King William's College - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

See also: Category:People educated at King William's College

Former pupils, staff, and governors of King William's College may place the letters OKW after their name.

  • Sir William Henry Bragg, OM, KBE, FRS (PRS 1935–40), Nobel Laureate in Physics 1915
  • T.E. Brown, poet and writer
  • David Cannan MHK, former Speaker of the House of Keys, Treasury Minister and current MHK for Michael
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill DSO MC, notable commando commander in the Second World War
  • Andrew Corlett, the Deputy Deemster of the Isle of Man
  • Joseph George Cumming, MA Cantab., geologist and archaeologist
  • Thomas Wortley Drury, DD, MA Cantab., Bishop of Sodor and Man 1907–1911
  • The Rev. John Ellerton, hymn writer and hymnologist. Wrote "The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended"
  • The Very Reverend Frederic William Farrar, DD Cambridge, FRS, Dean of Canterbury 1895–1903
  • Major Robert Johnston VC, recipient of the VC - South African War
  • George Robert Stephenson Pioneer English Railroad Engineer
  • Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, KCMG, Registrar General and Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong
  • Sir Joseph Davidson Qualtrough CBE SHK, former Speaker of the House of Keys
  • Major Henry Percival Qualtrough, MBE GM, recipient of the George Medal for carrying out bomb disposal work in the Far East
  • William Henry Quilliam AKA Abdullah Quilliam, Muslim convert, born in Liverpool of a wealthy Manx family
  • John C. Taylor, inventor and Chairman of Strix Ltd.
  • Professor Donald Teare, British pathologist
  • Sir William Arthur White, British diplomat in Eastern Europe and Turkey
  • The Rev. James Maurice Wilson, theologian and astronomer

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