List of Old Felstedians

This is a list of notable Old Felstedians who are former pupils of Felsted School in Essex, England.^[1]

Science and medicine

• John Wallis (1616–1703), Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician and Divine, Savilian Professor of Geometry, Oxford University
• Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1672–77), and 1st Lucasian Professor, Cambridge University (ODNBimage)
• William Byrd II (1674–1744), Fellow of the Royal Society, major Virginia Plantation owner, founder of Richmond, Virginia, diarist, author of the History of the Dividing Line, zoologist (ODNBimage)
• Percy Gilchrist, (1851–1935), Fellow of the Royal Society, inventor of steel-making from phosphorus-rich iron (ODNB)
• Charles Hose (1863–1929), zoologist and ethnologist (ODNB)
• Sir Stanley Woodwark (1879-1945), CMG, CBE, KB, President Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene. Master of Apothecaries
• C. V. Durell, (1882–1968), mathematician, prolific writer of school text books (ODNB)
• Donald Portway (1887–1979), Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Khartoum University (1957–61), Hon. Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, Emeritus Fellow of Trumbull College, Yale University (Who's Who)
• Kenneth Cross, (1890–1968), architect, President RIBA 1956-58 (ODNB)
• Reginald Pierson (1891–1948), Chief Aircraft Designer with Vickers-Armstrong from 1917 (ODNB)
• Frank Halford (1894–1955), aircraft designer, motor racing pioneer, Technical Director & Chairman de Havilland (ODNB)
• Joseph Henry Woodger (1894–1981), research biologist, prolific author (ODNB)
• Maxwell Donald (1897–1978), Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, London University (Who's Who)
• John Kirkaldy (1908–90), Emeritus Professor of Geology, London University (1974–90) (Who's Who)
• Stephen Robert Nockolds (1909–1990), Fellow of the Royal Society, Geologist (Who's Who)
• Ronald Emslie (1915–2002), Professor & Dean of Dental Studies, Guy's Hospital, Emeritus Professor of Periodontology & Preventive Dentistry (1980–2002), London University (Who's Who)
• David Stafford-Clark (1916–99), psychiatrist, BBC & ITV psychiatry programme maker, Consultant Emeritus Guy's Hospital & United Hospitals, London University, Consultant Bethlem Royal Hospital & Maudsley Hospital (ODNB)
• Peter Chopping (1917–2010), Cambridge & Pennsylvania physician specialising in cancer & radiology, inventor, author 'The Way The World Works', (2007). Survivor of Changi POW camp who treated his fellow prisoners.
• Lawson McDonald (1918–2007), Hon. Emeritus Consultant Cardiologist, National Heart Hospital (1983–2007) (Who's Who)
• Peter Isaac (1923–2002), Professor Emeritus Civil Engineering, Newcastle University (Who's Who)
• Anthony King (b. 1923) Vet., Khartoum University DSc., Assoc. Professor of University of Pennsylvania, Professor Veterinary Anatomy, Liverpool and Pro-Vice Chancellor. President of Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1983-6
• Robert Macmillan (b. 1934), Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Geometrical Symmetry) Cambridge, Professor of Vehicle Design & Automotive Studies, Dean of Engineering, Cranfield Institute (1980–82), Asst. Professor & Fulbright Fellow MIT (1951–52) (Who's Who)
• Michael Pitteway (b. 1934), Professor of Computer Science, Brunel University
• John Fowles (b. 1936), Professor & Orthopaedic Director, Montreal University. Officer of the Order of Canada 2004
• Dr. Robin Cocks (b. 1938), Keeper of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London (Who's Who)
• Richard Lacey (b. 1941), Emeritus Professor of Clinical Medicine, Leeds University (Who's Who)
• Murray Roberts (b. 1941), Consultant Physician, MO British Nuclear Fuels, Advisor Atomic Weapons Research, Aldermaston
• Tony Hunter (b 1943), Fellow of the Royal Society, biochemist and cancer biologist, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Salk Institute, California (Who's Who)
• John Nicholls (b. 1943), Emeritus Professor of Colorectal Surgery & Clinical Director, St. Mark's Hospital, London, Visiting Professor Imperial College, London University (Who's Who)
• Sir Marcus Setchell (b. 1943), CVO, HM The Queen's Surgeon-Gynaecologist (Who's Who)
• Patrick Sissons (b. 1945), Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University (Who's Who)
• Nicholas Manning (b. 1948), author, Professor of Social Policy & Sociology, University of Nottingham
• Michael Kopelman (b. 1950), Professor of Neuropsychiatry, St. Thomas' Hospital, University of London
• Peter Kopelman (b. 1951), Principal of St George's, University of London, Professor of Clinical Medicine, London Hospital (Who's Who)
• Denys Pringle (b. 1952), Professor of History & Archaeology, Cardiff University
• Dr. Jamie Shiers (b. 1956), Physicist at CERN, LHC Computing Grid project
• Alex Haslam (b. 1961), Professor of Social Psychology, Exeter University
• Lucilla Poston (b. 1962), Professor of Foetal Health, Guy's Hospital, King's & St. Thomas' Hospital, University of London
• Antony Galione (b. 1968), Professor of Pharmacology, Fellow of New College, Oxford University (Who's Who)
• Dr. Sophie Harrington (b. 1983), Mays-Wild Fellow for Research in Materials Science, Downing College, Cambridge

Military

• Nathaniel Rich (d. 1701), Colonel in Cromwell's New Model army, MP for Cirencester 1647-1650
• Major-General William Goodday Strutt (1762–1848), Governor Stirling Castle and Governor of Quebec (1837–48) (ODNB)
• General Sir Alfred Gaselee (1844–1918) GCB, GCIE, former aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, action Afghan Wars, Boxer Uprising, China and India (ODNB)
• Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton (1856–1879), VC, Lt. Corps of Guides, 2nd Afghan War, portrayed in M.M. Kaye's novel The Far Pavilions and film of same
• Lt. Colonel Macleod Bawtree Robinson (1858–1935), CMG, Boer War Commander, Commandant of Kimberley in siege (Queen's Medal 2 clasps, Kings Medal 3 clasps, thrice Mentioned in Despatches) (Who's Who)
• Brig.-General Ernest Hunter Rodwell (1858–1937), CB, Afghan Wars, WW1, translator to English of the Omar Khayyam (Who's Who)
• Henry L. Hulbert (1867–1918), US Marine, awarded US (Congressional) Medal of Honor 1899, Croix de Guerre (France) 1918, Distinguished Service Cross (US) 1918, Purple Heart (US) 1918; US Navy destroyer ship named in his memory
• Brigadier-General Charles Flick (1869–1948) (Who's Who)
• Brigadier-General Charles William Singer (1870–1936), CB, CMG, DSO
• Lt. General Sir Bertram Kirwan (1871-60) (Who's Who)
• Brigadier-General Robert McDouall (1871–1941), Governor Fort Mackinac (1914–18) (Who's Who)
• Rear Admiral George Blount (1876–1964 ), commanded battleships HMS Ramillies and HMS Barham in Mediterranean Fleet (1916–28), commanded RN Gunnery School, Devonport, DSO, French Croix de Guerre avec palme, Belgian Order of Leopold (Officier), Greek Order of Redeemer (Commander) 1927
• Major-General Sir Dennis Deane (1879–1978) (Who's Who)
• Brigadier-General Robert Daly Ormsby, RM (1879–1946), ADC to the King (1932–33) (Who's Who)
• General Sir Hubert Huddleston (1880–1950), colonial administrator (ODNB)
• John Leslie Green (1888–1916), Capt. VC, 1916 RAMC, South Staffordshire Regiment
• Brigadier-General Eric Stuart White (1888–1979) DSO, Croix de Guerre (Belgium), Order of Crown of Belgium (Who's Who)
• Lt. General Sir Charles King (1890-67), Woolwich Sword of Honour (Who's Who)
• Major-General John Meredith Benoy (1896–1977), CBE, GS03 Supreme Council, Versailles 1918-20, WWs 1&2, Chief Administrator, Eritrea (1945–46) (Who's Who)
• Captain Garth Henry Owles, RN (1896–1975), DSO, DSC, thrice mentioned in dispatches World War II (Who's Who)
• Brigadier John Murray Rymer-Jones (1897–1993), CBE, MC (Bar), World War I, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police (1950–59)
• Major-General George Peregrine Walsh (1899–1972) CB, CBE, DSO Director of Weapons at the War Office (1949–52) (Who's Who)
• Air Vice-Marshal George Holford White (1904–1965) (Who's Who)
• Major-General Basil Coad (1906–1980) (Who's Who)
• General Sir Campbell Hardy (1906–84), Commandant Gen. Royal Marines (1955–59), Dir. Coal Utilization Council 1960-70 (Who's Who)
• Major-General Gordon Farleigh Upjohn (1912–2001) CBE, Colonial Service Malaya and West Africa (Who's Who)
• Major-General Roy Darkin (1916–1987) (Who's Who)
• Air Vice-Marshal Edward Crew (1917–2002), World War II Mosquito flying ace DSO with Bar, DFC (Who's Who)
• Anthony Morris Brooks (1922–2007) DSO, MC (United Kingdom), Croix de Guerre, Legion d'Honneur, (France), intelligence officer, undercover agent in France, WW2
• Air Vice-Marshal John Cooke (b. 1922), Consultant Physician to the Civil Aviation Authority (Who's Who)
• Jeremy Howard-Williams D.F.C. (1922–1995), Second World War fighter pilot, who later became a writer^[2]
• Air Chief Marshal David Harcourt-Smith (b. 1931), Controller of Aircraft for United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, MoD Procurement Executive (Who's Who)
• Major-General Ralph Crossley (b. 1933) (Who's Who)
• Rear Admiral Peter Marsden (b. 1933) (Who's Who)
• Colonel Thomas Seccombe (b. 1934) CBE, Royal Marines, former aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II
• Lt. General Sir Peter Beale (b. 1937), KBE, RAMC, formerly Queen's Honorary Physician, Chief Medical Officer for the Red Cross (1994–2000), Surgeon General to UK Armed Forces 1991-1994 (Who's Who)
• General Sir Richard Dannatt (b. 1950), Chief of the General Staff (2006–2009) (Who's Who)
• Major-General Andrew Stewart (b. 1952)
• Major-General Alan Macklin (b. 1960) CBE, Leader Armoured Fighting Vehicles Group

Politics and public service

Business

• Sir Allen George Clark (1898–1962), industrialist, former MD and pioneer at Plessey telecommunications (ODNB)
• John Beresford Fowler (1906–1977), interior decorator (ODNB)
• Sir Frederick Wood (1926–2003), Industrialist, Managing director of Croda International (1953-1986), Chairman of National Express (1972-1978)
• George Bartram Kiddell (1933-2013), President, Chairman, and Managing Partner Gryphon Investment Counsel, Toronto, Ontario. ^[3]

• Sir Martyn Arbib, (b. 1938), financier, philanthropist, racehorse owner, founder Perpetual PLC now Invesco Perpetual Investment company (Who's Who)
• Christopher Woodwark (b. 1947) Chmn Rolls Royce & Bentley, MD Land Rover, Chmn Cosworth
• Oliver Stocken (b. 1952), Financial Director Barclays plc (1993–99), numerous non-executive Directorships, Chmn. MCC

Other academics/writers

• George Waldron (1690 – c. 1730), antiquary, author Description of The Isle of Man (1726) and Compleat works in Verse and Prose (1731), inspiration for Sir Walter Scott (ODNB)
• Thomas Cooke (1703–1756), translator of the classics, writer, playwright (ODNB)
• Thomas Brand Hollis (1719–1804), Fellow of the Royal Society, radical, Protestant dissenter, electoral reformist, Freeman of Glasgow (1741) (ODNB)
• Samuel Jackson Pratt (1749–1814), poet, playwright, novelist and early animal welfare campaigner.
• Cornelius Walford (1827–85), insurance writer & pioneer (ODNB)
• Arthur William a Beckett (1844–1909), humorist and journalist, editor of 'Punch' magazine (ODNB)
• Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851–1942), Gothic revival architect and designer, social reformer, Arts and Crafts stylist, friend of Ruskin (ODNB)
• George Gordon Coulton (1858–1947), historian (ODNBimage)
• Lt. Colonel Douglas Craven Phillott (1860–1930), Persian Fellow of Calcutta University, lecturer Cambridge University 1912- (Who's Who)
• Hugh Chisholm (1864–1948), journalist, editor Encyclopædia Britannica (editions 11 & 12) (ODNB) (Who's Who)
• Thomas Seccombe (1866–1923), writer, longtime deputy editor ODNB, Professor English Literature, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (ODNB)
• Albert Pollard (1869–1948), Founder Historical Assoc. (1906), Professor of Constitutional History, London Univ. (1903–31) (ODNBimage)
• John Weaver (1882–1965), President of Trinity College, Oxford (1938–54), Editor ODNB (1928–37)
• Douglas Goldring (1887–1960), English writer and journalist (ODNB)
• Walter 'Sebastian' Sprott (1897–1971), sociologist, philosopher, psychologist, sometime member Bloomsbury group (ODNB)
• Albert Lionel Frederick Rivet (1915–93), Emeritus Professor Roman Provincial Studies Keele University (1974–93), archaeologist & cartographer, author (ODNB)
• Alan Boon (1916–2000), publisher, Mills & Boon, Rugby for Wasps (ODNB) (Who's Who)
• John Boon (1919–1996), publisher, Chmn. Mills & Boon, Rugby for Cambridge (Blue) & Wasps (Who's Who)
• Sir Colin Alexander St John ("Sandy") Wilson (1922–2007), architect British Library, artist, art benefactor, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Cambridge University (Who's Who)
• Cecil Herington (b. 1925), Talcott Professor of Greek & Chairman Classics Dept., Yale University
• Richard Freeborn (b. 1938), Professor Russian literature (London University), translator, author.
• John Shearman (1931–2003), art historian, specialist in Italian renaissance, prolific author, Professor at Harvard (ODNB)
• Anthony Marriott (b. 1931), playwright, author of TV plays, also 'No Sex Please, We're British'
• Robin Briggs (b, 1942), Fellow Emeritus, All Souls College, Oxford, writer on European affairs (Who's Who)
• Peter Goldie (1946–2011), Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy, Manchester University, since (2005) (Who's Who)
• Jeremy Horder (b. 1962), Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, Professor Criminal Law, LSE (Who's Who)
• Patrick Redmond (b. 1966), playwright, novelist, writer of psychological thrillers including The Wishing Game
• Leslie Greener (1900 - 1974), soldier, Egyptologist, author and artist^[4]

Sport

Theatre/music/art/broadcasting

• William Palmer aka Claud Allister (1891–1970), Hollywood film actor (1929–50) - 74 films including starring role in Oscar-winning Bulldog Drummond (1929)
• Stuart Burge (1918–2002), film director, producer, actor (ODNB)
• Kenneth Kendall (1924–2012), British broadcaster
• Richard Johnson (1927-2015), West End Theatre and film actor, writer and producer (Who's Who)
• John Alldis (1929–2010), Chorus Master of the London Philharmonic Choir (1969–82) and Guildhall School of Music Choir, also numerous major overseas ensembles inc. Danish & Dutch State Choirs, double Grammy award winner (Who's Who)
• Philip Latham (b. 1929), TV, film and West End actor
• Paul Max Bonner (b. 1936), formerly Head of Documentaries, Community Broadcasts, Science for BBC (Who's Who)
• Sam Walters (b. 1939) MBE, 1955 winner Public Schools' Mace (Debating), London theatre director, Founder Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond (Who's Who)
• Max Stafford-Clark (b. 1941), London Theatre director, former director of Royal Court Theatre (Who's Who)
• Andy Roberts (b. 1946), musician
• Tim Foster (b. 1949), theatre architect (Tricycle Theatre, Norwich Theatre Royal, Trafalgar Studios, Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham)
• Paul A.H. Davies (b. 1950), founder / Musical Director of Cambridge Chord Company, winners of the Pavarotti "Choir of the World" at the International Eisteddfod.
• Tony Littman (b. 1951), musician, (The Famous Potatoes)(Guinness Book of Who's Who in Folk Music)
• Michael Clarke (b. 1952), CBE, Director National Galleries of Scotland, Author (Who's Who)
• Hugh Keelan (b. 1958), conductor & Musical Director North Eastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, extensive guest conducting
• Richard Marson (b. 1960), British TV writer and producer, formerly Chief Editor Blue Peter children's TV programme
• Ian Gibson (b. 1965), Bass player with Sad Lovers and Giants
• Peter G. Dyson (b. 1968), Music Director Belmont Ensemble, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and the South Bank Centre
• Sheila Nicholls (b. 1970), Lord's Cricket Ground streaker and singer/songwriter
• John Derek Sanders (1933–2003), composer, organist Gloucester Cathedral (Who's Who)
• Julian Simpson, TV & radio playwright, film director
• Matthew Spacie (b. 1970), Founder & Director of Magic Bus Charity (India)
• Dickon Stainer (b. 1971), MD, Universal Classics & Jazz (part of EMI)
• Corin Greenhow (b. 1971), Model, Actor, TV Personality (IMDb)
• James Doherty (b. 1966), TV, Film and West End actor
• Alecky Blythe (b.1972), playwright and screenwriter

Clergy

• William Gouge (1575–1673), clergyman, prominent Calvinist preacher, writer (ODNB)
• Thomas Vincent (1634–1678), Puritan clergyman, dissident preacher (ODNB)
• Dr. Thomas Townson (1715–92), evangelist, scholar, writer (ODNB)
• Robert Carr Brackenbury (1752–1818), Methodist Puritan preacher, colleague of John Wesley (ODNB)
• William Barker Daniel (1754–1833), Rev., clergyman, writer on field sports (ODNB)
• Rev Robert Fellowes LLD (1771–1847), radical theologian, defender of Queen Caroline and benefactor of UCL
• Charles Smythies (1844–1894), Rt. Rev. Bishop of Zanzibar and East Africa
• Thomas Scott (1880- ), Rt. Rev., Bishop of North China (1940- )
• Alymer Skelton (1884–89), Rt. Rev. Bishop of Lincoln (1942–46) (Who's Who)
• Ellis Edge-Partington (1885–1957), Rev. Canon Emeritus, Chaplain to HRH The King & Queen, (1941–56) Hockey for England, 1909 (Who's Who)
• Charles Kempson Waller (1891–1951), Very Reverend Provost and Rector of Chelmsford Cathedral (1949–1951) (Who's Who)
• George Ernest Ingle (1895–1964), Rt. Rev. Suffragan Bishop of Willesden (Who's Who)
• Thomas Geoffrey Stuart Smith (1901–81), Rt. Rev. Asst. Bishop of Leicester (1966–73), Canon Emeritus 1977, Preacher Select Cambridge University 1957 (Who's Who)
• Rev. Professor Lancelot Garrard (1904–93), Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Emerson College, Boston, USA, Principal Manchester College, Oxford University (Who's Who)
• Dom Illtyd Trethowan (1907–93) OSB, philosopher, sub-prior of Downside Abbey
• George Reindorp (1911–1990), Rt. Rev., Bishop of Salisbury (Who's Who)
• Richard Stanley Cutts (1922–97), Rt. Rev. formerly Bishop of Argentina and Eastern South America (Who's Who)
• John Neale (b. 1926), Rt. Rev., inaugural Bishop of Ramsbury from 1974 (Who's Who)
• (Geoffrey) Jeremy Walsh (b. 1929) Rt. Rev., Former Suffragan Bishop of Tewkesbury (Who's Who)

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