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This article lists notable former pupils of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England, and its lineal antecedents at St Omer, Bruges and Liège. Former pupils are referred to in school contexts as O.S. (Old Stonyhurst). Inter alia the school counts among its most distinguished former pupils: three Saints,[1] twelve Beati,[1] twenty-two martyrs,[1] seven archbishops, and seven Victoria Cross winners.[1]

Alumni of the College at St Omer, Bruges, & Liège (1593–1794)

Saints, beati and martyrs

Philip Evans
Father John Fenwick, SJ

Others

Aedanus Burke
  • Hon. Aedanus Burke, soldier, judge and United States Representative from South Carolina; served in the militia forces of South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War; appointed judge of the State circuit court; member of the South Carolina House of Representatives; served in the Revolutionary Army; appointed one of three commissioners to prepare a digest of the State laws; member of the convention in 1788 called to consider ratification of the Constitution of the United States, which he opposed; elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the First United States Congress; elected a chancellor of the courts of equity; senior member of the South Carolina appellate courts; Chief Justice of South Carolina.[6]
  • Philip Calvert, Keeper of the Conscience of Maryland; Governor of Maryland.[7]
  • Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving and only Catholic signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Continental Congress and later US Senator for Maryland.[8]
  • Daniel Carroll, American Roman Catholic who helped draft the United States Constitution.[9]
  • Rt. Rev. John Carroll, first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America; first Archbishop of Baltimore, founder of Georgetown University and the Georgetown Preparatory School; John Carroll University is named in his honour.[10]
  • John Caryll, 1st Baron Caryll of Durford, in the Jacobite Peerage, poet, dramatist, and diplomat; translated Ovid's Epistle of Briseïs to Achilles and Virgil's first Eclogue; during the "Popish Plot" was committed to the Tower of London, but was soon let out on bail; when James II of England succeeded to the throne, he sent him as his agent to the court of Pope Innocent XI; secretary to Queen Mary of Modena, after the Glorious Revolution, he followed the exiled royal family to Saint-Germain; implicated in a plots to overthrow William of Orange (William III), whilst in exile he was created by the dethroned James II Baron Caryll of Durford (or Dunford) in West Sussex and appointed his Joint Secretary of State; his son, the so-called Old Pretender, James Francis Edward Stuart, recognised by Jacobites as "King James III and VIII", re-appointed him one of his Secretaries of State.[11]
Christopher Grant Champlin
Henry Gage

Alumni of the College at Stonyhurst (1794–present)

Edmund Costello

Alumni

Victoria Cross Holders

Seven Stonyhurst Alumni have won the Victoria Cross.

Gabriel Coury

Others

Alfred Austin
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Charles Allston Collins
Arthur Conan Doyle
Frank Gavan Duffy
Frank Foley
Oliver St John Gogarty
Charles Waterton
  • Fr James Waterworth, missionary priest who published "Faith of Catholics", a translation of the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent and of Veron's "Rule of Faith"; his last book, England and Rome was on the relations of the Popes to post-Reformation England. He was made canon and later provost of Nottingham.
  • Sir Frederick Weld, New Zealand politician; elected to the first House of Representatives; member of the Stafford Executive; Native Affairs Minister; Prime Minister; Governor of West Australia; Governor of Tasmania; Governor of the Straits Settlements; Knight of the Order of St Pius.
  • Christopher Wenner, journalist and television presenter for the BBC's Blue Peter programme and an overseas correspondent for ITN's Channel 4 News; under the nom-de-guerre "Max Stahl",[61] Wenner has become a war correspondent, whose footage brought the plight of the East Timorese to world attention; winner of the Rory Peck Award for his journalism.[62]
  • George J. Wigley, architect, journalist, co-founder of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, co-founder of the Peterspence Association, awarded the Cross of St Gregory the Great by Pius IX.[63]
  • Douglas Wilmer, British actor (primarily associated with the role of Sherlock Holmes)
  • Paul Woodroffe, stained glass artist and book illustrator, produced the 15 windows for the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral (NYC)
  • Hugh Wooldridge, theatre and television director and producer
  • Sir Thomas Wyse, Member of Parliament (Liberal and second Irish Roman Catholic), advocate of Catholic Emancipation; Junior Lord of the Treasury; Secretary to the Board of Control; British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Greece

Miscellaneous accolades

The following were awarded to former Stonyhurst pupils: 1914-1918 war:

Second World War:

Six O.S. were killed serving in the Second Boer War.

Fictional alumnus

See also

References

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  43. ^ Bill Cash. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
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  60. ^ William Tobin profile
  61. ^ Graphic images flood out of Syria. Why no world uproar?, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 February 2012
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  63. ^ Wigley Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
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