List of Old Gregorians

An Old Gregorian, (usually abbreviated OG) is a former member of Downside School, situated near Bath, Somerset, in the United Kingdom.

Alumni are so-named because the school was founded and is still run, to an extent, by monks from the adjoining Benedictine monastery of St Gregory the Great which, since 1814, has been established at Downside Abbey; from 1606 it had been established at Douai in Flanders (today northern France).

Notable Old Gregorians

A

• Sir Mark Allen, retired former United Kingdom spy, turned businessman and academic lecturer
• Rupert Allason – author (under the pen-name Nigel West) and former Conservative MP

B

• Tom Bethell – editor of the American Spectator
• Dominic Brigstocke – director of TV comedy shows

C

• Brian Cotter – former Liberal Democrat MP
• Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville – former Archbishop of Birmingham
• Andrew Crawford – founder of The Book Depository
• Seamus Cullen
• Simon Cummings – radio presenter

D

• Pete de Freitas – musician – member of Echo & The Bunnymen
• John Drummond, 17th Earl of Perth – Minister for Colonial Affairs
• Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj

E

• Barry England – novelist and playwright

F

• Rocco Forte – British hotelier and entrepreneur

G

• Brion Gysin – author and artist
• Francis Aidan Gasquet – Cardinal – Vatican librarian

H

• Jared Harris – actor
• Simon Halliday – former England rugby player
• Lord Hunt of Tanworth

J

• Christopher Jamison – Abbot of Worth

K

• Chris Kelly – TV presenter and producer

M

• Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim
• James Miller – journalist and film-maker
• David Mlinaric – interior designer
• Peter Morgan – scriptwriter
• John Mullan – professor of English and writer

N

• Martin Newland – former editor of The Daily Telegraph
• William Nicholson – playwright
• Sir Walter Richard Middleton Nugent – 6th Baronet of Donore

P

• John Bede Polding – first Archbishop of Sydney
• John Pope-Hennessy – former director of the British Museum

R

• Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP – Master of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) from 1992–2001.
• Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell – Solicitor General – Attorney General
• Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell – Conservative peer
• Nicholas Rossiter – TV producer

S

• Wilfrid Sheed – novelist and essayist
• Richard Stokes – former Lord Privy Seal

T

• Simon Tolkien – author and novelist
• Maurice Turnbull – cricketer

U

• James Underwood – pathologist

V

• John Varley – CEO of Barclays
• Hugh Vyvyan – captain of Saracens Rugby

W

• Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe – Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• Auberon Waugh – journalist
• Denis Wheatley – author

Z

• Count Adam Zamoyski – historian

References

• List of Boys at St Gregory's, Downside Abbey, Bath, 1972: covers 1614–1972.
• List of Boys at St Gregory's: First Supplement, Downside Abbey, Bath, 1983: covers 1967–1982 and lists corrections to the 1972 publication.

External links

• Official OG website