag Officer, First Flotilla, 1984–1986, and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Fleet, 1986–1987

Army

Major General William Carmichael Russell (1824–1905), served during the First Anglo-Sikh War, 1845–1846, and during the Indian Mutiny, 1857

General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth KCMG FSA FRGS (1825–1906), served during the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol, 1854–1855, General Officer Commanding, South Africa, 1886–1889, Governor-General of Cape Colony, 1889, High Commissioner for Southern Africa, 1889, and Governor of Malta, 1890–1893

Major General Francis Glanville (1827–1910)

Major General Willoughby Clarke (1833–1909), served during the Santhal rebellion, 1855–1856, and during the Second Opium War, 1856–1860

Lieutenant General John Le Mesurier (1834–1903), served during the Anglo-Persian War, 1856–1857

Major General George Elphinstone Erskine (1841–1912), served during the Indian Mutiny, 1857

Major General George More-Molyneux CB DSO (1851–1903), served during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878–1880, the Suakin Expedition, 1884–1885, the Third Anglo-Burmese War, 1885–1889, and during the Tirah Campaign, 1897–1898

Major General William Cross Barratt CB CSI DSO (1862–1940), General Officer Commanding, 9th (Secunderabad) Division and General Officer Commanding, 16th Indian Division

General Sir Walter Braithwaite GCB (1865–1945), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command, India, 1920–1923, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Scottish Command, 1923–1926, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, 1926–1927, Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1927–1931

Major General John Hill CB DSO (1866–1935), General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, 1916–1918

Major General Louis Lipsett CB CMG (1874–1918), General Officer Commanding, 3rd Canadian Division, 1916–1918, General Officer Commanding, 4th Infantry Division, 1918

Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell GCB KBE ADC DL (1874–1947), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command, 1931–1933, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, 1933–1936, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1936–1937

Major General Sir Digby Shuttleworth KCIE CB CBE DSO (1876–1948), President of the Allied Commission of Control, Turkey, 1920–1923

Major General Sir Horace de Courcy Martelli KBE CB DSO (1877–1959), General Officer Commanding, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, 1925–1930, Commandant, Shanghai Defence Force, 1927–1928, Major General, Southern Command, 1930–1934, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, 1934–1939

Lieutenant General Sir William Montgomery Thomson KCMG CB MC (1877–1963), military governor of Baku, 1918

Major General Sir William Twiss KCIE CB CBE MC FRGS (1879–1962), General Officer Commanding, Army in Burma, 1937–1939

Major General Sir Hubert Huddleston GCMG GBE CB DSO MC (1880–1950), Commandant, Sudan Defence Force and General Officer Commanding, Sudan, 1925–1930, and Governor-General of the Sudan, 1940–1947

Major General Hugh MacMahon CB CSI CBE MC (1880–1939), Aide-de-camp to King George V, and Quartermaster General, Northern Command, 1933–1937

Major General Sir Claude Liardet KBE CB DSO TD DL (1881–1966), General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Division, 1938–1941, and first Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment, 1942–1945

Major General Maxwell Brander CB OBE (1884–1972), War Office, 1937–1940, Ministry of Supply, 1941–1947

Major General Lancelot Hickes CB OBE MC (1884–1965), War Office, 1939–1941

Major General Sir Guy Riley KBE CB (1884–1964), War Office, 1937–1943

Major General Algernon Fuller CBE (1885–1970), War Office, 1938–1940, Ministry of Supply, 1940–1941, and inventor of the Fullerphone

Lieutenant General Sir William Baker KCIE CB DSO OBE (1888–1964), Adjutant-General of India, 1941–1944

Major General Austin Timeous Miller CB MC & Bar (1888–1947), Scottish Command, 1941–1945

Major General Sir Noel Holmes KBE CB MC (1891–1982), War Office, 1939–1946

Major General Christopher Maltby CB MC DL (1891–1980), Commander British Troops in China, 1941

General Sir Henry Colville Wemyss KCB KBE DSO MC (1891–1959), Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1940–1941, Head of British Army Mission, Washington, 1941–1942, Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, 1942–1945

Major General Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips KBE CB MC (1892–1966), Director of Signals, War Office, 1943–1946

Major General Sir Eustace Tickell KBE CB MC (1893–1972), Engineer-in-Chief, War Office, 1944–1948

Lieutenant General Sir Harold Rawdon Briggs KCIE KBE CB CBE DSO (1894–1952), Commander-in-Chief, Burma Command, 1946–1948

Major General Alfred Curtis CB DSO MC (1894–1971), General Officer Commanding, 14th Indian Infantry Division, and Aide-de-camp to King George VI

Major General Raymond Briggs CB DSO (1895–1984), General Officer Commanding, 1st Armoured Division, 1942–1943

General Sir Sidney Kirkman GCB KBE MC (1895–1982), General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, 1942–1944, General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps, 1944–1945, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945–1947, and Quartermaster-General to the Forces, 1947–1950

Major General Bernard Cooke Dixon CB CBE MC (1896–1973), Engineer-in-Charge, General Headquarters, Middle East, 1944–1947, and Chief Engineer, Headquarters, Western Command, 1947–1948

Major General Sir Reginald Kerr KBE CB MC (1897–1974), Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office, 1943–1946

Major General Francis St David Benwell Lejeune CB CBE (1899–1984), Commander, Anti-Aircraft Group, 1944–1946, War Office, 1946–1949

General Sir Frank Simpson GBE KCB DSO (1899–1986), Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1940–1942, Deputy Director of Military Operations at the War Office, 1942–1943, Director of Military Operations at the War Office, 1943–1945, Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945–1946, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1946–1948, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command, 1948–1952, Commandant, Imperial Defence College, 1952–1954

Major General Robert Cottrell-Hill CB CBE DSO & Bar MC (1903–1965), Commandant, British Sector, Berlin, 1955–1956

Major General Sir Nigel Tapp KBE CB DSO (1904–1991), General Officer Commanding, East Africa Command, 1957–1960

Major General Gerald Kellett CB CBE (1905–1973), Director General of Artillery, War Office, 1957–1960

Lieutenant General Sir William Pike KCB CBE DSO (1905–1993), Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1960–1963

Major General Kenneth Bastyan CB CBE (1906–1975), Chief Signal Officer, British Army of the Rhine and Northern Army Group, 1957–1960

Major General Henry Maughan Liardet CB CBE DSO DL (1906–1996), Chief of Staff, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, 1956–1958

Major General Ronald Urquhart CB DSO (1906–1968), Director of Combined Operations, 1947–1949, Chief of Staff, Western Command, 1956, and Commandant, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1957–1960

Major General Michael Whitworth Prynne CB CBE (1912–1977), Deputy Director, War Office, 1960–1964, and Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Southern Command, 1964–1967

Major General Edward Maitland Makgill Crichton OBE (1916–2009), General Officer Commanding, 51st (Highland) Division, 1966–1968

Lieutenant General Sir John Read KCB OBE (1917–1987), Director of Military Operations, Ministry of Defence, 1968–1970, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, 1970–1971, and Director of International Military Staff, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, 1971–1975

Major General Colin Shortis CB CBE (born 1934), Director of Infantry, British Army, 1983–1986, and General Officer Commanding, North West District, 1986–1989

Major General Timothy Toyne Sewell DL (born 1941), Commandant, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1991–1994

Captain Aubrey Beaty MC (1916-2009) First British soldier to enter Germany after D-Day.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Balfour Oatts DSO (1902-1992)

Air Force

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker KCB AFC (1877–1930), Director-General of Civil Aviation, 1922–1930, and victim of the R101 disaster

Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett KCB CBE DSO (1882–1945), Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, 1931–1932, Air Officer Commanding British Forces, Iraq, 1932–1935, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Training Command, 1936–1939, and Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Australian Air Force, 1939–1942

Marshal of the RAF Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall GCB OM GCMG CBE AM (1886–1963), Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, 1926–1931, Air Officer Commanding, Middle East Command, 1931–1934, Air Member for Supply and Organisation, 1935–1937, Chief of the Air Staff, 1937–1940, and Governor-General of New Zealand, 1940–1946

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Paul Maltby KCVO KBE CB DSO AFC DL (1892–1971), Air Officer Commanding, Java, 1942, and Black Rod, 1946–1962

Major Charles Dawson Booker DSC (1897–1918), First World War flying ace

Air Vice-Marshall Hugh Hamilton Brookes CB CBE DFC (1904–1988), Air Officer Commanding, Rhodesia, 1951–1954, Air Officer Commanding, Iraq, 1954–1956, and Air Officer Commanding, No 25 Group, RAF Flying Training Command, 1956–1958

Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Ryley CB CBE (1905–1985), Air Officer Commanding and Commandant, RAF Henlow, 1949–1952, Director of Armament Engineering, Air Ministry, 1954–1957, and Director of Guided Weapons Engineering, Air Ministry, 1957–1958

Air Vice-Marshal Brian Courtenay Yarde CVO CBE (1905–1986), Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment, 1954–1957

Marshal of the RAF Sir Thomas Pike GCB CBE DFC & Bar DL (1906–1983), Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, 1953–1956, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Fighter Command, 1956–1959, Chief of the Air Staff, 1960–1964, and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 1964–1967

Air Vice-Marshal Clayton Boyce CB CBE (1907–1987), Secretary General of Allied Air Forces, Central Europe, 1953–1954, Air Officer Commanding, Cyprus and the Levant, 1954–1956

Air Vice-Marshal Hubert Chapman CB CBE (1910–1972), Air Officer Commanding, No. 43 Group, 1950–1951

Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee GBE CB (1912–2004), the United Kingdom's Military Representative to NATO, 1968–1971

Group Captain Brian Kingcome DSO DFC & Bar (1917–1994), Second World War flying ace

Air Vice-Marshal Michael Adams CB AFC FRAeS (born 1934), Assistant Chief of the Air Staff for Operational Requirements, Ministry of Defence, 1984–1986, Senior Directing Officer, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1987–1988

Aviation

Commander Sir Walter Windham (1868–1942), pioneering aviator who established the world's first airmail services

Claude Grahame-White (1879–1959), pioneering aviator who made the world's first night-time takeoff

John Dudley North CBE (1893–1968), aircraft designer and chairman of Boulton Paul Aircraft

Group Captain George Bulman CBE MC AFC & Bar FRAeS (1896–1963), chief test pilot and director at Hawker Aircraft

Bob Feilden CBE FRS FREng FIMechE (1917–2004), mechanical engineer, an essential part of the Power Jets team that developed the first jet engine with Sir Frank Whittle, 1940–1946, author of the seminal Report of the Feilden Committee on Engineering Design, 1963, and Director General of the British Standards Institution, 1970–1981

The Church

Revd Canon John Hensman (1780–1864), Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and prolific church builder

Revd Fr William Lockhart (1820–1892), first of the Oxford Movement to convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism

Revd Canon Dr George Maclear (1833–1902), theological writer

Ven William Percival Johnson (1854–1928), missionary in Africa

Rt Revd Walter Ruthven Pym (1856–1908), Bishop of Mauritius, 1898–1903, Bishop of Bombay, 1903–1908, and grandfather of Francis Pym, Foreign Secretary under Margaret Thatcher

Rt Revd Ernest Augustus Anderson (1859–1945), Bishop of Riverina, 1895–1925

Rt Revd Dr Hubert Murray Burge (1862–1925), Headmaster of Winchester College, 1901–1910, Bishop of Southwark, 1910–1919, and Bishop of Oxford, 1919–1925

Rt Revd William Surtees (1871–1956), Bishop of Crediton, 1930–1954

Most Revd Dr John Gregg CH (1873–1961), Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, 1915–1920, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, 1920–1939, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, 1939–1959

Rt Revd Walter Carey (1875–1955), Bishop of Bloemfontein, 1921–1935, theological writer, and British Isles XV rugby international

Rt Revd John Weller (1880–1969), Bishop of the Falkland Islands, 1934–1945

Rt Revd Richard Dyke Acland (1881–1954), Bishop of Bombay, 1929–1947

Rt Revd Dr Bertram Lasbrey (1881–1976), Bishop on the Niger, 1922–1945

Rt Revd Dr Wilfred Askwith KCMG (1890–1962), Bishop of Blackburn, 1942–1954, and Bishop of Gloucester, 1954–1962

Rt Revd Noel Hall (1891–1962), Bishop of Chota Nagpur, 1936–1957

Rt Revd David Farmbrough (1929–2013), Bishop of Bedford, 1981–1993

Rt Revd Robin Smith (born 1936), Bishop of Hertford, 1990–2001

The Civil and Diplomatic Services

Sir Walter Hillier KCMG CB (1849–1927), diplomat, author, Sinologist and Professor of Chinese, King's College London

Sir Aubrey Vere Symonds KCB (1874–1931), Permanent Secretary, Board of Education, 1925–1931

Sir Edward Crowe KCMG (1877–1960), Comptroller-General, Department for Overseas Trade, 1928–1937

Gilbert Campion, 1st Baron Campion GCB (1882–1958), Clerk of the House of Commons, 1937–1948

Sir Harold MacMichael GCMG DSO (1882–1969), Governor of Tanganyika, 1934–1938, High Commissioner to Palestine, 1938–1944

Sir John FitzGerald Moylan CB CBE (1882–1967), Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office, 1940–1945

Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly KCMG CIE OBE (1882–1966), British Resident in Aden, 1931–1932, Chief Commissioner of Aden, 1932–1937, Governor of Aden, 1937–1940

Sir William Castle Cleary KBE CB (1886–1971), Principal Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Education, 1931–1935, Principal Assistant Secretary for Elementary Education, 1940–1945, and Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Education, 1945–1950

Bertram Lamb Pearson CB DSO MC (1893–1984), Principal Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Education, 1937–1946, and Under Secretary, Ministry of Education, 1946–1955

Sir Charles Belgrave KBE (1894–1969), Chief Administrator to the rulers of Bahrain, 1926–1957

Herbert Gybbon-Monypenny CBE (1895–1988), Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, 1953–1955

Sir Percivale Liesching KCMG KCB GCMG KCVO (1895–1973), Permanent Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1946–1948, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1949–1955, and High Commissioner to South Africa, 1955–1958

Sir Pierson Dixon GCMG CB (1904–1965), Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, 1943–1948, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1948–1950, Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, 1950–1954, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, 1954–1960, and Ambassador to France, 1960–1965

Sir George Godber GCB (1908–2009), Chief Medical Officer, 1960–1973

Sir George Lisle Clutton KCMG FSA (1909–1970), Ambassador to the Philippines, 1955–1959, and Ambassador to Poland, 1960–1966

Ian Clayton Mackenzie CBE (1909–2009), Ambassador to South Korea, 1967–1969

Sir Bruce Fraser KCB (1910–1993), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, 1960–1964, Joint Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science, 1964–1965, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, 1965–1966, Comptroller and Auditor General, Exchequer, 1966–1971

Thomas Rogers MBE CMG (1912–1999), Ambassador to Colombia, 1970–1973

John Glendwr Owen CB (1914–1977), Under Secretary at HM Treasury, 1959–1973

John Gordon Doubleday OBE (1920–1982), Ambassador to Liberia, 1978–1980

Peter Tripp CMG (1921–2010), Ambassador to Libya, 1970–1974, High Commissioner to Singapore, 1974–1978, and Ambassador to Thailand, 1978–1981

Sir James Hennessy KBE CMG (born 1923), Ambassador to Uruguay, 1971–1972, High Commissioner to Uganda, 1973–1976, Ambassador to Rwanda, 1973–1976, Governor of Belize, 1980–1981, and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, 1982–1987

Peter Maxey CMG (born 1930), Under Secretary at the Cabinet Office, 1978–1981, Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, 1981–1984, and Ambassador to the United Nations, 1984–1986

Sir Alan Bailey KCB (born 1931), Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1971–1973, Under Secretary at HM Treasury, 1973–1978, Deputy Secretary at HM Treasury, 1978–1983, Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury, 1983–1985, and Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, 1986–1991

William Myles Knighton CB (born 1931), Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Technology, 1966–1968, Assistant Secretary, Department of Trade, 1967–1974, Under Secretary, Department of Trade, 1974–1978, Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade, 1978–1983, Deputy Secretary, Department for Transport, 1983–1986, and Principal Establishment and Finance Officer, Department of Trade and Industry, 1986–1991

Sir Michael Burton KCVO CMG (born 1937), British Minister in Berlin, 1985–1992, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, 1993, and Ambassador to the Czech Republic, 1994–1997

Sir Allan Ramsay KBE CMG (born 1937), Ambassador to the Lebanon, 1988–1990, Ambassador to the Sudan, 1990–1991, and Ambassador to Morocco, 1992–1996

John Martin CMG (1943–1999), High Commissioner to Malawi, 1993–1998

Paul Wright (born 1946), Under Secretary, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1992–1999

Richard Northern MBE (born 1954), Ambassador to Libya, 2010–2011

John Hawkins (born 1960), Ambassador to Qatar, 2008–2012

Benjamin Lyster-Binns (born 1965), Ambassador to Uruguay, 2012–

Industry and commerce

Sir William Harpur (c1496–1574), Sheriff of the City of London, 1556–1557, Lord Mayor of London, 1561–1562

Julius Drewe (1856–1931), creator of Home and Colonial Stores, and builder of Castle Drogo, Devon

Sir Reginald Butler, 1st Baronet (1866–1933), chairman of United Dairies

Sir Harold Yarrow, 2nd Baronet GBE (1884–1962), chairman and managing director of Yarrow Shipbuilders and chairman of Clydesdale Bank

Sir John Howard DL (1901–1986), civil engineer responsible for construction of the Severn Bridge, the Humber Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge and the Channel Tunnel

Sir Peter Parker KBE LVO (1924–2002), chairman of British Rail, 1976–1983

Sir Peter Hunt FRICS (1933–1997), chairman and managing director of Land Securities, 1978–1997

Derek Bonham (1943–2007), CEO of Hanson Group, 1992–1997, chairman of Imperial Tobacco, 1996–2007, chairman of Cadbury Schweppes, 2000–2003, and chairman of Marconi, 2001–2002

Miles Young (born 1954), chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, 2009–

Andrew Horton (born 1962), CEO of Beazley Group, 2008–

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Journalism

William White (1807–1882), parliamentary sketch writer

Henry Corbet (1820–1878), agricultural writer and editor

E H D Sewell (1872–1947), author, cricket and rugby journalist, Essex and MCC cricketer

Hugo Tyerman (1880–1977), author and journalist

Major Peter Lawless MC (1891–1945), war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, killed during the Battle of Remagen

Henry Longhurst (1909–1978), BBC sports commentator and golf writer, Golfing Correspondent of The Sunday Times, Conservative MP for Acton, 1943–1945

Peter Stursberg CM (1913–2014), Canadian writer, broadcaster and war correspondent

Pearce Wright (1933–2005), Science Editor of The Times, 1974–1990

Michael De-la-Noy (1934–2002), author, journalist and gay rights advocate

Richard Lindley (born 1936), BBC and ITN journalist

John Percival (1937–2005), BBC and Channel 4 documentary film maker

Michael Brunson OBE (born 1940), ITN Political Editor, Diplomatic Editor and Washington Correspondent

Robert Hewison (born 1943), Theatre Critic of The Sunday Times

John Witherow (born 1952), Editor of The Sunday Times, 1995–2013, Editor of The Times, 2013–

Matthew Chilton (born 1963), BBC sports commentator

Will Gompertz (born 1965), BBC Arts Editor

Ned Boulting (born 1969), author, sports journalist and commentator

The Law

Sir John Leach KC (1760–1834), Judge, Privy Councillor, Whig and Tory MP for Seaford, 1806–1816, Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, 1816–1818, Vice Chancellor of England, 1818–1827, and Master of the Rolls, 1827–1834

Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough KCB (1815–1886), constitutional theorist, Privy Councillor, Clerk of the House of Commons, 1871–1886, and the original author of Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice

Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton QC (1817–1907), High Court Judge, 1876–1898, and Privy Councillor

Sir Henry Verey (1836–1920), Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1876–1920

Sir Frank Beaman (1858–1928), High Court Judge, Bombay, 1906–1918

Sir Reginald Ward Poole KCVO (1864–1941), President of the Law Society, 1933–1934

Sir Henry Gompertz (1867–1930), Supreme Court Judge, Hong Kong, 1909–1925, and Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States, 1925–1929

Sir Babington Bennett Newbould (1867–1937), High Court Judge, Calcutta, 1916–1927

Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson (1871–1951), High Court Judge, 1921–1939, Privy Councillor, and grandfather of Sir Richard Branson

Sir Cecil Fforde KC (1875–1951), High Court Judge, Lahore, 1922–1931

Mr Justice Saul Solomon KC (1875–1960), Supreme Court Judge, South Africa, 1927–1945

Sir Lynden Macassey KBE KC (1876–1963), labour lawyer

Mr Justice Harold Blacker (1889–1944), High Court Judge, Lahore, 1937–1944

Sir Gerald Osborne Slade KC (1891–1962), High Court Judge, 1948–1962

Sir Audley McKisack QC (1903–1966), Attorney General of Nigeria, 1951–1956, Chief Justice of Uganda, 1956–1962, President of the High Court of the Federation of South Arabia, 1964–1966, and Appeal Court Judge of the Bahamas and Bermuda, 1965–1966

Sir Phillip Bridges CMG QC (1922–2007), Solicitor General of The Gambia, 1963–1964, Attorney General of The Gambia, 1964–1968, and Chief Justice of The Gambia, 1968–1983

Sir Stephen Mitchell QC (born 1941), High Court Judge, 1993–2003

Nicholas Sinfield Managing Partner Davies Arnold Cooper 1998

Literature

John Pomfret (1667–1702), poet

Samuel Palmer (1741–1813), biographer

Foster Barham Zincke (1817–1893), antiquary

Morley Roberts (1857–1942), novelist and short story writer

Frederick Carruthers Cornell OBE (1867–1921), South African short story writer and poet

Saki (1870–1916), short story writer

Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964), biographer

Noel Carrington (1895–1989), originator of Puffin Books, and brother of the artist Dora Carrington

John Armitage (1910–1980), Editor of Encyclopædia Britannica, 1949–1967

C E T Warren MBE (1912–1988), author of Above Us The Waves

John Fowles (1926–2005), novelist, author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman

Jonathon Green (born 1948), lexicographer

Shoo Rayner (born 1956), author and illustrator of children's books

Medicine

Professor Robert Elliot FRCS (1864–1936), surgeon and author

George Drummond Robinson FRCP (1864–1950), obstetrician

Sir Maurice Craig CBE FRCP (1866–1935), psychiatrist to Virginia Woolf and to the future King Edward VIII, and pioneer in the treatment of mental illness

Major General Francis Hutchinson CIE (1870–1931), Surgeon to the King

Frank Eve FRCP (1871–1952) physician who gave his name to the "Eve Method" of artificial respiration

William Branson CBE FRCP (1874–1950), physician, author, and great uncle of Sir Richard Branson

Professor James Radclyffe McDonagh FRCS (1881–1965), surgeon and author

Sir Adolphe Abrahams OBE FRCP (1883–1967), physician and founder of British sports science

Felix Warden Brown FRCP FRCPsych (1908–1972), psychiatrist

Professor Charles Enrique Dent CBE FRCP FRS (1911–1976), physician and biochemist who gave his name to Dent's Disease

George Crichton Wells FRCP (1914–1999), dermatologist who gave his name to Wells' Syndrome

Frank Cockett FRCS (1916–2014), surgeon, author and art historian

Professor John MacFarlane Cliff FRCP (1921–1972), Professor of Naval Medicine, Royal Hospital Haslar

Major General Michael Brown FRCPE FRCP (1931–1993), Director of Army Medicine and Physician to the Queen

Professor Rory Shaw FRCP (born 1954), Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, 1997–

Music

C H Bovill (1878–1918), lyricist, songwriter, author, and collaborator with P G Wodehouse

Dr Marmaduke Conway FRCO (1885–1961), organist and writer

Darrell Fancourt (1886–1953), bass-baritone singer who starred in more than 10,000 performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Dr Herbert Kennedy Andrews FRCO (1904–1965), Fellow in Music, New College, Oxford, composer, musicologist and organist

Richard Kerr (born 1944), songwriter

Frank Musker (born 1951), composer and songwriter

Alec Dankworth (born 1960), jazz bassist

Marius de Vries (born 1961), composer and record producer

Andrew Manze (born 1965), Associate Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, 1996–2003, Artistic Director of The English Concert, 2003–2007, Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, 2006–

Philip Stopford (born 1977), choir director and composer of sacred choral music

Xander Rawlins (born 1984), singer-songwriter and documentary film maker

Politicians and statesmen

John Williams (c1519-c1561), MP for Bedford, 1554–1555

Thomas Barnard DL (1830–1909), Whig MP for Bedford, 1857–1859

Lieutenant Commander Norman Carlyle Craig KC (1868–1919), Conservative MP for the Isle of Thanet, 1910–1919

Sir Walter Preston (1875–1946), Conservative MP for Mile End, 1918–1923, Conservative MP for Cheltenham, 1928–1937

Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas (1876–1916), Liberal politician and fighter pilot, Privy Councillor, Under-Secretary of State for War, 1908–1911, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1911, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1911–1914, President of the Board of Agriculture, 1914–1915

Sir Richard Wells, 1st Baronet DL (1879–1957), Conservative MP for Bedford, 1922–1945

Colonel Eric Harrison (1880–1948), Australian MP, 1931–1937

Air Commodore Sir Frank Nelson KCMG (1883–1966), Conservative MP for Stroud, 1924–1931, and the first head of Special Operations Executive, 1940–1942

Leslie Ruthven Pym (1884–1945), Conservative MP for Monmouth, 1939–1945, and father of Francis Pym, Foreign Secretary under Margaret Thatcher

Charles Theodore Te Water (1887–1964), President of the Assembly of the League of Nations, 1933–1934

Sir Walter Jackson Cooper MBE (1888–1973), Australian Senator, 1928–1968, Minister of Repatriation, 1949–1960

Sir Trounsell Gilbert CBE KC (1888–1975), Chief Justice and President of the Senate of Bermuda, 1952–1958

Alan Grahame Brown (1913–1972), Labour and Conservative MP for Tottenham, 1959–1964

Sir Anthony Fell (1914–1998), Conservative MP for Great Yarmouth, 1951–1983

Joseph Godber, Baron Godber of Willington (1914–1980), Privy Councillor, Conservative MP for Grantham, 1951–1979, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1957–1960, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1960–1961, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1961–1963, Secretary of State for War, 1963, Minister of Labour, 1963–1964, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1970–1972, and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1972–1974

Major Richard Harden DSO MC (1916–2000), Ulster Unionist MP for Armagh, 1948–1954

Major Geraint Morgan QC (1920–1995), Conservative MP for Denbigh, 1959–1983, and champion of the Welsh language

Stephen Ross, Baron Ross of Newport (1926–1993), Liberal MP for the Isle of Wight, 1974–1987

Michael Morris, Baron Naseby (born 1936), Privy Councillor, Conservative MP for Northampton South, 1974–1997

Krishnan Srinivasan (born 1937), Indian Foreign Secretary, 1994–1995, Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, 1995–2002

Paddy Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE (born 1941), Privy Councillor, Liberal Democrat MP for Yeovil, 1983–2001, leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1988–1999, international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2002–2006

Sir Gerry Neale (born 1941), Conservative MP for North Cornwall, 1979–1992

John Carlisle (born 1942), Conservative MP for Luton, 1979–1997

John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach CBE FRSA (born 1943), Conservative politician, Minister at the Home Office, 2012–2014, and Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords, 2014–

Bob Clay (born 1946), Labour MP for Sunderland North, 1983–1992

Malcolm Harbour CBE (born 1947), Conservative MEP for the West Midlands, 1999–2014

Desmond Swayne (born 1956), Conservative MP for New Forest West, 1997–, Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Cameron, 2010–2012, and Minister of State for International Development, 2014–

Brooks Newmark (born 1958), Conservative MP for Braintree, Essex, 2005–, and Minister for Civil Society, 2014

All-Rounders

Percy Christopherson (1866–1921), England rugby international and Kent cricketer

Freddie Brooks OBE (1883–1947), England rugby international and Rhodesia cricketer

Frank Brooks (1884–1952), Rhodesia cricketer, rugby international and tennis player

Lieutenant Colonel Stan Harris CBE (1894–1973), England and British Lions rugby international, water polo international, South Africa Davis Cup tennis player, South Africa light-heavyweight boxing champion, and Wimbledon mixed doubles winner, who turned down a place in the 1920 Great Britain Olympic team

Gilbert Cook CVO CBE (1911–1979), England rugby international and Ireland cricketer

Athletics

Harold Abrahams CBE (1899–1978), Olympic sprinter and long jumper, winner of the gold medal in 1924 for the 100-metre sprint; a feat portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire

Brigadier Dick Webster (1914–2009), Olympic pole vaulter, 1936 and 1948

Cricket

William Weighell (1846–1905), Sussex cricketer

William Woof (1858–1937), Gloucestershire and MCC cricketer

Herbert Orr (1865–1940), Western Australia cricketer

Ralph Joyce (1878–1908), Leicestershire cricketer

Harold Baumgartner (1883–1938), South Africa cricketer

Francis Joyce (1886–1958), Leicestershire cricketer

Lancelot Robinson (1905–1935), MCC cricketer

Cyril Reed (1906–1991), Madras cricketer

William Sime CMG MBE QC (1909–1983), Nottinghamshire cricketer, and Judge

Brian Disbury (born 1929), Kent cricketer

Michael Allen (1933–1995), Northamptonshire, MCC and Derbyshire cricketer

Ian Peck (born 1957), Northamptonshire cricketer

Robin Boyd-Moss (born 1959), Northamptonshire cricketer

Toby Bailey (born 1976), Northamptonshire cricketer

Will Smith (born 1982), Hampshire, Durham and Nottinghamshire cricketer

Adrian Shankar (born 1982), Worcestershire cricketer

Alastair Cook MBE (born 1984), Essex, MCC and England cricketer, and captain of the England cricket team

Alex Wakely (born 1988), Northamptonshire cricketer and captain of the England Under-19 cricket team

James Kettleborough (born 1992), Northamptonshire cricketer

Equestrianism

Brigadier Lyndon Bolton DSO & Bar DL (1899–1995), Olympic horseman, 1948

Fencing

Colonel Ronald Bruce Campbell CBE DSO (1878–1963), Olympic fencer, 1920

Football

Harold Henman (1879–1969), international footballer who played for both South Africa and Argentina

Hockey

Stefan Tewes (born 1967), Olympic gold medalist in hockey, 1992

Sven Meinhardt (born 1971), Olympic gold medalist in hockey, 1992

Motor Sport

Dan Wheldon (1978–2011), racing driver, Indianapolis 500 winner, 2005 and 2011

Rowing

William Crofts (1846–1912), rower

Jack Beresford CBE (1899–1977), Olympic rower, winner of five medals (three gold, two silver) at five Olympic Games in succession, 1920–1936

Harold Morphy (1902–1987), Olympic rower, 1924

Dr Edward Vaughan Bevan (1907–1988), Olympic rower, gold medalist, 1928

William Windham (born 1926), Olympic rower, 1952

James Crowden (born 1927), Olympic rower, 1952

Michael Beresford (born 1934), Olympic rower, 1960

Phelan Hill (born 1979), Olympic rower, bronze medalist, 2012

Rugby

Major General Sir Robert Henderson KCMG CB (1858–1924), England rugby international, and Physician to the King

Philip Jacob (1875–p1927), England rugby international

Francis Palmer MC (1877–1951), England rugby international

Curly Hammond (1879–1963), England rugby international

Basil Maclear (1881–1915), Ireland rugby international

Ernest Chambers (1882–1946), England rugby international

Cecil Milton (1884–1961), England rugby international

Jumbo Milton (1885–1915), England rugby international whilst still a pupil at Bedford School

Henry Vassall (1887–1949), England rugby international

Sir Arthur Blakiston, 7th Baronet MC (1892–1974), England and British Lions rugby international

Sir Basil McFarland, 2nd Baronet CBE ERD (1898–1986), Ireland rugby international

Robert Jones (1900–1970), Wales rugby international

Leo Oakley (1926–1981), England rugby international

Budge Rogers OBE (born 1933), England and British Lions rugby international

Martin Bayfield (born 1966), England and British Lions rugby international

Andy Gomarsall MBE (born 1974), England rugby international

David Callam (born 1983), Scotland rugby international

Tennis

Patrick Wheatley (1899–1967), tennis player who competed at Wimbledon on eleven separate occasions, 1921–1933, at the Olympic Games, 1924, and in the Davis Cup, 1926