This is a list of notable Old Derbeians, former pupils and masters of Derby School (from the 12th century to 1989) and of Derby Grammar School (since 1994), in Derby, England.Main page of the Old Derbeian Society web site, accessed 27 February 2008
Notable old boys
Born in the 16th century Blessed Edward James (1557–1588), Roman Catholic martyr John Cotton (1585–1652), New England Puritan
Born in the 17th century George Sitwell (c.1600-1667), Ironmaster and High Sheriff John Flamsteed (1646–1719), England's first Astronomer Royal Anthony Blackwall (1672–1730), classical scholarDistinguished Alumni of Derby School by James Michael John Fletcher (Derby Reporter, 1872) Henry Cantrell (1684–1773), clergyman and religious controversialistCantrell, Henry, Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist by David L. Wykes in Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004) William Budworth (c. 1699–1745), schoolmaster
Born in the 18th century Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792), Chief Justice of the Common PleasWilmot, Sir John Eardley (1709–1792), judge by James Oldham in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 4 November 2007) Joseph Wright (1734–1797), artistWright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter by Judy Egerton in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) Daniel Coke (1745–1825), barrister and member of parliamentCoke, Daniel Parker (1745–1825), barrister and politician by Mark Pottle in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (1753–1839), diplomat Joseph Strutt (1765–1844), cotton manufacturer and philanthropist Sir William Gell (1777–1836), archaeologist
Born in the 19th century Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), surgeon and artistThe Derby School Register, 1570-1901, ed. Benjamin Tacchella (London, 1902)Haden, Sir Francis Seymour [pseud. H. Dean] (1818–1910), etcher and surgeon by A. M. Hind & E. Chambers in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) Henry Howe Bemrose (1827–1911), member of parliament for Derby Unwin Sowter (1839–1910), maltster, cricketer and Mayor of Derby John Cook Wilson (1849–1915), philosopherWilson, John Cook (1849–1915), philosopher and classical scholar by H. A. Prichard & David Boucher in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) J. M. J. Fletcher (1850–1934), historian Frank Styant Browne, chemist and photographer" Obituary. Mr. F. Styant-Browne. Chemist for Many Years" in Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania), p. 6; "Obituary. Mr. Styant Browne. Well-Known Citizen of Launceston" Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania), p. 2. E. W. Hobson FRS (1856–1933), mathematician Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist Walter Weston (1860–1940), missionary and mountaineerWeston, Walter (1860–1940), mountaineer and missionary by Peter H. Hansen in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) Frederic Creswell (1866–1948), mining engineer and South African Minister of Defence Christopher Wilson (1874–1919), composer of theatre music and author, Shakespeare and Music (1922)Musical Times, May 1895, p. 311 Stanley Hawley (1867–1916), pianist and composer.Ann Featherstone & Beverley Kilby. Ilkestone As it Was (2023) Lawrence Beesley (1877–1967), RMS Titanic survivor and author William Henry Ansell (1872–1959), architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1940 to 1943 Walter Greatorex (1877–1949), composer Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943), ichthyologist Sir George Simpson FRS (1878–1965), meteorologist Geoffrey Shaw (1879–1943), composer and musicianEnchiridion at canamus.org, accessed 9 January 2009 Guy Wilson (1882–1917), cricketer and soldierAndrew Renshaw, Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918 (2014), p. 374 William George Constable (1887–1976), art historianPapers of William George Constable at janus.lib.cam.ac.uk, ref. GBR/0275, accessed 14 July 2007Constable, William George (1887–1976), art historian and gallery director by Alec Clifton-Taylor & Rosemary Mitchell in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) Frank Conroy (1890–1964), actor Robert Howe (1893–1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan, 1947–1955 Ernest Sterndale Bennett (1884–1982), Theatre Director and member of the Order of Canada
Born in the 20th century Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire George Timms (1910–1997), clergyman P. G. Ashmore (1916–2002), academic chemist Gilbert Hodgkinson (1913–1987), cricketer Spencer Barrett (1914–2001), classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, OxfordHollis, Adrian, Spencer Barrett, Oxford don devoted to classics and his college, obituary in The Guardian, 17 October 2001, online at guardian.co.uk, accessed 14 August 2008 George Bacon (1917–2011), nuclear physicist Ted Moult (1926–1986), farmer and TV personality Alexander Morrison (1927–2012), judge John Stobart (born 1929), maritime artistHawley, Zena, Roy takes to the stage once again to pick up an honorary doctorate in Derby Evening Telegraph dated 19 January 2008, p. 6 Robert Grimley (born 1943), Dean of Bristol since 1997
Notable masters John Meade Falkner, novelist and poet Rev. Robert de Courcy Laffan (Senior Classical Master, 1880–1884), principal of Cheltenham College, member of the International Olympic Committee Henry Judge Hose (Maths master, 1867–1874), mathematicianHenry Judge Hose (1826-1883) by K. J. Cable in Australian Dictionary of Biography online, accessed 14 July 2007
See also List of Masters of Derby School :Category:People educated at Derby School
References
Sources Derby School: a Short History by George Percy Gollin