List of Old Salopians

List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable old boys of Shrewsbury School, a leading UK independent boarding and day school in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England.

A

• Harold Ackroyd VC MC (1877–1917), soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer
• Sir James Adams KCMG (1932–2020), ambassador to Tunisia (1984–1987) and Egypt (1987–1992)
• John Adams (before 1670−1738), cartographer
• Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65
• Sir John Lawson Andrews KBE DL PC (1903–1986), Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and son of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews
• John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy

B

• Alan Barber (1905–1985), cricketer and headmaster of Ludgrove
• Robert Bardsley CMG OBE (1890–1952), cricketer and colonial administrator
• Edward Barnard (1992–), cricketer
• Mike Barnard (1990–), cricketer
• Sir Alexander Fitzwilliam Barrington, 7th Baronet (1909–2003), landowner
• Douglas Bartles-Smith (1937–2014), priest and Archdeacon of Southwark 1985–2004
• William Henry Bateson (1812–1881), scholar and Master of St. John's College, Cambridge 1857–1881
• Sir Cecil Beadon KCSI (1816–1880), administrator in India
• Andrew Berry (born 1963), evolutionary biologist and historian of science at Harvard
• Nick Bevan (1942–2014), rowing coach
• Henry Edward James Bevan FRSL (1854–1935), Archdeacon of Middlesex
• Peter Blagg (1918–1943), cricketer and soldier
• David Blakely, murder victim; shot dead by Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain
• Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker KCMG PC (1922–2009), politician
• The Ven. Charles Blakeway (1868–1922), Archdeacon of Stafford 1911–22
• Omar 'Ali Bolkiah (born 1986), crown prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
• Christopher Booker (1937–2019), journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
• Tim Booth (1960–), lead singer of the band James
• Colin Boumphrey DFC (1897–1945), cricketer and Royal Air Force officer
• Donald Boumphrey MC (1892–1971), cricketer, educator and British Army officer
• Sir James Bourne, 1st Baronet (1812–1882), politician
• Piers Brendon (born 1940), historian
• John Breynton (1719–1799), minister and missionary in Nova Scotia
• Lieutenant General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker KCB KCMG DSO (1862–1934), senior British Army commander
• Mynors Bright (1818–1883), academic and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
• John Brockbank (1848–1896), footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland
• Peter Brown FBA (born 1935), historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
• Lieutenant-Colonel Barwick Sharpe Browne (1881–1963), officer and librarian in the Institute of Archaeology
• Samuel Browne (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
• Samuel Hawksley Burbury FRS (1831–1911), mathematician
• Robert Burn (1829–1904), classical scholar, archeologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
• Charles Burney FRS (1726–1814), musician, composer, music historian
• John Burrell (1910–1972), theatre director
• John Burrough (1873–1922), cricketer
• Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh

C

• Sir Edward John Cameron KCMG (1858–1947), British colonial administrator, Governor of Gambia 1914–1920
• Sir Philip Montgomery Campbell FRSA FInstP (born 1951), Editor-in-Chief of Nature
• Sir Frederick Catherwood (1925–2015), politician, writer, and vice-president of European Parliament
• Jamie Catto (born 1968), economist and programmer
• Bruce Clark (1958–), journalist and author
• George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975), historian
• Miles Clark (1960–1993), author, journalist and explorer
• William George Clark (1821–1878), literary and classical scholar
• William Clarke (1695–1771), antiquary
• Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill (1833–1895), politician
• Lieutenant-General Sir Skipton Hill Climo KCB DSO (1868−1937)
• Richard Charles Cobb CBE (1917–1996), historian and essayist
• Edward Meredith Cope (1818–1873), classical scholar
• Edward Corbet (died 1658), Anglican clergyman
• Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden (1943–), biochemist
• Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet (1739–1809), MP for Cheshire 1780–1796
• Sir Randolph Crewe (also Crew) (bap. 1559, d. 1646), judge
• Sir Julian Critchley (1930–2000), journalist and politician
• Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft CMG TD (1881–1947), Conservative politician
• Assheton Henry Cross, 3rd Viscount Cross (1920–2004), racing driver and soldier
• John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney (1925–2008), industrialist, civil servant, and peer
• Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow KCMG (1912–2013), diplomat
• Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce PC (1912–2000), judge

D

• Charles Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
• Peter Davis (born 1941), businessman, former chairman of Sainsbury's
• William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane KBE FSA JP DL (1872–1953), politician and MP for Kensington South
• Francis Day CIE (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
• Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
• Charles Spencer Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 2nd Baronet CBE MC TD (1916–2012), businessman and peer
• General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey GBE KCB DSO MC (1896–1969), D-Day 2nd Army Commander
• Hal Dixon (1928–2008), biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College, Cambridge
• Cyril Henty-Dodd (1935–2009), interviewer and radio disc jockey, commonly known as Simon Dee
• John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782–1854), naturalist and poet
• Andrew Downes (c. 1549 – 1628), Greek scholar
• Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, 4th Baronet of Ambrosden, 7th Baronet of Canons-Ashby (1818–1899), archaeologist and antiquary
• Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet OStJ (1912–1999), Scottish businessman

E

• Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide of King Charles I
• Alexander John Ellis FRS (1814–1890), phonetician and mathematician
• Charles Evans (1918–1995), surgeon and mountaineer
• Canon Thomas Saunders Evans (1816–1889), Latin scholar and poet, was schoolmaster at Rugby and Durham
• William Addams Williams Evans (1853–1919), international footballer
• Walter Ewbank (1918–2014), priest and author

F

• Edmund Ffoulkes (1820–1894), clergyman
• George Fielding DSO (1915–2005), Major in the SOE
• Frederick Fisher (born 1985), Big Brother 10 contestant
• Paul Foot (1937–2004), journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
• Nigel Forman (1943–2017), Conservative politician, MP for Carshalton and Wallington
• William Orme Foster (1814–1899), ironmaster, MP for South Staffordshire 1857–1868, owner of Apley Hall
• James Fraser (1818–1885), bishop of Manchester
• Abraham Fraunce (France) (born c. 1558–1560, died 1592/3), poet and lawyer

G

• William Garnett (1816–1903), cricketer and clergyman
• David Gay MC (1920–2010), British Army officer awarded the Military Cross in World War II, cricketer, and educator
• Edwin Gifford (1820–1905), Anglican priest and author
• Arthur Herman Gilkes (1849–1922), Headmaster of Dulwich College
• George Gore (1675–1753), landowner and Attorney-General for Ireland
• Richard Goulding, actor
• Geoffrey Green (1911–1990), football writer
• Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
• Sir George Abraham Grierson OM KCIE (1851–1941), administrator in India and philologist
• Lawrence Grossmith (1877–1944), actor
• Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), historian and theologian
• Lieutenant General Willoughby Gwatkin KCMG CB (1859–1925), officer and Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Militia

H

• Nick Hancock (born 1962), actor and TV presenter
• John Hanmer (1574–1629), bishop of St Asaph
• Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook GCSI PC (1814–1906), politician
• Sir Jack Ashford Harris, 2nd Baronet (1906–2009), businessman
• Sir Paul Harris, 2nd Baronet (1595–1644), politician and Surveyor of the Ordnance
• Thomas Emerson Headlam (1813–1875), barrister and politician
• Sir Denis Maurice Henry QC (1931–2010), barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
• William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
• Michael Heseltine CH PC (born 1933), Conservative politician, Deputy Prime Minister 1995–1997
• Major Richard Henry Heslop DSO (alias Xavier) (1907–1973), army officer and resistance organiser
• Sir Thomas Hewet (1656–1726), architect and landowner
• Edward Hewetson (1902–1977), cricketer
• Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert KCB PC JP DL (1824–1908), politician
• Horatio Hildyard (1805–1886), cricketer and clergyman
• James Hildyard (1809–1887), classical scholar
• Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone (1732–1808), Tory MP and religious revivalist
• Richard Hillary (1919–1943), RAF officer and author
• John Hirsch (1883–1958), South African cricketer and rugby union international
• Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), classical scholar
• Edward Hopkins (1600–1657), politician and Governor of Connecticut
• Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow KCMG (1912–2013), diplomat and colonial governor
• Sir James Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce (1912–2000), barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
• William Walsham How (1823–1897), bishop of Wakefield
• Robert Hudson (1920–2010), BBC broadcaster and administrator
• James Humphreys (1768–1830), law reformer
• Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), barrister judge
• David Lafayette Hunter MC (1919–2001), officer

I

• William Inge (1829–1903), cricketer, clergyman and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
• Brian St John Inglis (1916–1993), journalist
• Richard Ingrams (born 1939), journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
• Andrew Irvine (1902–1924), mountaineer

J

• Frederick John Jackson, KCMG CB (1860–1929), Governor of Uganda (1911–1918) and naturalist
• Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, GBE KCB MC (1917–1999), army officer, military historian, and Governor of Gibraltar
• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge
• Vice Admiral Clive Carruthers Johnstone (born 1963), Royal Navy Officer
• Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
• John Jones of Gellilyfdy (c. 1578 – c. 1658), copyist and manuscript collector
• Sir Thomas Jones (1614–1692), judge and law reporter
• Thomas Jones (1756–1807), academic and Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge

K

• George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale CB (1866–1945), politician, businessman, soldier and cricketer
• Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), headmaster and classical scholar
• Charles Rann Kennedy (1808–1867), lawyer and classical scholar
• Francis King CBE (1923–2011), novelist and poet
• Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster KCMG KBE (1879–1939), governor of British Somaliland 1926–31, British Honduras 1932–34 and the Nyasaland protectorate 1934-39

L

• Richard Cornthwaite Lambert (1868–1939), barrister and politician
• John Heath Lander (1907–1941), Olympic rower and soldier
• Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane AFC PC QC (1918–2005), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Sir John Langford-Holt (1916–1993), politician and MP for Shrewsbury 1945–83
• Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine PC (1901–1980), politician and son of Prime Minister Bonar Law
• Aubrey Trevor Lawrence MBE KC (1875–1930), barrister and author
• Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet (1870–1934), English horticulturalist and hospital administrator
• Sir Martin Le Quesne KCMG (1917–2004), diplomat, ambassador to Mali and Algeria, high commissioner to Nigeria
• Steve Leach (born 1993), cricketer
• Blessed Richard Leigh (1557–1588), beatified English Catholic priest
• Sir Charlton Leighton, 4th Baronet (1747–1784), politician and owner of Loton Park
• Sir William Leighton (c. 1565–1622), poet and composer
• Alexander Loveday (1888–1962), economist and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford
• Very Rev Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909), Dean of Lichfield
• General Sir Daniel Lysons GCB (1816–1898), army officer

M

• Humphrey Mackworth (1603–1654), member of Shropshire parliamentary committee in English Civil War, governor of Shrewsbury, member of Protector's Council, MP
• Humphrey Mackworth (born 1631), military governor of Shrewsbury under Protectorate, MP
• Thomas Mackworth (1627–1696), Parliamentarian soldier and MP
• Christopher MacLehose CBE (born 1940), publisher
• Richard Madox (1546–1583), Church of England clergyman and diarist
• Harry Mallaby-Deeley (1863–1937), politician, MP for Harrow and Willesden East
• George Augustus Chichester May PC QC (1815–1892), judge
• John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor FBA (1825–1910), classicist and librarian of Cambridge University
• Claas Mertens (born 1992), rower for the Germany national team
• Anthony Merryweather (born 1973), Musical Theatre producer and accompanist
• Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen (1931–2014), peer
• Sotherton Micklethwait (1823–1889), cricketer and clergyman
• Terry Milewski (born 1949), journalist
• Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG (born 1940), ex-chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and chairman of UN Global Compact Committee
• Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet PC QC (1826–1897), lawyer and politician
• Henry Arthur Morgan (1830–1912), academic and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
• Francis Morse (1818–1886), priest
• Sydney Morse (1854–1929), rugby player
• Henry Whitehead Moss (1841–1917), headmaster 1866–190
• Gerard Moultrie (1829–1885), third master, chaplain, hymnographer
• Douglas Muggeridge (1928–1985), Controller, BBC Radio 1 between 1968 and 1976
• Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819–1885), classical scholar
• General Sir Geoffrey Musson GCB CBE DSO (1910–2008), officer and Adjutant-General to the Forces

N

• William Napper (1880–1967), Irish cricketer and British Army officer
• The Very Rev. Stephen Nason (1901–1975), priest
• Robert Needham, 1st Viscount Kilmorey (1565–1631), politician
• Christopher Nevinson ARA (1889–1946), artist
• Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
• Sir Charles Thomas Newton KCB (1816–1894), archaeologist
• Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer
• John Nottingham (1928–2018), colonial administrator and politician

O

• Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet (1751–1826), administrator in India
• William Oakley (1873–1934), footballer for England
• William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill (1813–1883), Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
• Julian Orchard (1930–1979), film and television actor
• Sir Roger Ormrod PC (1911–1992), judge, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Sir Francis Ottley (1601–1649), royalist politician and soldier, military governor of Shrewsbury
• Richard Ottley (1626–1670), royalist soldier and Restoration MP

P

• Thomas Ethelbert Page CH (1850–1936), classicist
• General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget GCB DSO MC (1887–1961), army officer
• Edward Francis Paget (1886–1971), Archbishop of Central Africa
• Francis Paget (1851–1911), 33rd Bishop of Oxford
• Luke Paget (1853–1937), 34th Bishop of Chester
• Stephen Paget (1855–1926), writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
• Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), classical scholar and writer
• Sir Michael Palin CBE FRGS (born 1943), member of Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
• John Parker Ravenscroft (1939–2004), DJ and journalist, known professionally as John Peel
• Sir Nicholas Penny FBA FSA (born 1949), art historian and Director of the National Gallery
• Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre GCMG KCSI CB (1812–1885), British Indian Army officer; 1st Commissioner of British Burma (1862–1867) and Governor of Mauritius (1874–1878)
• General Sir Robert Phayre GCB, ADC (1820–1897).
• Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), poet and playwright
• John Arthur Pilcher GCMG (1912–1990), diplomat, ambassador to Austria (1965–67), ambassador to Japan (1967–1972)
• Nick Pocock (born 1951), cricketer
• Graham Pollard (1903–1976), bookseller and bibliographer
• Angus Pollock (born 1962), cricketer
• Henry Steven Potter (1904–1976), Chief Secretary of Uganda and Kenya, later British Resident in Zanzibar
• Sir Thomas Powys (1649–1719), MP, Attorney General to King James II, judge, and politician
• Michael Proctor (1950–), physicist, mathematician, academic and Provost of King's College, Cambridge

R

• Henry Cecil Raikes PC (1838–1891), Conservative politician
• Richard Ramsbotham MBE (1880–1970), first-class cricketer and educator
• Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow OM FRS FREng FMedSci FRAS (born 1942), British cosmologist and astrophysicist
• John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
• James Riddell (1823–1866), classical scholar and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
• George Rudé (1910–1993), British Marxist Historian
• Willie Rushton (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, co-founder of Private Eye

S

• Colonel Thomas Sandys (1837–1911), officer and politician
• Clyde Sanger (born 1928), journalist and author, first Africa correspondent for The Guardian
• George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax PC DL FRS (1633–1695), statesman, writer, and politician
• John Sayer OBE (1920–2013), first-class cricketer and officer in the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy
• Robert Gould Shaw III (1898–1970), American-born English socialite
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907–1995), music critic
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor LVO (born 1955), art historian, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
• Richard Shilleto (1809–1876), classical scholar
• Nevil Shute (1899–1960), writer (and as Neville Shute Norway, an aeronautical engineer)
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet, courtier and soldier
• Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1529–1586), poet, courtier and politician
• Air Marshall Sir Michael Simmons KCB AFC (born 1937), Royal Air Force officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
• Sandy Singleton (1914–1999), cricketer
• Sir Norman Skelhorn KBE QC (1909–1988), barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales 1964–77
• Sir Basil Smallpiece KCVO (1906–1992), businessman
• Martin Ferguson Smith OBE FSA (born 1940), scholar and writer, classics and ancient history professor at Durham
• Ruaidhri Smith (born 1994), Scottish cricketer
• Philip Snow (1907–1985), cricketer
• Sir Frederick Sprott (1863–1943), cricketer and engineer
• William Starkie (1860–1920), Greek scholar, translator of Aristophanes, and President of Queen's College, Galway
• Christopher Steel (1938–1992), composer of classical music
• Thomas Stevens FSA (1841–1920), Bishop of Barking
• Sir John Stuttard JP FCA (born 1945), Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07

T

• James Taylor (1990–), cricketer
• John Taylor (1704–1766), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
• John Taylor, Baron Ingrow OBE TD JP DL (1917–2002), soldier and politician
• Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
• Percy Beart Thomas CIE (1866–1921), Inspector-General of Police of Madras
• Sir William Beach Thomas KBE (1868–1957), author and journalist
• William Thomson, FRS FRGS (1819–1890), Archbishop of York
• Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), hymn writer
• Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring KBE (1818–1907), parliamentary draftsman
• J. C. Thring, notable figure in the early history of association football
• Lt Col. Alfred Tippinge (1817–1898), of the British Grenadiers; recipient of the Legion of Honour
• Robert Morton Tisdall (1907–2004), Olympic athlete
• Richard Todd, OBE (1919–2009), actor
• Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), headmaster of Eton College and Fettes College
• Sir Thomas Trevor (1586–1656), judge
• Patrick Trimby (1972–), cricketer

V

• Sir Harry Bevir Vaisey (1877–1965), High Court of Justice judge
• Sir William Vaughan (died 1649), royalist army officer
• Lieutenant-Colonel Francis William Voelcker CBE DSO MC (1896–1954), officer and High Commissioner of Western Samoa

W

• Alan Wace (1879–1957), archaeologist at Cambridge University 1934-44 and professor at the Farouk I University in Egypt 1943–52
• Henry Wace (1853–1947), England international footballer
• Henry William Rawson Wade QC FBA (1918–2004), academic lawyer
• Christopher Wallace (British Army officer), 1943–2016
• Graham Wallas (1858–1932), political psychologist, leader of the Fabian Society and co-founder of the London School of Economics
• Sir Francis Bagott Watson KCVO FBA (1907–1992), art historian
• John Weaver (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
• Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
• Sir Edgar Whitehead KCMG OBE (1905–1971), prime minister of Rhodesia
• Selby Whittingham (born 1941), art expert and author
• Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885), Unitarian minister
• Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
• Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1634–1700), lawyer and politician
• Major General Dare Wilson CBE MC (1919–2014), SAS officer who introduced attack helicopters to the British military
• Jack Wilson (1914–1997), Olympic rower
• H. de Winton, co-creator of the rules of football
• Samuel Woodhouse (1912–1995), priest and Archdeacon of London
• Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, 3rd Baronet (1828–1865), writer
• Chandos Wren-Hoskyns JP DL (1812–1876), English landowner, agriculturist, politician and author
• Jonathan Wright (born 1953), journalist and literary translator
• John Wylie (1854–1924), 1878 FA Cup winner and England international

Y

• Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate, 1st Baronet CSI CMG (1849–1940), administrator in India and politician