List of Old Citizens

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Former pupils of the City of London School are called Old Citizens, and more informally as Old Boys. The school's old boy association is called the John Carpenter Club, after John Carpenter, town clerk of London, whose bequest led to the founding of the school. The following is by no means a comprehensive list: over 140 people listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography were educated at the City of London School, and that includes only the names of those who are already dead.^[1]

Prominent Old Citizens

Most of the people listed here are cited from the Dictionary of National Biography.^[1]

• Edwin Abbott Abbott - Headmaster of the school (after whom Abbot house is named), theologian and author^[2]
• David Lindo Alexander - Jewish community leader^[3]
• Kingsley Amis - Writer^[4]
• William Anderson - Physician, Anatomy professor and scholar of Japanese Art^[5]
• Michael Apted - Actor, Producer and Director^[6]
• Thomas Walker Arnold - Orientalist^[7]
• Lord Ashby - Botanist and university chancellor^[8]
• Herbert Henry Asquith - Prime Minister 1908-1916^[9][10]
• Roy Baker - Film director
• Julian Barnes - Novelist^[11]
• Jonathan Barnes - Philosopher^[11]
• Michael Barnett - Fencer^{[citation needed]}
• Aaron Barschak - Comedian^[12]
• Henry Charles Beeching - Poet^{[citation needed]}
• David Blundy - War Correspondent, killed in El Salvador, 17 November 1989^{[citation needed]}
• Bramwell Booth - General of the Salvation Army^{[citation needed]}
• Mike Brearley - Cricketer, captain of the England cricket team 1977–1981 and whose father Horace Brearley taught at CLS)^[13]
• Clive Brooks - member of Egg (band)^{[citation needed]}
• Arthur Henry Bullen - Publisher and scholar^{[citation needed]}
• Suma Chakrabarti - Senior Civil Servant^{[citation needed]}
• Mont Campbell - Member of Egg (band)^{[citation needed]}
• Lord Chalmers - Colonial governor and minister^{[citation needed]}
• Sir Paul Chambers - Industrialist, Chairman of ICI^{[citation needed]}
• Danny Cohen - New Controller of BBC One, and formerly of BBC Three ^[14]
• Lord Collins - Supreme Court justice^{[citation needed]}
• Robert Seymour Conway - Classical scholar and philologist^{[citation needed]}
• Jim Cousins - Labour MP^{[citation needed]}
• Philip Dawid - Statistician^{[citation needed]}
• John Diamond (journalist) - Journalist and broadcaster, & Sunday Times writer^{[citation needed]}
• Edward Divers - Chemist^{[citation needed]}
• Lord Evans - Royal physician^{[citation needed]}
• Stewart Farrar - Author^{[citation needed]}
• John Knight Fotheringham - Historian, an expert on ancient astronomy and chronology^{[citation needed]}
• Percy Gardner - Archaeologist^{[citation needed]}
• Edward Garnett - Editor and writer^{[citation needed]}
• Leo Genn - Stage and film actor^{[citation needed]}
• Israel Gollancz - Founding member of the British Academy^{[citation needed]}
• Theodore Bayley Hardy - Victoria Cross holder^{[citation needed]}
• Peter Higgs - theoretical physicist, predicted the so-called "God Particle" known as the Higgs boson^{[citation needed]}
• Frederick Hopkins - Nobel prize winning biochemist^{[citation needed]}
• Paul Hough - Film Director^{[citation needed]}
• William Huggins - Astronomer^{[citation needed]}
• Joseph Oscar Irwin - Statistician^{[citation needed]}
• Steven Isserlis - Cellist^{[citation needed]}
• Tim Jackson - Entrepreneur and author^{[citation needed]}
• Anthony Julius - Lawyer^{[citation needed]}
• Skandar Keynes - Film Actor^{[citation needed]}
• Ralph Knott - Architect^{[citation needed]}
• Peter B. Kronheimer - Mathematician
• James Leasor - Author^{[citation needed]}
• Sidney Lee - Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography^{[citation needed]}
• Peter Levene - Chairman of Lloyd's of London and Lord Mayor of London 1998 & 1999^{[citation needed]}
• Joseph Hiam Levy^{[citation needed]}
• David M. Lewis - Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford^{[citation needed]}
• Sir Patrick Linstead - Chemist and Rector of Imperial College London^{[citation needed]}
• David Litman - American Entrepreneur, founder of hotels.com^{[citation needed]}
• Ernest Lough - Boy soprano, singer, whose recording of Mendelssohn's "O for the Wings of a Dove" with the Temple Choir in 1927 made him world famous; it was the first classical record to sell (by 1962) more than a million copies.^{[citation needed]}
• Luigi Masi^{[citation needed]}- Singer & musician^{[citation needed]}
• Sir Wylie McKissock - neurosurgeon^[15]
• Luke McShane - Chess Grandmaster^{[citation needed]}
• Lord Mishcon - Solicitor and politician who represented Princess Diana in her divorce. Home affairs spokesman in the House of Lords from 1983–1990 and shadow Lord Chancellor 1990–1992.^{[citation needed]}
• Max Newman - mathematician and World War II codebreaker^{[citation needed]}
• George Newnes - publisher and editor^{[citation needed]}
• Denis Norden - Writer and broadcaster^{[citation needed]}
• Richard Packer - Senior Civil Servant^{[citation needed]}
• Suhrid Patel - Sierra Leone International Cricketer & Founder of the LSE Cultural Show (Now known as Timeless)^{[citation needed]}
• Howard John Stredder Pearce - Former Governor of the Falkland Islands and Civil Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI)^{[citation needed]}
• Sir William Henry Perkin FRS - Chemist best known for his discovery of the first aniline dye mauveine at the age of 18.
• Henry Thomas Herbert Piaggio - Physicist^{[citation needed]}
• Arthur Rackham - Illustrator^{[citation needed]}
• Daniel Radcliffe - Actor in the Harry Potter series of film adaptations.^{[citation needed]}
• Gervais Rentoul - Politician and first chairman of the 1922 Committee^{[citation needed]}
• Charles Thomson Ritchie - Chancellor of the Exchequer 1902-1903^{[citation needed]}
• Edward Linley Sambourne - Punch cartoonist^{[citation needed]}
• John Robert Seeley - Historian and essayist^{[citation needed]}
• John Shrapnel - Film and stage actor^{[citation needed]}
• William Johnson Sollas, geologist and anthropologist^{[citation needed]}
• Dave Stewart (keyboardist) - Keyboardist with the band Egg^{[citation needed]}
• Edward Stanford - Mapmaker^{[citation needed]}
• Alfred Sutro - Playwright^{[citation needed]}
• Joshua Rose - Essex Hockey Player and Comedian^{[citation needed]}
• Derek Taunt - Mathematician and cryptologist^[16]
• John Lawrence Toole - Actor and theatre manager^{[citation needed]}
• Thomas Fisher Unwin - Publisher^{[citation needed]}
• David Walker - Master of the Household of the Royal Household^{[citation needed]}
• Alan Arthur Wells – Structural engineer, developer of Wells turbine ^[17]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Oxford University Press. "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1885-2004)". England: Oxford University Press online. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.  See: Dictionary of National Biography
2. ^ Abbott, Edwin Abbott in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
3. ^ Alexander, David Lindo in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
4. ^ Barratt, Nick (9 June 2007). "Family detective". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/portal/2007/06/09/nosplit/ftfamdet109.xml. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 
5. ^ Royal College of Surgeons, The (2 October 2009). "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". The Royal College of surgeons of England. London. http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E000685b.htm. Retrieved 13 October 2010.  Note: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online is a biographical register of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
6. ^ Michael Apted Biography (1941-)
7. ^ Arnold, Thomas Walker in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
8. ^ *"University of Sydney - Profile". Archived from the original on 2006-10-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20061002024607/http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/2003A+Pmodules/macleay/ashby.html. Retrieved 2007-03-30. 
9. ^ Bates, Stephens (2006). Asquith. London: Haus Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-904950-57-4. http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1904950574?p=S00H. Retrieved 13 October 2010. 
10. ^ Spender, J. A. (1932). Life of Lord Oxford and Asquith (2 vols). Hutchinson. 
11. ^ ^{a b} Merritt Moseley, Understanding Julian Barnes, University of South Carolina Press (1997)
12. ^ The Times | UK News, World News and Opinion
13. ^ Mike Brearley Profile - England Cricket Player
14. ^ Danny Cohen named as new BBC One Controller - BBC News online (15th Oct, 2010)
15. ^ B.A. Bell 1996 Wylie McKissock - reminiscences of a commanding figure in British neurosurgery British Journal of Neurosurgery 10(1): 9-18.
16. ^ Derek Taunt - Daily Telegraph
17. ^ "Alan Arthur Wells". Royal Society. http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/53/365.full.pdf. Retrieved 11 January 2011. 

See also

Category:Old Citizens (City of London School)