Enfield Grammar School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Derek Austin, librarian; author; developer of innovative digital cataloguing systems, creator of PRECIS indexing language in 1974 (used worldwide and for the British National Bibliography); Supernumerary Fellow Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. Royal Signal Corps 1941 – 6. Born 11 August 1921. PRECIS: A Manual of Concept Analysis and Subject Indexing - January 1974, Publisher: Council of the British National Bibliography, 551 pages, ISBN 978-0-900220-42-5
• John Morrell Band, (1902–1943), naval officer
• Joseph ‘Joe’ Ambrose Banks, Professor of Sociology at Leicester University, academic author, 5 January 1920 – 13 November 2005.
• Leonard Vivian Biggs, (1873–1944) journalist and politician in Melbourne, Australia
• Bob Cobbing, avant-garde soundtext poet, performer and publisher; manager famous underground Better Books on Charing Cross Road in 1960s; founding member and vice president Association of Little Presses; council member Poetry Society; 1920–2002
• Martin Cole, controversial ‘sexologist,’ directed, produced and performed in the explicit, once infamous educational film Growing Up (1971).
• Jim Crace, prize-winning English novelist, former journalist
• Michael Duberry, association football player, currently at St Johnstone F.C
• David Eames, Esquire Bedell, University of London, formerly Secretary and Registrar for Medicine
• Vernon Handley, conductor
• Peter Joseph Hobbs, marketing manager of BOC Murex, Managing Director 1965–1992 UK subsidiary of the Swedish welding and cutting company ESAB, from 1980 Hobbs Fellow of Welding Institute, Cambridge, awarded distinguished service award 1998.
• Alan Hopes, The Right Reverend, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster, Roman Catholic bishop.
• Jack Howe, architect (influenced by Walter Gropius), designer: Royal Designer for Industry in 1961; Master of the Faculty of RDIs, 1975–77; President of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers in 1963-64; recipient Duke of Edinburgh's Design Prize in 1969.
• Christopher Hughes, quiz champion
• David Hutton, footballer
• Hugh Jenkins, later Baron Jenkins of Putney, politician, member of National Theatre Board, chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), elevated to Life Peerage, Lord Jenkins of Putney; 27 July 1908 – 26 January 2004.
• Frederic Wood Jones (1879–1954), anatomist, naturalist and anthropologist; see Australian Dictionary of National Biography Online Edition: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090507b.htm
• Professor Jeffrey A Jupp, University of Manchester, Aerospace Research Institute, non-executive director on the board of Cranfield Aerospace Ltd., Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, joint holder of the 1987 Royal Society "Esso Energy Award" Gold Medal (for the design of fuel efficient wings for Airbus), Royal Aeronautical Society 1992 British Bronze Medal and 2002 Society Gold Medal.
• Boris Karloff, actor, born William Henry Pratt
• Christo Kasabi, international rugby union player for Cyprus
• Sir Peter Large, Shell executive until 1962, disabled by polio; subsequently civil servant; disability campaigner; founded Association of Disabled Professionals, parliamentary adviser; appointed MBE 1974, CBE 1987, knighted 1993 for services to disabled people,; 2004 lifetime achievement award from the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation. 16 October 1931 – 13 January 2005, aged 73.
• Norman Lewis, author, travel writer
• Terry Lightfoot, jazz bandleader and musician, played alongside Louis Armstrong; British Music Industry Award For Excellence for CD The Special Magic of Louis Armstrong 1996; Gold Badge Award from the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters 2000.
• Jake Livermore, footballer
• L.G. Maddox Second-Lieutenant, MC with Bar, 22nd (Queen’s) London Regt.; born 1 November 1898; attended EGS 1907 – November 1915. Joined up February 1918 – awarded MC for ‘Conspicuous Gallantry and Devotion to Duty’ – killed Combles 30 August 1918.
• Sir Alec Merrison, D.L., B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.F.C.M., F.R.S., physicist; Institute of Physics' Charles Vernon Boys Prize 1961; Vice-Chancellor Bristol University (1969 to 1984); Director of Lloyds Bank; Fellow of the Royal Society; High Sheriff of Avon 1986-1987. (b. 20 March 1924 – 19 February 1989 d.)
• Colin Metson, first class cricketer for Middlesex and Glamorgan
• Robin Millar, disabled (blind) successful record producer, for Sade’s Diamond Life album, Everything But The Girl’s Eden, and for the Style Council, Randy Crawford, the Christians and Fine Young Cannibals; Brit Awards Judge since 1993; former brother-in-law of Mick Taylor
• Steve Morison, association football player, currently at Norwich City F.C.
• Walter Pater, nineteenth-century essayist, critic
• Trevor Peacock, actor
• John Francis Picard, jazz musician
• Oliver G Pike, pioneering wildlife photographer
• Ronald Edward Perrin, organist
• Walter George Ridewood, biologist, anatomist after whom a method of cranial dissection is named (1864–1921), son of W. S. Ridewood who was headmaster from 1877 to 1909
• Michael J. Smith, cricketer
• Mark Tami, politician
• Derek Taunt, mathematician, codebreaker (Hut 6, Bletchley Park), successively Lecturer, Director of Studies, Bursar and President, Jesus College, Cambridge.
• Professor Philip Tew, academic author and scholar, Brunel University, Fellow Royal Society of Arts, Member Royal Society of Literature.
• Andrew Turnbull, Baron Turnbull, KCB, CVO, former head of the British Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary; life peer as Baron Turnbull, of Enfield, on 11 October 2005.
• Frederic Wood Jones, Professor of Anatomy Manchester and Melbourne Universities, naturalist, anthropologist, public speaker, trustee Public Library, Museum and National Gallery, Victoria, Australia