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List of Old Carthusians

{{short description|Alumni of the English school Charterhouse}}

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The following are notable Old Carthusians, who are former pupils of Charterhouse (founded in 1611).

{{wikisource|List of Carthusians, 1800–1879}}

Politicians

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=MPs=

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=Political scholars, activists, and others=

  • John Campbell (born 1947), political writer and biographer
  • Adam Curle (1916–2006), British academic and Quaker peace activist{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,1886913,00.html|author=Tom Woodhouse|title=Obituary: Adam Curle|newspaper=The Guardian|date=4 October 2006|access-date=6 December 2019|quote=Educated at Charterhouse school, Adam read history and anthropology at New College, Oxford.}}
  • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), political scholar
  • Charles Evenden (1894–1961), British soldier who was the founder of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats
  • Garry Thomson (1925–2007), British conservator and Buddhist
  • Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist (witness before the Wolfenden Committee)

Royalty

Nobility

Royal household and ceremonial positions

Colonial administration

Diplomats

Civil servants

Businesspeople

Economists, financiers and bankers

Academics

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=Education leaders=

=Scientists=

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=Engineers=

=Physicians=

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=Philosophers=

=Historians and antiquaries=

Judges, barristers, and lawyers

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Military

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Religion and theologians

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Writers, novelists, and poets

Actors

Journalists and presenters

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  • Richard Dennen (born 1982), journalist and editor of Tatler{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/tatler-magazine-appoints-new-editor-richard-dennen-who-went-to-university-with-kate-and-william-a3755651.html|title=Tatler magazine appoints new editor Richard Dennen who went to university with Kate and William|work=London Evening Standard|date=1 February 2018|access-date=1 February 2018}}
  • David Dimbleby (born 1938), television presenter
  • Jonathan Dimbleby (born 1944), television and radio presenter
  • William Godwin the Younger (1803–1832), English journalist and author{{sfn|Parish|1879|p=97}}
  • Sir Max Hastings (born 1945), journalist, writer and broadcaster
  • Jonathan Holborow (born 1943), British newspaper editor
  • Philip Hope-Wallace (1911–1979), English music and theatre critic associated with ‘’The Manchester Guardian’’
  • Tim Judah (born 1962), journalist and author
  • Henry Longhurst (1909–1978), golf journalist and commentator
  • Michael Melford (1916–1999), British sports journalist
  • Basil Murray (1902–1937), British journalist and editor
  • Cathy Newman (born 1974), journalist and Channel 4 presenter{{cite web |url=http://guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/83/Charterhouse/HMC/Charterhouse-Godalming-Surrey-GU7-2DX |title=Guide to Independent Schools :: Charterhouse :: Charterhouse, Godalming, Surrey GU7 2DX |website=guidetoindependentschools.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710234829/http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/83/Charterhouse/HMC/Charterhouse-Godalming-Surrey-GU7-2DX |archive-date=2010-07-10}}
  • Benedict Nightingale (born 1939), British journalist
  • Peter O'Sullevan (1918–2015), Irish-British horse racing commentator
  • John Peet (born 1954), journalist for The Economist
  • Gerald Priestland (1927–1991), broadcaster and writer
  • Adam Raphael (born 1938), journalist
  • William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928–2012), public servant, journalist, and editor of The Times (1967–81)
  • Olly Smith (born 1974), wine writer and television presenter
  • Charles Spencer (1955–), British journalist
  • David Walter (1948–2012), ITN and BBC correspondent, radio and television producer and later political advisor (President of the Oxford Union and winner of the Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Kent Walton (1917–2003), wrestling commentator

Media producers and directors

Artists

Architects

Musicians and composers

Sportspeople

=Cricketers=

  • Brigadier-General Anthony Abdy (1856–1924), English cricketer who played one first-class match in 1881
  • Anthony Allom (1938–2017), English cricketer who played five first-class matchesWisden 1958, p. 301.
  • Richard Bagge (1810–1891), English cricketer who played two first-class matches
  • Andrew Barker (born 1945), English cricketer who played 6 List A and 44 first-class matches
  • Francis Barmby (1863–1936), English cricketer who played one first-class match{{sfn|Parish|1879|p=12}}
  • Aubrey Beauclerk (1817–1853), English cricketer who played in two first-class matches in 1837{{sfn|Parish|1879|p=16}}
  • Charles William Beauclerk (1816–1863), English cricketer who played ? first-class matches
  • James Bovill (born 1971), English cricketer who played 26 List A and 38 first-class matches{{cite web |title=Miscellaneous Matches played by James Bovill|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4214/Miscellaneous_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive|access-date=13 September 2018}}
  • Robert Braddell (1888–1965), English cricketer who played 20 first-class matches
  • Trevor Branston (1884–1969), English cricketer who played 89 first-class matches
  • William Bristowe (born 1963), English cricketer who played 1 List A and 10 first-class matches{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28140/28140.html |title=Player profile: William Bristowe |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2019-08-30 |url-access=subscription}}
  • James Bruce-Jones (1910–1943), Scottish cricketer who played 2 first-class matches
  • John Buchanan (1887–1969), South African-born English cricketer who played 34 first-class matches{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/28/28254/all_teams.html|title=Teams John Buchanan played for|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=14 August 2011|url-access=subscription}}
  • Herbert Burrell (1866–1949), English cricketer who played three first-class matches{{Cricketarchive|id=4795|name=Herbert Burrell}}
  • Tom Bury (born 1958), English cricketer who played 4 first-class matches
  • Arthur Ceely (1834–1866), English cricketer who played 3 first-class matches
  • William Chetwynd-Talbot (1814–1888), English cricketer who played one first-class match
  • Edward Colebrooke (1858–1939), cricketer
  • Geoffrey Cooke (1897–1980), cricketer and British Army officer
  • Alexander Cowie (1889–1916), English cricketer who played 14 first-class matches
  • Wilfred Curwen (1883–1915), English cricketer who played 25 first-class matches
  • Alfred Dallas (1895–1921), English cricketer who played in one first-class match
  • William Davies (1825–1868), English cricketer who played 9 first-class matches
  • Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr (1869–1915), hereditary peer and cricketer
  • Christian Doll (1880–1955), cricketer and architect
  • Mordaunt Doll (1888–1966), cricketer
  • John Dyson (1913–1991), first-class cricketer
  • Frederick Fane (1875–1960), Anglo-Irish cricketer who played 14 Test and 417 first-class matches{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/285/285.html |title=Frederick Fane |website=CricketArchive|url-access=subscription}}
  • Leonard Furber (1880–1912), English cricketer who played 2 first-class matches
  • Tommy Garnett (1915–2006), Australian horticulturalist and English cricketer who played five first-class matches
  • Edward Garrow (1815–1896), English cricketer who played one first-class match
  • Humphrey Gilbert (1886–1960), Indian-born English cricketer who played in 118 first-class matchesObituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1961
  • Ivor Gilliat (1903–1967), English cricketer who played 13 first-class matches
  • Richard Gilliat (born 1944), English cricketer who played 269 first-class matches
  • Guy Goodliffe (1883–1963), English cricketer who played one first-class match
  • George Gowan (1818–1890), cricketer{{cite book |title=Charterhouse register 1769-1872 |first=R. L. |last=Arrowsmith |publisher=Phillimore |year=1974 |page=163 |isbn=9780850330816 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=448PAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}
  • Herbert Green (1878–1918), English cricketer and soldier who played in one first-class match
  • Guy Gregson-Ellis (1895–1969), English cricketer who played four first-class matches{{sfn|Chiswick|1911|p=867}}
  • Lancelot Grove (1905–1943), English cricketer who played four first-class matches
  • James Hamblin (born 1978), English cricketer who played 11 first-class matches, 48 List A matches and 5 Twenty20 matches
  • Andrew Hamilton (born 1953), English cricketer who played 12 first-class matches
  • Charles Harvey (1837–1917), English cricketer who played five first-class matches
  • Charles Hooman (1887–1969), English cricketer who played 38 first-class matches
  • Harry Hooper (born 1986), English cricketer who played 7 first-class matches
  • Mike Hooper (1947–2010), English cricketer who played 17 List A and 21 first-class matches{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30360/Miscellaneous_Matches.html|title=Miscellaneous matches played by Mike Hooper|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=31 December 2016|url-access=subscription}}
  • Campbell Hulton (1877–1947), English cricketer who played one first-class match, brother of the below
  • John Hulton (1882–1942), English cricketer who played 3 first-class matches, brother of the above
  • Francis Inge (1840–1923), English cricketer and clergyman who played nine first-class matches
  • John Inge (1844–1919), English cricketer who played two first-class matches
  • Tony Jakobson (born 1937), English cricketer who played 14 first-class matches
  • Ben Jeffery (born 1991), English cricketer who played 6 first-class matches
  • Antony Kamm (1931–2011), English historian and cricketer
  • George Kemp-Welch (1907–1944), English cricketer who played 114 first-class matches
  • John Larking (1921–1998), English cricketer who played three first-class matches
  • Jeff Linton (1909–1989), Welsh cricketer who played two first-class matches
  • Michael Livock (1936–1999), English cricketer who played two first-class matches{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31029/31029.html |title=Profile: Michael Livock |publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2019-02-18 |url-access=subscription}}
  • John Lomas (1917–1945), English cricketer who played 23 first-class matches[http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/229837.html “Obituaries”], Wisden, 1946.
  • Christopher Lubbock (1920–2000), English cricketer who played nine first-class matches[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U180097 LUBBOCK, Christopher William Stuart], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • Herbert Malkin (1836–1913), English cricketer who played two first-class matches in 1858
  • Roger Marshall (born 1952), English cricketer who played 12 List A and 24 first-class matchesWisden Cricketers' Almanack 1971, p. 799.
  • Peter May (1929–1994), England cricket captain
  • Alfred McGaw (1900–1984), English cricketer who played seven first-class matches
  • William Meryweather (1809–1841), English cricketer who played ? first-class matches{{acad |id=MRWR825WS |name=Meryweather (post Turner), William Stephens Turner Mellish}}
  • Niel Morgan (1904–1985), Welsh cricketer who played six first-class matches
  • Trevil Morgan (1907–1976), Welsh cricketer who played 83 first-class matches{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/4/4550/4550.html|title=Player profile: Trevil Morgan|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=28 October 2012|url-access=subscription}}
  • John Stanton Fleming Morrison (1892–1961), English cricketer who played 38 first-class matches
  • Charles Nepean (1851–1903), English cricketer who played ten first-class matches{{sfn|Parish|1879|p=167}}
  • Henry Nethercote (1819–1886), English cricketer who played 19 first-class matches
  • Oswald Norris (1883–1973), English cricketer who played 11 first-class matches
  • Cecil Parry (1866–1901), English cricketer who played ? first-class matches{{acad|id=PRY886CW|name=Parry, Cecil Wynn}}
  • Cecil Payne (1885–1976), English cricketer who played 29 first-class matches{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/31/31938/31938.html|title=Cecil Payne at CricketArchive|publisher=CricketArchive|url-access=subscription}}
  • Alec Pearce (1910–1982), cricketer (Kent County Cricket Club, Hong Kong national cricket team, and Marylebone Cricket Club)
  • Ernest Powell (1861–1928), English cricketer who played 21 first-class matches{{acad|id=PWL880EO|name=Powell, Ernest Ormsby}}
  • Jack Pritchard (1895–1936), English cricketer who played 2 first-class matches
  • Bernard Randolph (1834–1857), English cricketer who played seven first-class matches
  • R. C. Robertson-Glasgow (1901–1965), Scottish cricketer who played 144 first-class matches and wrote several books on cricket{{cite web|last1=Foot|first1=David|title=Cricket's Crusoe on this sporting life|url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/sport/story/0,6903,442632,00.html|website=The Guardian|access-date=30 November 2019|quote=Born in Edinburgh to austere parents in 1901, Raymond was sent to Charterhouse and his brother, Bobs, to Radley.}}
  • Gavin Roynon (1936–2018), English cricketer who played nine first-class matches and military historian
  • Charles Rucker (1894–1965), English cricketer who played five first-class matches
  • Patrick Rucker (1900–1940), English cricketer who played seven first-class matches
  • Martin Souter (born 1976), English cricketer who played one first-class match
  • Edward Spurway (1863–1914), English cricketer who played two first-class matches{{sfn|Parish|1879|p=220}}
  • Hugh Stanbrough (1870–1904), English footballer and cricketer
  • John Strachan {{postnominal|MC}} (1896–1988), English cricketer who played one first-class match and British Army officer
  • Edward Streatfeild (1870–1932), English cricketer who played nine first-class matches
  • Alexander Streatfeild-Moore (1863–1940), English cricketer who played first-class matches{{sfn|Parish|1879|p=224}}
  • Gilbert Vassall (1876–1941), English cricketer who played six first-class matches
  • Charles Vintcent (1866–1943), South African cricketer who played in 3 Test and 6 first-class matches
  • William Wakefield (1870–1922), cricketer
  • Algernon Whiting (1861–1931), English cricketer who played nine first-class matches
  • Reginald Wood (1860–1915), English cricketer who played one Test and 12 first-class matches{{sfn|Parish|1879|p=258}}
  • Anthony Wreford-Brown (1912–1997), English cricketer who played five first-class matches
  • Charles Wreford-Brown (1866–1951), English international football captain and cricketer
  • Charles Wright (1863–1936), English cricketer who played seven first-class matches{{acad|id= WRT881CW|name=Wright, William Charles}}
  • Teddy Wynyard (1861–1936), English cricketer who played 3 Test and 154 first-class matches{{sfn|Parish|1879|p=261}}

=Other sports=

Adventurers, explorers, and colonists

Others

Fictional Old Carthusians

References

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  • {{cite book|title=Charterhouse register, 1872-1900|publisher=R. B. Stedman|location=Godalming|year=1904|ref={{harvid|Stedman|1904}}}}
  • {{cite book|title=Charterhouse register, 1872-1910|location=London|publisher=Chiswick Press|year=1911|ref={{harvid|Chiswick|1911}}}}
  • {{cite book|title=List of Carthusians, 1800–1879|editor1-first=William Douglas|editor1-last=Parish|editor1-link=William Douglas Parish|year=1879|publisher=Lewes, Farncombe & Co.}}

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