List of Old Cliftonians
This is a list of notable Old Cliftonians, former pupils of Clifton College in Bristol in the West of England.
Academics
- John Barron – classicist and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford
- Eric Birley – Vindolanda archaeologist, classical scholar
- Simon Blackburn – philosopher, founder of quasi-realism
- Frederick S. Boas – English scholar
- Horatio Brown – historian
- Norman O. Brown – author, philosopher
- Charles Coulson – mathematician and theoretical chemist
- G. E. M. de Ste. Croix Classical scholar
- Sir Charles Firth – historian
- Paul Grice – philosopher of language
- Sir Thomas Heath – polymath, civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator and mountaineer
- Geoffrey Hinton – computer scientist and cognitive psychologist
- Arthur Hutchinson – mineralogist, professor, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Arthur Jose – historian and journalist
- John Kendrew – biochemist and crystallographer, joint winner of 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Martin Lings – scholar
- Patrick McGuinness – academic, critic, novelist and poet
- John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart – philosopher
- John Pinkerton – designer of world's first business computer, the LEO computer
- Harold Arthur Prichard – philosopher
- Reginald Punnett – geneticist
- Ivor Armstrong Richards – scholar, critic, rhetorician, author The Meaning of Meaning
- Edgar Samuel – Director of the London Jewish Museum
- Sir Richard Threlfall – physicist and chemical engineer
- Herbert Hall Turner – Professor of Astronomy and seismologist
- Conrad Hal Waddington – developmental biologist, palaeontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher
- Sir Thomas Herbert Warren – Professor of Poetry and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
- R. P. Winnington-Ingram – scholar of Greek tragedy, Professor of Greek at King's College London
- Dr Christopher Rowland Payne – doctor and professor
Public life and the law
- Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet
- Sir James Allen – New Zealand politician
- Osman Ali Baig – MBE, Indian Army officer, Pakistani diplomat and statesman, and Secretary-General of CENTO
- Michael Bear – Lord Mayor of London
- Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood – Conservative member of the House of Lords
- Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel – KBE Conservative MP.
- Leslie Hore-Belisha – Minister of War
- Sir Edward John Cameron – colonial administrator
- Lothian Bonham-Carter – English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
- Sir Edgar Bonham-Carter – CIE Barrister
- John Bonham-Carter (1817–1884) – Liberal Party politician
- Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton GCMG PC
- Sir John Biggs-Davison – Conservative politician
- Sir Richard Cooper, 2nd Baronet – Conservative MP
- Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote – lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor
- Alban Dobson – civil servant, secretary of the International Whaling Commission, president of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
- Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed – Master of the Rolls and Law Lord
- Geoff Gollop OBE – Deputy Mayor of Bristol, former Lord Mayor and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol
- Jeremy Hackett – British fashion designer, founder of Hackett clothing
- Sir James Heath, 1st Baronet Bt – MP North West Staffordshire.
- Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol – diplomat
- Sir Thomas Heath – Treasury Secretary and scholar and author.
- Baron Henley 8th Baron Henley. Tory Politician
- Sir Roger Hollis – journalist, secret-service agent and director general of MI5
- Syed Fakhar Imam – the 11th Speaker of National Assembly of Pakistan.
- Patrick Jenkin – Conservative politician
- Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet – Irish Politician, Senator 1st, 2nd, 3rd Seanad
- Neville Laski QC – Judge and leader of Anglo Jewry
- Sir John May – Judge
- Navendu Mishra – Labour MP
- Sir Alan Mocatta – English judge, leader of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the UK
- Edwin Montagu – Liberal politician
- Louis Samuel Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling
- Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet – Industrialist and Liberal MP
- Sir Peter Newsam – chairman of Commission for Racial Equality and Inner London Education Authority chief education officer.
- Arthur Richards, 1st Baron Milverton GCMG
- Hector Sants – head of the Financial Services Authority
- Colin Sleeman – Assistant Judge Advocate General, senior defence counsel for Japanese accused of war crimes
- Abel Thomas – Welsh Liberal MP
- Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood – brother of Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet, Liberal and Labour Minister in Ramsay MacDonald government.
- Sir Ralph Wedgwood, 1st Baronet
- Philip William Wheeldon Bishop of Whitby
- Sir Rowland Whitehead, 3rd Baronet KC MP – barrister and politician
- John Henry Whitley – Speaker of the House of Commons
- Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson – conservative politician
- Baron Wyfold – Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, Bt MP.
Military
- Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
- Field Marshal William Birdwood – 1st Baron Birdwood
- Lieutenant General Frederick E. Morgan
- Sir Francis Younghusband – British Army officer, explorer, and spiritualist
- Sir Hugh Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO – general
- Sir Charles Bonham-Carter – General of the Territorial Army and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta.
- Lieutenant Colonel Oswald Watt – Australian flying ace in First World War
- Percy Hobart KBE CB DSO MC – military engineer
- Cecil Rawling CMG CIE DSO FRGS – soldier, explorer and author
- Alexander Kearsey OBE, DSO – soldier, cricketer and military historian
- Lothian Bonham-Carter – English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
- Jock Hamilton-Baillie MC
- John Whitty MC DSO
- Sir Charles Cuyler, 4th Baronet OBE, soldier and cricketer
- Leslie Innes Jacques CB, CBE, MC – British Army engineer officer
Holders of the Victoria Cross
Eight Old Cliftonians have won the Victoria Cross – one in the Second Boer War, five in the First World War, one in the Russian Civil War, and one in the Second World War.- Second Boer War:
- *Sergeant Horace Robert Martineau VC . He later achieved the rank of Lieutenant.
- First World War:
- * Richard Douglas Sandford VC was a Royal Navy officer who took part in the Zeebrugge Raid and won the Victoria Cross.
- * Captain Theodore Wright VC
- *Lieutenant Cyril Gordon Martin VC CBE DSO . He later achieved the rank of Brigadier.
- *Lieutenant Edward Donald Bellew VC . He later achieved the rank of Captain.
- * Captain George Henry Tatham Paton VC MC
- Russian Civil War:
- * Commander Claude Congreve Dobson VC DSO
- Second World War:
- * Lance-Corporal John Pennington Harman VC
Arts and sciences
Literature
- Charles Bean – War Correspondent and Official Historian of Australia during the First World War
- Joyce Cary – writer
- Robin Fedden – writer
- L. P. Hartley – author
- Robert Hichens – Author and playwright
- Geoffrey Household – author
- C. H. B. Kitchin – author
- Tim Mackintosh-Smith – author and television presenter
- Alan Noel Latimer Munby – author
- Henry Newbolt – poet
- Arthur Quiller-Couch – poet.
- George Shipway – novelist
- Montague Summers – author, translator, occultist, scandalous clergyman and member of Uranian bards of Greco-Roman pederasty.
Drama, theatre, television and performing arts
Comedian and host of the Triggernometry podcast. Konstantin allegedly suffered bullying because he was a foreigner without fluent English speaking.- John Cleese – Monty Python actor
- Jo Clifford, transgender playwright
- Manuel del Campo – film editor, actor, and third husband to Mary Astor
- Thorold Dickinson – film director, screenwriter and producer.
- William Hanson – television presenter, podcaster and etiquette coach.
- Chris Harris – automotive journalist and television presenter
- Donald Hewlett – actor
- John Houseman – actor, director and producer
- Trevor Howard – actor
- John Inverdale – television presenter
- Elliot Levey – actor
- John Madden – film director
- Roger Michell – film & theatre director
- Alan Napier – actor
- Sir Michael Redgrave – actor
- Sir Simon Russell Beale – actor
- Chris Serle – television presenter
- Simon Shepherd – actor
- Tim Sullivan – film and television director and screenwriter
- Clive Swift – actor
- David Swift – actor
- Naunton Wayne – actor
Music
- Joseph Cooper
- Scott Ford – musician
- John Rippiner Heath – physician and composer
- Craig Sellar Lang – organist and composer
- Boris Ord – conductor
- Ian Partridge – tenor
- Harry Plunket Greene
- A. J. Potter – composer
- Martina Topley-Bird – musician
- Peter Tranchell – composer
- Sir David Willcocks – conductor
- Jonathan Willcocks – composer
- Nicky Chinn – songwriter
- Kitty Brucknell – singer/songwriter
Education
- C. T. Atkinson – tutor in history at Exeter College, Oxford.
- J. R. Eccles – schoolmaster and author
Fine arts
- Roger Fry – artist
- Derek Gillman – President of the Barnes Foundation
- Peter Lanyon – Cornish painter of Euston Road School.
- Henry Tonks – English surgeon, artist, like Fry, Slade Professor of Fine Art
Science
- Philip D'Arcy Hart – pioneer in tuberculosis treatment
- Victor Riddell FRCS – cricketer and surgeon
- Frank Yates FRS – statistician
Nobel Prize winners
Journalism
- Sir William Emsley Carr – Chairman of News of the World
- Roger Alton – editor of The Observer
- Ian Black, reporter and editor for The Guardian
- Leigh Brownlee – cricketer and former editor of the Daily Mirror
- Francis Wrigley Hirst – editor of The Economist
- Hugh Schofield – BBC Paris Correspondent
- Angus Scott – sports broadcaster
- Steve Scott – ITV newscaster and former ITN foreign correspondent
- Richard Stott – journalist
- Andrew Wilson – Sky News news presenter and former foreign correspondent
Sports (in alphabetical order)
Cricket, rugby and football
- Basil Allen – cricketer, Gloucestershire captain
- Joseph Beardsell – cricketer
- Lothian Bonham-Carter – English cricketer, Justice of the Peace and soldier
- William Brain – English cricketer and footballer
- Bernard Brodhurst – cricketer
- James Bush Gloucestershire cricketer, England rugby international
- Robert Edwin Bush Gloucestershire cricketer
- Charles Carnegy, cricketer
- A. E. J. Collins – cricketer, world record holder
- John Daniell – captain of Somerset, England rugby international
- David Dickinson – cricketer
- Alban Dobson – cricketer
- Archibald Fargus – English cricketer, scholar, clergyman
- Immanuel Feyi-Waboso – England and Exeter Chiefs rugby player
- Edwin Field – Middlesex cricketer, England rugby international
- Sir Stephen Finney – England rugby international
- W. G. Grace Jr – Gloucestershire and MCC cricketer
- Paul Green-Armytage – cricketer
- George Harrison – cricketer
- Hubert Johnston – Scottish cricketer
- R. P. Keigwin – England cricketer and hockey player
- Sir Kingsmill Key – Bt., captain of Surrey, MCC and England cricketer.
- James Kirtley – England cricketer
- Ioan Lloyd – Wales and Scarlets rugby player
- Leslie Lloyd – cricketer
- Meredith Magniac – cricketer
- Frank May – cricketer
- Thomas Penny – cricketer
- Rowland Raw – cricketer
- Henry Schwann – cricketer
- Dr. Edward Scott – Gloucestershire & MCC cricketer, England rugby international.
- Louie Shaw – cricketer
- Thomas Stubbs – cricketer
- Charlie Townsend – England cricketer
- Edward Tylecote – England cricketer
- Henry Tylecote – cricketer
- William van Someren – cricketer
- George Whitehead – England cricketer
- John Whitty – cricketer and British Army officer
- Matt Windows – Gloucestershire cricketer and England 'A' cap.
Other
- Jerry Cornes – English Olympic runner
- Justin Chaston – Welsh athlete who competed at three Olympic Games for Great Britain
- Walter Gibb – world record holder
- Sir Edward Atholl Oakeley – Baronet, pioneer of professional wrestling
- William H. K. Pollock – English chess master
- Lily Owsley – Hockey GB and England
- Boris Schapiro – bridge player
- Simon Hazlitt – Hockey GB and England
Business
- W. O. Bentley – founder of Bentley Motors
- Sir John Beynon, 1st Baronet – entrepreneur of the fossil fuel and metals industry
- Sir Trevor Chinn – tycoon and philanthropist
- Edward Cruttwell – civil engineer particularly associated with London's Tower Bridge
- Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet – business man, chairman of British-American Tobacco Company
- Sir Roy Fedden – engineer
- Jeremy Hackett – fashion designer and entrepreneur
- Patrick Seager Hill T.D. – clothing manufacturer, pioneer & developer of safety & fire protective clothing
- Andy Hornby – former Chief Executive of HBOS
- Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs – entrepreneur
- Sir Horace Kadoorie – industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
- Lord Kadoorie – industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist
- Julian Richer – retailer, author and philanthropist, founder of Richer Sounds
- Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet – industrialist
- Hector Sants – head of the Financial Services Authority
- Sir Clive Thompson – former Chairman of Farepak and Chief Executive of Rentokil Initial
- Sir Robert Waley Cohen – industrialist and leader of Anglo-Jewry
- Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen – business man and Lord Mayor of London
- Henry Herbert Wills – tobacco baron and philanthropist
- Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson – business man, chairman of GUS
- David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale – politician, businessman, chairman of Next
Other
- Rowley Leigh – English chef
- Michael Francis Middleton – Businessman and father of Catherine, Princess of Wales. Both Middleton's father, Capt. Peter Francis Middleton and his grandfather, solicitor and company director Richard Noel Middleton also boarded at Clifton
- Ernest Geoffrey Parsons CVO, CBE, farmer and a commissioner of the crown estates.
Fictional
- Christopher Tietjens – the protagonist of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End.