List of Old Brightonians

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This is a List of Old Brightonians, they being notable former students - known as "Old Brightonians" of the co-educational, public school, Brighton College in Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom.

[edit] Academic & Literary

• Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), socialist writer and campaigner for homosexual rights
• John Combridge (1897–1986), mathematician and Registrar of King's College London
• Raymond Cooper (1912– 2005), progressive schoolmaster, Headmaster of The Hall School Hampstead, founder of the Aberfan Trust and the IAPS Orchestra
• James Sutherland Cotton (1847–1918), editor The Academy, editor revised edition (1908) The Imperial Gazeteer of India
• Robert H. Crabtree (born 1948), Organometallic Chemist, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Yale University, creator of Crabtree's catalyst
• Anthony Dale (1912–1989), architectural historian, historian of Brighton and saviour of Regency Brighton
• Harold Fox (1889–1967), Professor of Zoology, Birmingham University and then Bedford College, London; Darwin Medal winner; Fellow of the Royal Society
• Andrew Gamble (born 1947), Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield and then University of Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy
• Clive Gamble (born 1951), Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Fellow of the British Academy
• Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862–1934), Egyptologist and pioneer of Nubian archaeology, first Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford
• G. B. Harrison (1894–1991), Shakespeare scholar
• Henry Henfrey (1852–1881), numismatist
• Sir Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist
• Ewart Mackintosh (1893–1917), First World War poet, MC
• Michael Roberts (1908–1996), historian of Sweden, Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast, Fellow of the British Academy
• Sir Sydney Roberts (1887–1966), Dr Johnson scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Secretary of Cambridge University Press and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher and Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford
• Walford D. Selby (1845–1889), archivist and historian
• Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), writer and poet
• Leonard Strong (1896–1958), writer and poet

[edit] Architecture, building and engineering

• Sir Francis Fox (1844–1927), civil engineer
• Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924), architect and architectural historian, RA
• Douglas Earle Marsh (1862–1933), railway engineer

[edit] Business

• Neville Abraham (born 1937), restaurateur, founder of Chez Gerard
• Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen (1870–1947), Chairman of British American Tobacco
• Cuthbert Heath (1859–1939), insurance pioneer
• Douglas Overall (1892–1978), surveyor and property developer
• Sir Arthur Pease, Bt. (1866–1927), coal magnate, Second Civil Lord of the Admiralty
• Sir George Reeves-Smith (1863–1941), Managing Director of the Savoy Company
• John Simmons (1902–1985), office systems pioneer
• Derek Winston (born 1916), Chairman & CEO Mann & Co.

[edit] Community and philanthropy

• F. N. Charrington (1850–1936), philanthropist and temperance reformer
• Mervyn Cowie (1909–1996), conservationist, founding Director of the Kenya National Parks Service
• Alsager Hill (1839–1906), social reformer
• Ken Stevens (1922– 2005), Chief Executive The Scout Association

[edit] Entertainment, media and the arts

• Dean Ayass (born 1976), TV wrestling commentator
• Ewan Bailey (born c.1966), actor and writer
• Tommy Boyd (born 1952), TV presenter & radio disc jockey
• John Castle (born 1940), actor
• Dave Clarke (born c.1969), techno producer and disc jockey
• Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
• Peter Copley (born 1962), composer and cellist
• Roland Curram (born c.1932) actor and novelist
• Wilfrid de Glehn (1870–1951), impressionist painter, RA
• Simon Dee (born 1935), television interviewer and radio disk jockey
• John Denison (1911–2006), first Music Director of the Arts Council, Director of the South Bank Concert Halls
• Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), writer and librettist
• Tony Hawks (born c.1960), comedian and author
• Oliver Heath (born c.1970), interior designer and presenter featuring on the BBC's Changing Rooms
• Gavin Henderson (born c.1947), Principal of Trinity College of Music and Chairman of Youth Music
• McDonald Hobley (1917–1987), actor and radio presenter
• Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), actor
• Menhaj Huda (born 1967), film producer and director
• Selwyn Image (1849-1930), designer, illustrator and poet, joint founder of the Century Guild
• Graham Kerr (born 1934), author, chef and television presenter
• Miles Malleson (1888–1969), actor, playwright and scriptwriter
• Peter Mayle (born 1939), writer. He has written that he loathed the school.
• Tamzin Merchant (born 1987), actress
• Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), writer
• Francis St. Vincent Morris (1896–1917), poet
• David Nash (born 1945), sculptor, RA
• Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter, art educator and President of the Royal Academy
• George Sanders (1906–1972), actor. He actually said in his biography that he hated the school.
• James Townsend (born 1975), film producer and screenwriter
• Frank Wilson (born 1914), abstract expressionist painter
• John Worsley (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator of Albert RN

[edit] Medicine and science

• Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851–1933), surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, cricketer for Sussex and the Gentlemen
• Sir Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), geologist, explorer and Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Fellow of the Royal Society, Founders Gold Medal of the Royal Geographcal Society 1951
• Captain William Gill (1843–1882), soldier and explorer, Founders Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society 1879
• Sir Ronald Hatton (1886–1965), horticulturist, Fellow of the Royal Society
• James Mangles (1832–1884), horticulturalist
• Noel Ewart Odell (1890–1987), geologist and mountaineer. Named after him are Mount Odell (Canada), Mount Odell (New Zealand) and Odell Glacier on Ross Island Antarctica
• Ayan Panja (born 1973), doctor, author and presenter on BBC1's Street Doctor
• John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950), physician and Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge
• Sir George Savage (1842–1921), psychiatrist
• Alastair Sava (born 1989), President of Oxford University Psychology Society (2008/09).

[edit] Military

• Colonel Sir Charles Boxall (1851–1914), volunteer army officer and proponent of railway artillery
• Air Commodore Lionel Charlton (1879–1958), Royal Air Force officer and author
• Brigadier-General Frank Crozier (1879–1937), commander of the British Mission to Lithuania, 1919–20, commander of the Black and Tans, 1920–21, military author and co-founder of the Peace Pledge Union
• Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Eveleigh (1912–2006), Director-General of Signals, Royal Air Force
• Colonel Sir Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), army officer and proponent of physical training
• Admiral Sir Herbert Heath (1861–1954), Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron at Jutland in 1916, Second Sea Lord
• Charles Herbert (1904–1988), soldier, Director of Transportation at the War Office
• Air Marshal Sir Humphrey Edwardes Jones (1905–1987), Commander-in-Chief, RAF Germany
• Rear Admiral Angus Nicholl (1896–1977), naval officer, Captain HMS Penelope, BBC Defence Correspondent
• General Sir William Peyton (1866–1931), Military Secretary to Sir Douglas Haig, 1916–1918
• General Sir Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), Victoria Cross, Indian Army soldier, commander of the Burma Field Force, 1885–86
• Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), army staff officer
• General Sir Cecil Sugden (1903–1963), Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Master-General of the Ordnance
• Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker (1894–1967), Indian Army officer and military historian, commander 4th Indian Division, 1941–44
• Gordon Viner (1918–2005), soldier, Commander of the Federal Regular Army, Aden and art dealer

[edit] Politics, public service and the law

• Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister, banker, politician and Chancellor of the University of Exeter
• Sir Edmund Barnard (1856–1930), Chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, Chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, Liberal MP for Kidderminster, Cambridge polo blue
• Sir Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire^[1]
• Sir Richard Buxton (born 1938), Lord Justice of Appeal
• Andrew Cayley (born 1964), solicitor and war crimes prosecutor
• Sir John Chilcot (born 1939), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1990–1997
• Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845–1915), Indian civil servant, President of the Indian National Congress and Liberal MP for Nottingham East
• Sir Charles Elliott (1835–1911), Indian civil servant, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
• Eric Gandar Dower (1894–1987), air pioneer and Conservative MP for Caithness & Sutherland
• Alan Green (1911–1991), Conservative MP for Preston South, 1955–1964, 1970–1974, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1963–1964
• Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, University of Oxford and legal historian
• Augustus Margary (1846–1875), Chinese Consular Service officer and explorer in China
• Sir Harry Moorhouse (1872–1934), Lieutenant-Governor of Nigeria
• Sir Hubert Murray (1861–1940), Lieutenant-Governor of Papua New Guinea
• Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), Liberal Unionist and then Unionist MP for Darlington, Assistant Postmaster-General, Privy Councillor and Ecclesiastical Commissioner
• Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky of Tilton (born 1939), Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, SDP and Conservative politician

[edit] Religion

• Timothy Bavin (born 1935), Anglican priest and Benedictine monk, Bishop of Johannesburg and then of Portsmouth
• Francis Noel Davey (1904–1973), Anglican priest, theologian and Director of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
• Frederick Dillistone (1903–1993), Dean of Liverpool and theologian
• John Neville Figgis (1866–1919), Anglican church historian, theologian and political theorist
• Brooke Lambert (1834–1901), clergyman and social reformer
• Frederick Meyer (1847–1929), Baptist minister
• Arthur Stretton Reeve (1907–1981), Cambridge rowing blue (1930) and Anglican priest, Bishop of Lichfield 1953–74

[edit] Sport

• Holly Colvin (born 1989), England cricketer
• Sarah Jane Taylor (born 1989), England cricketer
• Clare Connor (born 1976), England female cricket captain
• George Cotterill (1868–1950), England footballer
• Joe Gatting (born 1987), footballer for Brighton and Hove Albion
• Leslie Gay (1871–1949), England footballer
• Duncan Hamilton (1920–1994), racing driver
• John Hart (born c.1982), Wasps rugby union player
• Carl Hopkinson (born 1981), cricketer
• Bazid Khan (born 1981), Pakistan cricketer ^[2]
• Alex King (born 1975), Wasps and England rugby union player
• 'Hopper' Levett (1908–1995), England and Kent cricketer
• Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), cricketer and unsuccessful Conservative politician
• Jonathan Palmer (born 1956), racing driver
• Ollie Phillips (born 1982), Newcastle Falcons rugby union player
• Matthew Prior (born 1982),^[3] England cricketer^[4]
• Henry Soames (1843–1913) Hampshire cricketer
• William Soames (1850–1916) Sussex and MCC cricketer
• Kelvin Tatum (born 1964), British speedway captain
• Claude Wilson (1858–1881), England footballer
• Sammy Woods (1867–1931), county cricketer, Australian footballer and England rugby player
• Jordan Turner-Hall (born c.1988), Harlequins rugby union player

[edit] False alumni

Claims have been made that the following attended the school, although the College's admissions registers show that this was not so:

• Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), writer, poet, educator and Nobel laureate
• Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (1889–1939), art dealer and funder of numerous galleries

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Brighton College website
• Brighton College Alumni website