Liverpool Institute High School For Boys - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

For a full list, see Category:People educated at Liverpool Institute High School for Boys
Name Joined/left Born/died Known for
Francis Neilson-Butters 1867–1961 MP for the Hyde Division of Cheshire 1910–1916. Writer and historian.
Sir Walter de Frece 1870–1935 Theatre impresario and MP
Prof Alfred James Ewart 1872–1937 Professor of Botany and Plant Physiology in the University of Melbourne from 1906–21
Prof John Hay 1873–1959 former President of the Royal Microscopical Society, and former Professor of Medicine at the University of Liverpool
Franklin Dyall 1874–1950 Actor
Prof Charles Glover Barkla 1877–1944 Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 "for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements", Wheatstone Professor of Physics from 1909–13 at Kings College London, and discovered most properties of X-ray scattering, fluorescence, polarisation, and transmission through matter.
Sydney Silverman c. 1911–1915 1895–1968 Labour MP from 1935–68 for Nelson and Colne. He brought in a private Member's Bill in 1965 to suspend the death penalty
James Laver 1899–1975 Art historian
Arthur Askey 1911–1916 1900–1982 Comedian and broadcaster.
Sir Malcolm Knox 1900–80 Professor of Moral Philosophy from 1936–53 at the University of St Andrews, and Principal of the University from 1953–66
Sir Frank Francis 1901–1988 Director of the British Museum, 1959–1968
Lindley M. Fraser 1904–63 Jaffrey Professor of Political Economy from 1935–40 at the University of Aberdeen, Head of German and Austrian Services at the BBC from 1946–63
Frank Redington 1906–84 Head Boy 1925; Cambridge University (Wrangler); Chief Actuary of Prudential Insurance 1951–1968; Winner of the Gold Medal of the Institute of Actuaries in honour of "actuarial work of pre-eminent importance".
Prof William Kneale 1906–90 White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, 1960–6. Author of Probability and Induction
Alan Robertson 1920–89 Chemist. Animal breeding and genetics
Alan Durband 1938–1944 1927-93 Pupil who returned as a teacher, one of the founders of the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and the New Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool
Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh 1942–1952 1932– Chair of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, 2003 to 2005.
Peter Sissons 1953–1961 1942– News broadcaster
Steve Norris 1956–1963 1945– MP for Oxford East,1983-1987; Epping Forest, 1988-1997. Conservative candidate for London Mayoralty, 2000 and 2004.
Bill Kenwright 1957–1964 1945– Theatre impresario

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