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This is a '''list of notable Old Cliftonians''', former pupils of [[clifton College]] at [[Bristol]] in the West of England.
#REDIRECT [[Old Cliftonian Society#Notable OCs]]

:See also [[:Category:Old Cliftonians]].

==Public life and the law==
* [[Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet]]
* [[Sir]] [[James Allen (New Zealand)|James Allen]], New Zealand politician
* [[Michael Bear (Lord Mayor)|Michael Bear]], [[Lord Mayor of London]] 2010/11
* [[Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood]], Conservative member of the [[House of Lords]]
* [[Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel]], KBE Conservative MP.
* [[Leslie Hore-Belisha]], Minister of War, 1937–1940
* [[Lothian Bonham-Carter]], English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and solider
* [[Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton]], [[GCMG]], [[Privy councillor|PC]]
* [[John Biggs-Davison|Sir John Biggs-Davison]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician
* [[Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet]], Conservative MP
* [[Viscount Caldecote]], [[Sir Thomas Inskip]], Lawyer, politician and [[Lord Chancellor]]
* [[Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed]], [[Master of the Rolls]] and [[Law Lord]].
* [[Sir]] [[James Heath]] [[Baronet|Bt]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] North West Staffordshire.
* [[Herbert Hervey]], 5th [[Marquess of Bristol]]. Diplomat
* [[T.L. Heath|Sir Thomas Little Heath]], Treasury Secretary and scholar and author.
* [[Lord Henley]] 8th Baron Henley. [[Tory]] Politician
* [[Roger Hollis|Sir Roger Hollis]], journalist, secret-service agent and director general of [[MI5]]
* [[Syed Fakhar Imam]], the 11th [[Speaker of National Assembly]] of [[Pakistan]].
* [[Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding]], Conservative politician
* [[Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet]], Irish Politician, Senator 1st, 2nd, 3rd [[Seanad]]
* [[Neville Laski]] [[Queen's Counsel|QC]] Judge and leader of Anglo Jewry
* [[Sir John May]]
* [[Alan Mocatta|Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta]], English judge, leader of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the UK
* [[Edwin Samuel Montagu]], [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician
* [[Louis Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling|Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling]]
* [[Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet]], Industrialist and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
* [[Sir]] [[Peter Newsam]] chairman of [[Commission for Racial Equality]] and [[Inner London Education Authority]] chief education officer.
* [[Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton]] [[GCMG]]
* [[Hector Sants]], head of the [[Financial Services Authority]]
* [[Colin Sleeman]], Assistant Judge Advocate General, senior defence counsel for Japanese accused of war crimes
* [[Abel Thomas]], Welsh [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
* [[Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood|Col. Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood]], brother of [[Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet]], [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]], Minister in [[Ramsay MacDonald]] government.
* [[Sir]] [[Ralph Lewis Wedgwood]], [[1st Bt]]
* [[Philip William Wheeldon]] [[Bishop of Whitby]]
* [[Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet]] [[King's Counsel|KC]] [[member of parliament|MP]], barrister and politician
* [[John Henry Whitley]], [[Speaker of the House of Commons (UK)|Speaker of the House of Commons]] 1921–1928
* [[Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson]], Conservative politician
*[[Baron Wyfold]], Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, [[Baronet|Bt]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]].

==Military==
* [[Field Marshal]] [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Douglas Haig]]
* Field Marshal [[William Riddell Birdwood]], 1st Baron Birdwood
* [[Francis Younghusband|Sir Francis Younghusband]], British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist
* [[Hugh Elles|Sir Hugh Elles]] KCB KCMG KCVO DSO, general
* [[Charles Bonham-Carter|Sir Charles Bonham-Carter]], General of the Territorial Army and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta.
* Lieutenant Colonel [[Oswald Watt]], Australian flying ace in First World War
* [[Percy Hobart]] KBE CB DSO MC, military engineer
* [[Cecil Rawling]], CMG CIE DSO FRGS, soldier, explorer and author
* [[Alexander Kearsey]], OBE, DSO, soldier, cricketer and military historian
* [[Lothian Bonham-Carter]], English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and solider

===Holders of the Victoria Cross===
Eight Old Cliftonians have won the [[Victoria Cross]], one in the [[Second Boer War]], five in the First World War (1914–1918), one in the [[Russian Civil War]] (North Russia Relief Force, 1919), and one in the Second World War.<ref>Bland, R.L., ''Clifton's V.C.s'', Old Cliftonian Society, pp. 57 – 60</ref>
*'''Second Boer War:'''
**[[Sergeant]] [[Horace Robert Martineau]] [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (at Clifton 1888–1889) (1874–1916). He later achieved the rank of [[Lieutenant]].
*'''First World War:'''
**[[Richard Douglas Sandford]] [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (11 May 1891 – 23 November 1918) was a Royal Navy officer who took part in the [[Zeebrugge Raid]] and won the [[Victoria Cross]].
**[[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] [[Theodore Wright]], [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1883–1914)
**[[Lieutenant]] [[Cyril Gordon Martin]], [[Victoria Cross|VC]], [[CBE]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (at Clifton 1910-1910) (1891–1980). He later achieved the rank of [[Brigadier]].
**[[Lieutenant]] [[Edward Donald Bellew]], [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1882–1961). He later achieved the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]].
**[[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] [[George Henry Tatham Paton]], [[Victoria Cross|VC]], [[Military Cross|MC]] (at Clifton 1909–1914) (1895–1917)
*'''Russian Civil War:'''
**[[Commander]] [[Claude Congreve Dobson]], [[Victoria Cross|VC]], [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] (at Clifton 1893–1900) (1885–1940)
*'''Second World War:'''
**[[Lance-Corporal]] [[John Pennington Harman]], [[Victoria Cross|VC]], (at Clifton 1923–1925) (1914–1944)

==Arts==
===Literature===
* [[Charles Bean|C. E. W. Bean]], War Correspondent and Official Historian of Australia during the First World War
* [[Joyce Carey]], writer
* [[Geoffrey Household]], author
* [[Tim Mackintosh-Smith]], author and television presenter
* [[L. P. Hartley]], author
* [[Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin]], author
* [[Henry Newbolt]], poet
* [[Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]], poet (pseudonym “Q”).
* [[Alan Noel Latimer Munby]], Author
* [[Montague Summers]], Author, translator, [[Occultist]], scandalous Clergyman and member of [[Uranian poets]]- bards of [[Greco-Roman]] pederasty.
* [[Robert Smythe Hichens]], Author and playwright

===Performing arts===
* [[Naunton Wayne]], actor
* [[John Cleese]], [[Monty Python]] actor<ref>A school legend has it that Cleese was expelled. In one version, Cleese used painted footsteps to suggest that the statue of General Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the lavatory. In another version, he was expelled for staging a suicide jump from the Wilson Tower during Commem, shouting, "I can't stand it any longer" to parents coming out of the Chapel before a dummy plummeted to the ground. Although such pranks may have happened, Cleese was not expelled.</ref>
* Sir [[Michael Redgrave]], actor
* [[John Inverdale]], television presenter<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/presenters/inverdale_biog.shtml John Inverdale] at bbc.co.uk</ref>
* [[Trevor Howard]], actor
* [[Simon Russell Beale]] CBE, actor
* [[Clive Swift]], actor
* [[David Swift (actor)|David Swift]], actor
* [[Alan Napier]], actor
* [[John Houseman]], actor, director & producer
* [[Chris Serle]], television presenter
* [[Simon Shepherd]], actor
* [[Roger Michell]], film & theatre director
* [[John Madden (director)]]
* [[Thorold Dickinson]], film director, screenwriter and producer.
* [[Manuel del Campo]], [[film editor]], actor, and third husband to [[Mary Astor]]

===Music===
* [[Joseph Cooper]]
* [[Boris Ord]], conductor
* [[Harry Plunket Greene]]
* [[Ian Partridge]], tenor
* [[A. J. Potter]], composer
* [[Martina Topley-Bird]], musician
* [[Scott Ford]], musician
* [[Peter Tranchell]], composer
* [[David Willcocks|Sir David Willcocks]], conductor
* [[Jonathan Willcocks]], composer

==Fine arts==
* [[Roger Fry]], artist
*[[Henry Tonks]], English surgeon, artist, like Fry, [[Slade Professor of Fine Art]]
*[[Peter Lanyon]] (1918–1964) [[Cornwall|Cornish]] painter of [[Euston Road School]].

==Journalism==
* [[Roger Alton]], editor of ''[[The Observer]]''
* [[Leigh Brownlee]], cricketer and former editor of the [[Daily Mirror]]
* David Henshaw, investigative journalist and managing director of [[Hardcash Productions]]
* [[Richard Stott]], journalist
* [[Francis Wrigley Hirst]], editor of ''[[The Economist]]''
* [[Steve Scott]], ''[[ITV]]'' newscaster and former ''[[ITN]]'' foreign correspondent

==Academics==
* [[Eric Birley]], [[Vindolanda]] archaeologist, Classical scholar
* [[Simon Blackburn]], philosopher, founder of quasi-realism
* [[Frederick S. Boas]]
* [[Horatio Brown]], historian
* [[Norman O. Brown]], author, philosopher
* [[Charles Alfred Coulson]], chemist
* [[G. E. M. de Ste. Croix]] Classical scholar
* [[Charles Harding Firth|Sir Charles Harding Firth]], historian
* [[Philip D'Arcy Hart]] (1900–2006), pioneer in tuberculosis treatment<ref>{{cite news|last = Draper|first = Philip|coauthors = John Skehel|title = Philip D'Arcy Hart|work = Obituaries|publisher = [[The Guardian]]|date = 30 August 2006|url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/aug/30/guardianobituaries.mainsection|accessdate = 9 May 2008}}</ref>
* [[Herbert Paul Grice]], philosopher
*[[Sir]] [[Thomas Little Heath]], [[polymath]], civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator and [[mountaineering|mountaineer]]
* [[Arthur Wilberforce Jose]], historian and journalist
* [[Martin Lings]], scholar
* [[John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart]], philosopher
* [[John Pinkerton (computer designer)|John Pinkerton]], designer of world's first business computer, the [[LEO (computer)|LEO computer]]
* [[Harold Arthur Prichard]], philosopher
* [[Reginald Punnett]], geneticist
* [[Ivor Armstrong Richards]] scholar, critic, [[rhetorician]] author ''[[The Meaning of Meaning]]''
* [[Richard Threlfall|Sir Richard Threlfall]], physicist and chemical engineer
* [[Herbert Hall Turner]], Professor of Astronomy and seismologist
* [[Conrad Hal Waddington]], developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher
* [[Thomas Herbert Warren|Sir Thomas Herbert Warren]], Professor of Poetry and [[Vice-Chancellor]] of Oxford University

===Nobel Prize winners===
* [[John Kendrew]] (Chemistry)
* [[John Hicks]] (Economics)
* [[Sir Nevill Francis Mott|Nevill Mott]] (Physics)

==Sports (in alphabetical order)==
===Cricket and football ===
* [[Sir]] [[Kingsmill Key]], [[Baronet|Bt]]., captain of Surrey, MCC and England cricketer.
* [[John Daniell (cricketer)]], captain of Somerset, England rugby international
* [[Basil Allen]], cricketer, Gloucestershire captain
* [[Edwin Field]], Middlesex cricketer, England rugby international
* [[James Kirtley]], England cricketer
* [[Matt Windows]], Gloucestershire cricketer and England 'A' cap.
* [[A. E. J. Collins]], cricketer, world record holder (highest individual score as [[batsman]])
* [[R. P. Keigwin]], England cricketer and hockey player
* [[Edward Tylecote]], England cricketer
* [[George Whitehead (cricketer)|George Whitehead]], England cricketer<ref>[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/22925.html George Whitehead] at cricinfo.com, accessed 25 November 2008</ref>
* [[Charlie Townsend]], England cricketer
* Dr. [[Edward Scott (sportsman)|Edward Scott]], Gloucestershire & MCC cricketer, England rugby international (captain).
* Sir [[Stephen Finney]], England rugby international<ref name="Burke">Edmund Burke, ''The Annual register of world events: a review of the year, Volume 166'', p119, Longmans, Green, 1925</ref>
* [[James Bush (sportsman)|James Bush]] Gloucestershire cricketer, England rugby international
* [[Robert Edwin Bush]] Gloucestershire cricketer
* [[William Brain]], English cricketer and footballer
* [[Archibald Fargus]], English cricketer, scholar, clergyman
* [[Lothian Bonham-Carter]], English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and solider

===Other===
* [[Jerry Cornes]], English Olympic runner
* [[Walter Gibb]], world record holder (altitude)
* [[Rowley Leigh]], English chef
* [[William Pollock (chess player)|William Pollock]], English chess master

==Business==
* [[Walter Owen Bentley]], founder of [[Bentley|Bentley Motors]]
* [[John Wyndham Beynon]], entrepreneur of the fossil fuel and metals industry
* [[Sir Trevor Chinn]], [[Tycoon]] and [[Philantrophist]]
* [[Hugo Cunliffe-Owen|Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet]], business man, chairman of [[British-American Tobacco Company]]
* [[Roy Fedden|Sir Roy Fedden]], engineer
* [[Andy Hornby]], former Chief Executive of [[HBOS]]
* [[Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs]], entrepreneur
* [[Horace Kadoorie|Sir Horace Kadoorie]], industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
* [[Lawrence Kadoorie|Lord Kadoorie]], industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
* [[Julian Richer]], entrepreneur, owner of [[Richer Sounds]]
* [[Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet]], industrialist
* [[Hector Sants]], head of the [[Financial Services Authority]]
* [[Sir]] [[Clive Thompson]] former Chairman of [[Farepak]] and Chief executive of [[Rentokil Initial]]
* [[Robert Waley Cohen|Sir Robert Waley Cohen]], industrialist and prominent leader of Anglo-Jewry
* [[Bernard Waley-Cohen|Sir Bernard Waley Cohen]], business man and [[Lord Mayor of London]]
* [[Henry Herbert Wills]], tobacco baron and philanthropist
* [[Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson]], business man, chairman of [[GUS (retailer)|GUS]]
* [[Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale]], politician, business man, chairman of [[Next (clothing)|Next]]

==References==
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[[Category:Independent schools in Bristol]]

Revision as of 09:43, 10 August 2011

This is a list of notable Old Cliftonians, former pupils of clifton College at Bristol in the West of England.

See also Category:Old Cliftonians.

Public life and the law

Military

Holders of the Victoria Cross

Eight Old Cliftonians have won the Victoria Cross, one in the Second Boer War, five in the First World War (1914–1918), one in the Russian Civil War (North Russia Relief Force, 1919), and one in the Second World War.[1]

Arts

Literature

Performing arts

Music

Fine arts

Journalism

Academics

Nobel Prize winners

Sports (in alphabetical order)

Cricket and football

Other

Business

References

  1. ^ Bland, R.L., Clifton's V.C.s, Old Cliftonian Society, pp. 57 – 60
  2. ^ A school legend has it that Cleese was expelled. In one version, Cleese used painted footsteps to suggest that the statue of General Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the lavatory. In another version, he was expelled for staging a suicide jump from the Wilson Tower during Commem, shouting, "I can't stand it any longer" to parents coming out of the Chapel before a dummy plummeted to the ground. Although such pranks may have happened, Cleese was not expelled.
  3. ^ John Inverdale at bbc.co.uk
  4. ^ Draper, Philip (30 August 2006). "Philip D'Arcy Hart". Obituaries. The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2008. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ George Whitehead at cricinfo.com, accessed 25 November 2008
  6. ^ Edmund Burke, The Annual register of world events: a review of the year, Volume 166, p119, Longmans, Green, 1925
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