- 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 inRugby, Warwickshire ,Warwickshire ,England .Academic
* L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of
Wesley College, Melbourne
*R.G. Collingwood , English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at theUniversity 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 ofMelbourne 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 theUniversity of Oxford
* SirPercy 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 ofKing's College London (1883-1897), formerDean of Canterbury Aviation
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Christopher Orlebar , BritishConcorde pilot, aviation lecturer and writerBuilding, engineering and architecture
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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 thetwo-stroke engineMedia, entertainment and the arts
* Sir
Alexander John Arbuthnot , KCSI, writer
*Matthew Arnold , Victorian poet and critic (son of Headmaster DrThomas Arnold )
*Faris Badwan , aka Faris Rotter, vocalist from bandThe Horrors
*Rupert Brooke , English poet
*Arthur Hugh Clough , English poet
*David Haig , English actor and writer
*Tomethy Furse /Cowan, Bassist from bandThe Horrors
*Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known asLewis Carroll , famous for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland "
* Richard Doyle, English author
*Dan Haigh , Bassist in the rock bandFightstar
*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 , formerBBC 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 bandFightstar
*A. N. Wilson , English writer and newspaper columnistMedicine and science
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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 economistJohn Maynard Keynes
* David Marr, British psychologist
*George Mitchell Seabroke , British astronomer
*Nevil Sidgwick , English theoretical chemistMilitary
* 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 ofHodson's Horse
* Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver, British officer during the Second World War.
*Arthur Ernest Percival , British general who surrenderedSingapore to the Japanese
* Major Bruce Shand, MC, officer in the British Army and father ofCamilla, The Duchess of Cornwall Politics, public service and the law
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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 theSupreme Court of New South Wales and politician
*Austen Chamberlain , British statesman and recipient of theNobel 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 firmFreshfields 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 andLord Mayor of London
*Charles Hendry , British politician and the ConservativeMember of Parliament forWealden
*Thomas Hetherington , barrister and first head of theCrown Prosecution Service
*Nick Hills , English solicitor
*Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport , British politician
*Thomas Hughes , English lawyer and author ofTom 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 andFather of the House of Commons
* Andrew Turner, British Conservative Party politician
*William Henry Waddington , French statesman (eventuallyPrime 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 thePrayer Book into Burmese
*Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , English churchman, andDean 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 ofLahore .Sport
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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 inNorth Dakota
*Tom Wills , the inventor ofAustralian rules football Fictional Old Rugbeians
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Harry Paget Flashman , fictional Victorian anti-hero, originally created by authorThomas Hughes in his semi-autobiographical "Tom Brown's Schooldays "References
See also
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List of schools in the West Midlands External links
* [http://www.rugbyschool.net/ Rugby School website]
* [http://www.rugsoc.com/ The Rugbeian Society]
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