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.

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
Four Old Blues have been awarded the Victoria Cross and two the George Cross.

Victoria Cross

 * Umbeyla Campaign
 * Major Henry William Pitcher (1841–1875) (CH 1848–1856)
 * First World War
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrith Elstob (1889–1918) (CH 1898–1905)
 * Second Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter (1885–1916) (CH 1896–1901)
 * War in Afghanistan
 * Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey (CH 1999–2006)

George Cross

 * Second World War
 * Air Vice Marshal Sir Laurence Sinclair (1908–2001) (CH 1919–1924)

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
 * Thomas Bertie – Rear-admiral in the Royal Navy
 * 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
 * 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
 * Buster Howes – Commando and Royal Marines officer
 * Llewelyn Hughes – Soldier, priest and army chaplain
 * Robert Hunter - Soldier
 * Henry Ralph Lumley – Royal Flying Corp pilot and burn victim
 * Philip Mayne – Soldier
 * John Robin Stephenson – British Army officer and cricket administrator
 * Harold Edward Whittingham – Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War
 * James Alfred Davidson – Royal Navy commander

Music

 * Basil Allchin (1878-1957), Oxford 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

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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Ben Allison, Former NCAA D1 Basketball Player for Davidson Wildcats
 * Andrew Higgins – Rugby union player
 * George 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

Writers, poets and journalists

 * Cyrus Andrews – Journalist and radio scriptwriter
 * 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

Politics

 * Jenkin Coles – Australian politician
 * Owen Cox – Australian businessman and politician
 * 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

Other


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 * Bob Allen – Army surgeon and journalist
 * William Bankes Amery – Civil servant and accountant
 * Edmund Bartley-Denniss – Barrister, member of parliament, freemason and British cycling pioneer
 * Francis Bullen - Judge
 * Thomas Cass – Surveyor
 * Richard Cavendish – Occult writer
 * Richard Clarke – Civil servant
 * Henry Cole – Civil servant and inventor
 * Edward Colston – Slave trader
 * Richard Dagley – Painter and illustrator
 * Arthur Dorman – Industrialist
 * Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003
 * John Edmonds – Trade Union Leader
 * Thomas Everard – Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
 * Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram
 * Rob Gauntlett – Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker
 * David Green – Director of the Serious Fraud Office
 * Francis Seymour Haden – Etcher and surgeon
 * Harold Harding – Civil engineer
 * Daniel Harper – Headmaster and [[List of Principals and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford|
 * Lucy Herron – Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
 * James Hooper – Adventurer
 * Donald Hopson – Diplomat
 * Rupert Jackson – Lord Justice of Appeal
 * Geraint Jennings – Jersey politician and linguist
 * Gabriel Jones – Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia
 * Edward Keane – Australian engineer, businessman, and politician
 * William Charles Goddard Knowles – British businessman in Hong Kong
 * Arthur Ling – architect and urban planner
 * Henry James Sumner Maine – Comparative jurist and historian
 * David Norgrove – Businessman
 * William Nye – Principal Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–2015
 * Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin – Architect, designer, and theorist of design
 * Percy Pyne – President of City National Bank in the United States
 * Tony Ray-Jones – Photographer
 * 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)
 * Jonathan Scott – Wildlife photographer and TV presenter
 * Stephan Shakespeare – Business man and entrepreneur
 * David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury – Business man
 * Charles Robert Smith – Governor of North Borneo
 * Chris Steele-Perkins – Photographer
 * William Alder Strange – Headmaster and author
 * Mark Thomas – Comedian and political activist
 * Edward Thornton – Diplomat
 * Richard Thornton – Merchant and trader
 * Sir Ian Trethowan – Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist
 * Keith Vaughan – Painter
 * Alexander Vidal – US Land surveyor, banker and political figure
 * Holly Walsh – Comedian
 * E F Watling – Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator
 * James White (1775-1820) – Advertising agent