List of Old Bedford Modernians

Adventurers, aviators, exiles and prisoners of war

• John Percy Farrar DSO FGS (1857–1929), mountaineer, President of the Alpine Club, Member of the Mount Everest Committee
• Sir Reginald Wolseley, 10th Baronet (1872–1933), dubbed the elevator baronet
• Captain and Bimbashi Henry Haymes SBStJ MRCS LRCP (1872–1904), surgeon, an original explorer of the Bahr-el-Ghazal
• George E.M. Kelly (1878–1911), early aviator in the Aeronautical Division, US Signal Corps
• Captain Aeneas Lionel Acton Mackintosh (1879–1916), Antarctic explorer, commander of the Ross Sea party expedition
• W.A.B. Goodall (1880–1941), castaway, described as 'the ruler of the world's tiniest kingdom': Pulau Sarimbun, Straits of Johore
• Duncan Mackintosh, 31st Chattan (1884–1966), 31st Chief of Clan Chattan (1942–66)
• Wilfrid Thomas Reid FRAeS (1887–1968), aircraft designer and pioneer of the Canadian aircraft industry
• P.C.B. Newington (1888–1964), author of a cookbook celebrating Malaysian food, conceived while starving as a prisoner of war
• Frederick Williamson CIE (1891–1935), explorer, founder member of the Himalayan Club
• Captain Richard 'Dick' Howe MBE MC (1916–1981), Escape Officer at Colditz Castle during World War II (1942–1945)
• Desmond 'Dizzy' de Villiers AFC (1922–1976), chief test pilot at de Havilland and English Electric

Architecture, art and design

• Josiah Conder (1852–1920), architect who designed the Rokumeikan and other public buildings in Tokyo
• Henry John Sylvester Stannard RBA FRSA (1870–1951), watercolour artist
• Sydney Morgan Eveleigh (1870-1947), architect in Vancouver
• Major Hugh Patrick Guarin Maule DSO MC FRIBA (1873–1940), architect (Royal Veterinary College in London)
• George Loraine Stampa (1875–1951), artist, contributor to Punch and other illustrated papers and magazines
• Walter Stonebridge FRIBA (1879–1962), Diocesan Architect for Ely, St Albans and Bedford
• Algernon Winter Rose MC (1885–1918), architect
• Kenneth Alexander (1887–1975), photographer for United Artists, Samuel Goldwyn Productions and 20th Century Studios
• Robert Tor Russell CIE DSO (1888–1972), Chief Architect to the Government of India
• Thomas Francis Ford FRIBA (1891–1971), Diocesan Architect for Southwark and a translator of the New Testament
• Alexander Girard (1907–1993), textile designer and interior architect
• Victor Farrar RIBA PPFAS FRSA (1930–2007), architect
• Dennis Sharp (1933–2010), architect, professor, curator, historian, author and editor
• Peter Forster (1935–2021), wood engraver
• Steve Gibbons (born 1956), graphic designer
• Alex Chinneck MRSS (born 1984), installation artist

Armed forces

Air Force

• Wing Commander George Marshall Griffith (1877–1946), Commandant of the Royal Flying Corps in India
• Brigadier-General Percy Robert Clifford Groves CB CMG DSO (1878–1959), Air Strategist
• Air Vice-Marshal Robert Dickinson Oxland CB CBE (1889–1959), Group Commander in Bomber Command (1943–44)
• Air Commodore Edye Rolleston Manning CBE DSO MC (1889–1957), senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Air Commodore Charles Henry Elliott-Smith AFC (1889–1994), senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Major H. D. Harvey-Kelly DSO (1891–1917), Squadron Commander, Royal Flying Corps
• Captain John Ellis Langford Hunter DSC DFC (1897–1971), World War I flying ace
• Group Captain Robert Cecil Dawkins CBE (1903–1985), Station Commander at RAF Tengah and RAF Hendon
• Air Commodore I. J. Fitch (1903–1944), deputy director of Intelligence at the Air Ministry
• Wing Commander Ernest Leslie 'Johnny' Hyde DFC (1914–1942), senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Squadron Leader Roland Anthony 'Tony' Lee Knight DFC (1917–1941), World War II flying ace

Army

• Major-General Francis John Fowler CB DSO (1864–1939) Commander of the Derajat Brigade (1914–16)
• Major-General Charles Astley Fowler CB CSI DSO (1865–1940), Brigade Commander at the Battle of Loos, 1915
• Brigadier-General Sir Arthur Long KBE CB CMG DSO (1866–1941), Director of Transport and Supplies, Macedonia and The Black Sea
• Colonel Reginald Ruston CB (1867–1963), commander of the Mounted infantry of the Devon Regiment (1891–1903)
• Major R.T. Anwyl-Passingham OBE DL JP (1867–1926), Commander of the 72nd Punjabis, High Sheriff of Merionethshire
• Lieutenant-General Gerald Robert Poole CB CMG DSO (1868–1937), Commandant of the Royal Marine Artillery
• Lt.-Col. Charles Forbes Buchan CBE OStJ (1869–1954), Deputy Assistant Director at the War Office during WW1
• Colonel Ernest Clive Atkins CB TD DL JP (1870–1953), Commander of the 2/5th Leicestershire Regiment, High Sheriff of Leicestershire
• Lt.-Col. Robert Haymes DSO (1870–1942), first to establish an OP at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle
• Lt.-Col. C. A. Keatinge Johnson (1870–1937), senior officer in the First Australian Imperial Force
• Major-General Herbert William Jackson CB CSI DSO (1872–1940), Officer of the British Indian Army
• Major George Godfrey Massy Wheeler VC (1873–1915), was a recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Lt.-Col. Arthur Charles Rothery Nutt DSO (1873–1946), inventor of the artillery miniature range
• Lt.-Col. R. E. Power DSO (1874–1956), Commander of the 1st and 2nd Battalion of the Buffs
• Major-General Charles Howard Foulkes CB CMG DSO (1875–1969), Britain's chief adviser on gas warfare
• Brigadier-General Herbert Cecil Potter CB CMG DSO (1875–1964)
• Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood (1876–1899), first Canadian born Officer to die in the Second Boer War
• Colonel Charles Temple Morris CBE (1876–1956), Commander of the 5th Battalion of the 1st Punjab Regiment between 1921 and 1926
• Lt.-Col. James Knox DSO&bar (1878–1918), Battalion Commander, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1915–18
• Brigadier-General Herbert Dobbin CBE DSO (1878–1946), Colonel-Commandant, Iraq Levies, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• Brigadier-General Arthur Turner CB CMG DSO (1878–1952), Cricketer, rugby union player and soldier
• Colonel Wilfrid Stanley Richmond CMG MICE (1881–1962), deputy director of Roads in the BEF during World War I
• Lt.-Col. Henry Cecil Prescott CMG CIE (1882–1960), Inspector of Police in Iraq
• Colonel Guy Sutton Bocquet CIE VD FRSA (1882–1961), ADC to the Viceroy of India
• Lt.-Col. Archibald Alderman Chase DSO (1884–1917), Commander of the 8th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment
• Brigadier Harold Evelyn William Bell Kingsley CIE DSO (1885–1970), Aide-de-Camp to King George VI
• Lt.-Col. Charles Harvey-Kelly DSO (1885–1982), Military Attache in Kabul (1924-6)
• Lieutenant-General Reginald Dawson Hopcraft Lough DSO OBE (1886–1958), Aide-de-camp to King George VI
• Lt.-Col. A.E.F. Fawcus DSO MC TD (1886–1936), Commander, 1/5th North Staffordshire Regiment, 1/5th Sherwood Foresters
• Lt.-Col. W. F. Jackson OBE MC&Bar TD (1886–1964), Signals Liaison Officer to the US Army HQ in the UK during World War II
• Major George Croxton Walker OBE MC TD (1888–1936)
• Major Edward Crozier Creasy (1888–1936), senior liaison Officer during the Upper Silesia Plebiscite (1920–21)
• Captain Wynn Bagnall MC (1890–1931), Canadian Field Artillery, model for a statue by James Fraser in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Lt.-Col. Melville Ten Broeke MC&bar (1891–1963), commander of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment
• Major-General L.A. Hawes CBE DSO MC DL (1892–1986), Commanded the transport to France of the BEF during World War I
• Brigadier W.C.V. Galwey OBE MC&bar (1897–1977), Senior Officer who served in World War I and World War II
• Col. F. H. Willasey Wilsey MC (1898–1971), Senior Liaison Officer to the Afghan delegation during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
• Brigadier Ernest Dynes CBE (1903–1968), Aide-de-camp to HM Queen Elizabeth II (1955–57)
• Brigadier Thomas Henry Scott Galletly DSO&bar MC (1905–1972), Commander of the 1st Brigade, Arab League
• Major Colin Leo Bliss (1907–1944), pioneer of operational parachuting
• Major-General Reginald Booth Stockdale CB CMG OBE (1908–1979) Colonel Commandant, REME
• Lt.-Col. Edward Peter Fletcher Boughey OBE (1911–1986), Special Operations Executive
• Major-General Keith Burch CB CBE (1931–2013)

Navy

• Commander Willoughby Huddleston CMG (1866–1953), ADC to Lord Pentland, Governor of Madras (1912–1919)
• Captain Thomas Oloff de Wet CBE (1869–1940), Principal Naval Transport Officer during the evacuation of Constantinople in 1923
• Rear Admiral Alfred Ransom CBE (1871–1953), senior officer in the Royal Navy
• Sir Ernest Huddleston CIE CBE RIN (1874–1959), Aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India
• Captain Francis Walter Despard Twigg OBE (1883–1951), senior officer in the Royal Navy
• Commander Herbert Newton OBE DL (1900–1973), Royal Navy Commander and Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire
• Rear-Admiral Jack Highton CB CBE (1904–1988), Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II
• Captain Fred Stovin-Bradford CBE DSC&Bar (1919–1974), Royal Navy Commander (Fleet Air Arm)
• Vice-Admiral Sir Ted Horlick KBE (1925–2021), Director General of British Ships (1979–1983), Chief Naval Engineer Officer (1981–1983)

Industry and commerce

• John Howard (1791–1878), industrialist, inventor of agricultural equipment and four times Mayor of Bedford
• James Howard (1821–1889), industrialist and inventor of agricultural equipment. MP for Bedford
• Sir Frederick Howard DL JP (1828–1915), industrialist
• Captain Charles Wells (1842–1914), founder of Charles Wells Ltd, progenitor of the Wells baronets of Felmersham
• Sir George Farrar, 1st Baronet (1859–1915), mining magnate, politician and soldier
• Lt. Col. Henry Batten Huddleston OBE VD (1864–1944), Chief Agent and later a Director of the Burma Railways
• Hon. Walter Nutt OBE (1874–1940), managing director of The Straits Trading Company (1918–21)
• Sir Noel Mobbs KCVO OBE (1878–1959), founder of Slough Estates and High sheriff of Buckinghamshire
• E. E. Blake (1879–1961), Chairman of Kodak UK
• E. E. Cammack AIA FAIA FCAS (1881–1958), prominent actuary in the USA
• William Pickwoad OBE FRSA (1886–1975), prominent in South America's railway industry. Founding director of the Central Bank of Bolivia
• W. T. Godber CBE (1904–1981), authority on agriculture and agricultural engineering
• Sir Henry Cecil Johnson KBE (1906–1988), chairman of the British Railways Board (1968–71)
• Alastair George MacKenzie CBE MC (1915–1989), prominent figure in South East Asian insurance during the 1960s and 1970s
• Francis Coulson MBE (1919–1998), chef and hotelier
• Edward Roy Kent CBE (1920–2009), estate owner and agriculturalist in the Caribbean
• Lt.-Col. Ray Daniels MC (1923–2003), Chief Executive of the William Press Group
• Max Wideman (born 1927), expert in project management
• Sir Anthony Hartwell, 6th Baronet (1940–2023), Master mariner and Marine surveyor
• John Quenby (1941–2023), Chief Executive of the RAC Motor Sports Association (1990–2001)
• Andrew Stuart Winckler (1949–2007), Chief Executive of the Financial Services Authority (1996–98)
• Adrian Penfold OBE MRTPI FRSA (born 1952), Head of Planning at British Land, adviser to the UK Government
• Graham Clive Watts OBE MCMI FRSA FRIBA (born 1956), Chief Executive of the Construction Industry Council
• Richard Bradbury CBE (born 1956), Chief Executive of River Island (2008–11), director of Boden (2012–)
• Angus Knowles-Cutler (born 1962), senior partner at Deloitte
• Steve Melton (born 1962), Chief Executive of Exemplar Health Care
• Nick Blofeld (born 1964), managing director of Epsom Downs Racecourse (2007–09), Chief Executive of Bath Rugby (2009–14)
• Marcus Weldon (born 1968), 13th President of Bell Labs

Journalism

• William Fairbridge JP (1863–1943), founder of the Rhodesia Herald and the Bulawayo Chronicle, first mayor of Salisbury
• Leonard Dudeney (1875–1956), newspaper editor (North China Daily News) and parliamentary correspondent (Daily Express and Daily Sketch)
• Albert Powtrill Ager (1876–1956), editor, manager and publisher of The Straits Times
• Gaston Hanet Archambault (1877–1951), correspondent at The New York Times
• Lindsay Bashford OBE (1881–1921), Literary Editor of the Daily Mail
• Richard Capell OBE MM (1885–1954), music critic for the Daily Mail (1911–33) and the Daily Telegraph (1933–54)
• George Matthews (1917–2005), leading communist and editor of the Daily Worker/Morning Star from 1959 to 1974
• Eric Litchfield (1920–1982), sports editor of The Rand Daily Mail (1956–1970), the Cape Times (1970–82) and author
• Jon Akass (1933–1990), Fleet Street columnist
• Sir Nicholas Lloyd (born 1942), newspaper editor, News of the World (1984) and the Daily Express (1986–95)
• Michael Toner (1944–2025), leader writer at the Sunday Express and Daily Mail. Author and novelist
• Christopher Wilson (born 1947), journalist and Royal biographer
• Nicholas Shaxson (born 1966), author, journalist and associate fellow of Chatham House (Treasure Islands)
• Ben Anderson (born 1975), television reporter, journalist and writer (Holidays in the Axis of Evil)

Law

• Alfred Clare (1851–1912), District Registrar of the High Court of Justice
• William Robert Bousfield KC FRS (1854–1943), expert on patent law
• Sir William Tudball (1866–1943). Puisne judge of the High Court of Allahabad (1909–1922)
• Sir Sidney Abrahams KC (1885–1957), Chief Justice of Tanganyika and Ceylon
• Sir Clement Thornton Hallam (1891–1965), Solicitor to the General Post Office
• Dr James Mould QC (1893–1958), Queen's Counsel, Bencher of Gray's Inn and a Fellow of University College London
• Rowland Thomas Lovell Lee (1920–2005), Recorder of the Crown Court (1979–92)
• Stephen John Wooler CB (born 1948), HM Chief Inspector to the Crown Prosecution Service (1999–2010)
• Nicholas Stewart KC (born 1947), King's Counsel, Bencher of the Inner Temple and Deputy High Court Judge
• Hon. Tim Lord KC (born 1966), King's Counsel and Bencher of the Inner Temple

Literature

• William Hale White (1831–1913), author known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford
• Neil Wynn Williams (1864–1940), novelist, writer and contributor of short stories and articles to periodicals and journals
• George Moreby Acklom (1870–1959), writer, literary editor of E.P. Dutton, father of the Hollywood actor David Manners
• Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), author of Augustus Carp, Esq. and several other satirical novels
• Eric Temple Bell, (1883–1960), science fiction author (as John Taine)
• David Scott Daniell (1906–1965), author, playwright and regimental historian
• Christopher Fry (1907–2005), poet and playwright. Awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1962
• Gordon Thomas (1933–2017), investigative journalist and author (Gideon's Spies, The Pope's Jews)
• John Andrews (born 1936), author and antiques writer
• David Morse (born 1938), author on Motown, Romanticism and the Victorian era
• Russell Ash (1946–2010), author (The Top 10 of Everything)
• S.I. Martin (born 1961), author, historian and journalist specialising in Black British history and literature
• Stephen May (born 1964), novelist, playwright and TV writer
• Toby Litt FRSL (born 1968), author (Beatniks, Corpsing, Finding Myself, Journey into Space)

Medicine

• Samuel Hoppus Adams MRCS MD MB (1835–1895), surgeon and physician
• George Cleghorn (1850–1902), President of the New Zealand Medical Association
• Walter Jessop FRCS (1852–1917), Ophthalmic Surgeon at St Bartholomew's, President of the UK Ophthalmological Society
• Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow CB CMG OBE DSO (1856–1957), Honorary Surgeon to King George V
• Major-General George Francis Angelo Harris CSI FRCP (1856–1931), Honorary Surgeon to King George V and the Viceroy of India
• Rickard William Lloyd MRCS LRCPEd (1859–1933), Consulting Anaesthetist and author
• Charles Hubert Roberts FRCS FRCP (1865–1929), Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
• Claud Alley Worth FRCS (1869–1936), ophthalmologist, inventor of the Worth 4 dot test and Worth's Ambyloscope, world authority on squint
• Frank Atcherley Rose FRCS (1873–1935), surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital (1928–31)
• Thomas Shepherd Novis FRCS (1874–1962), Professor of Surgery at Grant Medical College, Bombay
• Major-General Harold Rothery Nutt FRCS (1876–1953), Honorary Surgeon to King George V and the Viceroy of India
• Cyril Arthur Bennett Horsford FRCS (1876–1953), Laryngologist to the Royal College of Music
• John Wycliffe Linnell FRCP MC (1878–1967), Consulting Physician
• Sir Henry Howarth Bashford FRCP (1880–1961), Honorary Physician to King George VI
• Sir Adolphe Abrahams OBE FRCP (1883–1967), Olympic Medical Officer from 1912
• H. L. D. Kirkham (1887–1949), first Professor of Plastic Surgery at Baylor University, Texas, recipient of the US Legion of Merit
• Frank Cook FRCS FRCOG (1888–1972), Beit Fellow, obstetric and gynaecological surgeon
• Basil Laver MS FRCS (1894–1934), surgeon
• Arkyl Staveley Gough OBE OStJ FRCS (1900–1990), surgeon
• Professor Anthony Andreasen FRSE FRCSE FICS (1906–1986), surgeon to the Viceroy of India
• Sir George Edward Godber GCB (1908–2009), Chief Medical Officer for HM Government in England (1960–73)
• William Edward Lancaster CBE AM (1909–2003), Chief Executive of the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia
• Professor Joseph Graeme Humble CVO FRCP FRCPath (1913–1980), Professor of Haematology at Westminster Hospital
• Professor Ernest Cotchin FRCVS FRCPath (1917–1988), Professor of Veterinary Pathology at the Royal Veterinary College (1963-1982)
• Dr Richard Norman Smith FRCVS (1926–1988), President of the British Veterinary Association between 1975 and 1976.
• Professor Michael Tynan MD FRCP (born 1934), Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at Guy's Hospital (1982–99)
• Dr Vaughan Southgate OBE DL FZS FRSM FLS FSB (born 1944), parasitologist
• Professor John Clibbens FRSocMed (born 1953), Professor of Developmental Psychology at Birmingham City University
• Dr Harry Brünjes CBE FRSocMed (born 1954), Chairman of Premier Medical Group
• Professor Mark Woodhead FRCP FERS (born 1954), world authority on lung infection and pneumonia
• Dr Ian Martin Wylie FRSM (born 1955), Chief Executive of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Michael Trudgill FAsMA FRAeS (born 1966), Chief Medical Officer at the UK Civil Aviation Authority

Music

• Roland Bocquet (1878–1956), composer, Professor of Music Theory at Dresden Conservatory
• Cyril Gell ARCO LRAM FGSM (1909–1994), musician, conductor of the BBC Singers and former professor at the Guildhall School of Music
• Derek Scott (1921–2006), composer and music director for film and television (The Muppet Show)
• Gordon Langford (1930–2017), brass band and orchestral music composer, arranger and performer (Return of the Jedi, Superman II)
• Paul Paviour OAM FRCO (1931–2024), composer, organist and conductor based in Australia
• Tim Souster (1943–1994), composer
• Justin Lavender (born 1951), operatic tenor and professor of vocal studies at the Royal College of Music
• Paul Christison Edwards (born 1955), organist and composer of music for the Anglican Church
• Nicholas Carthy (born 1957), Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (1993–96), Professor of Music at the University of Colorado
• Michael Hext (born 1961), inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition
• Max Richter (born 1966), composer
• Don Broco, band
• Segun Akinola (born 1993), composer and music director for film and television (Doctor Who)

Public office

Home

• James Howard (1821–1889), Liberal MP
• William Robert Bousfield KC FRS (1854–1943), Conservative MP
• Arthur Pedley CB (1859–1943), senior civil servant
• Arthur Sheppard MVO (1862–1944), Private Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury (1902–1928)
• Sir Archibald Dennis Flower (1865–1950). Chairman of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's birthplace
• Colonel John Alfred Lawrence Billingham CBE FRICS (1868–1955), Chief Inspector of Works, War Office (1928–33)
• Edmund Dene Morel (1873–1924), Labour MP
• Major F. R. Phipps OBE A.M. Inst. C.E. F.S.I. (1875–1927), Senior Engineering Inspector at the Ministry of Transport, 1924 to 1927
• Sir Ralph Endersby Harwood KCB KCVO CB CBE (1883–1951). Financial Secretary to three Kings (1935–37)
• Davenport Fabian Cartwright Blunt CB (1888–1965), Under-Secretary at HM Treasury (1946–48)
• Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), Liberal MP
• Sir Laurence George Gale CB OBE (1905–1969). Controller, Royal Ordnance Factories
• Hugh Chaplin CB (1905–1996), Principal Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum
• Jack Morton CMG OBE (1911–1985). Assistant Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Defence (1968–71)
• Philip Lionel Burton CBE (1914–1996), Head of the Civil Service Pay Research Unit between 1963 and 1971
• Arthur Jones (1915–1991), Conservative MP. Mayor of Bedford
• Edgar William Boyles (1921–2001), Under-Secretary at the Inland Revenue (1975–81)
• Tony Hart CBE (1923–2009), leader of Kent C.C. during the development of the Channel Tunnel, Eurostar and the Dartford Bridge
• Colonel Brian Ernest Maitland Prophet OBE TD DL (1928–2004), Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire
• Sir Stanley John Odell (1929–2021), former Chairman of the National Union of Conservative Constituency Associations
• Sir Keith Speed DL (1934–2018), Conservative MP. Undersecretary of State for Defence (1979–81)
• Jeffery John Mumford Speed CBE FRSA FInstLM FRGS (born 1936) was Director of Fundraising at Conservative Central Office
• Rev. Canon Jeffrey James West OBE FRSA (1950–2022), Inspector of Historic Buildings, English Heritage (1983–86)
• Patrick Hall (born 1951), former Labour MP
• Nick Hawkins, (born 1957), former Conservative MP
• Andrew Charles Gilchrist (born 1960), former General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union
• Sir Nicolas Gibb (born 1960), former Conservative MP
• Richard Fuller CBE (born 1962), Conservative MP
• Matt Cavanagh (born 1971), special adviser to New Labour (2003–2010)

Overseas

• Sir William Morgan KCMG (1828–1883), Premier of South Australia (1878–81)
• Hon. Arthur Carter (1847–1917), businessman, Australian Consul to Norway, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council
• Leonard Isitt (1855–1937), M.P. for the New Zealand Liberal Party and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
• Charles Frederick Gale (1860–1928), senior Australian civil servant, Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia
• C. W. P. Douglas de Fenzi (1863–1927), Clerk to the Legislative Council of Natal
• Henry George Graves ARSM (1864–1929), Controller of Patents and Designs in India between 1904 and 1919
• Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton KCMG (1870–1952), President of the Commission for the Government of the Saar Basin
• Herbert George Billson CIE (1871–1938), Chief Conservator of Indian Forests, 1922–26
• Sir William Pell Barton KCIE CSI (1871–1956), Resident in Baroda (1919), Mysore (1920–25) and Hyderabad (1925–30)
• William McKinnell (1873–1939), politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada (1920–36)
• Hon. Walter Nutt OBE (1874–1940), a member of the Federal Malay States Legislative council
• John Richard Donovan Glascott CIE (1877–1938), Chief Engineer of the Burma Railways, Member of the Legislative Council of Burma
• Sir Robert Daniel Richmond CIE (1878–1948), Chief Conservator, Indian Woods and Forests
• Archie Rose CIE FRGS (1879–1961), diplomat, explorer and businessman in China
• John Mervyn Dallas Wrench CIE (1883–1961), Chief Engineer of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway
• Sir Francis Moncrieff Kerr-Jarrett (1885–1968), Custos Rotulorum of St James's, Jamaica
• Stanley Wyatt Smith (1887–1958), Consul-General of Manila (1938–42) and Honolulu (1943–44)
• Major-General Ronald Okeden Alexander CB DSO (1888–1949), Inspector General, Central Canada (1942–46)
• Charles Hawes CIE MC (1890–1963). Chief Engineer to the Government of Sind
• Frederick Williamson CIE (1891–1935), Consul-General of Kashgar (1927–30)
• Reginald Philip Abigail (1892–1969), District Commissioner of Arakan during the fall of Burma in 1942
• Hon. Robert Skinner MBE (1893–1969), Federal Treasurer of the Leeward Islands
• Bertram St. Leger Ten Broeke CIE MC (1895–1962), Deputy Inspector-General of the Indian Police in Bihar
• W. D. Harverson OBE ARSM MIMM (1903–92), Commissioner of Mines in Kenya (1949–58) and Tanganyika (1958–62)
• Walter Ian James Wallace CMG OBE (1905–1993), Assistant Undersecretary of State at the Colonial Office (1962–66)
• Sir Arthur Mooring KCMG (1908–1969), British Resident in Zanzibar (1959–1963)
• Cyril Herbert Williams CMG OBE (1908–1983), Provincial Commissioner of the Nyanza Province of Kenya (1951–56)
• Roger Tancred Robert Hawkins GLM ICD (1915–1980), Rhodesian politician and member of Ian Smith's cabinet after Rhodesia's UDI
• Victor Yarnell (1919–2005), American politician, Democratic Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania (1968–1972)
• Colonel Ian Cook OBE (1934–1994), Commander of the Vanuatu Mobile Police Force (1980–84)
• Malcolm Geoffrey Hilson OBE (born 1942), High Commissioner of Vanuatu (1997–2000)
• Paul Reddicliffe OBE (born 1945), British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia (1994–1997)
• Michael Crowther (born 1952), CEO of the Indianapolis Zoo, founder of the Indianapolis Prize
• Yang Berbahagia Datuk Wira Dr. Mohamed Farid Md Rafik DCSM (1976–2019), Malaysian politician

Religion

• The Rt. Rev. William Toll (1843–1915), Suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago (1911–15)
• Canon Thomas Blyth DD (1844–1913), author and Commissary to the Archbishop of Ottawa and Bishops of Niagara
• The Rev. H.A. Lester MA (1873–1922), theologian, director of the Bishop of London's Sunday School Council (1911–1922)
• The Rev. Arthur Raley MC (1889–1964), Chaplain to Royal Air Force Command during World War II
• The Ven. Thomas Dix ARCO (1908-1985), Archdeacon of Zanzibar
• The Ven. Robert Brown MA (1914–2001), Archdeacon of Bedford (1974–79)
• The Rev. Noel Stanton (1926–2009), founder of the Jesus Army
• Dr Bryan W. Ball (born 1935), theologian, former President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific
• Dennis Frederick Orme (born 1938), former leader of Unification Churches in England, theologian and author
• The Rt. Rev. Tony Robinson (born 1956), Bishop of Wakefield

Sport

Art

• George Loraine Stampa (1875–1951), participant in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Athletics

• Thomas Edgar Hammond (1878–1945), track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
• Sir Sidney Abrahams KC (1885–1957), competed in the Long jump at the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Dr H.W. Evans MC (1890–1927), athlete, rugby player and physician
• Ken Richardson (1918–1998), athlete, silver medallist in the 1938 British Empire Games
• Julie Rogers (born 1998), participant in the 2012 Summer Paralympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Chess

• Charles Blake (1880–1961), U.S. Open Chess Champion in 1911
• Harold James Plaskett (born 1960), British Chess Champion in 1990

Cricket

• Arthur Jones (1872–1914), Captained the England cricket team. Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1900
• Lionel Brown (1872–1938), cricketer
• Arthur Jervois Turner (1878–1952), cricketer and rugby union player
• Sir Robert Daniel Richmond (1878–1948), played cricket for Jamaica
• Walter Martin Fitzherbert Turner (1881–1948), cricketer
• Arthur Cantrell (1883–1954), cricketer
• Norman Oliver CavA (1886–1948), played cricket for Bedfordshire and Brazil
• Frederick Charles William Newman (1896–1966), cricketer
• Basil Rogers (1896–1975), cricketer
• Ernest Dynes CBE (1903–1968), cricketer
• Maurice Pugh OBE (1903–1986), cricketer
• Arthur Grenfell Coomb (1929–2022), cricketer
• Bob Gale (1933–2018), cricketer
• Geoff Millman (1934–2005), England cricketer
• Graham Jarrett (1937–2004), cricketer
• Peter David Watts (born 1938), cricketer
• Peter Kippax (1940–2017), cricketer
• Andrew Curtis (born 1943), cricketer
• Alan Fordham (born 1964), cricketer
• Neil Stanley (1968-2024), cricketer
• Andrew Trott (born 1968), cricketer
• Paul Owen (born 1969) played cricket for Canada
• Matthew White (born 1969), cricketer
• Kelvin Locke (born 1980), cricketer
• Oliver Clayson (born 1980), cricketer
• Jamie Wade (born 1981), cricketer
• Monty Panesar (born 1982), England cricketer. Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2007
• Richard King (born 1984), cricketer
• Robin Kemp (born 1984), cricketer
• Matthew Taylor (born 1999), cricketer

Football

• James Oswald Anderson (1872–1932), footballer for Lomas Athletic Club and Argentina, cricketer for Hertfordshire
• Andrew Ralston (1880–1950), footballer (Spurs and Watford). FA administrator
• Eric Litchfield (1920–1982), footballer (Newcastle United F.C., Leeds United F.C.)
• Gordon Brice (1924–2003), cricketer and footballer (Luton Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Reading, Fulham)
• Pemi Aderoju (born 2005), footballer for Peterborough United F.C.

Hockey

• Charles Howard Foulkes CB CMG DSO (1875–1969), field hockey player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics

Rallying

• Ian Mantle (1920–2010), engineer and rally driver

Rowing

• Sir Archibald Dennis Flower (1865–1950), rowed for Cambridge in the 1886 Boat Race
• William Mansfield Poole (1871–1946), rowed for Oxford in the 1891 Boat Race
• Sir George Edward Godber GCB (1908–2009), rowed for Oxford in the 1928 and 1929 Boat Races
• Tony Leadley (born 1928), rowed for the United Kingdom and for Cambridge in the 1953 Boat Race
• Peter Knapp (born 1949), rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
• John Yallop (born 1949), rower who won a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
• Neil Keron (born 1953), rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Tim Foster MBE (born 1970), rower who won a Gold Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
• David Gillard (born 1971), rowed for Great Britain and also for Cambridge in the 1991, 1992 and 1993 Boat Races
• Rod Chisholm (born 1974), rower who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics

Rugby

• Horace William Finlinson (1871–1956), England Rugby International
• Wardlaw Brown Thomson (1871–1921), England Rugby International
• Lt.-Col. Edgar Mobbs DSO (1882–1917), England Rugby International, Captained England and Northampton
• Arthur Gilbert Bull (1890–1963), England Rugby International
• Dick Stafford (1893–1912), England Rugby International
• Harold Lindsay Vernon Day (1898–1972), England Rugby International who also played first class cricket for Hampshire
• G.T. 'Beef' Dancer (1911–1991), rugby player who participated in the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa
• Dickie Jeeps CBE (1930–2016), England Rugby International, Captained England and the British Lions
• Lionel Edward Weston (born 1947), England Rugby International
• Mark Denney (born 1975), rugby union player as centre for Bristol, Castres and Wasps
• Henry Staff (born 1991), rugby union player who played for RFU Championship side, Bedford Blues

Rugby fives

• Matt Cavanagh (born 1971), Rugby fives British champion in 2004 and 2006

Swimming

• Hamilton ("Tony") Pierre Matt Milton (born 1938), swimmer at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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