List of Old Cliftonians
This is a list of notable Old Cliftonians, former pupils of Clifton College in Bristol in the West of England.
Public life and the law
- Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet
- Sir James Allen, New Zealand politician
- Mirza Osman Ali Baig, MBE, Indian Army officer, Pakistani diplomat and statesman, and Secretary-General of CENTO
- Michael Bear, Lord Mayor of London 2010/11
- Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood, Conservative member of the House of Lords
- Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel, KBE Conservative MP.
- Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of War, 1937–1940
- Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
- Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter, KCMG CIE Barrister
- John Bonham-Carter (1817-1884) Liberal Party Politician
- Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, GCMG, PC
- Sir John Biggs-Davison, Conservative politician
- Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP
- Viscount Caldecote, Sir Thomas Inskip, Lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
- Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, Master of the Rolls and Law Lord
- Geoff Gollop, OBE, Deputy Mayor of Bristol, former Lord Mayor and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol
- Sir James Heath Bt, MP North West Staffordshire.
- Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol, Diplomat
- Sir Thomas Little Heath, Treasury Secretary and scholar and author.
- Lord Henley 8th Baron Henley. Tory Politician
- Sir Roger Hollis, journalist, secret-service agent and director general of MI5
- Syed Fakhar Imam, the 11th Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan.
- Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, Conservative politician
- Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet, Irish Politician, Senator 1st, 2nd, 3rd Seanad
- Neville Laski QC Judge and leader of Anglo Jewry
- Sir John May, Judge
- Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta, English judge, leader of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the UK
- Edwin Samuel Montagu, Liberal politician
- Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling
- Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet, Industrialist and Liberal MP
- Sir Peter Newsam chairman of Commission for Racial Equality and Inner London Education Authority chief education officer.
- Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton GCMG
- Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services Authority
- Colin Sleeman, Assistant Judge Advocate General, senior defence counsel for Japanese accused of war crimes
- Abel Thomas, Welsh Liberal MP
- Col. Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, brother of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet, Liberal and Labour, Minister in Ramsay MacDonald government.
- Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood, 1st Bt
- Philip William Wheeldon Bishop of Whitby
- Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet KC MP, barrister and politician
- John Henry Whitley, Speaker of the House of Commons 1921–1928
- Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, Conservative politician
- Baron Wyfold, Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, Bt MP.
Military
- Field Marshal Douglas Haig
- Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
- Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan
- Sir Francis Younghusband, British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist
- Sir Hugh Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO, general
- Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, General of the Territorial Army and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta.
- Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Watt, Australian flying ace in First World War
- Percy Hobart KBE CB DSO MC, military engineer
- Cecil Rawling, CMG CIE DSO FRGS, soldier, explorer and author
- Alexander Kearsey, OBE, DSO, soldier, cricketer and military historian
- Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
- Jock Hamilton-Baillie MC
Holders of the Victoria Cross
Eight Old Cliftonians have won the Victoria Cross, one in the Second Boer War, five in the First World War (1914–1918), one in the Russian Civil War (North Russia Relief Force, 1919), and one in the Second World War.[1]
- Second Boer War:
- Sergeant Horace Robert Martineau VC (at Clifton 1888–1889) (1874–1916). He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant.
- First World War:
- Richard Douglas Sandford VC (11 May 1891 – 23 November 1918) was a Royal Navy officer who took part in the Zeebrugge Raid and won the Victoria Cross.
- Captain Theodore Wright, VC (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1883–1914)
- Lieutenant Cyril Gordon Martin, VC, CBE, DSO (at Clifton 1910-1910) (1891–1980). He later achieved the rank of Brigadier.
- Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew, VC (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1882–1961). He later achieved the rank of Captain.
- Captain George Henry Tatham Paton, VC, MC (at Clifton 1909–1914) (1895–1917)
- Russian Civil War:
- Commander Claude Congreve Dobson, VC, DSO (at Clifton 1893–1900) (1885–1940)
- Second World War:
- Lance-Corporal John Pennington Harman, VC, (at Clifton 1923–1925) (1914–1944)
Arts
Literature
- C. E. W. Bean, War Correspondent and Official Historian of Australia during the First World War
- Joyce Cary, writer
- L. P. Hartley, author
- Robert Smythe Hichens, Author and playwright
- Geoffrey Household, author
- Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin, author
- Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author and television presenter
- Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Author
- Henry Newbolt, poet
- Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, poet (pseudonym “Q”).
- Montague Summers, Author, translator, Occultist, scandalous Clergyman and member of Uranian poets- bards of Greco-Roman pederasty.
Performing arts
- John Cleese, Monty Python actor[2]
- Manuel del Campo, film editor, actor, and third husband to Mary Astor
- Thorold Dickinson, film director, screenwriter and producer.
- Donald Hewlett, actor
- John Houseman, actor, director and producer
- Trevor Howard, actor
- John Inverdale, television presenter[3]
- John Madden (director)
- Roger Michell, film & theatre director
- Alan Napier, actor
- Sir Michael Redgrave, actor
- Simon Russell Beale CBE, actor
- Chris Serle, television presenter
- Simon Shepherd, actor
- Clive Swift, actor
- David Swift, actor
- Naunton Wayne, actor
Music
- Joseph Cooper
- Scott Ford, musician
- C. S. Lang, organist and composer
- Boris Ord, conductor
- Ian Partridge, tenor
- Harry Plunket Greene
- A. J. Potter, composer
- Martina Topley-Bird, musician
- Peter Tranchell, composer
- Sir David Willcocks, conductor
- Jonathan Willcocks, composer
- Nicky Chinn, songwriter
- Kitty Brucknell, singer/songwriter
Fine arts
- Roger Fry, artist
- Derek Gillman, President of the Barnes Foundation
- Peter Lanyon (1918–1964) Cornish painter of Euston Road School.
- Henry Tonks, English surgeon, artist, like Fry, Slade Professor of Fine Art
Journalism
- Roger Alton, editor of The Observer
- Leigh Brownlee, cricketer and former editor of the Daily Mirror
- William Hanson, columnist for Mail Online, author, etiquette coach and broadcaster
- David Henshaw, investigative journalist and managing director of Hardcash Productions
- Francis Wrigley Hirst, editor of The Economist
- Hugh Schofield, BBC Paris Correspondent
- Steve Scott, ITV newscaster and former ITN foreign correspondent
- Richard Stott, journalist
- Andrew Wilson, Sky News news presenter and former foreign correspondent
Academics
- Eric Birley, Vindolanda archaeologist, Classical scholar
- Simon Blackburn, philosopher, founder of quasi-realism
- Frederick S. Boas
- Horatio Brown, historian
- Norman O. Brown, author, philosopher
- Charles Alfred Coulson, chemist
- G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Classical scholar
- Sir Charles Harding Firth, historian
- Peter Geach, philosopher
- Philip D'Arcy Hart (1900–2006), pioneer in tuberculosis treatment[4]
- Herbert Paul Grice, philosopher
- Sir Thomas Little Heath, polymath, civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator and mountaineer
- Arthur Wilberforce Jose, historian and journalist
- Martin Lings, scholar
- John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, philosopher
- John Pinkerton, designer of world's first business computer, the LEO computer
- Harold Arthur Prichard, philosopher
- Reginald Punnett, geneticist
- Ivor Armstrong Richards scholar, critic, rhetorician author The Meaning of Meaning
- Darrell P. Rowbottom, philosopher
- Sir Richard Threlfall, physicist and chemical engineer
- Herbert Hall Turner, Professor of Astronomy and seismologist
- Conrad Hal Waddington, developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher
- Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, Professor of Poetry and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
- R. P. Winnington-Ingram, scholar of Greek tragedy, Professor of Greek at King's College, London
Nobel Prize winners
- John Kendrew (Chemistry)
- John Hicks (Economics)
- Nevill Mott (Physics)
Sports (in alphabetical order)
Cricket, rugby and football
- WG Grace, Jr., Gloucestershire and MCC cricketer
- Sir Kingsmill Key, Bt., captain of Surrey, MCC and England cricketer.
- John Daniell (cricketer), captain of Somerset, England rugby international
- Basil Allen, cricketer, Gloucestershire captain
- Edwin Field, Middlesex cricketer, England rugby international
- James Kirtley, England cricketer
- Matt Windows, Gloucestershire cricketer and England 'A' cap.
- A. E. J. Collins, cricketer, world record holder (highest individual score as batsman)
- R. P. Keigwin, England cricketer and hockey player
- Edward Tylecote, England cricketer
- George Whitehead, England cricketer[5]
- Charlie Townsend, England cricketer
- Dr. Edward Scott, Gloucestershire & MCC cricketer, England rugby international (captain).
- Sir Stephen Finney, England rugby international[6]
- James Bush Gloucestershire cricketer, England rugby international
- Robert Edwin Bush Gloucestershire cricketer
- William Brain, English cricketer and footballer
- Archibald Fargus, English cricketer, scholar, clergyman
- Lothian Bonham-Carter, English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
- Hannah Leith, International England Croquet captain
- Sir George Lockwood Morris, 8th Baronet Welsh Rugby International
Other
- Jerry Cornes, English Olympic runner
- Walter Gibb, world record holder (altitude)
- Rowley Leigh, English chef
- Michael Francis Middleton, Businessman and father of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Both Middleton's father, Capt. Peter Francis Middleton (d.2010) and his grandfather, solicitor and company director Richard Noel Middleton (d.1951) also boarded at Clifton
- William Pollock, English chess master
- Lily Owsley, Hockey GB and England
Business
- Walter Owen Bentley, founder of Bentley Motors
- John Wyndham Beynon, entrepreneur of the fossil fuel and metals industry
- Sir Trevor Chinn, Tycoon and Philanthropist
- Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet, business man, chairman of British-American Tobacco Company
- Sir Roy Fedden, engineer
- Andy Hornby, former Chief Executive of HBOS
- Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs, entrepreneur
- Sir Horace Kadoorie, industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
- Lord Kadoorie, industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
- Julian Richer, entrepreneur, owner of Richer Sounds
- Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet, industrialist
- Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services Authority
- Sir Clive Thompson former Chairman of Farepak and Chief executive of Rentokil Initial
- Sir Robert Waley Cohen, industrialist and prominent leader of Anglo-Jewry
- Sir Bernard Waley Cohen, business man and Lord Mayor of London
- Henry Herbert Wills, tobacco baron and philanthropist
- Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, business man, chairman of GUS
- David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, politician, businessman, chairman of Next
Fictional
- Christopher Tietjens, the protagonist of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End.
See also
References
- ^ Bland, R.L., Clifton's V.C.s, Old Cliftonian Society, pp. 57–60
- ^ A school legend has it that Cleese was expelled. In one version, Cleese used painted footsteps to suggest that the statue of General Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the lavatory. In another version, he was expelled for staging a suicide jump from the Wilson Tower during Commem, shouting, "I can't stand it any longer" to parents coming out of the Chapel before a dummy plummeted to the ground. Although such pranks may have happened, Cleese was not expelled.
- ^ John Inverdale at bbc.co.uk
- ^ Draper, Philip; John Skehel (30 August 2006). "Philip D'Arcy Hart". Obituaries. The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2008.
- ^ George Whitehead at cricinfo.com, accessed 25 November 2008
- ^ Edmund Burke, The Annual register of world events: a review of the year, Volume 166, p119, Longmans, Green, 1925