List of Old King's Scholars
This is a list of some notable former pupils of The King's School, Canterbury, known as Old King's Scholars. In fact the term King's Scholar referred to the few boys who by their academic ability at a very young age, sometimes 10, won scholarships to King's. The abbreviation OKS is always used to refer to former members of King's.
Academic
- Catherine Conybeare, academic and philologist
- Sir Tony Hoare, computer scientist
- Jeremy Lawrance, linguist and historian
- William Wyse[1]
Business
- Ian Cheshire, Chief Executive, Kingfisher
Clergy
- Gavin Ashenden
- Richard Boys
- William Grant Broughton
- David L. Edwards
- Michael Mayne
- Howard Mowll, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney
Explorers
Film directors
Government
- Sir Patrick Walker, former Director general of MI5
- Sir Anthony Parsons
- Natascha Engel
- Tristan Garel-Jones
- George Gipps
- Charles Powell
- Jonathan Powell
- Hugh Robertson
Military
- John Day (RAF officer)
- Harry Gardner MC (1890–1939), British Army officer and first-class cricketer
- Field-Marshal Montgomery[2]
Music
- Stephen Barlow
- Simon Carrington
- Harry Christophers
- John Wesley Harding
- George Miles
- Stephen Varcoe
- Christopher Seaman
- Andrew Marriner
Science and engineering
Sport
- Harry Gardner MC (1890–1939), first-class cricketer and British Army officer
- Reginald Glennie, cricketer
- David Gower, England cricketer
- Bob Haines, cricketer
- Frances Houghton, Olympic rower
- Tom Ransley, Olympic rower
- Fred Scarlett, Olympic rower
- Millie Knight, Paralympic skier
Writers, poets, playwrights and journalists
- Sebastian Barker
- Oz Clarke
- Michael Cordy
- David L. Edwards
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Dyneley Hussey
- Alaric Jacob
- John Lloyd
- Edward Lucie-Smith
- Christopher Marlowe
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Leslie Mitchell
- Michael Morpurgo
- Walter Pater
- James Hamilton-Paterson
- Anthony Price
- Shoo Rayner
- Edmund de Waal
- Hugh Walpole
- Alan Watts
- Tom Ward
Other
- Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden, barrister and judge
- Hubert Chesshyre, retired British officer of arms found to have committed child sexual abuse[3]
- Myles Jackman, lawyer
- Sir Fairfax Luxmoore, Lord Justice of Appeal
- George Sale
- Antony Worrall Thompson
- Jacquetta Wheeler
- Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
Victoria Cross
Three Old King's Scholars have been awarded the Victoria Cross.[2]
- Victoria Cross
- Second Afghan War
- Captain William John Vousden, VC, CB (1848–1902). He later achieved the rank of major general. (KS 1859-60)
- First World War
- Second lieutenant Alfred James Terence Fleming-Sandes, VC (1894–1961). He later achieved the rank of Major. (KS 1907-13)
- Second World War
- Lieutenant Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, VC (1917 to 1979). (KS 1931-35)
- Second Afghan War
References
- ^ Venn Cambridge University database[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "www.kings-school.co.uk". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ Jamie Doward (30 March 2019). "Honours system under scrutiny after sex abuser kept title for years". The Observer. Retrieved 1 April 2019.