List of Old Harrovians
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The following is a list of some notable Old Harrovians, former pupils of Harrow School in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Royalty
- King Faisal II of Iraq
- Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
- Prince Hassan bin Al Talal of Jordan
- King Hussein of Jordan
- Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah, claimant Nizam of Hyderabad
- Jagaddipendra Narayan, Maharaja of Cooch Behar
- Lord Nicholas Windsor, youngest son of HRH The Duke of Kent; the Queen's cousin
- HRH Prince Mahidol Adulyadej of Songkhla of Thailand
- His Highness, The Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Bhawani Singh Bahadur
[edit] Prime Ministers
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India
- Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
[edit] Politicians
- Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden, Liberal Member of Parliament
- James Agg-Gardner, Conservative Member of Parliament
- John Amery, pro-Nazi fascist
- Leo Amery, Conservative Secretary of State
- Sir John Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet, Finance Minister, Northern Ireland
- Thomas Baring, Conservative, Member of Parliament
- Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, Cabinet Secretary
- Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, Governor of South Australia
- Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington, Cross-bench Peer
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, prominent reformist
- Evelyn Ashley Liberal Member of Parliament
- Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- William Deedes, Baron Deedes of Aldington, Conservative Member of Parliament and editor of The Daily Telegraph
- Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, diplomat, soldier and Minister for Agriculture youngest brother of Eric ("Chink") Dorman-Smith [1]
- Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Whig Member of Parliament
- Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland, Whig Member of Parliament
- Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, Conservative Secretary of State
- Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland, Whig Member of Parliament
- Sir William Hart Dyke, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Femi Fani-Kayode,Minister of Aviation and Minister of Culture and Tourism, Nigeria
- Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, Lord Chancellor
- George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Liberal Member of Parliament, cofounder of the Scottish National Party
- Sir Jeremy Greenstock, British ambassador to the United Nations
- Albert Henry Edward Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada
- Lord Claud Hamilton, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Lord Ernest Hamilton. Conservative Member of Parliament
- Lord George Hamilton, Conservative Secretary of State
- Robert Grosvenor, 2nd Baron Ebury, Liberal peer
- James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, Conservative Member of Parliament
- John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn, Conservative Member of Parliament
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster. Liberal Member of Parliament
- Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Conersvative Secretary of State
- Sir Adrian Holman, British Ambassador to Cuba
- Sir Stanley Jackson, cricketer and Chairman of the Conservative Party
- Sir Keith Joseph, Conservative Secretary of State
- John Alsop King, 20th Governor of New York State
- Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet Lemon of Carclew, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long, Conservative peer
- Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long, Conservative Secretary of State
- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Malcolm McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Sir Francis May, Governor of Hong Kong
- Peter Millett, Baron Millett, Law Lord
- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Conservative policy advisor
- Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Conservative Minister of Defence
- Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton, Liberal, and then Labour Member of Parliament
- William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist Member of Parliament
- Cranley Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Sir Frederick Peel, Under-Secretary of State for War and Secretary to the Treasury
- Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, Governor General of Canada
- Morgan Philips Price, Liberal and Labour Membr of Parliament
- John Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo, Conservative Secretary of State, known for the Profumo Affair
- Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, Governor General of India
- Matthew White Ridley, 1st Viscount Ridley, Home Secretary
- Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford, Conservative Member of Parliament
- J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, Conservative and Liberal Member of Parliament
- Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, Irish ambassador to Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and Russia
- George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford, Conservative Member of Parliament
- George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Whig Home Secretaty
- John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer, Chancellor of the Exchequer
- John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, Lord Chamberlain
- Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, Conservative councillor, also grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
- Sir Douglas Straight, Conservative Member of Parliament
- Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper, Liberal Member of Parliament
- John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, Governor General of India
- Sir Reginald Talbot, Governor of Victoria in Australia
- Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet, Liberal Member of Parliament
- Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, Liberal Member of Parliament
[edit] Military
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Governor General of Canada
- James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade
- General Sir Peter de la Billiere
- David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- John Harington Gubbins, linguist & diplomat
- General Lord Guthrie, Chief of the General Staff (1994-1997) and Chief of the Defence Staff (1997-2001)
- Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, politician
- Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, supporter of the Confederate States of America
- Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India
- Brigadier General Walter Long
- Ivan Lyon, Lieutenant Colonel, commander Operation Jaywick
- Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
- Admiral Lord Rodney
- Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
- Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain to Queen Victoria
- General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
- Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
- General Sir Lashmer Whistler
[edit] Victoria Cross Holders
Nineteen Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross:[2]
[edit] Crimean War
[edit] Second Opium War
[edit] First Ashanti Expedition
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- Major The Lord Edric Gifford[7]
[edit] Zulu War
[edit] Sudan Campaign
[edit] South African War
[edit] Third Somaliland Expedition
[edit] First World War
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- Acting Major George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay[13]
- Second Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse[14]
- Major Ernest Wright Alexander[15]
- Captain Garth Walford[16]
- Acting Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson[17]
- Acting Captain Walter Napleton Stone[18]
- Acting Lieutenant Colonel John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker[19]
- Captain Richard Raymond Willis[20]
[edit] Second World War
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- Temporary Captain Ian Oswald Liddell[21]
[edit] Church
- Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Charles Gore, English divine and Anglican bishop
- Michael Ashley Mann, Emeritus Dean of Windsor
- Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, Second Archbishop of Westminster
- Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania and father of Field Marshal Montgomery
[edit] Arts
[edit] Writers
- Bernard Bosanquet, philosopher
- Arthur Bryant, historian and columnist
- George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet
- Charles Stuart Calverley, poet
- Richard Curtis, scriptwriter & actor
- Alain de Botton, author
- John Galsworthy, dramatist and nobel prize winning novelist
- Augustus Hare, author
- L. P. Hartley, author
- Theodore Hook, author
- Sir Arnold Lunn, skiing pioneer & writer
- E. H. W. Meyerstein poet and writer
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, journalist and historian
- Sir John Mortimer, dramatist and author
- John Thomas Perceval, writer and campaigner
- Marmaduke Pickthall, Islamic and Middle-Eastern scholar
- Jason Pontin, editor, publisher, and journalist
- Bryan Procter, alias "Barry Cornwall" [friend of Keats]
- Sir Terence Rattigan, dramatist
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright & politician
- William Sotheby, poet and translator
- Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford, man of letters
- John Addington Symonds, poet and literary critic
- G.M. Trevelyan, historian
- Anthony Trollope, novelist
- Francis Wheen, writer and journalist
- Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), novelist
[edit] Visual arts
- Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 19th century artist
- Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, photographer
- Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer and costume designer
- Spencer Gore, artist
- Sir Francis Grant, artist and President of the Royal Academy
- Victor Pasmore, artist
- Lincoln Seligman, artist
- William Fox Talbot, photographer
[edit] Theater/Film
- Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, actor
- James Callis, actor
- Peter Cellier, actor
- Benedict Cumberbatch, actor
- Michael Denison, actor
- James Dreyfus, actor
- Sir Gerald du Maurier, actor, producer
- Valentine Dyall, radio voice actor
- Cassian Elwes, film producer
- Cary Elwes, Actor
- Edward Fox, actor
- James Fox, actor
- Laurence Fox, actor
- Robert Fox, film producer
[edit] Music
- James Blunt, musician
- Mike d'Abo, lead singer, Manfred Mann
- Lord David Dundas, film scorer
- Dan Marshall, grime/hip-hop lyricist
- Ian Parrott, composer
- Sandy Wilson, composer and lyricist
[edit] Sciences
- Francis Maitland Balfour, scientist
- Sir Joseph Banks, explorer
- Sir Gavin de Beer
- Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist
- Aubrey de Grey
- Henry Bence Jones
- Sir William Jones, philologist
- Thomas Henry Manning, Arctic zoologist
- St. George Jackson Mivart, biologist
- Nicholas Patrick, NASA astronaut
- Arthur Cecil Pigou, Economist
- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, scientist & civil servant
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist & Nobel Prize laureate
- William Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography
[edit] Sports
- C. W. Alcock, creator of the FA Cup
- Edward Baily
- John Barham, Athlete
- Morton Betts, 19th Century sportsman
- Guy Butler (athlete), Olympic gold medalist
- Tom French, rugby footballer of London Wasps
- Douglas Robert Hadow, died on Matterhorn first ascent
- Patrick Francis Hadow, Wimbledon champion and big game hunter
- Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet, Racquets World Champion 1862
- Arthur Haygarth, cricketer
- Damian Hopley, Chief Executive of Professional Rugby Players' Association
- A. N. Hornby, Only one of two men to have captained England at cricket and rugby
- Douglas Lowe, Olympic gold medalist
- Archie MacLaren, cricketer
- John McCririck, racing commentator
- Sir Rupert Mackeson, racing author
- Charles Morice (footballer), played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
- Ranjitsinhji, cricketer
- Gareth Rees (rugby player), Canadian fly-half
- Sir Lancelot Royle KBE, Olympian & business man, governor of Harrow School
- Fraser Waters, member of the London Wasps rugby union team
- Reginald de Courtenay Welch, England international footballer
- Julian Wilson, racing commentator
[edit] Business
- Gregory Apcar, merchant and philanthropist
- Simon Astaire
- Thomas Baring of Barings Bank
- Sir Dermot de Trafford, 6th Baronet
- Patrick Douglas Hadow, former Chairman of P&O
- Yıldırım Ali Koç, Koç Holding member and Turkish multisport club Fenerbahçe S.K. vice-president.
- Julian Metcalfe, founder of Pret a Manger
- Nicky Oppenheimer, South African billionaire
- Evelyn Robert de Rothschild
- Timothy Royle, founding chairman of Control Risks Group
- Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, industrialist
- Herbert Haynes Twining, of Twinings
[edit] Law
[edit] Other Nobility
- Henry Wentworth Acland
- Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet
- Henry Bentinck, 11th Earl of Portland
- William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock
- John Boyle, 14th Earl of Cork
- Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland
- Alexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
- Christopher Nevill, 6th Marquess of Abergavenny
- William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor
- Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford
[edit] Other
- George Askew, contestant on Big Brother 7 UK
- Edward Aveling, English Marxist
- Tom Avery, explorer
- James Bruce, explorer
- John Robert Godley, founder of Canterbury, NZ
- Pen Hadow, explorer
- Basil Henriques, philanthropist
- William Jaggs, murderer
- Hugh Massingberd, The Telegraph obituaries writer
- Dr. Samuel Parr, Whig pamphleteer
- Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher
[edit] Old Harrovians in fiction
- Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion
- Lord Brett Sinclair from The Persuaders!
- Paul Marshall, antagonist from novel Atonement and thefilm of the same name
- Withnail from Withnail and I
[edit] References
- ^ Greacen, Lavinia (1991). Chink: A Biography. London: Papermac. pp. 20. ISBN 9780333556931.
- ^ Harrow School website: History
- ^ Sir John George Smyth, (1963), The Story of the Victoria Cross, 1856-1963, page 33 (F. Muller:London)
- ^ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 209, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ^ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 212, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ^ Reginald de Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 208, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 304, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 232, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 445, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 470, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 578, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 551, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 234, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 220, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Sir John George Smyth, (1963), The Story of the Victoria Cross, 1856-1963, page 159 (F. Muller:London)
- ^ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 766, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 281, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 277, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 205, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 708, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 564, (Rivingtons)
