List of People Educated at Westminster School - 19th Century

19th Century

  • John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), Irish clergyman
  • Thomas Henry Lister (1800–1842), novelist and first Registrar General
  • Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (1802–1867), Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings responsible for, amongst others, the current Palace of Westminster, likely to have given his name to Big Ben
  • Augustus Short (1802–1883), the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia
  • Zerah Colburn (1804–1840), Canadian child mathematics prodigy
  • William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), scientist
  • Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore (1810–1885), Judge of the Arches
  • Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811–1856), writer
  • Sir Charles Dilke, 1st Baronet (1811–1869) reformer, instigator of the Great Exhibition
  • Henry Mayhew (1812–1887), reforming and satirical journalist ; chronicler of London's poor and founder of Punch
  • Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817–1896), author
  • Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter
  • Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge (1837–1912)
  • Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet (1843–1911), Liberal statesman
  • Herbert Rawson (1852–1924), England international footballer
  • Norman Bailey (1857–1923), England international footballer
  • F. W. Bain (1863–1940), writer of fantasy stories
  • Sir Guy Francis Laking (1875–1919), art historian and Keeper of the London Museum
  • Charles Dennis Fisher (1877–1916), classical scholar
  • Sir K. A. C. Creswell (1879–1974), architectural historian specialising in Egyptian Islamic architecture
  • A. A. Milne (1882–1956), author and journalist
  • Hussein Ala (1882–1964), Prime Minister of Iran
  • Battiscombe Gunn (1883–1950) Egyptologist
  • Adrian Stephen (1883–1948), Bloomsbury psychoanalyst
  • Henry Tizard (1885–1959), scientist and inventor
  • Harry St. John Philby (1885–1960), Arabist, explorer, author, agent
  • Reginald Hackforth (1887–1957), Classical scholar, professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge University
  • Gustav Hamel (1889–1914), pioneer aviator
  • Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1984), conductor
  • Edgar Adrian (1889–1977), scientist and Nobel Prizewinner
  • Jack Hulbert (1892–1978), actor
  • Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos (1893–1972), Cabinet Minister during World War II, chairman of the National Theatre Board
  • Frederick Melville (1882–1940), philatelist
  • Geoffrey Bailey (1899-Post 1929), World War I flying ace

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