List of People Educated at Westminster School - 17th Century

17th Century

• Jasper Mayne (1604–1672), dramatist
• Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet and dramatist
• Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
• Richard Lower (1631–1691), pioneering physician
• John Dryden (1631–1700), poet and playwright
• John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
• Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723), architect, scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society
• Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society
• Thomas Gale (c. 1636–1702), classical scholar and antiquarian
• Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), philosopher
• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648–1689), Lord Chief Justice of the Bloody Assize, Lord Chancellor (also ed. by Thomas Chaloner at Shrewsbury and attended St Paul's)
• Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724), Dean of Norwich
• Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743), Archbishop of York
• Henry Purcell (1659–1695), composer
• Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), creator of the Bank of England
• James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (1661–1734), Privy Counsellor
• William King (1663–1712), poet
• Matthew Prior (1664–1771), poet
• Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate 1715
• William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684–1764), Cabinet Minister
• John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690–1763), statesman and Cabinet Minister
• Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1693–1768), First Lord of the Treasury 1754–1756, Prime Minister
• James Bramston (1694–1744), satirist
• John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (1694–1754), Lord Privy Seal
• Henry Pelham (1696–1754), First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1743–1754, Prime Minister
• John, Lord Hervey,(1696–1743), statesman and writer
• John Dyer (1699–1748), poet