Sherborne - An Education For Life

Some Fascinating and Famous Alumni...

   

Hugh Bonneville (1977-1981) 

Actor

Tom Bradby (1980-1985)

A Senior TV Correspondent and author

Sir Alan Campbell (1932-1937) 

Diplomat

Rt Hon Sir Christopher Chataway (1944-1949) 

Former MP.  Chairman BT 1979.  Ex world record holder athletics

Sir Timothy Clifford (1959-1964)

Former Director of the National Gallery of Scotland

Charles Collingwood (1957-1960)

Actor and radio personality

Jonathan Conlin (1989-1994)

Author

Major General Patrick Cordingley (1958-1963)  

Desert Rats, military commentator

Charlie Cox (1996-2001)

Actor

David Cornwell (1945-1948)
(John Le Carré) 

Author

George Courtauld (1977-1982)

Author and illustrator

Sir Brian Crowe (1951-1956) 

Diplomat, political commentator and author

Ron Cunningham (1929-1933)
(The Great Omani) 

Escapologist

Cecil Day-Lewis (1917-1923)

Professor of Poetry, Oxford University.  Poet Laureate 1968-1972

Nigel Dempster (1955-1958)

Journalist, author, broadcaster

Sir Richard Eyre (1956-1961) 

Director of theatre, film, TV and opera

Balthazar Fabricius (1992-1997)

Bookmaker extrordinaire

Prosser Gifford (1946-1947)  

Rhodes Scholar, Director of Scholarly programmes at Library of Congress, author

Nick Greenstock (1987-1992) 

England Rugby International

Aidan Hartley (1978-1983)  

TV journalist and author

Sir Michael Hopkins (1949-1952) 

Architect

Jeremy Irons  (1962-1966)

Actor and Oscar winner

Ian Jamison (1981-1986) 

Award winning school teacher

Stanley Johnson (1954-1958)  

Journalist, author and father of Boris

Anthony Lane  (1976-1980)

Film critic and author

Michael McCrum (1937-1942)

Former Headmaster of Eton and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University

John Le Mesurier  (1926-1930)

Actor

Jason Lewis (1981-1985)   

Adventurer

Dr Colin Lucas (1954-1959)

Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University

Rupert Maas (1974-1978)

Antique specialist and TV pundit

Chris Martin  (1990-1995)

Co-founder of the group Coldplay

Simon McCoy (1975-1979)

TV news journalist

Shaun Noble (1966-1970)   

Trade unionist

Peter Oborne (1970-1974)  

Political columnist

Lance Percival (1947-1951) 

Actor and entertainer  

Jon Pertwee  (1933-1934) 

Actor

Sir Alastair Pilkington (1933-1938)  

Inventor of the ‘float glass’ process.  Former Director of the Bank of England

John Cowper Powys (1886-1891)

Poet and author

James Purefoy (1977-1980)     

Actor

Rev Donald Reeves (1947-1952)

Founder of the ‘Soul of Europe’ project

David, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool (1942-1947)  

Former Bishop of Liverpool and England Test cricketer and captain

Michael Slade (1960-1965)  

Businessman and record breaking yachtsman

Sir David Spedding  (1956-1961)

Former Head of Secret Intelligence Service

Tim Spicer (1966-1969)   

Consultant to the international defence industry

Hyla Stallard (1914-1919)

Olympic athlete and pioneering eye surgeon

Lord Thomas of Swynnerton 
(1945-1950)

Historian and author

Major General Julian Thompson (1948-1952) 

Commanded 3 Commando Brigade Falklands 1982 and Military Historian

Bill Tucker (1919-1922) 

England rugby international and orthopaedic surgeon

Alan Turing  (1926-1931) 

Enigma Code Breaker and pioneer of digital computers

Sir John Weston (1951-1956)

Former British Ambassador to NATO and to the United Nations 

Alfred North Whitehead (1875-1880) 

English mathematician and philosopher. Professor of philosophy at Harvard

 

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