Bristol Grammar School - Old Bristolians

Old Bristolians

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  • Robert Huntington (c.1637–1701), Provost of Trinity College, Dublin and orientalist
  • Sir John Coxe Hippisley (1745–1825), politician
  • William Gregor (1761–1817), mineralogist, discoverer of titanium
  • Jonathan Sewell (c.1766–1839), Chief Justice and Speaker of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, 1808–1839, and President of the Executive Council of Lower Canada, 1808–1830
  • Stephen Sewell (1770–1832), lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada
  • Thomas Edward Bowdich (c.1791–1824), writer and African explorer
  • Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist
  • Charles Whibley (1859–1930), journalist and author
  • Thomas Horrocks Openshaw (1856–1929), surgeon
  • William Lane (1861–1917), journalist and pioneer of the Australian labour movement
  • Leonard Whibley (1863–1941), classicist
  • Sir Llewellyn Smith (1864–1945), Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, 1907–1919, and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government, 1919–1927
  • Robert Chambers (1802–1871), philanthropist and peace activist
  • Roland Allen (1868–1947), missionary in China
  • Cyril Bradley Rootham (1875–1938), classicist and musician
  • Frederick William Lumsden (1872–1918), Royal Marines Brigadier General, VC, CB and DSO & Three bars
  • Sir Cyril Norwood (1875–1956) classicist and Politician
  • Sir Douglas Veale (1891–1973), Registrar of the University of Oxford, 1930–1958
  • Sir Allen Lane (1902–1970), founder of Penguin Books
  • Douglas Cleverdon (1903–1987), bookseller and BBC Radio producer
  • Sir Ivor Jennings (1903–1965), Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge, 1962–1965
  • Paul Drury (1903–1987), artist
  • Oliver Franks, Baron Franks (1905–1992), philosopher, diplomat and civil servant
  • Sir Richard Sheppard (1910–1982), architect
  • Douglas Russell Feaver (1914–1997), Bishop of Peterborough
  • Geoffrey Keen (1916–2005), actor
  • Sir John Pople (1925–2004), Mathematician, Theoretical chemist and Nobel Laureate
  • Peter Nichols (born 1927), writer
  • Timothy West (born 1934), actor
  • Julian Glover (born 1935), actor
  • David Prowse (born 1935), actor
  • Sir Nicholas Wright, professor of medicine
  • Keith Robbins (born 1940), historian
  • T.J. Clark (born 1943), historian
  • Robert Lacey (born 1944), historian and biographer
  • Steve Duck (born 1946), Distinguished Research Professor, University of Iowa
  • Jeremy Treglown (born 1946), biographer and literary critic
  • Andrew Dalby (born 1947), food writer
  • Nick Brimble actor
  • Clive Ponting (born 1947) Former civil servant and retired university lecturer.
  • Fred Wedlock (1942 – 2010), folk singer, humorist and actor.
  • Shaun Woodward (born 1958), politician, former Labour Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
  • Jeremy Northam (born 1961), actor
  • John Lennard (born 1964), academic
  • Michelle Goodman (born 1976), RAF Officer, first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Sean Marsden (born 1980), professional rugby player
  • Mark Watson (born 1980), comedian
  • Chris Skidmore (born 1981), Conservative MP
  • Michael Coady (rugby league) (born 1987), professional rugby player
  • Shrien Dewani (born 1980), husband of Anni Dewani
  • Tom Graveney (born 1927)English cricketer
  • Jonathan Gould (born 1968) Scottish goal keeper.
  • Rabinder Singh (born 1964), QC
  • Tuppence Middleton (born 1987), actor
  • Navin Chowdhry (born 1971), actor
  • Chris Goode (born 1973) director,actor
  • Emily Diamond (born 1991) GB athlete

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