List of Old Marlburians

The following is a list of notable Old Marlburians, former pupils of Marlborough College, Wiltshire, England.

Academia and education

 * Andrew Boggis, Master in College at Eton and chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, 2006
 * Charles Fisher, Headmaster, Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Australia
 * Peter Lamarque, philosopher
 * John Raven, classical scholar and botanist
 * Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury

Arts

 * Anthony Blunt, art historian and communist spy
 * Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt, writer and art teacher
 * Lauren Child, writer and illustrator
 * Claude Ferrier, architect
 * Susannah Fiennes, artist
 * Keith Henderson, artist
 * William Morris, artist and writer
 * Pontine Paus, designer, shipping heiress and socialite
 * Charles Saumarez Smith, art historian, former Director of the National Gallery
 * Graham Shepard, cartoonist and illustrator
 * Ellis Waterhouse, art historian

Literature

 * E. F. Benson, novelist
 * John Betjeman, poet
 * Humphrey Carpenter, biographer and broadcaster
 * Bruce Chatwin, novelist and travel writer
 * Cressida Cowell, ex-Children Laureate and creator of How to Train Your Dragon.
 * J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet and armaments manufacturer
 * Anthony Hope, writer
 * Arthur Lewis Jenkins, poet
 * Dick King-Smith, writer
 * Louis MacNeice, poet
 * James Michie, poet and translator
 * John Beverley Nichols, writer
 * David Nobbs, comedy writer (Reginald Perrin)
 * Redmond O'Hanlon, travel writer
 * Ben Pimlott, biographer
 * John Preston, journalist and novelist
 * James Runcie, novelist and television producer
 * Siegfried Sassoon, poet
 * Charles Sorley, poet
 * Bernard Spencer, poet
 * Adam Thorpe, poet, novelist and playwright
 * R. J. Yeatman, co-author of 1066 and All That

Music

 * Toby Smith, keyboardist of Jamiroquai
 * Bo Bruce, singer-songwriter
 * Chris de Burgh, singer-songwriter
 * Nick Drake, singer-songwriter
 * Anthony Inglis, conductor
 * Crispian Steele-Perkins, classical trumpeter
 * David Mahoney, conductor, producer and creative director
 * Fred Again, producer and composer

Theatre, cinema and television

 * Robert Addie, actor
 * Stephen Barry, director and administrator
 * John Wingett Davies, film exhibitor
 * Guy du Maurier, dramatist and soldier
 * Michael Elwyn, actor
 * Charles Furneaux, producer
 * Colin Gordon, actor
 * Wilfrid Hyde-White, actor
 * Harry Brodribb Irving, actor
 * Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, actor and dramatist
 * Damian Jones, producer
 * James Robertson Justice, actor
 * James Mason, actor
 * Simon McBurney, actor, writer and director
 * Michael Pennington, actor and director
 * Clive Robertson, actor
 * Antony Root, television executive and producer
 * William Desmond Taylor, director
 * Ernest Thesiger, actor
 * Nicholas Woodeson, actor
 * Jack Whitehall, comedian, television writer/producer and actor
 * Angus Wright, actor
 * Emerald Fennell, actress, director and screenwriter
 * Robert Watts, Hollywood film producer

Politics

 * Harriett Baldwin, MP for West Worcestershire
 * Sally Bercow, wife of Speaker John Bercow
 * Tim Boswell, MP for Daventry
 * Stephen Bradley, former British Consul-General to Hong Kong
 * Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, Home Secretary
 * Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, Cabinet minister
 * Rab Butler, statesman
 * Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron
 * Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch
 * Otis Ferry, hunt supporter and political activist, son of singer Bryan Ferry
 * Alastair Goodlad, former MP for Eddisbury and High Commissioner to Australia
 * Daniel Hannan, MEP for the South East of England
 * Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, British liberal politician and sociologist; one of the 'Fathers of Liberalism'
 * William Jowitt, Lord Chancellor
 * Peter Kirk, politician, first leader of the British delegation to the European Parliament
 * George Butler Lloyd, MP for Shrewsbury 1913–1922
 * Mark Malloch Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 * John Maples, MP for Stratford-upon-Avon
 * Frances Osborne, ex-wife of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne
 * William Newton Dunn, Conservative, and later Liberal Democrat, MEP for the East Midlands.
 * John Parker, MP for Romford
 * Maurice Petherick, MP for Penryn & Falmouth
 * Mark Reckless, MP for Rochester and Strood
 * Malcolm Ian Sinclair, 20th Earl of Caithness, politician
 * Hallam Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, statesman
 * Dennis Forwood Vosper, MP for Runcorn
 * Lord Wright of Richmond, diplomat; Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 * Montague Yeats-Brown, diplomat; consul to Genoa and Boston

Sciences and engineering

 * J. Richard Batchelor, transplant immunologist
 * C. V. Boys, experimental physicist
 * Francis Camps, pathologist
 * George Stuart Carter, zoologist
 * Henry Hugh Clutton, surgeon
 * Sir Charles Galton Darwin, physicist
 * John Dolphin, inventor and engineer
 * Sir Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive engineer
 * Donald Lynden-Bell, astronomer
 * Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist
 * David Morley, child health pioneer
 * Alex Moulton, engineer and inventor of the Moulton Bicycle
 * Peter Dunn, paediatrician who improved the care of newborn babies
 * Sir Hugh Pelham, cell biologist
 * Philip Sheppard, geneticist and lepidopterist
 * Percy Sladen, marine zoologist
 * Edward Thompson, steam locomotive engineer
 * Thomas Valintine, doctor and New Zealand public health administrator
 * Bernard Waddy, epidemiologist
 * E. F. Warburg, botanist
 * John Zachary Young, physiologist

Sport



 * George Ainsworth, first-class cricketer
 * Robert Barker, played for England in the first international football match
 * Fred Beart, cricketer
 * Henry Bell, cricketer
 * Sir Hugh Bomford, cricketer
 * John Bowley, cricketer
 * Walter Brooks, cricketer
 * Richard Busk, cricketer
 * Francis Chichester, round the world yachtsman
 * William Crawley, cricketer
 * Charles Dewé, cricketer
 * Arthur Duthie, cricketer
 * John Dolphin, cricketer
 * Jason Dunford, swimmer
 * Eric Elstob, cricketer
 * Edward Fellowes, cricketer
 * Arthur Fortescue, cricketer
 * John Fuller, cricketer
 * Henry Gale, cricketer
 * Edward Garnier, cricketer
 * Arthur Sumner Gibson, English rugby union player in the first international match in 1871
 * Jamie Gibson, rugby union player
 * John Gunner, cricketer
 * Alfred St. George Hamersley, English rugby union player in the first international match, later team captain
 * Anthony Hill, cricketer
 * Sir John Hoskyns, 15th Baronet, cricketer
 * Edward Hume, cricketer
 * John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest
 * Hector Jelf, first-class cricketer
 * Nigel Jerram, first-class cricketer
 * Maurice Jewell, first-class cricketer
 * Edward Kewley, nineteenth century England Rugby captain
 * Sir Henry King, first-class cricketer
 * Robert Kingsford, England international footballer and FA Cup winner
 * William Lipscomb, cricketer
 * John Lloyd, Welsh cricketer
 * Reginald Lord, cricketer
 * John Maples, cricketer
 * Iain MacDonald-Smith, Olympic sailor, Gold medal Mexico 1968
 * Henry Maturin, Irish first-class cricketer
 * Jake Meyer, mountaineer
 * Michael Morgan, first-class cricketer
 * John Morley, first-class cricketer
 * Charles Morris, first-class cricketer
 * Sydney Morse rugby union international who represented England from 1873 to 1875
 * Peter Nelson, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
 * Richard Page, first-class cricketer and British Army officer
 * Inglewood Parkin, cricketer
 * Charles Patteson, cricketer
 * Edward Phillips, first-class cricketer
 * Gerald Phillips, cricketer
 * Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of The Princess Royal
 * Albert Porter, cricketer
 * William Pulman, cricketer
 * Francis Quinton, cricketer
 * Nicholas Ross, cricketer
 * John Scobell, cricketer
 * Arthur Scott, cricketer
 * Edward Shaw, cricketer
 * Reggie Spooner, cricketer
 * Allan Steel, cricketer
 * Walter Thorburn, Scottish cricketer
 * Mark Tomlinson, England International polo player
 * Stirling Voules, cricketer
 * Bernard Waddy, cricketer
 * Charles Waller, cricketer
 * Lancelot Ward, cricketer
 * Ronald Watson, Scottish cricketer
 * Charles Plumpton Wilson, England footballer
 * Martin Winbolt-Lewis, Olympic athlete
 * Andrew Wolfson, cricketer
 * Sir John Wood, cricketer
 * Kenneth Woodroffe, cricketer
 * William Wright, cricketer

Religion

 * Cyril Alington, headmaster, and Dean of Durham
 * Henry Bather, Archdeacon of Ludlow 1892–1904
 * Henry Bell, Canon of Carlisle
 * Roy Henry Bowyer-Yin Canon and Chaplain of S Thomas College Mt Lavinia
 * Alfred Blunt, Bishop of Bradford 1931–1955
 * Frederick Nicholas Charrington, social reformer and founder of the Tower Hamlets Mission
 * Frederick Copleston, priest and philosopher
 * Nigel Cornwall, Bishop of Borneo 1949–1962
 * Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester
 * James Newcome, Bishop of Carlisle
 * Edward Patey, Dean of Liverpool
 * John Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich
 * Mark Santer, Bishop of Birmingham 1987-2002
 * Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, known as Dick Sheppard, vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and founder of the Peace Pledge Union
 * Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London
 * Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield 1937–1953
 * John Oliver Feetham, Bishop of North Queensland; recognized as a saint in the Anglican Church of Australia

Journalism

 * Rawdon Christie, English-born New Zealand television presenter
 * Simon Fanshawe, writer and broadcaster
 * Frank Gardner, BBC News Security Correspondent
 * Richard Jebb, journalist
 * Derrick Somerset Macnutt, crossword compiler under the pseudonym Ximenes
 * Christopher Martin-Jenkins, BBC cricket correspondent
 * James Mates, ITN newscaster
 * Norris and Ross McWhirter, journalists, authors, and political activists
 * Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of the Sun
 * Edmund Penning-Rowsell, wine writer
 * Julian Pettifer, ITV and BBC journalist
 * Hugh Pym, ITN and BBC News journalist
 * Emily Sheffield, Evening Standard Editor, newspaper and magazine journalist
 * Sir Mark Tully, BBC India correspondent and author
 * T.C. Worsley, writer, editor and television critic

Armed forces

 * Nigel Anderson, soldier and local politician
 * Lionel Ashfield, World War I flying ace, killed in action
 * Phillip Scott Burge, World War I flying ace, killed in action
 * Edward Bradford, soldier and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
 * John Brigstocke, admiral, second sea lord, c-in-c Naval Home Command
 * Michael Clapp senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the United Kingdom's amphibious assault group, Task Group 317.0, in the Falklands War
 * Richard Corfield, officer in charge of the Somaliland Camel Constabulary
 * Charles Elworthy, Chief of the Defence Staff and Governor of Windsor Castle
 * Peter Gillett, Major-General, Deputy Constable and Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle
 * John 'Hoppy' Hopgood', pilot in 617 Squadron, killed on the Dambusters raid on 16 May 1943
 * David Maltby, pilot in 617 Squadron who flew in the Dambusters raid
 * John Kiszely, Lieutenant General and Director of the Defence Academy
 * Ian Macfadyen, RAF officer and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man 2000–2005
 * Charles MacGregor, General and head of intelligence for the British Indian Army
 * Nevil Macready, General and Metropolitan Police Commissioner
 * Patrick Palmer, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe and Governor of Windsor Castle
 * Francis Quinton, British Army general (Royal Artillery)
 * John Wilfred Stanier, Field Marshal
 * Hugh Stockwell, General, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 1960 to 1964
 * Henry Hughes Wilson, Field Marshal
 * Alex Younger, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

VC
Victoria Cross holders:
 * Edward Kinder Bradbury
 * Frederic Brooks Dugdale
 * Charles Calveley Foss
 * Reginald Clare Hart
 * Raymond Harvey Lodge Joseph De Montmorency
 * Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies
 * Lionel Ernest Queripel
 * John Neil Randle
 * Nowell Salmon
 * Edward Talbot Thackeray
 * Eric Charles Twelves Wilson
 * Sir Henry Evelyn Wood
 * Sidney Clayton Woodroffe

GC
George Cross holders:
 * Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls

Commerce and industry

 * Michael Clapham, industrialist (ICI)
 * Ernest Debenham, department store owner
 * Olivia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, senior account manager
 * Ambrose Heal, retailer
 * Ian and Kevin Maxwell, former publishers and entrepreneurs
 * Robert Noel, businessman, chief executive of Land Securities Group plc
 * Rob Perrins, Managing Director of Berkeley Group Holdings
 * George Duncan Rowe, stockbroker, co-founder of Rowe & Pitman
 * Sir Michael Turner, General Manager (Chairman) of HSBC 1953–1962
 * Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood, army officer and international ambassador for the Wedgwood Group
 * Simon Woodroffe, founder of the Yo Sushi restaurant chain

The Royal Family and the Court

 * Princess Eugenie of York, younger daughter of The Duke of York
 * Catherine, Princess of Wales (née Catherine Middleton), wife of William, Prince of Wales
 * Pippa Middleton, sister and Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales
 * Robin Janvrin, courtier, Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II
 * Alan 'Tommy' Lascelles, courtier, Private Secretary to George VI and Elizabeth II, and cousin to the husband of Mary, Princess Royal
 * Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, Law Lord
 * John Brightman, Baron Brightman, Law Lord
 * Thomas William Cain, First Deemster of the Isle of Man
 * Rayner Goddard, Lord Chief Justice
 * Sir Philip Margetson, Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
 * William Moore, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
 * T. C. Kingsmill Moore, Irish judge, politician and author
 * Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
 * Sir Richard Gaskell, President of the Law Society of England and Wales

Fashion

 * Amanda Harlech, model and 'muse' to John Galliano
 * Stella Tennant, model and fashion designer
 * Samantha Cameron, wife of former Prime Minister David Cameron and creative director at Smythson

Other professions



 * Sir Basil Blackett, civil servant and international finance expert
 * Sir Hugh Bomford, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service
 * Frederic Bonney, anthropologist and photographer
 * Sir Grahame Clark, archaeologist
 * O. G. S. Crawford, archaeologist
 * Stewart Donald, businessman and football club chairman
 * Henry Everard, railway executive and acting President of Rhodesia
 * Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale, promoter of the interests of blind people
 * Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary and social reformer
 * Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, oncologist and IRA victim
 * Sir Edmund Ronald Leach, anthropologist
 * Derrick Somerset Macnutt, Ximenes, cryptic crossword compiler for The Observer
 * Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite and convicted child sex trafficker
 * Tunku 'Abidin Muhriz, Founding President of Institute of Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Malaysia
 * Tracy Philipps, colonial administrator, intelligence officer, and conservationist, Secretary-General of International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
 * Edward John Hugh Tollemache, private firm banker
 * David Treffry, colonial servant, international financier and High Sheriff of Cornwall
 * Prince Waranonthawat, Thai prince, grandson of King Chulalongkorn
 * Gordon Welchman, code-breaker
 * John Wood, civil servant in the Indian Civil Service