list of notable Old Derbeians , former pupils and masters of Derby School Derby Grammar School Derby , England .[1]
Derby School
Born in the 19th century
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), surgeon and artist[2] [9] Henry Howe Bemrose (1827–1911), member of parliament for Derby [2] [10] Unwin Sowter (1839–1910), maltster, cricketer and Mayor of DerbyJohn Cook Wilson (1849–1915), philosopher[2] [11] J. M. J. Fletcher (1850–1934), historian [2] Frank Styant Browne , chemist and photographer[12] E. W. Hobson FRS (1856–1933), mathematician[2] Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor[2] John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist[2] Walter Weston (1860–1940), missionary and mountaineer[2] [13] Frederic Creswell (1866–1948), mining engineer and South African Minister of Defence [14] Christopher Wilson (1874-1919), composer of theatre music and author, Shakespeare and Music (1922)[15] Stanley Hawley (1867-1916), pianist and composer.[16] Lawrence Beesley (1877–1967), RMS Titanic survivor and author[2] William Henry Ansell (1872–1959), architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1940 to 1943[17] Walter Greatorex (1877–1949), composer[2] Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943), ichthyologist[2] Sir George Simpson FRS (1878–1965), meteorologist[2] Geoffrey Shaw (1879–1943), composer and musician[2] [18] Guy Wilson (1882–1917), cricketer and soldier[19] William George Constable (1887–1976), art historian [20] [21] Frank Conroy (1890–1964), actorRobert Howe (1893–1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan , 1947-1955[22] Ernest Sterndale Bennett (1884-1982), Theatre Director and member of the Order of CanadaBorn in the 20th century
Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire [23] George Timms (1910–1997), clergymanP. G. Ashmore (1916–2002), academic chemist [24] Gilbert Hodgkinson (1913–1987), cricketerSpencer Barrett (1914–2001), classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford [25] [26] George Bacon (1917-2011), nuclear physicist [27] Ted Moult (1926–1986), farmer & TV personalityAlexander Morrison (1927-2012), judge[28] John Stobart (born 1929), maritime artist[29] Robert Grimley (born 1943), Dean of Bristol since 1997[30]
The Derby School Register, 1570-1901 , ed. Benjamin Tacchella (London, 1902)
Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter by Judy Egerton in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Coke, Daniel Parker (1745–1825), barrister and politician by Mark Pottle in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Haden, Sir Francis Seymour [pseud. H. Dean] (1818–1910), etcher and surgeon by A. M. Hind & E. Chambers in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Wilson, John Cook (1849–1915), philosopher and classical scholar by H. A. Prichard & David Boucher in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
" Obituary. Mr. F. Styant-Browne. Chemist for Many Years" in Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania), p. 6; "Obituary. Mr. Styant Browne. Well-Known Citizen of Launceston" Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania), p. 2.
Weston, Walter (1860–1940), mountaineer and missionary by Peter H. Hansen in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Ann Featherstone & Beverley Kilby. Ilkestone As it Was (2023)
Andrew Renshaw, Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918 (2014), p. 374
Constable, William George (1887–1976), art historian and gallery director by Alec Clifton-Taylor & Rosemary Mitchell in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Hawley, Zena, Roy takes to the stage once again to pick up an honorary doctorate in Derby Evening Telegraph
Derby School: a Short History by George Percy Gollin 
