Old Denstonians
Denstone College is an independent, coeducational boarding school in Denstone, Staffordshire, England. Its alumni are known as Old Denstonians (ODs). The Denstone Association looks after the College's alumni.
ODs
- Peter Brinson – writer and lecturer on dance.[1]
- Frederick George Jackson – Arctic explorer.[2]
- John Makepeace OBE – furniture designer.[3]
- Keith Mant – forensic pathologist and war crime investigator.[4]
- William Whitehead Watts – President of the Geological Society (1910–1912).[5]
- Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn - Chief Manager of the HSBC Bank and member of the Hong Kong Reistance who died a prisoner of the Japanese in 1943
- Major General Ralph Wooddisse - British Army officer
- Guy F P Watts - Treasurer, Lancaster University Conservative Society
- Charles Feingold - Chief Milk Monitor, 1974-1975
Churchmen
- Charles MacAlester Copland – clergyman[6]
- Philip Pasterfield – Bishop of Crediton (1974–1984)[7]
- Dennis Victor – Bishop of Lebombo[8]
Politicians and lawyers
- Geoffrey Cheshire FBA – barrister and jurist.[9]
- Warren Hawksley – Conservative Member of Parliament
- Asda Jayanama – diplomat
- Lord Justice Kay – Lord Justice of Appeal.[10]
Sportsmen
- Arthur Berry - England Footballer, Double Olympic Gold Medallist and former Chairman of Liverpool Football Club[11]
- Phil Davies – rugby player
- Alastair Hignell – rugby union and cricket player.[12]
- N. F. Humphreys - 1910 British Lions (died in World War I).[13]
- Tommy Kemp – rugby union fly half for England 1931 -1948
- Tim Mason – cricketer
- David Short - Derbyshire cricketer
- Jeremy Snape – England cricketer.[14]
Writers and broadcasters
- Alex Lester – broadcaster
- Guy Thorne - pseud. Cyril Arthur Edward Justice Waggoner Ranger Gull (1876–1923), novelist and journalist[15]
- Petre Mais (S. P. B. Mais) - author & broadcaster
- Richard Morris - archaeologist and writer
- Quentin Crisp – writer and actor.[16]
- René Cutforth - journalist
- Tim Marlow - writer, broadcaster and art historian
- Joanna Cannon - writer
See also
References
- ^ Robinson, Ken (2004). "Brinson, Peter Neilson (1920–1995)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription or UK public library membership required). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 October 2009.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ Savitt, Ronald. Legacies of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–1897. Polar Record 43 (224): 55–66 (2007)
- ^ The Furniture Society – John Makepeace biography
- ^ The Guardian – Keith Mant obituary, 16 November 2000
- ^ William Whitehead Watts. 1860–1947. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 6, No. 17 (Nov. 1948), pp. 263–279
- ^ Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ^ Who's Who 1992 "(London, A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3514-2)
- ^ Who was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ The Times – Obituary: Professor G. C. Cheshire—Influential writer on the law, 28 October 1978
- ^ Downing Street – Privy Council Appointments Archived 2 January 2004 at the Wayback Machine, 19 May 2000
- ^ Daily Post, Liverpool FC's Javier Mascherano wants gold Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 2008-08-22, accessed 14 February 2010
- ^ University of Bristol – Honorary degrees awarded at the University today, 12 July 2004
- ^ CWGC -
- ^ Cricinfo – Jeremy Snape player profile
- ^ Philip J. Waller, Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain, 1870–1918, Oxford University Press, 2006, p.1011 ISBN 0-19-820677-1 ISBN 978-0198206774 [1]
- ^ The Independent – Quentin Crisp, 2 November 1999