List of Old Salopians

List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable old boys of Shrewsbury School, a leading UK independent boarding and day school in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England.

Old Salopians

A

Harold Ackroyd VC MC (1877–1917), soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer
Sir James Adams KCMG (1932–2020), ambassador to Tunisia (1984–1987) and Egypt (1987–1992)
John Adams (before 1670−1738), cartographer
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65
Sir John Lawson Andrews KBE DL PC (1903–1986), Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and son of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews
John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy

B

Alan Barber (1905–1985), cricketer and headmaster of Ludgrove
Robert Bardsley CMG OBE (1890–1952), cricketer and colonial administrator
Edward Barnard (1992–), cricketer
Mike Barnard (1990–), cricketer
Sir Alexander Fitzwilliam Barrington, 7th Baronet (1909–2003), landowner
Douglas Bartles-Smith (1937–2014), priest and Archdeacon of Southwark 1985–2004
William Henry Bateson (1812–1881), scholar and Master of St. John's College, Cambridge 1857–1881
Sir Cecil Beadon KCSI (1816–1880), administrator in India
Andrew Berry (born 1963), evolutionary biologist and historian of science at Harvard
Nick Bevan (1942–2014), rowing coach
Henry Edward James Bevan FRSL (1854–1935), Archdeacon of Middlesex
Peter Blagg (1918–1943), cricketer and soldier
David Blakely, murder victim; shot dead by Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain
Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker KCMG PC (1922–2009), politician
The Ven. Charles Blakeway (1868–1922), Archdeacon of Stafford 1911–22
Omar 'Ali Bolkiah (born 1986), crown prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
Christopher Booker (1937–2019), journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
Tim Booth (1960–), lead singer of the band James
Colin Boumphrey DFC (1897–1945), cricketer and Royal Air Force officer
Donald Boumphrey MC (1892–1971), cricketer, educator and British Army officer
Sir James Bourne, 1st Baronet (1812–1882), politician
Piers Brendon (born 1940), historian
John Breynton (1719–1799), minister and missionary in Nova Scotia^[1]
Lieutenant General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker KCB KCMG DSO (1862–1934), senior British Army commander
Mynors Bright (1818–1883), academic and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
John Brockbank (1848–1896), footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland
Peter Brown FBA (born 1935), historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Lieutenant-Colonel Barwick Sharpe Browne (1881–1963), officer and librarian in the Institute of Archaeology
Samuel Browne (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
Samuel Hawksley Burbury FRS (1831–1911), mathematician
Robert Burn (1829–1904), classical scholar, archeologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Charles Burney FRS (1726–1814), musician, composer, music historian
John Burrell (1910–1972), theatre director
John Burrough (1873–1922), cricketer
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh

C

Sir Edward John Cameron KCMG (1858–1947), British colonial administrator, Governor of Gambia 1914–1920
Sir Philip Montgomery Campbell FRSA FInstP (born 1951), Editor-in-Chief of Nature
Sir Frederick Catherwood (1925–2015), politician, writer, and vice-president of European Parliament
Jamie Catto (born 1968), economist and programmer
Bruce Clark (1958–), journalist and author
George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975), historian
Miles Clark (1960–1993), author, journalist and explorer
William George Clark (1821–1878), literary and classical scholar
William Clarke (1695–1771), antiquary
Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill (1833–1895), politician
Lieutenant-General Sir Skipton Hill Climo KCB DSO (1868−1937)
Richard Charles Cobb CBE (1917–1996), historian and essayist
Edward Meredith Cope (1818–1873), classical scholar
Edward Corbet (died 1658), Anglican clergyman
Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden (1943–), biochemist
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet (1739–1809), MP for Cheshire 1780–1796
Sir Randolph Crewe (also Crew) (bap. 1559, d. 1646), judge^[2]
Sir Julian Critchley (1930–2000), journalist and politician
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft CMG TD (1881–1947), Conservative politician
Assheton Henry Cross, 3rd Viscount Cross (1920–2004), racing driver and soldier
John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney (1925–2008), industrialist, civil servant, and peer
Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow KCMG (1912–2013), diplomat
Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce PC (1912–2000), judge

D

Charles Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
Peter Davis (born 1941), businessman, former chairman of Sainsbury's
William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane KBE FSA JP DL (1872–1953), politician and MP for Kensington South
Francis Day CIE (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
Charles Spencer Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 2nd Baronet CBE MC TD (1916–2012), businessman and peer
General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey GBE KCB DSO MC (1896–1969), D-Day 2nd Army Commander
Hal Dixon (1928–2008), biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College, Cambridge
Cyril Henty-Dodd (1935–2009), interviewer and radio disc jockey, commonly known as Simon Dee
John Freeman Milward Dovaston (1782–1854), naturalist and poet^[3]
Andrew Downes (c. 1549 – 1628), Greek scholar
Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, 4th Baronet of Ambrosden, 7th Baronet of Canons-Ashby (1818–1899), archaeologist and antiquary^[4]
Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet OStJ (1912–1999), Scottish businessman

E

Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide of King Charles I
Alexander John Ellis FRS (1814–1890), phonetician and mathematician
Charles Evans (1918–1995), surgeon and mountaineer
Canon Thomas Saunders Evans (1816–1889), Latin scholar and poet, was schoolmaster at Rugby and Durham
William Addams Williams Evans (1853–1919), international footballer^[5]
Walter Ewbank (1918–2014), priest and author

F

Edmund Ffoulkes (1820–1894), clergyman
George Fielding DSO (1915–2005), Major in the SOE
Frederick Fisher (born 1985), Big Brother 10 contestant
Paul Foot (1937–2004), journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
Nigel Forman (1943–2017), Conservative politician, MP for Carshalton and Wallington
William Orme Foster (1814–1899), ironmaster, MP for South Staffordshire 1857–1868, owner of Apley Hall
James Fraser (1818–1885), bishop of Manchester
Abraham Fraunce (France) (born c. 1558–1560, died 1592/3), poet and lawyer

G

William Garnett (1816–1903), cricketer and clergyman
David Gay MC (1920–2010), British Army officer awarded the Military Cross in World War II, cricketer, and educator
Edwin Gifford (1820–1905), Anglican priest and author
Arthur Herman Gilkes (1849–1922), Headmaster of Dulwich College
George Gore (1675–1753), landowner and Attorney-General for Ireland
Richard Goulding, actor
Geoffrey Green (1911–1990), football writer
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke KB PC of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
Sir George Abraham Grierson OM KCIE (1851–1941), administrator in India and philologist
Lawrence Grossmith (1877–1944), actor
Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), historian and theologian
Lieutenant General Willoughby Gwatkin KCMG CB (1859–1925), officer and Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Militia

H

Nick Hancock (born 1962), actor and TV presenter
John Hanmer (1574–1629), bishop of St Asaph
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook GCSI PC (1814–1906), politician
Sir Jack Ashford Harris, 2nd Baronet (1906–2009), businessman
Sir Paul Harris, 2nd Baronet (1595–1644), politician and Surveyor of the Ordnance
Thomas Emerson Headlam (1813–1875), barrister and politician
Sir Denis Maurice Henry QC (1931–2010), barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
Michael Heseltine CH PC (born 1933), Conservative politician, Deputy Prime Minister 1995–1997
Major Richard Henry Heslop DSO (alias Xavier) (1907–1973), army officer and resistance organiser
Sir Thomas Hewet (1656–1726), architect and landowner^[6]
Edward Hewetson (1902–1977), cricketer
Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert KCB PC JP DL (1824–1908), politician
Horatio Hildyard (1805–1886), cricketer and clergyman
James Hildyard (1809–1887), classical scholar
Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone (1732–1808), Tory MP and religious revivalist
Richard Hillary (1919–1943), RAF officer and author
John Hirsch (1883–1958), South African cricketer and rugby union international
Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), classical scholar
Edward Hopkins (1600–1657), politician and Governor of Connecticut
Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow KCMG (1912–2013), diplomat and colonial governor
Sir James Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce (1912–2000), barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
William Walsham How (1823–1897), bishop of Wakefield
Robert Hudson (1920–2010), BBC broadcaster and administrator
James Humphreys (1768–1830), law reformer
Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), barrister judge
David Lafayette Hunter MC (1919–2001), officer

I

William Inge (1829–1903), cricketer, clergyman and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
Brian St John Inglis (1916–1993), journalist
Richard Ingrams (born 1939), journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
Andrew Irvine (1902–1924), mountaineer

J

Frederick John Jackson, KCMG CB (1860–1929), Governor of Uganda (1911–1918) and naturalist
Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, GBE KCB MC (1917–1999), army officer, military historian, and Governor of Gibraltar
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge
Vice Admiral Clive Carruthers Johnstone (born 1963), Royal Navy Officer
Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
John Jones of Gellilyfdy (c. 1578 – c. 1658), copyist and manuscript collector
Sir Thomas Jones (1614–1692), judge and law reporter
Thomas Jones (1756–1807), academic and Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge

K

George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale CB (1866–1945), politician, businessman, soldier and cricketer
Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), headmaster and classical scholar
Charles Rann Kennedy (1808–1867), lawyer and classical scholar
Francis King CBE (1923–2011), novelist and poet
Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster KCMG KBE (1879–1939), governor of British Somaliland 1926–31, British Honduras 1932–34 and the Nyasaland protectorate 1934-39

L

Richard Cornthwaite Lambert (1868–1939), barrister and politician
John Heath Lander (1907–1941), Olympic rower and soldier
Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane AFC PC QC (1918–2005), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Sir John Langford-Holt (1916–1993), politician and MP for Shrewsbury 1945–83
Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine PC (1901–1980), politician and son of Prime Minister Bonar Law
Aubrey Trevor Lawrence MBE KC (1875–1930), barrister and author
Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet (1870–1934), English horticulturalist and hospital administrator
Sir Martin Le Quesne KCMG (1917–2004), diplomat, ambassador to Mali and Algeria, high commissioner to Nigeria
Steve Leach (born 1993), cricketer
Blessed Richard Leigh (1557–1588), beatified English Catholic priest
Sir Charlton Leighton, 4th Baronet (1747–1784), politician and owner of Loton Park
Sir William Leighton (c. 1565–1622), poet and composer
Alexander Loveday (1888–1962), economist and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford
Very Rev Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909), Dean of Lichfield
General Sir Daniel Lysons GCB (1816–1898), army officer

M

Humphrey Mackworth (1603–1654), member of Shropshire parliamentary committee in English Civil War, governor of Shrewsbury, member of Protector's Council, MP
Humphrey Mackworth (born 1631), military governor of Shrewsbury under Protectorate, MP
Thomas Mackworth (1627–1696), Parliamentarian soldier and MP
Christopher MacLehose CBE (born 1940), publisher
Richard Madox (1546–1583), Church of England clergyman and diarist
Harry Mallaby-Deeley (1863–1937), politician, MP for Harrow and Willesden East
George Augustus Chichester May PC QC (1815–1892), judge
John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor FBA (1825–1910), classicist and librarian of Cambridge University
Claas Mertens (born 1992), rower for the Germany national team^[7]
Anthony Merryweather (born 1973), Musical Theatre producer and accompanist ^[8]
Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen (1931–2014), peer
Sotherton Micklethwait (1823–1889), cricketer and clergyman
Terry Milewski (born 1949), journalist^[9]
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG (born 1940), ex-chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and chairman of UN Global Compact Committee
Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet PC QC (1826–1897), lawyer and politician
Henry Arthur Morgan (1830–1912), academic and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
Francis Morse (1818–1886), priest
Sydney Morse (1854–1929), rugby player
Henry Whitehead Moss (1841–1917), headmaster 1866–190
Gerard Moultrie (1829–1885), third master, chaplain, hymnographer
Douglas Muggeridge (1928–1985), Controller, BBC Radio 1 between 1968 and 1976
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819–1885), classical scholar
General Sir Geoffrey Musson GCB CBE DSO (1910–2008), officer and Adjutant-General to the Forces

N

William Napper (1880–1967), Irish cricketer and British Army officer
The Very Rev. Stephen Nason (1901–1975), priest
Robert Needham, 1st Viscount Kilmorey (1565–1631), politician
Christopher Nevinson ARA (1889–1946), artist
Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
Sir Charles Thomas Newton KCB (1816–1894), archaeologist
Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer
John Nottingham (1928–2018), colonial administrator and politician

O

Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet (1751–1826), administrator in India
William Oakley (1873–1934), footballer for England
William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill (1813–1883), Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
Julian Orchard (1930–1979), film and television actor
Sir Roger Ormrod PC (1911–1992), judge, Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir Francis Ottley (1601–1649), royalist politician and soldier, military governor of Shrewsbury
Richard Ottley (1626–1670), royalist soldier and Restoration MP

P

Thomas Ethelbert Page CH (1850–1936), classicist
General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget GCB DSO MC (1887–1961), army officer
Edward Francis Paget (1886–1971), Archbishop of Central Africa
Francis Paget (1851–1911), 33rd Bishop of Oxford
Luke Paget (1853–1937), 34th Bishop of Chester
Stephen Paget (1855–1926), writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), classical scholar and writer
Sir Michael Palin CBE FRGS (born 1943), member of Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
John Parker Ravenscroft (1939–2004), DJ and journalist, known professionally as John Peel
Sir Nicholas Penny FBA FSA (born 1949), art historian and Director of the National Gallery
Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre GCMG KCSI CB (1812–1885), British Indian Army officer; 1st Commissioner of British Burma (1862–1867) and Governor of Mauritius (1874–1878)
General Sir Robert Phayre GCB, ADC (1820–1897).^[10]
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), poet and playwright
John Arthur Pilcher GCMG (1912–1990), diplomat, ambassador to Austria (1965–67), ambassador to Japan (1967–1972)
Nick Pocock (born 1951), cricketer
Graham Pollard (1903–1976), bookseller and bibliographer
Angus Pollock (born 1962), cricketer
Henry Steven Potter (1904–1976), Chief Secretary of Uganda and Kenya, later British Resident in Zanzibar
Sir Thomas Powys (1649–1719), MP, Attorney General to King James II, judge, and politician
Michael Proctor (1950–), physicist, mathematician, academic and Provost of King's College, Cambridge

R

Henry Cecil Raikes PC (1838–1891), Conservative politician
Richard Ramsbotham MBE (1880–1970), first-class cricketer and educator
Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow OM FRS FREng FMedSci FRAS (born 1942), British cosmologist and astrophysicist
John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
James Riddell (1823–1866), classical scholar and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
George Rudé (1910–1993), British Marxist Historian
Willie Rushton (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, co-founder of Private Eye

S

Colonel Thomas Sandys (1837–1911), officer and politician
Clyde Sanger (born 1928), journalist and author, first Africa correspondent for The Guardian
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax PC DL FRS (1633–1695), statesman, writer, and politician
John Sayer OBE (1920–2013), first-class cricketer and officer in the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy
Robert Gould Shaw III (1898–1970), American-born English socialite
Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907–1995), music critic
Desmond Shawe-Taylor LVO (born 1955), art historian, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
Richard Shilleto (1809–1876), classical scholar
Nevil Shute (1899–1960), writer (and as Neville Shute Norway, an aeronautical engineer)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet, courtier and soldier
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1529–1586), poet, courtier and politician
Air Marshall Sir Michael Simmons KCB AFC (born 1937), Royal Air Force officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
Sandy Singleton (1914–1999), cricketer
Sir Norman Skelhorn KBE QC (1909–1988), barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales 1964–77
Sir Basil Smallpiece KCVO (1906–1992), businessman
Martin Ferguson Smith OBE FSA (born 1940), scholar and writer, classics and ancient history professor at Durham
Ruaidhri Smith (born 1994), Scottish cricketer
Philip Snow (1907–1985), cricketer
Sir Frederick Sprott (1863–1943), cricketer and engineer
William Starkie (1860–1920), Greek scholar, translator of Aristophanes, and President of Queen's College, Galway
Christopher Steel (1938–1992), composer of classical music
Thomas Stevens FSA (1841–1920), Bishop of Barking
Sir John Stuttard JP FCA (born 1945), Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07

T

James Taylor (1990–), cricketer
John Taylor (1704–1766), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
John Taylor, Baron Ingrow OBE TD JP DL (1917–2002), soldier and politician
Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
Percy Beart Thomas CIE (1866–1921), Inspector-General of Police of Madras
Sir William Beach Thomas KBE (1868–1957), author and journalist
William Thomson, FRS FRGS (1819–1890), Archbishop of York
Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), hymn writer
Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring KBE (1818–1907), parliamentary draftsman
J. C. Thring, notable figure in the early history of association football
Lt Col. Alfred Tippinge (1817–1898), of the British Grenadiers; recipient of the Legion of Honour
Robert Morton Tisdall (1907–2004), Olympic athlete
Richard Todd, OBE (1919–2009), actor
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), headmaster of Eton College and Fettes College
Sir Thomas Trevor (1586–1656), judge
Patrick Trimby (1972–), cricketer

V

Sir Harry Bevir Vaisey (1877–1965), High Court of Justice judge
Sir William Vaughan (died 1649), royalist army officer
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis William Voelcker CBE DSO MC (1896–1954), officer and High Commissioner of Western Samoa

W

Alan Wace (1879–1957), archaeologist at Cambridge University 1934-44 and professor at the Farouk I University in Egypt 1943–52
Henry Wace (1853–1947), England international footballer^[11]
Henry William Rawson Wade QC FBA (1918–2004), academic lawyer
Christopher Wallace (British Army officer), 1943–2016
Graham Wallas (1858–1932), political psychologist, leader of the Fabian Society and co-founder of the London School of Economics
Sir Francis Bagott Watson KCVO FBA (1907–1992), art historian
John Weaver (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
Sir Edgar Whitehead KCMG OBE (1905–1971), prime minister of Rhodesia
Selby Whittingham (born 1941), art expert and author
Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885), Unitarian minister^[12]^[13]
Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1634–1700), lawyer and politician
Major General Dare Wilson CBE MC (1919–2014), SAS officer who introduced attack helicopters to the British military
Jack Wilson (1914–1997), Olympic rower
H. de Winton, co-creator of the rules of football
Samuel Woodhouse (1912–1995), priest and Archdeacon of London
Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, 3rd Baronet (1828–1865), writer
Chandos Wren-Hoskyns JP DL (1812–1876), English landowner, agriculturist, politician and author
Jonathan Wright (born 1953), journalist and literary translator
John Wylie (1854–1924), 1878 FA Cup winner and England international

Y

Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate, 1st Baronet CSI CMG (1849–1940), administrator in India and politician

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