Old Malvernians are alumni of Malvern College, an independent day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire, England that was founded in 1865. Originally a school for boys aged 9 to 18, it merged in 1992 with a private boys' primary school and an independent school for girls to become coeducational for pupils aged 3 to 18.
Many alumni have gained recognition in such fields as the military, politics, business, science, culture and sport - especially first-class cricket and the eighteen county cricket clubs. Among the most famous Old Malvernians are spymaster James Jesus Angleton, former head of the CIA's counter-intelligence; Aleister Crowley, the controversial but influential occultist; actor Denholm Elliott, sportsman R. E. Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football; and novelist C. S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. Other well-known personalities include businessman Baron MacLaurin, a former chairman of Tesco and Vodafone; Jeremy Paxman, journalist, author, and BBC presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge; and Baron Weatherill, the former Speaker of the House of Commons. Old Malvernians who have become heads of state or government include the eponymously titled Viscount Malvern and Najib Tun Razak, the 6th prime minister of Malaysia. The former was the British Commonwealth's longest-serving prime minister by the time he left office. Old Malvernian Nobel Prize winners include Francis William Aston, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and James Meade, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1977.
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Lascelles Abercrombie, (1881–1938), poet, journalist, criticMerriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature (1995) Merriam-Webster Inc. p.3. Cllr San Abishev, politician, Conservative Member of Westminster City Council. Diran Adebayo FRSL, novelist, cultural critic and academic, tales of London and the lives of African diasporans Brian Aherne, stage, screen, radio and television actor. Hollywood Walk of Fame and Oscar nominee. Douglas Allday, First-class cricket cricketer for the Europeans cricket team and British Army officer Ollie Allsopp, professional rugby player for Hartpury University R.F.C. in the RFU Championship, London Scottish RFC, Birmingham Moseley Rugby in National League 1 and Harlequins F.C. John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley Tim Anderson, Commonwealth Games gold medal winner and Olympian James Jesus Angleton, chief of counter-intelligence for the CIA from 1954 to 1974. Source of inspiration for the character Edward Wilson in the film The Good Shepherd. Nicholas Argenti, stockbroker, British Army officer, Royal Air Force officer, and philatelist Michael Arlen, prolific essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. Alban Arnold, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club and Hampshire County Cricket Club Francis William Aston, chemist and physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for work on mass spectrometry.
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Ralph Bagnold, geo-morphologist, pioneering desert explorer, founder and commander of the Long Range Desert Group James Balfour-Melville (1882–1915), British Army officer, footballer for Oxford University A.F.C., and cricketer for Scotland Charles Bambridge (1858–1935), England international footballer and captain Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes, British Indian administrator Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg, First Sea Lord, Governor of Gibraltar Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este Humphry Berkeley, politician, humourist, early supporter for Gay rights in the UK, and Conservative Member of Parliament. Wilfred Bird, played first-class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and Oxford University Cricket Club Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport, British Army officer, Conservative Member of Parliament, British Army welterweight boxing champion Harold Brougham, FA Cup winner in 1880 with Clapham Rovers Sir Stephen Brown, Lord Justice of Appeal, President of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice, Royal Navy officer Vice Admiral Sir Peter Buchanan, naval officer'BUCHANAN, Vice-Adm. Sir Peter (William)', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012) Cuthbert Burnup, England footballer, cricketer for Cambridge University, Marylebone Cricket Club, Kent, and London county cricket clubs Claude Burton, cricketer for Oxford University and Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Philip Bushill-Matthews, politician, former Member of the European Parliament'BUSHILL-MATTHEWS, Philip Rodway', in Who's Who 2012 (London: A. & C. Black, 2012)
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Henry Montgomery Campbell, bishop Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Carter-Campbell of Possil, British Army officer George Chesterton, cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, cricket author, and former deputy head of Malvern College David Chipp, journalist, former chief editor of Reuters and the Press Association Prof Geoffrey Duncan Chisholm, surgeon and urologist Peter Churchill, intelligence officer in Special Operations Executive F Section (1940−1945)Profile of Peter Churchill. www.nigelperrin.com. Retrieved 22 February 2011. Horatio Clare, writer of travel, memoir, nature and children's books, and BBC Radio producer Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda, UK representative to the U.N. Trusteeship Council and Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development. Bernard Collins, cricketer Geoffrey Cornu, cricketer for the Free Foresters Cricket Club and British Army officer George Cottrell, former politician and deputy treasurer of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), financier, and convicted felon. Aleister Crowley, occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, mountaineer, and prolific author of poetry and novels Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling, flying ace in the Battle of BritainObituary: Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling. The Independent. 10 December 1996. Christopher Foxley-Norris. Retrieved 22 July 2010. Edward Cuthbertson, cricketer, stockbroker, and British Army officer
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Arthur Day, cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, stockbroker, and British Army officer Samuel Day, cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, footballer for Corinthian F.C., and England James Delingpole, journalist, columnist, novelist, Bastiat Prize winner. Sir Edward Brandis Denham, colonial governorEdward Brandis Denham. The Malvern Register (1865-1904). 1905. p. 297. Retrieved 22 February 2011.Twentieth century impressions of Ceylon: its history, people, commerce, industries and resources. By Arnold Wright. Asian Educational Services. London. 1999. p. 110. Retrieved 22 February 2011. Henry de Vere Stacpoole, British writer Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet Rahim J. Dharamshi, Cambridge graduate and former executive director at J.P. Morgan. Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, (1895–1966), Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar Guy Disney, (1982—), First amputee jockey to win a horse race at a professional race-course in Britain (February 2017). Monty Don, BBC television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture Ignazio Dracopoli, Anglo-French cartographer and explorer Nigel Draffan, cricketer for Cambridge University Cricket Club Sandy Duncan, athlete, general secretary of the British Olympic Association (1949–1975)
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Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet of the Province of Maryland, English writer on poverty and pioneering social investigator Rehaan Edavalath, cricketer for Worcestershire Ricardo Ellcock, cricketer for Worcestershire and Middlesex county cricket clubs and the England team Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet, shipping magnate, natural historian and philanthropist Denholm Elliott, actor with 125 film and television credits and 3 times BAFTA award winner. Lloyd Embley, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Trinity Mirror group William Evans, cricketer for Worcestershire and Hampshire county cricket clubs Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, international business editor of The Daily Telegraph and author of The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.
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John Ferraby, Hand of the Cause in the Bahá’í Faith Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Fielden, pilot, Captain of The Queen's Flight Sir Eustace Fiennes, 1st Baronet of Banbury, politician, colonial governor Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, barrister, judge Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke, politician and Conservative MP, barrister (QC), and Member of the European Parliament Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland "Fostershire", the Foster brothers who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club: Basil Foster, Geoffrey Foster, Harry Foster, Maurice Foster, Neville Foster, Reginald "Tip" Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football,Betts, Graham (2006) p.102 and Wilfrid "Bill" Foster Major General John F. C. Fuller, military historian, strategist, occultist
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Sir Anthony Hastings George, British Consul-General in Shanghai and Boston Sir Peter Gibson, judge and Lord Justice of Appeal Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill (1911–1963), doctor, naturalist and Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore John Godwin, naval officer, commando (Operation Checkmate) Penrhyn Grant Jones, Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China Doctor Greenwood (1860–1951), Blackburn Rovers and England international footballerBetts, Graham (2006) p.114 William Mitchell Grundy, English headmaster, son of Rev. W. Grundy, a former Headmaster of Malvern College.
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Sir William Henry Hadow, English educationist, musicologist St. John Emile Clavering Hankin, Edwardian essayist and playwright Prince Christian of Hanover Prince Ernst August of Hanover Air Chief Marshal Sir Donald Hardman, flying ace, CAF (RAAF) Fred Hargreaves, footballer for Blackburn Rovers and the England team, cricketer for Lancashire County Cricket Club. Rose Harvey (born 1992), long-distance runner and in 2023 became the fifth fastest British female marathon runner of all time Jack Haynes (born 2001), cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club and England squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup Josh Haynes (born 1999), cricketer for Leeds/Bradford MCC University General Sir Charles Harington, Deputy Chief of the General Staff George Harrison (1860–1900), cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club Oliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh (1893–1968), diplomat Peter Hatch, British Army officer, first-class cricketer for the Combined Services cricket team Colonel Sir Peter Hilton WWII veteran awarded the Military Cross and two bars Major General Richard Hilton DSO MC DFC, soldier, pilot, and author"HILTON, Richard (Zakhmi Dil)" in Contemporary Authors, Volume 1 (Gale Research, 1975), p. 291 Megan Hine, British survival consultant, adventurer, television presenter and writer Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914–1998) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, former president of the Royal Society, and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge Errol Holmes, cricketer for Oxford University, Surrey County Cricket Club and England Sir Peter Holmes (1932–2002), businessman, managing director (1985–1993) and chief executive officer (1992–1993) of Royal Dutch Shell Owen Hughes, cricketer and officer in both the British Army and the Royal Flying Corps Robin Hull (1905–1960), music critic Travers Christmas Humphreys, barrister, judge, founder of the London Buddhist Society and prolific author of books on the Buddhist tradition
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Arnold Jackson, athlete (1500m gold medallist, 1912 Summer Olympics); youngest ever British Army Brigadier-General, awarded DSO & Three Bars; barrister. Ivan Johnson, cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club and journalist Donald Johnston, British Army officer and cricketer for Oxford University Cricket Club
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Shapur Kharegat journalist, editor and Asia Director of The Economist Donald Knight, first-class cricket for Surrey County Cricket Club, Oxford University Cricket Club and England