List of people educated at Christ's Hospital

This is a list of alumni of Christ's Hospital school, who are known as Old Blues.

Business

• Edward Colston – Merchant, slave trader, philanthropist, and Member of Parliament
• Arthur Dorman – Industrialist
• William Charles Goddard Knowles – British businessman in Hong Kong
• David Norgrove – Businessman
• Stephan Shakespeare – Business man and entrepreneur
• David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury – Business man
• James White – Advertising agent
• Richard Thornton – Merchant and trader

Law

• Edmund Bartley-Denniss – Barrister, Member of Parliament, freemason and British cycling pioneer
• Francis Bullen – Judge
• Rupert Jackson – Lord Justice of Appeal
• Gabriel Jones – Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia
• Henry James Sumner Maine – Comparative jurist and historian

Medicine

• Russell Brock – Chest and heart surgeon
• Raanan Gillon – Medical doctor, philosopher, journal editor and professor of medical ethics
• Norman Guthkelch – British paediatric neurosurgeon
• Caesar Hawkins – Surgeon
• James Jurin – Physician and scientist
• Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan – Abdominal surgeon

Military

• Bertram Allen – Paymaster Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy
• Bob Allen – Army surgeon and journalist
• Thomas Bertie – Rear-admiral in the Royal Navy
• Edward Felix Baxter – Soldier (awarded the Victoria Cross in 1916)
• Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari – Military administrator
• John Colborne – British Army Field Marshal
• Hugh Constantine – Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal
• Edgar William Cox – Intelligence officer
• Alexander Cunningham – Army engineer and archaeologist
• James Alfred Davidson – Royal Navy commander

• Edward Mortlock Donaldson – Royal Air Force pilot
• William F.S. Edwards – commonly referred to as Brig General W. F. S. Edwards, 1st colonial Commissioner of Police in East Africa
• Michael Gray – Soldier
• Wilfrith Elstob – Soldier (awarded the Vitoria Cross in 1918)
• Buster Howes – Commando and Royal Marines officer
• Llewelyn Hughes – Soldier, priest and army chaplain
• Robert Hunter – Soldier
• Joshua Leakey – Soldier (awarded the Victoria Cross in 2013)
• Henry Ralph Lumley – Royal Flying Corp pilot and burn victim
• Philip Mayne – Soldier
• Henry William Pitcher – British Indian Army officer (awarded the Victoria Cross in 1863)
• Laurence Sinclair – Air Vice Marshal in the Royal Air Force (Awarded the George Cross in 1941)
• John Robin Stephenson – British Army officer and cricket administrator
• Harold Edward Whittingham – Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War
• Thomas Withers, a naval officer who served with Nelson

Music

• Basil Allchin – Oxford organist
• Adrian Bawtree – Organist
• Sydney Carter – Poet, songwriter, musician
• Sir Colin Davis – Conductor
• Tim Benjamin – Composer
• Catherine Ennis – organist
• Charles Hazlewood – Conductor and broadcaster
• Constant Lambert – Composer and conductor
• Edward Lambert – Composer
• Christopher Tambling – Composer, organist and choirmaster

Performing arts

• Roger Allam – Actor
• James D'Arcy – Actor
• Howard Davies – Theatre and television director
• Tenniel Evans – Actor
• Susannah Fielding – Actor
• Jason Flemyng – Actor
• Jimmy Godden – Actor
• Leo Gregory – Actor
• George Peele – Dramatist
• Michael Wilding – Actor

Politics

• Jenkin Coles – Australian politician
• Owen Cox – Australian businessman and politician
• Thomas Everard – Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
• Samuel Hayden – Canadian politician
• Steve Hilton – Political strategist
• Stuart Holland – Labour politician and academic
• Graham Hutton – Economist, author and Liberal Party politician
• Martin Linton – former Labour Member of Parliament
• Sir Richard Nichols – Lord Mayor of London
• Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham – Labour politician
• Alexander Vidal – Canadian land surveyor, banker and political figure

Religion

• John Arnold – Anglican priest and author
• John Ashe – Priest
• Reginald Bazire – Anglican priest
• Raymond Birt – Archdeacon of Berkshire
• Constance Bryant – Medical missionary
• Edmund Campion – Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
• Mordecai Cary – Bishop
• Thomas Dale – Anglican priest, poet and theologian
• John Delight – Archdeacon of Stoke
• Vyvyan Henry Donnithorne – Priest and missionary to China
• Robert Newton Flew – Methodist theologian
• Bede Griffiths – Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East–West religious dialogue
• Thomas Hartwell Horne – Theologian and librarian
• Percy Henn – Clergyman and schoolmaster
• James Horstead – Bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa
• Ross Hook – Anglican bishop
• Marcus Knight – Anglican priest
• Thomas Middleton – Anglican bishop

• John Townsend – Congregationalist minister and philanthropist

Science and academia

• Donald Allan – Classical scholar
• W. Sidney Allen – Linguist and philologist
• Richard Appleton – Lecturer in mathematics and theology
• Andrew Barker – Classical scholar
• Joshua Barnes – English scholar
• John Beazley – Classical scholar
• T. A. M. Bishop – Palaeographer, historian, and academic
• Arthur Lyon Bowley – Statistician and economist
• James Boyer – Clergyman and headmaster of Christ's Hospital
• Rupert Bruce-Mitford – Archaeologist and scholar
• Andrew Burn (professor) – Media scholar and educationist
• William Burnside – Mathematician
• Cyril Burt – Psychologist
• Ida Busbridge – Mathematician
• William Camden – Antiquarian and historian
• T. H. Clark – Geologist
• Ruth Deech – Academic, lawyer and bioethicist
• Robin Du Boulay – Medieval historian
• Frederick Field – Theologian and biblical scholar
• John Forsdyke – Classical scholar and Director of the British Museum
• Cyril Fox – Archaeologist
• Louis Harold Gray – Physicist
• George Greenhill – Mathematician
• Jasper Griffin – Professor of Classics at Oxford
• Philip Hall – Mathematician
• Roger Highfield – Science author, journalist and broadcaster
• Sydney Samuel Hough – Astronomer and mathematician
• Beresford Kidd – Anglican priest and Church historian
• Philip Kitcher – Professor of philosophy
• Norman Longmate – Author, historian and broadcaster
• Jeremiah Markland – Classical scholar
• Russell Meiggs – Historian
• Peter Padfield – Historian
• Rex Paterson – Agricultural researcher
• Alan Ryan – Professor
• James Scholefield – Classical scholar
• Arthur William Trollope – Cleric and headmaster of Christ's Hospital
• Barnes Wallis – Scientist, engineer and inventor
• Gerald James Whitrow – Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian
• F. L. Woodward – Educationist, Pali scholar, author and theosophist
• Erik Christopher Zeeman – Mathematician

Sport

• Jack Bailey – Cricketer and cricket administrator
• Cecil Boden – Cricketer
• Robert Edwards – Cricketer and clergyman
• Henry Franklin – Cricketer, headmaster and rugby union player
• Jack Gentry – Cricketer
• Ælfric Harrison – Cricketer
• Andrew Higgins – Rugby union player
• George Rowland Hill – Rugby union administrator, official and referee
• Joe Launchbury – Rugby union player
• James McInerny – Cricketer
• Dennis Silk – Schoolmaster and international cricketer
• Geoff Smith – Kent cricketer
• John Snow – Cricketer
• Stu Whittingham – Cricketer
• Douglas Wright – Cricketer

Visual arts

• Richard Dagley – Painter and illustrator
• Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram
• Francis Seymour Haden – Etcher and surgeon
• Arthur Ling – architect and urban planner
• Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – Architect, designer, artist and critic
• Tony Ray-Jones – Photographer
• Jonathan Scott – Wildlife photographer and TV presenter
• Chris Steele-Perkins – Photographer
• Keith Vaughan – Painter

Writers, poets and journalists

• Cyrus Andrews – Journalist and radio scriptwriter
• Attila the Stockbroker (John Baine) – Punk poet and musician
• Thomas Barnes – Journalist
• Robert Black – Author, journalist and translator
• Edmund Blunden – Poet, author and critic
• Guy Boothby – Author
• Mark Burgess – Children's author
• Samuel Cobb (poet) – Poet
• Kira Cochrane – Journalist and author
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher
• James Coomarasamy – Correspondent
• Con Coughlin – Journalist and author
• Keith Douglas – Poet
• George Dyer – Poet
• Nicholas Foulkes – Journalist, writer, and broadcaster
• Leigh Hunt – Critic, essayist, and poet
• Charles Lamb – Essayist
• Bernard Levin – Journalist, author and broadcaster
• Bryan Magee – Broadcaster, politician, and author
• Aylmer Maude – Translator
• John Middleton Murry – Writer
• Horace W. C. Newte – Author
• Thomas Richards (Tasmania) – Surgeon, Author, Journalist, Editor
• Samuel Richardson – Writer
• Michael Schmidt – Poet, Author, Scholar and Publisher
• Thomas Skinner Surr – Writer
• Rupert Thomson – Novelist
• Sir Ian Trethowan – Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist

Other

• William Bankes Amery – Civil servant and accountant
• Thomas Cass – Surveyor
• Richard Cavendish – Occult writer
• Richard Clarke – Civil servant
• Henry Cole – Civil servant and inventor
• Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003
• John Edmonds – Trade union leader
• Rob Gauntlett – Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker
• David Green – Director of the Serious Fraud Office
• Harold Harding – Civil engineer
• Daniel Harper – Headmaster and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
• Lucy Herron – Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
• James Hooper – Adventurer
• Donald Hopson – Diplomat
• Geraint Jennings – Jersey politician and linguist
• Edward Keane – Australian engineer, businessman, and politician
• William Nye – Principal Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–2015
• Percy Pyne – President of City National Bank in the United States
• John Septimus Roe – Surveyor-General of Western Australia
• George Ritchie Sandford – Barrister, Financial Secretary of Palestine (1940–1944), Chief Secretary of Tanganyika (1944–1946), Governor of the Bahamas (1950)
• Charles Robert Smith – Governor of North Borneo
• William Alder Strange – Headmaster and author
• Mark Thomas – Comedian and political activist
• Edward Thornton – Diplomat
• Holly Walsh – Comedian
• E F Watling – Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator

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