List of Old Oundelians

The following is a list of some notable Old Oundelians, alumni of Oundle School in Northamptonshire, England:

Armed forces

• Commodore S C Ramm RN OBE
• Air Vice Marshal David Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer
• Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, senior Royal Air Force officer. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Air Force between 1949 and 1951
• Bernard Paul Gascoigne Beanlands, Canadian World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories
• Patrick Beesly, wartime intelligence officer and author
• Count Manfred Beckett Czernin, World War II Royal Air Force Pilot and later in the war an operative with the Special Operations Executive
• Alan Jerrard VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
• Cecil Leonard Knox VC, recipient of the Victoria Cross for action during the Great War
• William Howard Livens, soldier and inventor
• Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers VC, lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist
• Air Commodore Charles Whitworth, Royal Air Force pilot in the 1930s and a commander during and after the Second World War
• Major General Sir John Winterton, Governor and Commander of Trieste
• Michael Wynn, 7th Baron Newborough, Royal Navy officer

Arts

• Christopher Alexander, architect, academic and author
• Al Alvarez, poet
• John Davys Beresford, author
• Michael Broadbent MW, wine critic and auctioneer
• Lucy Brown, actress
• George Blagden, Actor, Singer
• Victor Branford, Sociologist
• Jim Clark (film editor), Academy Award-winning film editor
• Charles Crichton, film director
• Bruce Dickinson, singer in Iron Maiden
• David Edgar, playwright
• Adrian Fisher, maze designer
• Fred Inglis, professor of Cultural Studies
• Anthony Holden, biographer
• Maxwell Hutchinson, architect, broadcaster and former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
• Frederick Knott, playwright
• Thomas Layng, educator and Church of England priest
• David Pickering, writer
• George Sassoon, writer
• Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical impresario
• Sir Peter Scott, conservationist and painter
• Paul Seabright, academic and writer
• Keith Shackleton, conservationist and painter
• Judge Smith, musician, Van der Graaf Generator
• Bill Ward, actor
• Ivo Watts-Russell, music producer, president 4AD Records
• Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, architect
• John Maxwell Edmonds, poet, dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs

Business and Finance

• Sir Alan Budd, economist
• David Fleming, economist and environmental writer
• Jason Gissing, entrepreneur
• Andrew Lane, founder of Loch Fyne restaurants
• Pownoll Pellew, later the ninth Viscount Exmouth (founder of the Vale Motor Company)^[1]
• Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO Sony Corporation
• Ian G Walker, industrialist

Media

• Damian Grammaticas, BBC Europe Correspondent
• Cecil Lewis, co-founder of the BBC
• David Loyn, International Development Correspondent of BBC News
• Arthur Marshall, writer and broadcaster
• Norman Smith, Assistant Political Editor of BBC News
• Charles Wintour, newspaper editor

Politics and Civil Service

• Baron Allan of Hallam, Liberal Democrat M.P.
• Michael Beaumont, Conservative M.P.
• Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith, Conservative M.P.
• Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Conservative M.P.
• Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer, Governor of Gambia and Cyprus
• Ralph Bonner Pink, Conservative M.P.
• Sir Charles Pollard, police chief
• David Reddaway, diplomat
• David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, Conservative M.P.
• The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Robinson, Labour M.P. and Minister of Health 1964-1968
• Sir Joseph Simpson, Metropolitan Police commissioner
• Peter Thurnham, Conservative and Liberal Democrat M.P.
• Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
• Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, Law Lord

Science and medicine

• Michael Ashby, neurologist, witness in John Bodkin Adams case
• Sir Cyril Clarke, physician
• Richard Dawkins, ethologist, evolutionary biologist and science writer
• Charles Fagge, surgeon
• Sir Alister Hardy, marine biologist
• John B. Harman, former chairman of the British National Formulary
• Richard Keynes, physiologist
• Clive Minton, ornithologist
• David Nabarro, senior UN system coordinator
• Joseph Needham, biochemist
• Robin Nicholson, metallurgist, Chief Scientific Advisor to cabinet

Sport

• Richard Beesly, Olympic gold medal, 1928 Coxless fours rowing
• Reggie Ingle, cricketer
• Will Jefferson, professional cricketer
• David Jennens, Olympic rower
• Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet of Bwllfa, showjumper
• Peter Morley, president Crystal Palace Football Club
• Greg Smith, cricketer
• Tom Stallard, Olympic rower
• Tim Swinson, rugby player
• Dave Walder, professional rugby player

References

1. Cox, David (2006), Ave Atque Vale - the story of the Vale Special, Berkshire, England: Martin Publications ISBN 0-9553010-0-9, page 14