List of Old Derbeians

This is a list of notable Old Derbeians, former pupils and masters of Derby School (from the 12th century to 1989) and of Derby Grammar School (since 1994), in Derby, England.^[1]

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Derby School

Notable old boys

Born in the 16th century

• Blessed Edward James (1557–1588), Roman Catholic martyr^[2][3]
• John Cotton (1585–1652), New England Puritan^[2][3]

Born in the 17th century

• George Sitwell (c.1600-1667), Ironmaster and High Sheriff.^[2]
• John Flamsteed (1646–1719), England's first Astronomer Royal^[2][3]
• Anthony Blackwall (1672–1730), classical scholar^[2][3]
• Henry Cantrell (1684–1773), clergyman and religious controversialist^[3][4]
• William Budworth (c. 1699-1745), schoolmaster^[5]

Born in the 18th century

• Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas^[2][3][6]
• Joseph Wright (1734–1797), artist^[2][3][7]
• Daniel Coke (1745–1825), barrister and member of parliament^[2][3][8]
• Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (1753–1839), diplomat^[2][3]
• Joseph Strutt (1765–1844), cotton manufacturer and philanthropist^[2][3]
• Sir William Gell (1777–1836), archaeologist^[2][3]

Born in the 19th century

• Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), surgeon and artist^[2][9]
• Sir Henry Howe Bemrose (1827–1911), member of parliament for Derby^[2][10]
• Unwin Sowter (1839–1910) maltster, cricketer and Mayor of Derby
• John Cook Wilson (1849–1915), philosopher^[2][11]
• J. M. J. Fletcher (1850–1934), historian^[2]
• E. W. Hobson FRS (1856–1933), mathematician^[2]
• Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor^[2]
• Hon. George Frederick Earp CBE (1858–1933), member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales^[12]
• John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist^[2]
• Walter Weston (1860–1940), missionary and mountaineer^[2][13]
• Frederic Creswell (1866–1948), mining engineer and South African Minister of Defence^[14]
• Lawrence Beesley (1877–1967), RMS Titanic survivor and author^[2]
• William Henry Ansell (1872–1959), architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1940 to 1943^[15]
• Walter Greatorex (1877–1949), composer^[2]
• Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943), ichthyologist^[2]
• Sir George Simpson FRS (1878–1965), meteorologist^[2]
• Geoffrey Shaw (1879–1943), composer and musician^[2][16]
• Guy Wilson (1882–1917), cricketer and soldier^[17]
• William George Constable (1887–1976), art historian^[18][19]
• Frank Conroy (1890–1964), actor
• Sir Robert Howe (1893–1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan, 1947-1955^[20]
• Robert Sterndale Bennett (1880-1963). Music Director and grandson of composer William Sterndale Bennett
• Ernest Sterndale Bennett (1884-1982) Theatre Director and member of the Order of Canada.

Born in the 20th century

• Sir Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire^[21]
• George Timms (1910–1997), clergyman
• Canon Garrett Daniel Sweeney (1912–1979), Master of St Edmund's House, Cambridge^[22]
• P. G. Ashmore (1916–2002), academic chemist^[23][24]
• Gilbert Hodgkinson (1913–1987), cricketer
• Spencer Barrett FBA (1914–2001), classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford^[25][26]
• George Bacon (1917-2011), nuclear physicist^[27]
• Alexander Morrison (1927-2012), judge^[28]
• John Stobart (born 1929), maritime artist^[29]
• Robert William Grimley (born 1943), Dean of Bristol since 1997^[30]
• Dr David Livesey (born 1944), Life Fellow and Vice-Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Secretary-General of the League of European Research Universities since 2005^[31][32]

Notable masters of Derby School

• John Meade Falkner, novelist and poet^[2]
• Rev. Robert de Courcy Laffan (Senior Classical Master, 1880–1884), principal of Cheltenham College, member of the International Olympic Committee^[2]
• George Handel Heath-Gracie BMus (Dunelm) FRCO (Director of Music, 1938–1944), organist and conductor^[33]
• Henry Judge Hose (Maths master, 1867–1874), mathematician^[2][34]

See also

• Derby School
• List of Masters of Derby School
• Category:People educated at Derby School
• Derby Grammar School

References

1. Main page of the Old Derbeian Society web site, accessed 27 February 2008
2. The Derby School Register, 1570-1901, ed. Benjamin Tacchella (London, 1902)
3. Distinguished Alumni of Derby School by James Michael John Fletcher (Derby Reporter, 1872)
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6. Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (1709–1792), judge by James Oldham in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 4 November 2007)
7. Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter by Judy Egerton in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
8. Coke, Daniel Parker (1745–1825), barrister and politician by Mark Pottle in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
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19. Constable, William George (1887–1976), art historian and gallery director by Alec Clifton-Taylor & Rosemary Mitchell in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
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25. 'BARRETT, (William) Spencer' in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007, online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007: BARRETT, (William) Spencer, accessed 14 August 2008
26. Hollis, Adrian, Spencer Barrett, Oxford don devoted to classics and his college, obituary in The Guardian, 17 October 2001, online at guardian.co.uk, accessed 14 August 2008
27. Bacon, Prof. George Edward in Who's Who 2007, from Bacon, Prof. George Edward (accessed 23 August 2007)
28. MORRISON, His Honour Alexander John Henderson in Who's Who 2007, online at xreferplus.com (accessed 18 October 2007)
29. Hawley, Zena, Roy takes to the stage once again to pick up an honorary doctorate in Derby Evening Telegraph dated 19 January 2008, p. 6
30. Grimley, Very Rev. Robert William in Who's Who 2007, from Who's Who 2007 online (accessed 23 August 2007
31. Livesey, David Anthony in Who's Who 2007, from Livesey, David Anthony (accessed 23 August 2007)
32. Dr David Livesey : Vice-Master; Life Fellow at emma.cam.ac.uk (accessed 28 February 2008)
33. Heath-Gracie, George Handel in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, from Heath-Gracie, George Handel (accessed 23 August 2007)
34. Henry Judge Hose (1826-1883) by K. J. Cable in Australian Dictionary of Biography online, accessed 14 July 2007

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