List of Old Citizens
Old boys of the City of London School are called Old Citizens. The school's old boy association is called the John Carpenter Club after John Carpenter, town clerk of London, whose bequest led to the founding of the school. The following is by no means a comprehensive list: over 140 people listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography were educated at the City of London School, and that includes only the names of those who are already dead.[1]
Prominent Old Citizens
Many of those listed are cited in the Dictionary of National Biography.[1]
- Edwin Abbott Abbott - Headmaster of the school (after whom Abbot house is named), theologian and author[2]
- David Lindo Alexander - Jewish community leader[3]
- Kingsley Amis - Writer[4]
- William Anderson - Physician, Anatomy professor and scholar of Japanese Art[5]
- Michael Apted - Actor, Producer and Director[6]
- Thomas Walker Arnold - Orientalist[7]
- Lord Ashby - Botanist and university chancellor[8]
- Herbert Henry Asquith - Prime Minister 1908-1916[9][10]
- Roy Baker - Film director
- Julian Barnes - Novelist[11]
- Jonathan Barnes - Philosopher[11]
- Aaron Barschak - Comedian[12]
- Henry Charles Beeching - Poet
- David Blundy - War Correspondent, killed in El Salvador, 17 November 1989
- Bramwell Booth - General of the Salvation Army
- Mike Brearley - Cricketer, captain of the England cricket team 1977–1981 and whose father Horace Brearley taught at CLS)[13]
- Clive Brooks - member of Egg (band)
- Arthur Henry Bullen - Publisher and scholar
- Darren Burn - Actor, singer and studio engineer.[14]
- Kenneth Callow - Biochemist
- Mont Campbell - Member of Egg (band)
- Suma Chakrabarti - Senior Civil Servant
- Lord Chalmers - Colonial governor and minister
- Sir Paul Chambers - Industrialist, Chairman of ICI[citation needed]
- Danny Cohen - New Controller of BBC One, and formerly of BBC Three [15]
- Lord Collins - Supreme Court justice
- Robert Seymour Conway - Classical scholar and philologist
- Jim Cousins - Labour MP
- Jack Crawford - Professional NFL Player, Oakland Raiders
- Philip Dawid - Statistician
- John Diamond - Journalist and broadcaster, & Sunday Times writer
- Edward Divers - Chemist
- Lord Evans - Royal physician
- Stewart Farrar - Author
- John Knight Fotheringham - Historian, an expert on ancient astronomy and chronology
- Percy Gardner - Archaeologist
- Edward Garnett - Editor and writer
- Leo Genn - Stage and film actor
- Israel Gollancz - Founding member of the British Academy
- Theodore Bayley Hardy - Victoria Cross holder
- Sir Nicholas John Hannen, Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan and British Consul General, Shanghai[16]
- Marc Henrie - Photographer of Cats and Celebrities
- Peter Higgs - Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist, predicted the so-called "God Particle" known as the Higgs boson[17]
- Frederick Hopkins - Nobel prize winning biochemist[citation needed]
- Paul Hough - Film Director[citation needed]
- William Huggins - Astronomer[citation needed]
- Joseph Oscar Irwin - Statistician[citation needed]
- Steven Isserlis - Cellist[citation needed]
- Benedict Jacka - Novelist[18]
- Tim Jackson - Entrepreneur and author[citation needed]
- Anthony Julius - Lawyer[citation needed]
- Skandar Keynes - Film Actor[citation needed]
- Ralph Knott - Architect
- Peter B. Kronheimer - Mathematician
- Charles Edwin Layng - Pathologist - b 1892 - d 1943
- James Leasor - Author[citation needed]
- Sidney Lee - Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography[citation needed]
- Anthony Lester - Lawyer
- Peter Levene - Chairman of Lloyd's of London and Lord Mayor of London 1998 & 1999[citation needed]
- Joseph Hiam Levy[citation needed]
- David M. Lewis - Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford[citation needed]
- Sir Patrick Linstead - Chemist and Rector of Imperial College London[citation needed]
- David Litman - American Entrepreneur, founder of hotels.com[citation needed]
- Ernest Lough - Boy soprano, singer, whose recording of Mendelssohn's "O for the Wings of a Dove" with the Temple Choir in 1927 made him world famous; it was the first classical record to sell (by 1962) more than a million copies.[citation needed]
- Luigi Masi [citation needed]- Singer & musician[citation needed]
- Frederick MacPherson, lead singer of indie rock band Spector[19]
- Sir Wylie McKissock - neurosurgeon[20]
- Luke McShane - Chess Grandmaster[citation needed]
- Lord Mishcon - Solicitor and politician who represented Princess Diana in her divorce. Home affairs spokesman in the House of Lords from 1983–1990 and shadow Lord Chancellor 1990–1992.[citation needed]
- Neil Morisetti - UK Climate and Energy Security Envoy
- Max Newman - mathematician and World War II codebreaker[citation needed]
- George Newnes - publisher and editor[citation needed]
- Denis Norden - Writer and broadcaster[citation needed]
- Richard Packer - Senior Civil Servant
- Howard John Stredder Pearce - Former Governor of the Falkland Islands and Civil Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI)[citation needed]
- Mark Pears, British billionaire, CEO of William Pears Group[21]
- Sir William Henry Perkin FRS - Chemist best known for his discovery of the first aniline dye mauveine at the age of 18.
- Henry Thomas Herbert Piaggio - Physicist[citation needed]
- Arthur Rackham - Illustrator[citation needed]
- Daniel Radcliffe - Actor in the Harry Potter series of film adaptations.[citation needed]
- Thrishan Ramakrishnan - Star Centre Half, Old Citizens F.C.
- Gervais Rentoul - Politician and first chairman of the 1922 Committee[citation needed]
- Charles Thomson Ritchie - Chancellor of the Exchequer 1902-1903[citation needed]
- Edward Linley Sambourne - Punch cartoonist[citation needed]
- Michael Schwab - Professor of Public Health[citation needed]
- John Robert Seeley - Historian and essayist[citation needed]
- John Shrapnel - Film and stage actor
- Bernard Silverman FRS- Former Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office
- William Johnson Sollas, geologist and anthropologist
- Dave Stewart (keyboardist) - Keyboardist with the band Egg
- Edward Stanford - Mapmaker
- Alfred Sutro - Playwright
- Joshua Rose - Essex Hockey Player and Comedian
- Derek Taunt - Mathematician and cryptologist[22]
- John Lawrence Toole - Actor and theatre manager
- Thomas Fisher Unwin - Publisher
- David Walker - Master of the Household
- Alan Arthur Wells – Structural engineer, developer of Wells turbine [23]
- Sir Robert Stanford Wood First Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton
References
- ^ a b Oxford University Press. "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1885-2004)". England: Oxford University Press online. See: Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "Abbott, Edwin Abbott (ABT857EA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Alexander, David Lindo (ALKR860DL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Barratt, Nick (9 June 2007). "Family detective". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ Royal College of Surgeons, The (2 October 2009). "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". The Royal College of surgeons of England. London. Retrieved 13 October 2010. Note: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online is a biographical register of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
- ^ Michael Apted Biography (1941-)
- ^ "Arnold, Thomas Walker (ANLT883TW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ *"University of Sydney - Profile". Archived from the original on 2 October 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2007.
- ^ Bates, Stephens (2006). Asquith. London: Haus Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-904950-57-4. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
- ^ Spender, J. A. (1932). Life of Lord Oxford and Asquith (2 vols). Hutchinson.
- ^ a b Merritt Moseley, Understanding Julian Barnes, University of South Carolina Press (1997)
- ^ Bremner, Charles. "The Times – UK News, World News and Opinion". The Times. London.
- ^ Mike Brearley Profile - England Cricket Player
- ^ [1]-
- ^ Danny Cohen named as new BBC One Controller - BBC News online (15th Oct, 2010)
- ^ Obituary, North China Herald, 2 May 1900, p 766
- ^ "Renaming the God particle".
- ^ ""About Me"". Benedict Jacka. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-414016/Rock-secret-Gordons-official.html
- ^ B.A. Bell 1996 Wylie McKissock - reminiscences of a commanding figure in British neurosurgery British Journal of Neurosurgery 10(1): 9-18.
- ^ "Mark Pears". Globalrealestate.org. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ Derek Taunt - Daily Telegraph
- ^ "Alan Arthur Wells" (PDF). Royal Society. Retrieved 11 January 2011.