List of Old Rugbeians

This is a list of Old Rugbeians, former students of Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

Academia

L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne

Donald Beves (1896–1961), English modern linguist

R. G. Collingwood, English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford

Richard Congreve (1818–1899), English philosopher

Marcus Flather, Clinical Professor in Medicine at the University of East Anglia

Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer, author of Fowler's Modern English Usage

T. H. Green, moral and political philosopher and reformer

R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher

Fenton John Anthony Hort, English theologian

F. L. Lucas, Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, scholar, critic and writer

Edward Ellis Morris, Educationist, second Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School (1875–83), and miscellaneous writer

Edward Samuel Morris (1940–2016), art historian

Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford)

Henry John Stephen Smith, Irish mathematician

Jon Stallworthy, Professor of English at the University of Oxford

Sir Percy Sykes soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar

Richard Henry Tawney, one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian

Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury

Wynne Godley, economist

Sir Will Spens, educationalist and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1927-1952)

Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War

Military

Field Marshal Sir Archibald James Cassels, former Chief of the General Staff & Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine

Admiral Granville Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort, fought during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver, British officer during the Second World War

Admiral Sir Guy Grantham, Vice Chief of the Naval Staff; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet; Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth and Governor of Malta

General Arthur Clifton, general who was a regimental commander during the Napoleonic Wars, and took over command of the Union Brigade during the Battle of Waterloo

General Sir Ivor Maxse, General Officer Commanding XVIII Corps during World War I; renown for his innovative and effective training methods

General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall, General Officer Commanding, British Troops in Egypt during World War II

General Sir George Giffard, Commander-in-Chief, 11th Army Group in World War II

General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, commanded 57th Brigade and then 38th (Welsh) Division during World War I and later was appointed Governor of Bermuda

General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, General Officer Commanding, 5th Infantry Division during the withdrawal to Dunkirk & later Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces

General John Proby, 2nd Earl of Carysfort, British General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; also a Whig politician

General Sir Richard Wakefield Goodbody, Commander-in-Chief, Northern Command and Adjutant General

General Sir Horatio Shirley, fought in the Crimean War

Vice Admiral Sir Ian Corder, UK Military Representative to NATO

Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercromby, General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who was Commander-in-Chief, Ireland; he was also MP for Clackmannanshire, and Governor of Trinidad

Lieutenant General William Augustus Johnson, fought as a junior officer in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Lieutenant General Arthur Ernest Percival, the General Officer Commanding, Malaya during World War II who surrendered Singapore to the Imperial Japanese Army

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Royds Pownall, former Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff & Chief of Staff for the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France

Lieutenant General Henry Andrew Sarel fought in the Indian Mutiny and Second Opium War; later Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey

Lieutenant General Jonathan Peel, general and politician

Lieutenant General Henry Hope Crealock, commanded a division in the Anglo-Zulu War

Lieutenant General Sir Lewis Pelly, East India Company army officer and Conservative MP

Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot, Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army and Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army

Lieutenant General Sir Robin Carnegie, a former Military Secretary

Lieutenant General Timothy Radford, current Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

Lieutenant General Willoughby Cotton Commander-in-Chief, Bombay Army

Major-General Sir George Forestier-Walker, commanded 21st Division and 27th Division on the Western Front and as part of the British Salonika Army during World War I

Major-General William Donovan Stamer, commanded 161st Infantry Brigade, Sudan Defence Force and 131st Infantry Brigade during World War II

Major-General Sir Charles Sim Bremridge Parsons, Commander of the British Troops in Canada

Major-General Sir Harcourt Mortimer Bengough, fought in the Crimean War, Anglo-Zulu War and Third Anglo-Burmese War

Major-General Sir William Eyre, commanded 3rd Brigade and later 3rd Division in the Crimean War; later Commander-in-Chief, North America

Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, instrumental in the development of the tank

Major-General Philip de Fonblanque, commanded the Lines of Communication for the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France

Major-General Geoffrey Bruce, Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Indian Army; also a member of the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition and 1924 British Mount Everest expedition

Major-General Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin, Divisional Commander in Persia, Iraq, Madagascar and Italy during World War II

Major General John Fielden Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough

Major-General Sir William Godwin Michelmore, commanded Devon and Cornwall County Division, 77th Infantry Division and 45th Holding Division during World War II; later Lord Mayor of Exeter

Major-General Victor Campbell

Air Vice Marshal Augustus Henry Orlebar, British Army and Royal Air Force officer who served in both world wars

Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, soldier, diplomat, and scholar with a considerable literary output

Brigadier-General John Tyson Wigan, commanded 12th Cavalry Brigade. After the war he was the MP for Abingdon, 1918–1921

Brigadier-General George MacLeay Macarthur-Onslow, commanded 5th Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Army during World War I

Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb, Chief Engineer Ports Construction to the British Army in France and Civil Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty

Brigadier-General Anthony Courage, Regimental Colonel of the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars.

Brigadier Philip Bowden-Smith, Commander of 125th Infantry Brigade which later became 10th Armoured Brigade; he also represented Great Britain at the 1924 Olympic Games

Brigadier Raymond Ladais Sandover, Commander 2/11th Battalion (Australia) and 6th Australian Infantry Brigade

Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet, awarded the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny

Colonel Osmond Barnes, Chief Herald of the Indian Empire

Colonel Lionel Beaumont-Thomas, British Army officer during both World Wars and Conservative Member of Parliament for Birmingham King's Norton

Colonel James Duff Army Officer who fought in the Crimean War and later became a Conservative MP

Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn, commander of the 2nd (Central African) Battalion, King's African Rifles

Colonel Robin Evelegh, British Army officer who authored 'Peace-Keeping in a Democratic Society'

William Proby, Lord Proby, a British Royal Navy officer and Whig politician

Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Bushell, won the Victoria Cross and Distinguished Service Order during World War I

Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading, Liberal then Conservative politician and barrister who fought in World War I

Lieutenant-Colonel Kanwar Shumshere Singh, doctor in the Indian Medical Service

Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander "Alec" Ogilvie, early aviation pioneer

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, British officer during the First World War

Lieutenant Commander Robert Selby Armitage, won both the George Cross and George Medal for his bomb disposal work during the Second World War

Lieutenant Commander John Bryan Peter Duppa-Miller, Royal Navy officer who was awarded the George Cross for bomb disposal work during the Blitz

Major Arthur Willan Keen, British World War I flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories

William Hodson, commander during the 1857 Indian mutiny and founder of Hodson's Horse

Major Bruce Shand, officer in the British Army and father of Camilla, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

Squadron Leader William Spurrett Fielding-Johnson MC and Bar, DFC, army officer in World War I before joining the RFC and RAF in both World Wars

Squadron Leader Hedley Fowler, RAF officer who escaped from Colditz

Captain John Norwood won the Victoria Cross during World War I

Captain Charles Roger Lupton, British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories

Captain Kenneth Barbour Montgomery, British World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories

Lieutenant Frank Alexander de Pass, the first Jew and the first officer of the Indian Army to receive the Victoria Cross during World War I

Lieutenant Alfred Gordon Clark, won the Victoria Cross during World War I

Lieutenant Arthur Conolly, British Officer in 6th Bengal Native Light Cavalry. Coined the phrase 'The Great Game'

Lieutenant Donald Hankey, wrote two volumes of essays about the British volunteer army in World War I both titled 'A Student in Arms'

Sir James Arnold Stacey Cleminson

Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, British Army officer who was part of Henry Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886-89

Henry Ward, 5th Viscount Bangor British Army Officer who fought in the Xhosa Wars

Aviation

Christopher Orlebar, British Concorde pilot, aviation lecturer and writer

John Gillespie Magee, Junior, Anglo-American poet and aviator

Building, engineering and architecture

Sir Charles Brett, architectural historian

Will Butler-Adams, managing director of Brompton Bicycle Limited

William Grierson, civil engineer

Sir Charles Nicholson, ecclesiastical designer and architect

David Ogle, industrial designer and car designer

Thomas Henry Poole, architect of numerous churches and schools in New York City

Reid Railton, automotive engineer and designer of land and water speed record vehicles

Sir Harry Ricardo, designer of the internal combustion engine and patentee of the two-stroke engine

Clement E. Stretton, consulting engineer and author.

Business

William Henry Goschen (1870-1943) KBE, businessman and banker

Richard Jewson, businessman and Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk

Charles Tertius Mander, first baronet, manufacturer, public servant and philanthropist.

Clive Schlee, businessman, CEO of Pret a Manger

Nusli Wadia, businessman, Chairman of the Wadia Group, son of Neville Wadia and Dina Wadia, grandson of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Rattanbai Jinnah

Civil Service

Sir Christopher Bullock, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Air Ministry

Sir Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, civil servant in the War Office

Sir George Coldstream, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office

Sir Arthur Franks, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

Sir Ernest Gowers, civil servant and author of The Complete Plain Words

Sir Godfrey Lushington, Permanent Under-Secretary of the Home Office 1886–1895; championed prison reform

Sir Nicholas Montagu, Chairman of H.M. Inland Revenue, 1997–2004

Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence; and 1st Cabinet Secretary

J. M. Bruce Lockhart, intelligence officer

Colonial Service and imperial administration

Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot, colonial administrator and writer

Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, the 25th Governor of Hong Kong

Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines, member of the Indian Civil Service

Sir Henry Conway Belfield, Resident of Negeri Sembilan; Resident of Selangor; British Resident of Perak and finally Governor of the British East Africa Protectorate

Maurice Collis colonial administrator in Burma; later a writer on South-East Asia

Arthur Conolly (1807–1842), captain in the East India Company's service

Henry Valentine Conolly, member of the Indian Civil Service

The Honourable Sir Ashley Eden, Chief Commissioner of British Crown Colony of Burma and Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal

Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth, Administrator of the British Raj

Patrick William Forbes, Commander of the British South Africa Police, who invaded Matabeland in the First Matabele War; later Magistrate of Mashonaland 1893–1894; Administrator of North-Western Rhodesia 1895–1897

Sir Robert Allason Furness, classicist and representative of the British Council in Egypt, 1945-1950

Sir Henry Paul HarveyKCMG, Egyptian Financial Advisor from 1907 to 1912 and 1919–1920

Sir Frederick James Halliday, first Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal

Stephen Rumbold Lushington, Governor of Madras 1827–1832 and Tory politician

Leonard Fielding Nalder colonial administrator who served as Governor of Fung Province 1927–1930 and Mongalla province 1930–1936 in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

James Alexander Richey, educational administrator in South Africa and India

Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal 1874–1877; Governor of Bombay 1877–1880 and also an MP

Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope, civil servant of the Government of India, including Public Works

Sir George Chardin Denton, Governor of Gambia

John Loader Maffey, 1st Baron Rugby, Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province; Governor-General of the Sudan; and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies

John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India 1883–1909

Sir William Frederick Gowers, Governor of Uganda

John Claude White, Deputy Commissioner of the Tibet Frontier Commission

Diplomatic Service

Sir Charles Bagot, diplomat and administrator

Sir Thomas Bromley, Ambassador to Somalia, Syria, Algeria & Ethiopia

Sir Julian Bullard, Ambassador to West Germany

Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock, Ambassador to Spain; to Russia and finally Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs

Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle, Consul to the Canton of Geneva

Baron Charles de Chassiron, Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps, 2001–2006

Sir Leycester Coltman, Ambassador to Cuba from 1991 to 1994 and to Colombia 1994–1998; author of The Real Fidel Castro

Sir John Coulson, Ambassador to Sweden and Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association

Sir Moore Crosthwaite, Ambassador to Lebanon and to Sweden

Sir Patrick Henry Dean, Permanent Representative to the UN 1960–1964; Ambassador to the United States 1965–1969 and also Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee

Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, High Commissioner to Egypt; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Teheran; and Ambassador to Spain; also a Conservative Politician

Sir Ewen Fergusson, Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary 1975–1978; Ambassador to South Africa 1982–1984 and to France 1987–1992

Sir Anthony Figgis, Ambassador to Austria 1996–2000; Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 2001–2008 and the current Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod

Sir Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet, Ambassador to Serbia, to Denmark, to Austria-Hungary and to Germany; later Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State

Robert Hankey, 2nd Baron Hankey, Ambassador to Sweden 1954–1960

Hon. Richard Gilbert Hare Head of Russian propaganda, Ministry of Information, WW2

Sir James Hudson, Ambassador to Turin

Augustus Henry Mounsey, Minister Resident and Consul General to Colombia

Sir Owen O'Malley, Minister to Hungary 1939–1941; British ambassador to the Polish government in exile during World War II; and Ambassador to Portugal 1945–1957

Sir Maurice Peterson, Minister to Bulgaria 1936–1938; Ambassador to Iraq 1938–1939; to Spain 1939–1940; to Turkey 1944–1946 and to Russia 1946–1949

Sir Frank Roberts, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954–1957; Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council 1957–1960; Ambassador to the USSR 1960–1962; to West Germany 1963–1968

Ian Samuel, diplomat and RAF officer during World War II

Sir William Seeds, Ambassador to Brazil 1930–1935; and Ambassador to Russia 1939–1940

Sir Alan Urwick, Ambassador to Jordan 1979–1984; to Egypt 1985–1987; British High Commissioner to Canada 1987–1989 and Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons 1989–1995

Sir Charles Richard Vaughan, Minister to Switzerland 1823–1825 and Minister to the United States 1825–1835

Sir Peter Wilkinson, Ambassador to Vietnam in 1966–1967; also a SOE agent during World War II

Sir Michael S. Williams, Ambassador to Guatemala 1962–1963; and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See 1965–1970

Ecclesiastics

Robert Barbour, lecturer in theology, moderator of the church of Scotland, and holder of the Military Cross

George Bradley, Dean of Westminster

Charles Boyd, Archdeacon of Colombo

Godwin Birchenough, Dean of Ripon Cathedral

John Bickersteth, Bishop of Bath and Wells and Clerk of the Closet

Geoffrey Clayton, Archdeacon of Chesterfield; Bishop of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town

Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of Rochester and Bishop of St Albans.

George Chase, Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge and Bishop of Ripon

Reverend William Lucas Collins

James Cotton, Dean of Bangor

Francis Cramer-Roberts, Bishop of Nassau and Archdeacon of Blackburn

Reverend Sir Frederick Larkins Currie, 2nd Baronet

Edwin Dodgson

Alan Campbell Don, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons 1936–1946 and Dean of Westminster 1946–1959

Nowell Twopeny, Archdeacon of Flinders

Edward Feild, Bishop of Newfoundland and Archdeacon of Bermuda

Launcelot Fleming, Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth and Bishop of Norwich

Rev. Thomas Valpy French, first Bishop of Lahore

Archibald Ronald Gordon, Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth, Bishop at Lambeth and Bishop to the Forces

Rupert Hoare, Dean of Liverpool and Bishop of Dudley

Percy Mark Herbert, the first Bishop of Blackburn; Bishop of Norwich and Clerk of the Closet

Hugh Hornby, Bishop of Hulme

Phipps Hornby, Archdeacon of Lancaster

Rev Francis Jayne, Bishop of Chester and academic

Thomas Jex-Blake, Dean of Wells also a teacher and Headmaster of Rugby

Michael Gresford Jones, Bishop of Willesden and Bishop of St Albans

Edwin Kempson, Bishop of Warrington

Francis Kilner, Bishop of Richmond

Carey Knyvett, Archdeacon of Northampton and Bishop of Selby

William Lake, Dean of Durham

John Lawton, Archdeacon of Warrington

Edward Legge, Dean of Windsor and Bishop of Oxford

William MacKennal, Archdeacon of Ely

Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Kingston 1970–1978 and Bishop of Birmingham 1977–1987

Frank Okell, Bishop of Stockport and Archdeacon of Macclesfield

Grandage Powell, Archdeacon of Carlisle and Bishop of Penrith

John Purchas, Church of England priest who was prosecuted for ritualist practices

Norman Rathbone, Dean of Hereford

Charles Waldegrave Sandford, Bishop of Gibraltar

Augustus Shears, clergyman who translated part of the Prayer Book into Burmese

Walter Waddington Shirley, churchman and ecclesiastical historian

Richard Fitzgeorge de Stacpoole, 1st Duc de Stacpoole

Lovelace Stamer, Archdeacon of Stoke and Bishop of Shrewsbury

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, English churchman, and Dean of Westminster

Arthur Stanton Anglo-catholic priest

John Stott, evangelical minister who later was a curate of All Souls, Langham place and a leading figure involved in drafting the Lausanne Covenant

Alfred Swann, Dean and Archdeacon of Hong Kong

Henry Herbert Symonds, Anglican priest who was a driving force behind the creation of National Parks

Frederick Stephen Temple, Dean of Hong Kong and Bishop of Malmesbury

William Temple, Bishop of Manchester 1921–29; Archbishop of York 1929–42 and Archbishop of Canterbury 1942–44; an influential radical thinker, and father of the post-war Welfare State

David Urquhart, Bishop of Birkenhead and the current bishop of Birmingham

Henry Wace, Dean of Canterbury

Richard Watson, Bishop of Burnley

Edward Were, Bishop of Derby 1889–1909, and Bishop of Stafford 1909–1915

Edward Winnington-Ingram, Archdeacon of Hereford

Law

Hubert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, judge and politician.