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This is a list of notable alumni of
Tonbridge School .
Academics and scientists
Robert McNeill Alexander , Professor of Zoology at the
University of Leeds
Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton , chemist and
Nobel Laureate
William Thomas Clifford Beckett (1862–1956) brigadier-general in British Army and notable civil engineer
Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1917–1920)
[1]
Roland Bond , locomotive engineer
Henry Burton , physician and chemist
[2]
Ian Bradley , writer, academic and theologian
James Burton ,
Egyptologist
[3]
Owen Chadwick , Vice Chancellor of University of Cambridge, Master of Selwyn Cambridge, Regius Professor of Modern History, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Chancellor of University of Anglia, President of British Academy, and a Rugby Union international
John George Children , British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist
[4]
Homersham Cox (mathematician) , mathematician
Sir
John Crofton , respiratory physician and expert on treatment of Tuberculosis
David Emms , teacher and rugby union player
Peter Fisher , personal physician to Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II
W. D. Hamilton , devisor of
Red Queen Theory
Norman Heatley , the man who, having been on the team of Oxford scientists which discovered
penicillin , turned it into a usable medicine
Norman Gerald Horner , physician and medical journalist
[5]
R. J. B. Knight , naval historian
Sir Arthur Marshall , aviation engineer
Edward Nicholson , author and head of the Bodleian library
Walter Fraser Oakeshott , Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Jack Ogden , archaeologist and historian focusing on the development of jewellery materials and techniques
Carl Pantin , , professor of Zoology,
Cambridge University
Colin Patterson , palaeontologist and reformer of the fossil record
Sir
David Randall Pye , mechanical engineer and Provost of University College London
W. H. R. Rivers , Cambridge neurologist, psychologist, anthropologist and World War One psychiatrist
[6]
Sir Anthony Seldon , historian, political commentator and educationalist (current Master of
Wellington College )
Anthony Thorlby (1928-2013) , Professor Emeritus of European Literature,
University of Sussex
Claud Buchanan Ticehurst , ornithologist
[7]
Ernest Basil Verney , pharmacologist and Fellow of the
Royal Society
Thomas Dewar Weldon philosopher
Maurice Frank Wiles , Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Oxford and one of the leading theologians of the Church of England
E. T. C. Werner , diplomat and China scholar
Actors, directors, producers and screenwriters
Maurice Denham (1909–2002), prolific character actor, known for voicing all the animal characters in the animated feature
Animal Farm and also for the part of Maigret in the 1970s radio production of that name
Tristan Gemmill (born 1967), actor, known for playing
Adam Trueman in the BBC medical drama
Casualty
Will Hislop , actor and comedian
Ronald Howard (1918–1996) actor, son of
Leslie Howard
John Howlett (born 1942), screenwriter & film director, co-wrote the feature film
If.... with fellow Tonbridge schoolmate David Sherwin
Adrian Rawlins (born 1958), actor, known for playing James Potter in the
Harry Potter film series
Paul Rutman , producer and writer, including TV series
Indian Summers and eight episodes of
Vera
Dan Stevens (born 1982), actor, known for playing
Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama
Downton Abbey
David Sherwin (born 1942), screenwriter, co-wrote the feature film
If.... with fellow Tonbridge schoolmate John Howlett
David Tomlinson (1917–2000), actor, known for playing George Banks in
Mary Poppins
Benjamin Whitrow (born 1937), actor, known for playing Mr. Bennett in the 1995 mini-series
Pride and Prejudice
Armed forces
Lieutenant General Sir
Richard Anderson
Clifford Thomason Beckett , major-general in British Army
Colonel
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon , chemical weapons expert
Rear Admiral
David Cooke , submarine and defence procurement officer
William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside , Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command after the
Battle of Britain
Eric Stuart Dougall , recipient of the Victoria Cross, First World War
Lieutenant General Sir
Arthur Dowler
Air Chief Marshal Sir
William Elliot
John Everard Gurdon , WW1 flying ace with 28 kills
Rear Admiral
Frederick Hervey, 4th Marquess of Bristol , nobleman, naval officer and Conservative politician
John Holman , brigadier in British Army
Squadron Leader
Hilary Hood ,
Battle of Britain fighter pilot
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside , Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside
Major-General Sir
Millis Jefferis , developer of unusual weapons during WW2
Harold Stephen Langhorne (1877–1878), brigadier-general in the British Army in the First World War
James Archibald Dunboyne Langhorne (1893–1896), brigadier in the British Army
Gyles Longley , awarded the
Military Cross for actions in Italy
Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough , a brilliant soldier and notorious eccentric who captured Barcelona in the war of Spanish Succession
Lieutenant-Commander
Harold Newgass , recipient of the
George Cross
Wing Commander
Eric James Brindley Nicolson , Battle of Britain fighter pilot and recipient of the
Victoria Cross
Major
Sandy Smith (British Army officer) , awarded the
Military Cross for action at
Pegasus Bridge
Admiral Sir
William Sidney Smith , the British admiral of whom Napoleon Bonaparte said, "That man made me miss my destiny"
Maurice Tandy
OBE
DSO , Royal Engineers officer and Director of the
Survey of India
Trevor Sidney Wade
Battle of Britain fighter pilot and ace
Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew 'Sandy' Wilson , Former Air Member for Personnel and last C-in-C
RAF Germany
Robert Charles Zaehner , British academic, wartime
SOE agent and post war
MI6 agent
Business
Church leaders
William Alexander (bishop) (1824–1911) poet,
theologian and
Anglican
Primate of All Ireland
George Austen , clergyman and father of
Jane Austen
Harry Blackburne ,
Dean of Bristol
[9]
Gerald Brooks , Anglican Bishop
Philip Stanhope Dodd , Anglican clergyman
[10]
Timothy Dudley-Smith , Bishop and hymn writer
Charles Escreet ,
Archdeacon of Lewisham
Edward Lewis Evans , Bishop of Barbados
Andrew Graham ,
Bishop of Newcastle
Sidney Faithorn Green , Ritualist clergyman
John Halliburton , theologian
Joseph Charles Hoare , an eminent Anglican priest in
Hong Kong
[11]
Bishop
Frederick Ridgeway
[12]
Arthur Tooth ,
Anglo-Catholic
clergyman prosecuted for using
ritualist liturgical practices
[13]
Hugo Ferdinand de Waal , Principal of
Ridley Hall, Cambridge and
Bishop of Thetford
Henry Russell Wakefield was an Anglican Bishop and author
Geoffrey Warde , Anglican Bishop
Kenneth Warner ,
Bishop of Edinburgh
Cecil Wilson , Bishop of Melanesia
[14]
Politicians
Austen Albu , Labour MP
Geoffrey Bing , Labour MP
John Bowis , former
Conservative MP and MEP, a Health Minister 1993-96 and a Transport Minister 1996-97
Iain Coleman , Labour MP
Charles Conybeare , radical
Liberal politician
Harold Cox , Liberal MP
[15]
Sampson Gideon, later Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley , Jewish-born 18th century
Tory MP, created a Baronet in 1759 while a schoolboy
John Ganzoni, 1st Baron Belstead ,
Conservative MP
Ben Gummer ,
Conservative MP for
Ipswich
Sir Reginald Hanson ,
1st Baronet , Kt,
JP ,
DL ,
FSA was Lord Mayor of London and a British
Conservative Party politician.
[16]
Sir Anthony Hart ,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1827-1830
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke ,
Lord Privy Seal
Edward Brodie Hoare , British
Conservative politician
Sir
Norman Hulbert , RAF officer and
Conservative politician
Nawab
Mohammad Ismail Khan , (politician), signatory to the Indian Constitution
Lord
Mayhew of Twysden ,
Queen's Counsel ,
barrister and
Conservative politician
Jerome Mayhew , Conservative MP for
Broadland
Ralph Neville ,
Liberal Unionist politician
[17]
Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier (1859–1943),
KCMG , colonial civil servant and Cabinet Minister
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham , aristocrat,
Whig Party politician, father of two Prime Ministers
Sir
Julian Ridsdale ,
Conservative politician and intelligence officer
George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford ,
Conservative politician
Sir Peter Tapsell ,
Conservative politician,
MP for
Louth & Horncastle
Charles Wardle ,
Conservative politician
Diplomats and civil servants
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles , diplomat
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand diplomat, former Ambassador to the United States
Sir Walter Egerton , colonial governor
[18]
Sir Basil Engholm , civil servant
Dominic Jermey , British Ambassador to Afghanistan
Sir John Leahy , British Ambassador to South Africa
Sir William Marwood , civil servant
Henry Thoby Prinsep , English official of the Indian civil service
Robert Rogers, Baron Lisvane ,
Clerk of the House of Commons
Sir Leslie Rowan , civil servant
[19]
Sir David Trench , Governor of
Hong Kong (1964–1971)
David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton , Secretary General of the European Commission
Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth , British Ambassador to Paris during the treaty of Amiens
Entertainers and musicians
Robert Ashfield , organist at
Southwell Minster and
Rochester Cathedral
Bill Bruford ,
drummer for
Yes ,
King Crimson and others
Justin Chancellor , bassist,
Tool
Tom Chaplin ,
Keane , musician
Julian Clifford , conductor
Kit Hesketh-Harvey , musician
Richard Hughes , musician with UK band
Keane
Dave Lawson , musician with progressive rock band
Greenslade
Joseph McManners , singer and actor (left in 2011)
Tim Rice-Oxley , musician with UK band Keane
King Palmer , composer
Dominic Scott , musician, founding member of UK band Keane
Andy Zaltzman , stand-up comedian
Journalists and writers
Andy Bell , journalist
Mark Church , sports commentator
Harry Cole , journalist
Homersham Cox , author and county judge
[20]
Rupert Croft-Cooke , author
Albany Fonblanque , journalist
E. M. Forster , novelist
[21]
Frederick Forsyth , novelist
Sidney Keyes , poet
Nicholas Ostler , linguist
Matthew Parker , author
Christopher Reid ,
poet
Vikram Seth , novelist
Jonathan Street , novelist
Arthur Watkyn , author and Secretary of the
British Board of Film Censors
[22]
Ken Wiwa , journalist and author. Son of Nigerian campaigner, Ken Saro-Wiwa.
William Woodfall , (at the school in 1760), pioneer of the (then illegal) practice of reporting Parliamentary debates
Miscellaneous
William Adams , lawyer
Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi , fashion designer
Aleister Crowley ,
occultist ,
mystic ,
sexual revolutionary
Ranulph Bacon , senior police officer
Sir
Herbert Baker , architect
Murray Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St Albans
Martin Beddoe , judge
Sir Rupert de la Bère, 1st Baronet
Decimus Burton , 19th century architect
[23]
Hugh Cecil , 1920s society photographer
Gerald Cock , British broadcasting executive
Julius Cowdrey , musician, reality television personality
Peter Fincham , Director of TV at
ITV , former Controller of
BBC One
Harold Gilman , painter
Adrian Greenwood , historian and art dealer
Sir
Robert Heath , Attorney-General under King Charles I
Chris Hollins -
BBC Breakfast sports presenter, son of footballer
John Hollins
Sir Anthony Hollis , High Court judge
William Hughes-Hughes , stamp-collector
George Percy Jacomb-Hood , artist
Vikram Jayanti , documentary film maker
Sir
Guy Newey ,
Lord Justice of Appeal .
Sir John Nott-Bower ,
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
Jasper Rootham , civil servant, soldier, central banker, merchant banker, writer and poet
Tim Severin , explorer
Colin Smith , judge
George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford
Paul Tanqueray - society photographer
Francis Thynne , herald (his father was Chaucer's editor, and Master of the Household for Henry VIII)
David Trubridge , furniture designer
Anthony Whishaw ,
Royal Academician
Dr.
Edward Whitehead Reid , surgeon and aviator
Roger Yates , Organ builder
Keith Young , hospital and school sanatoria architect
Sportsmen
John Abercrombie , cricketer
David Aers , cricketer
Robert Airey , cricketer
William Albertini (1913–1994), English cricketer
[24]
Mark Allbrook , cricketer and Head at
Bloxham School
Jonathan Arscott , cricketer and schoolmaster
Randolph Aston , rugby union international who represented
England
[25]
Matthew Banes , cricketer
Jack Barley , cricketer
James Body , rugby union international who represented
England
Thomas Bourdillon , cricketer
Frederick Capron , cricketer
William Cave , England rugby union player
Sir Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge (1932–2000),
Kent CCC and England
cricketer and cricket administrator
C. S. Cowdrey (born 1957), Kent
Glamorgan and
England cricketer and broadcaster
Fabian Cowdrey , Kent cricketer
G. R. Cowdrey (born 1964), Kent cricketer
Tom Crawford , cricketer
Zak Crawley , Kent and England cricketer
John Dale , cricketer
[26]
Charles Daniel-Tyssen , cricketer
Jack Davies , cricketer who bowled Sir Donald Bradman out for a duck
David Day , cricketer
John Dew , cricketer
Ben Earl , Saracens and England Rugby Union player
Tom Elliott , cricketer
Charles Ellison , cricketer
Richard Ellison (born 1959),
Kent CCC and England cricketer
Edward Estridge , cricketer
Thomas Francis , cricketer
Peter Graham , cricketer
Alexander Grimes , cricketer
Johnny Hammond , rugby player
[27]
Lionel Hedges , cricketer
Anthony Henniker-Gotley , England rugby union captain
Alexander Hore , cricketer
Mark Hickson , cricketer
John Holman , first-class cricketer
Maurice Holmes , cricketer
C. W. H. Howard (born 1904),
Middlesex CCC cricketer
Frederick Hutchings , county cricketer
Kenneth Hutchings , England cricketer and
Wisden cricketer of the year
William Hutchings , county cricketer
Edward Hyde , Cambridge sportsman
Nick Kemp , county cricketer
Francis Luscombe (1849–1926), rugby union international who represented
England and was on the first
Rugby Football Union committee
David Marques ,
England and
British Lions rugby player and member of 1964
America's Cup challenger team aboard the yacht
Sovereign .
[28]
James Mason (1876–1938), cricketer
[29]
Tom May ,
rugby union player ,
Newcastle Falcons and England
Richard O'Grady , cricketer
Marcus O'Riordan , cricketer
Frank Orr , cricketer
Jamie Parker , cricketer
Toby Pettman , cricketer
Charles Pillman
MC , England Rugby player
Roger Prideaux , cricketer
James Pyemont , cricketer
Ben Ransom , Rugby union player for Saracens
Henry Reade , cricketer
Henry Richardson , cricketer
Septimus Ridsdale , cricketer
James Rowe , cricketer
Ronald Rutter , cricketer
George Arbuthnot Scott , cricketer
Walter Slade , (1854–1919), former world amateur record holder for the mile
Noel Sherwell , cricketer
James Short (rugby union) , Rugby union player for Saracens.
Leonard Shuter , cricketer
Colin Smith , cricketer
E. T. Smith (born 1977),
Middlesex CCC , Kent and
England cricketer
John Thompson , cricketer
Maurice Tandy
OBE
DSO , Irish cricketer
David Toft , cricketer
John Vigurs , Olympic rower
John Vernon (1922–1994), first-class cricketer and Royal Navy sailor
Luke Wallace , Rugby player for
Harlequins RFC
Chris Walsh , cricketer
Alfred Wilkins , cricketer
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