List of Old Oundelians
The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians, alumni of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, England:
Armed forces
- Air Vice Marshal David Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer
- Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1949 and 1951
- Bernard Paul Gascoigne Beanlands, Canadian World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories
- Patrick Beesly, wartime intelligence officer and author
- Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, World War II Royal Air Force Pilot and later in the war an operative with the Special Operations Executive
- Denis Eadie MC, British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross by Field Marshal Lord Wavell for his conduct during the relief of Kohima during the Second World War
- Alan Jerrard VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
- Cecil Leonard Knox VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
- John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest[1]
- William Howard Livens, soldier and inventor
- Norman Jewell, World War II Royal Navy officer
- Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers VC, lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist
- Air Commodore John Whitworth, Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War
- Major General Sir John Winterton, Governor and Commander of Trieste
- Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Royal Navy officer
- Rear Admiral Benjamin Bryant CB DSO** DSC, the most successful British submarine ace to survive the war
Arts
- Christopher Alexander, architect, academic and author
- Al Alvarez, poet
- John Davys Beresford, author
- Michael Broadbent MW, wine critic and auctioneer
- Lucy Brown, actress
- George Blagden, actor, singer
- Victor Branford, Sociologist
- Joanna Christie, actress
- Jim Clark, Academy Award-winning film editor
- Charles Crichton, film director
- Bruce Dickinson, author, commercial pilot, singer in Iron Maiden
- David Edgar, playwright
- Adrian Fisher MBE, maze designer
- Colin Franklin writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller
- Nicholas Greenwood, author, journalist, editor, book seller
- Fred Inglis, professor of Cultural Studies
- Anthony Holden, biographer
- Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, broadcaster and former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
- Jon Jones, BAFTA winning film and television director
- Frederick Knott, playwright
- David Pickering, writer
- George Sassoon, writer
- Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical impresario
- Sir Peter Scott, conservationist and painter
- Paul Seabright, academic and writer
- Keith Shackleton, conservationist and painter
- Judge Smith, musician, Van der Graaf Generator
- Bill Ward, actor
- Ivo Watts-Russell, music producer, president 4AD Records
- Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, architect
- John Maxwell Edmonds, poet, dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs
Business and finance
- Alex Baldock (born 1970), businessman, banker, CEO of Dixons Carphone
- Sir Alan Budd, economist
- David Fleming, economist and environmental writer
- Sir Roland Franklin, Antigua and Barbuda-based merchant banker
- Jason Gissing, entrepreneur
- Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO Sony Corporation
Engineering
- Raymond Mays, racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of ERA and BRM
- Amherst Villiers, engineer (automotive, aeronautical, astronautical), portrait painter
Media
- Damian Grammaticas, BBC Europe Correspondent
- Cecil Lewis, co-founder of the BBC and author of 'Sagittarius Rising'
- David Loyn, International Development Correspondent of BBC News
- Arthur Marshall, writer and broadcaster
- Rufus Pollock, economist and founder of Open Knowledge International
- Norman Smith, Assistant Political Editor of BBC News
- Charles Wintour, newspaper editor
Politics and Civil Service
- Baron Allan of Hallam, Liberal Democrat M.P.
- Michael Beaumont, Conservative M.P.
- Sir Roy Beldam, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Caroline Criado Perez, feminist campaigner and writer
- Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Conservative M.P.
- Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Conservative M.P.
- Donald Gorrie, Scottish Liberal Democrat M.P. and former M.S.P. for Central Scotland
- David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin, UK Supreme Court Justice
- Sir Herbert Palmer, Governor of Gambia and Cyprus
- Ralph Bonner Pink, Conservative M.P.
- David Reddaway, diplomat
- David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Conservative M.P.
- The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson, Labour M.P. and Minister of Health 1964-1968
- Sir Colin Shepherd, Conservative M.P.
- Sir Joseph Simpson, Metropolitan Police commissioner
- Peter Thurnham, Conservative and Liberal Democrat M.P.
- Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
- Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, Law Lord
Science and medicine
- Michael Ashby, neurologist, witness in John Bodkin Adams case
- Colin Bibby PhD, ornithologist and conservationist
- Sir Cyril Clarke, physician
- Richard Dawkins, ethologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer
- Charles Fagge, surgeon
- Sir Alister Hardy, marine biologist
- John B. Harman, former chairman of the British National Formulary
- Leslie Hilton Brown OBE, ornithologist and agriculturalist
- Richard Keynes, physiologist
- Clive Minton, ornithologist
- David Nabarro, senior UN system coordinator
- Joseph Needham, biochemist
- Robin Nicholson, metallurgist, Chief Scientific Advisor to cabinet
- Alan Lindsay Mackay, crystallographer
Sport
- Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal, 1928 Coxless fours rowing
- Rollo Brandt, bobsledder, competed for Great Britain at 1956 Winter Olympics[2]
- Bill Elsey, racehorse trainer[3]
- Patrick Foster, cricketer
- Eric Gore-Browne, cricketer
- Reggie Ingle, cricketer
- Will Jefferson, professional cricketer
- David Jennens, Olympic rower
- Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet of Bwllfa, showjumper
- Robert Martin, cricketer
- Michael Maw, cricketer
- Peter Morley, president Crystal Palace Football Club
- Greg Smith, cricketer
- Tom Stallard, Olympic rower
- Tim Swinson, rugby player
- Dave Walder, professional rugby player
- Tom Curry, England rugby player
References
- ^ "The Rev John Langdon". The Times. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ^ "Johnian Winter Olympians". St John's College, Cambridge. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "PressReader.com - Your favorite newspapers and magazines". www.pressreader.com.