List of Old Carthusians

The following are notable Old Carthusians, who are former pupils of Charterhouse (founded in 1611).

Born in the 17th century

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Co-founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams

Joseph Henshaw (1603–1679), Bishop of Peterborough, 1663–1679
Roger Williams (c. 1603–1683), religious dissenter and co-founder of Rhode Island
Richard Crashaw (1612/3–1648), poet
Christopher Gibbons (c. 1615–1676), organist and composer
Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet and soldier
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), mathematician and theologian
John Washington (1633–1677), Virginia planter and great grandfather of George Washington
James Vernon (c. 1646–1727), Secretary of State
Nathaniel Lee (c. 1647–1692), dramatist and poet
Samuel Bradford (1652–1731), Bishop of Carlisle and Rochester
John King (c. 1655–1737), Master of Charterhouse 1715-1737
Dr. Henry Levett (1668–1725), chief physician, Charterhouse 1712-1725
Joseph Addison (1672–1719), writer and politician
Sir Richard Steele (c. 1672–1729), writer and politician, founder of The Tatler
Andrew Tooke (1673–1731), Headmaster of Charterhouse
John Davies (1679–1732), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Martin Benson (1689–1752), Bishop of Gloucester
Francis Peck (1692–1743), antiquary
John Thomas (1696–1781), Bishop of Winchester
Robert Paltock (1697–1767), writer
John Ryder (c. 1697–1775), Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, 1743–1752, and Archbishop of Tuam, 1752–1775
Mark Hildesley (1698–1772), Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1755–1772
John Jortin (1698–1770), ecclesiastical historian and literary critic

Born in the 18th century

Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough

Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet (c. 1700–1776), judge
John Wesley (1703–1791), founder of Methodism
Edmund Keene (1714–1781), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Ely
Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), first Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1758–1766, politician and judge
William Jones of Nayland (1726–1800), controversial clergyman
Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729–1808), Secretary at War, 1778–1782, first President of the Board of Trade, 1786–1804, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1786–1803
John Buckner (1734–1824), Bishop of Chichester
Samuel Berdmore (1739–1802), Master of Charterhouse School, 1769–1802
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), surgeon, botanist, and Bath King of Arms, 1771–1800
Sir Horatio Mann (1744–1814), politician and patron of cricket
John Law (1745–1810), bishop
William Cawthorne Unwin (1745–1786), clergyman
John Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher, traveller and eccentric
William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist and conversationalist
Thomas Day (1748–1789), author
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818), Lord Chief Justice, 1802–1818
Charles Manners-Sutton (1755–1828), Bishop of Norwich, 1792–1805, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1805–1828
Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757–1849), Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, 1801–1806, and Commander-in-Chief in India, 1811–1813
John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1789–1794, and Lord Privy Seal, 1798–1827
George Henry Law (1761–1845), Bishop of Chester, 1812–1824, and Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1824–1845
Francis Wollaston (1762–1823), Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1792–1813
James Beresford (1764–1840), novelist
Henry Majendie (1764–1830), Bishop of Chester and Bangor
James Smithson (1764–1829), mineralogist, traveller and founder of the Smithsonian Institution (probable Old Carthusian)
William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), metallurgist, crystallographer and physiologist, discoverer of palladium and rhodium, researcher into platinum
William Heberden the Younger (1767–1845), physician to George III
Henry Luttrell (1768–1851), wit and poet
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), Prime Minister, 1812–1827
Basil Montagu (1770–1851), author, barrister and Accountant-General in Bankruptcy, 1835–1846
William Madocks (1773–1828), property developer and politician, founder of Tremadog and Porthmadog
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), Royal Navy officer and rake (left after 9 days)
James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776–1845), politician and Lord President of the Council, 1841–1845
John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), Governor of the Bank of England
George Cecil Renouard (1780–1867), classicist and orientalist
Assistant Commissary-General Sir George Head (1782–1855), army commissary, Deputy Knight-Marshal to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1831–1855
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783–1862), surgeon and physiologist, Sergeant-Surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1832–1862
General Sir Frederick Adam (1784–1853), army officer, commander of the 3rd Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, commander in the Mediterranean, 1817–1824, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1824–1832, and Governor of Madras, 1832–1837
James Henry Monk (1784–1856), theologian and classicist, Bishop of Gloucester, 1830–1836, and Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1836–1856
George Burges (1785/6–1864), classicist
William Forbes Raymond (1785–1860), Archdeacon of Northumberland
John Thomas James (1786–1828), Bishop of Calcutta, 1826–1828, and art historian
Sir Edward Hall Alderson (c. 1787–1857), judge
John Fonblanque (1787–1865), barrister and legal writer
John Fisher (1788–1832), Archdeacon of Berkshire
John Ramsden Wollaston (1791-1856), Archdeacon of Western Australia
Gilbert Ainslie (1793–1870), clergyman, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge^[1]
Sir Cresswell Cresswell (1793–1863), judge and politician
Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), painter and first Director of the National Gallery, 1855–1865
Samuel Hinds (1793–1872), Bishop of Norwich, 1849–1857
Sir William Hay Macnaghten (1793–1841), Chief Secretary, Indian Secret and Political Department, 1833–1841
John Walpole Willis (1793–1877), controversial judge in Canada, British Guiana and Australia
Benjamin Guy Babington (1794–1866), physician and orientalist, inventor of the laryngoscope
Richard Lynch Cotton (1794–1880), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
George Grote (1794–1871), historian and radical politician
Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), theological writer
Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), commander in the Indian Mutiny
Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), Bishop of St David's, 1840–1874, and historian
Frederick Henry Yates (1797–1842), actor-manager
William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868), astronomer
Henry Raper (1799–1859), writer on navigation

Born in the 19th century

Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd

Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1801–1874), Secretary at War, 1846–1852, and Secretary of State for War, 1855–1858
Colonel Sir Proby Cautley (1802–1871), civil engineer and palaeontologist, Superintendent of the Doab Canal, India, 1831–1843, and Superintendent of Canals, North-Western Provinces, 1843–1854, architect of the Ganges Canal
Sir Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), Solicitor-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1825–1833, Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1833–1837, Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1844–1873, and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, 1875–1891
William John Hamilton (1805–1867), geologist and politician
John Edward Jackson (1805–1891), archivist at Longleat
William Bruère Otter (1805–1876), Archdeacon of Lewes
Sir George Barrow (1806–1876), civil servant
Rawdon Brown (1806–1883), historian in Venice
Thomas Milner Gibson (1806–1884), radical politician, President of the Board of Trade, 1859–1866
Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), clergyman and writer
Sir Christopher Rawlinson (1806–1888), Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca, 1847–1850, and Chief Justice of Madras, 1850–1859
Sir Charles Trevelyan (1807–1886), Assistant Secretary to HM Treasury & responsible for famine relief during the disastrous Irish famine, 1840–1859, Governor of Madras, 1859–1860, and Minister of Finance of India, 1862–1865
Cardale Babington (1808–1895), Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge, 1861–1895
Charles Freshfield (1808–1891), solicitor
John Murray (1808–1892), publisher
Ralph Bernal Osborne (c. 1808–1882), politician, Secretary of the Admiralty, 1852–1858
G. T. Clark (1809–1898), civil engineer and antiquary, Manager, Dowlais Ironworks, 1855–1897
Owen Jones (1809–1874), architect, printer and designer
William Hornby (1810–1899), Archdeacon of Lancaster
Martin Tupper (1810–1889), poet and writer
George Stovin Venables (1810–1888), barrister and journalist
Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), Member of Parliament for Clitheroe
Henry Liddell (1811–1898), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1855–1891, editor of the Greek-English Lexicon
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Storks (1811–1874), last High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands, 1859–1863, Governor of Malta, 1864–1865, Governor of Jamaica, 1864–1866, Controller-in-Chief of the War Office, 1866–1870, and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 1870–1874
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist
George Whitaker, (1811–1882), clergyman and first provost of Trinity College, Toronto
Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812–1855), architect
Sir Frederick Knight (1812–1897) Conservative MP
Henry Lushington (1812–1855), Chief Secretary of Malta, 1847–1855
George Samuel Fereday Smith (1812–1891), industrialist and canal manager
William Macpherson (1812–1893), barrister and legal writer
John Armstrong (1813–1856), first Bishop of Grahamstown, 1853–1856
Alfred Gatty (1813–1903), clergyman and writer
George Dennis (1814–1898), archaeologist and diplomat
Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), orientalist, diplomat and politician, Professor of Urdu, East India College, 1845–1857
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson (1814–1879), Member of Parliament for Bridport and Bristol, and Governor of the Bank of England
Henry Ray Freshfield (1814–1895), solicitor and conservationist
William Alexander Ayton (1816–1909), clergyman, alchemist, and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), clergyman and poet
John Leech (1817–1864), caricaturist
Sir James Cockle (1819–1895), Chief Justice of Queensland, 1863–1879, and mathematician
Sir George Bowen (1821–1899), Chief Secretary of the Ionian Islands, 1854–1859, first Governor of Queensland, 1859–1867, Governor of New Zealand, 1867–1873, Governor of Victoria, 1873–1879, Governor of Mauritius, 1879–1882, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1882–1885
Greville Phillimore (1821–1884), clergyman and author
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), critic and poet
Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1824–1871), physician and medical writer
William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), traveller and diplomat
Sir Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919), economist and banker
Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886), first Professor of Helminthology, Royal Veterinary College, 1873–1886
Sir Reginald Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the House of Commons, 1886–1900
Mordaunt Roger Barnard, Rev. (1828–1906), translator and author
Sir William Des Vœux (1834–1909), Administrator of St Lucia, 1869–1878, Governor of Fiji, 1880–1885, Governor of Newfoundland, 1886–1887, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1887–1891
Sheldon Amos (1835–1886), Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London, 1869–1879, and University of London, 1873–1879, and lawyer and judge in Egypt
Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer (1836–1914), Governor of Natal 1882–1885
Henry Nettleship (1839–1893), classicist, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford, 1878–1893
Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), clergyman and hymn writer
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905), classicist and politician, Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow, 1875–1889, and Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge, 1889–1905
Albert Seymour (1841–1908), Archdeacon of Barnstaple
Basil Champneys (1842–1935), architect and author
Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), judge and politician, Attorney-General, 1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1900, Master of the Rolls, 1900, and Lord Chief Justice, 1900–1913
Warin Foster Bushell (1885–1974), educationalist and President of the Mathematical Association
Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy (1885–1963), hereditary peer
Edward Talbot (1844–1934), first Warden of Keble College, Oxford, 1869–1888, Vicar of Leeds, 1889–1895, Bishop of Rochester, 1895–1905, first Bishop of Southwark, 1905–1911, and Bishop of Winchester, 1911–1923
Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), Sinologist, Professor of Chinese, University of Cambridge, 1897–1932, co-inventor of Wade-Giles transliteration system
Kenneth Augustus Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie (1845–1930), barrister and civil servant, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1880–1915, and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, 1884–1915
Arthur Clarke (1848–1932), Archdeacon of Lancaster and Rochdale
Edgar Gibson (1848–1924), Bishop of Gloucester
William Wyatt "Nipper" Pinching (1851–1878), surgeon and early rugby union international who represented England in 1872.^[2]
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937), actor-manager
Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), soldier and founder of the Scouting Movement, commander of Mafeking garrison, 1899–1900, founder and first commander of the South African Constabulary, 1900–1902, Inspector of Cavalry, 1902–1908, General Officer Commanding Northumbrian Division, 1908–1910^[3]
Leonard Burrows (1857–1940), Bishop of Lewes and Sheffield
William Hayter (1858–1935), Dean of Gibraltar
John Norman Collie (1859–1942), organic chemist and mountaineer, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University College, London, 1902–1928
Basil Harwood (1859–1949), organist and composer
William Foxley Norris (1859–1949), Dean of York and Westminster
William Douglas Young (1859–1943), Governor of the Falkland Islands
William Hurrell (1860–1952), Archdeacon of Loughborough
Henry Southwell (1860–1937), Bishop of Lewes
Sir Henry Head (1861–1940), neurologist
Lionel Monckton (1861–1924), composer and songwriter
Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861–1936), judge and politician, Solicitor-General, 1919–1922, Attorney-General, 1922, and Master of the Rolls, 1923–1935
James F. M. Prinsep (1861–1895), footballer and holder of two 'youngest player' records until 2004
William "Nuts" Cobbold (1862–1922), England international footballer
James Cropper (1862–1938), Dean of Gibraltar
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), political scholar
Cyril Francis Maude (1862–1951), actor-manager
Andrew Amos (1863–1931), England international footballer and clergyman
Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley (1863–1946), Member of Parliament for Leeds East and East Grinstead
Walter Howard Frere (1863–1938), founder member of the Community of the Resurrection, Bishop of Truro, 1923–1935
Sir Cyril Jackson (1863–1924), Inspector-General of Schools, Western Australia, 1896–1903, Chief Inspector of Elementary Schools, 1903–1905, and Chairman of London County Council, 1915–?
Sir Reginald Neville, 1st Baronet (1863–1950), barrister and politician
Bertram Pollock (1863–1943), Bishop of Norwich
Sir C. Aubrey Smith (1863–1948), actor and cricketer
Percy Melmoth Walters (1863–1936), England and Corinthian footballer
Henry Wilson-Fox (1863–1921), Member of Parliament for Tamworth
Brigadier Guy Hudleston Boisragon (1864–1931), Victoria Cross
Andrew Burn (1864–1927), Dean of Salisbury
Brien Cokayne, 1st Baron Cullen of Ashbourne (1864–1932), Governor of the Bank of England
Charles Alfred Howell Green (1864–1944), Archdeacon of Monmouth, 1914–1921, first Bishop of Monmouth, 1921–1928, Bishop of Bangor, 1928–1944, and Archbishop of Wales, 1934–1944
Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864–1958), art, porcelain and book collector and benefactor
John Percival Gulich (1864–1898) illustrator, engraver and artist
Arthur Melmoth Walters (1865–1941), England and Corinthian footballer
Charles Wreford-Brown (1866–1951), English international football captain and cricketer
Ronald Montagu Burrows (1867–1920), Principal of King's College London (1913–1920)
Coningsby Disraeli (1867–1936), Member of Parliament for Altrincham
Granville Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans (1867–1942), hereditary peer
Oswald Parry (1868–1936), Bishop of Guyana
Sir Eustace Tennyson-D'Eyncourt (1868–1951), naval architect, Director of Naval Construction, 1912–1924
Sir Henry Gollan, (1868–1949), Chief Justice of various British colonies, retired as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr (1869–1915), hereditary peer and cricketer
Walter Gilliat (1869–1963), England international footballer and clergyman
Colonel James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (1870–1945), Victoria Cross
Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans (1870–1960), hereditary peer
Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870–1943), hereditary peer
Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1870–1945), philologist and lexicographer, first Baines Professor of English Language and Philology, University of Liverpool, 1904–1920, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 1920–1945
Sir Farquhar Buzzard (1871–1945), physician, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1928–1943
Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (1871–1947), Chief of Staff, Fourth Army, 1916–1918, Chief of Staff, British Army of the Rhine, 1918–1920, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, India, 1920–1925, General Officer Commanding Southern Command, Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1931–1933, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1933–1936
Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll (1872–1949), hereditary peer
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), satirist and caricaturist
Richard Clewin Griffith (1872–1955), British chess champion (1912) and chess author
Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944), composer
Gilbert Oswald Smith (1872–1943), England international football captain and cricketer
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer
Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (1874–1953), archaeologist and palaeographer, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1927–1939
Air Marshal Sir John Higgins (1875–1948), founder member of the Royal Flying Corps, Commander, No.2 Brigade, RFC, 1916–1918, Royal Air Force commander, British Army of the Rhine, Air Officer Commanding Northern Area, Director of Personnel, AOC Inland Area, 1922–1924, AOC Iraq, 1924–?, Air Member for Supply and Research, and AOC-in-C India, 1939–1940
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game (1876–1961), Director of Training and Organisation, Royal Air Force, 1919–1923, Air Officer Commanding India, 1923, Air Member for Personnel, 1923–1929, Governor of New South Wales, 1930–1935, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1935–1945
Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950), composer
Kelville Ernest Irving (1877–1953), musical director and composer
Horace Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan (1878–1950), Irish peer
William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (1879–1963), civil servant, politician, economist and social reformer, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Food, 1919, Director of the London School of Economics, 1919–1937, and Master of University College, Oxford, 1937–1944
Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie (1879–1964), Inspector, Royal Engineers, 1933–1935, General Officer Commanding Malaya and Singapore, 1935–1939, and Governor-General of Malta, 1940–1942
Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879–1963), Egyptologist
Sir Patrick Hastings (1880–1952), barrister and politician, first Labour Attorney-General, 1924
Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Leachman (1880–1920), intelligence officer and traveller
Hampton Weekes (1880–1948), Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight
Tom Rowlandson MC (1880–1916), England amateur football goalkeeper
Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom (1881–1965), architect and politician
Thomas Leopold McClintock-Bunbury, 3rd Baron Rathdonnell (1881–1937), soldier and peer
Colonel Sir Ronald Storrs (1881–1955), Oriental Secretary in Cairo, 1909–1915, Governor of Jerusalem, 1917–1926, Governor of Cyprus, 1926–1932, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia, 1932–1934
Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake (1881–1964), Mayor of Maidstone, zoo keeper
Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882–1974), poet and novelist
Henry FitzHerbert (1882–1958), Archdeacon of Derby
Wyndham Halswelle (1882–1915), sprinter who won Olympic gold in 1908 in the 400m and was killed in battle during World War One. The school refused an offer to host his Olympic medals and other trophies in 2008. They are now displayed in the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.^[4]
Thomas Wilson (1882–1961), Archdeacon of Worcester
Arthur Preston (1883–1936), Bishop of Woolwich
Kenneth Searight (1883–1957), linguist
Lieutenant-General Edward Felix Norton (1884–1954), soldier and mountaineer, Acting Governor of Hong Kong, 1940–1941, and General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India, 1941–1942
Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), diplomat and traveller in Central Asia, Chinese Secretary in Peking, 1922–1936
John Woodhouse (1884–1955), Bishop of Thetford
Ben Travers (1886–1980), dramatist
Hedley Burrows (1887–1983), Dean of Hereford
General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887–1965), Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1938–1946, Chief of Staff to the Viceroy of India, 1947–1948, and first Secretary General of NATO, 1952–1957
Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887–1944), Governor of Victoria, 1926–1931, Deputy Chief Scout, 1936–1941, and Chief Scout, 1941–1944
J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), first head master of Stowe School, 1923–1949
Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889–1982), painter and gardener
Arthur Stuart, 7th Earl Castle Stewart (1889–1961), Member of Parliament for Harborough
Claud Lovat Fraser (1890–1921), artist and designer
Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks (1890–1960), Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff
General Sir Kenneth Anderson (1891–1959), General Officer Commanding First Army, 1942–1943, GOC Second Army, 1943–1944, GOC Eastern Command, 1944–1945, GOC-in-C East Africa, 1945–1946, and Governor of Gibraltar, 1947–1952
Eric Archibald McNair (1894–1918), First World War Victoria Cross
John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir (1894–1954), politician, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1936–1938, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1938–1940, and Governor of Bombay, 1943–1948
Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965), Australian barrister, politician and judge, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs, 1941–1949, Leader of the Labor Party, 1951–1960, and Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1960–1962
Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman (1894–1982), cryptographer, Chief Cryptographer, Bletchley Park
Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist
Alfred Bower (1895–1970), England footballer
Edward Anthony Hawke (1895-1964), Common Serjeant of London and Recorder of London
General Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge (eldest son of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, the only man to rise to the rank of Field Marshal from private), Managing Director, Dunlop, South Africa, 1935–1940, Chief Administrative Officer, Allied Forces in Italy, 1944–1945, Deputy Military Governor of the British Zone of Germany, 1945–1947, Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1947–1949, British Commissioner, Allied High Commission, 1949–1950, C-in-C Middle East Land Forces, 1950–1953, and Chairman of the British Transport Commission, 1953–1961
Sir Lionel Heald (1897–1981), barrister and politician, Attorney-General, 1951–1954
Frederick William Winterbotham (1897–1990), intelligence officer
Harold Greville Hanbury (1898–1993), jurist, Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1949–1964
Dudley Clarke (1899–1974), leading World War II deception planner and founder of the Commandos
David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins (1899–1969), Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster
John McNeill QC (1899–unknown) Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China and Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association

Born in the 20th century

Maurice Herbert Dobb (1900–1976), economist
Richard Hughes (1900–1976), novelist and dramatist
John Samuel Tunnard (1900–1971), painter
Horace Geoffrey "H.G." Quaritch Wales (1900–1981), Southeast Asian studies
Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce (1901–1990), Law Lord
Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow (1901–1965), cricketer and journalist
Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent (1901–1986), politician
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond (1902–1962), poet
Sir Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet (1902–1971), landowner, Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
Major-General Orde Wingate (1903–1944), guerrilla warfare specialist, founder and commander of the Chindits
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist and co-founder of cybernetics
Ralph Etherton (1904–1987), Conservative Member of Parliament for Stretford
Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904–2003), film producer
Augustine Courtauld (1904–1959), yachtsman and British Arctic explorer
Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), anthropologist and author
John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley (1905–1987), founder of the Royal College of General Practitioners
John Pelloe (1905–1983), Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech
Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster (1906–1975), Paymaster General
Sir Harold Ridley (1906–2001), ophthalmic surgeon, inventor of the intraocular lens implant
Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon (1906–1989), advocate and judge, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1957–1959, Lord of Session, 1959–1965, Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, 1965–1971, and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1971–1976
Ronald Cartland (1907–1940), Conservative MP and rebel against Chamberlain's appeasement policies, killed near Dunkirk in 1940; portrayed in Lynne Olson's "Troublesome Young Men."
Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke (1907–1989), author and screenwriter
Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull (1907–1989), Commander, Blade Force, 1942, General Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division, 1944–1945, GOC 5th Infantry Division, 1945–1946, Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, 1946–1948, Director of Staff Duties, 1948–1950, Chief Army Instructor, Imperial Defence College, 1950–1952, Chief of Staff, Middle East Land Forces, 1953–1954, GOC British Troops in Egypt, 1954–1956, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1956–1958, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, 1958–1961, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1961–1965, and Chief of the Defence Staff, 1965–1967
Terence Kealey (born 1952), biochemist
Bernard Kettlewell (1907–1979), lepidopterist
Richard Murdoch (1907–1990), actor and comedian
Yashwant Rao Holkar II (1907–1990), Maharaja of Indore
Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908–1961), cartoonist and designer
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (1908–2000), Chairman of De Beers
Alexander Clifford (1909–1952), journalist and author
William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood (1909–1989), Conservative Member of Parliament for Westmorland and government minister
Henry Carpenter Longhurst (1909–1978), golf journalist and commentator
Alec Pearce (1910–1982), cricketer Kent, Hong Kong and MCC.
Geoffrey Toone (1910–2005), actor
Jack Whittingham (1910–1972), James Bond screenwriter
Sir John Lovegrove Waldron (1910–1975), Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1968–1972
Peter Bostock (1911–1999), Archdeacon of Mombasa and Doncaster
John Hill (1912–2007), barrister, farmer and Conservative Member of Parliament for South Norfolk
John Lewis (typographer) (1912–1996), typographer and illustrator
Hilary Wayment (1912–2005), author and historian of stained glass
Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913–1962), hereditary peer
John Sinclair Morrison (1913–2000), Professor of Greek, University of Durham, 1945–1950, Vice-Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, 1960–1965, first President of University College (later Wolfson College), Cambridge, 1965–1980, expert on Greek triremes
Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom (1913–1992), Conservative Member of Parliament for Nottingham Central
William Robert McClintock-Bunbury, 4th Baron Rathdonnell MC (1914–1959), soldier and Irish peer
Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, later Baron Dacre of Glanton
Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist (witness before the Wolfenden Committee)
Ronald Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir (1917–1996), soldier, Governor of the Bank of Scotland
Wilfrid Noyce (1917–1962), mountaineer and writer, member of the 1953 Everest Expedition
Kent Walton (1917–2003), wrestling commentator
Alexander Wallace Fielding (1918–1991), SOE officer and author
Peston Padamji Ginwala (1918–2008), Indian barrister
Sir Ronald Millar (1919–1998), actor, scriptwriter and speechwriter for Margaret Thatcher
Ian Wallace (1919–2009), singer and broadcaster
Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), historian and Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University, 1963–1990
John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls
Michael Hoban (1921–2003), headmaster of Harrow School
W. Stanley Moss (1921–1965), SOE officer, author and traveller
Peter Nye (1921–2009), soil scientist
David Dane (1923–1998), virologist
Sir Leonard Figg (1923–2014), diplomat
Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths (1923–2015), soldier, cricketer, barrister, judge and life peer
Sir Anthony Caro (1924–2013), sculptor
Professor Peter Green (born 1924), classical scholar, historian and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Murray Irvine (1924–2005), churchman and Provost of Southwell Minster
Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith (1924–2010), Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras South, East Grinstead and Wealden
Robert Neild (born 1924) Cambridge economist and peace researcher.
Kenneth Newton (1927–2010), novelist
Gerald Francis Priestland (1927–1991), broadcaster and writer
Simon Arthur Noël Raven (1927–2001), writer
Oliver Popplewell (born 1927), judge
Jim Prior, Baron Prior (born 1927), former Member of Parliament for Lowestoft and Waveney, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1970–72), Secretary of State for Employment (1979–81)
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928–2012), public servant, journalist, and editor of The Times (1967–81)
Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne (born 1928), Labour Member of Parliament for Lincoln, founder of Democratic Labour, co-founder of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Liberal Democrat peer
Adrian Berg (1929-2011), artist^[5]
Richard Eyre (1929–2012), Dean of Exeter
David Nightingale Hicks (1929–1998), interior designer and author
Peter May (1929–1994), England cricket captain
Peter Yates (1929–2011), film director
Peter Vaughan (born 1930), churchman and former Bishop of Ramsbury
Michael Whinney (born 1930), churchman and former Bishop of Aston and Bishop of Southwell
John Mollo (1931–2017), costume designer for the film industry
Frederic Raphael (born 1931), writer
Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist
John Finney (born 1932), churchman and former Bishop of Pontefract
Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford (1932–1989), former Member of Parliament for The Wrekin
John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham (born 1932), former Member of Parliament for Maldon and South Colchester and Maldon and government minister
Peter Walwyn (born 1933), racehorse trainer
Don Cupitt (born 1934), philosopher of religion and Christian theologian
Sir Richard Sorabji (born 1934), historian of ancient philosophy
Sir Anthony Buzzard, 3rd Baronet (born 1935), biblical scholar and Christian theologian
Major John Gouriet (1935–2010), Conservative political campaigner and founder of The Freedom Association
Peter Grant (1935–1995), manager of (Led Zeppelin)
David Dimbleby (born 1938), TV presenter^[3]
David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 1938), hereditary peer
Adam Raphael (born 1938), journalist
Thomas Benjamin McClintock-Bunbury, 5th Baron Rathdonnell (born 1938), Irish peer
Sir (Marsom) Henry Boyd-Carpenter, courtier
Peter Cowie (born 1939), film historian
Sir John Banham (born 1940), diplomat and business leader
Hubert Chesshyre (born 1940), courtier
Andrew Graham (born 1942), Master of Balliol College, Oxford
Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance (born 1943), Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Michael Prestwich (born 1943), former Professor of Medieval History at the University of Durham
Jonathan Dimbleby (born 1944), TV and radio presenter
Jonathan King (born 1944), pop music impresario^[3]
Peter de Savary (born 1944), entrepreneur and former chairman of Millwall F.C.
Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes DL (born 1945), former soldier, businessman, consulting physician, and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Wimbledon
Sir Max Hastings (born 1945), journalist, writer and broadcaster
Tim Yeo (born 1945), former Member of Parliament (MP) for South Suffolk and former chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
Sir Philip Bailhache QC (born 1946), Bailiff of Jersey, Channel Islands 1995–2009, current Minister for External Relations
John Campbell (born 1947), political writer and biographer
General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman (born 1947), Adjutant-General to the Forces, 2000–2003, Commander-in-Chief Land, 2003–2005, and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, 2005–
Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (born 1947), Labour peer and Treasury minister in the 2010 Coalition government
David Walter (1948–2012), ITN and BBC correspondent, radio and television producer and later political advisor (President of the Oxford Union and winner of the Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster (born 1949), hereditary peer
Jim Powell (born 1949), novelist
Tony Banks (born 1950), keyboardist and founder member of Genesis
Peter Gabriel (born 1950), singer-songwriter and founder member of Genesis^[3]
Sir John Watson Gieve KCB (born 1950), Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
Rivers Jobe (1950–1979), bass guitarist and member of Anon
Richard Macphail (born 1950), vocalist for Anon
Mike Rutherford (born 1950), guitarist and founder member of Genesis; also leader of Mike + The Mechanics^[3]
Rob Tyrell (born 1950), drummer for Anon
Graham Seed (born 1950), actor who played Nigel Pargetter in BBC radio programme The Archers
Chris Stewart (born 1950), founder member of Genesis
Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook (born 1951), hereditary peer
Ian Davies (born 1951), chairman of Rolls Royce Group plc
Sir Nigel Davis (born 1951), Lord Justice of Appeal
Anthony Phillips (born 1951), guitarist and founder member of Genesis
Anthony Coombs (born 1952), former Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest
Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 1952), crossbench peer
Mike Thornton (born 1953), former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh
Sir James Goss Kt QC (born 1953), Justice of the High Court
Sir Michael Briggs (judge) (born 1954), Justice of the High Court
Archie Norman (born 1954), businessman, chairman of ITV plc and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells
John Peet (born 1954), journalist for The Economist
Stephen Venables (born 1954), mountaineer and writer
Christopher Cunliffe (born 1955), Archdeacon of Derby
Colin Blumenau (born 1956), Artistic Director of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
Martin Ephson (born 1956), director at Farrow & Ball, winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise (2004)
Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956), poet and critic
Karl Wallinger (born 1957), rock musician
Richard Milner, 3rd Baron Milner of Leeds, hereditary peer
Rachel Portman (born 1960), composer
Joseph Neill (born 1961), surgeon and soldier
Tim Judah (born 1962), journalist and author
Mark Garnier (born 1963), Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest
Jeremy Hunt (born 1966), Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey and Foreign Secretary
Maxwell Barclay (born 1970), entomologist
Nicholas de Wolff (born 1970), digital media pioneer, founder of New Media Council
Douglas Carswell (born 1971), former Conservative, UKIP and independent Member of Parliament (MP) for Harwich (2005-10) and Clacton (2010-17)
Cathy Newman (born 1974), journalist and presenter of Channel 4 News^[6]
James Innes (born 1975), author
Clement Power (born 1980), conductor
Richard Dennen (born 1982), journalist and editor of Tatler.^[7]

Fictional Old Carthusians

Giles Wemmbley-Hogg (created 2002, born c. 1984), fictional BBC Radio 4 character
Major Quive-Smith (created 1939, born c.1900) from Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male; a British-educated gestapo officer and the book's chief antagonist.

References

^ John Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, p. 20
^ Nipper Pinching Profile on scrum.com
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Rebecca Camber (2012-03-25). "Charterhouse pupil 'filmed boys in shower': Teen arrested at £30,000-a-year school | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
^ "Hero from a forsaken generation". Herald Scotland. 21 July 2008.
^ "Adrian Berg". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
^ http://guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/83/Charterhouse/HMC/Charterhouse-Godalming-Surrey-GU7-2DX
^ "Tatler magazine appoints new editor Richard Dennen who went to university with Kate and William". London Evening Standard. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

[1] John Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, p. 20

[2] Nipper Pinching Profile on scrum.com

[dailymail1-3] Rebecca Camber (2012-03-25). "Charterhouse pupil 'filmed boys in shower': Teen arrested at £30,000-a-year school | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-03-27.

[4] "Hero from a forsaken generation". Herald Scotland. 21 July 2008.

[5] "Adrian Berg". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 October 2018.

[6] ttp://guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/83/Charterhouse/HMC/Charterhouse-Godalming-Surrey-GU7-2DX

[Tatler-7] "Tatler magazine appoints new editor Richard Dennen who went to university with Kate and William". London Evening Standard. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.

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