List of Old Bedfordians

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This is a list of people educated at Bedford School.

Academia

Revd James Dennis (1815–1861), paleontologist and natural historian{{cite ODNB|id=7502|title=Dennis, James Blatch Piggott|year=2004|last=Halliday|first=Robert}}
Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth FRS (1817–1890), geologistDe-la-Noy, p.26
Francis Penrose FRIBA FRS (1817–1903), Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, architect, archaeologist and astronomer{{cite ODNB|id=35467|title=Penrose, Francis Cranmer|orig-date=2004|year=2010|last=Waterhouse|first=Paul|last2=O'Donnell|first2=Roderick}}
Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth FRSE FRS FRAS FRSSA (1819–1900), Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, and Astronomer Royal for Scotland, 1846–1888{{cite ODNB|id=25948|title=Smyth, Charles|year=2004|last=Bruck|first=Hermann A.}}
John Thompson Platts (1830–1904), Indian and Persian language scholar{{cite ODNB|id=35539|title=Platts, John Thompson|year=2004|last=Ranking|first=George|last2=Pursglove|first2=Parvin}}
Richard Daintree CMG (1832–1878), geologist who gave his name to the Daintree National Park, the Daintree Rainforest and the Daintree River, Australia{{cite ODNB|id=7006|title=Daintree, Richard|year=2004|last=Bolton|first=Geoffrey}}
Thomas Gwyn Elger FRAS (1836–1897), selenographer who gave his name to the lunar crater ElgerObituary, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.57, 1897, p.210
Dr Arthur Coke Burnell (1840–1882), Sanskrit scholar{{cite ODNB|id=4052|title=Burnell, Arthur Coke|orig-date=2004|year=2012|last=Lane-Poole|first=Stanley|last2=Katz|first2=Jonathan Bernard}}
Dr Charles Heycock FRS (1858–1931), Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, chemist, winner of the Royal Society's Davy Medal, 1920{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}
Dr Walter Gardiner FLS FRS (1859–1941), Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, botanist, winner of the Royal Society's Royal Medal, 1898{{Cite journal | last1 = Hill | first1 = A. W. | author-link = Arthur William Hill| title = Walter Gardiner. 1859-1941 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1941.0046 | journal = Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 3 | issue = 10 | pages = 985–1004| year = 1941 | title-link = Walter Gardiner | s2cid = 162395414 | doi-access = free }}
Professor Sir Wyndham Dunstan KCMG FRS FCS (1861–1949), chemist and Director of the Imperial Institute, 1903–1924{{cite journal|url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/1950/jr/jr9500001022 |title=Obituary notice: Sir Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, 1861–1949 – Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed) (RSC Publishing) |journal=Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed) |publisher=Pubs.rsc.org |date=1 January 1950 |pages=1022–1026 | doi=10.1039/JR9500001022 |access-date=2014-02-03|last1=Henry |first1=T. A. }}
Professor Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (1870–1946), Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge, 1932–1935{{cite ODNB|id=34401|title=Brown, Walter|orig-date=2004|year=2006|last=Hubble|first=D. V.|last2=Bevan|first2=Michael}}
Dr Thomas Cecil Fitzpatrick (1881–1931), President of Queens' College, Cambridge, 1906–1931, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1915–1917 and 1928–1929Obituary, The Times, 30 October 1931
Dr Charles Meek FRAI FRGS (1885–1965), Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, anthropologist{{cite ODNB|id=34974|title=Meek, Charles Kingsley|year=2004|last=Kirk-Greene|first=A. H. M.|author-link = Anthony Kirk-Greene}}
Revd Canon Thomas Wentworth Pym DSO (1885–1945), Fellow in Theology, Balliol College, OxfordObituary, The Times, 21 July 1945, p.6
Dr Laurence Beddome Turner (1886–1963), Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Reader in Engineering, University of Cambridge{{Cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-58480|title=Turner, Laurence Beddome, (6 April 1886–28 Jan. 1963), Fellow of King's College, and Reader Emeritus in Engineering, Cambridge |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U58480|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}
Professor William Rowan FRSC (1891–1957), Canadian biologist{{Cite web|url=https://www.sco-soc.ca/picoides|title=Picoides Home|website=sco-soc}}
Sir Karl Parker CBE FBA (1895–1992), art historian and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 1945–1962{{Cite web|url=http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/parkerk.htm|title=Karl T. Parker – Dictionary of Art Historians}}
Professor John Desmond Bernal FRS (1901–1971), pioneer of X-ray crystallography in molecular biologyGoldsmith, Maurice (1980), Sage: A Life of J. D. Bernal, p.24, London, Hutchinson, {{ISBN|0-09-139550-X}}
Professor Herbert Squire FRS (1909–1961), Zaharoff Professor of Aviation, Imperial College London, 1952–1961{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-48545|chapter=Squire, Prof. Herbert Brian, (13 July 1909–22 Nov. 1961), Zaharoff Professor of Aviation, Imperial College, Univ. of London, since 1952 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U48545|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Dr Archer John Porter Martin FRS (1910–2002), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1952{{cite ODNB|id=77176|title=Martin, Archer John Porter|orig-date=2006|year=2009|last=Morris|first=Peter J. T.}}
Professor Richard D'Aeth (1912–2008), educationalist and President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, 1978–1984Professor Richard D'Aeth, obituary in The Independent dated 5 May 2008
Professor John Selwyn Bromley (1913–1985), Fellow in Modern History, Keble College, Oxford, 1947–1960, and Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton, 1960–1977Obituary, The Times, 29 April 1985, p.14
Professor Harry Cranbrook Allen MC FRHS (1917–1998), Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Lincoln College, Oxford, 1946–1955, and Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History, University College London, 1955–1971Obituary, The Times, 20 July 1998, p.23
Professor Peter Corbett (1920–1992), Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University College London, 1961–1982{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-peter-corbett-1551444.html|title=Obituary: Professor Peter Corbett|date=September 15, 1992|website=The Independent}}
Professor Paul Talalay (1923-2019), John Jacob Abel Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1974–{{Cite journal|title=A Fascination with Enzymes: The Journey Not the Arrival Matters|first=Paul|last=Talalay|date=August 12, 2005|journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry|volume=280|issue=32|pages=28829–28847|doi=10.1074/jbc.X500004200|pmid=15941714|doi-access=free}}
Professor Roger Sargent FIChemE FIMA FREng (1926-2018), Courtaulds Professor of Chemical engineering, Imperial College London, 1966–1992{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-33882|chapter=Sargent, Prof. Roger William Herbert, (14 Oct. 1926–11 Sept. 2018), Courtaulds Professor of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College, 1966–92, then Emeritus; Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College, 1992–99 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U33882|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Professor Frank Adams FRS (1930–1989), Fielden Professor of Mathematics, University of Manchester, 1964–1970, and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, University of Cambridge, 1970–1989{{cite ODNB|id=40031|title=Adams, (John) Frank|year=2004|last=James|first=Ioan}}
Professor Robert Cassen OBE (born 1935), Professor of the Economics of Development, University of Oxford, 1986–1997{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-10408|title=Cassen, Prof. Robert Harvey, (born 24 March 1935), Visiting Professor, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, since 1997; Professor of the Economics of Development, Queen Elizabeth House, International Development Centre, University of Oxford, 1986–97, and Professorial Fellow, St Antony's College, 1986–97, now Emeritus |website=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10408|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Professor Quentin Skinner FRHS FBA (born 1940), Fellow in History, Christ's College, Cambridge, 1962–1996, and Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, 1996–2008{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/bringing-off-the-miracle-of-resurrection/406549.article|title=Bringing off the miracle of resurrection|date=May 14, 2009|website=Times Higher Education (THE)}}
Professor Richard Hills FRAS FRS (1945–2022), Professor of Radio Astronomy, University of Cambridge, 1990–2007{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-20218|title=Hills, Prof. Richard Edwin, (born 30 Sept. 1945), Professor of Radio Astronomy, 1990–2012, and Deputy Head, Department of Physics, 1999–2003, University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Radio Astronomy, 2012; Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, since 1993 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U20218|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Professor Andrew O'Shaughnessy FRHS (born 1959), Saunders Director, International Centre for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, and Professor of History, University of Virginia[https://connect.bedfordschool.org.uk/ob-club/the-men-who-lost-america The Men Who Lost America – Connect] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129082443/https://connect.bedfordschool.org.uk/ob-club/the-men-who-lost-america |date=2014-11-29 }}
Professor C.E.M. Hansel (1917–2011), Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology, Swansea University.

Actors, directors and entertainers

Cyril Harcourt (1872–1924), actor and playwrightObituary, The Times, 691924, p.15
H B Warner (1875–1958), actor nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, 1937{{cite web|url=http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/sitefiles/upload_docs/Bedford%20School%20Rugby2.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408224920/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/sitefiles/upload_docs/Bedford%20School%20Rugby2.pdf |archive-date=2014-04-08 }}
H F Maltby (1880–1963), actor, playwright and screenwriter{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-57622|chapter=Maltby, Henry Francis, (25 Nov. 1880–25 Oct. 1963), Dramatist and Actor |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U57622|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Roy Limbert (1893–1954), theatre director and producer{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-239868|chapter=Limbert, Roy, (died 29 Nov. 1954), Theatre Director and Producer |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U239868|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Torin Thatcher (1905–1981), actor{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/70440/Torin-Thatcher/biography | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621020531/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/70440/Torin-Thatcher/biography | archive-date=2015-06-21 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=The New York Times | first=Bruce | last=Eder | date=2015 | title=Torin Thatcher}}
Bob Kellett (1927–2012), film director, producer and screenwriter{{cite news|last=Bergan|first=Ronald|author-link=Ronald Bergan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/dec/03/bob-kellett|title=Bob Kellett obituary|work=The Guardian|date=3 December 2012|access-date=31 March 2021}}
John Wood CBE (1930–2011), actor noted for his performances in Shakespeare and for his long association with Tom Stoppard{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/aug/10/john-wood-obituary|title=John Wood obituary|first=Michael|last=Coveney|newspaper=The Guardian |date=August 10, 2011|via=www.theguardian.com}}
Andrew McCulloch (born 1945), actor and writerDe-la-Noy, p.157
Michael Radford (born 1946), film director and screenwriter, noted for films including Nineteen Eighty-Four, White Mischief and Il Postino{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/107377/Michael-Radford/biography | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620134719/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/107377/Michael-Radford/biography | archive-date=2015-06-20 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=The New York Times | first=Sandra | last=Brennan | date=2015 | title=Michael Radford}}
Simon Chandler (born 1953), actor{{cite web|url=http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/sitefiles/upload_docs/OB%20Review%20for%20web.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615015239/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/sitefiles/upload_docs/OB%20Review%20for%20web.pdf |archive-date=2012-06-15 }}
Richard Hopkins (1964–2012), television producer{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/9011191/Richard-Hopkins.html|title=Richard Hopkins|date=January 12, 2012|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}
Bob Barrett (born 1966), actorThe Ousel Vol.LXXXIX, No.919, March 1985, p.3
Al Murray (born 1968), comedian{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8698695/The-world-of-Al-Murray-comedian.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Georgia | last=Dehn | title=The world of Al Murray, comedian | date=12 August 2011}}
Joel Beckett (born 1973), actor{{Cite web|url=http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/upper-school-news/?news=364|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212600/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/upper-school-news/?news=364|title=OB Eastender – Bedford School|archive-date=April 8, 2014}}
David Lloyd Vitty (born 1974), BBC Radio 1 presenter{{cite web|url=https://connect.bedfordschool.org.uk/document.doc?id%3D10 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408224412/https://connect.bedfordschool.org.uk/document.doc?id=10 |archive-date=2014-04-08 }}
Jonno Davies (born 1992), actor{{Cite web |date=2024-12-27 |title=Better Man: How Jonno Davies became a monkey Robbie Williams |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrw0qnvl1go |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

Adventurers and nonconformists

Revd Stainton Moses (1839–1892), spiritualist{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/19/101019396/|title=William Stainton Moses}}
Colonel Frederick Burnaby (1842–1885), adventurer, army officer, author, balloonist, and correspondent for The TimesDe-la-Noy, p.27
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854–1918), occultist{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/articleHL/53858?docPos=42&anchor=match|title=Oxford DNB article: Mathers, Samuel Liddell}}
Ardern Hulme Beaman (1857–1929), adventurer, author, diplomat, and war correspondent{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-205831|chapter=Beaman, Ardern George Hulme, (1857–23 July 1929) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U205831|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Blacker OBE (1887–1964), adventurer, army officer, author of First over Everest, and weapons designer{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/31/101031907/|title=Stewart Blacker}}
John de Vars Hazard MC (1888–1968), mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, famous for the disappearance of Mallory and Irvinehttp://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1996_files/AJ%201996%20224-226%20Salkeld%20Hazard.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}
Reginald Teague-Jones MBE (1890–1988), intelligence officer active in the Caucasus and Central Asia during the Russian Civil War{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/53/101053529/|title=Reginald Teague Jones}}
Norman Baillie-Stewart (1909–1966), traitor known as 'The Officer in the Tower'De-la-Noy, p.125
Simon Murray CBE (born 1940), adventurer, author, French Foreign Legionnaire, and the oldest man to reach the South Pole unsupported{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/commodities/8442619/Profile-Simon-Murray.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Garry | last=White | title=Profile: Simon Murray | date=14 April 2011}}
Rupert T Dover (born 1967), Assistant Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Architecture

John Pollard Seddon FRIBA (1827–1906), architect{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-190792|chapter=Seddon, John Pollard, (19 Sept. 1827–1 Feb. 1906) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U190792|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Harry Bulkeley Creswell FRIBA (1869–1960), architect and author{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-236170|chapter=Creswell, Harry Bulkeley, (18 May 1869–4 July 1960), Architect and Author; late Consultant to Crown Agents for the Colonies |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U236170|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Oswald Milne FRSA FRIBA (1881–1968), architectObituary, The Times, 17 January 1968, p.12
Peter "Joe" Chamberlin CBE FRIBA (1919–1978), architect and town planner responsible for the Barbican Centre and the Barbican Estate in London{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-153090|chapter=Chamberlin, Peter Hugh Girard, (31 March 1919–23 May 1978), architect and planner in private practice with Geoffrey Powell and Christoph Bon, since 1952 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153090|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Bernard Feilden CBE FRIBA (1919–2008), conservation architect whose work encompassed cathedrals, the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3469706/Sir-Bernard-Feilden.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Sir Bernard Feilden | date=16 November 2008}}

Artists

James Ravilious (1939–1999), photographer, who specialised in recording the rural life of north Devon.{{Cite news |last=Beacham |first=James P. |date=1999-10-08 |title=James Ravilious |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/08/guardianobituaries |access-date=2024-02-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}

The Armed Forces

=Victoria Cross and George Cross=

First World War
Lieutenant Colonel George Campbell Wheeler VC (1880–1938)
Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Walderne St. Clair Tisdall VC (1890–1915)John Sargeaunt, Ernest Hockliffe, (1925), A History of Bedford School, page 224, (T.F. Unwin, ltd.)
Major Montague Shadworth Moore VC (1896–1966)
Second World War
Commander Richard Jolly GC (1896–1939)
Major General Henry Bowreman Foote VC CB DSO (1904–1993), General Officer Commanding, 11th Armoured Division, 1950–1953{{Cite web|url=http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/WWII/library/Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945/files/assets/basic-html/page8.html|title=Page 8 - Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945|website=lib.militaryarchive.co.uk}}

=Navy=

Rear Admiral Alfred Ransom CBE (1871–1953), served during the Gambia Expedition, 1894, the Boxer Rebellion, 1900–1901, and the First World War{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-242132|chapter=Ransom, Rear-Admiral (S) Alfred Charles, (22 Aug. 1871–28 June 1953) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U242132|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Vice Admiral Fawcet Wray DSO (1873–1932), commanded HMS Talbot at Gallipoli, 1915Obituary, The Times, 7 March 1932, p.17
Vice Admiral Arthur Kemmis Betty DSO (1877–1961), Aide-de-camp to King George V, Commander First Destroyer Flotilla, 1920–1922Obituary, The Times, 13 May 1961, p.12
Rear Admiral Edward Dyke Acland MVO CB (1878–1968), Naval Attaché to King George V{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Rear Admiral James Ashton DSO (1883–1951), Aide-de-camp to King Edward VIIIObituary, The Times, 1 January 1952, p.8
Vice Admiral Sir Richard Lane-Poole KBE CB (1883–1971), Commander Australian Fleet, 1936–1938{{Cite web|url=http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/WWII/library/Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945/files/assets/basic-html/page9.html|title=Page 9 - Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945|website=lib.militaryarchive.co.uk|access-date=20 June 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035134/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/WWII/library/Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945/files/assets/basic-html/page9.html|url-status=dead}}
Rear Admiral Julian Patterson OBE (1884–1972), commanded HMS Hood{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-158319|chapter=Patterson, Rear-Adm. Julian Francis Chichester, (6 May 1884–23 June 1972) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U158319|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Ponsonby Talbot KCB KBE DSO & Bar (1884–1970), Aide-de-camp to King George V and Director of Dockyards at the Admiralty, 1937–1946{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-53821|chapter=Talbot, Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Ponsonby, (1884–17 March 1970) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U53821|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Robert Glunicke DL (1886–1963), Aide-de-camp to King George VI, 1939–1940, and Commandant, Plymouth Division, Royal Marines, 1939–1941{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-47970|chapter=Glunicke, Maj.-Gen. R. C. A., (6 March 1886–20 Oct. 1963), DL; Royal Marines, retired |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U47970|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Admiral Sir Robert Burnett GBE KCB CStJ DSO (1887–1959), Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic, 1944–1946, and Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, 1946–1950{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/;jsessionid=D01F57C1FC49DA67A00835E0378B8FD7|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|website=www.oxforddnb.com}}
Rear Admiral Hector Mackenzie Woodhouse CB OBE (1889–1971){{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-161165|chapter=Woodhouse, Rear-Admiral Hector Roy Mackenzie, (15 Feb. 1889–5 June 1971) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U161165|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Admiral Sir Geoffrey Audley Miles KCB KCSI (1890–1986), Head of British Military Mission, Moscow, 1941–1943, Commander-in-Chief, Levant, 1943, Naval Force Commander, Eastern Expeditionary Force, 1943, Deputy Naval Commander, South East Asia Command, 1943–1944, Flag officer, Western Mediterranean, 1944–1945, Senior British Representative on the Tripartite Naval Commission, 1945–1946, and last Commander-in-Chief, Indian Navy of the unified Royal Indian Navy, 1946–1947{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-167189|chapter=Miles, Adm. Sir Geoffrey John Audley, (2 May 1890–31 Dec. 1986) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U167189|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Rear Admiral Laurence Boutwood CB OBE KStJ (1898–1982), Fleet Supply Officer, British Pacific Fleet, 1945–1946, assistant director of Plans at the Admiralty, 1946–1948, Fleet Supply Officer, Mediterranean Station, 1950–1953, and Command Supply Officer, Portsmouth, 1953–1956{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-162212|chapter=Boutwood, Rear-Adm. Laurence Arthur, (7 Sept. 1898–29 July 1982), DL |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U162212|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Vice Admiral Sir Charles Hughes-Hallett KCB CBE (1898–1985), Chief of Staff, Home Fleet, 1950–1951, Head of British Naval Mission, Washington, 1952–1954
Vice Admiral John Hughes-Hallett CB DSO (1901–1972), Naval Commander during the Dieppe Raid, 1942, Commodore commanding Channel Assault Force and Naval Chief of Staff, 1942–1943, Head of Naval Branch, Supreme Allied Command, 1943, Vice-Controller of the Navy, 1950–1952, Flag Officer, Heavy Squadron, Home Fleet, 1952–1953, Conservative MP for Croydon, 1954–1964, credited with proposing the idea of the Mulberry harbour{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/31/101031261/|title=John Hughes Hallett}}
Rear Admiral Keith McNeil Campbell-Walter CB (1904–1976), Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, Flag Officer, Germany, and Commander of Allied Naval Forces Northern Area, Central Europe, 1955–1958{{cite encyclopedia |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U152953 |entry=Campbell-Walter, Rear-Adm. (Retired) Keith McNeil |encyclopedia=Who Was Who |year=2007 |title=Campbell-Walter, Rear-Adm. (Retired) Keith Mc Neil, (31 Aug. 1904–24 April 1976) }}
Vice Admiral Sir Raymond Hawkins KCB (1909–1987), Fourth Sea Lord and Vice Controller of the Navy, 1963–1964, Chief of Fleet Support, 1964–1967{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-165121|chapter=Hawkins, Vice-Adm. Sir Raymond (Shayle), (21 Dec. 1909–18 Oct. 1987) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U165121|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Rear Admiral Kenneth Farnhill CB OBE (1913–1983), Director of the Management of Intelligence, Ministry of Defence, 1966–1969{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-164055|chapter=Farnhill, Rear-Adm. Kenneth Haydn, (13 April 1913–6 Dec. 1983), Secretary, Defence, Press and Broadcasting Committee, 1973–80 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U164055|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu GCB DSC (1913–1970), Director-General, Naval Weapons, 1958–1960, Controller of the Navy, 1961–1965, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, 1965–1968, and First Sea Lord, 1968–1970{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/34/101034475/|title=Michael Le Fanu}}
Rear Admiral James Dunbar Cook CB DL (1921–2007), Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, 1973–1975{{Cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-11710|title=Cook, Rear-Adm. James William Dunbar, (12 Dec. 1921–26 Jan. 2007), DL; Vice President, Surrey Branch of Soldiers', Sailors', and Airmen's Families Association |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U11710|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}
Rear Admiral Robin Trower Hogg CB FRSA (born 1932), Flag Officer, First Flotilla, 1984–1986, and Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Fleet, 1986–1987{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-20449|title=Hogg, Rear-Adm. Robin Ivor Trower, (born 25 Sept. 1932), Managing Director, Robstar Productions Ltd, since 1998 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U20449|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}

=Army=

Major General William Carmichael Russell (1824–1905), served during the First Anglo-Sikh War, 1845–1846, and during the Indian Mutiny, 1857Obituary, The Ousel, Vol.IX, No.264, 28 February 1905, p.15
General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth KCMG FSA FRGS (1825–1906), served during the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol, 1854–1855, General Officer Commanding, South Africa, 1886–1889, Governor-General of Cape Colony, 1889, High Commissioner for Southern Africa, 1889, and Governor of Malta, 1890–1893
Major General Francis Glanville (1827–1910)Obituary, The Times, 12 February 1910, p.13
Major General Willoughby Clarke (1833–1909), served during the Santhal rebellion, 1855–1856, and during the Second Opium War, 1856–1860{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-184720|chapter=Clarke, Maj.-Gen. Willoughby Charles Stanley, (22 Aug. 1833–26 May 1909), Indian Army |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U184720|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Lieutenant General John Le Mesurier (1834–1903), served during the Anglo-Persian War, 1856–1857Obituary, The Times, 26 November 1903, p.7
Major General George Elphinstone Erskine (1841–1912), served during the Indian Mutiny, 1857{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-185774|chapter=Erskine, Maj.-Gen. George Elphinstone, (20 Jan. 1841–12 Sept. 1912), Indian Army; JP |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U185774|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Meek (1883-1955), Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George{{Cite web |title=Page 685 {{!}} Supplement 31735, 13 January 1920 {{!}} London Gazette {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31735/supplement/685 |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk}}
Major General George More-Molyneux CB DSO (1851–1903), served during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878–1880, the Suakin Expedition, 1884–1885, the Third Anglo-Burmese War, 1885–1889, and during the Tirah Campaign, 1897–1898{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-189153|chapter=More-Molyneux, Maj.-Gen. George Hand, (6 May 1851–21 Nov. 1903), commanding Rohilkand District, India, from 1901 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U189153|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General William Cross Barratt CB CSI DSO (1862–1940), General Officer Commanding, 9th (Secunderabad) Division and General Officer Commanding, 16th Indian Division{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-205724|chapter=Barratt, Maj.-Gen. William Cross, (2 June 1862–2 April 1940), retired |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U205724|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
General Sir Walter Braithwaite GCB (1865–1945), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command, India, 1920–1923, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Scottish Command, 1923–1926, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, 1926–1927, Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1927–1931{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/32/101032037/|title=Walter Braithwaite}}
Major General John Hill CB DSO (1866–1935), General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, 1916–1918{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-211262|chapter=Hill, Maj.-Gen. John, (14 Jan. 1866–8 Jan. 1935), Indian Army retired |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U211262|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Louis Lipsett CB CMG (1874–1918), General Officer Commanding, 3rd Canadian Division, 1916–1918, General Officer Commanding, 4th Infantry Division, 1918{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/lipsett.htm|title=First World War.com - Who's Who - Louis James Lipsett|website=www.firstworldwar.com}}
Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell GCB KBE ADC DL (1874–1947), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command, 1931–1933, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Command, 1933–1936, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1936–1937{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/32/101032799/|title=Cyril Deverell}}
Major General Sir Digby Shuttleworth KCIE CB CBE DSO (1876–1948), President of the Allied Commission of Control, Turkey, 1920–1923{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-231749|chapter=Shuttleworth, Maj.-Gen. Sir Digby Inglis, (23 Aug. 1876–15 May 1948) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U231749|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Sir Horace de Courcy Martelli KBE CB DSO (1877–1959), General Officer Commanding, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, 1925–1930, Commandant, Shanghai Defence Force, 1927–1928, Major General, Southern Command, 1930–1934, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, 1934–1939The Ousel Vol.I, No.6, March 1896, p.28
Lieutenant General Sir William Montgomery Thomson KCMG CB MC (1877–1963), military governor of Baku, 1918{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-52386|chapter=Thomson, Lieut-Gen. Sir William, (2 Dec. 1877–23 July 1963) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U52386|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Sir William Twiss KCIE CB CBE MC FRGS (1879–1962), General Officer Commanding, Army in Burma, 1937–1939{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-48112|chapter=Twiss, Maj.-Gen. Sir William Louis Oberkirch, (18 Jan. 1879–13 Oct. 1962), Col, 9th Gurkha Rifles, 1930–49; Col, 5/1st Punjab Regt (formerly 82nd Punjabis), 1932–47; Col 4th Burma Rifles, 1938 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U48112|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Sir Hubert Huddleston GCMG GBE CB DSO MC (1880–1950), Commandant, Sudan Defence Force and General Officer Commanding, Sudan, 1925–1930, and Governor-General of the Sudan, 1940–1947{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/34/101034032/|title=Hubert Huddleston}}
Major General Hugh MacMahon CB CSI CBE MC (1880–1939), Aide-de-camp to King George V, and Quartermaster General, Northern Command, 1933–1937{{cite book|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U213391|chapter=Macmahon, Maj.-Gen. Hugh Francis Edward, (13 Oct. 1880–18 Feb. 1939) |title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Sir Claude Liardet KBE CB DSO TD DL (1881–1966), General Officer Commanding, 56th (London) Division, 1938–1941, and first Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment, 1942–1945
Major General Maxwell Brander CB OBE (1884–1972), War Office, 1937–1940, Ministry of Supply, 1941–1947{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-152570|chapter=Brander, Maj.-Gen. Maxwell Spieker, (11 Oct. 1884–30 Oct. 1972), Col Comdt RASC, 1942–49 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U152570|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Lancelot Hickes CB OBE MC (1884–1965), War Office, 1939–1941{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-51839|chapter=Hickes, Maj.-Gen. Lancelot Daryl, (30 May 1884–4 Oct. 1965) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U51839|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Sir Guy Riley KBE CB (1884–1964), War Office, 1937–1943{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-47992|chapter=Riley, Maj.-Gen. Sir (Henry) Guy, (5 Nov. 1884–24 Oct. 1964) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U47992|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Algernon Fuller CBE (1885–1970), War Office, 1938–1940, Ministry of Supply, 1940–1941, and inventor of the Fullerphone{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-51911|chapter=Fuller, Major-General Algernon Clement, (30 March 1885–6 Aug. 1970) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U51911|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Lieutenant General Sir William Baker KCIE CB DSO OBE (1888–1964), Adjutant-General of India, 1941–1944
Major General Austin Timeous Miller CB MC & Bar (1888–1947), Scottish Command, 1941–1945
Major General Sir Noel Holmes KBE CB MC (1891–1982), War Office, 1939–1946{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-165407|chapter=Holmes, Maj.-Gen. Sir Noel Galway, (25 Dec. 1891–24 Dec. 1982) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U165407|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Christopher Maltby CB MC DL (1891–1980), Commander British Troops in China, 1941
General Sir Henry Colville Wemyss KCB KBE DSO MC (1891–1959), Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1940–1941, Head of British Army Mission, Washington, 1941–1942, Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, 1942–1945
Major General Sir Leslie Gordon Phillips KBE CB MC (1892–1966), Director of Signals, War Office, 1943–1946{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-49920|chapter=Phillips, Major-General Sir Leslie Gordon, (11 Feb. 1892–19 March 1966) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U49920|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Sir Eustace Tickell KBE CB MC (1893–1972), Engineer-in-Chief, War Office, 1944–1948{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-160319|chapter=Tickell, Maj.-Gen. Sir Eustace Francis, (10 Dec. 1893–28 Dec. 1972), Officer of Legion of Honour (France), 1944 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U160319|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Lieutenant General Sir Harold Rawdon Briggs KCIE KBE CB CBE DSO (1894–1952), Commander-in-Chief, Burma Command, 1946–1948{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/;jsessionid=E05B5367C1B7ECFA79B4C1BEB047EA0A|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|website=www.oxforddnb.com}}
Major General Alfred Curtis CB DSO MC (1894–1971), General Officer Commanding, 14th Indian Infantry Division, and Aide-de-camp to King George VI{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-153664|chapter=Curtis, Maj.-Gen. Alfred Cyril, (2 Nov. 1894–13 Oct. 1971), ADC to the King, 1944 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153664|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Raymond Briggs CB DSO (1895–1984), General Officer Commanding, 1st Armoured Division, 1942–1943
General Sir Sidney Kirkman GCB KBE MC (1895–1982), General Officer Commanding, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, 1942–1944, General Officer Commanding, XIII Corps, 1944–1945, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945–1947, and Quartermaster-General to the Forces, 1947–1950{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/31/101031316/|title=Sidney Kirkman}}
Major General Bernard Cooke Dixon CB CBE MC (1896–1973), engineer-in-charge, General Headquarters, Middle East, 1944–1947, and chief engineer, Headquarters, Western Command, 1947–1948{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-153915|chapter=Dixon, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Edward Cooke, (7 Sept. 1896–9 Oct. 1973) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153915|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Sir Reginald Kerr KBE CB MC (1897–1974), Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office, 1943–1946{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-156343|chapter=Kerr, Maj.-Gen. Sir (Harold) Reginald, (22 April 1897–1 Nov. 1974), psc |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U156343|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Francis St David Benwell Lejeune CB CBE (1899–1984), Commander, Anti-Aircraft Group, 1944–1946, War Office, 1946–1949{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-166315|chapter=Lejeune, Maj.-Gen. Francis St David Benwell, (1 March 1899–1 June 1984) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U166315|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
General Sir Frank Simpson GBE KCB DSO (1899–1986), Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1940–1942, deputy director of Military Operations at the War Office, 1942–1943, Director of Military Operations at the War Office, 1943–1945, Assistant Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945–1946, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1946–1948, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command, 1948–1952, Commandant, Imperial Defence College, 1952–1954
Major General Robert Cottrell-Hill CB CBE DSO & Bar MC (1903–1965), Commandant, British Sector, Berlin, 1955–1956
Lieutenant colonel Arthur Cocks (1904–1944), first British Army officer to be killed on D-Day{{cite book |last1=McCrery |first1=Nigel |title=The Coming Storm: Test and First-Class Cricketers Killed in World War Two |date=2011 |publisher=Pen and Sword |page=372 |volume=2nd volume |isbn=978-1526706980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYQwDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}
Major General Sir Nigel Tapp KBE CB DSO (1904–1991), General Officer Commanding, East Africa Command, 1957–1960{{cite book|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U175779|chapter=Tapp, Maj.-Gen. Sir Nigel (Prior Hanson), (11 June 1904–9 Feb. 1991), DL |title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Gerald Kellett CB CBE (1905–1973), Director General of Artillery, War Office, 1957–1960{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-156294|chapter=Kellett, Maj.-Gen. Gerald, (24 Oct. 1905–6 July 1973) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U156294|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Lieutenant General Sir William Pike KCB CBE DSO (1905–1993), Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1960–1963{{Cite web|url=http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/WWII/library/Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945/files/assets/basic-html/page13.html|title=Page 13 - Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945|website=lib.militaryarchive.co.uk}}
Major General Kenneth Bastyan CB CBE (1906–1975), Chief Signal Officer, British Army of the Rhine and Northern Army Group, 1957–1960{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-152092|chapter=Bastyan, Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Cecil Orville, (10 Dec. 1906–21 March 1975) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U152092|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Henry Maughan Liardet CB CBE DSO DL (1906–1996), Chief of Staff, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, 1956–1958
Major General Ronald Urquhart CB DSO (1906–1968), Director of Combined Operations, 1947–1949, Chief of Staff, Western Command, 1956, and Commandant, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1957–1960{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-50726|chapter=Urquhart, Major-General Ronald Walton, (26 March 1906–19 April 1968), DL; retired; Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, since 1964 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U50726|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Michael Whitworth Prynne CB CBE (1912–1977), deputy director, War Office, 1960–1964, and Chief of Staff, Headquarters, Southern Command, 1964–1967{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-158695|chapter=Prynne, Maj.-Gen. Michael Whitworth, (1 April 1912–27 Sept. 1977) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U158695|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major-General Edward Maitland-Makgill-Crichton OBE (1916–2009), General Officer Commanding, 51st (Highland) Division, 1966–1968{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-12328|chapter=Crichton, Maj.-Gen. Edward Maitland-Makgill-, (23 Nov. 1916–22 Dec. 2009), GOC 51st Highland Division, 1966–68 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12328|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Lieutenant General Sir John Read KCB OBE (1917–1987), Director of Military Operations, Ministry of Defence, 1968–1970, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, 1970–1971, and Director of International Military Staff, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, 1971–1975{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-168415|chapter=Read, Lt-Gen. Sir John (Hugh Sherlock), (6 Sept. 1917–5 March 1987), retired; Adviser, West Africa Committee, since 1975 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U168415|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Colin Shortis CB CBE (born 1934), Director of Infantry, British Army, 1983–1986, and General Officer Commanding, North West District, 1986–1989{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-34773|chapter=Shortis, Maj.-Gen. Colin Terry, (18 Jan. 1934–8 Jan. 2017), General Officer Commanding North West District, 1986–89 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U34773|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who's Who |year=2007 }}
Major General Timothy Toyne Sewell DL (born 1941), Commandant, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1991–1994{{Cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/12976/Timothy-Patrick-TOYNE-SEWELL|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140410104849/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/12976/Timothy-Patrick-TOYNE-SEWELL|archive-date=10 April 2014|title=Maj-Gen T P Toyne Sewell, DL Authorised Biography |website= Debrett's People of Today|access-date=20 June 2015}}
Captain Aubrey Beaty MC (1916-2009) First British soldier to enter Germany after D-Day.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4177276/Aubrey-Beaty.html Aubrey Beaty.] The Telegraph, 8 January 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Balfour Oatts DSO (1902-1992){{cite news|last1=Obituaries|title=Lieutenant-Colonel L B Oatts|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=30 December 1992|page=17}}

=Air Force=

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker KCB AFC (1877–1930), Director-General of Civil Aviation, 1922–1930, and victim of the R101 disasterNorman Macmillan, Sir Sefton Brancker, London, 1935, William Heinemann
Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett KCB CBE DSO (1882–1945), Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, 1931–1932, Air Officer Commanding British Forces, Iraq, 1932–1935, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Training Command, 1936–1939, and Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Australian Air Force, 1939–1942{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/32/101032188/|title=Charles Burnett}}
Marshal of the RAF Cyril Newall, 1st Baron Newall GCB OM GCMG CBE AM (1886–1963), Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, 1926–1931, Air Officer Commanding, Middle East Command, 1931–1934, Air Member for Supply and Organisation, 1935–1937, Chief of the Air Staff, 1937–1940, and Governor-General of New Zealand, 1940–1946{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/35/101035208/|title=Cyril Newall}}
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Paul Maltby KCVO KBE CB DSO AFC DL (1892–1971), Air Officer Commanding, Java, 1942, and Black Rod, 1946–1962{{cite web |first= Klemen |last= L |url= https://warfare.gq/dutcheastindies/maltby.html |title= Air Vice-Marshal Sir Paul (Copeland) Maltby |date= 1999–2000 |work= Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942 |url-status= live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120325051613/http://www.dutcheastindies.webs.com/maltby.html |archive-date= 2012-03-25 }}
Major Charles Dawson Booker DSC (1897–1918), First World War flying aceChristopher Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest, Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915–20, 1990, {{ISBN|0948817194}}
Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Hamilton Brookes CB CBE DFC (1904–1988), Air Officer Commanding, Rhodesia, 1951–1954, Air Officer Commanding, Iraq, 1954–1956, and Air Officer Commanding, No 25 Group, RAF Flying Training Command, 1956–1958{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-162379|chapter=Brookes, Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Hamilton, (14 Oct. 1904–16 March 1988), RAF retd |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U162379|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Ryley CB CBE (1905–1985), Air Officer Commanding and Commandant, RAF Henlow, 1949–1952, Director of Armament Engineering, Air Ministry, 1954–1957, and Director of Guided Weapons Engineering, Air Ministry, 1957–1958{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-168795|chapter=Ryley, Air Vice-Marshal Douglas William Robert, (11 Nov. 1905–29 Dec. 1985), retired, 1962 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U168795|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Air Vice-Marshal Brian Courtenay Yarde CVO CBE (1905–1986), Commandant-General of the RAF Regiment, 1954–1957{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-170683|chapter=Yarde, Air Vice-Marshal Brian Courtenay, (5 Sept. 1905–29 Oct. 1986) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U170683|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Marshal of the RAF Sir Thomas Pike GCB CBE DFC & Bar DL (1906–1983), Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, 1953–1956, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF Fighter Command, 1956–1959, Chief of the Air Staff, 1960–1964, and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 1964–1967{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/31/101031548/|title=Thomas Pike}}
Air Vice-Marshal Clayton Boyce CB CBE (1907–1987), Secretary General of Allied Air Forces, Central Europe, 1953–1954, Air Officer Commanding, Cyprus and the Levant, 1954–1956{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-162244|chapter=Boyce, Air Vice-Marshal Clayton Descou Clement, (19 Sept. 1907–20 Dec. 1987), Assistant Controller of Aircraft, Ministry of Supply, 1957–59, retired |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U162244|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Air Vice-Marshal Hubert Chapman CB CBE (1910–1972), Air Officer Commanding, No. 43 Group, 1950–1951{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-153112|chapter=Chapman, Air Vice-Marshal Hubert Huntlea, (20 Feb. 1910–10 April 1972) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153112|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee GBE CB (1912–2004), the United Kingdom's Military Representative to NATO, 1968–1971{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1454725/Air-Chief-Marshal-Sir-David-Lee.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Air Chief Marshal Sir David Lee | date=19 February 2004}}
Group Captain Brian Kingcome DSO DFC & Bar (1917–1994), Second World War flying ace{{Cite web|url=http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/WWII/library/Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945/files/assets/basic-html/page15.html|title=Page 15 - Bedford-School-Roll-of-Honour-Decorations-1939-1945|website=lib.militaryarchive.co.uk}}
Air Vice-Marshal Michael Adams CB AFC FRAeS (born 1934), Assistant Chief of the Air Staff for Operational Requirements, Ministry of Defence, 1984–1986, Senior Directing Officer, Royal College of Defence Studies, 1987–1988{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-5013|title=Adams, Air Vice-Marshal Michael Keith, (1934-2022) |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U5013|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}

Aviation

Commander Sir Walter Windham (1868–1942), pioneering aviator who established the world's first airmail servicesObituary, The Times, 7 July 1942, p.6
Claude Grahame-White (1879–1959), pioneering aviator who made the world's first night-time takeoff{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/33/101033512/|title=Claude Grahame White}}
John Dudley North CBE (1893–1968), aircraft designer and chairman of Boulton Paul Aircraft{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/35/101035255/|title=John North}}
Group Captain George Bulman CBE MC AFC & Bar FRAeS (1896–1963), chief test pilot and director at Hawker AircraftObituary, The Times, 7 May 1963
Bob Feilden CBE FRS FREng FIMechE (1917–2004), mechanical engineer, an essential part of the Power Jets team that developed the first jet engine with Sir Frank Whittle, 1940–1946, author of the seminal Report of the Feilden Committee on Engineering Design, 1963, and Director General of the British Standards Institution, 1970–1981{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/g-b-r-feilden-6163073.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111044503/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/g-b-r-feilden-6163073.html |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |title=G. B. R. Feilden – Obituaries|work=The Independent |date=26 August 2004 |access-date=2014-02-03 |location=London}}

The church

Revd Canon John Hensman (1780–1864), Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and prolific church builder{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-12992|title=Hensman, John (1780–1864), Church of England clergyman|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12992}}
Revd Fr William Lockhart (1820–1892), first of the Oxford Movement to convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism{{Cite ODNB|url=https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/16908?language=en,%20//oxfordindex.oup.com:443/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/16908|title=Lockhart, William (1819–1892), Roman Catholic convert and Rosminian priest: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - oi|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/16908|year=2004}}
Revd Canon Dr George Maclear (1833–1902), theological writer{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/34/101034784/|title=George Maclear}}
Ven William Percival Johnson (1854–1928), missionary in Africa{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/34/101034207/|title=William Johnson}}
Rt Revd Walter Ruthven Pym (1856–1908), Bishop of Mauritius, 1898–1903, Bishop of Bombay, 1903–1908, and grandfather of Francis Pym, Foreign Secretary under Margaret Thatchers:The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Pym, Right Rev. Walter Ruthven
Rt Revd Ernest Augustus Anderson (1859–1945), Bishop of Riverina, 1895–1925
Rt Revd Dr Hubert Murray Burge (1862–1925), Headmaster of Winchester College, 1901–1910, Bishop of Southwark, 1910–1919, and Bishop of Oxford, 1919–1925
Rt Revd William Surtees (1871–1956), Bishop of Crediton, 1930–1954Who was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}
Most Revd Dr John Gregg CH (1873–1961), Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, 1915–1920, Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, 1920–1939, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, 1939–1959De-la-Noy, p.103
Rt Revd Walter Carey (1875–1955), Bishop of Bloemfontein, 1921–1935, theological writer, and British Isles XV rugby international{{cite web|title=Adapted from R G G Squibbs' 1970 Centenary Account|url=http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/default.asp?page=907|work=The History of Bedford Rugby|publisher=Bedford School|access-date=14 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408225011/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/default.asp?page=907|archive-date=8 April 2014}}
Rt Revd John Weller (1880–1969), Bishop of the Falkland Islands, 1934–1945'WELLER, Rt Rev. John Reginald', Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007
Rt Revd Richard Dyke Acland (1881–1954), Bishop of Bombay, 1929–1947
Rt Revd Dr Bertram Lasbrey (1881–1976), Bishop on the Niger, 1922–1945Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}
Rt Revd Dr Wilfred Askwith KCMG (1890–1962), Bishop of Blackburn, 1942–1954, and Bishop of Gloucester, 1954–1962
Rt Revd Noel Hall (1891–1962), Bishop of Chota Nagpur, 1936–1957
Rt Revd David Farmbrough (1929–2013), Bishop of Bedford, 1981–1993'FARMBROUGH, Rt Rev. David John', Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011
Rt Revd Robin Smith (born 1936), Bishop of Hertford, 1990–2001Smith, Rt Rev. Robin Jonathan Norman, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011
Canon David Watson (priest, evangelist, author) (1933-1984), Vicar of St Cuthbert's Church, York/St. Michael-le-Belfry, York, 1965-1982Wikipedia

The Civil and Diplomatic Services

Vivian Gordon Bowden CBE (1884–1942), Australian businessman, public servant and diplomat, Australian Official Representative in Singapore (1941–1942).
Sir Walter Hillier KCMG CB (1849–1927), diplomat, author, Sinologist and Professor of Chinese, King's College LondonWho's Who Vol.53, p.568, 1901
Sir Aubrey Vere Symonds KCB (1874–1931), Permanent Secretary, Board of Education, 1925–1931{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-217898|chapter=Symonds, Sir Aubrey (Vere), (1874–24 March 1931), Permanent Secretary, Board of Education, since 1925 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U217898|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Edward Crowe KCMG (1877–1960), Comptroller-General, Department for Overseas Trade, 1928–1937{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32648|title=Crowe, Sir Edward Thomas Frederick (1877–1960), public servant|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32648|last1=Nosworthy|first1=R. L.|editor1-first=Alex|editor1-last=May}}
Gilbert Campion, 1st Baron Campion GCB (1882–1958), Clerk of the House of Commons, 1937–1948{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Sir Harold MacMichael GCMG DSO (1882–1969), Governor of Tanganyika, 1934–1938, High Commissioner to Palestine, 1938–1944{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-55793|chapter=MacMichael, Sir Harold (Alfred), (15 Oct. 1882–19 Sept. 1969) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U55793|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir John FitzGerald Moylan CB CBE (1882–1967), Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office, 1940–1945{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-50636|chapter=Moylan, Sir John FitzGerald, (16 June 1882–15 June 1967) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U50636|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly KCMG CIE OBE (1882–1966), British Resident in Aden, 1931–1932, Chief Commissioner of Aden, 1932–1937, Governor of Aden, 1937–1940{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/;jsessionid=282F61E9ECDA392A0FD0EBDA0CC0A373|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|website=www.oxforddnb.com}}
Sir William Castle Cleary KBE CB (1886–1971), Principal Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Education, 1931–1935, Principal Assistant Secretary for Elementary Education, 1940–1945, and Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Education, 1945–1950{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-153258|chapter=Cleary, Sir William Castle, (14 March 1886–19 Jan. 1971) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153258|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Bertram Lamb Pearson CB DSO MC (1893–1984), Principal Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Education, 1937–1946, and Under Secretary, Ministry of Education, 1946–1955{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-167951|chapter=Pearson, Bertram Lamb, (1893–17 Aug. 1984) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U167951|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Charles Belgrave KBE (1894–1969), Chief Administrator to the rulers of Bahrain, 1926–1957Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008, online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007
Herbert Gybbon-Monypenny CBE (1895–1988), Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, 1953–1955Obituary, The Times, 26 February 1988, p.18
Sir Percivale Liesching KCMG KCB GCMG KCVO (1895–1973), Permanent Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1946–1948, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1949–1955, and High Commissioner to South Africa, 1955–1958{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=64154&back= |title=Oxford DNB |publisher=Oxford DNB |access-date=2014-02-03}}
Sir Pierson Dixon GCMG CB (1904–1965), Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, 1943–1948, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1948–1950, Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, 1950–1954, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, 1954–1960, and Ambassador to France, 1960–1965{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/32/101032839/|title=Pierson Dixon}}
Sir George Godber GCB (1908–2009), Chief Medical Officer, 1960–1973{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4583311/Sir-George-Godber.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Sir George Godber | date=10 February 2009}}
Sir George Lisle Clutton KCMG FSA (1909–1970), Ambassador to the Philippines, 1955–1959, and Ambassador to Poland, 1960–1966Obituary, The Times, 11 September 1970, p.12
Ian Clayton Mackenzie CBE (1909–2009), Ambassador to South Korea, 1967–1969{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-25883|chapter=Mackenzie, Ian Clayton, (13 Jan. 1909–17 Oct. 2009), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Ambassador to Korea, 1967–69 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U25883|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Bruce Fraser KCB (1910–1993), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, 1960–1964, Joint Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science, 1964–1965, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, 1965–1966, Comptroller and Auditor General, Exchequer, 1966–1971{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-172538|chapter=Fraser, Sir Bruce (Donald), (18 Nov. 1910–22 Aug. 1993) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U172538|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Thomas Rogers MBE CMG (1912–1999), Ambassador to Colombia, 1970–1973{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-181572|chapter=Rogers, Thomas Edward, (28 Dec. 1912–26 Nov. 1999), HM Diplomatic Service, retired |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U181572|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
John Glendwr Owen CB (1914–1977), Under Secretary at HM Treasury, 1959–1973{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-158184|chapter=Owen, John Glendwr, (12 May 1914–14 Feb. 1977), Under-Secretary, HM Treasury, 1959–73; Treasury Historical Section, 1973–76 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U158184|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
John Gordon Doubleday OBE (1920–1982), Ambassador to Liberia, 1978–1980{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-163642|chapter=Doubleday, John Gordon, (27 Nov. 1920–27 April 1982), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; HM Ambassador to Liberia, 1978–80 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U163642|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Peter Tripp CMG (1921–2010), Ambassador to Libya, 1970–1974, High Commissioner to Singapore, 1974–1978, and Ambassador to Thailand, 1978–1981{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-38058|chapter=Tripp, (John) Peter, (27 March 1921–11 Dec. 2010), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Consultant, Al-Tajir Bank, since 1986 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U38058|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir James Hennessy KBE CMG (born 1923), Ambassador to Uruguay, 1971–1972, High Commissioner to Uganda, 1973–1976, Ambassador to Rwanda, 1973–1976, Governor of Belize, 1980–1981, and Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons, 1982–1987{{cite web

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Peter Maxey CMG (1930-2014), Under Secretary at the Cabinet Office, 1978–1981, Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, 1981–1984, and Ambassador to the United Nations, 1984–1986{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-27051|chapter=Maxey, Peter Malcolm, (26 Dec. 1930–23 Oct. 2014), HM Diplomatic Service, retired 1986 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U27051|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Alan Bailey KCB (born 1931), Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1971–1973, Under Secretary at HM Treasury, 1973–1978, Deputy Secretary at HM Treasury, 1978–1983, Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury, 1983–1985, and Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport, 1986–1991{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-6137|title=Bailey, Sir Alan (Marshall), (born 26 June 1931), Permanent Secretary, Department of Transport, 1986–91 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U6137|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
William Myles Knighton CB (1931-2023), Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Technology, 1966–1968, Assistant Secretary, Department of Trade, 1967–1974, Under Secretary, Department of Trade, 1974–1978, Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade, 1978–1983, Deputy Secretary, Department for Transport, 1983–1986, and Principal Establishment and Finance Officer, Department of Trade and Industry, 1986–1991{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-23344|title=Knighton, William Myles, (born 8 Sept. 1931), Principal Establishment and Finance Officer, Department of Trade and Industry, 1986–91 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U23344|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Sir Michael Burton KCVO CMG (born 1937), British Minister in Berlin, 1985–1992, Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, 1993, and Ambassador to the Czech Republic, 1994–1997{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-9606|title=Burton, Sir Michael (St Edmund), (born 18 Oct. 1937), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; independent consultant and lecturer |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U9606|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Sir Allan Ramsay KBE CMG (1937-2022), Ambassador to the Lebanon, 1988–1990, Ambassador to the Sudan, 1990–1991, and Ambassador to Morocco, 1992–1996{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-31837|title=Ramsay, Sir Allan (John Heppel Ramsay), (born 19 Oct. 1937), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, 1992–96 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U31837|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
John Martin CMG (1943–1999), High Commissioner to Malawi, 1993–1998{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-180310|chapter=Martin, John Francis Ryde, (8 Feb. 1943–5 Jan. 1999), HM Diplomatic Service |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U180310|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Paul Wright (born 1946), Under Secretary, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1992–1999{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-40818|title=Wright, Lester Paul, (born 2 July 1946), Under Secretary, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (formerly of National Heritage), 1992–99 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U40818|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Richard Northern MBE (born 1954), Ambassador to Libya, 2010–2011{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-29716|title=Northern, Richard James, (born 2 Nov. 1954), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; consultant, since 2011; Director, RN4 Consultancy Ltd, since 2011 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U29716|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
John Hawkins (born 1960), Ambassador to Qatar, 2008–2012{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-44796|title=Hawkins, John Mark, (born 30 April 1960), HM Diplomatic Service, retired; Ambassador to Qatar, 2008–12 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U44796|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}

Industry and commerce

Sir William Harpur (c1496–1574), Sheriff of the City of London, 1556–1557, Lord Mayor of London, 1561–1562Godber, Joyce (1973). The Harpur Trust 1552–1973. White Crescent Press Ltd. {{ISBN|0-9502917-0-6}}.
Julius Drewe (1856–1931), creator of Home and Colonial Stores, and builder of Castle Drogo, Devon{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/46/101046889/|title=Julius Drewe}}
Sir Reginald Butler, 1st Baronet (1866–1933), chairman of United DairiesObituary, The Times, 20 November 1933
Sir Harold Yarrow, 2nd Baronet GBE (1884–1962), chairman and managing director of Yarrow Shipbuilders and chairman of Clydesdale Bank{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Sir John Howard DL (1901–1986), civil engineer responsible for construction of the Severn Bridge, the Humber Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge and the Channel TunnelObituary, The Times, 7 January 1986, p.16
Sir Peter Parker KBE LVO (1924–2002), chairman of British Rail, 1976–1983{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1392600/Sir-Peter-Parker.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Sir Peter Parker | date=30 April 2002}}
Sir Peter Hunt FRICS (1933–1997), chairman and managing director of Land Securities, 1978–1997{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-179406|chapter=Hunt, Sir Peter (John), (1 July 1933–8 Dec. 1997), Chairman and Managing Director, Land Securities PLC, since 1987 (Managing Director, since 1978) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U179406|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Derek Bonham (1943–2007), CEO of Hanson Group, 1992–1997, chairman of Imperial Tobacco, 1996–2007, chairman of Cadbury Schweppes, 2000–2003, and chairman of Marconi, 2001–2002{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1563307/Derek-Bonham.html|title=Derek Bonham|date=September 16, 2007|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}
Miles Young (born 1954), chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, 2009–{{cite news|first=Andrew |last=Lynch |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/Appointments/article1226823.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006030602/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/Appointments/article1226823.ece |archive-date=October 6, 2013 |title=Leading edge: Miles Young |newspaper=The Sunday Times |date=10 March 2013 |access-date=2014-02-03}}
Andrew Horton (born 1962), CEO of Beazley, 2008–2021{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/leading-edge-be-positive-in-even-the-toughest-times-rdk8r6d7hzs|title=Leading edge: Be positive in even the toughest times|newspaper=The Sunday Times}}

Journalism

William White (1807–1882), parliamentary sketch writer{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-51992|title=White, William (1807–1882), printer, and door-keeper of the House of Commons|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/51992|last1=Feuchtwanger|first1=E. J.|isbn=9780198614128}}
Henry Corbet (1820–1878), agricultural writer and editor{{cite ODNB|first=Nicholas |last=Goddard |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/56332 |title=Corbet, Henry (1820–1878), agricultural editor: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=22 February 1999 |access-date=2014-02-03|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/56332 }}
E H D Sewell (1872–1947), author, cricket and rugby journalist, Essex and MCC cricketerObituary, The Times, 26 September 1947
Hugo Tyerman (1880–1977), author and journalistObituary, The Times, 22 September 1977, p.17
Major Peter Lawless MC (1891–1945), war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, killed during the Battle of RemagenObituary, The Times, 13 March 1945, p.6
Henry Longhurst (1909–1978), BBC sports commentator and golf writer, Golfing Correspondent of The Sunday Times, Conservative MP for Acton, 1943–1945De-la-Noy, p.68
Peter Stursberg CM (1913–2014), Canadian writer, broadcaster and war correspondent{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/radio-brought-peter-stursberg-to-the-front-lines/article20317197/|title=Radio brought Peter Stursberg to the front lines of the Second World War|work=The Globe and Mail|access-date=24 September 2014}}
Pearce Wright (1933–2005), Science Editor of The Times, 1974–1990{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/may/18/guardianobituaries.pressandpublishing|title=Obituary: Pearce Wright – Media – The Guardian|work=The Guardian|date=18 May 2005|access-date=24 September 2014}}
Michael De-la-Noy (1934–2002), author, journalist and gay rights advocate{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/16/guardianobituaries.religion|title=Obituary: Michael De-la-Noy|first=Jonathan|last=Fryer|newspaper=The Guardian |date=August 16, 2002|via=www.theguardian.com}}
Richard Lindley (born 1936), BBC and ITN journalistDe-la-Noy, p.158
John Percival (1937–2005), BBC and Channel 4 documentary film maker{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-percival-482516.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026145006/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-percival-482516.html | archive-date=October 26, 2013 | location=London | work=The Independent | title=John Percival | date=9 February 2005}}
Michael Brunson OBE (born 1940), ITN Political Editor, Diplomatic Editor and Washington CorrespondentDe-la-Noy, p.155
Robert Hewison (born 1943), Theatre Critic of The Sunday Times'HEWISON, Prof. Robert Alwyn Petrie', Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U19993 accessed 26 March 2008]{{subscription required}}
John Witherow (born 1952), Editor of The Sunday Times, 1995–2013, Editor of The Times, 2013–{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-40435|title=Witherow, John Moore, (born 20 Jan. 1952), Editor, The Times, since 2013 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U40435|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Will Gompertz (born 1965), BBC Arts Editor{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-254395|title=Gompertz, William Edward, (born 25 Aug. 1965), Arts Editor, BBC, since 2009 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2011 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U254395|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Ned Boulting (born 1969), author, sports journalist and commentator{{cite news|last1=Marquand|first1=Rupert|title=Winning over the cycling audience|url=http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/Features/Winning-over-the-cycling-audience-20130811120000.htm|work=Bedfordshire on Sunday|date=11 August 2013}}

Law

Sir John Leach KC (1760–1834), Judge, Privy Councillor, Whig and Tory MP for Seaford, 1806–1816, Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, 1816–1818, Vice Chancellor of England, 1818–1827, and Master of the Rolls, 1827–1834{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/16/101016228/|title=John Leach}}
Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough KCB (1815–1886), constitutional theorist, Privy Councillor, Clerk of the House of Commons, 1871–1886, and the original author of Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/;jsessionid=011EF46C760683FC2257C7D1B8FF1169|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|website=www.oxforddnb.com}}
Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton QC (1817–1907), High Court Judge, 1876–1898, and Privy Councillor{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Sir Henry Verey (1836–1920), Official Referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1876–1920Obituary, The Times, 7 December 1920
Sir Frank Beaman (1858–1928), High Court Judge, Bombay, 1906–1918{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-193293|chapter=Beaman, Sir Frank (Clement Offley), (27 Nov. 1858–12 Aug. 1928), philosophical writer |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U193293|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Reginald Ward Poole KCVO (1864–1941), President of the Law Society, 1933–1934Obituary, The Times, 12 August 1941, p.6
Sir Henry Gompertz (1867–1930), Supreme Court Judge, Hong Kong, 1909–1925, and Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States, 1925–1929{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-210158|chapter=Gompertz, Sir Henry Hessey Johnston, (1867–4 Feb. 1930) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U210158|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Babington Bennett Newbould (1867–1937), High Court Judge, Calcutta, 1916–1927{{cite book|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U214697|chapter=Newbould, Sir (Babington) Bennett, (7 March 1867–2 Feb. 1937) |title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson (1871–1951), High Court Judge, 1921–1939, Privy Councillor, and grandfather of Sir Richard Branson'BRANSON, Rt Hon. Sir George Arthur Harwin PC 1940; Kt, 1921' in Who Was Who 1951–1960 (London: A. & C. Black, 1984 reprint, {{ISBN|0-7136-2598-8}})
Sir Cecil Fforde KC (1875–1951), High Court Judge, Lahore, 1922–1931{{cite book|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U237201|chapter=Fforde, Sir Cecil Robert, (Died 20 Oct. 1951), Judge President of Special Courts of Bechuanaland and Swaziland, Judicial Commissioner of Basutoland and Legal Adviser to High Commissioner for South Africa since 1934; High Commissioner for above Territories, December 1935 and from May to October 1936; represented the Territories at Coronation 1937 |title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Mr Justice Saul Solomon KC (1875–1960), Supreme Court Judge, South Africa, 1927–1945{{cite book|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U243149|chapter=Solomon, Saul, (9 April 1875–10 Dec. 1960), QC; retired as Judge of Supreme Court of S. Africa, Transvaal Provincial Div. (1927–45) |title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Lynden Macassey KBE KC (1876–1963), labour lawyer{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/;jsessionid=962079B9A5FD3B6094E27AEF395A0130|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|website=www.oxforddnb.com}}
Mr Justice Harold Blacker (1889–1944), High Court Judge, Lahore, 1937–1944{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-222684|chapter=Blacker, Harold Alfred Cecil; Mr Justice Blacker, (15 Aug. 1889–18 July 1944), Puisne Judge, HM High Court of Judicature at Lahore since 1937 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U222684|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Gerald Osborne Slade KC (1891–1962), High Court Judge, 1948–1962{{Cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-52372|title=Slade, Sir Gerald Osborne, (14 Oct. 1891–10 Feb. 1962), Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, since 1948 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U52372|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}
Sir Audley McKisack QC (1903–1966), Attorney General of Nigeria, 1951–1956, Chief Justice of Uganda, 1956–1962, President of the High Court of the Federation of South Arabia, 1964–1966, and Appeal Court Judge of the Bahamas and Bermuda, 1965–1966{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-53421|chapter=McKisack, Sir Audley, (2 April 1903–16 Aug. 1966), President, High Court of the Federation of South Arabia, since 1964 and Judge, Courts of Appeal, Bahamas, 1965, and Bermuda, 1965 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U53421|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Phillip Bridges CMG QC (1922–2007), Solicitor General of The Gambia, 1963–1964, Attorney General of the Gambia, 1964–1968, and Chief Justice of The Gambia, 1968–1983{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1583576/Sir-Phillip-Bridges.html|title=Sir Phillip Bridges|date=2 April 2008|work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=24 September 2014}}
Sir Stephen Mitchell QC (born 1941), High Court Judge, 1993–2003{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-27731|title=Mitchell, Hon. Sir Stephen (George), (born 19 Sept. 1941), a Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division, 1993–2003; President, National Security Appeals Panel, Information Tribunal, 2004–07 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U27731|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}

Literature

John Pomfret (1667–1702), poet{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/22/101022485/|title=John Pomfret}}
Samuel Palmer (1741–1813), biographer{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/21/101021213/|title=Samuel Palmer}}
Foster Barham Zincke (1817–1893), antiquary{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/30/101030296/|title=Foster Zincke}}
Morley Roberts (1857–1942), novelist and short story writerWho's Who, 59th ed., pp. 1495–1496, 1907
Frederick Carruthers Cornell OBE (1867–1921), South African short story writer and poetFrederick Carruthers Cornell, The Glamour of Prospecting, 1920
Saki (1870–1916), short story writer{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/35/101035149/|title=Hector Munro}}
Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964), biographer{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/37/101037841/|title=Hesketh Pearson}}
Noel Carrington (1895–1989), originator of Puffin Books, and brother of the artist Dora CarringtonObituary, The Times, 15 April 1989, p.12
John Armitage (1910–1980), Editor of Encyclopædia Britannica, 1949–1967Obituary, The Times, 6 February 1980, p.16
C E T Warren MBE (1912–1988), author of Above Us The WavesObituary, The Times, 30 May 1988, p.16
John Fowles (1926–2005), novelist, author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/96161.html|title=Oxford DNB article: Fowles, John Robert}}
Jonathon Green (born 1948), lexicographerThe Ousel Vol.LXX, No.853, p.29
Shoo Rayner (born 1956), author and illustrator of children's booksThe Ousel Vol.LXXIX, No.891, p.71

Medicine

Professor Robert Elliot FRCS (1864–1936), surgeon and author{{cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E004018b.htm|title=Elliot, Robert Henry – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online|access-date=24 September 2014}}
George Drummond Robinson FRCP (1864–1950), obstetrician{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-231126|chapter=Robinson, George Drummond, (1 Oct. 1864–19 Aug. 1950), Consulting Surgeon for Diseases of Women, Westminster and West London Hospitals; late Examiner in Obstetric Medicine, University of Cambridge; late Examiner, Midwifery and Diseases of Women, University of London and Conjoint Board, Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U231126|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Maurice Craig CBE FRCP (1866–1935), psychiatrist to Virginia Woolf and to the future King Edward VIII, and pioneer in the treatment of mental illness{{cite web|url=http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=140933 |title=PsychiatryOnline | American Journal of Psychiatry | SIR MAURICE CRAIG, C. B. E., M. D. (Camb.), F. R. C. P. (Lond.) |publisher=Ajp.psychiatryonline.org |date=1 March 1935 |access-date=2014-02-03}}
Major General Francis Hutchinson CIE (1870–1931), Surgeon to the King{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-211694|chapter=Hutchinson, Maj.-Gen. Francis Hope Grant, (28 Oct. 1870–25 July 1931), DTMH (Camb.) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U211694|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Frank Eve FRCP (1871–1952) physician who gave his name to the "Eve Method" of artificial respirationObituary, The Times, 10 December 1952
William Branson CBE FRCP (1874–1950), physician, author, and great uncle of Sir Richard Branson{{Cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-222971|title=Branson, William Philip Sutcliffe, (1874–5 March 1950), retired; Consulting Physician, Royal Free Hospital; Consulting Physician to St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, NW; sometime Medical Officer, Sun Life Office; Medical Attendant to Nursing Staff, St Bartholomew's Hospital; Associate Examiner in Medicine, University of London; Physician, Duchess of Westminster Hospital, BEF, and Temp Col AMS; Consulting Physician 5th Army BEF |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U222971|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}
Professor James Radclyffe McDonagh FRCS (1881–1965), surgeon and author{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-57689|chapter=McDonagh, James Eustace Radclyffe, (17 Oct. 1881–14 Feb. 1965) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U57689|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Adolphe Abrahams OBE FRCP (1883–1967), physician and founder of British sports science{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-52767|chapter=Abrahams, Sir Adolphe, (6 Feb. 1883–11 Dec. 1967), Hon. Medical Adviser, International Athletic Board, and Hon. Medical Officer, British Olympic Athletic Team; President, Brit. Assoc. Sport and Medicine, and United Hosps Athletic Club |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U52767|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Felix Warden Brown FRCP FRCPsych (1908–1972), psychiatristObituary, The Times, 17 June 1972
Professor Charles Enrique Dent CBE FRCP FRS (1911–1976), physician and biochemist who gave his name to Dent's Disease{{Cite web|url=http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/24/14.full.pdf+html|title=Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 1978 24, 14–31}}
George Crichton Wells FRCP (1914–1999), dermatologist who gave his name to Wells' Syndrome{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Frank Cockett FRCS (1916–2014), surgeon, author and art historian{{Cite book|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-11337|title=Cockett, Frank Bernard, (22 April 1916–17 Jan. 2014), Consulting Surgeon to: St Thomas' Hospital; King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, London |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U11337|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}
Professor John MacFarlane Cliff FRCP (1921–1972), Professor of Naval Medicine, Royal Hospital Haslar{{Cite web|url=https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians|title=Inspiring Physicians |website=history.rcplondon.ac.uk}}
Major General Michael Brown FRCPE FRCP (1931–1993), Director of Army Medicine and Physician to the Queen{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-171389|chapter=Brown, Maj.-Gen. Michael, (17 Jan. 1931–13 June 1993), Director of Army Medicine, 1988–90, retired |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U171389|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Professor Rory Shaw FRCP (born 1954), Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, 1997–{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-34562|title=Shaw, Prof. Rory James Swanton, (born 5 Jan. 1954), Director, London Healthcare Consultancy Ltd, since 2018; Medical Director, Feedback plc, since 2018 |website=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U34562|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}

Music

C H Bovill (1878–1918), lyricist, songwriter, author, and collaborator with P G Wodehouse{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/app?service=externalpagemethod&page=ArticleDisplay&method=view&sp=S/oupww/whowaswho/U193769|title=Who's Who}}
Dr Marmaduke Conway FRCO (1885–1961), organist and writer{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-56589|chapter=Conway, Marmaduke Percy, (1885–22 March 1961) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U56589|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Darrell Fancourt (1886–1953), bass-baritone singer who starred in more than 10,000 performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company"Mr. Darrell Fancourt", The Times, 1 May 1953
Dr Herbert Kennedy Andrews FRCO (1904–1965), Fellow in Music, New College, Oxford, composer, musicologist and organist{{cite web |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=5656&inst_id=25 |title=AIM25 collection description |publisher=Aim25.ac.uk |access-date=2014-02-03 |archive-date=29 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021655/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=5656&inst_id=25 |url-status=dead }}
Richard Kerr (born 1944), songwriter[http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/aspire4.pdf "Music Stars"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010223505/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/aspire4.pdf |date=2006-10-10 }}, Aspire: Newsletter from Bedford School Foundation, Winter 2004 Issue, Accessed 17 July 2012
Frank Musker (born 1951), composer and songwriter{{cite web|url=http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/aspire5.pdf |title=Aspire|access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010223735/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/aspire5.pdf |archive-date=2006-10-10 }}
Alec Dankworth (born 1960), jazz bassist
Marius de Vries (born 1961), composer and record producer
Andrew Manze (born 1965), associate director of the Academy of Ancient Music, 1996–2003, artistic director of The English Concert, 2003–2007, Principal Conductor and artistic director of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, 2006–{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-43636|title=Manze, Andrew, (born 14 Jan. 1965), conductor; Principal Conductor, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannover, since 2014 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U43636|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Philip Stopford (born 1977), choir director and composer of sacred choral music
Grzegorz Turnau (born 1967), composer, pianist, poet and singer{{Cite web|url=https://wyborcza.pl/7,113768,24147372,leni-lidi-liki-grzegorz-turnau-wraca-do-angielskiej-szkoly.html?disableRedirects=true|title=Wyborcza.pl|website=wyborcza.pl}}
Xander Rawlins (born 1984), singer-songwriter and documentary film maker{{Cite web|url=http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/default.asp?page=825&news=1555&va=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101207190237/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/default.asp?page=825|title=1,000 Miles Apart – Bedford School|archive-date=December 7, 2010}}

Politicians and statesmen

John Williams (c1519-c1561), MP for Bedford, 1554–1555Godber, Joyce (1973). The Harpur Trust 1552–1973. White Crescent Press Ltd. {{ISBN|0-9502917-0-6}}
Thomas Barnard DL (1830–1909), Whig MP for Bedford, 1857–1859{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Lieutenant Commander Norman Carlyle Craig KC (1868–1919), Conservative MP for the Isle of Thanet, 1910–1919Obituary, The Times, 25 October 1919
Sir Walter Preston (1875–1946), Conservative MP for Mile End, 1918–1923, Conservative MP for Cheltenham, 1928–1937{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-230636|chapter=Preston, Sir Walter Reuben, (20 Sept. 1875–6 July 1946), Chairman of Platt Bros and Co. (Holdings) Ltd and of Stone-Platt Engineering Company; President of Textile Machinery Makers Ltd; Director of Midland Bank Ltd |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U230636|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Auberon Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas (1876–1916), Liberal politician and fighter pilot, Privy Councillor, Under-Secretary of State for War, 1908–1911, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1911, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1911–1914, President of the Board of Agriculture, 1914–1915{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Sir Richard Wells, 1st Baronet DL (1879–1957), Conservative MP for Bedford, 1922–1945{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Colonel Eric Harrison (1880–1948), Australian MP, 1931–1937{{Cite book|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harrison-eric-fairweather-6584|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Chris|last=Clark|chapter=Harrison, Eric Fairweather (1880–1948) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|via=Australian Dictionary of Biography}}
Air Commodore Sir Frank Nelson KCMG (1883–1966), Conservative MP for Stroud, 1924–1931, and the first head of Special Operations Executive, 1940–1942
Leslie Ruthven Pym (1884–1945), Conservative MP for Monmouth, 1939–1945, and father of Francis Pym, Foreign Secretary under Margaret Thatcher{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Charles Theodore Te Water (1887–1964), president of the Assembly of the League of Nations, 1933–1934{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-54427|chapter=Te Water, Charles Theodore, (1887–6 June 1964) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U54427|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Walter Jackson Cooper MBE (1888–1973), Australian Senator, 1928–1968, Minister of Repatriation, 1949–1960{{Cite book|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooper-sir-walter-jackson-9822|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Margaret Bridson|last=Cribb|chapter=Cooper, Sir Walter Jackson (1888–1973) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|via=Australian Dictionary of Biography}}
Sir Trounsell Gilbert CBE KC (1888–1975), Chief Justice and President of the Senate of Bermuda, 1952–1958{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-154804|chapter=Gilbert, Sir (Joseph) Trounsell, (30 Aug. 1888–23 Jan. 1975), QC (Bermuda) 1949; Chief Justice of Bermuda and Pres. of Legislative Council, January 1952–July 1958, when retired |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U154804|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Alan Grahame Brown (1913–1972), Labour and Conservative MP for Tottenham, 1959–1964Obituary, The Times, 6 January 1972
Sir Anthony Fell (1914–1998), Conservative MP for Great Yarmouth, 1951–1983{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-178361|chapter=Fell, Sir Anthony, (18 May 1914–20 March 1998) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U178361|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Joseph Godber, Baron Godber of Willington (1914–1980), Privy Councillor, Conservative MP for Grantham, 1951–1979, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1957–1960, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1960–1961, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1961–1963, Secretary of State for War, 1963, Minister of Labour, 1963–1964, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1970–1972, and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1972–1974{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/64634|title=Oxford DNB article: Godber, Joseph Bradshaw}}
Major Richard Harden DSO MC (1916–2000), Ulster Unionist MP for Armagh, 1948–1954{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1371935/Major-Richard-Harden.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Major Richard Harden | date=27 October 2000}}
Major Geraint Morgan QC (1920–1995), Conservative MP for Denbigh, 1959–1983, and champion of the Welsh languageThe Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966
Stephen Ross, Baron Ross of Newport (1926–1993), Liberal MP for the Isle of Wight, 1974–1987{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-ross-of-newport-2322415.html | location=London | work=The Independent | first=David | last=Steel | title=Obituary: Lord Ross of Newport | date=12 May 1993}}
Michael Morris, Baron Naseby (born 1936), Privy Councillor, Conservative MP for Northampton South, 1974–1997{{Cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/2164/Michael-Wolfgang-Laurence-Morris-NASEBY|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140410104857/http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/2164/Michael-Wolfgang-Laurence-Morris-NASEBY|archive-date=10 April 2014|title=The Rt Hon the Lord Naseby, PC Authorised Biography |website= Debrett's People of Today|access-date=20 June 2015}}
Krishnan Srinivasan (born 1937), Indian Foreign Secretary, 1994–1995, Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, 1995–2002{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-35904|title=Srinivasan, Krishnan, (born 15 Feb. 1937), Deputy Secretary-General, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1995–2002 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U35904|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Paddy Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE (1941–2018), Privy Councillor, Liberal Democrat MP for Yeovil, 1983–2001, leader of the Liberal Democrats, 1988–1999, international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2002–2006{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/advice/leading-edge-paddy-ashdown-6832j6bwmp6|title=Leading edge: Paddy Ashdown|first=Andrew|last=Lynch|date=12 June 2023 |via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}
Sir Gerry Neale (born 1941), Conservative MP for North Cornwall, 1979–1992{{cite web|url=https://connect.bedfordschool.org.uk/document.doc?id%3D20 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504104233/https://connect.bedfordschool.org.uk/document.doc?id=20 |archive-date=2014-05-04 }}
John Carlisle (1942–2019), Conservative MP for Luton, 1979–1997{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-10185|chapter=Carlisle, John Russell, (28 Aug. 1942–18 Feb. 2019), political and media consultant, 2002–07 |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10185|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Holbeach CBE FRSA (born 1943), Conservative politician, Minister at the Home Office, 2012–2014, and Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords, 2014–{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Bob Clay (born 1946), Labour MP for Sunderland North, 1983–1992{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-11149|title=Clay, Robert Alan, (born 2 Oct. 1946), Member (Lab), City and County of Swansea Council, 2013–17 |website=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U11149|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Malcolm Harbour CBE (born 1947), Conservative MEP for the West Midlands, 1999–2014{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-18971|title=Harbour, Malcolm John Charles, (born 19 Feb. 1947), Director, Digital Policy Alliance, since 2002; Senior Adviser: European Policy Centre, since 2014; Teneo Cabinet DN (formerly Cabinet DN), since 2014; Associate Connected Places Catapult, since 2019 |website=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U18971|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Desmond Swayne (born 1956), Conservative MP for New Forest West, 1997–, Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Cameron, 2010–2012, and Minister of State for International Development, 2014–{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-36810|title=Swayne, Rt Hon. Sir Desmond (Angus), (born 20 Aug. 1956), PC 2011; MP (C) New Forest West, since 1997 |website=ukwhoswho.com|year=2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U36810|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Brooks Newmark (born 1958), Conservative MP for Braintree, Essex, 2005–2015, and Minister for Civil Society, 2014{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-45835|title=Newmark, Brooks Phillip Victor, (born 8 May 1958), Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, since 2015 |website=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U45835|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}}
Neil Coyle (born 1978), Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bermondsey and Old Southwark{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Sport

=All-Rounders=

Percy Christopherson (1866–1921), England rugby international and Kent cricketer
Freddie Brooks OBE (1883–1947), England rugby international and Rhodesia cricketer
Frank Brooks (1884–1952), Rhodesia cricketer, rugby international and tennis player{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/5/5043/5043.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|access-date=24 September 2014}}
Lieutenant Colonel Stan Harris CBE (1894–1973), England and British Lions rugby international, water polo international, South Africa Davis Cup tennis player, South Africa light-heavyweight boxing champion, and Wimbledon mixed doubles winner, who turned down a place in the 1920 Great Britain Olympic team
Gilbert Cook CVO CBE (1911–1979), England rugby international and Ireland cricketer{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/26/26719/Miscellaneous_Matches.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|website=cricketarchive.com}}
Dr Tim Joiner (1975-1980) UK National Canoe Champion 2005

=Athletics=

Harold Abrahams CBE (1899–1978), Olympic sprinter and long jumper, winner of the gold medal in 1924 for the 100-metre sprint; a feat portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire
Brigadier Dick Webster (1914–2009), Olympic pole vaulter, 1936 and 1948{{Cite web |url=http://x.achilles.org/reports/2009.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041723/http://x.achilles.org/reports/2009.pdf }}

=Cricket=

William Weighell (1846–1905), Sussex cricketer{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33720/33720.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|access-date=5 October 2014}}
William Woof (1858–1937), Gloucestershire and MCC cricketer{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/155671.html|title=William Woof|website=Cricinfo}}
Herbert Orr (1865–1940), Western Australia cricketer{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/16/16515/16515.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|website=cricketarchive.com}}
Ralph Joyce (1878–1908), Leicestershire cricketer{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30683/30683.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|access-date=4 October 2014}}
Percy Sherwell (1880-1948), South Africa cricketer
Harold Baumgartner (1883–1938), South Africa cricketer{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/44056.html|title=Harold Baumgartner|work=Cricinfo|access-date=5 October 2014}}
Arthur Cantrell (1883–1954), Royal Navy first-class cricketer{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28410/28410.html |title=Player profile: Arthur Cantrell |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2019-03-05 |url-access=subscription}}
Francis Joyce (1886–1958), Leicestershire cricketer{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30681/30681.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|access-date=4 October 2014}}
Bertram Peel (1881–1945), Oxford University and Scotland first-class cricketer
Denis Peel (1886–1927), Oxford University first-class cricketer
Frank Ryan (1888–1954), Hampshire and Glamorgan first-class cricketer
Arthur Cocks (1904–1944), British Army cricketer
Lancelot Robinson (1905–1935), MCC cricketer{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228180.html|title=Obituaries in 1935|date=December 2, 2005|website=Cricinfo}}
Cyril Reed (1906–1991), Madras cricketer{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14408/all_teams.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|website=cricketarchive.com}}
William Sime CMG MBE QC (1909–1983), Nottinghamshire cricketer, and Judge
Brian Disbury (1929-2016), Kent cricketer{{cite web|url=http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/sitefiles/upload_docs/12959%20-%20Aspire%20Newsletter%20issue%2010%20LR.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212519/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/sitefiles/upload_docs/12959%20-%20Aspire%20Newsletter%20issue%2010%20LR.pdf |archive-date=2014-04-08 }}
Michael Allen (1933–1995), Northamptonshire, MCC and Derbyshire cricketerDe-la-Noy, p.196
Martin Meeson (1933–1995), Cambridge University first-class cricketer
Rex Collinge (born 1935), Combined Services first-class cricketer
Ian Peck (born 1957), Northamptonshire cricketer
Robin Boyd-Moss (born 1959), Northamptonshire cricketer
Toby Bailey (born 1976), Northamptonshire cricketer{{Cite web|url=https://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/notice/upper-school-cricket-tour-2020/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629211229/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/upper-school-cricket/|title=Bedford School|first=Bedford|last=School|archive-date=June 29, 2014|website=Bedford School}}
Will Smith (born 1982), Hampshire, Durham and Nottinghamshire cricketer
Adrian Shankar (born 1982), Worcestershire cricketer{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/may/27/adrian-shankar-worcestershire-police|title=Adrian Shankar mystery thickens as police get involved|first=Andy|last=Wilson|newspaper=The Guardian |date=May 27, 2011|via=www.theguardian.com}}
Sir Alastair Cook CBE (born 1984), Essex, MCC and England cricketer, and captain of the England cricket team{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/2297499/Alastair-Cook-reprises-his-original-hits.html|title=Alastair Cook reprises his original hits|last=Randall|first=Charles|date=16 April 2008|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=2009-03-03 | location=London}}
Alex Wakely (born 1988), Northamptonshire cricketer and captain of the England Under-19 cricket team
James Kettleborough (born 1992), Northamptonshire cricketer{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/267/267690/267690.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|website=cricketarchive.com}}
Emilio Gay (born 2000), Northamptonshire and (from 2025) Durham cricketer.{{cite web |last=Howson |first=Nick |date=5 August 2024 |title=England on the agenda as Emilio Gay takes his next step |url=https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/county-cricket-premium/england_agenda_emilio_gay_takes_next_step.html |url-access=subscription |website=The Cricketer |location=London |access-date=8 August 2024}}

=Equestrianism=

Brigadier Lyndon Bolton DSO & Bar DL (1899–1995), Olympic horseman, 1948{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

=Fencing=

Colonel Ronald Bruce Campbell CBE DSO (1878–1963), Olympic fencer, 1920Obituary, The Times, 9 March 1963, p.10

=Football=

Harold Henman (1879–1969), international footballer who played for both South Africa and ArgentinaObituary, The Ousel, Vol.LXXIII, No.870, July 1969, p.119

=Hockey=

Stefan Tewes (born 1967), Olympic gold medalist in hockey, 1992The Ousel Vol.LXXXVIII, No.916, p.5
Sven Meinhardt (born 1971), Olympic gold medalist in hockey, 1992The Ousel Vol.XCII, No.933, December 1989, p.158

=Motor Sport=

Dan Wheldon (1978–2011), racing driver, Indianapolis 500 winner, 2005 and 2011{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/8832557/Dan-Wheldon.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | title=Dan Wheldon | date=17 October 2011}}

=Rowing=

William Crofts (1846–1912), rowerObituary, The Ousel Vol.XVII, No.432, 30 January 1913
Jack Beresford CBE (1899–1977), Olympic rower, winner of five medals (three gold, two silver) at five Olympic Games in succession, 1920–1936{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/30812|title=Oxford DNB article: Beresford, Jack}}
Harold Morphy (1902–1987), Olympic rower, 1924{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/harold-morphy-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035450/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/harold-morphy-1.html|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Harold Morphy|work=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com}}
Dr Edward Vaughan Bevan (1907–1988), Olympic rower, gold medalist, 1928{{cite web|url=http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/upload_docs/Bedford%20School%20Rugby1.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929011542/http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/upload_docs/Bedford%20School%20Rugby1.pdf |archive-date=2011-09-29 }}
William Windham (1926-2021), Olympic rower, 1952{{cite book|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U40349|chapter=Windham, William Ashe Dymoke, (Born 2 April 1926), Chairman, Skelmersdale Development Corporation, 1979–85; (Deputy Chairman, 1977) |title=Who's Who |year=2007 }}
James Crowden (1927-2016), Olympic rower, 1952{{cite book|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12443|chapter=Crowden, James Gee Pascoe, (Born 14 Nov. 1927), Senior Partner, Grounds & Co., 1974–88; Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Cambridgeshire, 1992–2002 |title=Who's Who |year=2007 }}
Michael Beresford (born 1934), Olympic rower, 1960[https://connect.bedfordschool.org.uk/page.aspx?pid=367 OB – Rowing – Home – Connect] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408224920/https://connect.bedfordschool.org.uk/page.aspx?pid=367 |date=2014-04-08 }}
Phelan Hill (born 1979), Olympic rower, bronze and gold medalist, 2012 and 2016{{cite web|url=http://www.britishrowing.org/gb-rowing-team/biographies/phelan-hill |title=Phelan Hill | Biographies |publisher=British Rowing |date=21 July 1979 |access-date=2012-08-15}}

=Rugby=

Major General Sir Robert Henderson KCMG CB (1858–1924), England rugby international, and Physician to the King{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-197762|chapter=Henderson, Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert Samuel Findlay, (11 Dec. 1858–5 Oct. 1924) |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U197762|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Philip Jacob (1875–p1927), England rugby international
Francis Palmer MC (1877–1951), England rugby international
Curly Hammond (1879–1963), England rugby international
Basil Maclear (1881–1915), Ireland rugby international
Ernest Chambers (1882–1946), England rugby international
Cecil Milton (1884–1961), England rugby international
Jumbo Milton (1885–1915), England rugby international whilst still a pupil at Bedford School
Henry Vassall (1887–1949), England rugby international
Sir Arthur Blakiston, 7th Baronet MC (1892–1974), England and British Lions rugby international{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-152399|chapter=Blakiston, Sir Arthur Frederick, (16 June 1892–31 Jan. 1974), farmer |publisher=ukwhoswho.com|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U152399|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|title=Who Was Who |year=2007 }}
Sir Basil McFarland, 2nd Baronet CBE ERD (1898–1986), Ireland rugby international
Robert Jones (1900–1970), Wales rugby international
Leo Oakley (1926–1981), England rugby internationalDe-la-Noy, p.195
Budge Rogers OBE (born 1933), England and British Lions rugby international
Martin Bayfield (born 1966), England and British Lions rugby international
Andy Gomarsall MBE (born 1974), England rugby international
David Callam (born 1983), Scotland rugby international
George Furbank (born 1996), England rugby international{{Cite web|url=https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/two-former-bedford-school-boys-in-england-six-nations-squad/|title=Two former Bedford School boys in England Six Nations squad|first=Tom|last=Carr|date=January 20, 2020}}

=Tennis=

Patrick Wheatley (1899–1967), tennis player who competed at Wimbledon on eleven separate occasions, 1921–1933, at the Olympic Games, 1924, and in the Davis Cup, 1926The Ousel, Vol.XX, No.484, 24 May 1916, p.58

References

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