List of Old Ardinians

The following is a list of some notable Old Ardinians, being former pupils of Ardingly College in the United Kingdom.

Politics

• Sir Andrew Bowden - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
• Sir Robert Cary, 1st Baronet - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
• Jack Easter - Member of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales
• Sir John Gorst - Member of Parliament (Conservative)
• Sir James Simpson - Cabinet Minister in Uganda
• Sir Robert Tasker - Member of Parliament (Conservative)

Diplomacy

• Robert Alston - UK High Commissioner to New Zealand and Ambassador to Oman
• Chris Gunness - UNRWA chief spokesperson
• Sir Claude Hayes - civil servant for overseas territories
• Sir Edward Jackson - UK Ambassador to Belgium and Cuba
• Ian Mackley - UK High Commissioner to Ghana and chargé d'Affaires to Afghanistan
• Sir David Manning - UK Ambassador the United States and Israel
• Sir Robin McLaren - UK Ambassador to China and the Philippines
• Sir Andrew Wood - UK Ambassador to Russia and Yugoslavia

Sciences

• John Ackroyd - engineer
• Harold Comber - botanist
• Mike Pitts - archaeologist
• Paul Wild - radio astronomer

Academia

• Mark Bevir - Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the United Nations University
• Frank Cowell - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
• Robert Foley - Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge
• Sue Hamilton - Professor of Prehistory at (and former director of) the UCL Institute of Archaeology
• Patrick Hanks - lexicographer

Arts

Stage and screen

• Dick Allen - film editor
• Charles Bryant - actor and film director
• Josh Dylan - actor
• Creighton Hale - actor
• Alan Howard - actor
• Suhana Khan - actress
• Mark Letheren - actor
• Jojo Macari - actor
• Ed Sanders - actor
• Terry-Thomas - actor
• Frank Williams - actor

Writers

• Elys Dolan - children's author and illustrator
• Nicholas Fisk - children's author
• Neil Gaiman - author and screenwriter
• Thomas Meech - author and journalist
• Mark Vernon - writer and psychotherapist
• Ed Whitmore - screenwriter

Music

• Alex Cartañá - singer
• Mike Christie - singer
• Julian Clifford - conductor
• James Lancelot - organist
• Stephen Oliver - composer
• Victor Silvester - composer and band leader
• Ed Welch - composer

Visual arts

• George Belcher - artist
• Robert Freeman - photographer
• John Hayes - director of the National Portrait Gallery (1974–1994)
• Alistair Morrison - photographer
• Ploenchan Vinyaratn - textile artist

Media

• Sir Bill Cotton - controller of BBC One (1977–1981)
• Colin Griffiths - broadcaster
• Ian Hislop - editor of Private Eye and panelist on Have I Got News For You
• Nick Newman - cartoonist and scriptwriter
• Ed Petrie - children's television presenter
• Paul Reynolds - BBC News correspondent
• Jay Wynne - BBC weather forecaster

Sport

Motor sports

• Max Chilton - Formula One, WEC, and IndyCar racing driver
• Clifford Earp - racing driver
• Mike Hawthorn - Formula One racing driver and World Champion (1958)

Football

• George Brann - England footballer and Sussex cricketer
• Donald Coles - footballer
• Shim Mheuka - footballer
• Adam Virgo - footballer

Cricket

• Walter Bettesworth - Scotland and Sussex cricketer
• William Blackman - Sussex cricketer
• Ben Brown - Sussex and Hampshire cricketer
• Dale de Neef - Scotland cricketer
• Alex Gregory - South Australia cricketer
• Arthur Kneller - Hampshire cricketer
• Billy Newham - England and Sussex cricketer
• Toby Peirce - Sussex cricketer
• Paul Phillipson - Sussex cricketer
• Abidine Sakande - Sussex and Leicestershire cricketer
• Valentine Sewell - Dorset cricketer
• Thomas Symington - Rhodesia cricketer

Other

• Alex Malzer - England and Great Britain hockey player

Industry and commerce

• Sydney Allard - founder of Allard Motor Company
• Charles Cruft - founder of Crufts dog show
• Sir Charles Fairey - founder of Fairey Aviation Company
• Sir Richard Morris - industrialist

Military

• Leonard Addison - British Indian Army officer
• Peter Piper - submarine commander
• George Reginald Starr - Special Operations Executive agent and leader
• Robert Whittaker - Anti-Aircraft divisional commander

Religion

• Walter Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon
• George Browning, Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn
• Dennis Ede, Archdeacon of Stoke
• Gordon Mursell, Bishop of Stafford
• Andrew Norman, Suffragan Bishop in Europe

Other

• Arthur Corbett - Director-General of the Department of Civil Aviation (Australia)
• John Hooper - President of the British Orthodontic Society

References