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.

A

 * Harold Ackroyd (1877–1917), soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer
 * Sir James Adams (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (1897–1945), cricketer and Royal Air Force officer
 * Donald Boumphrey (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
 * Lieutenant General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker (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 (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 (1831–1911), mathematician
 * Robert Burn (1829–1904), classical scholar, archeologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
 * Charles Burney (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 (1858–1947), British colonial administrator, Governor of Gambia 1914–1920
 * Sir Philip Montgomery Campbell  (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 (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
 * Sir Julian Critchley (1930–2000), journalist and politician
 * Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft  (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 (1912–2013), diplomat
 * Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce (1912–2000), judge

D

 * Charles Darwin    (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 (1872–1953), politician and MP for Kensington South
 * Francis Day (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
 * Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
 * Charles Spencer Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 2nd Baronet (1916–2012), businessman and peer
 * General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey    (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
 * 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
 * Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet (1912–1999), Scottish businessman

E

 * Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide of King Charles I
 * Alexander John Ellis (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
 * Walter Ewbank (1918–2014), priest and author

F

 * Edmund Ffoulkes (1820–1894), clergyman
 * George Fielding (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 (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  of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
 * Sir George Abraham Grierson  (1851–1941), administrator in India and philologist
 * Lawrence Grossmith (1877–1944), actor
 * Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), historian and theologian
 * Lieutenant General Willoughby Gwatkin (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  (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 (1931–2010), barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
 * William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
 * Michael Heseltine  (born 1933), Conservative politician, Deputy Prime Minister 1995–1997
 * Major Richard Henry Heslop (alias Xavier) (1907–1973), army officer and resistance organiser
 * Sir Thomas Hewet (1656–1726), architect and landowner
 * Edward Hewetson (1902–1977), cricketer
 * Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (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 (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 (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, (1860–1929), Governor of Uganda (1911–1918) and naturalist
 * Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, (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 (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 (1923–2011), novelist and poet
 * Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster (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 (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 (1901–1980), politician and son of Prime Minister Bonar Law
 * Aubrey Trevor Lawrence (1875–1930), barrister and author
 * Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet (1870–1934), English horticulturalist and hospital administrator
 * Sir Martin Le Quesne (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 (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 (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 (1815–1892), judge
 * John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910), classicist and librarian of Cambridge University
 * Claas Mertens (born 1992), rower for the Germany national team
 * Anthony Merryweather (born 1973), Musical Theatre producer and accompanist
 * Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen (1931–2014), peer
 * Sotherton Micklethwait (1823–1889), cricketer and clergyman
 * Terry Milewski (born 1949), journalist
 * Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (born 1940), ex-chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and chairman of UN Global Compact Committee
 * Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet (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 (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 (1889–1946), artist
 * Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
 * Sir Charles Thomas Newton (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 (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 (1850–1936), classicist
 * General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget (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 (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 (born 1949), art historian and Director of the National Gallery
 * Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre (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)
 * Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), poet and playwright
 * John Arthur Pilcher (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 (1838–1891), Conservative politician
 * Richard Ramsbotham (1880–1970), first-class cricketer and educator
 * Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow (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 (1633–1695), statesman, writer, and politician
 * John Sayer (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 (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 (born 1937), Royal Air Force officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
 * Sandy Singleton (1914–1999), cricketer
 * Sir Norman Skelhorn (1909–1988), barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales 1964–77
 * Sir Basil Smallpiece (1906–1992), businessman
 * Martin Ferguson Smith (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 (1841–1920), Bishop of Barking
 * Sir John Stuttard (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 (1917–2002), soldier and politician
 * Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
 * Percy Beart Thomas (1866–1921), Inspector-General of Police of Madras
 * Sir William Beach Thomas (1868–1957), author and journalist
 * William Thomson, (1819–1890), Archbishop of York
 * Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), hymn writer
 * Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring (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, (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 (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
 * Henry William Rawson Wade (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 (1907–1992), art historian
 * John Weaver (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
 * Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
 * Sir Edgar Whitehead (1905–1971), prime minister of Rhodesia
 * Selby Whittingham (born 1941), art expert and author
 * Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885), Unitarian minister
 * Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
 * Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1634–1700), lawyer and politician
 * Major General Dare Wilson (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 (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 (1849–1940), administrator in India and politician