List of Old Wykehamists



Former pupils of Winchester College are known as Old Wykehamists, in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. They include the following individuals, classified by century of birth, with a note of how each distinguished himself.

Lists of Old Wykehamists who won medals, and characters in fiction are included at the foot of the page. See also The Category for Old Wykehamists.

Fourteenth century



 * Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Thomas Beckington, statesman

Fifteenth century

 * Thomas Chaundler, playwright and illustrator
 * Richard Pace, diplomat
 * William Horman, translator
 * William Grocyn, scholar
 * William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Hugh Inge, Archbishop of Dublin
 * Richard Risby, friar



Sixteenth century



 * Henry Cole, Roman Catholic priest
 * Nicholas Udall, Headmaster of Eton and playwright
 * Henry Garnett, Jesuit plotter
 * John White, Bishop
 * Nicholas Harpsfield, Roman Catholic apologist
 * Richard Reade, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
 * Nicholas Sanders, Roman Catholic priest, missionary and historian
 * Thomas Bilson, Bishop
 * John Harmar, Warden of Winchester College, one of the translators of the Authorised Version of the Bible
 * John Owen, Welsh epigrammatist
 * Henry Wotton, author and diplomat
 * Arthur Lake, Bishop
 * John Davies, poet
 * Thomas James, librarian
 * Thomas Coryat, travel writer, court jester to James I
 * Henry Marten, Judge of Admiralty
 * Sir Thomas Ryves, lawyer
 * Richard Zouch, judge and politician
 * Edward Nicholas, statesman

Seventeenth century

 * Nathaniel Fiennes, Roundhead politician
 * Thomas Ken, bishop, non-juror and hymnwriter
 * Francis Turner, bishop and non-juror
 * Thomas Otway, dramatist
 * Sir Thomas Browne, doctor, polymath, scholar, prose stylist
 * Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and author
 * William Somervile, poet
 * Edward Young, poet

Eighteenth century



 * Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, Hebraist and English grammarian
 * William Whitehead, Poet Laureate
 * William Collins, poet
 * Joseph Warton, literary critic and Headmaster of Winchester
 * William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, famed rake and gambler
 * Thomas Warton, Poet Laureate
 * James Eyre (judge)
 * Charles Wolfran Cornwall, Speaker of the House of Commons
 * James Woodforde, clergyman and diarist
 * George Isaac Huntingford, Bishop of Hereford and Gloucester
 * Thomas Burgess, author
 * Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister
 * John Hawkins, geologist, traveller, and Fellow of the Royal Society
 * William Lisle Bowles, poet
 * William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Sydney Smith, essayist and satirist
 * Richard Mant, Church of Ireland bishop and writer
 * John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, Field Marshal and colonial governor
 * William Buckland, theologian and geologist
 * William Ward, cricketer
 * John Bettesworth-Trevanion, MP
 * Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby
 * Walter Farquhar Hook, Tractarian vicar of Leeds

1800–1819

 * William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, Lord Chancellor
 * George Moberly, Headmaster of Winchester, later Bishop of Salisbury
 * Richard Clarke Sewell, lawyer
 * William Sewell, divine and author
 * Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln
 * Thomas Adolphus Trollope, author, brother of Anthony Trollope
 * James Edwards Sewell, Warden of New College, Oxford.
 * Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, statesman
 * William George Ward, prominent in the Oxford Movement
 * Thomas Oliphant musician and lyricist
 * William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, Liberal politician
 * Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
 * Henry Maister, cricketer
 * Anthony Trollope, author

1820–1839



 * Matthew Arnold, poet
 * George Bruce Malleson, author
 * Frank Buckland, naturalist
 * Joseph Birley, cricketer
 * James Dewar, cricketer and decorated Crimean War soldier
 * George Ridding, Headmaster of Winchester, later Bishop of Southwell
 * Henry Furneaux
 * William Tuckwell, Christian socialist clergyman and author of Reminiscences of Oxford
 * Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian
 * Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons, 1st Viscount and Earl Lyons, diplomat
 * Philip Lutley Sclater, lawyer, ornithologist (founder of Ibis), zoogeographer, Secretary of the ZSL for 42 years
 * Sir Ford North, Judge of the High Court of Justice and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
 * Ashley Eden, Colonial Administrator
 * Cecil Fiennes, cricketer
 * George Bennett, cricketer
 * Philip Reginald Egerton, founder of Bloxham School
 * Arthur Faber, cricketer and headmaster of Malvern College
 * Wingfield Fiennes, cricketer

1840–1859



 * John Copleston, cricketer
 * Herbert Stewart, soldier
 * Robert Campbell Moberly, theologian
 * Samuel Rolles Driver, Biblical scholar
 * Thomas Hughes, footballer who won the FA Cup twice in the 1870s
 * William Lindsay (1847–1923), England footballer and three times FA Cup winner
 * Leonard Howell (1848–1895), Wanderers and England footballer
 * Charles Marriott (1848–1918), cricketer and barrister
 * Francis Birley (1850–1910), footballer who won the FA Cup three times in the 1870s
 * Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, politician
 * Rawdon Briggs, cricketer
 * John Bain (1854–1929), England footballer and 1877 FA Cup Finalist
 * Robert Campbell Moberly, academic
 * David Samuel Margoliouth, orientalist
 * William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, Lord Chancellor
 * Percival Parr, footballer and barrister

1860–1869



 * Francis J. Haverfield, historian of Roman Britain
 * Theodore Dyke Acland, surgeon and physician
 * Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary 1905–16
 * Arthur Cayley Headlam, Principal of King's College London (1903–16) Bishop of Gloucester (1923–45)
 * Frederic G. Kenyon, classical scholar
 * Robert Laurie Morant, administrator and educator
 * Arthur Cobb, cricketer
 * John Beresford Leathes, physiologist
 * H. A. L. Fisher, historian, politician
 * Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, newspaper magnate, founder of the Daily Express
 * Lionel Johnson, poet
 * William Sealy Gosset, statistician with Guinness (inventor of Student's t-test)
 * Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
 * Claud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 1915–1944
 * General Sir Reginald Byng Stephens, soldier
 * Ponsonby Ogle (1855–1902), British writer and journalist
 * Ernest Makins, soldier, statesman and politician
 * William Clegg, cricketer

1870–1879



 * Bernard Granville Baker, soldier, author, military artist
 * Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas, poet and companion of Oscar Wilde
 * Montague John Druitt, suspected of being Jack the Ripper
 * Edmund Fellowes, musicologist, clergyman
 * Alnod Boger, cricketer
 * Thomas Case, cricketer and brewer
 * Udny Yule, statistician
 * Sir Edmund Backhouse, "The Hermit of Peking"
 * William Case, cricketer
 * Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak
 * Ewart Grogan, explorer and colonist
 * Rupert D'Oyly Carte, Savoy Opera producer, hotelier
 * Major-General Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise, cricketer and soldier
 * G. H. Hardy FRS, mathematician and mentor of Ramanujan
 * Robert Lock Graham Irving, schoolmaster, writer and mountaineer
 * G. E. M. Skues, pioneer of fly fishing with nymphs
 * Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, peer
 * Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, colonial administrator and politician
 * Alan Reynolds, cricketer and soldier
 * Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Zionist historian and political scientist



1880–1889



 * Maurice Bonham-Carter, politician and cricketer
 * Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman, politician
 * Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Battle of Britain commander
 * Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Field-Marshal and Viceroy of India
 * Adam Fox, theologian
 * Vincent Stow, cricketer
 * Clarence Bruce, 3rd Baron Aberdare, British peer
 * Robert Hamilton Moberly, bishop
 * Charles Malan, postmaster-general of the United Provinces.
 * Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Colonial Governor and Viceroy of India
 * George Mallory, climber on Mount Everest
 * Sir William Reginald Halliday, Principal of King's College London (1928–1952)
 * Apsley Cherry-Garrard Member of Captain Scott's expedition of 1912
 * Howell Moore-Gwyn, cricketer and soldier
 * Arthur Stanley-Clarke, first-class cricketer and soldier
 * Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, politician
 * Denis Pritt, barrister and politician
 * Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
 * Charles Bewley, Irish diplomat
 * Guy Pawson, cricketer
 * John Crommelin-Brown, schoolmaster, poet and cricketer
 * Mark Mackenzie, Scottish cricketer
 * Christopher Dawson, Roman Catholic historian
 * Arnold J. Toynbee, historian
 * Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour politician
 * Geoffrey Toye, composer and conductor
 * Armstrong Gibbs, composer
 * George Gilroy, cricketer



1890–1899



 * Sir Alan Herbert, humorist and law reformer
 * John William Fisher Beaumont, Chief Justice of The Bombay High Court
 * Walter Parke (1891–1914), cricketer and soldier
 * Spencer Leeson, Headmaster and bishop
 * Godfrey Rolles Driver, Biblical scholar
 * Olaf Caroe, writer and colonial administrator
 * Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
 * George MacLeod, Very Rev Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, Moderator (1957), Church of Scotland
 * Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader
 * Maxwell Woosnam, Olympic and Wimbledon lawn tennis champion and England national football team captain
 * Sir Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
 * Robert Nichols, war poet
 * Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe, barrister
 * A. G. Macdonell, author, journalist and playwright
 * Gilbert Ashton, cricketer and schoolmaster
 * Percy Bates, shipbuilder and Inkling
 * Sir John Alexander Sinclair, CB OBE, former Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
 * Edward Wyndham Tennant, war poet
 * Ronald Tree, Conservative MP and founder of Sandy Lane, Barbados
 * Jack White, Trade Union organizer, Irish republican and socialist who co-founded the Irish Citizens Army
 * Henry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett, industrialist
 * Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, landowner, writer and politician linked to far-right groups
 * Hubert Ashton, footballer, cricketer and politician
 * Ralph Williams, cricketer and barrister

1900–1909



 * Douglas Jardine, cricketer
 * John Firth, cricketer, clergyman and schoolmaster
 * David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, politician
 * Cecil Harmsworth King, newspaper publisher
 * Mark Patten, Scottish cricketer
 * Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford, politician
 * Claude Ashton, Essex cricketer and England footballer
 * Anthony Asquith, film director
 * E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist, author of Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
 * Francis Festing, Field Marshal
 * Nowell Myres, archaeologist
 * John Dring, Prime Minister of Bahawalpur
 * George D'Oyly Snow, headmaster of Ardingly College and Bishop of Whitby
 * Charles Bosanquet, Academic
 * Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, writer
 * John Snagge, World War II BBC announcer
 * William Goodenough Hayter, diplomat, ambassador and Warden of New College, Oxford
 * Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, ambassador
 * Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes, archaeologist
 * Charles Awdry, cricketer, British Army officer, High Sheriff of Wiltshire
 * Gerry Fiennes, railway manager
 * Edward Younger, 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie, Brewer
 * John Sparrow, literary critic and Warden of All Souls
 * William Empson, literary critic
 * Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party
 * Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, Law Lord
 * Richard Crossman, Labour politician and diarist
 * Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, Labour politician
 * Kenneth Younger, Labour MP
 * Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator of Proust
 * Edward Williams, army officer, cricketer
 * Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, sportsman and art collector
 * Evelyn Shuckburgh, diplomat
 * Douglas Dodds-Parker, soldier and politician

1910–1919



 * Patrick Brett, cricketer
 * Nicholas Monsarrat, naval officer, diplomat and author of The Cruel Sea
 * Thomas Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder, publisher.
 * Sir John Stephenson, Lord Justice of Appeal
 * Roger Tredgold, fencer and psychiatrist
 * Ralph George Scott Bankes, barrister and Diocesan Chancellor
 * John Darwall-Smith, cricketer
 * Sir John Pringle, zoologist
 * Bruce Campbell, ornithologist, writer and broadcaster
 * Charles Madge, poet and Communist
 * Basil William Robinson, Asian art scholar and author
 * Gilbert White, soldier and cricketer
 * Roger Winlaw, Cambridge University and Surrey cricketer
 * Basil Martin Wright, inventor of the Peak flow meter
 * Christopher Dilke, writer
 * Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington, President of Trinity College, Oxford and originator of the Norrington Table
 * Shaun Wylie, mathematician and World War II Enigma and Tunny codebreaker
 * Robert Irving, conductor
 * Richard Synge, Nobel prize winning biochemist
 * Lord Aldington, politician and businessman
 * Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, government minister
 * John Grover, cricketer
 * Kenneth Clark, art historian and broadcaster
 * John Drennan Eggar, schoolmaster and cricketer
 * Colin Clark, economist and statistician
 * Archibald Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, soldier
 * Robert Conquest, historian specialising in Joseph Stalin's purges
 * Monty Woodhouse, Philhellene and politician
 * Julian Faber, businessman
 * Sir Derrick Bailey, businessman, cricketer
 * James Joll, historian
 * Willie Whitelaw, politician
 * George Jellicoe, aka Viscount Brocas, soldier-statesman, businessman-diplomat
 * M. R. D. Foot, historian
 * Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, Conservative politician
 * Rev George Snow, Bishop and educator

1920–1929



 * Lord Brandon, Law Lord
 * Frank Thompson, SOE officer
 * Anthony Storr, psychiatrist and author
 * John Latham, artist
 * Horace Barlow, neuroscientist
 * Tony Pawson, cricketer
 * Paul Britten Austin, translator of Swedish literature
 * Peter Fowler, physicist working on elementary particles
 * Hugh Beach, soldier, researcher into disarmament and ethics of war
 * Freeman Dyson, physicist and mathematician
 * H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist
 * Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher and academic
 * Michael Carver, Baron Carver, soldier and philosopher
 * Sir James Lighthill, applied mathematician working on fluid dynamics
 * Daniel Awdry, politician
 * Michael Gow, General
 * D. G. Champernowne, economist and mathematician
 * Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, mathematician and oceanographer
 * Hubert Doggart cricketer and schoolmaster
 * Michael Dummett, philosopher
 * Sir John Balcombe, High Court judge
 * Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon, politician
 * Alan Hopkins, Conservative MP
 * Ian Macdonald, mathematician
 * Martin Beale, applied mathematician and statistician
 * David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, politician and businessman
 * Sir Jeremy Morse, banker and university chancellor
 * Mark Bonham Carter, publisher and politician
 * John Lucas, philosopher
 * Raymond Bonham Carter, banker
 * Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, politician

1930–1939



 * Sir John Fiennes, lawyer and parliamentary draftsman
 * Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General
 * Jock Bruce-Gardyne, Conservative politician
 * Ian Buist, diplomat
 * David Trustram Eve, 2nd Baron Silsoe, lawyer
 * George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, politician
 * John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, peer and businessman
 * Reginald Bosanquet, ITN newscaster
 * Michael Scott, cricketer
 * Guy Antony Jameson, aeronautical engineer and mathematician
 * Geoffrey Stewart-Smith, politician, anti-communist
 * David Thouless, Nobel prizewinning physicist
 * Nicholas Mackintosh, experimental psychologist
 * William Donaldson, writer and satirist; creator of Henry Root
 * Julian Mitchell, writer
 * David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, ambassador to the United Nations
 * Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, landowner
 * Walter Lawrence, cricketer and former chairman of Lloyd's of London
 * Andrew Hichens, cricketer
 * Giles Radice, Baron Radice of Chester-le-Street, politician
 * Jonathan D. Spence, historian and sinologist
 * Brian Trubshaw, Concorde test pilot
 * John Albery, scientist
 * Ian Gow, politician
 * Paul Bergne, intelligence officer, linguist and diplomat
 * Peter Jay, economist, journalist and ambassador
 * Nicholas Luard, writer
 * Sir Jack Boles, Director-General of the National Trust
 * Iain Sproat, politician
 * Christopher Miles, film director

1940–1949



 * Anthony Gifford, 6th Baron Gifford, barrister
 * Richard Williamson, bishop
 * Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer
 * Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway, marine photographer
 * Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough, stockbroker
 * Richard Jefferson, cricketer
 * Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedian
 * Andrew Large, banker and businessman
 * Christopher Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield, diplomat and author
 * David Soskice, political economist
 * Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon, British peer
 * Mark Pellew, diplomat
 * Patrick Minford, economist
 * Hew Pike, General
 * Geoffrey Rowell, Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe
 * Andrew Longmore, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal
 * Andro Linklater, writer
 * George Magan, Baron Magan of Castletown, businessman
 * Lord Jay of Ewelme, head of the Foreign Office
 * Antony Beevor, military historian
 * Richard Noble, designer of the ThrustSSC
 * Richard Burchnall, cricketer and educator
 * Charles Sinclair, businessman and Warden since July 2014
 * David Clementi, financier and Warden from 2008-2014
 * Charles Sinclair, businessman and Warden since July 2014
 * David Clementi, financier and Warden from 2008-2014

1950–1959



 * Christopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester, Labour peer
 * Tim Eggar, Conservative politician.
 * Anthony Pawson, scientist
 * Robyn Hitchcock, singer, songwriter
 * Alan Lovell, businessman
 * Francis Baring, 6th Baron Northbrook, Conservative peer
 * John Stevens, politician
 * Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, mathematician
 * Edward Jackson, cricketer
 * James Mallet, evolutionary zoologist
 * James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie, peer and politician
 * Peter Bennett-Jones, TV producer and talent agent
 * Richard Stagg, ambassador
 * Nicholas Shakespeare, novelist and journalist
 * Michael Hofmann, poet
 * William Gaminara, actor
 * J.G. Sandom, author and interactive advertising pioneer
 * Francis Pott, composer and pianist
 * Jeremy Asher, businessman, investor and company director
 * John Whittingdale, Conservative MP
 * John Campbell, economist
 * Charles Low, 2nd Baron Aldington, businessman and peer
 * Seumas Milne, journalist
 * Jon Leyne, BBC foreign correspondent
 * James Bucknall, soldier
 * Peter Neyroud, police chief
 * Nick Carter, Chief of the General Staff

1960–1969



 * Japhet Asher, film and television producer
 * Patrick Gale, novelist
 * Edward Lucas, journalist
 * Adrian Adlam, violinist and conductor
 * Korn Chatikavanij, banker and politician, finance minister of Thailand
 * Joss Whedon, screenwriter and film director
 * Nick Boles, independent MP
 * Johnny Acton, writer and farmer

1970–1979



 * Saif Ali Khan, actor
 * Dominic Selwood, author and barrister
 * Marcus Fysh, Conservative MP
 * Alistair Potts, world champion cox
 * Rupert Wyatt, writer and film director
 * Simon Aldridge, artist
 * Simon Henderson, Headmaster of Eton College
 * Hugh Dancy, actor
 * Robin Saikia, author and actor

1980–1989

 * Alex Chalk, Conservative MP
 * Rishi Sunak, Conservative MP
 * Tom Hurndall, journalist
 * Archie Bland, journalist and editor
 * Anthony Smith, sculptor
 * Tom Sturridge, actor
 * Will Sharpe, actor
 * Charles Edwards, actor
 * George Nash, Olympic rower

Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
Six Old Wykehamists have won the Victoria Cross (VC), four in the First World War, 1914–18 (of whom three were killed in action) and two prior to 1914. Also in the Second World War one Old Wykehamist won the George Cross in military circumstances and another Old Wykehamist won the George Medal in military circumstances.


 * Victoria Cross
 * Indian Mutiny
 * Lieutenant Alfred Spencer Heathcote VC (1832–1912) for his conduct during the Siege of Delhi
 * Boer War
 * Lieutenant Gustavus Hamilton Blenkinsopp Coulson VC DSO (1879–1901)
 * First World War
 * Captain Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby VC, MC (1885–1915)
 * Second Lieutenant Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt VC, (1897–1917)
 * Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie VC, (1868–1915)
 * Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Burges VC, DSO, Croix de guerre avec Palme (1873–1946)
 * George Cross
 * Second World War
 * Sub-Lieutenant Peter Victor Danckwerts GC (1916–1984) for gallantry defusing mines dropped on London