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Old Wykehamists are former pupils of Winchester College, so called in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. He was Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school in 1382 and a university college, New College, Oxford, in 1379; both of them were set up to provide an education for 70 scholars. Winchester College opened in 1394.
William of Wykeham provided that up to two pupils a year who could prove they were his descendants could attend the school at its expense; they were known as Consanguineus Fundatoris, "Founder's Kin". Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes records that the tradition ended in 1868, by which time fourteen members of his family had received a free education. At first only a small number of pupils other than scholars were admitted; by the 15th century the school had around 100 pupils in total, nominally the 70 scholars, 16 choirboys and the rest "commoners". Demand for places for commoners was high, and though at first restricted, numbers gradually rose. From the 1860s, ten boarding houses, each for up to sixty pupils, were added, greatly increasing the school's capacity. By 2020, the number of pupils had risen to 690.
The school's traditions include a 600-year-old ceremony in which the Warden, wearing the Founder's Ring, admits each new Scholar; "Illumina", an autumn celebration, in which candles are placed into niches all over the medieval walls around the playing fields; and "Morning Hills", held once a year, when all the school's pupils and teachers climb St Catherine's Hill for a roll call and prayers.
The Ad Portas ("At the Gates") ceremony is held as an honour for distinguished guests and alumni; all members of the school stand in the medieval Chamber Court to hear the speeches. In 2011, nineteen alumni (and six more honoured in their absence), all Fellows of the Royal Society or Fellows of the British Academy, were welcomed Ad Portas, with speeches in Latin and English.
Among the Old Wykehamists listed here are four archbishops, including one of the school's earliest pupils, Henry Chichele; four field marshals; commanders of both Fighter Command and Bomber Command during the Second World War—Hugh Dowding and Charles Portal, respectively; and two Viceroys of India, Archibald Wavell and Frederic Thesiger. The many politicians include six Chancellors of the Exchequer: Henry Addington for the Tory Party; Robert Lowe for the Liberal Party; Stafford Cripps and Hugh Gaitskell for the Labour Party; and Geoffrey Howe and Rishi Sunak for the Conservative Party. Of these, Addington and Sunak went on to become Prime Minister.
The individuals listed are classified by decade or century of birth, with a note of how each distinguished himself. Those who won military medals are listed at the foot of the page; six Old Wykehamists have won Britain's highest military award, the Victoria Cross. Individuals are included here only if they have distinguished themselves at the highest level within their profession or achieved national recognition. Thus, for example, politicians are included only if they are members of the privy council or have a cabinet position; sportspeople, only if they have distinguished themselves in a national competition or represented their country; for soldiers, that they have reached a rank equivalent to major-general, or won a gallantry award; actors, that they have been nominated for the highest honour in the field, such as an Academy or Olivier Award; members of a profession, that they are recognised as distinguished by their profession's leading institution, such as being a fellow of the Royal Society or the Royal Academy of Music. As another example, national recognition in business means being chair or chief executive of a FTSE 100 company.
Fourteenth century
Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Beckington, statesman
Fifteenth century
Thomas Chaundler, playwright and illustrator
John Russell, Lord Chancellor, Bishop of Lincoln
William Horman, translator
William Grocyn, scholar
William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Keeper
Hugh Inge, Archbishop of Dublin
Richard Pace, diplomat
Richard Risby, friar
Sixteenth century
Henry Cole, Roman Catholic priest
Nicholas Udall, Headmaster of Eton and playwright
Henry Garnet, complicit in the Gunpowder Plot
John White, bishop
Nicholas Harpsfield, Roman Catholic apologist
Richard Reade, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Nicholas Sanders, Roman Catholic priest, missionary and historian
Christopher Johnson, physician, headmaster of Winchester and poet (in Latin)
Thomas Bilson, bishop
Thomas Stephens, Jesuit missionary and linguist
John Harmar, Warden of Winchester College, one of the translators of the Authorised Version of the Bible
John Owen, Welsh epigrammatist
Henry Wotton, author and diplomat
Arthur Lake, bishop
John Davies, poet
Thomas James, librarian
Thomas Coryat, travel writer, court jester to James I
Henry Marten, Judge of Admiralty
Thomas Ryves, lawyer
Richard Zouch, judge and politician
Edward Nicholas, statesman
Seventeenth century
Nathaniel Fiennes, Roundhead politician
Thomas Ken, bishop, non-juror and hymnwriter
Francis Turner, bishop and non-juror
Thomas Otway, dramatist
Thomas Browne, doctor, polymath, scholar, prose stylist
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and author
William Somervile, poet
Edward Young, poet
Eighteenth century
Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, Hebraist and English grammarian
William Whitehead, Poet Laureate
William Collins, poet
Joseph Warton, literary critic and Headmaster of Winchester
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, nobleman, and a noted gambler
Thomas Warton, Poet Laureate
James Eyre, judge
Charles Wolfran Cornwall, Speaker of the House of Commons
James Woodforde, clergyman and diarist
George Isaac Huntingford, Bishop of Hereford and Gloucester
Thomas Burgess, author
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister
John Hawkins, geologist, traveller, and Fellow of the Royal Society
William Lisle Bowles, poet who revived the sonnet
William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury
William Sturges Bourne, Tory politician, Home Secretary
Sydney Smith, essayist and satirist
Richard Mant, Church of Ireland bishop and writer
John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, Field Marshal and colonial governor
William Buckland, theologian and geologist
William Ward, record-scoring cricketer
Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby
Walter Farquhar Hook, Tractarian vicar of Leeds
Thomas Oliphant, musician and lyricist
Nineteenth century
= 1800–1819
=William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, Lord Chancellor
George Moberly, Headmaster of Winchester College, later Bishop of Salisbury
William Sewell, divine and author
Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln
Thomas Adolphus Trollope, author
James Edwards Sewell, Warden of New College, Oxford.
Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, statesman
William George Ward, prominent in the Oxford Movement
William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, Liberal politician
Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
Arthur Farmer, cricketer
Anthony Trollope, novelist
= 1820–1839
=William Grasett Clarke, cricketer and clergyman
Matthew Arnold, poet
James Freeling, cricketer and clergyman
Frank Buckland, naturalist
Arthur Ridding, cricketer, educator and librarian
George Ridding, Headmaster of Winchester, later Bishop of Southwell
Henry Furneaux, scholar of Tacitus
William Tuckwell, Christian socialist clergyman and author of Reminiscences of Oxford
Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons, 1st Viscount and Earl Lyons, diplomat
Philip Lutley Sclater, lawyer, ornithologist (founder of Ibis), zoogeographer, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years
Ford North, Judge of the High Court of Justice and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Ashley Eden, colonial administrator, member of the Council of India
Cecil Fiennes, cricketer, descendant of William of Wykeham
Philip Reginald Egerton, founder of Bloxham School
Arthur Faber, headmaster of Malvern College
Wingfield Fiennes, cricketer and clergyman, descendant of William of Wykeham
= 1840–1859
=Herbert Stewart, soldier
Robert Campbell Moberly, theologian
Samuel Rolles Driver, biblical scholar
Thomas Hughes, footballer who won the FA Cup twice in the 1870s
William Lindsay, England footballer and three times FA Cup winner
Leonard Howell, Wanderers and England footballer
Charles Marriott, cricketer and barrister
Francis Birley, footballer who won the FA Cup three times in the 1870s
Theodore Dyke Acland, physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria
Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the Council
John Bain, England footballer and 1877 FA Cup Finalist
John Hewett, Lieutenant Governor of Agra and Oudh
Ponsonby Ogle, writer and journalist
Montague John Druitt, suspected of being Jack the Ripper
David Samuel Margoliouth, orientalist
G. E. M. Skues, pioneer of fly fishing with nymphs
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, Lord Chancellor
Percival Parr, footballer and barrister
= 1860–1869
=Francis J. Haverfield, historian of Roman Britain
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary 1905–16
Arthur Cayley Headlam, Principal of King's College London (1903–16) Bishop of Gloucester (1923–45)
Frederic G. Kenyon, classical scholar
Robert Laurie Morant, administrator and educator
Arthur Cobb, wicket-keeper on early tour of America
John Beresford Leathes, physiologist
Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise, cricketer and soldier
H. A. L. Fisher, historian, politician
Arthur Pearson, newspaper magnate, founder of the Daily Express
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Colonial Governor and Viceroy of India
Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 1915–1944
General Reginald Byng Stephens, soldier
Ernest Makins, soldier, statesman and politician
= 1870–1879
=Bernard Granville Baker, soldier, author, military artist
Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, poet and companion of Oscar Wilde
Edmund Fellowes, musicologist, clergyman
Udny Yule, statistician
Edmund Backhouse, "The Hermit of Peking"
Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak
Ewart Grogan, explorer and colonist
Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Savoy opera producer, hotelier
William Sealy Gosset, statistician with Guinness (inventor of Student's t-test)
G. H. Hardy, mathematician and mentor of Ramanujan
Robert Lock Graham Irving, schoolmaster, writer and mountaineer
Leopold George Wickham Legg, historian and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, peer
Percy Bates, shipbuilder and Inkling
Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, first Head of the Home Civil Service
Edward Grigg, colonial administrator and politician
Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Alan Reynolds, cricketer and soldier
Jack White, trade union organiser, Irish republican and socialist who co-founded the Irish Citizen Army
Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Zionist historian and political scientist
= 1880–1889
=Maurice Bonham-Carter, politician and cricketer
Boyd Merriman, politician
Hugh Dowding, Battle of Britain commander
Henry Morshead, Himalayan explorer
Archibald Wavell, Field Marshal and Viceroy of India
Adam Fox, theologian and Inkling
Robert Hamilton Moberly, bishop
Charles Malan, postmaster-general of the United Provinces
Clarence Bruce, peer
George Mallory, mountaineer on first three British expeditions to Mount Everest
William Reginald Halliday, Principal of King's College London (1928–1952)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard Member of Captain Scott's expedition of 1912
Arthur Stanley-Clarke, soldier
Roundell Palmer, Minister of Economic Warfare
Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
Charles Bewley, Irish diplomat
Edmund Morgan, bishop
James Tucker, judge
Christopher Dawson, Roman Catholic historian
Stafford Cripps, Labour politician
Armstrong Gibbs, composer
Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator of Proust
Geoffrey Toye, composer and conductor
Arnold J. Toynbee, historian
Ralph H. Fowler, mathematical physicist
= 1890–1899
=A. P. Herbert, humorist and law reformer
John William Fisher Beaumont, Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court
John Campbell, cardiologist
Olaf Caroe, writer and colonial administrator
Spencer Leeson, headmaster and bishop
Godfrey Rolles Driver, biblical scholar
Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Maxwell Woosnam, Olympic and Wimbledon lawn tennis champion and England football captain
Robert Nichols, war poet
Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe, barrister
George MacLeod, Very Rev Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, Moderator, Church of Scotland
Egon Pearson, statistician
Gilbert Ashton, cricketer and schoolmaster
Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader
Henry Gurney, colonial administrator, assassinated in Malaya
John Sinclair, former Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Edward Tennant, war poet
Ronald Tree, Conservative MP and founder of Sandy Lane, Barbados
Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett, industrialist
Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, landowner, far-right writer and politician
Hubert Ashton, footballer, cricketer and politician
Arthur Norrington, President of Trinity College, Oxford
H. H. Price, Wykeham Professor of Logic
Twentieth century
= 1900–1909
=Douglas Jardine, England cricketer
David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, Minister of State for the Arts
Cecil Harmsworth King, newspaper publisher
Claude Ashton, Essex cricketer and England footballer
Anthony Asquith, film director
E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist, author of Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
Francis Festing, Field Marshal
Nowell Myres, archaeologist, Bodley's Librarian
John Dring, Prime Minister of Bahawalpur
George D'Oyly Snow, headmaster of Ardingly College and Bishop of Whitby
Charles Bosanquet, academic
Kenneth Clark, art historian and broadcaster
Frank Ramsey, philosopher, mathematician and economist
Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, writer on Islamic history
John Snagge, Second World War BBC announcer
Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, ambassador
Colin Clark, economist and statistician
Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes, archaeologist
William Goodenough Hayter, diplomat, ambassador and Warden of New College, Oxford
John Sparrow, literary critic and Warden of All Souls
William Empson, literary critic
Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party
Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, Law Lord
Richard Crossman, Labour politician and diarist
Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, Labour politician
Evelyn Shuckburgh, diplomat
Douglas Dodds-Parker, soldier and politician
= 1910–1919
=Nicholas Monsarrat, naval officer, diplomat and author of The Cruel Sea
John Stephenson, Lord Justice of Appeal
John Fiennes, lawyer and parliamentary draftsman
Roger Tredgold, fencer and psychiatrist
Duncan Wilson, ambassador to the USSR and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
John Pringle, zoologist
Bruce Campbell, ornithologist, writer and broadcaster
D. G. Champernowne, economist and mathematician
Charles Madge, poet, Communist, sociologist
Paul Reilly, designer
Basil William Robinson, Asian art scholar and author
Basil Martin Wright, inventor of the Peak flow meter
Shaun Wylie, mathematician and Second World War Enigma and Tunny codebreaker
Robert Irving, conductor
Richard Synge, Nobel prize winning biochemist
Lord Aldington, politician and businessman
Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, government minister
Michael Carver, Baron Carver, Field Marshal and philosopher
Laurence Pumphrey, ambassador
Robert Conquest, historian specialising in Joseph Stalin's purges
Monty Woodhouse, Philhellene and politician
Julian Faber, businessman
James Joll, historian
Willie Whitelaw, politician
George Jellicoe, aka Viscount Brocas, soldier, statesman, businessman and diplomat
M. R. D. Foot, historian
Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, politician
= 1920–1929
=Henry Brandon, Law Lord
Frank Thompson, SOE officer
Anthony Storr, psychiatrist and author
Michael Swann, molecular and cell biologist, BBC Chairman
John Latham, artist
Horace Barlow, neuroscientist
Mark Bonham Carter, publisher and politician
Tony Pawson, angler and cricketer
Paul Britten Austin, translator of Swedish literature
Peter Fowler, physicist working on elementary particles
Hugh Beach, soldier, researcher into disarmament and ethics of war
Freeman Dyson, physicist and mathematician
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist
Bryan Thwaites, educator and mathematician
Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher and academic
Edgar Feuchtwanger, historian
James Lighthill, applied mathematician working on fluid dynamics
Michael Gow, general
Brian Trubshaw, Concorde test pilot
Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, mathematician and oceanographer
Hubert Doggart, cricketer and schoolmaster
Michael Dummett, philosopher
John Balcombe, Lord Justice of Appeal
Jack Boles, Director-General of the National Trust
Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon, politician
Edgar Anstey, Civil Service psychologist to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Ian Macdonald, mathematician
Martin Beale, applied mathematician and statistician
Jeremy Morse, banker and university chancellor
Raymond Bonham Carter, banker
Roger Wykeham Ellis, headmaster of Rossall and Marlborough
John Lucas, philosopher
Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, politician
= 1930–1939
=Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Secretary of State for Defence
Reginald Bosanquet, ITN newscaster
Guy Antony Jameson, aeronautical engineer
David Thouless, Nobel prizewinning physicist
Stuart Anstis, psychologist
Nicholas Mackintosh, experimental psychologist
William Donaldson, writer and satirist; creator of Henry Root
Murray Lawrence, chairman of Lloyd's
Julian Mitchell, playwright
David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, ambassador to the United Nations
Giles Radice, Labour politician
Jonathan D. Spence, historian and sinologist
John Albery, scientist
Ian Gow, politician
Jonathan Parker, Lord Justice of Appeal
Paul Bergne, intelligence officer, linguist and diplomat
Peter Jay, economist, journalist and ambassador
David Miers, ambassador
Richard Storey, businessman
Christopher Miles, film director
= 1940–1949
=David Brewer, broker, Lord Mayor of London
Richard Williamson, controversial bishop
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, captain of India's cricket team
Charles Gray, lawyer and judge
Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedian
Andrew Large, banker and businessman
Patrick Moberly, ambassador
David Soskice, political economist
Patrick Minford, economist
Hew Pike, soldier
Donald A. Gillies, philosopher and historian of science and technology
Andrew Longmore, Lord Justice of Appeal
Madhavrao Scindia, Indian cabinet minister
Martin Nourse, Lord Justice of Appeal
Lord Jay of Ewelme, head of the Foreign Office
Antony Beevor, military historian
Richard Noble, designer of the ThrustSSC
Timothy Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal
Charles Sinclair, businessman, Warden of Winchester College 2014–2019
David Clementi, financier, Warden of Winchester College 2008–2014
= 1950–1959
=Christopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester, Labour peer
Tim Eggar, Conservative politician
Anthony Pawson, biochemist
Galen Strawson, philosopher
Nicholas Underhill, Lord Justice of Appeal
Mark Ellen, music journalist and broadcaster
Robyn Hitchcock, singer-songwriter
Alan Lovell, businessman
Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, mathematician
James Mallet, evolutionary zoologist
James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie, peer and politician
Richard Stagg, ambassador, Warden of Winchester College 2019–
Nicholas Shakespeare, novelist
Michael Hofmann, poet and translator
J.G. Sandom, author
Francis Pott, composer and pianist
John Whittingdale, Culture Secretary
John Campbell, economist
Seumas Milne, journalist
Jon Leyne, BBC foreign correspondent
James Bucknall, soldier
Peter Neyroud, police chief
Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff; Ad Portas, 2021
= 1960–1969
=Nicholas Watson, medievalist
Korn Chatikavanij, finance minister of Thailand
Joss Whedon, film director
Alex Ellis, ambassador
Charles Edwards, actor
Nigel Cliff, biographer
= 1970–1979
=Saif Ali Khan, actor
Simon Henderson, headmaster of Eton College
Alex Chalk, Justice Secretary, Lord Chancellor
Alistair Potts, world champion cox
Sam Woods, deputy governor of Bank of England, Chair of Prudential Regulation Authority
= 1980–1989
=Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister
James Forsyth, journalist
Anthony Smith, sculptor
Ned Beauman, author
Will Sharpe, actor
George Nash, Olympic rower
Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
Six Old Wykehamists have won the Victoria Cross (VC), four in the First World War, 1914–18 (of whom three were killed in action) and two prior to 1914. Also in the Second World War one Old Wykehamist won the George Cross and one the George Medal, both in military circumstances.
Victoria Cross
Indian Mutiny
Lieutenant Alfred Spencer Heathcote VC (1832–1912) for his conduct during the Siege of Delhi
Boer War
Lieutenant Gustavus Hamilton Blenkinsopp Coulson VC DSO (1879–1901)
First World War
Captain Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby VC, MC (1885–1915)
Second Lieutenant Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt VC, (1897–1917)
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie VC, (1868–1915)
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Burges VC, DSO, Croix de guerre avec Palme (1873–1946)
George Cross
Second World War
Sub-Lieutenant Peter Victor Danckwerts GC (1916–1984) for gallantry defusing mines dropped on London
George Medal
Second World War
Lieutenant Geoffrey Ambrose Hodges, RNVR (military, but for gallantry not in the face of the enemy)
See also
Winchester College in fiction, with a list of the many fictional Old Wykehamists in literature
References
Notes
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