This article lists notable former pupils of Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England, and its lineal antecedents at St Omer, Bruges and Liège. Former pupils are referred to in school contexts as O.S. (Old Stonyhurst). Inter alia the school counts among its most distinguished former pupils: three Saints, twelve Beati, twenty-two martyrs, seven archbishops, and seven Victoria Cross winners.
Alumni of the College at St Omer, Bruges, & Liège (1593–1794)
Saints, beati and martyrs St Philip Evans SJ, executed at Cardiff in 1679.Catholic.org entry. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
St Thomas Garnet SJ, protomartyr of St Omer, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, executed at Tyburn in 1608.Catholic Encyclopaedia entry. Retrieved 9 July 2008. St John Plessington, executed at Chester in 1679.List of 40 martyrs . Retrieved 20 July 2008. Bl. Edward Bamber, executed at Lancaster in 1646.T.E. Muir, Stonyhurst, (St Omers Press, Gloucestershire. Second edition, 2006) p.188 Bl. William Barrow SJ (aka Fr Harcourt), executed at Tyburn in 1679. Bl. Arthur Bell OSF, executed at Tyburn in 1643. Bl. Ralph Corbie, executed at Tyburn in 1644. Bl. John Fenwick SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1679.
Bl. John Gavan SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1679. Bl. Thomas Holland SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1642. Bl. William Ireland SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1679. Bl. Thomas Thwing, executed at York in 1680. Bl. Thomas Whitaker, executed at Lancaster in 1646. Bl. Thomas Whitbread SJ, executed at Tyburn in 1679. Bl. John Woodcock OSF, executed at Lancaster in 1646.
Others Prince Louis Aloy de Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, General, Marshal of France. Francis Baines, English Jesuit educated at Colleges of St Omer Henry Blundell, art collector; owner of the largest private art collection in England.
Hon. Aedanus Burke, soldier, judge and United States Representative from South Carolina. Served in the militia forces of South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War. Appointed judge of the State circuit court; member of the South Carolina House of Representatives; served in the Revolutionary Army. Appointed one of three commissioners to prepare a digest of the State laws; member of the convention in 1788 called to consider ratification of the Constitution of the United States, which he opposed. Elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the First United States Congress; elected a chancellor of the courts of equity; senior member of the South Carolina appellate courts; Chief Justice of South Carolina.Biographical Directory of US Congress. Retrieved 14 November 2008. Philip Calvert, Keeper of the Conscience of Maryland; Governor of Maryland.Calvert . Retrieved 26 October 2009. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving and only Catholic signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, delegate to the Continental Congress and later US Senator for Maryland.Signators of US Declaration of Independence. Retrieved 14 November 2008. Daniel Carroll, American Roman Catholic who helped draft the United States Constitution.Biography of Daniel Caroll . Retrieved 14 November 2008. Rt. Rev. John Carroll, first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States of America; first Archbishop of Baltimore, founder of Georgetown University and the Georgetown Preparatory School; John Carroll University is named in his honour.Catholic Encyclopaedia entry. Retrieved 14 November 2008. John Caryll, 1st Baron Caryll of Durford, in the Jacobite Peerage, poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Translated Ovid's Epistle of Briseïs to Achilles and Virgil's first Eclogue. During the "Popish Plot" was committed to the Tower of London, but was soon let out on bail. When James II of England succeeded to the throne, he sent him as his agent to the court of Pope Innocent XI. Secretary to Queen Mary of Modena, after the Glorious Revolution, he followed the exiled royal family to Saint-Germain. Implicated in a plots to overthrow William of Orange (William III), while in exile he was created by the dethroned James II Baron Caryll of Durford (or Dunford) in West Sussex and appointed his Joint Secretary of State. His son, the so-called Old Pretender, James Francis Edward Stuart, recognised by Jacobites as "King James III and VIII", re-appointed him one of his Secretaries of State.Catholic Encyclopaedia entry. Retrieved 14 November 2008.
Christopher G. Champlin, United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses; president of the Rhode Island Bank.Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress. Retrieved 14 November 2008. Fr Ambrose Corbie, Jesuit teacher and author; appointed confessor at the English College, Rome.Catholic Encyclopaedia entry. Retrieved 14 November 2008. Sir Henry Gage, Royalist Governor of Oxford during the Civil War.T.E. Muir, Stonyhurst, (St Omer Press, Gloucestershire. Second edition, 2006) p.189 Fr Thomas Gage, recusant Catholic, clergyman, ordained Dominican priest; later publicly abandoned the Catholic Church; testified against Thomas Holland, Francis Bell, Ralph Corby and Peter Wright (qvv), all of whom were executed on his evidence. During the English Civil War, he aligned himself with Oliver Cromwell.The Restoration. William Habington, poet, works include Castara (1634), The Queen of Arragon (1640) and Observations upon History (1641).Catholic Encyclopaedia entry. Retrieved 14 November 2008.
Fr Francis Hawkins, Jesuit, child prodigy and translator; translated (at age 10) An Alarum for Ladyes and (at age 13) from de La Serre's Youths Behaviour, or, Decency in Conversation amongst Men (1641). Fr. Emmanuel Lobb, SJ, received King James II into the Catholic Church.T.E. Muir, Stonyhurst, (St Omers Press, Gloucestershire. Second edition, 2006) p. 190 William Kilty (1757–1821), Federal Judicial Service: Chief Judge, Circuit Court of the District of Columbia USCC. Received a recess appointment from Thomas Jefferson on 23 March 1801, to a new seat created by 2 Stat. 103; nominated on 6 January 1802. Confirmed by the Senate on 26 January 1802, and received commission on 26 January 1802. Service terminated on 27 January 1806, due to resignation. Compiler, Laws of Maryland, State of Maryland, 1798–1800; State Governor, Maryland, 1806–21 Thomas Lloyd, stenographer; known as the "Father of American Shorthand", published the most complete and official record of the First Continental Congress from the notes taken in his shorthand; worked for the United States Treasurer; reported the first Inaugural Address given by George Washington.Tinling, Marion, "Thomas Lloyd's Reports on the First Continental Congress", The William and Mary Quarterly Vol 18 : 4 (October 1961), p. 521 William Matthews, President of Georgetown College and Vicar General of the Diocese of Philadelphia; the first person born in British America to be ordained a Catholic priest. Robert P. Molyneux SJ (1738 – 1808); English-American Catholic priest and Jesuit missionary to the United States; 2nd and 5th President of Georgetown University. Fr Henry More, Jesuit provincial and church historian; great-grandson St Thomas More; sent on the English Mission where he was twice arrested and imprisoned, whilst chaplain to Lord Petre; as provincial negotiationed with Panzani, Conn and Rossetti (the papal agents at the court of Queen Henrietta Maria); Rector of St Omer. Arthur Murphy, author, biographer and barrister, also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger; friend of Henry Thrale and Samuel Johnson; introduced Thale to Johnson; Commissioner of Bankruptcy; coined the legal term "wilful misconstruction".. Retrieved 31 December 2008. Rt. Rev. Leonard Neale, the first Roman Catholic bishop ordained in the United States, second Archbishop of Baltimore, President of Georgetown University.T.E. Muir, Stonyhurst, (St Omer Press, Gloucestershire. Second edition, 2006) p.191 Fr Edward Petre SJ, Jesuit, Privy Councillor during the reign of James II. Robert Plunkett SJ (1752 – 1815); Jesuit missionary to the United States who became the first president of Georgetown University Ambrose Rookwood, Gunpowder Plotter; executed in 1606 at Westminster with Guy Fawkes. Fr Marmaduke Stone, Jesuit Provincial (England, Ireland and Maryland), first President of Stonyhurst.Catholic Encyclopaedia entry. Retrieved 14 November 2008. Fr Louis de Sabran, French Jesuit, associated with the court of James II, engaged in vigorous theological debates with both Church of England and Puritan spokesmen; royal chaplain to James II; chaplain to the infant Prince of Wales; visitator of the Neapolitan Jesuits; provincial superior; rector of St Omer; spiritual father of the English College in Rome. Sir Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury (1660–1718); a signatory to the letter of invitation to William of Orange 1688; Secretary of State for the Southern Department; Lord Chamberlain; Ambassador to France; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Lord Treasurer; Knight of the Garter and Privy Counsellor (Reference St Omers, Bruge and Liege Lists. Published by Catholic Record Society) Fr Anthony Terill, Jesuit theologian, academic, educator at Florence, Parma, and at the English College, Liège.Catholic Encyclopaedia entry for Anthony Terill. Retrieved 14 November 2008. James White, American physician, lawyer and politician; early settler Tennessee and Louisiana; delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from North Carolina and a delegate to the U.S. House from the Southwest Territory.Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
Alumni of the College at Stonyhurst (1794–present)
Victoria Cross Holders Seven Stonyhurst Alumni have won the Victoria Cross. Malakand Frontier War, India 1897 Lieutenant Edmund William Costello V.C.T.E. Muir, Stonyhurst, (St Omers Press, Gloucestershire. Second edition, 2006) pp.158–9 Sudan Campaign 1898 Captain Paul Aloysius Kenna V.C. World War I Lieutenant Maurice James Dease V.C. (first VC of the Great War) Captain John Aiden Liddell V.C. Second Lieutenant Gabriel George Coury V.C. World War II Captain Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews V.C. Captain James Joseph Bernard Jackman V.C.
Others A Joe Ansbro (b.1985) Scottish rugby union football international; 11 caps for Scotland. George Archer-Shee (1895 – 1914) acquitted of stealing a five shilling postal whilst a naval cadet. The trial, a cause célèbre, was the inspiration for Terence Rattigan play The Winslow Boy James Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour (1785 – 1834), admitted to the House of Lords with the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.Dukes of Buckingham.org. Retrieved 19 May 2009 Alfred Austin (1835 - 1913), Poet Laureate, following Tennyson, when others had caused controversy or refused. His poems are little remembered today. Wilfred Scawen Blunt (see below) wrote of him, "He is an acute and ready reasoner, and is well read in theology and science. It is strange his poetry should be such poor stuff, and stranger still that he should imagine it immortal”. Brittany Ashworth, British film and theatre actress, best known for her roles in Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution and The Crucifixion
B Patrick Baladi (b.1971), British actor. Most famous for his role as Neil in The Office. Iain Balshaw (b.1979) English rugby union football international, 35 caps for England and 3 for the British and Irish Lions, winner 2003 Rugby World CupIain Balshaw profile . Retrieved 23 October 2009. Joseph Cyril Bamford (1916 - 2001), founder and Chairman of heavy equipment manufacturer J. C. Bamford Excavators Ltd better known as JCB.Bamford. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
Philip Bell (1900 - 1986), Conservative Member of Parliament 1951 - 1960. . Retrieved 24 October 2009. Count Michael de la Bédoyère (1900 - 1973) author and journalist, editor of the Catholic Herald for over 30 years.Profile of Count Michael de la Bédoyère . Retrieved 24 October 2009.