List of Old Rugbeians
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This is a List of Old Rugbeians, they being notable former students - known as "Old Rugbeians" of the Church of England school, Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
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[edit] Academic
- L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne
- R.G. Collingwood, English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford
- Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer, author of Fowler's Modern English Usage
- R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher
- Fenton John Anthony Hort, English theologian
- Edward Ellis Morris, Educationist, second Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School (1875–83), and miscellaneous writer [1]
- Luke Pebody, British mathematician and child prodigy
- Henry John Stephen Smith, Irish mathematician
- Jon Stallworthy, Professor of English at the University of Oxford
- Sir Percy Sykes soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar
- Richard Henry Tawney, one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian
- Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883-1897), former Dean of Canterbury
- Edmund Yorke, Legal scholar and barrister
[edit] Aviation
- Christopher Orlebar, British Concorde pilot, aviation lecturer and writer
[edit] Building, engineering and architecture
- Sir Charles Brett, architectural historian
- William Grierson, civil engineer
- David Ogle, British industrial designer and car designer
- Reid Railton, automotive engineer and designer of land and water speed record vehicles
- Sir Harry Ricardo, designer of the internal combustion engine and patentee of the two-stroke engine
[edit] Media, entertainment and the arts
- Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot, KCSI, writer
- Matthew Arnold, Victorian poet and critic (son of Headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold)
- Faris Badwan, aka Faris Rotter, vocalist from band The Horrors
- Rupert Brooke, English poet
- Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet
- David Haig, English actor and writer
- Arthur fforde, former BBC Chairman
- Tomethy Furse/Cowan, Bassist from band The Horrors
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, famous for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Richard Doyle, English author
- Dan Haigh, Bassist in the rock band Fightstar
- Robert Hardy, English stage and film actor
- John Hawkesworth, television producer, who produced the drama Upstairs, Downstairs
- Sir Charles Hawtrey, Victorian era stage actor
- Anthony Horowitz, English writer
- Marmaduke Hussey, former BBC Chairman
- Hugh Johnson, British wine writer
- Pete Kember, Popular musician
- John Kentish, English operatic tenor
- Edmund George Valpy Knox, editor of Punch
- Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet
- Wyndham Lewis, British painter and author
- William Charles Macready, English stage actor
- John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator
- Robin Milford, British musician
- Sydney Nicholson, British musician
- Arthur Ransome, British children's author
- Andrew Rawnsley, British political journalist
- Sir Salman Rushdie, author and essayist, Booker Prize winner for Midnight's Children
- Adnan Sami, Pakistani-Indian Singer, Actor, and Composer
- J.K. Stanford, English author
- Alex Westaway, Guitarist and singer in the rock band Fightstar
- A. N. Wilson, English writer and newspaper columnist
[edit] Medicine and science
- William Bateson, English geneticist
- Miles Joseph Berkeley, English botanist
- Humphry Bowen, British botanist and chemist
- Dr Peter Brinsden, fertility expert
- Abel Chapman, big game hunter and naturalist who started South Africa's first game reserve
- Colin Kennedy, president of the European Paediatric Neurology Society
- Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, physician and scholar, brother of economist John Maynard Keynes
- David Marr, British psychologist
- George Mitchell Seabroke, British astronomer
- Nevil Sidgwick, English theoretical chemist
[edit] Military
- Colonel Osmond Barnes, Chief Herald of the Indian Empire
- Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, British officer during the First World War
- James Cassels, Field Marshal
- William Hodson, commander during the 1857 Indian mutiny and founder of Hodson's Horse
- Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver, British officer during the Second World War.
- Arthur Ernest Percival, British general who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese
- Major Bruce Shand, MC, officer in the British Army and father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall
- Sir Arthur Franks, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6
[edit] Politics, public service and the law
- Robert Barton, Irish lawyer and statesman who worked on the Anglo-Irish Treaty
- Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen, lawyer and judge
- Francis Stewart Boyce, Australian barrister, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and politician
- Austen Chamberlain, British statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Neville Chamberlain, politician and former Prime Minister
- Baron Charles de Chassiron, Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, 2001-06
- Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe, Conservative health spokesman in the House of Lords
- Gavin Darlington, former partner of Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Liberal Unionist statesman and businessman
- Sir Ernest Gowers, British civil servant and author of The Complete Plain Words
- Frank Gray, inter-war Liberal politician
- Sir Reginald Hanson, Conservative politician and Lord Mayor of London
- Charles Hendry, British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden
- Thomas Hetherington, barrister and first head of the Crown Prosecution Service
- Nick Hills, English solicitor
- Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, British politician
- David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
- Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and author of Tom Brown's School Days
- Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde, Edwardian politician and industrialist
- John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, British civil servant
- Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, British politician
- Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston, Irish peer and Victorian politician
- Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, British politician
- Henry Lefroy, Western Australian politician
- Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, the 25th Governor of Hong Kong
- Sir Charles Tertius Mander, first baronet, industrialist and public servant
- Angus Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon, Conservative Party politician
- Andrew Mitchell, British Conservative politician and Shadow Secretary of State for International Aid and Development
- Sir Nicholas Montagu KCB, Chairman of H.M. Inland Revenue, 1997-2004
- Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington, Lord Chief Justice of England 1958-71
- Sir Lewis Pelly, Conservative politician and East India Company officer
- Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, politician and industrialist
- Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, prominent 19th century statesman
- George Strauss, Baron Strauss, Labour politician and Father of the House of Commons
- Andrew Turner, British Conservative Party politician
- William Henry Waddington, French statesman (eventually Prime Minister of France)
[edit] Religion
- Rev Francis Jayne, British bishop and academic
- Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Birmingham, 1977-87
- Augustus Shears, clergyman who translated part of the Prayer Book into Burmese
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, English churchman, and Dean of Westminster
- William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury during the Second World War, and an influential radical thinker, a father of the post-war Welfare State
- Rev. Thomas Valpy French, first Bishop of Lahore.
[edit] Sport
- Frederick Stokes (1850-1929)[2], the first captain of the England national rugby union team.
- John Anton, English cricketer
- Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven, English nobleman and sportsman
- William Webb Ellis, the credited inventor of rugby football
- Richard Montgomerie, English cricketer
- Adrian Stoop, English rugby player
- Richard Sykes, Rugby player and founder of towns in North Dakota
- Tom Wills, the inventor of Australian rules football
- Giles Clarke, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board
[edit] Fictional Old Rugbeians
- Harry Paget Flashman, fictional Victorian anti-hero, originally created by author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical Tom Brown's Schooldays
[edit] References
- ^ "School Crest and Motto". History. Melbourne Grammar School. http://www.mgs.vic.edu.au/about/mgs_history_crest.php. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- ^ Steve Lewis, One Among Equals, 2008, pp9-10 (Vertical Editions:London)
