List of Old Marlburians

Alumni of Marlbrough College

The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England.

Academia and education

Andrew Boggis, Master in College at Eton and chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, 2006^[1]
Charles Fisher, Headmaster, Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Australia
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, writer and art teacher
Lauren Child, writer and illustrator
Claude Ferrier, architect
Susannah Fiennes, artist
Keith Henderson, artist
William Morris, artist and writer
Pontine Paus, designer, shipping heiress and socialite
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
Cressida Cowell, ex-Children Laureate and creator of How to Train Your Dragon.
J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet and armaments manufacturer
Anthony Hope, writer
Arthur Lewis Jenkins, poet
Dick King-Smith, writer
Louis MacNeice, poet
James Michie, poet and translator^[2]
John Beverley Nichols, writer
David Nobbs, comedy writer (Reginald Perrin)
Redmond O'Hanlon, travel writer
Ben Pimlott, biographer
John Preston, journalist and novelist
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

Toby Smith, keyboardist of Jamiroquai
Bo Bruce, singer-songwriter
Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter
Nick Drake, singer-songwriter
Anthony Inglis, conductor
Crispian Steele-Perkins, classical trumpeter
David Mahoney, conductor, producer and creative director
Fred Again, producer and composer

Theatre, cinema and television

Robert Addie, actor
Stephen Barry, director and administrator
John Wingett Davies, film exhibitor
Guy du Maurier, dramatist and soldier
Michael Elwyn, actor
Charles Furneaux, producer
Colin Gordon, actor
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
Antony Root, television executive and producer
William Desmond Taylor, director
Ernest Thesiger, actor
Nicholas Woodeson, actor
Jack Whitehall, comedian, television writer/producer and actor
Angus Wright, actor
Emerald Fennell, actress, director and screenwriter
Robert Watts, Hollywood film producer

Politics

Harriett Baldwin, MP for West Worcestershire
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
George Butler Lloyd, MP for Shrewsbury 1913–1922
Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
John Maples, MP for Stratford-upon-Avon
Frances Osborne, ex-wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne
William Newton Dunn, Conservative, and later Liberal Democrat, MEP for the East Midlands.
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
Lord Wright of Richmond, diplomat; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Montague Yeats-Brown, diplomat; consul to Genoa and Boston

Sciences and engineering

J. Richard Batchelor, transplant immunologist
C. V. Boys, experimental physicist
Francis Camps, pathologist
George Stuart Carter, zoologist
Henry Hugh Clutton, surgeon
Sir Charles Galton Darwin, physicist
John Dolphin, inventor and engineer
Sir Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive engineer^[3]
Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer
Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist
David Morley, child health pioneer
Alex Moulton, engineer and inventor of the Moulton Bicycle
Peter Dunn, paediatrician who improved the care of newborn babies
Sir Hugh Pelham, cell biologist
Philip Sheppard, geneticist and lepidopterist
Percy Sladen, marine zoologist
Edward Thompson, steam locomotive engineer^[4]
Thomas Valintine, doctor and New Zealand public health administrator
Bernard Waddy, epidemiologist
E. F. Warburg, botanist
John Zachary Young, physiologist

Sport

George Ainsworth, first-class cricketer
Robert Barker, played for England in the first international football match
Fred Beart, cricketer
Henry Bell, cricketer
Sir Hugh Bomford, cricketer
John Bowley, cricketer
Walter Brooks, cricketer
Richard Busk, cricketer
Francis Chichester, round the world yachtsman
William Crawley, cricketer
Charles Dewé, cricketer
Arthur Duthie, cricketer
John Dolphin, cricketer
Jason Dunford, swimmer
Eric Elstob, cricketer
Edward Fellowes, cricketer
Arthur Fortescue, cricketer
John Fuller, cricketer
Henry Gale, cricketer
Edward Garnier, cricketer
Arthur Sumner Gibson, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871^[5]
Jamie Gibson, rugby union player
John Gunner, cricketer
Alfred St. George Hamersley, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain
Anthony Hill, cricketer
Sir John Hoskyns, 15th Baronet, cricketer
Edward Hume, cricketer
John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest
Hector Jelf, first-class cricketer
Nigel Jerram, first-class cricketer
Maurice Jewell, first-class cricketer
Edward Kewley, nineteenth century England Rugby captain
Sir Henry King, first-class cricketer
Robert Kingsford, England international footballer and FA Cup winner
William Lipscomb, cricketer
John Lloyd, Welsh cricketer
Reginald Lord, cricketer
John Maples, cricketer
Iain MacDonald-Smith, Olympic sailor, Gold medal Mexico 1968
Henry Maturin, Irish first-class cricketer
Jake Meyer, mountaineer
Michael Morgan, first-class cricketer
John Morley, first-class cricketer
Charles Morris, first-class cricketer
Sydney Morse rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875
Peter Nelson, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
Richard Page, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
Inglewood Parkin, cricketer
Charles Patteson, cricketer
Edward Phillips, first-class cricketer
Gerald Phillips, cricketer
Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of The Princess Royal
Albert Porter, cricketer
William Pulman, cricketer
Francis Quinton, cricketer
Nicholas Ross, cricketer
John Scobell, cricketer
Arthur Scott, cricketer
Edward Shaw, cricketer
Reggie Spooner, cricketer
Allan Steel, cricketer
Walter Thorburn, Scottish cricketer
Mark Tomlinson, England International polo player
Stirling Voules, cricketer
Bernard Waddy, cricketer
Charles Waller, cricketer
Lancelot Ward, cricketer
Ronald Watson, Scottish cricketer
Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer
Martin Winbolt-Lewis, Olympic athlete
Andrew Wolfson, cricketer
Sir John Wood, cricketer
Kenneth Woodroffe, cricketer
William Wright, cricketer

Religion

Cyril Alington, headmaster, and Dean of Durham
Henry Bather, Archdeacon of Ludlow 1892–1904
Henry Bell, Canon of Carlisle
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
John Oliver Feetham, Bishop of North Queensland; recognized as a saint in the Anglican Church of Australia

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 and BBC journalist
Hugh Pym, ITN and BBC News journalist
Emily Sheffield, Evening Standard Editor, newspaper and magazine 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, World War I flying ace, killed in action
Phillip Scott Burge, World War I flying ace, killed in action
Edward Bradford, soldier and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
John Brigstocke, admiral, second sea lord, c-in-c Naval Home Command
Michael Clapp senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the United Kingdom's amphibious assault group, Task Group 317.0, in the Falklands War
Richard Corfield, officer in charge of the Somaliland Camel Constabulary
Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff and Governor of Windsor Castle
Peter Gillett, Major-General, Deputy Constable and Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle
John 'Hoppy' Hopgood', pilot in 617 Squadron, killed on the Dambusters raid on 16 May 1943
David Maltby, pilot in 617 Squadron who flew in the Dambusters raid
John Kiszely, Lieutenant General and Director of the Defence Academy
Ian Macfadyen, RAF officer and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man 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
Francis Quinton, British Army general (Royal Artillery)
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

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

VC

Victoria Cross holders:

GC

George Cross holders:

Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls

Commerce and industry

Michael Clapham, industrialist (ICI)
Ernest Debenham, department store owner
Olivia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, senior account manager
Ambrose Heal, retailer
Ian and Kevin Maxwell, former publishers and entrepreneurs
Robert Noel, businessman, chief executive of Land Securities Group plc
Rob Perrins, Managing Director of Berkeley Group Holdings
George Duncan Rowe, stockbroker, co-founder of Rowe & Pitman^[6]
Sir Michael Turner, General Manager (Chairman) of HSBC 1953–1962
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

Princess Eugenie of York, younger daughter of The Duke of York
Catherine, Princess of Wales (née Catherine Middleton), wife of William, Prince of Wales
Pippa Middleton, sister and Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales
Robin Janvrin, courtier, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles, courtier, Private Secretary to George VI and Elizabeth II, and cousin to the husband of Mary, Princess Royal
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
Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
Sir Richard Gaskell, President of the Law Society of England and Wales^[7]

Fashion

Amanda Harlech, model and 'muse' to John Galliano
Stella Tennant, model and fashion designer
Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron and creative director at Smythson

Other professions

Sir Basil Blackett, civil servant and international finance expert
Sir Hugh Bomford, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service
Frederic Bonney, anthropologist and photographer
Sir Grahame Clark, archaeologist
O. G. S. Crawford, archaeologist
Stewart Donald, businessman and football club chairman
Henry Everard, railway executive and acting President of Rhodesia
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
Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, anthropologist
Derrick Somerset Macnutt, Ximenes, cryptic crossword compiler for The Observer
Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker
Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, Founding President of Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia
Tracy Philipps, colonial administrator, intelligence officer, and conservationist, Secretary-General of International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
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
John Wood, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service

References

^ 'BOGGIS, Andrew Gurdon', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)
^ "James Michie" (obituary), The Independent, 21 November 2007, accessed 8 June 2023
^ Hughes, Geoffrey (2001). Sir Nigel Gresley: The Engineer and his Family. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Usk: Oakwood Press. pp. 23, 25. ISBN 0-85361-579-9. OL118.
^ Grafton, Peter (2007) [1971]. Edward Thompson of the LNER. The Oakwood Library of Railway History. Usk: Oakwood Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-85361-672-6. OL145.
^ George Walter De Lisle (editor), Marlborough college register, from 1843 to 1869 inclusive, p57, 1870, (Marlborough college)
^ The Rowers of Vanity Fair/Rowe GD - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
^ "Obituary: Sir Richard Gaskell (B3 1950-54)". 23 September 2016.

Bibliography

A History of Marlborough College During Fifty Years from its Foundation to the Present Time by A.G. Bradley, A.C. Champneys and J.W. Baines (Macmillan & Co., 1893)
Marlborough College Register from 1843 to 1904 Inclusive by Marlborough College (Oxford: Horace Hart, 1905).
Paths of Progress: a history of Marlborough College by Thomas Hinde (John Catt, 1992) ISBN 0-907383-33-5
Marlborough College – official site