- List of Old Brightonians
This is a List of Old Brightonians, they being notable former students - known as "Old Brightonians" of the
co-educational ,public school ,Brighton College inBrighton ,East Sussex ,United Kingdom .Academic
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Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), socialist writer and campaigner for homosexual rights
*John Combridge (1897–1986), mathematician and Registrar ofKing's College London
*Raymond Cooper (1912– 2005), progressive schoolmaster, Headmaster of The Hall School Hampstead, founder of the Aberfan Trust and the IAPS Orchestra
*Robert H. Crabtree (born 1948),Organometallic Chemist, Professor ofInorganic Chemistry ,Yale University , creator ofCrabtree's catalyst
*Harold Fox (1889–1967), Professor of Zoology,Birmingham University and then Bedford College, London;Darwin Medal winner; Fellow of theRoyal Society
*Clive Gamble (born 1951), Profesor ofArchaeology ,University of Southampton , Fellow of theBritish Academy
*Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862–1934), Egyptologist and pioneer ofNubia n archaeology, first Professor of Egyptology,University of Oxford
*G. B. Harrison (1894–1991), Shakespeare scholar
*Henry Henfrey (1852–1881), numismatist
*Alsager Hill (1839–1906), social reformer
*Sir Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist
*Michael Roberts (1908–1996), historian ofSweden , Professor of History atQueen's University Belfast , Fellow of theBritish Academy
*Sir Sydney Roberts (1887–1966), Dr Johnson scholar, Master ofPembroke College, Cambridge , Secretary ofCambridge University Press and Vice-Chancellor of theUniversity of Cambridge
*Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher andWaynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy ,University of Oxford
*Walford D. Selby (1845–1889), archivist and historianArchitecture, building and engineering
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Anthony Dale (1912–1989), architectural historian, historian ofBrighton and saviour of Regency Brighton
*Sir Francis Fox (1844–1927), civil engineer
*Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924), architect and architectural historian, RA
*Douglas Earle Marsh (1862–1933), railway engineer
*Douglas Overall (1892–1978), surveyor and property developerBusiness
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Neville Abraham (born 1937), restaurateur, founder ofChez Gerard
*Mervyn Cowie (1909–1996), founding Director of theKenya National Parks Service
*Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen (1870–1947), Chairman ofBritish American Tobacco
*Cuthbert Heath (1859–1939), insurance pioneer
*Sir Arthur Pease, Bt. (1866–1927), coal magnate
*Sir George Reeves-Smith (1863–1941), Managing Director of theSavoy Company (1862– 1933)
*John Simmons (1902–1985), office systems pioneer
*Ken Stevens (1922– 2005), Chief Executive The Scout Association
*Derek Winston (born 1916), Chairman & CEO Mann & Co.Community and philanthropy
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F. N. Charrington (1850–1936), philanthropist and temperance reformerEntertainment, media and the arts
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Dean Ayass (born 1976), TV wrestlingcommentator
*Ewan Bailey (born c.1966), actor and writer
*Tommy Boyd (born 1952), TV presenter & radio disc jockey
*John Castle (born 1940), actor
*Dave Clarke (born c.1969), techno producer and disc jockey
*Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
*Peter Copley (born 1962), composer and cellist
*Roland Curram (born c.1932) actor and novelist
*Wilfred de Glehn (1870–1951), impressionist painter, RA
*Simon Dee (born 1935), television interviewer and radio disk jockey
*John Denison (1911–2006), first Music Director of the Arts Council, Director of the South Bank Concert Halls
*Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), writer and librettist
*Tony Hawks (born c.1960), comedian and author
*Oliver Heath (born c.1970), interior designer and presenter featuring on the BBC's "Changing Rooms"
*Gavin Henderson (born c.1947), Principal ofTrinity College of Music and Chairman ofYouth Music
*McDonald Hobley (1917–1987), actor and radio presenter
*Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), actor
*Menhaj Huda (born 1967), film producer and director
*Selwyn Image (1849-1930), designer, illustrator and poet, joint founder of the Century Guild
*Graham Kerr (born 1934), author, chef and television presenter
*Ewart Mackintosh (1893–1917),First World War poet, MC
*Miles Malleson (1888–1969), actor, playwright and scriptwriter
*Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), writer
*Francis St. Vincent Morris (1896–1917), poet
*David Nash (born 1945), sculptor, RA
*Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter, art educator and President of theRoyal Academy
*George Sanders (1906–1972), actor
*Ian Serraillier (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator ofAlbert RN
*James Townsend (born 1975), film producer and screenwriter
*Frank Wilson (born 1914), abstract expressionist painter
*John Worsley (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator ofAlbert RN Medicine and science
*Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851–1933), surgeon, President of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh , cricketer for Sussex and the Gentlemen
*Sir Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), geologist, explorer and Director of theBritish Antarctic Survey , Fellow of theRoyal Society
*Sir Ronald Hatton (1886–1965), horticulturist, Fellow of theRoyal Society
*James Mangles (1832–1884), horticulturalist
*Noel Ewart Odell (1890–1987), geologist and mountaineer
*Ayan Panja (born 1973), doctor,author and presenter onBBC1 's "Street Doctor "
*John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950), physician andRegius Professor of Physic ,University of Cambridge
*Sir George Savage (1842–1921), psychiatristMilitary
*Colonel Sir Charles Boxall (1851–1914), volunteer army officer and proponent of
railway artillery
*Air Commodore Lionel Charlton (1879–1958),Royal Air Force officer and author
*Brigadier-General Frank Crozier (1879–1937), commander of the British Mission toLithuania , 1919–20, commander of theBlack and Tans , 1920–21, military author and co-founder of thePeace Pledge Union
*Sir Charles Elliott (1835–1911), Indian civil servant, Lieutenant-Governor ofBengal
*Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Eveleigh (1912–2006), Director-General of Signals, Royal Air Force
*Colonel Sir Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), army officer and proponent of physical training
*William Gill (1843–1882), soldier and explorer, Founders Gold Medal of theRoyal Geographical Society , 1879
*Admiral Sir Herbert Heath (1861–1954), Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron at Jutland in 1916 and Second Sea Lord
*Charles Herbert (1904–1988), soldier, Director of Transportation at the War Office
*Air Marshal Sir Humphrey Edwardes Jones (1905–1987), Commander-in-Chief,RAF Germany
*Sir Harry Moorhouse (1872–1934), Lieutenant-Governor ofNigeria
*Sir Hubert Murray (1861–1940), Lieutenant-Governor ofPapua New Guinea
*Angus Nicholl (1896–1977), naval officer, CaptainHMS Penelope , BBC Defence Correspondent
*General Sir William Peyton (1866–1931), Military Secretary to Sir Douglas Haig, 1916–1918
*General Sir Harry Prendergast (1834–1913),Victoria Cross , Indian Army soldier, commander of theBurma Field Force , 1885–86
*Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), army staff officer
*General Sir Cecil Sugden (1903–1963),Quartermaster-General to the Forces andMaster-General of the Ordnance
*Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker (1894–1967), Indian Army officer and military historian
*Gordon Viner (1918–2005), soldier, Commander of the Federal Regular Army, Aden and art dealerPolitics, public service and the law
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Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister, banker, politician andChancellor of theUniversity of Exeter
*Sir Edmund Barnard (1856–1930), Chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, Chairman ofHertfordshire County Council , Liberal MP
*Sir Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation andHigh Sheriff of Derbyshire "BEMROSE, Sir Max (John Maxwell)" in "Who Was Who 1897-2007", retrieved 5 June, 2008, from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7329680 BEMROSE, Sir Max (John Maxwell)] ]
*Sir Richard Buxton (born 1938),Lord Justice of Appeal
*Andrew Cayley (born 1964),solicitor andwar crimes prosecutor
*Sir John Chilcot (born 1939), Permanent Under-Secretary of State,Northern Ireland Office , 1990–1997
*Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845–1915), Indian civil servant, President of theIndian National Congress and Liberal MP
*Eric Gandar Dower (1894–1987), air pioneer and Conservative MP
*Andrew Gamble (born 1947), Professor ofPolitics ,University of Sheffield and thenUniversity of Cambridge , Fellow of theBritish Academy
*Alan Green (1911–1991), Conservative MP for Preston South, 1955–1964, 1970–1974,Financial Secretary to the Treasury , 1963–1964
*Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926),Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy ,University of Oxford and legal historian
*Augustus Margary (1846–1875),Chinese Consular Service officer and explorer inChina
*Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), Liberal Unionist MP, Assistant Postmaster-General and Ecclesiastical Commissioner
*Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky of Tilton (born 1939), Professor of Political Economy,University of Warwick ,SDP and Conservative politician
*Leonard Strong (1896–1958), writer and poetReligion
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Timothy Bavin (born 1935), Anglican priest and Benedictine monk, Bishop ofJohannesburg and then ofPortsmouth
*Francis Noel Davey (1904–1973), Anglican priest, theologian and Director of theSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge
*Frederick Dillistone (1903–1993), Dean ofLiverpool and theologian
*John Neville Figgis (1866–1919), Anglican church historian, theologian and political theorist
*Brooke Lambert (1834–1901), clergyman and social reformer
*Frederick Meyer (1847–1929), Baptist minister
*Arthur Stretton Reeve (1907–1981), Cambridge rowing blue (1930) and Anglican priest, Bishop of Lichfieldport
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Holly Colvin (born 1989), Englandcricket er
*Clare Connor (born 1976), England femalecricket captain
*George Cotterill (1868–1950), England footballer
*Joe Gatting (born 1987), footballer forBrighton and Hove Albion
*Leslie Gay (1871–1949), England footballer
*Duncan Hamilton (1920–1994), racing driver
*John Hart (born c.1982), Waspsrugby union player
*Carl Hopkinson (born 1981),cricket er
*Bazid Khan (born 1981), Pakistancricketer [cite web|title= OBA Cricket|url=http://www.oldbrightonians.com/cricket_01.htm|accessdate=2007-01-22]
*Alex King (born 1975), Wasps and Englandrugby union player
*Hopper Levett (1908–1995), England and Kent cricketer
*Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908),cricket er and unsuccessful Conservative politician
*Jonathan Palmer (born 1956), racing driver
*Ollie Phillips (born 1982),Newcastle Falcons rugby union player
*Matthew Prior (born 1982), [cite web|title = Cricket - Counties - Sussex - Sussex Squad|publisher =BBC Sport |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/sussex/2850925.stm|accessdate = 2006-10-07] Englandcricket er [cite web|title = Brighton College Online: Achievements|publisher = Brighton College7|url = http://www.brightoncollege.org.uk/home/college.asp?id=217200|accessdate = 2006-10-07]
*Kelvin Tatum (born 1964), British speedway captain
*Claude Wilson (1858–1881), England footballer
*Sammy Woods (1867–1931), countycricket er, Australian footballer and England rugby player
*Jordan Turner-Hall (born c.1988), Harlequinsrugby union playerFalse alumni
Claims have been made that the following attended the school, although the College's admissions registers show that this was not so:
*Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), writer, poet, educator and Nobel laureate
*Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (1889–1939), art dealer and funder of numerous galleriesReferences
External links
* [http://www.brightoncollege.net Brighton College website]
* [http://www.oldbrightonians.com Brighton College Alumni website]
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