The following are notable Old Carthusians, who are former pupils of Charterhouse (founded in 1611).

Politicians

Thomas Chataway (1864–1925), Senator for Queensland (1907–1913) John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir (1894–1954), politician, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1936–1938, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1938–1940, and Governor of Bombay, 1943–1948 Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1801–1874), Secretary at War, 1846–1852, and Secretary of State for War, 1855–1858 Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent (1901–1986), politician Henry William Newman Fane (1897–1976), Chairman of Kesteven County Council (1962–1967) and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire (1952) Thomas Milner Gibson (1806–1884), radical politician, President of the Board of Trade, 1859–1866 Major John Gouriet (1935–2010), Conservative political campaigner and founder of The Freedom Association William Haines (1810–1866), Premier of Victoria (1855–1857; 1857–1858) Richard Hope Hall (1924–2007), Deputy Speaker of the Rhodesia House of Assembly (1973–1977) General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887–1965), Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1938–1946, Chief of Staff to the Viceroy of India, 1947–1948, and first Secretary General of NATO, 1952–1957 Kenneth Jeyaretnam (born 1959), Singaporean politician Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729–1808), Secretary at War, 1778–1782, first President of the Board of Trade, 1786–1804, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1786–1803 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), Prime Minister, 1812–1827 Sir Horatio Mann, 2nd Baronet (1744–1814), politician and patron of cricket Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners (1756–1842), Lord Chancellor of Ireland (1807–1827) Hartland Molson (1907–2002), brewer and Canadian senator Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster (1906–1975), Paymaster General Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (born 1947), peer and Treasury minister in the 2010 Coalition government Ralph Bernal Osborne (c. 1808–1882), politician, Secretary of the Admiralty, 1852–1858 Ivan Power (1903–1954), British diplomat and London County Councillor Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake (1881–1964), Mayor of Maidstone, zoo keeper James Vernon (c. 1646–1727), Secretary of State James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776–1845), politician and Lord President of the Council, 1841–1845

MPs

John Archer-Houblon (1773–1831), MP for Essex (1810–1820) William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot (1811–1887), MP for Denbighshire (1835–1852) Thomas Barrett-Lennard (1788–1856), MP for Ipswich (1820–1826) and Maldon (1826–1837; 1847–1852) Richard Fellowes Benyon (1811–1897), MP for Berkshire (1860–1876) Reginald Blaker (1900–1975), MP for Spelthorne (1931–1945) John Gordon Drummond Campbell (1864–1935), MP for Kingston-upon-Thames (1918–1922) Douglas Carswell (born 1971), MP for Harwich (2005–10) and Clacton (2010–17) Ronald Cartland (1907–1940), MP and rebel against Chamberlain's appeasement policies, killed near Dunkirk in 1940; portrayed in Lynne Olson's "Troublesome Young Men." Arthur Stuart, 7th Earl Castle Stewart (1889–1961), MP for Harborough Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley (1863–1946), MP for Leeds East and East Grinstead Sir Charles Clifford, 4th Baronet (1821–1895), MP for Isle of Wight (1857–1865) and Newport (1870–1885) Thomas Cobbold (1833–1883), MP for Ipswich (1876–1883) and diplomat Anthony Coombs (born 1952), MP for Wyre Forest Coningsby Disraeli (1867–1936), MP for Altrincham Ralph Etherton (1904–1987), MP for Stretford Clavering Fison (1892–1985), MP for Woodbridge Walter Fletcher (1892–1956), MP for Bury (1945–1950) and Bury and Radcliffe (1950–1955) Stephen Furness (1902–1974), MP for Sunderland (1935–1945) Richard Gardner (1812–1856), MP for Leicester (1847–1848; 1852–1856) Mark Garnier (born 1963), MP for Wyre Forest George Gipps (1783–1869), MP for Ripon (1807–1826) Charles Goodson-Wickes DL (born 1945), former soldier, businessman, consulting physician, and former Conservative MP for Wimbledon Sir Douglas Hall, 1st Baronet (1866–1923), MP for Isle of Wight (1910–1922) Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet (1877–1947), MP for Altrincham (1913–1923) and Ilford (1928–1937) Henry Handley (1797–1846), MP for Heytesbury (1820–1826) and South Lincolnshire (1832–1841) George Harrison (1680–1759), MP for Hertford (1727–1734; 1741–1759) Edward Hicks (1814–1889), MP for Cambridgeshire (1879–1885) Frederick Hindle (1877–1953), MP for Darwen (1923–1924) Geoffrey Hirst (1904–1984), MP for Shipley (1950–1970) Kirkman Hodgson (1814–1879), MP for Bridport and Bristol, and Governor of the Bank of England Sir Henry Hoghton, 7th Baronet (1768–1835), MP for Preston (1795–1802) Henry Thomas Howard (1808–1851), MP for Cricklade (1841–1847) Sir Jeremy Hunt (born 1966), MP for Godalming and Ash, (previously South West Surrey), and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Edward John Hutchins (1809–1876), MP for Penryn and Falmouth (1840–1841) and Lymington (1850–1857) William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood (1909–1989), MP for Westmorland and government minister John Jenkinson (1734?–1805), MP for Corfe Castle (1768–1780)Sir Lewis Namier, JENKINSON, John (?1734-1805). in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 (1964). Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith (1924–2010), MP for Holborn and St Pancras South, East Grinstead and Wealden David Jones (1810–1869), MP for Carmarthenshire (1852–1868) Sydney Jones (1872–1947), MP for Liverpool West Derby (1923–1924)Who was Who, OUP 2007 Seymour King (1852–1933), MP for Kingston upon Hull Central (1885–1911) Timothy Kitson (1931–2019), MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire (1959–1983)Who's Who 1974, London : A. & C. Black, 1974, pg.1839. Sir Frederick Knight (1812–1897), MP Sir Edmund Lechmere, 3rd Baronet (1826–1894), MP William Cunliffe Lister (1809–1841), MP for Bradford (1841) Lord Cecil Manners (1868–1945), MP for Melton (1900–1906) James Martin (1807–1878), MP for Tewkesbury (1859–1865) William Meeke (1758–1830), MP for Penryn (1796–1802) John Mills (1879–1972), MP for New Forest and Christchurch (1932–1945) John Pretyman Newman (1871–1947), MP for Enfield (1910–1918) and Finchley (1918–1923) Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet, of Harrington Gardens (1857–1918), MP for Doncaster (1906–1918) Reginald Nicholson (1869–1946), MP for Doncaster (1918–1922) George Palmer (1772–1853), MP for Thomas Erskine Perry (1806–1882), MP for Devonport (1854–1859) Vivian Phillipps (1870–1955), MP for Edinburgh West (1922–1924) Richard Pilkington (1908–1976), MP for Widnes (1935–1945) and Poole (1951–1964) William Pole-Carew (1811–1888), MP for East Cornwall (1845–1852) Rafton Pounder (1933–1991), MP for Belfast South (1963–1974) Uvedale Tomkins Price (1685–1764), MP for Weobley (1713–1715; 1727–1734) Jim Prior, Baron Prior (1927–2016), MP for Lowestoft and Waveney, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1970–72), Secretary of State for Employment (1979–81) David Ricardo (1803–1864), MP for Stroud (1832–1833) Thomas Rider (1785–1847), MP for Kent (1831–1832) and West Kent (1832–1835) Benjamin Rodwell (1815–1892), MP for Cambridgeshire (1874–1881) George Schuster (1881–1982), MP for Walsall (1938–1945) McInnes Shaw (1895–1957), MP for Western Renfrewshire (1924–1929) Sir John Shelley, 7th Baronet (1808–1867), MP for Gatton (1830–1831), Great Grimsby (1831–1832), and Westminster (1852–1865) Waldron Smithers (1880–1954), MP for Chislehurst (1924–1945) and Orpington (1945–1954) Edward Richard Stewart (1782–1851), MP for Wigtown Burghs (1806–1809)R. G. Thorne, "Stewart, Hon. Edward Richard (1782-1851)", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986 Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, (born 1928), MP for Lincoln, founder of Democratic Labour, co-founder of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Liberal Democrat peer William Thompson (1792–1854), MP for Callington (1820–1826), London (1826–1832), Sunderland (1833–1841), and Westmorland (1841–1854), and Lord Mayor of London (1828–1829) Mike Thornton (born 1953), MP for Eastleigh Lord Edward Thynne (1807–1884), MP for Weobley (1831–1832) and Frome (1859–1865) Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford (1932–1989), MP for The Wrekin George James Turner (1798–1867), MP Philip Twells (1808–1880), MP for City of London (1874–1880) Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan (1873–1933), MP for Fulham East (1922–1933) John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham, (born 1932), MP for Maldon and South Colchester and Maldon and government minister Thomas Spencer Wilson (1727–1798), MP for Sussex (1774–1780) Henry Wilson-Fox (1863–1921), MP for Tamworth Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom (1913–1992), MP for Nottingham Central Edmund Workman-Macnaghten (1790–1876), MP for Antrim (1847–1852) Tim Yeo (born 1945), MP for South Suffolk and former chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee Henry Redhead Yorke (1802–1848), MP for City of York (1841–1848) Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), MP for Clitheroe

Political scholars, activists, and others John Campbell (born 1947), political writer and biographer Adam Curle (1916–2006), British academic and Quaker peace activist Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), political scholar Charles Evenden (1894–1961), British soldier who was the founder of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats Garry Thomson (1925–2007), British conservator and Buddhist Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist (witness before the Wolfenden Committee)

Royalty Yashwant Rao Holkar II (1908–1961), Maharaja of Indore Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein (1869–1931), grandson of Queen Victoria (1884–1912), son of King Rama V of Siam

Nobility Sir Robert Abdy, 5th Baronet (1896–1976)'ABDY, Sir Robert (Henry Edward)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll (1872–1949), hereditary peer Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913–1962), hereditary peer Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook (born 1951), hereditary peer Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster (born 1949), hereditary peer Horace Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan (1878–1950), Irish peer Sir Charles Clarke, 2nd Baronet (1812–1899) Robert Boyle, 11th Earl of Cork (1864–1934) Mark Pepys, 6th Earl of Cottenham (1903–1943), racing driverPeter W. Hammond, ed., The Complete Peerage, Vol. XIV (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1998), pp. 28, 210 Edward Law, 5th Baron Ellenborough (1841–1915) Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy (1885–1963), hereditary peer David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 1938), hereditary peer Walter Angelo Fox-Strangways, 8th Earl of Ilchester (1887–1970) Richard Milner, 3rd Baron Milner of Leeds (born 1959), hereditary peer Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 1952), crossbench peer Granville Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans (1867–1942), hereditary peer Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans (1870–1960), hereditary peer Sir Gervais Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet (1902–1971), landowner, Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870–1943), hereditary peer

Royal household and ceremonial positions Sir (Marsom) Henry Boyd-Carpenter (born 1939), courtier Hubert Chesshyre (1940–2020), courtier John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls Arthur Erskine (1881–1963), Crown Equerry (1924–1941) Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784–1851), Lord Steward (1841–1846) Derek Keppel (1863–1944), Master of the Household (1913–1936) David McCorkell (born 1955), Lord-Lieutenant of County Antrim and former Board Director of Brewin Dolphin plc John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1789–1794, and Lord Privy Seal, 1798–1827 Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison (1793–1872), High Sheriff of Essex (1827) Charles Young (1795–1869), Garter Principal King of Arms (1842–1869)

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