List of Old Harrovians
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The following is a list of some notable Old Harrovians, graduates of Harrow School in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Royalty
- King Faisal II of Iraq
- Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
- Prince Hassan bin Al Talal of Jordan
- Barkat Ali Khan Mukarram Jah, claimant Nizam of Hyderabad
- Jagaddipendra Narayan, Maharaja of Cooch Behar
- King Hussein of Jordan
- Lord Nicholas Windsor, Youngest son of HRH The Duke of Kent; the Queen's cousin
[edit] Nobility
- James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
- James Chichester, Earl of Belfast
- Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
- James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, politician
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Governor General of Canada
- Sir John Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet, finance minister, Northern Ireland
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, politician & philanthropist
- Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford
- Bill Deedes, politician and journalist
- Lord Gardiner, Lord Chancellor
- Albert Henry Edward Grey, 4th Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada
- Robert Cunninghame-Graham, politician & journalist
- Sir William Hart Dyke, politician and racquets champion
- 1st Marquess of Hastings, Governor General of Bengal
- Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell
- Sir Adrian Holman, diplomat
- Lord Houghton, Viceroy of Ireland
- Sir Stanley Jackson, cricketer and Governor of Bengal
- Sir Keith Joseph, politician
- John Alsop King, Governor of New York State
- 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
- Sir Francis May, Governor of Hong Kong
- Peter Millett, Lord Millett, law lord
- 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
- Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
- Sir Frederick Peel, Under-Secretary of State for War and Secretary to the Treasury
- John Profumo, politician
- Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, KCMG, politician and business man
- Lord Shaftesbury, 7th Earl - Social reformer
- John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer
- John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
- John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth, Governor General of India
- Sir Reginald Talbot, Governor of Victoria
- Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
- Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland, politician
- Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland, politician
- John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn
- Alexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Christopher Nevill, 6th Marquess of Abergavenny
- Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, prime minister Of the United Kingdom
- Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster
- Henry Wentworth Acland
- Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland
- Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland, politician
- Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet
- Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
- Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist
- Sir Jeremy Greenstock
[edit] Prime Ministers
- Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India
- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
[edit] British Politicians
- James Agg-Gardner
- John Amery
- James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn
- John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn
- Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet Lemon of Carclew
- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
- Sir Milne Barbour, 1st Baronet
- Thomas Baring
- Sir Douglas Straight
- Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
- Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
[edit] Military
- James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Charge of the Light Brigade
- General Sir Peter de la Billiere
- General Lord Guthrie, Chief of the General Staff (1994-1997) and Chief of the Defence Staff (1997-2001)
- Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain to Queen Victoria
- Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, politician
- Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, supporter of the Confederate States of America
- John Harington Gubbins, linguist & diplomat
- Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India
- Admiral Lord Rodney
- General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
- Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
- Ivan Lyon, Lieutenant Colonel, commander Operation Jaywick
- David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
- Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
[edit] Victoria Cross Holders
Nineteen Old Harrovians have been awarded the Victoria Cross:[1]
[edit] Crimean War
[edit] Second Opium War
[edit] First Ashanti Expedition
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- Major The Lord Edric Gifford[6]
[edit] Zulu War
[edit] Sudan Campaign
[edit] South African War
[edit] Third Somaliland Expedition
[edit] First World War
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- Major Ernest Wright Alexander[12]
- Captain Richard Raymond Willis[13]
- Captain Garth Walford[14]
- Second Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse[15]
- Acting Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson[16]
- Acting Captain Walter Napleton Stone[17]
- Acting Lieutenant Colonel John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker[18]
- Acting Major George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay[19]
[edit] Second World War
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- Temporary Captain Ian Oswald Liddell[20]
[edit] Church
[edit] Arts
[edit] Writers
- Bernard Bosanquet, philosopher
- George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, poet
- Richard Curtis, scriptwriter & actor
- Alain de Botton, author
- Mark Haddon, author
- Augustus Hare, author
- L. P. Hartley, author
- Sir Arnold Lunn, skiing pioneer & writer
- E. H. W. Meyerstein poet and writer
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, journalist and historian
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright & politician
- Marmaduke Pickthall, Islamic and Middle-Eastern scholar
- Jason Pontin, editor, publisher, and journalist
- Sir Terence Rattigan, dramatist
- G.M. Trevelyan, historian
- Anthony Trollope, novelist
- Francis Wheen, writer and journalist
- Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), novelist
- John Galsworthy, dramatist and nobel prize winning novelist
- Sir John Mortimer, dramatist and author
[edit] Visual arts
- Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 19th century artist
- Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, photographer
- Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer and costume designer
- Spencer Gore, artist
- Sir Francis Grant, artist and President of the Royal Academy
- Victor Pasmore, artist
[edit] Acting
- Tim Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, actor
- James Callis, actor
- Peter Cellier, actor
- Michael Denison, actor
- James Dreyfus, actor
- Sir Gerald du Maurier, actor, producer
- Cary Elwes, Actor
- Edward Fox, actor
- James Fox, actor
- Laurence Fox, actor
- Robert Fox, film producer
- Benedict Cumberbatch, actor
[edit] Music
- James Blunt, musician
- Mike d'Abo, lead singer, Manfred Mann
- Sandy Wilson, composer and lyricist
- Dan Marshall, grime/hip-hop lyricist
[edit] Sciences
- Francis Maitland Balfour, scientist
- Sir William Jones, philologist
- Sir Gavin de Beer
- Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, scientist & civil servant
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist & Nobel Prize laureate
- William Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography
- Sir Joseph Banks, explorer
- Nicholas Patrick, NASA astronaut
- Henry Bence Jones
[edit] Sports
- C. W. Alcock, creator of the FA Cup
- Edward Baily
- John Barham, Athlete
- Morton Betts, 19th Century sportsman
- Tom French, rugby footballer of London Wasps
- Douglas Robert Hadow, died on Matterhorn first ascent
- Patrick Francis Hadow, Wimbledon champion and big game hunter
- Arthur Haygarth, cricketer
- John McCririck, racing commentator
- Sir Rupert Mackeson, racing author
- Charles Morice (footballer), played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
- Ranjitsinhji, cricketer
- Sir Lancelot Royle KBE, Olympian & business man, governor of Harrow School
- Reginald de Courtenay Welch, England international footballer
- Julian Wilson, racing commentator
[edit] Business
- Gregory Apcar, merchant and philanthropist
- Patrick Douglas Hadow, former Chairman of P&O
- Julian Metcalfe, founder of Pret a Manger
- Nicky Oppenheimer, South African billionaire
- Timothy Royle, founding chairman of Control Risks Group
- Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, industrialist
- Herbert Haynes Twining, of Twinings
- Fraser Waters, member of the London Wasps rugby union team.
- Simon Astaire
- Thomas Baring
- Yıldırım Ali Koç, Koç Holding member and Turkish multisport club Fenerbahçe S.K. vice-president.
- Alexander Lovell, Professional Billionaire
[edit] Law
[edit] Other
- Tom Avery, explorer
- James Bruce, explorer
- Pen Hadow, explorer
- Basil Henriques, philanthropist
- George Askew, contestant on Big Brother 7 UK
[edit] Old Harrovians in fiction
[edit] References
- ^ Harrow School website: History
- ^ Sir John George Smyth, (1963), The Story of the Victoria Cross, 1856-1963, page 33 (F. Muller:London)
- ^ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 209, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ^ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 212, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ^ Reginald de Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 208, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 304, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 232, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 445, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 470, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 578, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Reginald Courtenay Welch, Harrow School, (1894), The Harrow School Register, 1801-1893, page 551, (Longmans, Green)
- ^ Sir John George Smyth, (1963), The Story of the Victoria Cross, 1856-1963, page 159 (F. Muller:London)
- ^ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 708, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ^ Harrow School, (1911), The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911, page 766, (Longmans, Green, and Co)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 220, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 281, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 277, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 205, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 234, (Rivingtons)
- ^ Harrow School, (1951), The Harrow School Register, 1885-1949, page 564, (Rivingtons)
