List of Old Harrovians

Former pupils of Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, London, are known as Old Harrovians.

Politicians, civil servants, and royalty Civil servants, intelligence officers, and police Sir Alex Allan (born 1951), Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee Sir William A. Baillie-Hamilton (1844–1920), Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland and to the Secretary of State for the Colonies Peter Brodie (1914–1989), Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (1964–1966) Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell (born 1938), Cabinet Secretary Sir Jock Colville (1915–1987), civil servant and diarist Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton (1838–1903), Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1868; 1874–1880) Sir Kenelm Edward Digby (1836–1916), Under Secretary of State at the Home Office Frank Elliott (1874–1939), Metropolitan Police commissioner Major Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot (1852–1920), Private Secretary to the Governor of New Zealand and Scottish footballerHarrow, 1800–1911, p. 393 Arthur Henry Freeling (1820–1885), Surveyor General of South Australia (1849–1861)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 131 Henry Fyshe Gisborne (1813–1841), Port Phillip District commissioner Henry Graham (1842–1930), Clerk of the Parliaments (1885–1917)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 282 George Hamilton (1812–1883), Commissioner of the South Australia Police Alec Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1894–1960), Private Secretary to Edward VIII and George VI Stuart Holland, 2nd Baron Rotherham (1876–1927), Inspector, Ministry of Pensions Brigadier Sir Eric Edward Boketon Holt-Wilson (1875–1950), deputy to the Director General of MI5 (1909–1940)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 667 Walter Dally Jones (1855–1926), assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence (1914–1919)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 422 John Kenrick (1735–1799), Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance (1780–1783) MP for Bletchingley (1780–1790) Sir Henry Atwell Lake (1808–1881), Chief Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police James Masterton-Smith (1878–1938), Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1921–1925)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 726 Robert Henry Meade (1835–1898), Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies (1892–1897)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 226 Francis Mowatt (1837–1919), Head of HM Treasury George Murray (1849–1936), Secretary to the General Post Office (1899–1903)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 371 Charles Perceval, 2nd Baron Arden (1756–1840), Master of the Mint (1801–1802) Sir Dennis Proctor (1905–1983), British civil servant Malcolm Robinson (1857–1933), Chief Inspector of Factories of the British Government (1917–1920)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 446 Stephen Tallents (1884–1958), Secretary of the Empire Marketing BoardHarrow, 1800–1911, p. 788

Diplomatic Service Sir Roderick Barclay (1909–1996), British Ambassador to Denmark (1956–1960) and to Belgium (1963–1969) Sir Brooke Boothby, 10th Baronet (1856–1913), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile (1907) Reginald Bridgeman CMG (1884–1968), member of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service and attempted Labour Party candidateHarrow, 1800–1911, p. 792 Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766–1841), British Ambassador to Belgium (1792–1794), Prussia (1795–1799), and the Ottoman Empire (1799–1803); acquired the Elgin Marbles Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer MP (1801–1872), British Ambassador to Spain (1844–1848), the United States (1849–1852), Tuscany (1852–1854), and the Ottoman Empire (1858–1865) Nevile Butler (1893–1973), UK Ambassador to Brazil (1947–1951) and UK Ambassador to the Netherlands (1952–1954) Henry Ellis (1788–1855), ad interim Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia (1814–1815) Julian Fane (1827–1870), diplomat Mansfeldt Findlay (1861–1932), UK Ambassador to Saxony (1907–1909), to Bulgaria (1909–1911), and to Norway (1911–1923)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 510 Prince Mozaffar Firouz (1906–1988), Iranian ambassador to the USSR (1946–1947) Conyngham Greene (1854–1934), British Ambassador to Switzerland (1901–1905), to Romania (1906–1910), to Denmark (1911–1912), and to Japan (1912–1919)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 457 Sir Jeremy Greenstock (born 1943), British ambassador to the United Nations (1998–2003) Lepel Griffin (1838–1908), British diplomat in the British RajHarrow, 1800–1911, p. 254 John Harington Gubbins (1852–1929), linguist and diplomat Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767–1852), British Ambassador to Russia (1807) and MP for Lancaster (1802–1806) Sir Adrian Holman (1895–1974), British Ambassador to Cuba (1950–1954) Douglas Howard (1897–1987), British Ambassador to the Holy See (1953–1957)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 892 Esmé Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith (1863–1939), British Ambassador to the United States (1924–1930) Anthony Lambert (1911–2007), UK Ambassador to Bulgaria (1958–1960), to Tunisia (1960–1963), to Finland (1963–1966), and to Portugal (1966–1970) Sir Frank Lascelles (1841–1920), British Ambassador to Persia (1891–1894), to Russia (1894–1895) and to Germany (1895–1908) Thomas Villiers Lister (1832–1902), diplomat Sir Gerard Lowther, 1st Baronet (1858–1916), UK Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (1908–1913)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 472 Henry Lowther (1858–1939), UK Ambassador to Chile (1909–1913) and to Denmark (1913–1916)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 486 Ivo Mallet (1900–1988), UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1951–1954) and to Spain (1954–1960) Charles Mendl (1871–1958), British diplomat described as "one of the most colourful figures in the diplomatic and social life of Paris"Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 623 Samuel Barrett Miles (1838–1914), British diplomat in Oman David Richard Morier (1784–1877), English diplomat and novelist Constantine Phipps (1840–1911), UK Ambassador to Brazil (1894–1900) and to Belgium (1900–1906)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 258 John Francis William, 6th Count de Salis-Soglio (1825–1871), diplomat Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (1780–1855), British ambassador to Portugal (1806–1808), to Sweden (1817–1820), to Ottoman Turkey (1820–1824) and to Russia (1825–1826) Reginald Tower (1860–1939), diplomat (1885–1920) Francis Hyde Villiers (1852–1925), British Ambassador to Portugal (1906–1911) and to Belgium (1911–1920)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 392 Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), British diplomat, Sinologist, and namesake of the Wade–Giles romanization system Hugh Wyndham (1836–1916), British diplomat who was minister to Serbia (1885–1888), to Brazil (1888–1894), and to Romania (1894–1897)

Colonial Service and Imperial Administration Ernest Woodford Birch (1857–1929), British Resident of Perak (1904–1910)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 474 Charles Bruce (1836–1920), Governor of British Mauritius (1897–1903)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 239 Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes MP (1901–1974), Governor-General of the West Indies Federation (1958–1962)Burke's Peerage 2003, p. 573 Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891), Viceroy of India (1876–1880) Sir Fowell Buxton, 3rd Baronet (1837–1915), Governor of South Australia (1895–1899) James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812–1860), Governor-General of India (1848–1856) Drummond Chaplin (1866–1933), Administrator of Southern Rhodesia (1914–1923)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 571 Rohan Delacombe (1906–1991), Governor of Victoria (1963–1974) Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Baronet (1783–1847), Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1843–1845) Ambrose Flux Dundas (1899–1973), Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan (1947–1948), Governor of North-West Frontier Province (1948–1949), and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (1952–1959) John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare (1792–1851), Governor of Bombay (1831–1835) Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy (1796–1858), Governor of New South Wales (1846–1855) and of Prince Edward Island (1837–1841) Francis Godschall Johnson (1817–1894), Lieutenant-Governor of Northwest Territories (1872) Sir William Henry Gregory (1816–1892), Anglo-Irish writer and politician, and Governor of British Ceylon (1872–1877) Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851–1917), Governor General of Canada (1904–1911) Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst (1858–1944), Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1910–1916) George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke MP (1759–1827), Governor of Guernsey (1807–1827) General William Knollys (1797–1883), Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1854–1856) General John Hodgson (1757–1846), Governor of Bermuda (1806–1810) John A. King (1788–1867), 20th Governor of New York State (1857–1858) Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly (1856–1933), Governor of New Zealand (1897–1904) Henry Augustus Marshall ( 1776–1841), Auditor General of Sri Lanka (1823–1841) Sir Francis Henry May (1860–1922), Governor of Fiji (1911–1912) and of Hong Kong (1912–1918) Edward Merewether (1858–1938), Lieutenant Governor and Chief Secretary of Malta (1902–1911), Governor of Sierra Leone (1911–1916), and Governor of the Leeward Islands (1916–1921)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 468 William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (1771–1843), Governor of Jamaica (1808–1827) and Postmaster General (1827–1830) Robert Francis Peel MP (1874–1924), Governor of Saint Helena (1920–1924)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 675 Sir William Chichele Plowden (1832–1915), Civil Servant and Member of the Legislative Council, India William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket (1864–1920), Governor of New Zealand (1904–1910) Frederick Ponsonby MP (1783–1837), Governor of Malta (1826–1836) Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (1880–1956), Governor General of Canada (1931–1935) John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington (1866–1936), Governor of New Zealand (1910–1912) Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings (1754–1826), Governor General of India (1813–1823) Raja Maharaj Singh (1878–1959), First Indian Governor of Bombay (1948–1952) Thomas Smith-Dorrien-Smith (1846–1918), Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly (1872–1918)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 316 George Rous, 3rd Earl of Stradbroke (1862–1947), Governor of Victoria (1921–1925)Harrow, 1800–1911, p. 526 John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth (1751–1834), Governor General of India (1793–1798) John Montague Stow (1911–1997), Governor-General of Barbados (1966–1967) Alexander Strange (1818–1876), British army officer involved in the Great Trigonometrical Survey Sir Reginald Talbot (1841–1929), Governor of Victoria (1904–1908) Sir Richard Carnac Temple, 2nd Baronet (1850–1931), Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1895–1904), soldier, folklorist & anthropologist Basil Temple Blackwood (1870–1917), Colonial Secretary of Barbados Sir Henry George Ward MP (1797–1860), Governor of Ceylon (1855–1860) Sir Harcourt Butler (1869–1938), Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet (1849–1920), President of the Permanent Arbitration Board in Egypt Sir Percy Cox (1864–1937), High Commissioner of Iraq (1920–1923), Political Resident at Tehran Charles Stanhope Foster Crofton (1873–1909), member of the Indian Civil Service and a philatelist Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith (1899–1977), Governor of Burma G. Godfrey Phillips (1900–1965), Commissioner General, of the Shanghai Municipal CouncilObituary, The Times, 25 October 1965

Royal Household and ceremonial officers Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford (1911–1966), Lord-in-waiting (1958–1959) Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet (1849–1920), Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (1889–1918) Sir Arthur Bannerman, 12th Baronet (1866–1955), Gentleman Usher to George V Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville MP (1810–1899), Lord Steward (1867–1868) and Captain of the Gentlemen at Arms (1866–1867)Burke's Peerage 2003, p. 3858 James Bethell, 5th Baron Bethell (1967–), Lord-in-waiting (2019–) Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho (1882–1969), Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (1936–1962) and Chairman of Cornwall County Council (1941–1952)‘BOLITHO, Lt-Col Sir Edward Hoblyn Warren’’, in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2008; online edition (subscription site) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 20 April 2012