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This is a list of alumni of Christ's Hospital school, who are known as Old Blues.[1]
Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
Four Old Blues have been awarded the Victoria Cross[2] and two the George Cross.
Victoria Cross
- Umbeyla Campaign
- Major Henry William Pitcher (1841–1875) (CH 1848–1856)
- First World War
- Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrith Elstob (1889–1918) (CH 1898–1905)
- Second Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter (1885–1916) (CH 1896–1901)
- War in Afghanistan
- Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey (CH 1999–2006)
George Cross
- Second World War
- Air Vice Marshal Sir Laurence Sinclair (1908–2001) (CH 1919–1924)
Medicine
- Russell Brock – Chest and heart surgeon[3][4]
- Raanan Gillon – Medical doctor, philosopher, journal editor and professor of medical ethics[5][6]
- Norman Guthkelch – British paediatric neurosurgeon[7]
- Caesar Hawkins – Surgeon[8]
- James Jurin – Physician and scientist[9]
- Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan – Abdominal surgeon[10]
Military
- Bertram Allen – Paymaster Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy[citation needed]
- Thomas Bertie – Rear-admiral in the Royal Navy[11][12]
- Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari – Military administrator[13]
- John Colborne – British Army Field Marshal[14]
- Hugh Constantine – Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal[15]
- Edgar William Cox – Intelligence officer[16]
- Alexander Cunningham – Army engineer and archaeologist[17]
- Edward Mortlock Donaldson – Royal Air Force pilot[18]
- William F.S. Edwards - commonly referred to as Brig General W. F. S. Edwards, 1st colonial Commissioner of Police in East Africa.[19]
- Michael Gray – Soldier[20]
- Buster Howes – Commando and Royal Marines officer[21]
- Llewelyn Hughes – Soldier, priest and army chaplain[22]
- Robert Hunter - Soldier[23]
- Henry Ralph Lumley – Royal Flying Corp pilot and burn victim[24]
- Philip Mayne – Soldier[25]
- John Robin Stephenson – British Army officer and cricket administrator[26]
- Harold Edward Whittingham – Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War[27]
- James Alfred Davidson – Royal Navy commander[28]
Music
- Basil Allchin (1878-1957), Oxford organist.[29]
- Sydney Carter – Poet, songwriter, musician[30]
- Sir Colin Davis – Conductor[31]
- Tim Benjamin – Composer[32]
- Catherine Ennis, organist[33]
- Charles Hazlewood – Conductor and broadcaster[34]
- Constant Lambert – Composer and conductor[35]
- Edward Lambert – Composer[36]
- Christopher Tambling – Composer, organist and choirmaster[37]
Performing arts
- Roger Allam – Actor[38][39]
- James D'Arcy – Actor[40]
- Howard Davies – Theatre and television director[41]
- Tenniel Evans – Actor[42]
- Susannah Fielding – Actor[43][44]
- Jason Flemyng – Actor[citation needed]
- Jimmy Godden – Actor[citation needed]
- Leo Gregory – Actor[45]
- George Peele – Dramatist[46]
- Michael Wilding – Actor[47]
Religion
- John Arnold – Anglican priest and author[48]
- John Ashe – Priest[49]
- Reginald Bazire – Anglican priest[50]
- Raymond Birt – Archdeacon of Berkshire[51]
- Constance Bryant – Medical missionary[52]
- Edmund Campion – Jesuit priest, martyr and saint[53]
- Mordecai Cary – Bishop[54]
- Thomas Dale – Anglican priest, poet and theologian[55][56]
- John Delight – Archdeacon of Stoke[57]
- Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne – Priest and missionary to China[58]
- Robert Newton Flew – Methodist theologian[59]
- Bede Griffiths – Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East–West religious dialogue[60]
- Thomas Hartwell Horne – Theologian and librarian[61]
- Percy Henn – Clergyman and schoolmaster[62][63]
- James Horstead – Bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa[64]
- Ross Hook – Anglican bishop[65]
- Marcus Knight – Anglican priest[66]
- John Townsend – Congregationalist minister and philanthropist[67]
Science and academia
- Donald Allan – Classical scholar[68]
- W. Sidney Allen – Linguist and philologist[69]
- Richard Appleton – Lecturer in mathematics and theology[70]
- Andrew Barker – Classical scholar[71]
- Joshua Barnes – English scholar[72]
- John Beazley – Classical scholar
- T. A. M. Bishop – Palaeographer, historian, and academic
- Arthur Lyon Bowley – Statistician and economist[73]
- Rupert Bruce-Mitford – Archaeologist and scholar[74]
- Andrew Burn (professor) – Media scholar and educationist
- William Burnside – Mathematician[75]
- Cyril Burt – Psychologist[76]
- Ida Busbridge – Mathematician[77]
- William Camden – Antiquarian and historian[78]
- Ruth Deech – Academic, lawyer and bioethicist[79][80]
- Robin Du Boulay – Medieval historian[81]
- Frederick Field – Theologian and biblical scholar[82]
- John Forsdyke – Classical scholar and Director of the British Museum[83]
- Cyril Fox – Archaeologist[84]
- Louis Harold Gray – Physicist[85][86]
- George Greenhill – Mathematician[87]
- Jasper Griffin – Professor of Classics at Oxford[88]
- Philip Hall – Mathematician[89]
- Roger Highfield – Science author, journalist and broadcaster[90]
- Sydney Samuel Hough – Astronomer and mathematician[91]
- Beresford Kidd – Anglican priest and Church historian[92]
- Philip Kitcher – Professor of philosophy[93][94]
- Norman Longmate – Author, historian and broadcaster[95]
- Jeremiah Markland – Classical scholar[96]
- Russell Meiggs – Historian
- Peter Padfield – Historian[97]
- Rex Paterson – Agricultural researcher[98]
- Alan Ryan – Professor[99][100]
- James Scholefield – Classical scholar[101]
- Barnes Wallis – Scientist, engineer and inventor[102]
- Gerald James Whitrow – Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian[103]
- F. L. Woodward – Educationist, Pali scholar, author and theosophist[104]
- Erik Christopher Zeeman – Mathematician[105]
Sport
- Jack Bailey – Cricketer and cricket administrator[106]
- Cecil Boden – Cricketer[107]
- Robert Edwards – Cricketer and clergyman[108]
- Henry Franklin – Cricketer, headmaster and rugby union player[109]
- Jack Gentry – Cricketer[110]
- Ælfric Harrison – Cricketer[111]
- Ben Allison, Former NCAA D1 Basketball Player for Davidson Wildcats
- Andrew Higgins – Rugby union player[112]
- George Hill – Rugby union administrator, official and referee[113]
- Joe Launchbury – Rugby union player
- James McInerny – Cricketer
- Dennis Silk – Schoolmaster and international cricketer
- Geoff Smith – Kent cricketer[114][115]
- John Snow – Cricketer
- Stu Whittingham – Cricketer[116]
- Douglas Wright – Cricketer
Writers, poets and journalists
- Cyrus Andrews – Journalist and radio scriptwriter
- Thomas Barnes – Journalist
- Robert Black – Author, journalist and translator
- Edmund Blunden – Poet, author and critic
- Guy Boothby - Author
- Mark Burgess – Children's author[117][118]
- Samuel Cobb (poet) – Poet[119]
- Kira Cochrane – Journalist and author[120]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher[121]
- James Coomarasamy – Correspondent
- Con Coughlin – Journalist and author[122]
- Keith Douglas – Poet[123]
- George Dyer – Poet[124]
- Nicholas Foulkes – Journalist, writer, and broadcaster
- Leigh Hunt – Critic, essayist, and poet[125]
- Charles Lamb – Essayist
- Bernard Levin – Journalist, author and broadcaster[126]
- Bryan Magee – Broadcaster, politician, and author
- Aylmer Maude – Translator
- John Middleton Murry – Writer
- Horace W. C. Newte – Author[127]
- Thomas Richards (Tasmania) - Surgeon, Author, Journalist, Editor
- Samuel Richardson - Writer
- Michael Schmidt - Poet, Author, Scholar and Publisher
- Thomas Skinner Surr - Writer[128]
- Rupert Thomson – Novelist
Politics
- Jenkin Coles – Australian politician
- Owen Cox – Australian businessman and politician[129][130]
- Samuel Hayden – Canadian politician[citation needed]
- Steve Hilton – Political strategist[131][132]
- Stuart Holland – Labour politician and academic[133]
- Graham Hutton – Economist, author and Liberal Party politician[134]
- Martin Linton – former Labour Member of Parliament
- Sir Richard Nichols - Lord Mayor of London
- Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham – Labour politician[135]
Other
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- Bob Allen – Army surgeon and journalist[136]
- William Bankes Amery – Civil servant and accountant[137]
- Edmund Bartley-Denniss – Barrister, member of parliament, freemason and British cycling pioneer
- Francis Bullen - Judge.[138]
- Thomas Cass – Surveyor[139]
- Richard Cavendish – Occult writer[140]
- Richard Clarke – Civil servant
- Henry Cole – Civil servant and inventor[141]
- Edward Colston – Slave trader[142]
- Richard Dagley – Painter and illustrator[143]
- Arthur Dorman – Industrialist[144]
- Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003[145]
- John Edmonds – Trade Union Leader[146]
- Thomas Everard – Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia[citation needed]
- Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram[147]
- Rob Gauntlett – Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker[148]
- David Green – Director of the Serious Fraud Office[149]
- Francis Seymour Haden – Etcher and surgeon[150][151]
- Harold Harding – Civil engineer[citation needed]
- Daniel Harper – Headmaster and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford[152]
- Lucy Herron – Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa[153]
- James Hooper – Adventurer[154][155]
- Donald Hopson – Diplomat[156]
- Rupert Jackson – Lord Justice of Appeal[157]
- Geraint Jennings – Jersey politician and linguist[158]
- Gabriel Jones – Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia[159]
- Edward Keane – Australian engineer, businessman, and politician[160]
- William Charles Goddard Knowles – British businessman in Hong Kong[161]
- Arthur Ling – architect and urban planner[162]
- Henry James Sumner Maine – Comparative jurist and historian[163]
- David Norgrove – Businessman[164]
- William Nye – Principal Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–2015[165]
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – Architect, designer, and theorist of design[166]
- Percy Pyne – President of City National Bank in the United States[167]
- Tony Ray-Jones – Photographer[168]: 7
- John Septimus Roe – Surveyor-General of Western Australia[169]
- George Ritchie Sandford – Barrister, Financial Secretary of Palestine (1940–1944), Chief Secretary of Tanganyika (1944–1946), Governor of the Bahamas (1950)[170]
- Jonathan Scott – Wildlife photographer and TV presenter[171]
- Stephan Shakespeare – Business man and entrepreneur[citation needed]
- David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury – Business man[172]
- Charles Robert Smith – Governor of North Borneo
- Chris Steele-Perkins – Photographer
- William Alder Strange – Headmaster and author
- Mark Thomas – Comedian and political activist
- Edward Thornton – Diplomat
- Richard Thornton – Merchant and trader
- Sir Ian Trethowan – Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist
- Keith Vaughan – Painter
- Alexander Vidal – US Land surveyor, banker and political figure
- Holly Walsh – Comedian
- E F Watling – Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator
- James White (1775-1820) – Advertising agent
References
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