# List of people educated at Christ's Hospital

This is a list of alumni of Christ's Hospital school, who are known as Old Blues.

## Victoria Cross and George Cross holders

Four Old Blues have been awarded the Victoria Cross and two the George Cross.

### Victoria Cross

* Umbeyla Campaign
** Major Henry William Pitcher (1841–1875) (CH 1848–1856)
* First World War
** Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrith Elstob (1889–1918) (CH 1898–1905)
** Second Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter (1885–1916) (CH 1896–1901)
* War in Afghanistan
** Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey (CH 1999–2006)

### George Cross

* Second World War
** Air Vice Marshal Sir Laurence Sinclair (1908–2001) (CH 1919–1924)

## Medicine

* Russell Brock – Chest and heart surgeon
* Raanan Gillon – Medical doctor, philosopher, journal editor and professor of medical ethics
* Norman Guthkelch – British paediatric neurosurgeon
* Caesar Hawkins – Surgeon
* James Jurin – Physician and scientist
* Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan – Abdominal surgeon

## Military

* Bertram Allen – Paymaster Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy
* Thomas Bertie – Rear-admiral in the Royal Navy
* Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari – Military administrator
* John Colborne – British Army Field Marshal
* Hugh Constantine – Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal
* Edgar William Cox – Intelligence officer
* Alexander Cunningham – Army engineer and archaeologist
* Edward Mortlock Donaldson – Royal Air Force pilot
* William F.S. Edwards - commonly referred to as Brig General W. F. S. Edwards, 1st colonial Commissioner of Police in East Africa.
* Michael Gray – Soldier
* Buster Howes – Commando and Royal Marines officer
* Llewelyn Hughes – Soldier, priest and army chaplain
* Robert Hunter - Soldier
* Henry Ralph Lumley – Royal Flying Corp pilot and burn victim
* Philip Mayne – Soldier
* John Robin Stephenson – British Army officer and cricket administrator
* Harold Edward Whittingham – Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War
* James Alfred Davidson – Royal Navy commander

## Music

* Basil Allchin (1878-1957), Oxford organist.
* Sydney Carter – Poet, songwriter, musician
* Sir Colin Davis – Conductor
* Tim Benjamin – Composer
* Catherine Ennis, organist
* Charles Hazlewood – Conductor and broadcaster
* Constant Lambert – Composer and conductor
* Edward Lambert – Composer
* Christopher Tambling – Composer, organist and choirmaster

## Performing arts

* Roger Allam – Actor
* James D'Arcy – Actor
* Howard Davies – Theatre and television director
* Tenniel Evans – Actor
* Susannah Fielding – Actor
* Jason Flemyng – Actor
* Jimmy Godden – Actor
* Leo Gregory – Actor
* George Peele – Dramatist
* Michael Wilding – Actor

## Religion

* John Arnold – Anglican priest and author
* John Ashe – Priest
* Reginald Bazire – Anglican priest
* Raymond Birt – Archdeacon of Berkshire
* Constance Bryant – Medical missionary
* Edmund Campion – Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
* Mordecai Cary – Bishop
* Thomas Dale – Anglican priest, poet and theologian
* John Delight – Archdeacon of Stoke
* Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne – Priest and missionary to China
* Robert Newton Flew – Methodist theologian
* Bede Griffiths – Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East–West religious dialogue
* Thomas Hartwell Horne – Theologian and librarian
* Percy Henn – Clergyman and schoolmaster
* James Horstead – Bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa
* Ross Hook – Anglican bishop
* Marcus Knight – Anglican priest
* John Townsend – Congregationalist minister and philanthropist

## Science and academia

* Donald Allan – Classical scholar
* W. Sidney Allen – Linguist and philologist
* Richard Appleton – Lecturer in mathematics and theology
* Andrew Barker – Classical scholar
* Joshua Barnes – English scholar
* John Beazley – Classical scholar
* T. A. M. Bishop – Palaeographer, historian, and academic
* Arthur Lyon Bowley – Statistician and economist
* Rupert Bruce-Mitford – Archaeologist and scholar
* Andrew Burn (professor) – Media scholar and educationist
* William Burnside – Mathematician
* Cyril Burt – Psychologist
* Ida Busbridge – Mathematician
* William Camden – Antiquarian and historian
* Ruth Deech – Academic, lawyer and bioethicist
* Robin Du Boulay – Medieval historian
* Frederick Field – Theologian and biblical scholar
* John Forsdyke – Classical scholar and Director of the British Museum
* Cyril Fox – Archaeologist
* Louis Harold Gray – Physicist
* George Greenhill – Mathematician
* Jasper Griffin – Professor of Classics at Oxford
* Philip Hall – Mathematician
* Roger Highfield – Science author, journalist and broadcaster
* Sydney Samuel Hough – Astronomer and mathematician
* Beresford Kidd – Anglican priest and Church historian
* Philip Kitcher – Professor of philosophy
* Norman Longmate – Author, historian and broadcaster
* Jeremiah Markland – Classical scholar
* Russell Meiggs – Historian
* Peter Padfield – Historian
* Rex Paterson – Agricultural researcher
* Alan Ryan – Professor
* James Scholefield – Classical scholar
* Barnes Wallis – Scientist, engineer and inventor
* Gerald James Whitrow – Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian
* F. L. Woodward – Educationist, Pali scholar, author and theosophist
* Erik Christopher Zeeman – Mathematician

## Sport

* Jack Bailey – Cricketer and cricket administrator
* Cecil Boden – Cricketer
* Robert Edwards – Cricketer and clergyman
* Henry Franklin – Cricketer, headmaster and rugby union player
* Jack Gentry – Cricketer
* Ælfric Harrison – Cricketer
* Ben Allison, Former NCAA D1 Basketball Player for Davidson Wildcats
* Andrew Higgins – Rugby union player
* George Hill – Rugby union administrator, official and referee
* Joe Launchbury – Rugby union player
* James McInerny – Cricketer
* Dennis Silk – Schoolmaster and international cricketer
* Geoff Smith – Kent cricketer
* John Snow – Cricketer
* Stu Whittingham – Cricketer
* Douglas Wright – Cricketer

## Writers, poets and journalists

* Cyrus Andrews – Journalist and radio scriptwriter
* Thomas Barnes – Journalist
* Robert Black – Author, journalist and translator
* Edmund Blunden – Poet, author and critic
* Guy Boothby - Author
* Mark Burgess – Children's author
* Samuel Cobb (poet) – Poet
* Kira Cochrane – Journalist and author
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher
* James Coomarasamy – Correspondent
* Con Coughlin – Journalist and author
* Keith Douglas – Poet
* George Dyer – Poet
* Nicholas Foulkes – Journalist, writer, and broadcaster
* Leigh Hunt – Critic, essayist, and poet
* Charles Lamb – Essayist
* Bernard Levin – Journalist, author and broadcaster
* Bryan Magee – Broadcaster, politician, and author
* Aylmer Maude – Translator
* John Middleton Murry – Writer
* Horace W. C. Newte – Author
* Thomas Richards (Tasmania) - Surgeon, Author, Journalist, Editor
* Samuel Richardson - Writer
* Michael Schmidt - Poet, Author, Scholar and Publisher
* Thomas Skinner Surr - Writer
* Rupert Thomson – Novelist

## Politics

* Jenkin Coles – Australian politician
* Owen Cox – Australian businessman and politician
* Samuel Hayden – Canadian politician
* Steve Hilton – Political strategist
* Stuart Holland – Labour politician and academic
* Graham Hutton – Economist, author and Liberal Party politician
* Martin Linton – former Labour Member of Parliament
* Sir Richard Nichols - Lord Mayor of London
* Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham – Labour politician

## Other

* Bob Allen – Army surgeon and journalist
* William Bankes Amery – Civil servant and accountant
* Edmund Bartley-Denniss – Barrister, member of parliament, freemason and British cycling pioneer
* Francis Bullen - Judge.
* Thomas Cass – Surveyor
* Richard Cavendish – Occult writer
* Richard Clarke – Civil servant
* Henry Cole – Civil servant and inventor
* Edward Colston – Slave trader
* Richard Dagley – Painter and illustrator
* Arthur Dorman – Industrialist
* Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003
* John Edmonds – Trade Union Leader
* Thomas Everard – Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
* Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram
* Rob Gauntlett – Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker
* David Green – Director of the Serious Fraud Office
* Francis Seymour Haden – Etcher and surgeon
* Harold Harding – Civil engineer
* Daniel Harper – Headmaster and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
* Lucy Herron – Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
* James Hooper – Adventurer
* Donald Hopson – Diplomat
* Rupert Jackson – Lord Justice of Appeal
* Geraint Jennings – Jersey politician and linguist
* Gabriel Jones – Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia
* Edward Keane – Australian engineer, businessman, and politician
* William Charles Goddard Knowles – British businessman in Hong Kong
* Arthur Ling – architect and urban planner
* Henry James Sumner Maine – Comparative jurist and historian
* David Norgrove – Businessman
* William Nye – Principal Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–2015
* Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – Architect, designer, and theorist of design
* Percy Pyne – President of City National Bank in the United States
* Tony Ray-Jones – Photographer$^{:7}$
* John Septimus Roe – Surveyor-General of Western Australia
* George Ritchie Sandford – Barrister, Financial Secretary of Palestine (1940–1944), Chief Secretary of Tanganyika (1944–1946), Governor of the Bahamas (1950)
* Jonathan Scott – Wildlife photographer and TV presenter
* Stephan Shakespeare – Business man and entrepreneur
* David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury – Business man
* Charles Robert Smith – Governor of North Borneo
* Chris Steele-Perkins – Photographer
* William Alder Strange – Headmaster and author
* Mark Thomas – Comedian and political activist
* Edward Thornton – Diplomat
* Richard Thornton – Merchant and trader
* Sir Ian Trethowan – Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist
* Keith Vaughan – Painter
* Alexander Vidal – US Land surveyor, banker and political figure
* Holly Walsh – Comedian
* E F Watling – Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator
* James White (1775-1820) – Advertising agent