List of Old King's Scholars

This is a list of some notable former pupils of The King's School, Canterbury, known as Old King's Scholars. In fact the term King's Scholar referred to the few boys who by their academic ability at a very young age, sometimes 10, won scholarships to King's. The abbreviation OKS is always used to refer to former members of King's.

Academic

• Sir Tony Hoare, computer scientist
• Jeremy Lawrance, linguist and historian
• William Wyse^[1]

Business

• Ian Cheshire, Chief Executive, Kingfisher

Clergy

• Gavin Ashenden
• Richard Boys
• William Grant Broughton
• David L. Edwards
• Michael Mayne
• Howard Mowll, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney

Directors

• Michael Powell
• Carol Reed

Explorer

• Gregory Blaxland
• John Blaxland
• Michael Foale

Government

• Sir Patrick Walker, former Director general of MI5
• Sir Anthony Parsons
• Natascha Engel
• Tristan Garel-Jones
• George Gipps
• Charles Powell
• Jonathan Powell
• Hugh Robertson

Military

• John Day (RAF officer)
• Field-Marshal Montgomery^[2]
• Bertram Arthur "Jimmy" James (RAF, (MC, Great Escapee

Music

• Stephen Barlow
• Simon Carrington
• Harry Christophers
• Mark Deller
• Barrie Guard
• John Wesley Harding
• George Miles
• Stephen Varcoe
• Christopher Seaman
• Andrew Marriner

Science and engineering

• Roger C. Field
• William Harvey
• Thomas Linacre
• John Tradescant the younger

Sportsmen

• David Gower, England cricketer
• Bob Haines, cricketer
• Frances Houghton, Olympic rower
• Tom Ransley, Olympic rower
• Fred Scarlett, Olympic rower
• Millie Knight, Paralympic skier

Writers, poets, playwrights and journalists

• Sebastian Barker
• Oz Clarke
• Michael Cordy
• David L. Edwards
• Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Dyneley Hussey
• Alaric Jacob
• John Lloyd
• Edward Lucie-Smith
• Christopher Marlowe
• W. Somerset Maugham
• Leslie Mitchell
• Michael Morpurgo
• Walter Pater
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• Anthony Price
• Shoo Rayner
• Hugh Walpole
• Alan Watts
• Tom Ward

Other

• Myles Jackman, lawyer
• Arthur Luxmoore, Lord Justice of Appeal
• George Sale
• Antony Worrall Thompson
• Jacquetta Wheeler
• Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia

Victoria Cross

Three Old King's Scholars have been awarded the Victoria Cross.^[2]

• Victoria Cross
  • Second Afghan War
    • Captain William John Vousden, VC, CB (1848–1902). He later achieved the rank of major general. (KS 1859-60)
  • First World War
    • Second lieutenant Alfred James Terence Fleming-Sandes, VC (1894–1961). He later achieved the rank of Major. (KS 1907-13)
  • Second World War
    • Lieutenant Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, VC (1917 to 1979). (KS 1931-35)

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