# List of Old Marlburians

The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England.

## Academia and education

* Andrew Boggis, Master in College at Eton and chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, 2006
* Charles Fisher, Headmaster, Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Australia
* Peter Lamarque, philosopher
* John Raven, classical scholar and botanist
* Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury

## Arts

* Anthony Blunt, art historian and communist spy
* Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, writer and art teacher
* Lauren Child, writer and illustrator
* Claude Ferrier, architect
* Susannah Fiennes, artist
* Keith Henderson, artist
* William Morris, artist and writer
* Pontine Paus, designer, shipping heiress and socialite
* Charles Saumarez Smith, art historian, former Director of the National Gallery
* Graham Shepard, cartoonist and illustrator
* Ellis Waterhouse, art historian

## Literature

* E. F. Benson, novelist
* John Betjeman, poet
* Humphrey Carpenter, biographer and broadcaster
* Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer
* Cressida Cowell, ex-Children Laureate and creator of How to Train Your Dragon.
* J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet and armaments manufacturer
* Anthony Hope, writer
* Arthur Lewis Jenkins, poet
* Dick King-Smith, writer
* Louis MacNeice, poet
* James Michie, poet and translator
* John Beverley Nichols, writer
* David Nobbs, comedy writer (Reginald Perrin)
* Redmond O'Hanlon, travel writer
* Ben Pimlott, biographer
* John Preston, journalist and novelist
* James Runcie, novelist and television producer
* Siegfried Sassoon, poet
* Charles Sorley, poet
* Bernard Spencer, poet
* Adam Thorpe, poet, novelist and playwright
* R. J. Yeatman, co-author of 1066 and All That

## Music

* Toby Smith, keyboardist of Jamiroquai
* Bo Bruce, singer-songwriter
* Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter
* Nick Drake, singer-songwriter
* Anthony Inglis, conductor
* Crispian Steele-Perkins, classical trumpeter
* David Mahoney, conductor, producer and creative director
* Fred Again, producer and composer

## Theatre, cinema and television

* Robert Addie, actor
* Stephen Barry, director and administrator
* John Wingett Davies, film exhibitor
* Guy du Maurier, dramatist and soldier
* Michael Elwyn, actor
* Charles Furneaux, producer
* Colin Gordon, actor
* Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor
* Harry Brodribb Irving, actor
* Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, actor and dramatist
* Damian Jones, producer
* James Robertson Justice, actor
* James Mason, actor
* Simon McBurney, actor, writer and director
* Michael Pennington, actor and director
* Clive Robertson, actor
* Antony Root, television executive and producer
* William Desmond Taylor, director
* Ernest Thesiger, actor
* Nicholas Woodeson, actor
* Jack Whitehall, comedian, television writer/producer and actor
* Angus Wright, actor
* Emerald Fennell, actress, director and screenwriter
* Robert Watts, Hollywood film producer

## Politics

* Harriett Baldwin, MP for West Worcestershire
* Sally Bercow, wife of Speaker John Bercow
* Tim Boswell, MP for Daventry
* Stephen Bradley, former British Consul-General to Hong Kong
* Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, Home Secretary
* Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, Cabinet minister
* Rab Butler, statesman
* Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron
* Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch
* Otis Ferry, hunt supporter and political activist, son of singer Bryan Ferry
* Diana Fox Carney, wife of Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
* Alastair Goodlad, former MP for Eddisbury and High Commissioner to Australia
* Daniel Hannan, MEP for the South East of England
* Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British liberal politician and sociologist; one of the 'Fathers of Liberalism'
* William Jowitt, Lord Chancellor
* Peter Kirk, politician, first leader of the British delegation to the European Parliament
* George Butler Lloyd, MP for Shrewsbury 1913–1922
* Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* John Maples, MP for Stratford-upon-Avon
* Frances Osborne, ex-wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne
* William Newton Dunn, Conservative, and later Liberal Democrat, MEP for the East Midlands.
* John Parker, MP for Romford
* Maurice Petherick, MP for Penryn & Falmouth
* Mark Reckless, MP for Rochester and Strood
* Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, politician
* Hallam Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, statesman
* Dennis Forwood Vosper, MP for Runcorn
* Lord Wright of Richmond, diplomat; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
* Montague Yeats-Brown, diplomat; consul to Genoa and Boston

## Sciences and engineering

* J. Richard Batchelor, transplant immunologist
* C. V. Boys, experimental physicist
* Francis Camps, pathologist
* George Stuart Carter, zoologist
* Henry Hugh Clutton, surgeon
* Sir Charles Galton Darwin, physicist
* John Dolphin, inventor and engineer
* Sir Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive engineer
* Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer
* Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist
* David Morley, child health pioneer
* Alex Moulton, engineer and inventor of the Moulton Bicycle
* Peter Dunn, paediatrician who improved the care of newborn babies
* Sir Hugh Pelham, cell biologist
* Philip Sheppard, geneticist and lepidopterist
* Percy Sladen, marine zoologist
* Edward Thompson, steam locomotive engineer
* Thomas Valintine, doctor and New Zealand public health administrator
* Bernard Waddy, epidemiologist
* E. F. Warburg, botanist
* John Zachary Young, physiologist

## Sport

* George Ainsworth, first-class cricketer
* Robert Barker, played for England in the first international football match
* Fred Beart, cricketer
* Henry Bell, cricketer
* Sir Hugh Bomford, cricketer
* John Bowley, cricketer
* Walter Brooks, cricketer
* Richard Busk, cricketer
* Francis Chichester, round the world yachtsman
* William Crawley, cricketer
* Charles Dewé, cricketer
* Arthur Duthie, cricketer
* John Dolphin, cricketer
* Jason Dunford, swimmer
* Eric Elstob, cricketer
* Edward Fellowes, cricketer
* Arthur Fortescue, cricketer
* John Fuller, cricketer
* Henry Gale, cricketer
* Edward Garnier, cricketer
* Arthur Sumner Gibson, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871
* Jamie Gibson, rugby union player
* John Gunner, cricketer
* Alfred St. George Hamersley, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain
* Anthony Hill, cricketer
* Sir John Hoskyns, 15th Baronet, cricketer
* Edward Hume, cricketer
* John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest
* Hector Jelf, first-class cricketer
* Nigel Jerram, first-class cricketer
* Maurice Jewell, first-class cricketer
* Edward Kewley, nineteenth century England Rugby captain
* Sir Henry King, first-class cricketer
* Robert Kingsford, England international footballer and FA Cup winner
* William Lipscomb, cricketer
* John Lloyd, Welsh cricketer
* Reginald Lord, cricketer
* John Maples, cricketer
* Iain MacDonald-Smith, Olympic sailor, Gold medal Mexico 1968
* Henry Maturin, Irish first-class cricketer
* Jake Meyer, mountaineer
* Michael Morgan, first-class cricketer
* John Morley, first-class cricketer
* Charles Morris, first-class cricketer
* Sydney Morse rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875
* Peter Nelson, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
* Richard Page, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
* Inglewood Parkin, cricketer
* Charles Patteson, cricketer
* Edward Phillips, first-class cricketer
* Gerald Phillips, cricketer
* Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of The Princess Royal
* Albert Porter, cricketer
* William Pulman, cricketer
* Francis Quinton, cricketer
* Nicholas Ross, cricketer
* John Scobell, cricketer
* Arthur Scott, cricketer
* Edward Shaw, cricketer
* Reggie Spooner, cricketer
* Allan Steel, cricketer
* Walter Thorburn, Scottish cricketer
* Mark Tomlinson, England International polo player
* Stirling Voules, cricketer
* Bernard Waddy, cricketer
* Charles Waller, cricketer
* Lancelot Ward, cricketer
* Ronald Watson, Scottish cricketer
* Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer
* Martin Winbolt-Lewis, Olympic athlete
* Andrew Wolfson, cricketer
* Sir John Wood, cricketer
* Kenneth Woodroffe, cricketer
* William Wright, cricketer

## Religion

* Cyril Alington, headmaster, and Dean of Durham
* Henry Bather, Archdeacon of Ludlow 1892–1904
* Henry Bell, Canon of Carlisle
* Roy Henry Bowyer-Yin Canon and Chaplain of S Thomas College Mt Lavinia
* Alfred Blunt, Bishop of Bradford 1931–1955
* Frederick Nicholas Charrington, social reformer and founder of the Tower Hamlets Mission
* Frederick Copleston, priest and philosopher
* Nigel Cornwall, Bishop of Borneo 1949–1962
* Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
* Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester
* James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle
* Edward Patey, Dean of Liverpool
* John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich
* Mark Santer, Bishop of Birmingham 1987-2002
* Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, known as Dick Sheppard, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and founder of the Peace Pledge Union
* Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London
* Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield 1937–1953
* John Oliver Feetham, Bishop of North Queensland; recognized as a saint in the Anglican Church of Australia

## Journalism

* Rawdon Christie, English-born New Zealand television presenter
* Simon Fanshawe, writer and broadcaster
* Frank Gardner, BBC News Security Correspondent
* Richard Jebb, journalist
* Derrick Somerset Macnutt, crossword compiler under the pseudonym Ximenes
* Christopher Martin-Jenkins, BBC cricket correspondent
* James Mates, ITN newscaster
* Norris and Ross McWhirter, journalists, authors, and political activists
* Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of the Sun
* Edmund Penning-Rowsell, wine writer
* Julian Pettifer, ITV and BBC journalist
* Hugh Pym, ITN and BBC News journalist
* Emily Sheffield, Evening Standard Editor, newspaper and magazine journalist
* Sir Mark Tully, BBC India correspondent and author
* T.C. Worsley, writer, editor and television critic

## Armed forces

* Nigel Anderson, soldier and local politician
* Lionel Ashfield, World War I flying ace, killed in action
* Phillip Scott Burge, World War I flying ace, killed in action
* Edward Bradford, soldier and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
* John Brigstocke, admiral, second sea lord, c-in-c Naval Home Command
* Michael Clapp senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the United Kingdom's amphibious assault group, Task Group 317.0, in the Falklands War
* Richard Corfield, officer in charge of the Somaliland Camel Constabulary
* Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff and Governor of Windsor Castle
* Peter Gillett, Major-General, Deputy Constable and Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle
* John 'Hoppy' Hopgood', pilot in 617 Squadron, killed on the Dambusters raid on 16 May 1943
* David Maltby, pilot in 617 Squadron who flew in the Dambusters raid
* John Kiszely, Lieutenant General and Director of the Defence Academy
* Ian Macfadyen, RAF officer and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man 2000–2005
* Charles MacGregor, General and head of intelligence for the British Indian Army
* Nevil Macready, General and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
* Patrick Palmer, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe and Governor of Windsor Castle
* Francis Quinton, British Army general (Royal Artillery)
* John Wilfred Stanier, Field Marshal
* Hugh Stockwell, General, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1960 to 1964
* Henry Hughes Wilson, Field Marshal
* Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

## Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
### VC

Victoria Cross holders:
* Edward Kinder Bradbury
* Frederic Brooks Dugdale
* Charles Calveley Foss
* Reginald Clare Hart
* Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De Montmorency
* Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies
* Lionel Ernest Queripel
* John Neil Randle
* Nowell Salmon
* Edward Talbot Thackeray
* Eric Charles Twelves Wilson
* Sir Henry Evelyn Wood
* Sidney Clayton Woodroffe

### GC

George Cross holders:
* Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls

## Commerce and industry

* Michael Clapham, industrialist (ICI)
* Ernest Debenham, department store owner
* Sir Nicholas Goodison, - Finance, reforms, arts, philanthropy
* Olivia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, senior account manager
* Ambrose Heal, retailer
* Ian and Kevin Maxwell, former publishers and entrepreneurs
* Robert Noel, businessman, chief executive of Land Securities Group plc
* Rob Perrins, Managing Director of Berkeley Group Holdings
* George Duncan Rowe, stockbroker, co-founder of Rowe & Pitman
* Sir Michael Turner, General Manager (Chairman) of HSBC 1953–1962
* Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood, army officer and international ambassador for the Wedgwood Group
* Simon Woodroffe, founder of the Yo Sushi restaurant chain

## The Royal Family and the Court

* Princess Eugenie of York, younger daughter of The Duke of York
* Catherine, Princess of Wales (née Catherine Middleton), wife of William, Prince of Wales
* Pippa Middleton, sister and Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales
* Robin Janvrin, courtier, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
* Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles, courtier, Private Secretary to George VI and Elizabeth II, and cousin to the husband of Mary, Princess Royal
* Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, Law Lord
* John Brightman, Baron Brightman, Law Lord
* Thomas William Cain, First Deemster of the Isle of Man
* Rayner Goddard, Lord Chief Justice
* Sir Philip Margetson, Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
* William Moore, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
* T. C. Kingsmill Moore, Irish judge, politician and author
* Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
* Sir Richard Gaskell, President of the Law Society of England and Wales

## Fashion

* Amanda Harlech, model and 'muse' to John Galliano
* Stella Tennant, model and fashion designer
* Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron and creative director at Smythson

## Other professions

* Sir Basil Blackett, civil servant and international finance expert
* Sir Hugh Bomford, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service
* Frederic Bonney, anthropologist and photographer
* Sir Grahame Clark, archaeologist
* O. G. S. Crawford, archaeologist
* Richard Dale, economist
* Stewart Donald, businessman and football club chairman
* Henry Everard, railway executive and acting President of Rhodesia
* Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale, promoter of the interests of blind people
* Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary and social reformer
* Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, oncologist and IRA victim
* Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, anthropologist
* Derrick Somerset Macnutt, Ximenes, cryptic crossword compiler for The Observer
* Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker
* Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, Founding President of Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia
* Tracy Philipps, colonial administrator, intelligence officer, and conservationist, Secretary-General of International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
* Edward John Hugh Tollemache, private firm banker
* David Treffry, colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall
* Prince Waranonthawat, Thai prince, grandson of King Chulalongkorn
* Gordon Welchman, code-breaker
* John Wood, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service