List of Old Brightonians

List of Old Brightonians

This is a List of Old Brightonians, they being notable former students - known as "Old Brightonians" of the co-educational, public school, Brighton College in Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom.

Academic

*Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), socialist writer and campaigner for homosexual rights
*John Combridge (1897–1986), mathematician and Registrar of King's College London
*Raymond Cooper (1912– 2005), progressive schoolmaster, Headmaster of The Hall School Hampstead, founder of the Aberfan Trust and the IAPS Orchestra
*Robert H. Crabtree (born 1948), Organometallic Chemist, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Yale University, creator of Crabtree's catalyst
*Harold Fox (1889–1967), Professor of Zoology, Birmingham University and then Bedford College, London; Darwin Medal winner; Fellow of the Royal Society
*Clive Gamble (born 1951), Profesor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Fellow of the British Academy
*Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862–1934), Egyptologist and pioneer of Nubian archaeology, first Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford
*G. B. Harrison (1894–1991), Shakespeare scholar
*Henry Henfrey (1852–1881), numismatist
*Alsager Hill (1839–1906), social reformer
*Sir Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist
*Michael Roberts (1908–1996), historian of Sweden, Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast, Fellow of the British Academy
*Sir Sydney Roberts (1887–1966), Dr Johnson scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Secretary of Cambridge University Press and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
*Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher and Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford
*Walford D. Selby (1845–1889), archivist and historian

Architecture, building and engineering

*Anthony Dale (1912–1989), architectural historian, historian of Brighton and saviour of Regency Brighton
*Sir Francis Fox (1844–1927), civil engineer
*Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924), architect and architectural historian, RA
*Douglas Earle Marsh (1862–1933), railway engineer
*Douglas Overall (1892–1978), surveyor and property developer

Business

*Neville Abraham (born 1937), restaurateur, founder of Chez Gerard
*Mervyn Cowie (1909–1996), founding Director of the Kenya National Parks Service
*Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen (1870–1947), Chairman of British American Tobacco
*Cuthbert Heath (1859–1939), insurance pioneer
*Sir Arthur Pease, Bt. (1866–1927), coal magnate
*Sir George Reeves-Smith (1863–1941), Managing Director of the Savoy Company (1862– 1933)
*John Simmons (1902–1985), office systems pioneer
*Ken Stevens (1922– 2005), Chief Executive The Scout Association
*Derek Winston (born 1916), Chairman & CEO Mann & Co.

Community and philanthropy

*F. N. Charrington (1850–1936), philanthropist and temperance reformer

Entertainment, media and the arts

*Dean Ayass (born 1976), TV wrestling commentator
*Ewan Bailey (born c.1966), actor and writer
*Tommy Boyd (born 1952), TV presenter & radio disc jockey
*John Castle (born 1940), actor
*Dave Clarke (born c.1969), techno producer and disc jockey
*Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
*Peter Copley (born 1962), composer and cellist
*Roland Curram (born c.1932) actor and novelist
*Wilfred de Glehn (1870–1951), impressionist painter, RA
*Simon Dee (born 1935), television interviewer and radio disk jockey
*John Denison (1911–2006), first Music Director of the Arts Council, Director of the South Bank Concert Halls
*Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), writer and librettist
*Tony Hawks (born c.1960), comedian and author
*Oliver Heath (born c.1970), interior designer and presenter featuring on the BBC's "Changing Rooms"
*Gavin Henderson (born c.1947), Principal of Trinity College of Music and Chairman of Youth Music
*McDonald Hobley (1917–1987), actor and radio presenter
*Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), actor
*Menhaj Huda (born 1967), film producer and director
*Selwyn Image (1849-1930), designer, illustrator and poet, joint founder of the Century Guild
*Graham Kerr (born 1934), author, chef and television presenter
*Ewart Mackintosh (1893–1917), First World War poet, MC
*Miles Malleson (1888–1969), actor, playwright and scriptwriter
*Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), writer
*Francis St. Vincent Morris (1896–1917), poet
*David Nash (born 1945), sculptor, RA
*Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter, art educator and President of the Royal Academy
*George Sanders (1906–1972), actor
*Ian Serraillier (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator of Albert RN
*James Townsend (born 1975), film producer and screenwriter
*Frank Wilson (born 1914), abstract expressionist painter
*John Worsley (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist and creator of Albert RN

Medicine and science

*Sir Joseph Montagu Cotterill (1851–1933), surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, cricketer for Sussex and the Gentlemen
*Sir Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), geologist, explorer and Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Fellow of the Royal Society
*Sir Ronald Hatton (1886–1965), horticulturist, Fellow of the Royal Society
*James Mangles (1832–1884), horticulturalist
*Noel Ewart Odell (1890–1987), geologist and mountaineer
*Ayan Panja (born 1973), doctor, author and presenter on BBC1's "Street Doctor"
*John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950), physician and Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge
*Sir George Savage (1842–1921), psychiatrist

Military

*Colonel Sir Charles Boxall (1851–1914), volunteer army officer and proponent of railway artillery
*Air Commodore Lionel Charlton (1879–1958), Royal Air Force officer and author
*Brigadier-General Frank Crozier (1879–1937), commander of the British Mission to Lithuania, 1919–20, commander of the Black and Tans, 1920–21, military author and co-founder of the Peace Pledge Union
*Sir Charles Elliott (1835–1911), Indian civil servant, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
*Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Eveleigh (1912–2006), Director-General of Signals, Royal Air Force
*Colonel Sir Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), army officer and proponent of physical training
*William Gill (1843–1882), soldier and explorer, Founders Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1879
*Admiral Sir Herbert Heath (1861–1954), Rear-Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron at Jutland in 1916 and Second Sea Lord
*Charles Herbert (1904–1988), soldier, Director of Transportation at the War Office
*Air Marshal Sir Humphrey Edwardes Jones (1905–1987), Commander-in-Chief, RAF Germany
*Sir Harry Moorhouse (1872–1934), Lieutenant-Governor of Nigeria
*Sir Hubert Murray (1861–1940), Lieutenant-Governor of Papua New Guinea
*Angus Nicholl (1896–1977), naval officer, Captain HMS Penelope, BBC Defence Correspondent
*General Sir William Peyton (1866–1931), Military Secretary to Sir Douglas Haig, 1916–1918
*General Sir Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), Victoria Cross, Indian Army soldier, commander of the Burma Field Force, 1885–86
*Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), army staff officer
*General Sir Cecil Sugden (1903–1963), Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Master-General of the Ordnance
*Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker (1894–1967), Indian Army officer and military historian
*Gordon Viner (1918–2005), soldier, Commander of the Federal Regular Army, Aden and art dealer

Politics, public service and the law

*Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (1936–2005), barrister, banker, politician and Chancellor of the University of Exeter
*Sir Edmund Barnard (1856–1930), Chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board, Chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, Liberal MP
*Sir Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire"BEMROSE, Sir Max (John Maxwell)" in "Who Was Who 1897-2007", retrieved 5 June, 2008, from [http://www.credoreference.com/entry/7329680 BEMROSE, Sir Max (John Maxwell)] ]
*Sir Richard Buxton (born 1938), Lord Justice of Appeal
*Andrew Cayley (born 1964), solicitor and war crimes prosecutor
*Sir John Chilcot (born 1939), Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1990–1997
*Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845–1915), Indian civil servant, President of the Indian National Congress and Liberal MP
*Eric Gandar Dower (1894–1987), air pioneer and Conservative MP
*Andrew Gamble (born 1947), Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield and then University of Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy
*Alan Green (1911–1991), Conservative MP for Preston South, 1955–1964, 1970–1974, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1963–1964
*Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, University of Oxford and legal historian
*Augustus Margary (1846–1875), Chinese Consular Service officer and explorer in China
*Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton (1867–1949), Liberal Unionist MP, Assistant Postmaster-General and Ecclesiastical Commissioner
*Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky of Tilton (born 1939), Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, SDP and Conservative politician
*Leonard Strong (1896–1958), writer and poet

Religion

*Timothy Bavin (born 1935), Anglican priest and Benedictine monk, Bishop of Johannesburg and then of Portsmouth
*Francis Noel Davey (1904–1973), Anglican priest, theologian and Director of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
*Frederick Dillistone (1903–1993), Dean of Liverpool and theologian
*John Neville Figgis (1866–1919), Anglican church historian, theologian and political theorist
*Brooke Lambert (1834–1901), clergyman and social reformer
*Frederick Meyer (1847–1929), Baptist minister
*Arthur Stretton Reeve (1907–1981), Cambridge rowing blue (1930) and Anglican priest, Bishop of Lichfield

port

*Holly Colvin (born 1989), England cricketer
*Clare Connor (born 1976), England female cricket captain
*George Cotterill (1868–1950), England footballer
*Joe Gatting (born 1987), footballer for Brighton and Hove Albion
*Leslie Gay (1871–1949), England footballer
*Duncan Hamilton (1920–1994), racing driver
*John Hart (born c.1982), Wasps rugby union player
*Carl Hopkinson (born 1981), cricketer
*Bazid Khan (born 1981), Pakistan cricketer [cite web|title= OBA Cricket|url=http://www.oldbrightonians.com/cricket_01.htm|accessdate=2007-01-22]
*Alex King (born 1975), Wasps and England rugby union player
*Hopper Levett (1908–1995), England and Kent cricketer
*Denzil Roberts Onslow (1839–1908), cricketer and unsuccessful Conservative politician
*Jonathan Palmer (born 1956), racing driver
*Ollie Phillips (born 1982), Newcastle Falcons rugby union player
*Matthew Prior (born 1982), [cite web|title = Cricket - Counties - Sussex - Sussex Squad|publisher = BBC Sport|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/sussex/2850925.stm|accessdate = 2006-10-07] England cricketer [cite web|title = Brighton College Online: Achievements|publisher = Brighton College7|url = http://www.brightoncollege.org.uk/home/college.asp?id=217200|accessdate = 2006-10-07]
*Kelvin Tatum (born 1964), British speedway captain
*Claude Wilson (1858–1881), England footballer
*Sammy Woods (1867–1931), county cricketer, Australian footballer and England rugby player
*Jordan Turner-Hall (born c.1988), Harlequins rugby union player

False alumni

Claims have been made that the following attended the school, although the College's admissions registers show that this was not so:
*Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), writer, poet, educator and Nobel laureate
*Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (1889–1939), art dealer and funder of numerous galleries

References

External links

* [http://www.brightoncollege.net Brighton College website]
* [http://www.oldbrightonians.com Brighton College Alumni website]


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