# List of Old Gregorians

An Old Gregorian (usually abbreviated OG) is a former member of Downside School, situated near Bath, Somerset, in the United Kingdom.
Alumni are so-named of St Gregory the Great who is the patron saint of the Downside monastic community, that used to run and own the school.

## Old Gregorians
### A

* Sir Rudolph Agnew – former chairman of Consolidated Goldfields
* Michael J. Alexander – academic and poet
* Sir Mark Allen – United Kingdom spy, turned businessman and academic lecturer
* Rupert Allason – author (under the pen-name Nigel West) and former Conservative MP
* Antony Nicholas Allott – English academic, Professor of African Law at the University of London
* Alistair Asprey – Secretary for Security for Hong Kong Government, Commanding Officer of Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force

### B

* Alex Barrow- cricketer
* Tom Bethell – editor of the American Spectator
* Fergus Blackie - Justice of The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe and Rhodesian Front MP
* Don Brennan – English cricketer
* Andrew Bonaparte-Wyse - Irish civil servant
* Sir Rowland Blennerhasset, 4th Baronet - Liberal Party politician
* Edward Cuthbert Butler - historian

### C

* Mark Canning- British diplomat and Former British Ambassador to Indonesia
* William Cash – author and journalist
* Denis Caulfield Heron- Irish lawyer and politician
* Jeremy Campbell-Lamerton- Scottish Rugby Union player
* Max Emanuel Cenčić - countertenor
* Alex Chisholm – Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Civil Service
* Desmond Chute – poet and artist
* John Clibborn – British Intelligence Officer, served as MI6 head of station in Washington D.C
* Ralph Clutton – cricketer
* George Cooper – British Army officer, served as Adjutant-General to the Forces
* Brian Cotter – former Liberal Democrat MP
* Archie Cotterell – cricketer and novelist
* Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville – former Archbishop of Birmingham
* Thomas Clifford, 14th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
* William Craven, 6th Earl of Craven
* Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre – British Conservative Party Politician

### D

* John Charles Day – amongst the first Catholic judges in England to be appointed after the English Reformation
* Pete de Freitas – musician, member of Echo & The Bunnymen
* Christian Louis de Massay – Monegasque royalty
* Arthur Denaro – County Donegal-raised Commanding Officer of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars and later Commandant of Sandhurst
* Henry Eric Dolan – World War I flying ace
* John Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth – Minister for Colonial Affairs
* Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj
* Neil Dexter – former captain of Middlesex County Cricket Club

### E

* Dominick Elwes – portrait painter
* Barry England – novelist and playwright
* Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet - Teachta Dála for Fine Gael
* Peter Evans-Freke, 11th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer
* Michael Evans-Freke, 12th Baron Carbery - Anglo Irish Peer

### F

* Rocco Forte – British hotelier and entrepreneur
* Edward Fitzgerald KC
* James Percy FitzPatrick – South African author, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. Responsible for the two-minute silence observed on Armistice Day
* Nicolás Franco – nephew of Francisco Franco
* William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness (1929–1995)
* Gerard Fairlie – writer, scriptwriter and Winter Olympian

### G

* Joseph Gaggero – Gibraltarian businessman
* Francis Aidan Gasquet – Cardinal, Vatican librarian
* Jan Gawroński - Polish diplomat
* Carlos Gereda y de Borbón – Spanish aristocrat, engineering entrepreneur and philanthropist
* J. G. Greig – first-class cricketer, soldier, and Catholic priest
* Brion Gysin – author and artist

### H

* Denis Hanley – electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician
* Jared Harris – actor
* Damian Harris – film director and screenwriter
* Jamie Harris – actor
* Simon Halliday – former England rugby player
* David Hawkins – Royal Air Force officer
* Steve Henderson – cricketer
* Bobby Henrey – child actor, star of 'The Fallen Idol'
* Denis Caulfield Heron - First Catholic Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin and MP for Tipperary
* Tristram Hillier – surrealist painter
* Patrick Holcroft – Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire
* Richard Holmes – biographer
* Henry Howard – first formal British envoy to the Vatican for over 300 hundred years
* Hubert Howard – intelligence officer
* Lord Hunt of Tanworth

### I

* Andrew Ibrahim - terrorist

### J

* Christopher Jamison – Abbot of Worth
* Philip Jebb – architect and Liberal Party politician

### K

* Chris Kelly – TV presenter and producer
* Norbert Keenan - Irish Barrister and Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
* Ivone Kirkpatrick - Irish born Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, British High Commissioner at Allied High Commission and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Holy See
* David Knowles - Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge
* Halik Kochanski - Historian and writer
* William Keatinge - military chaplain and bishop

### L

* Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet
* Dominic Lieven- professor at Cambridge University and Fellow of the British Academy
* John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton- British chartered surveyor, peer, and Member of the House of Lords

### M

* Seán MacBride - Teachta Dála, Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ireland), Chief of Staff of the IRA and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
* Frank MacDermot - Teachta Dála and founder of Fine Gael
* Guy Malet - Artist
* Alex Mapelli-Mozzi – alpine skier
* Patrick Marnham – writer, journalist and biographer
* Pierce McCan- Teachta Dála and Easter Rising Veteran
* Pierre Maréchal- Racing Driver who died during 24 Hours of Le Mans
* Patrick Mason- Director of the Abbey Theatre
* Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim
* Nicholas Mander – Sir Charles Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet
* Gerald Maxwell MC – First World War flying ace
* Prince Emmanuel de Merode – Director of the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Midland - DJ and Producer
* James Miller – journalist and film-maker
* David Mlinaric – interior designer
* Joseph Molony - Chairman of the General Council of the Bar
* Richard More O'Ferrall - Governor of Malta and high level politician, of the prominent More O'Ferrall family.
* Peter Morgan – Oscar nominated scriptwriter
* John Mullan – professor of English and writer
* Helenus Milmo – Irish lawyer and High Court Judge

### N

* Albert Nelson, 6th Earl Nelson
* Henry Nelson, 7th Earl Nelson
* Martin Newland – former editor of The Daily Telegraph
* Barry Nicholas – classicist, former Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford
* William Nicholson – playwright and Oscar winner
* Marek Niedużak - lawyer
* Michael Noakes – artist
* John Norman – first-class cricketer
* Stafford Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh

### O

* Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet- England Cricket Team Player
* John O'Brien- Ireland Cricket Team Player
* Daniel O'Connell - Leader of the movement for Catholic emancipation, Irish Nationalist and MP
* Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don - Liberal MP for Roscommon and President of Gaelic League
* Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor - hereditary Chief of the Name O'Conor
* Denis Maurice O'Conor - Liberal MP for Sligo County
* Denis Armar O'Conor, O'Conor Don - Irish nobleman
* Denis Maurice O'Conor - former Lord Justice of Appeal
* Mervyn O'Gorman- British electrical and aircraft engineer
* Denis Ormerod- first Roman Catholic commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment

### P

* Anthony Palliser – artist
* Tony Pearson – cricketer
* Nigel Poett – British Army Officer, commanded the 5th Parachute Brigade during the second world war
* John Bede Polding – first Archbishop of Sydney
* Francis Pollen – architect, worked on buildings at the Abbey and school
* Philip Pope – actor and composer
* James Pope-Hennessy – biographer and travel writer
* John Pope-Hennessy – former director of the British Museum
* Nicholas Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston – art connoisseur and aristocrat
* Jonathan Pugh – cartoonist
* Edmund Purdom – film actor

### R

* Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP – Master of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) from 1992 to 2001
* Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell – Solicitor General and Attorney General
* George William Rendel – diplomat
* Dan Riddiford – New Zealand politician of the National Party
* Michael Richey – navigator and author
* Paul Richey – flying ace of the Second World War and author
* Michael Robinson – flying ace of the Second World War
* Jerome Roche – musicologist
* Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell – Conservative peer - Scottish rugby international
* Nicholas Rossiter – TV producer

### S

* John de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio – ICRC delegate and envoy
* Hilary St George Saunders – author
* Wilfrid Sheed – novelist and essayist
* Todd Sharpville – musician
* Arthur Sidgreaves – businessman, head of Rolls-Royce during the Second World War
* Eugene Simon – actor
* Sir John Smythe, 8th Baronet – cricketer
* Sir Robert Stapylton – courtier, dramatic poet and translator
* Richard Stokes – former Lord Privy Seal
* Christopher Sykes – author
* John Sweetman - Founder of Sinn Féin
* Roger Sweetman - Teachta Dála for Sinn Féin and abstentionist MP

### T

* Artur Tarnowski - politician
* Simon Tolkien – author and novelist
* Rudolph de Trafford – aristocrat and banker
* Maurice Turnbull – Welsh rugby international and Test cricketer
* Bernard Turnbull – former captain of Wales Rugby Team
* Paolo Tullio – writer, radio/TV personality and Michelin star-winning chef

### U

* James Underwood – pathologist
* William Bernard Ullathorne – English prelate

### V

* John Varley – former CEO of Barclays
* Hugh Vyvyan – captain of Saracens Rugby

### W

* Auberon Waugh – journalist
* Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe – former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
* Patrick Wall – Royal Marines officer and Conservative politician
* Charles Walmesley – Procurator General, astronomer and mathematician
* Dennis Walters – Conservative Party politician
* Charles Wegg-Prosser – politician
* Bob Wellings – Broadcaster
* Arthur B. Woods – film director
* Douglas Woodruff – editor of the Tablet

### Z

* Count Adam Zamoyski – historian