# List of Old Wellingtonians

This is a list of notable Old Wellingtonians, being former pupils of Wellington College in Berkshire, England.

## Politics

* Hammad Azhar (1982–), Member of National Assembly of Pakistan, Federal Minister.
* David Blomfield MBE (1934–2016), leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, writer, book editor and local historian
* Michael Blundell (1907–1993), politician and government minister in Kenya
* Crispin Blunt (1960–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate since 1997, and chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
* Julian Brazier, TD (1953–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Canterbury from 1987 to 2017 and former government minister
* Lord Campbell of Croy (1921–2005), British Cabinet Minister who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the whole of Edward Heath's government
* Lord Colnbrook (1922–1996), British Cabinet Minister
* John Dugdale (1905–1963), journalist, Labour Member of Parliament for the English constituency of West Bromwich between 1941 and 1962, and former government minister
* James Malcolm Monteith Erskine (1863–1944), Anti-Waste League, Independent Conservative, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Westminster St George's, 1921–1929
* Christopher Ewart-Biggs (1921–1976), British Ambassador who was assassinated by the IRA
* The Viscount Falkland (1935–), Politician and former member of the House of Lords
* George Ferguson (1947–), the first elected Mayor of Bristol (2012–16)
* Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde (1960–), Former leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
* Sir Edward Garnier KC (1952–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Harborough since 1992, and former Solicitor General for England and Wales
* Lord Gordon-Walker (1907–1980), British Cabinet Minister who served as Foreign Secretary under Harold Wilson
* The Lord Faulks KC (1950–), Conservative Member in the House of Lords
* Sir Alexander Grantham, (1899–1978) British colonial administrator who governed Hong Kong
* Lord Luce (1936–) Governor of Gibraltar and Lord Chamberlain to HM The Queen
* Antony Rivers Marlow (1940–), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Northampton North between 1979 and 1997
* Sir Harold Nicolson (1886–1968), British diplomat, author and politician
* Sir Michael Spicer (1943–2019), Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituencies of West Worcestershire and South Worcestershire between 1974 and 2010 and former chairman of the 1922 Committee
* Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (1865–1948), British Secretary of State for War (two separate times) and founder of the Lord Derby Cup
* Sir Edmund Stockdale (1903–1989), Lord Mayor of London
* Lord Stodart of Leaston (1916–2003), Scottish Tory politician who served under Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath
* Robin Tilbrook (1958–), leader and founder of the English Democrats

## Religion

* The Lord Harries of Pentregarth (1936–) retired Church of England bishop, the 41st Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006
* David Watson (1933–1984) evangelical Church of England clergyman, evangelist and author

## Sport

* Henry Beaumont (1881–1964), cricketer
* Lionel Booth (1850–1912), cricketer
* Frederick Browning (1870–1929) cricketer and rackets amateur champion
* Simon Clarke (1938–2017) England rugby player and first-class cricketer
* Ben Curran (1996–) Northamptonshire Cricketer, brother of Tom and Sam
* Sam Curran (1998–) England and Surrey Cricketer, brother of Tom Curran
* Thomas Curran (1995–) England and Surrey Cricketer, brother of Sam Curran
* Ernest Denny (1872–1949), cricketer
* Paul Doran-Jones (1985–) England International Rugby player
* Sean Edwards (1986–2013) British racing driver
* Max Evans (1983–) Scotland International Rugby player
* Thom Evans (1985–) Scotland International Rugby player
* David Fasken (1932–2006), First-class cricketer
* James Haskell (1985–) England International Rugby player
* Sir Patrick Head (1946–) co-founder of the Williams Formula One team
* Percy Heath (1877–1917), cricketer
* Madison Hughes (1992–) USA International Rugby player
* James Hunt (1947–1993) 1976 F1 World Champion
* Norman Grace (1894–1975), cricketer
* Peter Gracey (1921–2006), cricketer
* Eric Grimley (1899–1969), cricketer
* Max Lahiff (1989–) Rugby union player (Bath Rugby & London Irish)
* Morgan Lake (1997–) Olympic athlete and twice World Junior Athletics Champion
* Henry Lawrence (1848–1902) England international rugby player and captain
* Rear-Admiral Spencer Login, C.V.O., Royal Navy (1851–1909), rugby union international who represented England in 1875
* Tim Mayer (1966–) US motorsports organizer and official.
* Richard Raphael (1872–1910), cricketer
* Donald Ray (1903–1944), cricketer
* Jamie Salmon (1959–) dual rugby international (New Zealand All Blacks and England)
* James Scott Douglas (1930–1969) Scottish racing driver (and Baronet Douglas)
* Ernest Tomkins (1869–1927), cricketer
* Tom Townsend (1971–) Britain and England international bridge player and writer
* Chris Wakefield (1991–), cricketer
* Geoffrey Warren (1908–1941), cricketer
* Louis Weigall (1873–1957), cricketer
* Maximillian Wood DSO (1873–1915), cricketer
* Richard Worsley (1879–1917), cricketer
* Murray Wyatt Marshall (1873–1978), England International Rugby player and captain
* Ed Young (1989–), cricketer
* Peter Young (1986–), cricketer

## Arts and entertainment

* Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942) one of the prime movers of the English Arts and Crafts movement
* Ellie Bamber (1997–) actress
* Sir Hugh Beaver (1890–1967) founder of the Guinness Book of Records
* James Bernard (1925–2001) film composer and Academy Award winner
* Trevor Blakemore (1879–1953) poet
* Josh Bowman (1988–) star of ABC drama Revenge
* Rory Bremner (1961–) impressionist and comedian, noted for political satire
* Heather Cameron-Hayes semi-finalist of BBC1's The Voice 2016
* Bob Carlos Clarke (1950–2006) photographer
* Richard Curle (1883–1968) author, critic and journalist
* Henry Danton (1919–2022) ballet dancer Henry Danton
* Caggie Dunlop star of E4 reality series Made in Chelsea
* Elize du Toit (1980–) actress and model best known for the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks
* Gavin Ewart (1916–1995) poet
* Jim Field Smith (1979–) film director, writer and comedian
* Sebastian Faulks (1953–) novelist whose works include Birdsong and Charlotte Gray
* Nicola Formby (1965– ) journalist
* John Gardner (1917–2011) composer
* John Keane (1954–) painter and official artist, Gulf War
* Sir Christopher Lee (1922–2015) film actor
* John Masters (1914–1983) British Army officer and novelist
* Robert Morley (1908–1992) theatre and film actor
* John Nash (1893–1977) painter and war artist
* Frederick Noad (1929–2001) guitarist, lutenist, author and teacher
* Gregory Norminton (1976–) novelist
* George Orwell (1903–1950) author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (Easter Term 1917 only; in May 1917 he became a King's Scholar at Eton)
* Nerina Pallot (1974–) singer, songwriter and producer
* Harry Ricketts (1950–) writer and biographer
* Guy Siner (1947–) actor
* Count Nikolai Tolstoy (1935–) Russo-British historian and author
* Martin Windrow (1944–) historian
* Will Young (1979–) singer and actor

## Broadcasting

* Daniel Farson (1927–1997) broadcaster and writer
* Gerald Hine-Haycock (1951–) journalist, Correspondent for ITN and BBC News; Presenter for HTV West and BBC West
* Robin Oakley (1941–) journalist, Political Editor of CNN International, formerly Political Editor of the BBC
* Peter Snow CBE (1938–) British television and radio presenter

## Military

* Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, British Army commander during World War II
* Blondie Hasler, Royal Marine, Cockleshell hero
* Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall, Chief of the General Staff
* Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Salmond, Chief of the Air Staff
* Field Marshal Sir Geoffrey Baker, Chief of the General Staff 1968 to 1971
* Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
* General Sir Charles Richardson, Chief Royal Engineer and Master-General of the Ordnance
* General Sir Harry Tuzo, General Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland and other senior British Army commands
* General Sir Charles Huxtable, Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces 1988 to 1990
* General Sir Richard O'Connor, British Army general during World War II
* General Sir Peter Hunt, Chief of the General Staff 1973
* General Sir James Glover, Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces 1985 to 1987
* General Sir Roland Guy, Adjutant General to the British Army 1984 to 1986
* General Sir Chris Deverell, Commander of the UK's Joint Forces Command and member of the UK Chiefs of Staff Committee April 2016 to May 2019.
* Lieutenant General Sir Noel Beresford-Peirse, General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps and later General Officer Commander-in-Chief, Southern Army, India during the Second World War
* Lieutenant General Sir Alistair Irwin, Adjutant General to the British Army 2003 to 2005
* Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford, Commander of British forces during the Battle of Kohima
* Lieutenant General Sir Maurice Johnston, Assistant Chief of the General Staff, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
* Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Loch, Director of Anti-Aircraft and Coastal Defence (1939–1941), Master-General of Ordnance, India (1944–1947), and head of the board of governors at Wellington
* Major-General George Erroll Prior-Palmer, General Officer Commanding, 6th Armoured Division
* Major-General Douglas Wimberley, British Divisional Commander in World War II
* Roger Bushell, Mastermind of the Great Escape
* Lieutenant Colonel Sir Wolseley Haig (1865–1938) Lieutenant-Colonel
* Sir John Rennie, former Director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

### Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

Fifteen Old Wellingtonians have won the Victoria Cross; one Old Wellingtonian has won the George Cross. They are as follows:
* Victoria Cross
** Zulu War
*** Lieutenant Henry Lysons, VC (He later achieved the rank of colonel and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)) (1858–1907)
** South African War (Boer War)
*** Captain Charles FitzClarence, VC (He later achieved the rank of brigadier general. He was killed in action, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 12 November 1914) (1865–1914)
*** Captain Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse, VC (He later became a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO), and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE) (1864–1948)
** Third Ashanti Expedition
*** Captain Charles John Melliss, VC (later to become Major General Sir Charles John Melliss VC, KCB, KCMG) (1862–1936)
** Second Somaliland Expedition
*** Captain Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC, (He later achieved the rank of general) (1870–1931)
** First World War
*** Captain John Franks Vallentin, VC (1882–1914)
*** Lieutenant James Anson Otho Brooke VC (1884–1914)
*** Captain John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler VC (1888–1916)
*** Second Lieutenant Alexander Buller Turner, VC (1893–1915)
*** Lieutenant Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson, VC (1894–1916)
** Second World War
*** Flight Lieutenant Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd, VC (1913–1996)
*** Commander Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, VC (Later to become Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Cecil Capel Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar) (1906–1985)
*** Captain Patrick Porteous, VC (1918–2000) (he later achieved the rank of colonel)
*** Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner, VC (brother of Alexander Buller Turner, VC)(1900–1972)
*** Lieutenant Claud Raymond, VC (1923–1945)
* George Cross
** 1935 Quetta earthquake
*** Lieutenant John Cowley GC (Originally awarded the Albert Medal which was converted to the George Cross. He was later to become Lieutenant General Sir John Cowley GC KBE CB)

## Other

* Joseph Arthur Arkwright FRS Bacteriologist
* John Arnold
* David Boyle, British intelligence officer
* Ranald Boyle, British diplomat
* C.R. Boxer, historian
* Matthew Restall, historian
* W S Bristowe, arachnologist
* Michael Brock CBE, British historian
* Patrick de Maré, psychiatrist
* Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
* Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, British peer and soldier
* The Marquess of Cambridge, brother of Queen Mary
* Anthony Fletcher, English historian
* Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect who is behind the Eden Project
* Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
* The 9th Duke of Portland
* Prince Francis of Teck
* John F. C. Turner, architect and theorist
* Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms, 1995–2010
* Professor Klaus Dodds, Notable Academic and Professor of Geopolitics. Royal Holloway, University of London
* John Haycraft, founder of International House World Organisation
* Esmond Romilly, socialist, anti-fascist, and journalist
* Sir Rudolph Peters FRS, biochemist
* Princess Maria Olympia of Greece and Denmark
* Prince Constantine Alexios of Greece and Denmark
* Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark
* Prince Odysseas-Kimon of Greece and Denmark
* Richard Skemp, mathematician, psychologist and academic