This is a list of notable former pupils and staff of Emanuel School, London, England.
Notable Old Emanuels
Armed forces
William Bailey Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside – Marshal of the Royal Air Force, at Emanuel 1904–1905 Edward Thomas – noted for his part in the Battle of Halfaya Pass
Arts and entertainment
Naveen Andrews – actor, star of Lost, and The English Patient John Banting – artist Alan Caddy – guitarist with The Tornados Derek Davis – ceramic artist Rupert Degas – actor Hero Fiennes Tiffin Tallulah Haddon - actor and model Jack Hedley – actor Leslie Henson – actor Douglas Hickox – film director Chris Hughes – record producer, and Adam and the Ants drummer, aka Merrick William Lovelock – composer and pedagogue Richard Marquand – film director, director of Return of the Jedi Ben Moore – artist and curator Gordon Murray – puppeteer (Camberwick Green, Chigley, Trumpton) Joseph Quinn – actor (Stranger Things, Catherine the Great) Mick Rock – rock photographer Sadie Soverall - actor (Saltburn, Fate: The Winx Saga) Ben Wilkins - BAFTA and Oscar-winning sound editor
Clergy
Barney Hopkinson – formerly Rector of Wimborne Minster 1981–1986; Archdeacon of Sarum 1986–1998; and Archdeacon of Wilts 1998–2004 John Bertram Phillips – theologian and clergyman
Industry
Neil Carson – formerly CEO Johnson Matthey
Law
Laurie Shaffi
Literature
Vernon Richards – anarchist writer and photographer N. F. Simpson – dramatist Michael Vince – poet and author Clive Wilmer – poet and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Emma Healey – author
Media Michael Aldred – co-presenter of Ready Steady Go! Michael Aspel – broadcaster Mark Baker - animator and Peppa Pig creator Clive Barnes – theatre critic Simon Barnes – chief sports correspondent for The Times Bill Boorne – theatre critic and journalist Andi Peters – television presenter and producer Paul Rambali – music journalist and author
Other professions
Asif Aziz – billionaire landlord Charles Walter Clark – main architect for the Metropolitan Line on the London Underground Michel Albert Roux – two-starred Michelin chef and restaurateur and presenter of Masterchef Tomasz Starzewski – designer
Politics, public administration, and diplomacy
Richard Adams – politician, formerly Lord Commissioner of the Treasury Sir Alfred Butt – politician formerly Director of Food Rationing at the Ministry of Food, theatre manager, race horse owner and breeder Ernest Crutchley – Minister (Political)/Deputy High Commissioner Australia Sir Arthur Galsworthy – British Ambassador to Ireland and formerly British High Commissioner to New Zealand Sir John Galsworthy – British Ambassador to Mexico Peter Hain, Baron Hain – formerly Secretary of State for Wales; previously Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal Geoffrey Robinson – formerly Paymaster General Mark MacGregor – politician, formerly Conservative Party chief executive Matthew Taylor – chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles – Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary Sir Sebastian Wood – British Ambassador to Germany; formerly British Ambassador to China, and Principal Private Secretary to the Cabinet
Professors and distinguished thinkers
Sir Tim Berners-Lee – inventor of the World Wide Web, recipient of the Millennium Technology Prize and professor at MIT Edward L. G. Bowell – astronomer, Lowell Observatory Tony Brooker – emeritus professor of computer science, University of Essex J. Duncan M. Derrett – emeritus professor of Oriental laws, University of London Derek Fray – professor of materials chemistry, and fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; formerly assistant professor of Metallurgy at MIT Robert Gibson – emeritus professor of engineering science, King's College, London A. C. Gimson – phonetician and head of the department of phonetics and linguistics, UCL Peter Goddard – mathematical physicist, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; formerly Master of St John's College, Cambridge; Honorary Fellow Isaac Newton Institute Ivor James – professor of cello, Royal College of Music Tony Judt – historian, and Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies, New York University. Nominated for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Tom Kemp – Marxist economic historian and political theorist; formerly Reader in Economic History at the University of Hull William Lovelock – composer George Lyward – educationalist, psychotherapist, (Emanuel School, Glenalmond College, and The Perse School under W. H. D. Rouse), and founder of Finchden Manor therapeutic community for young people David Marquand – academic, visiting fellow and formerly principal of Mansfield College, Oxford; ex-Labour Party MP and SDP co-founder Mark Miodownik – materials scientist, University College London Denis Noble, emeritus professor and co-director of Computational Physiology, Balliol College, Oxford; formerly Burdon Sanderson Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology John Paynter – composer and emeritus professor of music University of York Edward P. F. Rose – paleontologist and geologist Sir Owen Saunders – emeritus professor of mechanical engineering, fellow, and formerly rector of Imperial College, London, and vice-chancellor of the University of London
Royalty and other nobility
Pengiran Muda Abdul Hakeem of Brunei Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah of Brunei
Sport
Rowing
Clint Evans – member of the 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race, overall winning crew and winning pairs team: C2 Malcolm McGowan – Great Britain Olympic oarsman 1980; silver medalist men's eight & 1984 Finalist Anton Obholzer – Great Britain Olympic oarsman in Seoul (1988). Member of GB Eight that came 4th Clive Roberts – Great Britain Olympic oarsman in Los Angeles (1984). Member of GB Eight that came 5th
Rugby
George Littlewood Hirst – Wales and Barbarians rugby international 1912–1914 Tom Smith – Scotland and Lions rugby International Bruce Neale – England rugby international
Cricket John Cole – first-class cricketer and British Army officer Ian Payne – cricketer Stuart Surridge – cricketer Leonard Shelton Heath Summers – cricketer
Athletics Peter Reed – Great Britain Olympic long jumper in the 1968 Summer Olympics
Notable Masters
J. A. Cuddon – Writer, works include A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory Tristram Jones-Parry – Headmaster of Emanuel School 1994–1998; Headmaster of Westminster School 1998–2004
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