# List of Old Derbeians

This is a list of notable Old Derbeians, former pupils and masters of Derby School (from the 12th century to 1989) and of Derby Grammar School (since 1994), in Derby, England.

## Notable old boys
### Born in the 16th century

* Blessed Edward James (1557–1588), Roman Catholic martyr
* John Cotton (1585–1652), New England Puritan

### Born in the 17th century

* George Sitwell (c.1600-1667), Ironmaster and High Sheriff
* John Flamsteed (1646–1719), England's first Astronomer Royal
* Anthony Blackwall (1672–1730), classical scholar
* Henry Cantrell (1684–1773), clergyman and religious controversialist
* William Budworth (c. 1699–1745), schoolmaster

### Born in the 18th century

* Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
* Joseph Wright (1734–1797), artist
* Daniel Coke (1745–1825), barrister and member of parliament
* Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (1753–1839), diplomat
* Joseph Strutt (1765–1844), cotton manufacturer and philanthropist
* Sir William Gell (1777–1836), archaeologist

### Born in the 19th century

* Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), surgeon and artist
* Henry Howe Bemrose (1827–1911), member of parliament for Derby
* Unwin Sowter (1839–1910), maltster, cricketer and Mayor of Derby
* John Cook Wilson (1849–1915), philosopher
* J. M. J. Fletcher (1850–1934), historian
* Frank Styant Browne, chemist and photographer
* E. W. Hobson FRS (1856–1933), mathematician
* Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor
* John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist
* Walter Weston (1860–1940), missionary and mountaineer
* Frederic Creswell (1866–1948), mining engineer and South African Minister of Defence
* Christopher Wilson (1874-1919), composer of theatre music and author, Shakespeare and Music (1922)
* Stanley Hawley (1867-1916), pianist and composer.
* Lawrence Beesley (1877–1967), RMS Titanic survivor and author
* William Henry Ansell (1872–1959), architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1940 to 1943
* Walter Greatorex (1877–1949), composer
* Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943), ichthyologist
* Sir George Simpson FRS (1878–1965), meteorologist
* Geoffrey Shaw (1879–1943), composer and musician
* Guy Wilson (1882–1917), cricketer and soldier
* William George Constable (1887–1976), art historian
* Frank Conroy (1890–1964), actor
* Robert Howe (1893–1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan, 1947-1955
* Ernest Sterndale Bennett (1884-1982), Theatre Director and member of the Order of Canada

### Born in the 20th century

* Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire
* George Timms (1910–1997), clergyman
* P. G. Ashmore (1916–2002), academic chemist
* Gilbert Hodgkinson (1913–1987), cricketer
* Spencer Barrett (1914–2001), classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford
* George Bacon (1917-2011), nuclear physicist
* Ted Moult (1926–1986), farmer & TV personality
* Alexander Morrison (1927-2012), judge
* John Stobart (born 1929), maritime artist
* Robert Grimley (born 1943), Dean of Bristol since 1997

## Notable masters of Derby School

* John Meade Falkner, novelist and poet
* Rev. Robert de Courcy Laffan (Senior Classical Master, 1880–1884), principal of Cheltenham College, member of the International Olympic Committee
* Henry Judge Hose (Maths master, 1867–1874), mathematician