List of people educated at Christ's Hospital
Alumni of Christ's Hospital school are known as Old Blues. They include:
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- Roger Allam - Actor
- "Attila the Stockbroker" (real name John "Basil" Baine) - Musician and songwriter
- Joshua Barnes - English scholar
- Thomas Barnes - Journalist
- John Beazley - Classical scholar
- Tim Benjamin - Composer[2]
- Edmund Blunden - Poet, author and critic
- Arthur Lyon Bowley - Statistician and economist
- William Burnside - Mathematician
- Cyril Burt - Psychologist
- William Camden - Antiquarian and historian
- Edmund Campion - Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
- Sydney Carter - Poet, songwriter, musician
- Mordecai Cary - Bishop
- Lucy Caslon - Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
- Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari - Military administrator
- Richard Clarke - Civil servant
- Kira Cochrane - Journalist and Author
- John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton - British Army Field Marshal
- Henry Cole - Civil servant and inventor
- Jenkin Coles - Australian politician
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher
- Edward Colston - Slave trader
- James Coomarasamy - Correspondent
- Edgar William Cox - Intelligence officer
- James D'Arcy - Actor
- Howard Davies - Theatre and television director
- Sir Colin Davis - Conductor
- Ruth Deech - Academic, lawyer and bioethicist
- Keith Douglas - Poet
- Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003
- George Dyer - Poet
- John Edmonds - Trade Union Leader[3]
- Catherine Ennis - Organist[4][5]
- Tenniel Evans - Actor
- Thomas Everard - Mayor
- Jason Flemyng - Actor
- Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram
- Robert Newton Flew - Methodist theologian
- Vincent Frank - Musician
- Rob Gauntlett - Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker
- Louis Harold Gray - Physicist
- General Sir Michael Gray - soldier
- Jasper Griffin - Professor of Classics at Oxford
- Dom Bede Griffiths, O.S.B. Cam. - Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East-West religious dialogue
- Norman Guthkelch - British paediatric neurosurgeon
- Francis Seymour Haden - Surgeon
- Philip Hall - Mathematician
- Caesar Henry Hawkins - Surgeon
- Samuel Hayden - Canadian politician
- Thomas Hartwell Horne - Theologian and librarian
- Charles Hazlewood - Conductor and broadcaster
- Percy Henn - Clergyman and schoolmaster
- Andrew Higgins - Rugby union player
- Steve Hilton - Conservative Party director of strategy
- Stuart Holland - Labour politician and academic
- James Hooper - Adventurer
- Sydney Samuel Hough - Astronomer and mathematician
- Leigh Hunt - Critic, essayist, and poet
- Rupert Jackson - Lord Justice of Appeal
- Philip Kitcher - Professor of philosophy
- Charles Lamb - Essayist
- Constant Lambert - Composer and conductor
- Edward Lambert - Composer
- Joe Launchbury - Rugby Union player
- Bernard Levin - Journalist, author and broadcaster
- Martin Linton - former Labour Member of Parliament
- Norman Longmate - Author, historian and broadcaster
- Derrick Somerset Macnutt - crossword compiler ("Ximenes")
- Bryan Magee - Broadcaster, politician, and author
- Jeremiah Markland - Classical scholar
- Russell Meiggs - Historian
- Henry James Sumner Maine - Comparative jurist and historian
- Philip Mayne - Soldier
- Aylmer Maude - Translator
- John Middleton Murry - Writer
- Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan - Abdominal surgeon
- Horace W. C. Newte - Author
- David Norgrove - Businessman
- William Nye - Principal Private Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–present
- Phillip Osborne - Explorer
- Peter Padfield - Historian[6]
- Rex Paterson - Agricultural researcher
- George Peele - Dramatist
- Tayo Popoola - Musician and DJ
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin - Architect, designer, and theorist of design
- Percy Pyne - President of City National Bank in the United States
- Tony Ray-Jones - Photographer
- John Septimus Roe - Surveyor-General of Western Australia
- Alan Ryan - Professor
- James Scholefield - Classical scholar
- Jonathan Scott - Wildlife photographer and TV presenter
- Stephan Shakespeare - Business man and entrepreneur
- Dennis Silk - Schoolmaster and international cricketer
- David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury - Business man
- Charles Robert Smith - Governor of North Borneo
- John Snow - Cricketer
- Chris Steele-Perkins - Photographer
- John Robin Stephenson - British Army officer and cricket administrator
- Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham - Labour politician
- William Alder Strange - Headmaster and author
- Christopher Tambling - (1964-2015) Composer, Organist and Choirmaster
- Mark Thomas - Comedian and political activist
- Rupert Thomson - Novelist
- Edward Thornton - Diplomat
- Richard Thornton - Merchant and trader
- Sir Ian Trethowan - Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist
- Keith Vaughan - Painter
- Alexander Vidal - US Land surveyor, banker and political figure
- Barnes Wallis - Scientist, engineer and inventor
- Holly Walsh - Comedian
- E F Watling - Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator
- James White (1775-1820) - Advertising agent
- Air Marshal Sir Harold Edward Whittingham - Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War
- Gerald James Whitrow - Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian
- Michael Wilding - Actor
- Erik Christopher Zeeman - Mathematician
Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders
Four Old Blues have won the Victoria Cross[7][8] and two the George Cross.
- Victoria Cross
- Umbeyla Campaign
- Major Henry William Pitcher, VC (1841–1875) (CH 1848–1856)
- First World War
- Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrith Elstob VC, (1889–1918) (CH 1898–1905)
- Second Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter VC, (1885–1916) (CH 1896–1901)
- War in Afghanistan
- Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey, VC (CH 1999–2006)
- Umbeyla Campaign
- George Cross
- Non Military
- Charles William Tandy Green GC (CH 1898–1904)
- Second World War
- Air Vice Marshal Sir Laurence Sinclair GC, KCB CBE DSO and Bar, (1908–2001) (CH 1919–1924)
- Non Military
References
- ^ Historical records relating to admissions to the school are kept by the London Guildhall Library see http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/christ1.htm
- ^ Benjamin, Tim (30 June 2013). "My Calder Valley". Hebden Bridge Times. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ Stuart Thomson, "John (Walter) Edmonds"
- ^ Sutton, Dave. "An evening with our President, Catherine Ennis, at St Mary-Le-Bow on 12/11/2014". www.cleso.org.uk. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ "Catherine Ennis begins term as President of Royal College of Organists". www.rco.org.uk. Royal College of Organists. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
- ^ Peter Padfield biography at andrewlownie.co.uk, accessed 18 October 2015
- ^ Christ's Hospital Association
- ^ www.wscountytimes.co.uk