List of Old Salopians
List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable old boys of Shrewsbury School, a leading UK independent boarding and day school in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England.
A
- Harold Ackroyd, soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Francis William Lauderdale Adams, writer
- Sir James Adams, ambassador to Tunisia and Egypt
- John Adams, cartographer
- Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65
- Sir John Lawson Andrews, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and son of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews
- John Langshaw Austin, philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy
B
- Alan Barber, cricketer and headmaster of Ludgrove
- Robert Bardsley, cricketer and colonial administrator
- Edward Barnard, cricketer
- Mike Barnard, cricketer
- Sir Alexander Fitzwilliam Barrington, 7th Baronet, landowner
- Douglas Bartles-Smith, priest and Archdeacon of Southwark 1985–2004
- William Henry Bateson, scholar and Master of St. John's College, Cambridge 1857–1881
- Sir Cecil Beadon, administrator in India
- Andrew Berry, evolutionary biologist and historian of science at Harvard
- Nick Bevan, rowing coach
- Henry Edward James Bevan, Archdeacon of Middlesex
- Peter Blagg, cricketer and soldier
- David Blakely, murder victim; shot dead by Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain
- Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker, politician
- The Ven. Charles Blakeway, Archdeacon of Stafford 1911–22
- Omar 'Ali Bolkiah, prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
- Christopher Booker, journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
- Tim Booth, lead singer of the band James
- Colin Boumphrey, cricketer and Royal Air Force officer
- Donald Boumphrey, cricketer, educator and British Army officer
- Sir James Bourne, 1st Baronet, politician
- Piers Brendon, historian
- John Breynton, minister and missionary in Nova Scotia
- Lieutenant General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker, senior British Army commander
- Mynors Bright, academic and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- John Brockbank, footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland
- Peter Brown, historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
- Lieutenant-Colonel Barwick Sharpe Browne, officer and librarian in the Institute of Archaeology
- Samuel Browne, Church of England clergyman
- Samuel Hawksley Burbury, mathematician
- Robert Burn, classical scholar, archeologist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Charles Burney, musician, composer, music historian
- John Burrell, theatre director
- John Burrough, cricketer
- Samuel Butler, iconoclastic author of Erewhon and ''The Way of All Flesh''
C
- Sir Edward John Cameron, British colonial administrator, Governor of Gambia 1914–1920
- Sir Philip Montgomery Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Nature
- Sir Frederick Catherwood, politician, writer, and vice-president of European Parliament
- Jamie Catto, economist and programmer
- Bruce Clark, journalist and author
- George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark, historian
- Miles Clark, author, journalist and explorer
- William George Clark, literary and classical scholar
- William Clarke, antiquary
- Rowland Clegg-Hill, 3rd Viscount Hill, politician
- Lieutenant-General Sir Skipton Hill Climo KCB DSO
- Richard Charles Cobb, historian and essayist
- Edward Meredith Cope, classical scholar
- Edward Corbet, Anglican clergyman
- Athelstan John Cornish-Bowden, biochemist
- Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet, MP for Cheshire 1780–1796
- Sir Randolph Crewe, judge
- Sir Julian Critchley, journalist and politician
- Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft, Conservative politician
- Assheton Henry Cross, 3rd Viscount Cross, racing driver and soldier
- John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney, industrialist, civil servant, and peer
- Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, diplomat
- Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce, judge
D
- Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
- Peter Davis, businessman, former chairman of Sainsbury's
- William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane, politician and MP for Kensington South
- Francis Day, military surgeon and ichthyologist
- Paul Edward Dehn, writer and film critic
- Charles Spencer Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 2nd Baronet, businessman and peer
- General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, D-Day 2nd Army Commander
- Hal Dixon, biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College, Cambridge
- Cyril Henty-Dodd, interviewer and radio disc jockey, commonly known as Simon Dee
- John Freeman Milward Dovaston, naturalist and poet
- Andrew Downes, Greek scholar
- Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, 4th Baronet of Ambrosden, 7th Baronet of Canons-Ashby, archaeologist and antiquary
- Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet, Scottish businessman
E
- Humphrey Edwards, politician and regicide of King Charles I
- Alexander John Ellis, phonetician and mathematician
- Charles Evans, surgeon and mountaineer
- Canon Thomas Saunders Evans, Latin scholar and poet, was schoolmaster at Rugby and Durham
- William Addams Williams Evans, international footballer
- Walter Ewbank, priest and author
F
- Edmund Ffoulkes, clergyman
- George Fielding, Major in the SOE
- Frederick Fisher, Big Brother 10 contestant
- Paul Foot, journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
- Nigel Forman, Conservative politician, MP for Carshalton and Wallington
- William Orme Foster, ironmaster, MP for South Staffordshire 1857–1868, owner of Apley Hall
- James Fraser, bishop of Manchester
- Abraham Fraunce, poet and lawyer
G
- William Garnett, cricketer and clergyman
- David Gay, British Army officer awarded the Military Cross in World War II, cricketer, and educator
- Edwin Gifford, Anglican priest and author
- Arthur Herman Gilkes, Headmaster of Dulwich College
- George Gore, landowner and Attorney-General for Ireland
- Richard Goulding, actor
- Geoffrey Green, football writer
- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke of Beauchamps Court, courtier and author
- Sir George Abraham Grierson, administrator in India and philologist
- Lawrence Grossmith, actor
- Henry Melvill Gwatkin, historian and theologian
- Lieutenant General Willoughby Gwatkin, officer and Chief of the General Staff of the Canadian Militia
H
- Nick Hancock, actor and TV presenter
- John Hanmer, bishop of St Asaph
- Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook, politician
- Sir Jack Ashford Harris, 2nd Baronet, businessman
- Sir Paul Harris, 2nd Baronet, politician and Surveyor of the Ordnance
- Thomas Emerson Headlam, barrister and politician
- Sir Denis Maurice Henry, barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
- William Henry Herford, educationist
- Michael Heseltine, Conservative politician, Deputy Prime Minister 1995–1997
- Major Richard Henry Heslop, army officer and resistance organiser
- Sir Thomas Hewet, architect and landowner
- Edward Hewetson, cricketer
- Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert, politician
- Horatio Hildyard, cricketer and clergyman
- James Hildyard, classical scholar
- Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone, Tory MP and religious revivalist
- Richard Hillary, RAF officer and author
- John Hirsch, South African cricketer and rugby union international
- Hubert Ashton Holden, classical scholar
- Edward Hopkins, politician and Governor of Connecticut
- Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, diplomat and colonial governor
- Sir James Roualeyn Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal
- William Walsham How, bishop of Wakefield
- Robert Hudson, BBC broadcaster and administrator
- James Humphreys, law reformer
- Sir Travers Humphreys, barrister judge
- David Lafayette Hunter, officer
I
- William Inge, cricketer, clergyman and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford
- Brian St John Inglis, journalist
- Richard Ingrams, journalist, co-founder of Private Eye
- Andrew Irvine, mountaineer
J
- Frederick John Jackson,, Governor of Uganda and naturalist
- Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson,, army officer, military historian, and Governor of Gibraltar
- George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, judge
- Vice Admiral Clive Carruthers Johnstone, Royal Navy Officer
- Basil Jones, bishop of St David's
- John Jones of Gellilyfdy, copyist and manuscript collector
- Sir Thomas Jones, judge and law reporter
- Thomas Jones, academic and Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge
K
- George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale, politician, businessman, soldier and cricketer
- Benjamin Hall Kennedy, headmaster and classical scholar
- Charles Rann Kennedy, lawyer and classical scholar
- Francis King, novelist and poet
- Sir Harold Baxter Kittermaster, governor of British Somaliland 1926–31, British Honduras 1932–34 and the Nyasaland protectorate 1934-39
L
- Richard Cornthwaite Lambert, barrister and politician
- John Heath Lander, Olympic rower and soldier
- Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- Sir John Langford-Holt, politician and MP for Shrewsbury 1945–83
- Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine, politician and son of Prime Minister Bonar Law
- Aubrey Trevor Lawrence, barrister and author
- Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet, English horticulturalist and hospital administrator
- Sir Martin Le Quesne, diplomat, ambassador to Mali and Algeria, high commissioner to Nigeria
- Steve Leach, cricketer
- Blessed Richard Leigh, beatified English Catholic priest
- Sir Charlton Leighton, 4th Baronet, politician and owner of Loton Park
- Sir William Leighton, poet and composer
- Alexander Loveday, economist and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford
- Very Rev Herbert Mortimer Luckock, Dean of Lichfield
- General Sir Daniel Lysons, army officer
M
- Humphrey Mackworth, member of Shropshire parliamentary committee in English Civil War, governor of Shrewsbury, member of Protector's Council, MP
- Humphrey Mackworth, military governor of Shrewsbury under Protectorate, MP
- Thomas Mackworth, Parliamentarian soldier and MP
- Christopher MacLehose, publisher
- Richard Madox, Church of England clergyman and diarist
- Harry Mallaby-Deeley, politician, MP for Harrow and Willesden East
- Anthony Mangnall, politician, MP for Totnes
- George Augustus Chichester May, judge
- John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, classicist and librarian of Cambridge University
- Claas Mertens, rower for the Germany national team
- Anthony Merryweather, Musical Theatre producer and accompanist
- Robert Alexander Holt Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen, peer
- Sotherton Micklethwait, cricketer and clergyman
- Terry Milewski, journalist
- Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, ex-chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and chairman of UN Global Compact Committee
- Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet, lawyer and politician
- Henry Arthur Morgan, academic and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
- Francis Morse, priest
- Sydney Morse, rugby player
- Henry Whitehead Moss, headmaster 1866–190
- Gerard Moultrie, third master, chaplain, hymnographer
- Douglas Muggeridge, Controller, BBC Radio 1 between 1968 and 1976
- Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, classical scholar
- General Sir Geoffrey Musson, officer and Adjutant-General to the Forces
N
- William Napper, Irish cricketer and British Army officer
- The Very Rev. Stephen Nason, priest
- Robert Needham, 1st Viscount Kilmorey, politician
- Christopher Nevinson, artist
- Henry Woodd Nevinson, social activist and journalist
- Sir Charles Thomas Newton, archaeologist
- Nevil Shute Norway, novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer
- John Nottingham, colonial administrator and politician
O
- Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet, administrator in India
- William Oakley, footballer for England
- William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill, Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
- Julian Orchard, film and television actor
- Sir Roger Ormrod, judge, Lord Justice of Appeal
- Sir Francis Ottley, royalist politician and soldier, military governor of Shrewsbury
- Richard Ottley, royalist soldier and Restoration MP
P
- Thomas Ethelbert Page, classicist
- General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget, army officer
- Edward Francis Paget, Archbishop of Central Africa
- Francis Paget, 33rd Bishop of Oxford
- Luke Paget, 34th Bishop of Chester
- Stephen Paget, writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
- Frederick Apthorp Paley, classical scholar and writer
- Sir Michael Palin, member of Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
- John Parker Ravenscroft, DJ and journalist, known professionally as John Peel
- Sir Nicholas Penny, art historian and Director of the National Gallery
- Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre, British Indian Army officer; 1st Commissioner of British Burma and Governor of Mauritius
- General Sir Robert Phayre GCB, ADC.
- Ambrose Philips, poet and playwright
- John Arthur Pilcher, diplomat, ambassador to Austria, ambassador to Japan
- Nick Pocock, cricketer
- Graham Pollard, bookseller and bibliographer
- Angus Pollock, cricketer
- Henry Steven Potter, Chief Secretary of Uganda and Kenya, later British Resident in Zanzibar
- Sir Thomas Powys, MP, Attorney General to King James II, judge, and politician
- Michael Proctor, physicist, mathematician, academic and Provost of King's College, Cambridge
R
- Henry Cecil Raikes, Conservative politician
- Richard Ramsbotham, first-class cricketer and educator
- Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, British cosmologist and astrophysicist
- John Hamilton Reynolds, poet
- James Riddell, classical scholar and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
- George Rudé, British Marxist Historian
- Willie Rushton, cartoonist, comedian, co-founder of ''Private Eye''
S
- Colonel Thomas Sandys, officer and politician
- Clyde Sanger, journalist and author, first Africa correspondent for The Guardian
- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, statesman, writer, and politician
- John Sayer, first-class cricketer and officer in the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Navy
- Robert Gould Shaw III, American-born English socialite
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor, music critic
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor, art historian, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
- Richard Shilleto, classical scholar
- Nevil Shute, writer
- Sir Philip Sidney, poet, courtier and soldier
- Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, poet, courtier and politician
- Air Marshall Sir Michael Simmons, Royal Air Force officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
- Sandy Singleton, cricketer
- Sir Norman Skelhorn, barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales 1964–77
- Sir Basil Smallpiece, businessman
- Martin Ferguson Smith, scholar and writer, classics and ancient history professor at Durham
- Ruaidhri Smith, Scottish cricketer
- Philip Snow, cricketer
- Sir Frederick Sprott, cricketer and engineer
- William Starkie, Greek scholar, translator of Aristophanes, and President of Queen's College, Galway
- Christopher Steel, composer of classical music
- Thomas Stevens, Bishop of Barking
- Sir John Stuttard, Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07
T
- James Taylor, cricketer
- John Taylor, classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
- John Taylor, Baron Ingrow, soldier and politician
- Oliver Thomas, nonconformist minister and author
- Percy Beart Thomas, Inspector-General of Police of Madras
- Sir William Beach Thomas, author and journalist
- William Thomson,, Archbishop of York
- Godfrey Thring, hymn writer
- Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring, parliamentary draftsman
- J. C. Thring, notable figure in the early history of association football
- Lt Col. Alfred Tippinge, of the British Grenadiers; recipient of the Legion of Honour
- Robert Morton Tisdall, Olympic athlete
- Richard Todd,, actor
- Anthony Chenevix-Trench, headmaster of Eton College and Fettes College
- Sir Thomas Trevor, judge
- Patrick Trimby, cricketer
V
- Sir Harry Bevir Vaisey, High Court of Justice judge
- Sir William Vaughan, royalist army officer
- Lieutenant-Colonel Francis William Voelcker, officer and High Commissioner of Western Samoa
W
- Alan Wace, archaeologist at Cambridge University 1934-44 and professor at the Farouk I University in Egypt 1943–52
- Henry Wace, England international footballer
- Henry William Rawson Wade, academic lawyer
- Christopher Wallace (British Army officer), 1943–2016
- Graham Wallas, political psychologist, leader of the Fabian Society and co-founder of the London School of Economics
- Sir Francis Bagott Watson, art historian
- John Weaver, dancer and choreographer
- Stanley J. Weyman, novelist
- Sir Edgar Whitehead, prime minister of Rhodesia
- Selby Whittingham, art expert and author
- Charles Wicksteed, Unitarian minister
- Sir Kyffin Williams, Landscape & Portrait Artist
- Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, lawyer and politician
- Major General Dare Wilson, SAS officer who introduced attack helicopters to the British military
- Jack Wilson, Olympic rower
- H. de Winton, co-creator of the rules of football
- Samuel Woodhouse, priest and Archdeacon of London
- Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, 3rd Baronet, writer
- Chandos Wren-Hoskyns, English landowner, agriculturist, politician and author
- Jonathan Wright, journalist and literary translator
- John Wylie, 1878 FA Cup winner and England international
Y
- Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate, 1st Baronet, administrator in India and politician