Ipswich School - Notable Old Ipswichians

Notable Old Ipswichians

See also: Category:People educated at Ipswich School

Former pupils, known as "Old Ipswichians", include:

  • Harry Martin, Great Britain Hockey Team London 2012
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson (1859-1927), first commander Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I.
  • Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979), artist
  • Professor Mark Bailey (born 1960), England national rugby player
  • Nils Blythe (born 1956), journalist and presenter
  • Rear Admiral Sir Philip Broke KCB (1776-1841), naval officer
  • Peter Brunt (1917–2005), historian
  • Richard Edgar-Wilson (born 1963), tenor
  • Professor Sir Charles Frank FRS (1911-1998), physicist
  • Peter Florence MBE (born 1964), festival director and founder of the Hay Festival
  • Baron Robert Gillespie of Blackhall, OBE (born 1947), industrialist and author
  • Sir H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), author of King Solomon's Mines, She and other works.
  • Percy John Heawood, mathematician and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University
  • Sir Robert Hitcham (c.1572-1636), judge and Member of Parliament
  • Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443-1524), soldier and statesman
  • Charles Keene (1823-1891), artist for Punch
  • James King, film critic and broadcaster
  • William Kirby (1759-1850), entomologist
  • Cecil Howard Lay (1885-1956), architect, artist and poet
  • John Penrose (born 1964), Conservative Member of Parliament
  • Sir Edward Poynter Bt (1836-1919), artist and President of the Royal Academy
  • Geoffrey Rees-Jones, former Welsh rugby international.
  • Alexander Roche, Baron Roche (1871-1956), barrister and law lord
  • David Sawer, composer
  • Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952), Nobel laureate and physician
  • Colin Simpson, England national rugby player
  • Harold Smith (1916–2006), Director and Vice-President of Ipswich Town Football Club
  • Sir John Gordon Sprigg (1830-1913), Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
  • Henry Staunton (born 1948), businessman and media mogul
  • Air Commodore Timothy Thorn, Royal Air Force pilot
  • Right Reverend Peter Wheatley (born 1947), current Bishop of Edmonton
  • Tom Withers, music producer and DJ better known as 'Klute'
  • Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (c. 1473-1530), statesman under Henry VIII

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