The following is a list of notable Old Alleynians, former pupils of Dulwich College, in south London, England. M Years of birth and death (when listed) are given in full. Years at the college are given last, using two digits if unambiguous. All entries are placed in alphabetical order by surname, paying particular attention to any double-barrelled surnames, in which the letters of the first surname take priority.
Arts and entertainment
Art and photography
Jeremy Deller, artist Gabriele Finaldi (born 1965), art historian and curator, director of the National Gallery Stephen Finer, artist Stanhope Forbes (1857–1947), artist and member of the once influential Newlyn school of painters Stephen Gardiner, OBE (1924–2007), British architect, teacher and writer Walter Hodges (1909–2004), English illustrator and author James Jarvis, graphic artist Anthony F. Kersting (1916–2008), photographer Henry Herbert La Thangue RA (1857–1929), artist Gavin Stamp (1948 – 2017), writer and architectural historian C. F. A. Voysey (1857–1941), English architect and furniture designer (FRIBA, RDI)
Drama
Clive Brook (1887–1974), actor Richard Caldicot (1908–1995), actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (born 1976), film actor: 1990–1995 Nicholas Galitzine (born 1994), actor Nigel Harman (born 1973), actor Jeremy Howe, BBC Radio 4 Drama Commissioning Editor, editor of The Archers Angus Imrie (born 1994), television, radio and stage actor: 2001–2012 (and son of the actress Celia Imrie) Raza Jaffrey (born 1975), actor Jamie Thomas King (born 1981), actor John Francis Lane (1928–2018), actor Rupert Penry-Jones (born 1970), actor: 1982–1989 Michael Powell (1905–1990), film director Mel Raido (born 1977), actor: 1989–1994 Ben Turner (born 1980), actor Derek Waring (1927–2007), actor Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953), script and screenplay writer; won Academy Award (Oscar) in 1942 for Best Screenplay for the film Mrs. Miniver Ekow Quartey (2001-2008), actor
Entertainment & media
Rowan Ayers (1922–2008), television producer Lionel Barber, Financial Times editor Godfrey Barker, journalist and author Peter Bazalgette, television producer: 64–71 Rob Bonnet, TV sports journalist: 64–71 Clive Bull (born 1959), broadcaster, narrator: 1970–1977 Gordon Burns (born 1942), British journalist and television presenter; host of Granada TV's popular game show The Krypton Factor Nat Coombs, television presenter, comedian and comedy writer Peter Dimmock, sports broadcaster Peter Ettedgui, film maker Denis Gifford (1927–2000), film historian, comics historian, cartoonist: 1939–41 Jonathan Head, BBC South Asia correspondent: 74–78Dulwich College official site – Jonathan Head reporting from Bangkok David Heycock, television producer Adam Kay (born 1980), writer and comedian Bob Monkhouse (1928–2003), comedian: 42–45 (expelled) Adam Shaheen, president, executive producer, Cuppa Coffee Studios Paul Sinha, comedian David Thomson, film critic Peter Warren (born 1939), Canadian investigative journalist, private investigator, former talk radio host and member of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Hall of Fame Martin Young, TV reporter and media trainer
Literature
George Bedborough (1868–1940), English bookseller, journalist and writer Simon Brett (born 1945), writer Raymond Chandler (1888–1959), writer: 1900–1905 Hugh de Selincourt (1878–1951), English author and journalist, chiefly remembered today for his tale of village cricket, The Cricket Match (1924) C. S. Forester (1899–1966), writer: 15–16 Denis Goodwin, script writer: 41(?)-44(?) Hamish Henderson (1919–2002), Scottish poet, songwriter, socialist, humanist, soldier, and intellectual Nigel Hinton (born 1941), writerDulwich College Libraries, Author Visits Claude Houghton (1889–1961), writer G. Wilson Knight (1897–1985), English literary critic and academic Andrew George Lehmann, English art and literary critic Ian MacCormick (aka Ian MacDonald) (1948–2003), author (Revolution in the Head, The New Shostakovich) A. E. W. Mason (1865–1948), writer Tom McCarthy (born 1969), writer short-listed for the Booker Prize Michael Ondaatje (born 1943), writer winner, of Booker Prize Jon Silkin (1930–1997), poetBritish Museum, Jenny Lewis, Arts Council of Great Britain (1967), Poetry in the Making: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Poetry Manuscripts in the British Museum, page 56 (Turret Books for the Arts Council of Great Britain and the British Museum) Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944), poet and artist Graham Swift (born 1949), writer Alexander Turnbull (1868-1918), bibliophile Dennis Wheatley, occultist writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), writer: 1894–1900
Music John Amis, broadcaster and critic (at Dulwich 1936–1939)The Alleynian, Spring 2008 Peter Branscombe (1929–2008), musicologist Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944), British composer, famous for The Maid of the Mountains Alan Ray Hacker, OBE (born 1938) Gordon Jacob (1895–1984), composer Rupert Jarvis, bassist for The Maccabees (expelled after one term, 1999) Bill MacCormick, musician (Quiet Sun, Random Hold, 801) Phil Manzanera (P. G. Targett-Adams) (born 1951), musician with Roxy Music (at Dulwich 1960–1969) Ray Noble, bandleader and composer Anthony Payne (1936–2021), composer, elaborated the sketches of Elgar's Third Symphony David Rhodes, musician, member of 1970s band Random Hold, long-serving collaborator with Peter Gabriel Max Sedgley, music producer, drummer, DJ Ed Simons, one half of the Chemical Brothers (at Dulwich 1986–1991) Neil Thomson, conductor at Philharmonic Orchestra of Goiás. * [John Ratcliff (Music Producer/Singer/Songwriter/Actor), discovered produced and managed the Norwegian group ‘a-ha’/ Former World Double Decathlon Champion and World record holder.
Exploration
Stanley Portal Hyatt (1877–1914) 1885–92 #3817 African explorer and war correspondent Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO, OBE (1874–1922) 1887–90 was a British Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. During the Nimrod expedition of 1907–1909, he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88°S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles or 180 kilometres) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Also, members of his team climbed Mount Erebus, the most active Antarctic volcano. For these achievements, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.
Military
Rear Admiral Martin Alabaster, Flag Officer, Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland Wing Commander Frank Arthur Brock (1884–1918), OBE inventor of the smoke-screen at Zeebrugge in 1918Hodges, S (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, page 101 (Heinemann: London) Wing Commander Hugh Eliot, a flying ace with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War General Sir Webb Gillman KCB KCMG DSO, former chief of staff in MesopotamiaWebster F.A.M. (1937), Our Great Public Schools, page 91 (Butler & Tanner: London) Lieutenant General Eric Goddard, Indian Army, GOC-in-C Southern Command India'Goddard, Lt-Gen. Eric Norman' in Who's Who 1991 (London: A. & C. Black) Air Vice-Marshal F. C. Halahan CMG CBE DSO MVOWebster F.A.M. (1937), Our Great Public Schools, page 92 (Butler & Tanner: London) Berthold Wells Key (1895–1986), CB DSO MC ADC, Major General during Second World War Group Captain Cyril Nelson "Kit" Lowe (1891–1983), MC DFC RAF, English rugby union footballer, First World War flying ace, and supposedly the inspiration for W. E. Johns' character "Biggles". Brigadier Geoffrey Rimbault (1908–1991), British Army officer Rear Admiral Arthur Skey (1873–1942), recipient of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus in the First World War Wing Commander G. H. Stainforth (1899–1942), AFC RAF, British Royal Air Force pilot and the first man in the world to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft Air Commodore Owen Truelove, first man to fly from England to New Zealand in a glider Brigadier James Whitehead (1880–1955), CB, CMG, CBE, DSO, OStJ, ADC, British Indian Army officer who later became a senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police Air Chief Marshal Sir John Willis GBE KCB FRAeS, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff
Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
Seven Old Alleynians have won the Victoria Cross, five in the First World War, 1914–18 (of whom four were killed in action) and two in the Second World War, 1939–45. In the Second World War one OA won the George Cross.
Victoria CrossDarby, W. (1967), Dulwich: A Place in History, p.95 (William Darby: Dulwich) First World War Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell (1886–1953), VC, DSO Lieutenant Richard Basil Brandram Jones (1897–1916), VC Major Alexander Malins Lafone (1870–1917), VC Major Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand (1879–1916), VC Lieutenant Cecil Harold Sewell (1895–1918), VC Second World War Lieutenant-Colonel Lorne McLaine Campbell (1902–1991), VC, DSO, TD, MA (later achieved the rank of brigadier and was awarded the OBE) Captain Philip John Gardner (1914–2003), VC, MC George CrossDarby, W. (1967), Dulwich: A Place in History, p.43 (William Darby: Dulwich) Second World War Major Herbert John Leslie Barefoot (1887–1958), GC, ARIBA
Philosophy and academia
C. D. Broad (1887–1971), epistemologist, historian of philosophy, and philosopher Gareth Evans (1946–1980), philosopher Robert Gildea, author and Professor of History at the University of Oxford Hugh Gusterson, author and Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington University; president of American Ethnological Society, 2015–17 William Keith Chambers Guthrie (1906–1981), Scottish classical scholar, best known for his History of Greek Philosophy, in six volumes Sir Charles Hilary Jenkinson (1882–1961), archivist; founder and definer of modern archival theory and practice John Lewis (1889–1976), philosopher K. B. McFarlane (1903–1966), historian George Edward Moore (1873–1958), one of the founders of the Analytic tradition in philosophyHodges, S (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, pages 87–88 (Heinemann: London) Arthur Lindsay Sadler (1882–1970), was Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney Dominic Shellard, disgraced vice chancellor of De Montfort University (at the school 1977–1984)Dulwich College Official website – News – Dominic Shellard named Vice Chancellor Sir John Sheppard (1881–1968), classical scholar, the first non-Etonian to become provost of King's College, Cambridge,Hodges, S (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, pages 88 (Heinemann: London) and openly gay Alic Halford Smith, former vice-chancellor of Oxford University John Steane (born 1931), former headmaster, archaeologist, and author John Wells (1947–99), economist. Michael Winterbottom, classics scholar, Oxford University
Politics, law and business
Kweku Etrew Amua-Sekyi (1933-2007), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia Jonathan Bartley (born 1971), Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales and Leader of the Opposition on Lambeth Council (at Dulwich 1980–1989) Jon Benjamin (born 1964), former chief executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews (at Dulwich 1974–1983) Eric Arthur Cleugh (1894–1964), diplomat and former ambassador to Panama (at Dulwich 1907–1913) Sir Alexander Colin Cole (1922–2001), KCB, KCVO, long serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London and Garter Principal King of Arms, the highest heraldic office in England Mark Coombs, billionaire and CEO, Ashmore Group William Leslie Comyn (1877– ), shipbuilder and shipowner, built first concrete ship in California, US Sir Horatio Davies (1842–1912), , Victorian London businessman and Lord Mayor of LondonHodges, S (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, page 244 (Heinemann: London) Ian Hay Davison, first chief executive of Lloyd's of London