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List of Old Uppinghamians

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Alumni of Uppingham School are known as Old Uppinghamians.

Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school situated in the small market town of Uppingham, in Rutland, England. The school was founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oakham School.

Notable former pupils include:

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  • Everard Calthrop, railway engineer and inventor
  • Donald Campbell, World Land and Water Speed record holder, killed on Coniston Water in Bluebird (West Deyne)
  • Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of World Land and Water Speed records in 1920s and 1930s (West Deyne)
  • Archie Cochrane, medic, researcher and pioneer of evidence-based medicine{{cite book |last1=Cochrane |first1=Archibald L |last2=Blythe |first2=Max|year=2009 |orig-year=1989|title=One Man's Medicine: An Autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane|location=Cardiff |publisher=Cardiff University |isbn=978-0-9540884-3-9}}
  • Holden Chow, solicitor and politician, vice-chairman of the Democratic Alliance of the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB).

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  • Johnny Dawes, rock climber
  • Adrian Dixon, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University
  • Eric Dorman-Smith, British Army officer and Irish nationalist{{cite book | last = Greacen | first = Lavinia | title = Chink: A Biography | publisher = Papermac | year = 1991 | location = London | page = 17 | isbn = 978-0-333-55693-1 }}
  • Stephen Dorrell, Health Secretary 1995–97
  • Norman Douglas, novelist and travel writer
  • Charles Dunstone, co-founder of Carphone Warehouse{{cite news | last = Whitworth | first = Damian |author2=Whipple, Tom | title = The playboy and the Tory party leader | newspaper = The Times | location = London | date = 23 December 2009}} (Lorne House)

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  • John H. Edwards, geneticist, and his brother A. W. F. Edwards, statistician
  • Dan Everard, British inventor, engineer and author{{cite web |url=http://www.olduppinghamian.co.uk/news/dragonmobility-reaches-a-milestone/ |title=OU News: Dragonmobility Reaches a Milestone |date=1 March 2015 |access-date=18 June 2019}}

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  • William Sansom, author

Reginald Savory, British Indian Army Officer in World War I and World War II

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  • William Yates, former member of both British and Australian Parliaments

See also

References

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