List of Old Rugbeians

This is a List of Old Rugbeians, they being notable former students - known as "Old Rugbeians" of the Church of England school, Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, England.

Academic

* L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne
* R.G. Collingwood, English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford
* Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer, author of "Fowler's Modern English Usage"
* R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher
* Fenton John Anthony Hort, English theologian
* Edward Ellis Morris, Educationist, second Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School (1875–83), and miscellaneous writer cite web |url=http://www.mgs.vic.edu.au/about/mgs_history_crest.php |title=School Crest and Motto |accessdate=2008-02-02 |work=History |publisher=Melbourne Grammar School]
* Luke Pebody, British mathematician and child prodigy
* Henry John Stephen Smith, Irish mathematician
* Jon Stallworthy, Professor of English at the University of Oxford
* Sir Percy Sykes soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar
* Richard Henry Tawney, one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian
*Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883-1897), former Dean of Canterbury

Aviation

* Christopher Orlebar, British Concorde pilot, aviation lecturer and writer

Building, engineering and architecture

* Sir Charles Brett, architectural historian
* William Grierson, civil engineer
* David Ogle, British industrial designer and car designer
* Reid Railton, automotive engineer and designer of land and water speed record vehicles
* Sir Harry Ricardo, designer of the internal combustion engine and patentee of the two-stroke engine

Media, entertainment and the arts

* Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot, KCSI, writer
* Matthew Arnold, Victorian poet and critic (son of Headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold)
* Faris Badwan, aka Faris Rotter, vocalist from band The Horrors
* Rupert Brooke, English poet
* Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet
* David Haig, English actor and writer
* Tomethy Furse/Cowan, Bassist from band The Horrors
* Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, famous for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
* Richard Doyle, English author
* Dan Haigh, Bassist in the rock band Fightstar
* Robert Hardy, English stage and film actor
* John Hawkesworth, television producer, who produced the drama "Upstairs, Downstairs"
* Sir Charles Hawtrey, Victorian era stage actor
* Anthony Horowitz, English writer
* Marmaduke Hussey, former BBC Chairman
* Hugh Johnson (wine writer), British wine writer
* Pete Kember, Popular musician
* John Kentish, English operatic tenor
* Walter Savage Landor, English writer and poet
* Wyndham Lewis, British painter and author
* William Charles Macready, English stage actor
* John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator
* Robin Milford, British musician
* Sydney Nicholson, British musician
* Arthur Ransome, British children's author
* Andrew Rawnsley, British political journalist
* Sir Salman Rushdie, author and essayist, Booker Prize winner for "Midnight's Children"
* Adnan Sami, Indian Singer, Actor, and Composer
* J.K. Stanford, English author
* Alex Westaway, Guitarist and singer in the rock band Fightstar
* A. N. Wilson, English writer and newspaper columnist

Medicine and science

* William Bateson, English geneticist
* Miles Joseph Berkeley, English botanist
* Humphry Bowen, British botanist and chemist
* Dr Peter Brinsden, fertility expert
* Abel Chapman, big game hunter and naturalist who started South Africa's first game reserve
* Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, physician and scholar, brother of economist John Maynard Keynes
* David Marr, British psychologist
* George Mitchell Seabroke, British astronomer
* Nevil Sidgwick, English theoretical chemist

Military

* Colonel Osmond Barnes, Chief Herald of the Indian Empire
* Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, British officer during the First World War
* James Cassels, Field Marshal
* William Hodson, commander during the 1857 Indian mutiny and founder of Hodson's Horse
* Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver, British officer during the Second World War.
* Arthur Ernest Percival, British general who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese
* Major Bruce Shand, MC, officer in the British Army and father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall

Politics, public service and the law

* Robert Barton, Irish lawyer and statesman who worked on the Anglo-Irish Treaty
* Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen, lawyer and judge
* Francis Stewart Boyce, Australian barrister, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and politician
* Austen Chamberlain, British statesman and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Neville Chamberlain, politician and former Prime Minister
* Baron Charles de Chassiron, Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, 2001-06
* Frederick Curzon, 7th Earl Howe, Conservative health spokesman in the House of Lords
* Gavin Darlington, former partner of Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
* George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, Liberal Unionist statesman and businessman
* Sir Ernest Gowers, British civil servant and author of "The Complete Plain Words"
* Frank Gray, inter-war Liberal politician
* Sir Reginald Hanson, Conservative politician and Lord Mayor of London
* Charles Hendry, British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden
* Thomas Hetherington, barrister and first head of the Crown Prosecution Service
* Nick Hills, English solicitor
* Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, British politician
* Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and author of Tom Brown's School Days
* Thomas Gair Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde, Edwardian politician and industrialist
* John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, British civil servant
* Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, British politician
* Henry King-Tenison, 8th Earl of Kingston, Irish peer and Victorian politician
* Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, British politician
* Henry Lefroy, Western Australian politician
* Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, the 25th Governor of Hong Kong
* Sir Charles Tertius Mander, first baronet, industrialist and public servant
* Angus Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon, Conservative Party politician
* Andrew Mitchell, British Conservative politician and Shadow Secretary of State for International Aid and Development
* Sir Nicholas Montagu KCB, Chairman of H.M. Inland Revenue, 1997-2004
* Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington, Lord Chief Justice of England 1958-71
* Sir Lewis Pelly, Conservative politician and East India Company officer
* Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, politician and industrialist
* Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, prominent 19th century statesman
* George Strauss, Baron Strauss, Labour politician and Father of the House of Commons
* Andrew Turner, British Conservative Party politician
* William Henry Waddington, French statesman (eventually Prime Minister of France)

Religion

* Rev Francis Jayne, British bishop and academic
* Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Birmingham, 1977-87
* Augustus Shears, clergyman who translated part of the Prayer Book into Burmese
* Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, English churchman, and Dean of Westminster
* William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury during the Second World War, and an influential radical thinker, a father of the post-war Welfare State
* Rev. Thomas Valpy French, first Bishop of Lahore.

Sport

* John Anton, English cricketer
* Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven, English nobleman and sportsman
* William Webb Ellis, the credited inventor of rugby football
* Richard Montgomerie, English cricketer
* Adrian Stoop, English rugby player
* Richard Sykes, Rugby player and founder of towns in North Dakota
* Tom Wills, the inventor of Australian rules football

Fictional Old Rugbeians

* Harry Paget Flashman, fictional Victorian anti-hero, originally created by author Thomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical "Tom Brown's Schooldays"

References

See also

* List of schools in the West Midlands

External links

* [http://www.rugbyschool.net/ Rugby School website]
* [http://www.rugsoc.com/ The Rugbeian Society]