List of people educated at Christ's Hospital

This is a list of alumni of Christ's Hospital school, who are known as Old Blues.Historical records relating to admissions to the school are kept by the London Guildhall Library see http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/christ1.htm

Business

Edward Colston – Merchant, slave trader, philanthropist, and Member of Parliament Arthur Dorman – Industrialist William Charles Goddard Knowles – British businessman in Hong Kong David Norgrove – Businessman John Pound – Luggage manufacturer and Lord Mayor of London Stephan Shakespeare – Business man and entrepreneur David Simon – Business man James White – Advertising agent Richard Thornton – Merchant and trader

Law

Edmund Bartley-Denniss – Barrister, Member of Parliament, freemason and British cycling pioneer Francis Bullen – Judge Rupert Jackson – Lord Justice of Appeal Gabriel Jones – Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia Henry James Sumner Maine – Comparative jurist and historian

Medicine

Russell Brock – Chest and heart surgeon Raanan Gillon – Medical doctor, philosopher, journal editor and professor of medical ethicsGillon, R. "Ploughing a Furrow in Ethics". Personal Histories in Health Research (2005): 83–97. Norman Guthkelch – British paediatric neurosurgeon Caesar Hawkins – Surgeon James Jurin – Physician and scientist Berkeley Moynihan – Abdominal surgeon

Military

Bertram Allen – Paymaster Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy Bob Allen – Army surgeon and journalist Thomas Bertie – Rear-admiral in the Royal Navy Edward Felix Baxter – Soldier (awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916) Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari – Military administrator John Colborne – British Army Field Marshal Hugh Constantine – Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Edgar William Cox – Intelligence officer Alexander Cunningham – Army engineer and archaeologist James Alfred Davidson – Royal Navy commander

Edward Mortlock Donaldson – Royal Air Force pilot William F.S. Edwards – commonly referred to as Brig General W. F. S. Edwards, 1st colonial Commissioner of Police in East Africa Michael Gray – SoldierObituary of Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Gray, The Daily Telegraph, 11 April, 2011 Wilfrith Elstob – Soldier (awarded the Victoria Cross in 1918) Buster Howes – Commando and Royal Marines officer Llewelyn Hughes – Soldier, priest and army chaplainWho was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 Robert Hunter – Soldier Joshua Leakey – Soldier (awarded the Victoria Cross in 2013) Henry Ralph Lumley – Royal Flying Corp pilot and burn victim Philip Mayne – Soldier Henry William Pitcher – British Indian Army officer (awarded the Victoria Cross in 1863) Laurence Sinclair – Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Air Force (Awarded the George Cross in 1941) John Robin Stephenson – British Army officer and cricket administrator Harold Edward Whittingham – Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War Thomas Withers, a naval officer who served with Nelson

Music

Attila the StockbrokerAttila the Stockbroker, Oxfordreference.com, Retrieved 5 June 2016 Basil Allchin – Oxford organistWho's who in Music and Musicians' International Directory (1937), p. 18 Adrian Bawtree – Organist Sydney Carter – Poet, songwriter, musician Sir Colin Davis – Conductor Tim Benjamin – Composer Catherine Ennis – organist Charles Hazlewood – Conductor and broadcaster Constant Lambert – Composer and conductor Edward Lambert – Composer'Let's Make an Opera', In Touch no.22, Royal Opera House, London January 1991 Christopher Tambling – Composer, organist and choirmaster

Performing arts

Roger Allam – Actor James D'Arcy – Actor Howard Davies – Theatre and television director Tenniel Evans – Actor Susannah Fielding – Actor"Drama: High profile OB actors". The Blue (Christ's Hospital). 2011. p. 55. Retrieved 19 July 2014. Jason Flemyng – Actor Jimmy Godden – Actor Leo Gregory – Actor George Peele – Dramatist Michael Wilding – Actor

Politics

Jenkin Coles – Australian politician Owen Cox – Australian businessman and politician Thomas Everard – Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia Samuel Hayden – Canadian politician Steve Hilton – Political strategist Stuart Holland – Labour politician and academic Graham Hutton – Economist, author and Liberal Party politician‘HUTTON, (David) Graham’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 6 November 2017 Martin Linton – former Labour Member of Parliament Richard Nichols – Lord Mayor of London Michael Stewart – Labour politician Alexander Vidal – Canadian land surveyor, banker and political figure

Religion

John Arnold – Anglican priest and authorWho's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008, John Ashe – Priest Reginald Bazire – Anglican priest“Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 Raymond Birt – Archdeacon of Berkshire“Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 Constance Bryant – Medical missionary Edmund Campion – Jesuit priest, martyr and saintSimpson, Richard. Edmund Campion: a Biography, (1867), p.2 Mordecai Cary – BishopChrist's Hospital Museum records MS12811 007 0347 Thomas Dale – Anglican priest, poet and theologian"The Dean Of Rochester", obituary in The Times, 5 February 1870, p. 5. John Delight – Archdeacon of Stoke Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne – Priest and missionary to China‘DONNITHORNE, Rev. Vyvyan Henry’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 6 July 2017 Robert Newton Flew – Methodist theologian Bede Griffiths – Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East–West religious dialogue Thomas Hartwell Horne – Theologian and librarian Percy Henn – Clergyman and schoolmasterAustralian Dictionary of Biography listing for Henn, Percy Umfreville (accessed 4 March 2007)AustLit Agent Listing for Percy Henn (accessed 4 March 2007) James Horstead – Bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa“Who was Who” 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 Ross Hook – Anglican bishop Marcus Knight – Anglican priest Thomas Middleton – Anglican bishop John Townsend – Congregationalist minister and philanthropist

Science and academia

Donald Allan – Classical scholar W. Sidney Allen – Linguist and philologist Richard Appleton – Lecturer in mathematics and theology Andrew Barker – Classical scholar'BARKER, Prof. Andrew Dennison', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 16 Oct 2017 Joshua Barnes – English scholar John Beazley – Classical scholar Alan Bishop – Palaeographer, historian, and academic'BISHOP, (Terence) Alan (Martyn)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 4 Sept 2017 Arthur Lyon Bowley – Statistician and economist James Boyer – Clergyman and headmaster of Christ's Hospital Rupert Bruce-Mitford – Archaeologist and scholar Andrew Burn – Media scholar and educationist William Burnside – Mathematician Cyril Burt – Psychologist Ida Busbridge – Mathematician William Camden – Antiquarian and historian T. H. Clark – Geologist Ruth Deech – Academic, lawyer and bioethicist Robin Du Boulay – Medieval historian Frederick Field – Theologian and biblical scholar John Forsdyke – Classical scholar and Director of the British Museum Cyril Fox – Archaeologist Louis Harold Gray – Physicist George Greenhill – Mathematician Jasper Griffin – Professor of Classics at Oxford Philip Hall – Mathematician Roger Highfield – Science author, journalist and broadcaster Sydney Samuel Hough – Astronomer and mathematician Beresford Kidd – Anglican priest and Church historianFoster, J. (1888). Alumni Oxoniensis: The Members of the University of Oxford 1715–1886, Vol. II, p. 792. London: Joseph Foster. Philip Kitcher – Professor of philosophy Richard Lodge – Historian Norman Longmate – Author, historian and broadcaster Jeremiah Markland – Classical scholar Russell Meiggs – Historian Peter Padfield – HistorianPeter Padfield biography at andrewlownie.co.uk, accessed 18 October 2015 Rex Paterson – Agricultural researcher Alan Ryan – Professor James Scholefield – Classical scholar Arthur William Trollope – Cleric and headmaster of Christ's Hospital Barnes Wallis – Scientist, engineer and inventor Gerald James Whitrow – Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian F. L. Woodward – Educationist, Pali scholar, author and theosophist Erik Christopher Zeeman – Mathematician

Sport

Jack Bailey – Cricketer and cricket administratorBAILEY, Jack Arthur, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, 2017 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2016) Cecil Boden – Cricketer Robert Edwards – Cricketer and clergyman Henry Franklin – Cricketer, headmaster and rugby union playerFRANKLIN, Henry William Fernehough, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) Jack Gentry – Cricketer Ælfric Harrison – Cricketer Andrew Higgins – Rugby union player George Rowland Hill – Rugby union administrator, official and referee Joe Launchbury – Rugby union player James McInerny – Cricketer Dennis Silk – Schoolmaster and international cricketer Geoff Smith – Kent cricketerCarlaw, Derek (2017). Geoffrey Smith, Deaths in 2016, Kent County Cricket Club Annual 2017, pp. 245–246. Canterbury: Kent County Cricket Club.Smith, Geoffrey, Obituaries in 2016, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2018. John Snow – Cricketer Stu Whittingham – Cricketer Douglas Wright – Cricketer

Visual arts

Richard Dagley – Painter and illustrator Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram Francis Seymour Haden – Etcher and surgeon Arthur Ling – architect and urban planner Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – Architect, designer, artist and critic Tony Ray-Jones – PhotographerRichard Ehrlich, "Introduction", Tony Ray-Jones (Manchester: Cornerhouse, 1990) Jonathan Scott – Wildlife photographer and TV presenter Chris Steele-Perkins – Photographer Keith Vaughan – Painter

Writers, poets and journalists

Cyrus Andrews – Journalist and radio scriptwriter Attila the Stockbroker (John Baine) – Punk poet and musician Thomas Barnes – JournalistGordon Phillips, "Barnes, Thomas (1785–1841)", in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), vol. 3, p. 1013. Robert Black – Author, journalist and translator Edmund Blunden – Poet, author and critic"Blunden, Edmund Charles", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 Nov 2008 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Guy Boothby – Author Mark Burgess – Children's authorLee. Return to the Hundred Acre Wood review. Fantasy Book Review. 10 November 2009.Blue Yellow Pages (Last Names beginning with B) . Christ Hospital's Old Blues' Association. Samuel Cobb – Poet Kira Cochrane – Journalist and author Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher James Coomarasamy – Correspondent Con Coughlin – Journalist and author Keith Douglas – Poet George Dyer – Poet Nicholas Foulkes – Journalist, writer, and broadcaster Leigh Hunt – Critic, essayist, and poet Charles Lamb – Essayist Bernard Levin – Journalist, author and broadcaster"Bernard Levin Obituary", The Times, 10 August 2004 Bryan Magee – Broadcaster, politician, and author Aylmer Maude – Translator John Middleton Murry – Writer Horace W. C. Newte – AuthorGray, Imogen P. Clues in Fiction: An Essex Couple's Secret Ties. The Alderton Press 2017 Thomas Richards – Surgeon, Author, Journalist, Editor Samuel Richardson – Writer Michael Schmidt – Poet, Author, Scholar and Publisher Thomas Skinner Surr – Writer Chris Simms – Crime novelist Rupert Thomson – Novelist Ian Trethowan – Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist