List of people educated at Christ's Hospital

Alumni of Christ's Hospital school are known as Old Blues. They include:

General

• Roger Allam - Actor
• "Attila the Stockbroker" (real name John "Basil" Baine) - Musician and songwriter
• Joshua Barnes - English scholar
• Thomas Barnes - Journalist
• John Beazley - Classical scholar
• Tim Benjamin - Composer
• Edmund Blunden - Poet, author and critic
• Arthur Lyon Bowley - Statistician and economist
• William Burnside - Mathematician
• Cyril Burt - Psychologist
• William Camden - Antiquarian and historian
• Edmund Campion - Jesuit priest, martyr and saint
• Sydney Carter - Poet, songwriter, musician
• Mordecai Cary - Bishop
• Lucy Caslon - Founder and director of charity Msizi Africa
• Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari - Military administrator
• Richard Clarke - Civil servant
• Kira Cochrane - Journalist and Author
• John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton - British Army Field Marshal
• Henry Cole - Civil servant and inventor
• Jenkin Coles - Australian politician
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poet, romantic, literary critic and philosopher
• Edward Colston - Slave trader
• James Coomarasamy - Correspondent
• Edgar William Cox - Intelligence officer
• James D'Arcy - Actor
• Howard Davies - Theatre and television director
• Sir Colin Davis - Conductor
• Ruth Deech - Academic, lawyer and bioethicist
• Keith Douglas - Poet
• Jeremiah Duggan, who died in disputed circumstances in 2003
• George Dyer - Poet
• John Edmonds - Trade Union Leader^[1]
• Tenniel Evans - Actor
• Thomas Everard - Mayor
• Jason Flemyng - Actor
• Alan Fletcher – Designer and founder of Pentagram
• Robert Newton Flew - Methodist theologian
• Vincent Frank - Musician
• Rob Gauntlett - Adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker
• Louis Harold Gray - Physicist
• General Sir Michael Gray - soldier
• Jasper Griffin - Professor of Classics at Oxford
• Dom Bede Griffiths, O.S.B. Cam. - Monk, mystic, theologian, leader in the study of East-West religious dialogue
• Arthur Norman Guthkelch - First British Paediatric Neurosurgeon
• Francis Seymour Haden - Surgeon
• Philip Hall - Mathematician
• Caesar Henry Hawkins - Surgeon
• Samuel Hayden - Canadian politician
• Thomas Hartwell Horne - Theologian and librarian
• Charles Hazlewood - Conductor and broadcaster
• Percy Henn - Clergyman and schoolmaster
• Andrew Higgins - Rugby union player
• Steve Hilton - Conservative Party director of strategy
• Stuart Holland - Labour politician and academic
• James Hooper - Adventurer
• Leigh Hunt - Critic, essayist, and poet
• Rupert Jackson - Lord Justice of Appeal
• Philip Kitcher - Professor of philosophy
• Charles Lamb - Essayist
• Constant Lambert - Composer and conductor
• Edward Lambert - Composer
• Joe Launchbury - Rugby Union player
• Bernard Levin - Journalist, author and broadcaster
• Martin Linton - former Labour Member of Parliament
• Derrick Somerset Macnutt - crossword compiler ("Ximenes")
• Bryan Magee - Broadcaster, politician, and author
• Jeremiah Markland - Classical scholar
• Russell Meiggs - Historian
• Henry James Sumner Maine - Comparative jurist and historian
• Philip Mayne - Soldier
• Aylmer Maude - Translator
• John Middleton Murry - Writer
• Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan - Abdominal surgeon
• David Norgrove - Businessman
• William Nye - Principal Private Secretary to HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, 2011–present
• Phillip Osborne - Explorer
• Peter Padfield - Historian^[2]
• Rex Paterson - Agricultural researcher
• George Peele - Dramatist
• Tayo Popoola - Musician and DJ
• Piano Donkey - Punk Rock Band
• Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin - Architect, designer, and theorist of design
• Percy Pyne - President of City National Bank in the United States
• Tony Ray-Jones - Photographer
• John Septimus Roe - Surveyor-General of Western Australia
• Alan Ryan - Professor
• James Scholefield - Classical scholar
• Jonathan Scott - Wildlife photographer and TV presenter
• Stephan Shakespeare - Business man and entrepreneur
• Dennis Silk - Schoolmaster and international cricketer
• David Simon, Baron Simon of Highbury - Business man
• Charles Robert Smith - Governor of North Borneo
• John Snow - Cricketer
• Chris Steele-Perkins - Photographer
• John Robin Stephenson - British Army officer and cricket administrator
• Michael Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham - Labour politician
• William Alder Strange - Headmaster and author
• Christopher Tambling - (1964-2015) Composer, Organist and Choirmaster
• Mark Thomas - Comedian
• Rupert Thomson - Novelist
• Edward Thornton - Diplomat
• Richard Thornton - Merchant and trader
• Sir Ian Trethowan - Former Director-General of the BBC and journalist
• Keith Vaughan - Painter
• Alexander Vidal - US Land surveyor, banker and political figure
• Barnes Wallis - Scientist, engineer and inventor
• Holly Walsh - Comedian
• E F Watling - Schoolmaster, classical scholar and translator
• James White (1775-1820) - Advertising agent
• Air Marshal Sir Harold Edward Whittingham - Director General of RAF Medical Services in the Second World War
• Gerald James Whitrow - Mathematician, cosmologist and science historian
• Michael Wilding - Actor
• Erik Christopher Zeeman - Mathematician

Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders

Four Old Blues have won the Victoria Cross^[3][4] and two the George Cross.

• Victoria Cross
  • Umbeyla Campaign
    • Major Henry William Pitcher, VC (1841–1875) (CH 1848–1856)
  • First World War
    • Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrith Elstob VC, (1889–1918) (CH 1898–1905)
    • Second Lieutenant Edward Felix Baxter VC, (1885–1916) (CH 1896–1901)
  • War in Afghanistan
    • Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey, VC (CH 1999–2006)
• George Cross
  • Non Military
    • Charles William Tandy Green GC (CH 1898–1904)
  • Second World War
    • Air Vice Marshal Sir Laurence Sinclair GC, KCB CBE DSO and Bar, (1908–2001) (CH 1919–1924)

References

1. Stuart Thomson, "John (Walter) Edmonds"
2. Peter Padfield biography at andrewlownie.co.uk, accessed 18 October 2015
3. Christ's Hospital Association
4. www.wscountytimes.co.uk