List of Old Gregorians
An Old Gregorian (usually abbreviated OG) is a former member of Downside School, situated near Bath, Somerset, in the United Kingdom.
Alumni are so-named because the school was founded and is still run, to an extent, by monks from the adjoining Benedictine monastery of St Gregory the Great which, since 1814, has been established at Downside Abbey.
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Old Gregorians
A
- Sir Rudolph Agnew – former chairman of Consolidated Goldfields
- Sir Mark Allen – United Kingdom spy, turned businessman and academic lecturer[citation needed]
- Rupert Allason – author (under the pen-name Nigel West) and former Conservative MP[1]
- Antony Nicholas Allott – English academic, Professor of African Law at the University of London
- Alistair Asprey – Secretary for Security for Hong Kong Government, Commanding Officer of Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force
B
- Tom Bethell – editor of the American Spectator[2]
- Fergus Blackie - Justice of The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe and Rhodesian Front MP
- Don Brennan – English cricketer
C
- William Cash – author and journalist
- Alex Chisholm – Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Civil Service
- Ralph Clutton – cricketer
- Brian Cotter – former Liberal Democrat MP[3]
- Archie Cotterell – cricketer and novelist
- Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville – former Archbishop of Birmingham[4]
- Thomas Clifford, 14th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
- William Craven, 6th Earl of Craven
D
- Pete de Freitas – musician, member of Echo & The Bunnymen[5]
- Christian Louis de Massay – Monegasque royalty
- Arthur Denaro- Donegal raised Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars and later Commandant of Sandhurst
- John Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth – Minister for Colonial Affairs[6]
- John Eric Drummond, 9th Earl of Perth
- Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj[7]
- Tom Doorley - Irish food critic and presenter of The Restaurant
E
- Dominick Elwes – portrait painter
- Barry England – novelist and playwright[8]
- Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet - Teachta Dála for Fine Gael
- Peter Evans-Freke, 11th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer
- Michael Evans-Freke, 12th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer
F
- Rocco Forte – British hotelier and entrepreneur[9]
- Edward Fitzgerald QC
- Nicolás Franco – nephew of Francisco Franco[10]
- William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness (1929–1995)[11]
G
- Joseph Gaggero – Gibraltarian businessman[12]
- Francis Aidan Gasquet – Cardinal, Vatican librarian[13]
- Brion Gysin – author and artist[14]
H
- Jared Harris – actor[15]
- Simon Halliday – former England rugby player[16]
- David Hawkins – Royal Air Force officer[17]
- Bobby Henrey – child actor, star of 'The Fallen Idol'[18]
- Denis Caulfield Heron - First Catholic Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin and MP for Tipperary
- Tristram Hillier – surrealist painter
- Richard Holmes – biographer
- Lord Hunt of Tanworth[19]
J
- Christopher Jamison – Abbot of Worth
- Julian Jebb – BBC journalist – DNB
- Philip Jebb – architect and Liberal Party politician
K
- Chris Kelly – TV presenter and producer[20]
- Norbert Keenan - Irish Barrister and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
- Ivone Kirkpatrick - Irish born Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, British High Commissioner at Allied High Commission and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See
- Halik Kochanski - Historian and writer
M
- Seán MacBride - Teachta Dála, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ireland), Chief of Staff of the IRA and Nobel Peace Prize Winner[21]
- Frank MacDermot - Teachta Dála and founder of Fine Gael
- Pierce McCan- Teachta Dála and Easter Rising Veteran
- Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim[22]
- Nicholas Mander – Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet
- Gerald Maxwell MC – First World War flying ace[23]
- Prince Emmanuel de Merode – Director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- James Miller – journalist and film-maker[24]
- David Mlinaric – interior designer[25]
- Richard More O'Ferrall - Governor of Malta and high level politician, of the prominent More O'Ferrall family.[26]
- Peter Morgan – scriptwriter[27]
- John Mullan – professor of English and writer[28]
N
- Albert Nelson, 6th Earl Nelson
- Henry Nelson, 7th Earl Nelson
- Martin Newland – former editor of The Daily Telegraph[23]
- Barry Nicholas – classicist, former Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford
- William Nicholson – playwright[29]
- Marek Niedużak - lawyer
- Michael Noakes – artist
- John Norman – first-class cricketer[30]
- Stafford Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh
O
- Daniel O'Connell - Leader of the movement for Catholic emancipation, Irish Nationalist and MP
- Charles Owen O'Conor - Liberal MP for Roscommon and President of Gaelic League
- Denis Maurice O'Conor - Irish Parliamentary Party MP for Sligo County
P
- Anthony Palliser – artist
- John Bede Polding – first Archbishop of Sydney[31]
- Francis Pollen – architect, worked on buildings at the Abbey and school
- Philip Pope – actor and composer[32]
- James Pope-Hennessy – biographer and travel writer
- John Pope-Hennessy – former director of the British Museum[23]
- Edmund Purdom – film actor
- Jenico Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston – art connoisseur and aristocrat
R
- Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP – Master of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) from 1992 to 2001[33]
- Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell – Solicitor General and Attorney General[34]
- Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell – Conservative peer - Scottish rugby international[35]
- Nicholas Rossiter – TV producer[36]
S
- Wilfrid Sheed – novelist and essayist[37]
- Todd Sharpville – musician
- Eugene Simon – actor[38]
- Sir John Smythe, 8th Baronet – cricketer
- Sir Robert Stapylton – courtier, dramatic poet and translator[39]
- Richard Stokes – former Lord Privy Seal[40]
- Christopher Sykes – author
- John Sweetman - Founder of Sinn Féin
- Roger Sweetman - Teachta Dála for Sinn Féin and abstentionist MP
T
- Simon Tolkien – author and novelist[41]
- Maurice Turnbull – Welsh rugby international and Test cricketer[42]
- Paolo Tullio – writer, radio/TV personality and Michelin star-winning chef
U
- James Underwood – pathologist[43]
V
- John Varley – former CEO of Barclays[44]
- Hugh Vyvyan – captain of Saracens Rugby[45]
W
- Auberon Waugh – journalist[46]
- Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe – former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
- Patrick Wall – Royal Marines officer and Conservative politician[47]
Z
- Count Adam Zamoyski – historian[48]
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- ^ Josep C. Clemente, La Corte de los Prodigios, Antonio Machado Libros (2005), p. 211
- ^ "OBITUARY: Viscount Furness". The Independent. 12 May 1995.
- ^ "Joseph Gaggero". Times. 22 March 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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- ^ Barber, Michael (21 February 2011). "Wilfrid Sheed obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
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Bibliography
- List of Boys at St Gregory's, Downside Abbey, Bath, 1972: covers 1614–1972.
- List of Boys at St Gregory's: First Supplement, Downside Abbey, Bath, 1983: covers 1967–1982 and lists corrections to the 1972 publication.