# List of Old Oundelians

The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians, alumni of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, England:

## Armed forces

* Air Vice Marshal David Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer
* Major-General Llewellyn William Atcherley, British army officer and Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Constabulary
* Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1949 and 1951
* Bernard Paul Gascoigne Beanlands, Canadian World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories
* Patrick Beesly, wartime intelligence officer and author
* James Bradley, prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II
* Rear Admiral Benjamin Bryant CB DSO** DSC, the most successful British submarine ace to survive the war
* Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, World War II Royal Air Force Pilot and later in the war an operative with the Special Operations Executive
* Denis Eadie MC, British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross by Field Marshal Lord Wavell for his conduct during the relief of Kohima
* Gerald Edge, British World War II flying ace credited with 20 aerial victories
* Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs, RAF pilot and journalist
* Alan Jerrard VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
* Norman Jewell, World War II Royal Navy officer
* Cecil Leonard Knox VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
* John Langdon, Royal Marine officer at D-Day, later became an Anglican priest
* William Howard Livens, soldier and inventor
* Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, soldier and mining executive
* General Sir Richard Shireff, British army officer and former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
* Air Marshal Sir Charles Steele, former Commander-in-Chief of RAF Coastal Command
* Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers VC, lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist
* Vice Admiral Sir John Michael Villiers, Royal Navy officer and Fourth Sea Lord
* General Sir Charles John Waters, former Commander-in-Chief, Land Forces
* Harold Whistler, fighter pilot and flying ace
* Air Commodore John Whitworth, Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War
* Sir Charles Rodger Winn, Royal Navy intelligence officer and judge
* Major General Sir John Winterton, Governor and Commander of Trieste
* Captain William Wright, WW1 flying ace and civil servant
* Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Royal Navy officer

## Arts

* Christopher Alexander, architect, academic and author
* Al Alvarez, poet
* John Davys Beresford, author
* Peter Bicknell, architect and art historian
* George Blagden, actor, singer
* Michael Broadbent MW, wine critic and auctioneer
* Lucy Brown, actress
* Thomas Carr, artist
* Allan Chappelow, writer and photographer
* Joanna Christie, actress
* Jim Clark, Academy Award-winning film editor
* Charles Crichton, film director
* Bruce Dickinson, lead singer in the band Iron Maiden, commercial pilot, fencer
* John Dreyfus, book designer and historian of printing
* David Edgar, playwright
* John Maxwell Edmonds, poet, dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs
* Adrian Fisher, maze designer
* Colin Franklin, writer, bibliographer, book-collector and antiquarian bookseller
* Roderick Gordon, author
* Anthony Holden, biographer
* Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, broadcaster and former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
* Fred Inglis, professor of Cultural Studies
* Christopher Joll, historian and author
* Jon Jones, BAFTA winning film and television director
* Frederick Knott, playwright
* Andrew Pettegree, historian and professor at St Andrews University
* David Pickering, writer
* George Sassoon, writer
* Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical impresario
* Sir Peter Scott, conservationist and painter
* Paul Seabright, academic and writer
* Keith Shackleton, conservationist and painter
* Judge Smith, musician, Van der Graaf Generator
* Robert Speechly, architect
* John Charles Traylen, architect
* Kenneth Hotham Vickers, historian
* Bill Ward, actor
* Ivo Watts-Russell, music producer, president 4AD Records
* Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, designer of Portmeirion
* Martin Woodhouse, author and scriptwriter

## Business and finance

* John Allwood, businessman
* Alex Baldock, businessman, banker, CEO of Currys
* Sir Alan Budd, economist
* Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther, businessman, economist and journalist
* David Fleming, economist and environmental writer
* Sir Roland Franklin, Antigua and Barbuda-based merchant banker
* Jason Gissing, entrepreneur, co-founder of Ocado Group
* Colin Matthews, businessman and Chairman of Highways England
* Sir David Newbigging, businessman and Hong Kong politician
* Nazir Razak, banker
* Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO Sony Corporation
* Sir John Timpson, founder of British retailer Timpson
* John Ward, economist and trade union leader
* James Kenneth Weir, peer and businessman

## Engineering

* Tony Blackman, aviator and test pilot for Avro
* James Boyd (1904–1987), American mining engineer and director of the United States Bureau of Mines; did not graduate$^{:xix,8,11–14}$
* Major Patrick Hunter Gordon, soldier and electrical engineer
* Sir Richard O'Brien, engineer and industrial relations expert
* Raymond Mays, racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder of ERA and BRM
* Kenyon Taylor, electrical engineer and inventor
* Amherst Villiers, engineer (automotive, aeronautical, astronautical), portrait painter
* Rex Wailes, engineer and historian

## Media

* Barrie Edgar, TV producer
* Damian Grammaticas, BBC Europe Correspondent
* Cecil Lewis, co-founder of the BBC, flying ace and author of 'Sagittarius Rising'
* David Loyn, International Development Correspondent of BBC News
* Arthur Marshall, writer and broadcaster
* Rufus Pollock, economist and founder of Open Knowledge International
* Norman Smith, Assistant Political Editor of BBC News
* Charles Wintour, newspaper editor

## Politics, Civil Service and the law

* Baron Allan of Hallam, Liberal Democrat M.P.
* Major Basil Barton, solicitor and M.P.
* Michael Beaumont, Conservative M.P.
* Sir Roy Beldam, Lord Justice of Appeal
* Caroline Criado Perez, feminist campaigner and writer
* Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Conservative M.P.
* Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Conservative M.P.
* Ailwyn Fellowes, 3rd Baron de Ramsey, peer and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire
* Charles Finch-Knightley, 11th Earl of Aylesford, peer styled "Lord Guernsey", Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Warwickshire
* Gary Flather, judge and disability campaigner
* Abraham Flint, barrister and judge
* Donald Gorrie, Scottish Liberal Democrat M.P. and former M.S.P. for Central Scotland
* John Grimston, 6th Earl of Verulam, peer and M.P.
* John Hanscomb, politician
* Denis Keegan, barrister and M.P.
* Alastair John Naisbitt King, Financier and 696th Lord Mayor of London
* David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin, UK Supreme Court Justice
* Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, peer
* Sir William Laxton, grocer and school founder
* Sir William Montagu, judge
* Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, Law Lord
* Mark Ormerod, civil servant and chief executive of The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
* Sir Herbert Palmer, Governor of Gambia and Cyprus
* Ralph Bonner Pink, Conservative M.P.
* Christian Herbert, 6th Earl of Powis
* James Provan, farmer, businessman and M.E.P.
* Janil Puthucheary, Malaysian-born Singaporean politician and paediatrician
* David Reddaway, diplomat
* David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Conservative M.P.
* Sir David Richards, UK Supreme Court Justice
* John Vernon Rob, diplomat and first High Commissioner to Singapore
* The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson, Labour M.P. and Minister of Health 1964-1968
* Sir Colin Shepherd, Conservative M.P.
* Sir Joseph Simpson, Metropolitan Police commissioner
* Michael Tatham, diplomat
* Peter Thurnham, Conservative and Liberal Democrat M.P.
* Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
* Sir George Mark Waller, judge and former Lord Justice of Appeal
* Arthur Wynn, civil servant and recruiter of Soviet spies, known as "Agent Scott"

## Science, medicine and religion

* Michael Ashby, neurologist, witness in John Bodkin Adams case
* David Barker, epidemiologist
* Colin Bibby, ornithologist and conservationist
* Sir Cyril Clarke, physician
* Richard Dawkins, ethologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer
* George Dawson Preston, physicist and crystallographer
* William Dillingham, clergyman and academic
* Charles Fagge, surgeon
* Hartley T. Ferrar, geologist who accompanied Captain Scott's First Antarctic Expedition
* Alister Hardy, marine biologist
* John B. Harman, former chairman of the British National Formulary
* Leslie Hilton Brown, ornithologist and agriculturalist
* Hugh Jackson, paediatrician
* Richard Keynes, physiologist
* Stephen John Keynes, chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust
* William Milo Keynes, doctor and author
* Thomas Layng, clergyman and soldier
* Alan Lindsay Mackay, crystallographer
* Bobby Milburn, clergyman
* Clive Minton, ornithologist
* David Nabarro, senior UN system coordinator
* C. H. Nash, clergyman and founder of the Melbourne Bible Institute
* Joseph Needham, biochemist
* Guy Newton, biochemist and rower
* Robin Nicholson, metallurgist, Chief Scientific Advisor to cabinet
* David Oates, archaeologist and Ancient Near East specialist
* P. D. Orton, mycologist
* Derek Richter, neuroscientist
* John Smith, clergyman and philosopher, one of the Cambridge Platonists
* John Speechly, bishop
* Simon Tavaré, founding director of the Herbert and Florence Irving Institute of Cancer Dynamics
* Ronald F. Tylecote, archaeologist and metallurgist

## Sport

* Matthew Austin, cricketer
* Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal, 1928 Coxless fours rowing
* Rollo Brandt, bobsledder, competed for Great Britain at 1956 Winter Olympics
* Farn Carpmael, rower
* Carston Catcheside, former England rugby player
* Alexander Crawford, cricketer
* Ben Curry, England rugby player
* Tom Curry, England rugby player
* Bill Elsey, racehorse trainer
* Patrick Foster, cricketer
* Christopher Gimson, cricketer and civil servant
* Eric Gore-Browne, cricketer
* Tom Harrison, fmr. cricketer and current CEO of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
* Iain Henderson, cricketer
* Reggie Ingle, cricketer
* Will Jefferson, professional cricketer
* David Jennens, Olympic rower
* Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet, showjumper
* Robert Martin, cricketer
* Michael Maw, cricketer
* John Michael Mills, cricketer
* Peter Morley, president Crystal Palace Football Club
* Sam Olver, rugby player
* Richard Pearsall, cricketer
* Mark Phythian, cricketer
* Alfred Graham Skinner, cricketer
* Greg Smith, cricketer
* John Willoughby Dixie Smith, cricketer
* Tom Stallard, Olympic rower
* Arthur Sutthery, cricketer
* Tim Swinson, rugby player
* Cameron Wake, cricketer
* Dave Walder, professional rugby player
* Legh Winser, cricketer and golfer
* Arthur Woodhouse, cricketer
* James Wykes, cricketer and schoolmaster
* Norman Wykes, cricketer