Hackney Downs School - Notable Alumni - Grocers' Company's School

Grocers' Company's School

  • F. Britten Austin, playwright whose book The Drum would be made into The Last Outpost
  • Sir Robert Barlow, businessman, former Chairman of the Metal Box Company
  • Prof Raymond Wilson Chambers, Quain Professor of English Language and Literature from 1922-41 at University College London
  • Cecil Vandepeer Clarke (1888-1961) engineer, inventor and soldier.
  • Prof Millais Culpin, Professor from 1931-9 of Medical-Industrial Psychology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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