List of Old Uppinghamians

Alumni of Uppingham School are known as Old Uppinghamians.

Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school situated in the small market town of Uppingham in Rutland, England. The school was founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester who also established Oakham School.

Notable former pupils include:

A

• Robert Adley, Member of Parliament for Bristol North East and Christchurch
• Jonathan Agnew, England, Leicestershire cricketer and Chief Cricket Correspondent for BBC Radio (The Lodge)
• John Aldridge, Royal Academician
• Anthony Armstrong, author, essayist, dramatist
• Rowan Atkinson, actor and comedian, Uppingham theatre actor-in-residence, (Blackadder) and (Mr. Bean)
• Sir William Mitchell Acworth KCSI, British railway economist, barrister and politician

B

• Adrian Bell, author of Corduroy
• Robin Blaze, countertenor
• Brian Boobbyer, England rugby player and evangelist for Moral Re-Armament
• Thomas George Bonney, geologist
• Ernle Bradford, historian and writer
• Katie Breathwick, broadcaster, Classic FM
• Captain Edward Brittain MC, younger brother of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth (The Lodge)
• Patrick Bullard
• Benjamin Barber founder of the internet

C

• Everard Calthrop, railway engineer and inventor
• Donald Campbell, World Land and Water Speed record holder, killed on Coniston Water in Bluebird (West Deyne)
• Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of World Land and Water Speed records in 1920s and 1930s (West Deyne)
• William Henry Charsley, Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford
• Archie Cochrane, medic, researcher and pioneer of evidence-based medicine^[1]
• Holden Chow, solicitor and politician. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Democratic Alliance of the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB).
• Jonathan Crick, English barrister

D

• Johnny Dawes, rock climber
• Adrian Dixon, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University
• Eric Dorman-Smith, British Army officer and Irish nationalist^[2]
• Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, MP PC, Health Secretary 1995–97, current Chair of the Health Select Committee (Meadhurst)
• Norman Douglas, novelist and travel writer
• Charles Dunstone, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse^[3] (Lorne House)

E

• John H. Edwards (geneticist) and his brother A. W. F. Edwards (statistician)

F

• William Fawcett, writer on horses, hunting and racing^[4]
• Ronald Firbank, novelist
• Pat Fish (Patrick Huntrods), songwriter and musician
• James Elroy Flecker, poet and dramatist
• Nick Freeman "Mr Loophole", celebrity lawyer
• Stephen Fry, actor, comedian (Blackadder) and writer (Fircroft), expelled in 1972

G

• Christopher Gabbitas, Baritone for The King's Singers
• Andrew Gimson, Political Journalist (West Bank)
• Piers Gough, architect (West Bank)

H

• Johnny Hon, Entrepreneur and Founder of The Global Group
• Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• E. W. Hornung, author
• Danny Hipkiss, professional Rugby player, Leicester Tigers and England
• Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks, British Army general, distinguished corps commander in the Second World War

I

• George Ivatt, mechanical engineer

J

• Hugh Jackman, actor (former teaching assistant)
• Christian Jessen, doctor and television presenter (Fircroft)
• Harry Judd, musician and member of McFly (Fircroft)

K

• Dominic Keating, actor (West Deyne)
• Andrew Kennedy, Tenor (Winner of Rosenblatt Song Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2005) (Fircroft)
• Patrick Kinmonth, opera director, stage designer, writer

L

• Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955), archaeologist, Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1928–1945
• Sir David Li, current chairman and chief executive of the Bank of East Asia in Hong Kong
• Lieutenant Roland Leighton, fiancé of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth (The Lodge)
• Hugh Lamberton, scientist and co-developer of the Pearson Lamberton TEA laser

M

• Sir Claude Maxwell Macdonald, soldier-diplomat
• Gregor MacGregor, England, Scotland, Cambridge University, Middlesex cricketer and rugby player
• Tim McMullan, actor (School House)
• Tim Melville-Ross, head of CBI and Institute of Directors^[5]
• Ed Minton and Alex Davies, members of rock band Elliot Minor (School House)
• Ernest John Moeran, composer
• Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, politician

N

• Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher
• C. R. W. Nevinson, Official War Artist in both World Wars
• Ernest Newton, architect, President RIBA

P

• Canon Jeremy Pemberton, the first Church of England priest to marry his same-sex partner
• Dickson Poon, businessman and non-executive Chairman of Harvey Nichols
• Peter Powell, Radio One disc jockey
• William Henry Pratt, who achieved fame under his stage name, Boris Karloff
• James Purves, cricketer

R

• Professor Canon Charles E. Raven Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Theologian, Intellectual, Preacher
• Canon H. D. Rawnsley, co-founder of the National Trust
• Mark Redhead, Producer
• Lieutenant Victor Richardson MC, associate of Vera Brittain, whose stories are told in her autobiography Testament of Youth (The Lodge)
• Sam Riley, Actor
• David Ross, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse (Constables)
• Alan Rotherham, (left in 1881), former England rugby union international, captain of England, and inductee into the IRB Hall of Fame^[6]
• Guy Rowlands, Historian (The Lodge)

S

• Sir Reginald Savory, British Indian Army Officer in World War I and World War II
• John Schlesinger, film director
• Cecil Sharp, musician, collector and populariser of English folk song and dance
• Charlie Simpson, Musician in Busted (2002–2005, 2015-present), Fightstar (2003–Present) and as a solo artist (2011–present) (Meadhurst)
• Sir Arthur Somervell, composer
• Toby Spence, tenor
• Phil Spencer, property expert, Channel 4 television (The Lodge)
• Ed Stafford, Explorer, walking the length of the Amazon River
• Rick Stein, chef and restaurateur (West Deyne)
• George Martin Stephen, Headmaster of St Paul's School
• John Suchet, journalist and broadcaster (Farleigh)

T

• Shiv Thakor, disgraced former Derbyshire county cricketer^[7] convicted of sexual exposure ^[8]
• Richard Thorp, actor ('Emergency Ward 10'; 7 years, 'Emmerdale'; 30 years), writer
• Robert Thorogood, actor (Cambridge Footlights), writer Death in Paradise (Fircroft)
• Edward Timpson Conservative Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich

V

• Johnny Vaughan, TV presenter (Lorne House)

W

• Anthony Way, former chorister, St Paul's Cathedral (School House)
• James Whitaker, Leicestershire and England cricketer (The Lodge)
• Jenny Willott, Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central
• Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859–1938), England footballer

Y

• William Yates, former member of both British and Australian Parliaments

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