This is a list of Old Johnians (abbreviated OJs), former pupils of St. John's School, Leatherhead , which is a public school in Surrey , England.
St. John's School, Leatherhead
David Balcombe (born 1984), cricketer[5] Edward Alexander Bannister CMG KC (born 1942), former Commercial Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court based in the BVI [3] Thomas Barfett MA (1916–2000), Archdeacon of Hereford , Canon Residentiary at Hereford Cathedral between 1977 and 1982[6] Robert Stanley Warren Bell (1871–1921), novelist, journalist and first editor of The Captain [7] The Rev. Dr. Anthony Bird (1931–2016), priest, physician and academic[8] The Rt Rev. Jim Bishop (1908–1994), Suffragan Bishop of Malmesbury [9] John Blair FSA, FBA (born 1955), Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford[3] Paul Boissier (1881–1953), former headmaster of Harrow School , wartime civil servant and cricketer[3] John Westerdale Bowker (born 1935), Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral , consultant to UNESCO , BBC broadcaster , author and editor[10] Peter Bruinvels (born 1950), former Conservative MP [11] Septimus Brutton (1869–1933), cricketer [12] Sir Paul Bryan DSO MC (1913–2004), former Conservative MP [13] The Rt Rev. Mark Bryant (born 1949), 2nd Bishop of Jarrow[3] John Burgess (1928–2015), Ireland Rugby International [14] Ronald Burroughs CMG Her Majesty's Ambassador to Algeria between 1971 and 1973[15] Rupert Bursell KC (born 1942), barrister and priest[3]
Walter Crawley Sir Henry Calley DL DFC DSO (1914–1997), senior officer in the RAF during World War II , local politician and owner of a stud farm[16] Basil Fulford Lowther Clarke (1908–1978), priest and architectural historian[17] Rear Admiral Christopher Clayton (born 1951), former senior officer in the Royal Navy[3] Victor Clube (born 1934), first class cricketer and astrophysicist[18] John Collinson (1911–1979), cricketer [19] John Cook (1918–1984), composer, organist and church musician[20] James Cope (born 1966), cricketer[21] The Ven. Alexander Cory (1890–1973), Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight[3] Air Commodore James Baird Coward AFC (1915–2012), senior officer in the Royal Air Force[22] Walter Crawley (1880–1940), lawn tennis player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics [23] Sir Peter Cresswell DL (born 1944), former judge of the High Court[3] Joseph Campbell (Captain of Rugby 2022-23)
Sir Richard Lavenham Gardner FRSB FRS (born 1943), embryologist and geneticist [3] Paymaster J.T. Gedge (1878–1914), first British officer to be killed in the First World War[34] Professor Nigel Glendinning (1929–2013), authority on Goya and 18th Century Spanish literature[35] The Rt Rev. Ronald Goodchild (1910–1998), Bishop of Kensington between 1964 and 1980[36] Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), poet, anthologist and critic[37] Air Commodore John William Boldero "Jack" Grigson DSO, DFC & Two Bars (1893–1943), senior British officer in the Royal Air Force[3] Sir Wilfrid Vernon Grigson CSI (1896–1948), soldier, senior civil servant and colonial administrator[3]
Sir Anthony Hope John Harvey (1911–1997), architectural historian[38] [39] Sir David Hatch CBE (1939–2007), BBC Radio manager and producer[40] [41] Richard Haughton (born 1980), rugby sevens referee and former rugby union player[42] Gavin Hewitt (born 1951), Europe Editor of BBC News [43] Robert Lockhart Hobson CB (1872–1941), Keeper, Department of Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography at the British Museum[44] The Ven. George Hodges (1851–1921), Archdeacon of Sudbury [45] Paymaster-Captain Basil Hood CBE DSO (1886–1941), senior officer in the Royal Navy[3] Sir Anthony Hope (1863–1933), author of adventure novels such as The Prisoner of Zenda [46] Major-General Malcolm Hunt OBE RM (born 1938), Commanding Officer of 40 Commando RM during the Falklands War [3]
James Morwood Claudia MacDonald (born 1996), England Rugby International [50] Alex Macqueen (born 1973), actor[51] The Rt Rev. Morris Maddocks (1928–2008), bishop[52] Humfrey Malins CBE (born 1945), former Conservative MP [53] Sir Arthur Wellington Marshall DL (1841–1918), High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in 1890[54] Very Rev. Peter Jerome Marshall (born 1940), Dean of Worcester, 1997–2006, now Emeritus[3] Christopher Matthews (1950–2004), businessman[55] Air Vice Marshal Forster Herbert Martin "Sammy" Maynard, CB, AFC (1893–1976), World War II flying ace [3] The Very Rev. John Methuen (1947–2010), Dean of Ripon between 1995 and 2005[3] [56] Guy Michelmore , composer and former news presenter[57] Patrick Ferguson Millard (1902–1972), artist[58] [59] Roger Milner (1925–2014), actor, author and dramatist.[60] Philip Morgan , cricketer, athlete, clergyman and educator[61] James Morwood (1943–2017), classicist[62]
Charles Shannon Dr Louis Charles Arthur Savatard Hon.M.Sc., L.S.A. (1874–1962), dermatologist[73] Lt.-Col. Derek Seagrim VC (1903–1943)[74] Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863–1937), artist[75] The Rt Rev. E.D. Shaw (1860–1937), cricketer and later Bishop of Buckingham [76] Victor Silvester OBE (1900–1978), dancer, musician and bandleader [77] Nicholas Smith (1934–2015), actor[78] Air Commodore Ian Stewart , senior officer in the Royal Air Force[ citation needed ] Claude Stokes CIE DSO OBE (1875–1948), Indian Army officer, later diplomat[3] Raymond Toole Stott MBE (1910–1982), bibliographer, historian of the circus and its allied arts[79] Patrick Sykes (1925–2014), England Rugby International [32] Wymond Cory Symes (1867–1961), businessman, sportsman and member of the Bombay Legislative Council [80]
Sir Shenton Thomas Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas GCMG GCStJ (1879–1962), last Governor of the Straits Settlements[3] Simon Thomas (born 1973), former Blue Peter presenter[81] John Henry Thorpe OBE (1887–1944), Conservative MP [82] [83] Ryan Trevitt (born 2003), professional footballer[84] Sir Arthur Charles Trevor, KCSI (1841–1920), senior civil servant and colonial administrator[3] Dr Robert Twycross FRCP FRCR (born 1941), Macmillan Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University, 1988–2001, now Emeritus[3]
The Ven. Ted Ward (1919–2005), Archdeacon of Sherborne and Chaplain of the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Park[85] Sir Telford Waugh KCMG (1865–1950), diplomat[86] John Wells (born 1939), Professor of Phonetics, University College London , 1988–2006, now Emeritus[3] Edward Allan Wicks CBE (1923−2010), Organist, Canterbury Cathedral, 1961–88[3] [87] William Williams (1866–1945), Wales Rugby International [32] The Rt Rev. Leonard Wilson (1897–1970), priest, Bishop of Singapore 1941–49, Dean of Manchester 1949–53, Bishop of Birmingham 1953—69[88] The Ven. Mark Wilson (born 1946), Archdeacon of Dorking, 1996–2005[3] Sir Wilfrid Wentworth Woods KCMG KBE (1876–1947), colonial administrator[3] Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC (1892–1968), the first Territorial Army officer to win the VC[89] Sir Leonard Woolley (1880–1960), archaeologist [90]
Church news. The Times Obituary in The Times A Boys’ Novelist , Death of Mr. Warren Bell , 27 September 1921, p.12 Who's Who 2015, Published by A&C Black Limited
"Sir Paul Bryan". The Times . No. 68205. London. 13 October 2004. p. 33.
Obituary in The Times Mr Ronald Burroughs , 29 May 1980, p.18 Obituary in The Times The Rev B. F. L. Clarke , 31 January 1978, p.18 Description of Clube in The Cosmic Serpent , by Victor Clube and Bill Napier. Published by Faber and Faber, London , 1982 The Quest Goes On, Being a Short History of the First Hundred Years of St John's School, Leatherhead, 1851-1951, by E.M.P. Williams, Leatherhead, 1951, p.50
"Admiral Sir Peter White" . 23 June 2010. Back in England he came top in his Paymaster's examinations and was awarded the Gedge medal (named after Staff Paymaster JT Gedge, the first British officer to be killed in the First World War; he died on August 6, 1914 when his ship was mined in the Thames)." Obituary in The Independent Professor Nigel Glendinning: Leading authority on Goya and 18th century Spanish literature , 17 March 2013 St. John's School, Leatherhead, School Register 1852-1964 , p.28
Who's Who in Art , Volume 14, 1962, p.502. Published by the Art Trade Press Limited, 1962
Obituary in The Times Mr P.F. Millard , 23 February 1977, p.16 Obituary in The Times Sir Stephen Piersenné , Reviving the Post-War Conservative Party , 31 January 1966, p.12 Obituary in The Times Dr. Louis Savatard , 22 January 1962, p.17 The Old Johnian, Summer 2018, p.26
Obituary in The Times Mr. Shannon R.A., Lithographer and Painter , 19 March 1937, p.18 St John's School, Leatherhead, School Register, 1852-1904. Published April 1904, p.38 and p.63
Obituary in The Times Mr Raymond Toole Stott , 23 January 1982, p.8 Obituary in The Times Mr. W. C. Symes , 7 July 1961, p.18 Obituary in The Times Mr J. H. Thorpe K.C. , 1 November 1944, p.7 Obituary in The Times Sir Telford Waugh, Last Days of the Ottoman Empire , 11 January 1950, p.9 Obituary in The Times "THE TWO HEROES OF HILL 60" . The Baldwin Project. The youngest son of Rev. G. H. Woolley, Old Riffhams, Danbury, Essex, he was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, and Queen's College, Oxford. While at the University he joined the Officers' Training Corps. He studied for Holy Orders, and is all but a curate of the Church of England, inasmuch as he was on the eve of being ordained when, at the age of 23, he decided to fight for his country. 
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