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This is a List of notable Old Gowers , former pupils of
University College School . The school opened on 1 November 1830, at 16 Gower Street, which is the origin of the sobriquet "Old Gower".
Zak Abel (born 1995), English singer/songwriter, musician
Thomas Adès (OG ?-1988), composer
The Very Rev. Dr.
Hermann Adler (OG 1852–54), Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom
The Rev. Canon
Alfred Ainger (OG 1847–49), Master of the Temple
David Ainsworth , Liberal Member of Parliament for Cumberland 1880–1885 and 1892–1895
Sir John Stirling Ainsworth, 1st Baronet ,
Liberal Member for
Argyllshire 1903–1918
Moses Angel , according to A Tradition for Freedom founder of
The Jewish Chronicle
Richard Arnell (OG 1927–35), composer
Sir
Eric Ash (OG ?-?), electrical engineer and
Rector of Imperial College (1985–93)
Professor
William Edward Ayrton (OG 1859–64), physicist
The Most Rev.
Edward Gilpin Bagshawe (OG 1836–38), Roman Catholic
Bishop of Nottingham and later of the
titular see of Selucia.
Walter William Rouse Ball (OG ?-?), mathematician and historian, Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge His bequests founded the
Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics and
Rouse Ball Professor of English Law in the
University of Cambridge . The Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Oxford is named after him as well.
Sir
Roger Bannister (OG 1944–46), runner and neurologist
John Barrett , tennis player and commentator, who represented Britain in the
Davis Cup
Lucas Barrett (OG ?-?), English geologist and naturalist
Sir
G. C. T. Bartley (OG 1852–59), politician
Tony Bastable (OG 1955–?), television presenter and independent producer
Walter Bayes , painter and art critic
Doyne Bell (1830―1888)
antiquary
[1]
Robert Anning Bell (OG 1876–78), painter and illustrator
Nicolas Bentley , illustrator
Alan Blaikley (OG 1948–58), songwriter
Dirk Bogarde (OG ?-? Junior Branch only), actor
Sir
Chris Bonington (OG 1944–52), mountaineer
[2]
[3]
Dion Boucicault (OG ?-?), Anglo-Irish author and playwright. Helped to get the first dramatic US copyright law passed in 1856, and was involved in the setting up of the UK royalty system.
Sir
Alfred Gibbs Bourne (OG 1872–76), director of the
Indian Institute of Science
Edgar Alfred Bowring , literary translator, Liberal Member of Parliament for Exeter 1868–1874
William Hardwick Bradbury (OG 1843-1848) – printer and publisher
Sir
Edward Braddon (OG 1843–44),
Premier of Tasmania
Major General Sir John Rose Bradford, 1st Baronet (OG 1875–80), president of the
Royal College of Physicians
[4]
Professor
Paul Brand (OG ?-?) orthopaedic surgeon who helped sufferers from leprosy. Emeritus Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics,
University of Washington , international president of the Leprosy Mission, Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Leslie Bricusse English composer, lyricist, and playwright, most prominently working in musicals and also film theme songs.
Simon Brodkin , Comedian
William Speirs Bruce (OG 1885–1887?), Polar scientist and oceanographer
Sir
George Buchanan (OG 1878–85), chief medical officer for England, 1879–1892
Laurence Buckman (OG ?-1972), chairman of the British Medical Association's General Practitioners’ Committee.
[2]
[5]
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham (OG 1847–50), principal proprietor of
The Daily Telegraph
Sir Edward Henry Busk , vice-chancellor of
London University 1905–1907
Ingram Bywater (OG 1853–56),
Regius Professor of Greek at
Oxford University
Gerald Campion , actor, most famous for playing
Billy Bunter
G. S. Carr (OG ?-?), mathematician.
Richard D'Oyly Carte , impresario who owned and built the
Savoy Hotel and
Savoy Theatre
Bertie Carvel , (OG ?-?), actor and singer
Joseph Chamberlain (OG 1850–52), Colonial Secretary, leader of the Imperialist Liberals and father of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain
Richard Chamberlain , Member of Parliament for Islington 1885–1892
Sir Arthur Charles (OG 1848–54), Judge of the High Court
André Chevrillon (OG 1876–77), member of the
French Academy
Sir William Christie ,
Astronomer Royal 1881–1910
[6]
Sir
William Job Collins (OG 1869–76), Member of Parliament, Chairman of
London County Council , Surgeon, two term Vice-Chancellor of the
University of London (1907-9, 1911–12)
Sir Daniel Cooper (OG 1835–39), first Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly of
New South Wales
Allan Corduner (OG ?-?), actor, played Sir Arthur Sullivan in the film
Topsy-Turvy .
Gordon Corera , broadcast journalist
Baron Cozens-Hardy (OG ?-?), Commander of the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the First World War
Joe Craig , novelist
Sir
Frank Crisp (OG 1857–59), lawyer
Charles Crompton , Liberal Member of Parliament for Staffordshire 1885–1886
Sir
David Crouch (OG ?-?), Conservative politician
Eric Crozier , opera producer
Paul Dacre , editor of the
Daily Mail
William Frend De Morgan (OG 1849–55), artist, potter and novelist
Hugh Dennis (OG 1974–1980), actor and comedian
Nick Denton (OG ?-?), internet businessman
Jonathan Djanogly , Member of Parliament
John Dorian (OG ?-?), surgeon
Sir
Henry Doulton (OG 1833–36), inventor and manufacturer of pottery, winner of the
Albert Medal
Sir
Edwin Durning-Lawrence (OG 1847–52), Professor at University College London who researched the
Baconian theory
Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank (OG 1877–80), art dealer and philanthropist
Sir
George Faudel-Phillips (OG 1853–55),
Lord Mayor of London 1896–97
Luke Brandon Field (OG 1995-2006), actor
Horace Field (OG 1876-8), Architect
Anthony Finkelstein (OG 1970-1977), Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Lord
Daniel Finkelstein OBE (OG 1973-1980), chief leader writer at The Times
Sir
John Ambrose Fleming FRS (OG ?-?), electrical engineer
Sir
Walter Morley Fletcher (OG 1886–91), physiologist, Secretary of the Medical Research Council, Senior Tutor of
Trinity College, Cambridge
Matt Floyd broadcaster for
Sky Sports
Ford Madox Ford (OG 1888–90), novelist, editor
George Forrest (OG ?-?), Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford, founder member of
British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles
Sir Michael Foster (OG 1849–52), physiologist, professor and Member of Parliament
Sir
Gregory Foster (OG 1881-4), Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, the first Provost of University College London.
Thomas Fox , cricketer and dermatologist
Percy F. Frankland , chemist
Jonathan Freedland (OG ?-?), newspaper journalist,
The Guardian
Clive Gardiner , designer, artist and illustrator
Simon Garfield (OG ?-?), journalist,
The Observer , and author
Alex Garland (OG ?- 1987), novelist, writer of
The Beach
Samuel Gee , physician and paediatrician
Charles Gifford (OG ?-?), Canadian politician
Paul Gilroy (OG ?-?), author and Giddens Professor, the London School of Economics
David Ginsburg (OG ?-?), Member of Parliament
Oliver Gledhill (OG ?-?), cellist
Paul Gorman (OG 1971–1978), writer
Sir
John Grandy (OG ?-?), GCB GCVO KBE DSO KStJ, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Chief of the Air Staff, 1967 to 1971. Governor of Gibraltar, 1973 to 1978.
Sir
Alan Greengross (OG ?-?), Former Conservative Leader on the Greater London Council, Vice-Chair of the Council of University College London
Joseph Gouge Greenwood (OG 1835–37), Principal of
Owens College and Vice-Chancellor of
Victoria University
Maurice Greiffenhagen RA (OG 1872–76), artist
[7]
Raymond Gubbay (OG 1957-62), impresario.
William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby , PC, QC, (OG 1848–49), Speaker of the House of Commons
Thom Gunn (OG ?-?), poet
Robert Gunther (OG ?-?), founded the
Museum of the History of Science .
Sir
Francis Seymour Haden (OG ?-?), English etcher, writer and surgeon
Roger Leighton Hall CNZM, QSO, (OG 1952–55), New Zealand playwright.
Professor
W.D. Halliburton MD, FRS (OG1872-77), Professor of Physiology,
King's College London
Laurence Halsted (OG 1984– ), fencer
Nick Harkaway , novelist and commentator
Numa Edward Hartog (OG 1857–61), First Jewish Senior Wrangler, prominent figure in the movement to remove Jewish disabilities, helped to secure the passing of the Universities Tests Act in 1871
Sir
Philip John Hartog KBE, CIE (OG 1874–80), Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Dacca
Mark Hatton (OG 1984-91) 2 x Olympic Luge Racer
Count
Hayashi Tadasu , Japanese Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the Court of St James
Alexander Hill OBE, MA, MD, MRCS, FRCS (OG 1870–72), Master of
Downing College, Cambridge , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1897–99), Principal of
Southampton University College 1912-1920
Mayer Hillman (OG ?-?), author and Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute
David Hobman CBE, Founder Director of
Age Concern .
S. D. Holden (OG ?–
c. 1886 ), steam locomotive engineer
Frank Holl (OG ?-?), English painter
Tom Hood (OG ?-?), humourist
Ken Howard (OG 1947-1956), songwriter, composer, film director and author.
Geoffrey Howard , English cricketer and cricket administrator.
Dr
Tristram Hunt (OG ?-1992), historian and Labour Member of Parliament
Richard Holt Hutton (OG 1835–41), editor of
The Spectator
Leonard Huxley LL.D. (OG 1872–77), editor of The Cornhill Magazine
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (OG 1873–74), Lord Chief Justice, Foreign Secretary (briefly), Leader of the House of Lords, solicitor and attorney general (held separately), Ambassador to the USA, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Viceroy of India.
Keith Usherwood Ingold , OC FRS FRSC FRSE is a British chemist.
Ian Katz (OG ?-?), Editor of
Newsnight
Paul Kaye (OG 1978-81), Actor, comedian, best known for the renegade character 'Dennis Pennis'
Alex Kay-Jelski (OG ?-?), journalist, editor of
The Athletic
Brian Keith , Court of Appeal judge, Hong Kong; High Court judge, England and Wales
Arthur Edwin Kennelly (OG ?-?), American electrical engineer
Joseph Wilfred Kerman (OG 1937-39), American musicologist
Dairoku Kikuchi (OG ?-?), Japanese mathematician and Minister of Education
Martin Lamble (OG ?-?), drummer with
Fairport Convention
[8]
[9]
Edmund Leighton (OG ?-?), artist
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (OG 1839–43), artist and President of the Royal Academy
Eylon Levy (OG ?-?), Israeli government spokesperson
Cecil Arthur Lewis (OG ?-?), Oscar winner for adapting the screenplay of
Pygmalion .
Geoffrey Lewis Lewis (OG ?-?), linguist, Emeritus Professor of Turkish at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of
St Antony's College
Martin Lewis (OG ?-?), humorist, producer and broadcaster
Nathaniel Lindley, 1st Baron Lindley , PC, (OG 1837–45), Master of the Rolls, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead QC (OG 1929–31, Chairman of Council 1971–79), Quain Professor of Jurisprudence in the
University of London , Chairman of the National Film School 1970–1988
[10]
Professor
D.S. MacColl (OG 1873–76), Keeper of the
Wallace Collection .
René MacColl (1905–1971), cricketer and journalist
John Allan McNab (1948-55), president, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants 1995-6
Sir
Philip Magnus , MP (circa 1855–60?), educational reformer and Member of Parliament for London University.
Sir
Edward Manville M.Inst. E.E., (OG 1874–78), chairman of the Imperial Council of Commerce
Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge (OG ?-?), former chairman and chief executive of British Airways.
Lieutenant
Horace Robert Martineau (OG ?-?), recipient of the
Victoria Cross
The Rt. Rev Dr.
John Howard Bertram Masterman DD, (OG ?-?), Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth and author
John Preston Maxwell (OG ?-?), missionary, President of the Chinese Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
David McCallum , actor and musician.
[11]
Sir
Andrew McFadyean (OG ?-?), senior civil servant, General Secretary to the Reparation Commission 1919, Chairman of S.G. Warburg and Co, Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs
China Miéville (OG ?-?), author
Max Minghella (OG 1999–2004), actor
Sir
Ernest William Moir (OG ?-?) - Civil engineer who invented the first medical airlock
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn , PC, OM, (OG 1853–54), Secretary of State for India
Richard Morrison , (OG 1965-1972), chief culture writer, The Times
The Rev
William Stainton Moses (OG ?-?), Christian Spiritualist leader and medium, President of the London Spiritualist Alliance (1884-death).
Rodrigo Moynihan , artist
Alexander Muirhead (OG ?-?), developed the first
electrocardiogram , one of the developers of
wireless telegraphy
Tom Oppé (OG ?-?), paediatrician, CBE 1984–
Sir
Walter Raleigh (OG 1877–79), Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Sir
Boverton Redwood , 1st Baronet Boverton (OG 1857–61), chemist and petroleum expert
[12]
Andrew Reid , lawyer, racehorse trainer and Treasurer of the
UK Independence Party
Daniel Roche (2011-2018), actor
Henry Ling Roth (1855–1925), anthropologist, active in Australia
Walter Roth , anthropologist, after whom the
Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology in Georgetown, Guyana was named
Edward John Routh
RS , mathematician, winner of the
Adams Prize in 1877, fellow of the
Royal Society , also contributed to
Routh–Hurwitz theorem and
Routh stability criterion .
Dick Rubenstein , Major, British Army
The Very Rev
Michael Sadgrove (OG 1959–67), Provost, then Dean of Sheffield 1995; Dean of Durham 2003
[2]
[3]
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (OG 1884–88), Leader of the Liberal Party, Home Secretary and High Commissioner for Palestine
Gordon Samuels
AC
CVO
QC ,
Governor of New South Wales (1996–2001)
The Right Reverend
David Say ,
KCVO ,
DD ),
bishop of Rochester (1961–1988)
Ben Schott (OG 1987–1992), author of
Schott's Miscellanies
Admiral Sir
Percy Scott , Bart., KCB. (OG 1865–66), instrumental in developing gunnery and other equipment for the Royal Navy
[13]
[14]
[15]
Will Self , writer
Stanley Shaldon , nephrologist
Sir
Arthur Everett Shipley FRS (OG 1877–79), Master of
Christ's College, Cambridge 1910–1927,
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge 1917–1919
Walter Sickert A.RA (OG 1870–71), artist and critic
Professor
Cedric Smith (OG 1932–35), statistician and geneticist
Kenneth Snowman CBE, chairman of
Wartski
Richard Solomons , chief executive of
InterContinental Hotels Group
Professor
Edward Adolf Sonnenschein , Litt. D. (OG 1867–68), philologist, professor of classics and dean of the Faculty of Arts, the University of Birmingham
Stephen Spender , poet
Marion Harry Spielmann (OG 1872-66), historian of
Punch , editor of The Magazine of Art .
The Rt. Rev.
Edward Steere (OG 1842–44), Bishop of Central Africa
Frederic George Stephens , art critic and 'Nonartistic' member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Colonel
H.F. Stephens (OG 1877–83), railway engineer and manager
Lord Wandsworth
Sydney Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth , (OG 1857–58), MP and banker, whose estate founded
Lord Wandsworth College
Greville Stevens , English cricketer, Ashes winner, Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918
Desmond Surfleet , Middlesex cricketer
Fred Susskind (OG 1902–09), South African test match cricketer
The Most Rev.
Arthur Sweatman (OG 1848–50), Archbishop of Toronto and Primate of all Canada
Maj.-Gen. Sir
Ernest Dunlop Swinton , KBE, CB, DSO (OG 1878–83), assistant secretary (Military), Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet in World War One, later Chichele Professor of Military History,
University of Oxford
David Sylvester , art critic and curator
James Joseph Sylvester (OG 1828), professor of mathematics at the
Royal Military Academy , inaugural professor of mathematics at
Johns Hopkins University , Professor at Oxford University
[16]
Sir
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS (OG 1899–1905?), physicist and mathematician
Gordon Thomson (OG 1893–99), Olympic rower
Francis Taylor , Liberal MP for Norfolk South 1885–1898
Matthew Taylor , Liberal Democrat MP (1987–present)
James Thomas (Australian politician) , engineer and politician
Sir
Hamo Thornycroft RA, (OG 1863–68), artist and sculptor
Captain
Norman Todd , airline pilot who captained the first commercial flight of a British Airways
Concorde
Wilfred Trotter
MS
FRCS (OG 1888–90), pioneer in
neurosurgery
Dr
Mark Turin (OG 1981–91), linguistic anthropologist
Dan Wagner , internet entrepreneur
Sir
Francis Walshe , neurologist
Charles Warton , MP, Attorney general of Western Australia
Edwin Waterhouse (OG 1855–57), president of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
Julian Lloyd Webber , cellist
Sir
Arnold Wesker FRSL, dramatist
Ben Winston Producer
Philip Wicksteed , economist and clergyman.
Professor
Robin Wilson , mathematician,
Gresham Professor of Geometry
Ben Winston , television and film producer
Jonathan Wittenberg , Masorti Rabbi
Roland De Wolfe , professional poker player.
Sir
Alfred Yarrow ,
Bart. , FRS (OG 1855–58), ship building industrialist and philanthropist
^ Sir George Scharf, "Mr. Doyne C. Bell" (obituary) in
The Athenaeum , No. 3154, 7 April 1888
^
a
b
c Debrett's People of Today . January 2011
^
a
b
c Who's Who 2011
^ W. J. O'Connor, ed., British physiologists 1885–1914: a biographical dictionary (1991), p. 124
^
"He won GPS their big bucks | the Jewish Chronicle" . Archived from
the original on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2011-04-13 .
^ Biographical details don't seem to mention his education below university level, but as he actively participated in UCS fundraising and applied to be a member of the corporation, he may well be an Old Gower
^
" 'Carlisle, the Gateway to Scotland', LMS poster, 1924., Greiffenhagen, Maurice" . SSPL Prints . Retrieved 25 May 2018 .
^
"Music – Martin Lamble" .
BBC . Retrieved 2012-03-03 .
^
"History of Fairport – Fairport Convention's official website" . Fairportconvention.com . Archived from
the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2012-03-03 .
^ 'Lloyd, Dennis, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead', in
Who Was Who 1991–1995 (A. & C. Black, 1996,
ISBN
0-7136-4496-6
^
"David McCallum Biography" . Fandango.com . Retrieved 2012-03-03 .
^
"Thomas Boverton Redwood" . Gracesguide.co.uk . Retrieved 25 May 2018 .
^
"Admiral Sir Percy Scott" . Gwpda.org . Retrieved 25 May 2018 .
^
Johnson
Archived 2006-06-27 at the
Wayback Machine
^
::The Admiralty and the Submarine Service::
Archived 2006-06-15 at the
Wayback Machine
^ British Society for the History of Mathematics