page_title: Wixenford School
section_title: Old Wixenfordians
hierarchical_section_title: Wixenford School / Old Wixenfordians
caption_attribution_description: English: George Curzon at Eton
context_page_description: Wixenford School, also known as Wixenford Preparatory School and Wixenford-Eversley, was an independent preparatory school for boys near Wokingham, founded in 1869. A feeder school for Eton, after it closed in 1934 its former buildings were taken over by the present-day Ludgrove School.
context_section_description: Old boys of the school are called Old Wixenfordians. The following, in chronological order, are among the most notable.
  George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), Viceroy of India and British Foreign Secretary
  Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael (1859–1926), Liberal politician and colonial administrator
  Cyril Maude (1862–1951), actor-manager
  Albert Victor Baillie (1864–1955), Dean of Windsor
  Lord Alfred Douglas, or "Bosie" (1870–1945), poet and translator, intimate friend of Oscar Wilde
  Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (1871–1961), Labour politician, Secretary of State for India
  R. C. Trevelyan (1872–1951), poet
  Hugh Law (1872–1943), Irish politician
  Nugent Hicks (1872–1942), Bishop of Lincoln
  Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875–1959), Shakespeare scholar
  George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962), historian
  Arnold Wienholt (1877–1940), Australian politician
  Edmund Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877–1951), soldier and landowner
  Sir Howard Kennard (1878–1955), British diplomat
  William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville (1880–1953), admiral
  Sir Stewart Gore-Browne (1883–1967), settler and politician in Northern Rhodesia
  Ralph Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn (1884–1960), soldier and Conservative politician
  Peter Anson (1889–1975), monk, writer, and artist
  Duff Cooper (1890–1954), Conservative politician and diplomat
  William Howard, 8th Earl of Wicklow (1902–1978), clergyman, writer and translator
  Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th Baronet, KG (1903–1982), landowner and Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk
  Kenneth Clark (1903–1983), art historian
  Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (1903–1983)
  Alfred Duggan (1903–1964), historical novelist
  Hubert Duggan (1904–1943), Conservative politician
  James Stern (1904–1993), Anglo-Irish writer
  Sir Harold Acton (1904–1994), historian
  Edward Ward, 7th Viscount Bangor (1905–1993), BBC war correspondent and author
  David Herbert (1908–1995), socialite, memoirist and interior decorator
  Sir Frederick Warner (1918–1995), diplomat
  Sir Guy Millard (1917–2013), British Ambassador
  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, (1918–1999), Home Secretary
  Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (1922–2013), author and peer
caption: George Nathaniel Curzon in the 1870s
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