List of Old Wellingtonians

The following is a list of notable Old Wellingtonians, former pupils of Wellington College in Berkshire, England. See also .

Politics

*Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde, current leader of the Conservative Party in the House of Lords
*Lord Stodart of Leaston, Scottish Tory politician who served under Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath
*Sir Michael Spicer, Conservative MP and current chairman of the 1922 Committee
*Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British Ambassador who was assassinated by the IRA
*The Viscount Falkland, Liberal Democrat politician and one of the 92 remaining hereditary peers elected to sit in the Lords
*Lord Gordon-Walker, British Cabinet Minister who served as Foreign Secretary under Harold Wilson
*Sir Alexander Grantham, British colonial administrator who governed Hong Kong
*Lord Luce, current Lord Chamberlain to HM The Queen
*Sir Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician
*Lord Campbell of Croy, British Cabinet Minister who served as Secretary of State for Scotland during the whole of Edward Heath's government
*Lord Colnbrook, British Cabinet Minister
*Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, British Secretary of State for War (two separate times) and founder of the Lord Derby Cup
*John Dugdale, journalist, Labour MP, and government minister

Religion

*The Lord Harries of Pentregarth, retired Church of England bishop, the 41st Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006
* David Watson, evangelical Church of England clergyman, evangelist and author

port

*Patrick Head, co-founder of the Williams Formula One team
*James Hunt, F1 World Champion
*Stuart Barnes, former Bath, England and British Lions rugby player [http://sport.independent.co.uk/rugby_union/article3321344.ece] .
*Michael Hall, high ranking in the UK Junior Go-Karting League
*James Haskell, England and London Wasps Rugby player
*Tim Mayer, US motorsports organizer and official.

Art and Entertainment

*Rory Bremner, British impressionist and comedian, noted for his political satire
*Will Young, British singer and actor
*Jim Field Smith, British film director, writer and comedian (and contemporary of Will Young, above)
*Count Nikolai Tolstoy, Russo-British historian and author
*Christopher Lee, film actor
*John Masters, British Army Officer and novelist
*Peter Snow, British television and radio presenter
*Daniel Farson, broadcaster and writer who briefly attended the school, which he strongly disliked
*Sebastian Faulks, novelist whose works include "Birdsong" and "Charlotte Gray"
*Robert Morley, film actor
*John Nash, twentieth-Century painter and war artist
*Robin Oakley, journalist, Political Editor of CNN International, formerly Political Editor of the BBC
*George Orwell, author whose works include "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
*Charles Robert Ashbee, one of the prime movers of the English Arts and Crafts movement
*Hugh Beaver, founder of the Guinness Book of Records
*James Bernard, British Film composer and Academy Award winner
*Gavin Ewart, British Poet
*John Gardner, British Composer
*John Keane, painter and official artist, Gulf War
*Gregory Norminton, novelist
*Douglas Baker, Poet, Vocalist, Chef, Actor and author of "My Cabaret"
*Elize du Toit, actress and model best known for the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks

Military

*Douglas Wimberley, British Divisional Commander in WWII
*Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, British army commander during World War II
*Sir John Rennie, Director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
*John Salmond, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
*Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall, the professional head of the British Army
*Noel Beresford-Peirse, Lieutenant General during the Second World War
*Roger Bushell, Mastermind of the Great Escape
*Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, the professional head of the British Army
*Sir Maurice Johnston, Lieutenant-General and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
*General Sir Harry Tuzo, General Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland and other senior British Army commands.

Victoria Cross Holders

Fifteen Old Wellingtonians have won the Victoria Cross as well as one George Cross. [Wellington College, (2007), "Wellington Prospectus", page 11, (Wellington College:Trade Winds)] They are as follows:

*Victoria Cross
**Zulu War
***Lieutenant Henry Lysons, VC (He later achieved the rank of Colonel and was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)) (1858 - 1907)
**South African War (Boer War)
***Captain Charles FitzClarence, VC (He later achieved the rank of Brigadier General. He was killed in action, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 12 November 1914) (1865 - 1914)
***Captain Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse, VC (He later became a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO), and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE) (1864 - 1948)
**Third Ashanti Expedition
***Captain Charles John Melliss, VC (later to become Major General Sir Charles John Melliss VC, KCB, KCMG) (1862 - 1936)
**Second Somaliland Expedition
***Captain Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC, (He later achieved the rank of General) (1870 - 1931)
**First World War
***Captain John Franks Vallentin, VC (1882-1914)
***Lieutenant James Anson Otho Brooke VC (1884-1914)
***Captain John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler VC (1888-1916)
***Second Lieutenant Alexander Buller Turner, VC (1893 - 1915)
***Lieutenant Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson, VC (1894-1916)
**Second World War
***Flight Lieutenant Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd, VC (1913 - 1996)
***Commander Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, VC (Later to become Rear Admiral Sir Anthony Cecil Capel Miers VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar) (1906 - 1985)
***Captain Patrick Porteous, VC (1918-2000) (he later achieved the rank of Colonel)
***Lieutenant-Colonel Victor Buller Turner, VC (Brother of Alexander Buller Turner, VC)(1900 - 1972)
***Lieutenant Claud Raymond, VC (1923 - 1945)

*George Cross
**1935 Balochistan earthquake
***Lieutenant John Guise Cowley GC (Originally awarded the Albert Medal which was converted to the George Cross. He was later to become Lieutenant General Sir John Cowley GC KBE CB)

Other

*Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
*Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne, British peer and soldier
*The Marquess of Cambridge, brother of Queen Mary
*Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, English architect who is behind the Eden Project
*"HH" Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein
*The Duke of Portland
* "HSH" Prince Francis of Teck
*Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms, 1995-
* Professor Klaus Dodds, Notable Academic and Professor of Geopolitics. Royal Holloway, University of London

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