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This is a list of notable Old Cliftonians, former pupils of Clifton College in Bristol in the West of England.
See also Category:People educated at Clifton College.
Academics
John Barron – classicist and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford
Eric Birley – Vindolanda archaeologist, classical scholar
Simon Blackburn – philosopher, founder of quasi-realism
Frederick S. Boas – English scholar
Horatio Brown – historian
Norman O. Brown – author, philosopher
Charles Coulson – mathematician and theoretical chemist
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Classical scholar
Sir Charles Firth – historian
Paul Grice – philosopher of language
Sir Thomas Heath – polymath, civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator and mountaineer
Geoffrey Hinton – computer scientist and cognitive psychologist
Arthur Hutchinson – mineralogist, professor, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Arthur Jose – historian and journalist
John Kendrew – biochemist and crystallographer, joint winner of 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Martin Lings – scholar
Patrick McGuinness – academic, critic, novelist and poet
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart – philosopher
John Pinkerton – designer of world's first business computer, the LEO computer
Harold Arthur Prichard – philosopher
Reginald Punnett – geneticist
Ivor Armstrong Richards – scholar, critic, rhetorician, author The Meaning of Meaning
Edgar Samuel – Director of the London Jewish Museum
Sir Richard Threlfall – physicist and chemical engineer
Herbert Hall Turner – Professor of Astronomy and seismologist
Conrad Hal Waddington – developmental biologist, palaeontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher
Sir Thomas Herbert Warren – Professor of Poetry and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
R. P. Winnington-Ingram – scholar of Greek tragedy, Professor of Greek at King's College London
Public life and the law
Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet
Sir James Allen – New Zealand politician
Osman Ali Baig – MBE, Indian Army officer, Pakistani diplomat and statesman, and Secretary-General of CENTO
Michael Bear – Lord Mayor of London (2010/11)
Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood – Conservative member of the House of Lords
Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel – KBE Conservative MP.
Leslie Hore-Belisha – Minister of War (1937–1940)
Sir Edward John Cameron – colonial administrator
Lothian Bonham-Carter – English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter – CIE Barrister
John Bonham-Carter (1817–1884) – Liberal Party politician
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton GCMG PC
Sir John Biggs-Davison – Conservative politician
Sir Richard Cooper, 2nd Baronet – Conservative MP
Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote – lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
Alban Dobson – civil servant, secretary of the International Whaling Commission, president of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed – Master of the Rolls and Law Lord
Geoff Gollop OBE – Deputy Mayor of Bristol, former Lord Mayor and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol
Jeremy Hackett – British fashion designer, founder of Hackett clothing
Sir James Heath, 1st Baronet Bt – MP North West Staffordshire.
Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol – diplomat
Sir Thomas Heath – Treasury Secretary and scholar and author.
Baron Henley 8th Baron Henley. Tory Politician
Sir Roger Hollis – journalist, secret-service agent and director general of MI5
Syed Fakhar Imam – the 11th Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan.
Patrick Jenkin – Conservative politician
Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet – Irish Politician, Senator 1st, 2nd, 3rd Seanad
Neville Laski QC – Judge and leader of Anglo Jewry
Sir John May – Judge
Navendu Mishra – Labour MP
Sir Alan Mocatta – English judge, leader of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the UK
Edwin Montagu – Liberal politician
Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling
Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet – Industrialist and Liberal MP
Sir Peter Newsam – chairman of Commission for Racial Equality and Inner London Education Authority chief education officer.
Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton GCMG
Hector Sants – head of the Financial Services Authority
Colin Sleeman – Assistant Judge Advocate General, senior defence counsel for Japanese accused of war crimes
Abel Thomas – Welsh Liberal MP
Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood – brother of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet, Liberal and Labour Minister in Ramsay MacDonald government.
Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet
Philip William Wheeldon Bishop of Whitby
Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet KC MP – barrister and politician
John Henry Whitley – Speaker of the House of Commons (1921–1928)
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson – conservative politician
Baron Wyfold – Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, Bt MP.
Military
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Field Marshal William Birdwood – 1st Baron Birdwood
Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan
Sir Francis Younghusband – British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist
Sir Hugh Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO – general
Sir Charles Bonham-Carter – General of the Territorial Army and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta.
Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Watt – Australian flying ace in First World War
Percy Hobart KBE CB DSO MC – military engineer
Cecil Rawling CMG CIE DSO FRGS – soldier, explorer and author
Alexander Kearsey OBE, DSO – soldier, cricketer and military historian
Lothian Bonham-Carter – English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
Jock Hamilton-Baillie MC
John Whitty MC DSO
Sir Charles Cuyler, 4th Baronet OBE, soldier and cricketer
Leslie Innes Jacques CB, CBE, MC – British Army engineer officer
= Holders of the Victoria Cross
=Eight Old Cliftonians have won the Victoria Cross – one in the Second Boer War, five in the First World War (1914–1918), one in the Russian Civil War (North Russia Relief Force, 1919), and one in the Second World War.
Second Boer War:
Sergeant Horace Robert Martineau VC (at Clifton 1888–1889) (1874–1916). He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant.
First World War:
Richard Douglas Sandford VC (11 May 1891 – 23 November 1918) was a Royal Navy officer who took part in the Zeebrugge Raid and won the Victoria Cross.
Captain Theodore Wright VC (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1883–1914)
Lieutenant Cyril Gordon Martin VC CBE DSO (at Clifton 1910-1910) (1891–1980). He later achieved the rank of Brigadier.
Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew VC (at Clifton 1897–1900) (1882–1961). He later achieved the rank of Captain.
Captain George Henry Tatham Paton VC MC (at Clifton 1909–1914) (1895–1917)
Russian Civil War:
Commander Claude Congreve Dobson VC DSO (at Clifton 1893–1900) (1885–1940)
Second World War:
Lance-Corporal John Pennington Harman VC (at Clifton 1923–1925) (1914–1944)
Arts and sciences
= Literature
=Charles Bean – War Correspondent and Official Historian of Australia during the First World War
Joyce Cary – writer
Robin Fedden – writer
L. P. Hartley – author
Robert Hichens – Author and playwright
Geoffrey Household – author
C. H. B. Kitchin – author
Tim Mackintosh-Smith – author and television presenter
Alan Noel Latimer Munby – author
Henry Newbolt – poet
Arthur Quiller-Couch – poet (pseudonym "Q").
George Shipway – novelist
Montague Summers – author, translator, occultist, scandalous clergyman and member of Uranian bards of Greco-Roman pederasty.
= Drama, theatre, television and performing arts
=John Cleese – Monty Python actor
Manuel del Campo – film editor, actor, and third husband to Mary Astor
Thorold Dickinson – film director, screenwriter and producer.
William Hanson – television presenter, podcaster and etiquette coach.
Chris Harris – automotive journalist and television presenter
Donald Hewlett – actor
John Houseman – actor, director and producer
Trevor Howard – actor
John Inverdale – television presenter
Elliot Levey – actor
John Madden – film director
Roger Michell – film & theatre director
Alan Napier – actor
Sir Michael Redgrave – actor
Sir Simon Russell Beale – actor
Chris Serle – television presenter
Simon Shepherd – actor
Tim Sullivan – film and television director and screenwriter
Clive Swift – actor
David Swift – actor
Naunton Wayne – actor
= Music
=Joseph Cooper
Scott Ford – musician
John Rippiner Heath – physician and composer
Craig Sellar Lang – organist and composer
Boris Ord – conductor
Ian Partridge – tenor
Harry Plunket Greene
A. J. Potter – composer
Martina Topley-Bird – musician
Peter Tranchell – composer
Sir David Willcocks – conductor
Jonathan Willcocks – composer
Nicky Chinn – songwriter
Kitty Brucknell – singer/songwriter
= Education
=C. T. Atkinson – tutor in history at Exeter College, Oxford (1898–1955).
J. R. Eccles – schoolmaster and author
= Fine arts
=Roger Fry – artist
Derek Gillman – President of the Barnes Foundation
Peter Lanyon – Cornish painter of Euston Road School.
Henry Tonks – English surgeon, artist, like Fry, Slade Professor of Fine Art
= Science
=Philip D'Arcy Hart – pioneer in tuberculosis treatment
Victor Riddell FRCS – cricketer and surgeon
Frank Yates FRS – statistician
= Nobel Prize winners
=John Kendrew (Chemistry)
John Hicks (Economics)
Nevill Francis Mott (Physics)
Journalism
Sir William Emsley Carr – Chairman of News of the World
Roger Alton – editor of The Observer
Leigh Brownlee – cricketer and former editor of the Daily Mirror
Francis Wrigley Hirst – editor of The Economist
Hugh Schofield – BBC Paris Correspondent
Angus Scott – sports broadcaster
Steve Scott – ITV newscaster and former ITN foreign correspondent
Richard Stott – journalist
Andrew Wilson – Sky News news presenter and former foreign correspondent
Sports (in alphabetical order)
= Cricket, rugby and football
=Basil Allen – cricketer, Gloucestershire captain
Joseph Beardsell – cricketer
Lothian Bonham-Carter – English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
William Brain – English cricketer and footballer
Bernard Brodhurst – cricketer
James Bush Gloucestershire cricketer, England rugby international
Robert Edwin Bush Gloucestershire cricketer
Charles Carnegy , cricketer
A. E. J. Collins – cricketer, world record holder (highest individual score as batsman)
John Daniell – captain of Somerset, England rugby international
David Dickinson – cricketer
Alban Dobson – cricketer
Archibald Fargus – English cricketer, scholar, clergyman
Immanuel Feyi-Waboso – England and Exeter Chiefs rugby player
Edwin Field – Middlesex cricketer, England rugby international
Sir Stephen Finney – England rugby international
W. G. Grace Jr – Gloucestershire and MCC cricketer
Paul Green-Armytage – cricketer
George Harrison – cricketer
Hubert Johnston – Scottish cricketer
R. P. Keigwin – England cricketer and hockey player
Sir Kingsmill Key – Bt., captain of Surrey, MCC and England cricketer.
James Kirtley – England cricketer
Ioan Lloyd – Wales and Scarlets rugby player
Leslie Lloyd – cricketer
Meredith Magniac – cricketer
Frank May – cricketer
Thomas Penny – cricketer
Rowland Raw – cricketer
Henry Schwann – cricketer
Dr. Edward Scott – Gloucestershire & MCC cricketer, England rugby international (captain).
Louie Shaw – cricketer
Thomas Stubbs – cricketer
Charlie Townsend – England cricketer
Edward Tylecote – England cricketer
Henry Tylecote – cricketer
William van Someren – cricketer
George Whitehead – England cricketer
John Whitty – cricketer and British Army officer
Matt Windows – Gloucestershire cricketer and England 'A' cap.
= Other
=Jerry Cornes – English Olympic runner
Justin Chaston – Welsh athlete who competed at three Olympic Games for Great Britain
Walter Gibb – world record holder (altitude)
Sir Edward Atholl Oakeley – Baronet, pioneer of professional wrestling
William H. K. Pollock – English chess master
Lily Owsley – Hockey GB and England
Boris Schapiro – bridge player
Simon Hazlitt – Hockey GB and England
Business
W. O. Bentley – founder of Bentley Motors
Sir John Beynon, 1st Baronet – entrepreneur of the fossil fuel and metals industry
Sir Trevor Chinn – tycoon and philanthropist
Edward Cruttwell – civil engineer particularly associated with London's Tower Bridge
Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet – business man, chairman of British-American Tobacco Company
Sir Roy Fedden – engineer
Jeremy Hackett – fashion designer and entrepreneur
Patrick Seager Hill T.D. – clothing manufacturer, pioneer & developer of safety & fire protective clothing
Andy Hornby – former Chief Executive of HBOS
Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs – entrepreneur
Sir Horace Kadoorie – industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
Lord Kadoorie – industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
Julian Richer – entrepreneur, owner of Richer Sounds
Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet – industrialist
Hector Sants – head of the Financial Services Authority
Sir Clive Thompson – former Chairman of Farepak and Chief Executive of Rentokil Initial
Sir Robert Waley Cohen – industrialist and leader of Anglo-Jewry
Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen – business man and Lord Mayor of London
Henry Herbert Wills – tobacco baron and philanthropist
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson – business man, chairman of GUS
David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale – politician, businessman, chairman of Next
Other
Rowley Leigh – English chef
Michael Francis Middleton – Businessman and father of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. Both Middleton's father, Capt. Peter Francis Middleton (d.2010) and his grandfather, solicitor and company director Richard Noel Middleton (d.1951) also boarded at Clifton
Ernest Geoffrey Parsons CVO, CBE, farmer and a commissioner of the crown estates.
Fictional
Christopher Tietjens – the protagonist of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End.
See also
Old Cliftonian Society