List of Old Salopians

The following is an incomplete list of notable Old Salopians.

Old Salopians born 1563-1940

Contents: Top · 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer
• John Adams (cartographer), (b. before 1670, d. 1738), cartographer
• Cyril Argentine Alington (1872–1955), headmaster and dean of Durham
• Thomas Ashton (d. 1578), headmaster
• John Langshaw Austin, philosopher of language

B

• William Henry Bateson, (1812–1881), college head
• Sir Cecil Beadon (1816–1880), administrator in India
• (Walter) Lyon Blease, (1884–1963), barrister and civic activist
• Christopher Booker, journalist
• Tim Booth, lead singer of the band James)
• John Breynton (1719-1799), minister and missionary in Nova Scotia
• Mynors Bright (1817–1883), literary scholar
• Arthur John Reginald Trevor Briscoe, (1873–1943), engraver and marine artist
• John Brockbank, (1848-1896), footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
• Sir Edward Bromley, (bap. 1563, d. 1626), judge
• John Bromley, (bap. 1653, d. 1718), translator
• Peter Brown, historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
• Samuel Browne, (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
• (George Henry) Bertram Bulmer (1902–1993), cider manufacturer and business entrepreneur
• Samuel Hawksley Burbury, (1831–1911), lawyer and mathematician
• Robert Burn, (1829–1904), classical scholar and archaeologist
• Charles Burney (1726-1814), music historian
• John Percy Burrell, (1910–1972), theatre director
• Omar Bolkiah (1986-), Crown Prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
• Samuel Butler (1774–1839), headmaster and bishop of Coventry and Lichfield

C

• James Carter (1993-present), life critic
• William Leycester Rouse Carbonell (1912–1993), police officer in Malaya
• Thomas Chaloner (Challoner) (c.1600–1664), headmaster
• Edwin Charles Clark (1835–1917), jurist and university teacher
• George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975), historian
• William George Clark (1821–1878), literary and classical scholar
• William Clarke (1695–1771), antiquary
• Richard Charles Cobb (1917–1996), historian and essayist
• Alexander Cooper, chef
• Joshua Edward Synge Cooper (1901–1981), cryptanalyst and intelligence officer
• Edward Meredith Cope (1818-1873), classical scholar
• Edward Corbet, (1601x3–1658), Anglican clergyman
• John Corbet (Corbett) (1609–1670), politician and judge
• Sir Randolph Crewe (Crew) (bap. 1559, d. 1646), judge
• Julian Critchley (1930–2000), politician
• Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft (1881–1947), politician
• Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce (1912-2000), judge
• William Aubrey Cecil Darlington (1890–1979), theatre critic and author

D

• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
• Francis Day (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
• Simon Dee (1935-2009), radio personality
• Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
• Miles Dempsey (1896–1969), army officer
• Hal Dixon (1928-2008), biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College Cambridge
• John Freeman Milward Dovaston, (1782–1854), naturalist and poet
• Andrew Downes (c.1549–1628), Greek scholar
• Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, fourth baronet and seventh baronet (1818–1899), archaeologist and antiquary

E

• Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide
• Alexander John Ellis (formerly Sharpe), (1814–1890), phonetician and mathematician
• Sir (Robert) Charles Evans (1918–1995), surgeon and mountaineer
• Robert Wilson Evans (1789–1866), Church of England clergyman and author
• William Edward Evans (1801–1869), Church of England clergyman and naturalist

F

• Frederick William Faber (1814–1863), Church of England clergyman and Roman Catholic priest
• Richard Saul Ferguson (1837–1900), antiquary
• Charles John Ffoulkes (1868–1947), museum curator
• Freddie Fisher(1985-), Big Brother UK Series 10 contestant
• James Fleming (1830–1908), Church of England clergyman
• Paul Foot, journalist
• James Fraser (1818–1885), bishop of Manchester
• Abraham Fraunce (France) (1559?–1592/3?), poet and lawyer

G

• Harry Gawler, traveller
• Edwin Hamilton Gifford (1820–1905), biblical scholar
• Ismail al-Ghulami (1969-), Saudi sheikh, owner of the Jubail oilfields
• Arthur Herman Gilkes (1849–1922), headmaster
• Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
• Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851–1941), administrator in India and philologist
• Moses Griffith (bap. 1699, d. 1785), physician
• Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), historian and theologian

H

• Hubert Hall (1857–1944), archivist
• James Hall (1800–1854), painter
• Nick Hancock (1962–), actor and TV presenter
• John Hanmer (1575/6–1629), bishop of St Asaph
• Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), politician
• Richard Harris (1557/8–1621), Church of England clergyman and author
• Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802–1865), antiquary
• Thomas Emerson Headlam (1813–1875), barrister and politician
• Margaret Heitland [née Bateson] (1860–1938), journalist and social activist
• William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
• Richard Henry Heslop (alias Xavier) (1907–1973), army officer and resistance organizer
• Sir Thomas Hewett, (1656–1726), architect and landowner
• Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (1824–1908), politician
• James Hildyard, (1809–1887), classical scholar
• Sir (John) Denis Nelson Hill (1913–1982), psychiatrist
• Richard Hill (1655/6–1727), diplomat and public servant
• Rowland Hill (1744–1833), evangelical preacher
• Richard Hillary (1919–1943), air force officer and author
• Richard Dacre Archer-Hind, [formerly Richard Dacre Hodgson] (1849–1910), classical scholar
• Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), classical scholar
• John Hollings, (bap. 1682, d. 1739), physician
• Chandos Wren Hoskyns (1812–1876), agriculturist
• William Walsham How (1823–1897), bishop of Wakefield
• Thomas Smart Hughes (1786–1847), historian
• James Humphreys (lawyer) (1768–1830), law reformer
• Sir (Richard Somers) Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), judge
• Sir Francis Humphrys, (1879–1971), colonial administrator and diplomat

I

• Brian St John Inglis (1916–1993), journalist
• Sir Claude Cavendish Inglis (1883–1974), hydraulic engineer
• William) Harold Ingrams (1897–1973), colonial official

J

• Frederick John Jackson (1860–1929), colonial governor and naturalist
• William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson (1917–1999), army officer and military historian
• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge
• (William) Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
• John Jones (b. before 1585, d. in or before 1658), copyist and manuscript collector
• Sir Thomas Jones (1614–1692), judge and law reporter
• Thomas Jones (1756–1807), college teacher

K

• Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), headmaster and classical scholar
• Charles Rann Kennedy (1808–1867), lawyer and classical scholar
• Bryan King (1811–1895), Church of England clergyman

L

• Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine (1901–1980), politician
• Humphrey Leech (alias Henry Eccles) (1571–1629), Jesuit
• Sir William Leighton (c.1565–1622), poet and composer
• Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909), dean of Lichfield
• Sir Edward Lutwyche (1634–1709), judge and politician
• Sir Daniel Lysons (1816–1898), army officer

M

• Humphrey Mackworth (1603–1654), government official and politician
• Richard Madox (1546–1583), Church of England clergyman and diarist
• George Augustus Chichester May (1815–1892), judge
• Frederick Metcalfe (1815–1885), Church of England clergyman and Scandinavian scholar
• Samuel More (1594?–1662), parliamentarian army officer
• George Osborne Morgan (1826–1897), lawyer and politician
• William Egerton Mortimer (1878–1940), lawyer
• Henry Whitehead Moss (1841–1917), headmaster
• Gerard Moultrie (1829-1885), third master, chaplain, hymnographer
• Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819–1885), classical scholar

N

• Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
• Charles Thomas Newton (bap. 1816, d. 1894), archaeologist
• Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer

O

• Sir Charles Oakeley, first baronet (1751–1826), administrator in India
• William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill (1813–1883), Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
• Sir Roger Fray Greenwood Ormrod (1911–1992), judge
• Gen Otsubo, architect
• Sir Francis Ottley (1600/01–1649), politician
• Hugh Owen (1760–1827), Church of England clergyman and antiquary
• Thomas Owen (d. 1598), judge

P

• Thomas Ethelbert Page (1850–1936), classical scholar and schoolmaster
• Bernard Charles Tolver Paget (1887–1961), army officer
• Edward Francis Paget (1886–1971), archbishop of central Africa
• Francis Paget (1851–1911), bishop of Oxford
• Stephen Paget (1855–1926), writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
• Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), classical scholar and writer
• Michael Palin, CBE (1943- ), member of Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
• John Lewis Alexander Paton (1863–1946), schoolmaster
• Thomas Williamson Peile (1806–1882), Church of England clergyman and headmaster
• Arthur William Peterson (1916–1986), public servant
• Arthur Purves Phayre (1812–1885), administrator in Burma
• Robert Phayre (1820–1897), army officer
• Ambrose Philips (bap. 1674, d. 1749), poet and playwright
• John Arthur Pilcher (1912–1990), diplomatist
• (Henry) Graham Pollard (1903–1976), bookseller and bibliographer
• Arthur William Poole (1852–1885), bishop in Japan
• Sir Thomas Powys (1649–1719), judge and politician
• Daniel Price (1581–1631), dean of Hereford
• Francis Procter (1812–1905), Church of England clergyman and liturgical scholar

R

• Henry Cecil Raikes (1838–1891), politician
• Martin Rees (President of Royal Society, Astronomer Royal, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge)
• John Hamilton Reynolds (1794-1852), poet

S

• Sandy Singleton (1914-1999), cricketer

T

• Herbert Tayler (1912–2000), architect
• Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907–1995), music critic
• John Taylor (bap. 1704, d. 1766), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
• Silas Taylor (1624–1678), parliamentarian army officer and antiquary
• Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
• William Beach Thomas (1868–1957), journalist and author
• William Thomson (1819–1890), archbishop of York
• Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), hymn writer
• Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring (1818–1907), parliamentary draftsman
• J. C. Thring
• Richard Todd, Actor
• Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), headmaster
• Sir Thomas Trevor (c.1573–1656), judge
• James Taylor (cricketer) (1990-)

V

• Rice Vaughan (d. c.1672), lawyer
• Sir William Vaughan (d. 1649), royalist army officer

W

• Alan Wace (1879–1957), archaeologist
• Henry William Rawson Wade (1918-2004), academic lawyer
• Graham Wallas (1858–1932), political psychologist and educationist
• John Wood Warter (1806–1878), Church of England clergyman and antiquary
• Sir Francis John Bagott Watson (1907–1992), art historian and museum curator
• John Weaver (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
• Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
• Edgar Whitehead (1905–1971), prime minister of Rhodesia
• Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885), Unitarian minister
• Sir Kyffin Williams (1918-2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
• Owen Tudor Williams (1916–1996), civil engineer
• Sir William Williams (1633/4–1700), lawyer and politician
• H. de Winton
• Edward Wolley (bap. 1604, d. 1684), bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh
• Sir Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, third baronet (1828–1865), writer
• Sir Robert Wright (c.1549–1608x10), tutor
• John Wylie, (c.1853 – 1924), 1878 FA Cup winner and England international

Y

• Charles Edward Yate (1849–1940), administrator in India and politician