List of Old Tonbridgians

This is a list of notable alumni of Tonbridge School.

Academics and scientists

  • Robert McNeill Alexander, Professor of Zoology at the University of Leeds
  • Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton, chemist and Nobel Laureate
  • William Thomas Clifford Beckett (1862–1956) brigadier-general in British Army and notable civil engineer
  • Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1917–1920)[1]
  • Roland Bond, locomotive engineer
  • Henry Burton, physician and chemist[2]
  • Ian Bradley, writer, academic and theologian
  • James Burton, Egyptologist[3]
  • Owen Chadwick, Vice Chancellor of University of Cambridge, Master of Selwyn Cambridge, Regius Professor of Modern History, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Chancellor of University of Anglia, President of British Academy, and a Rugby Union international
  • John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist[4]
  • Homersham Cox (mathematician), mathematician
  • Sir John Crofton, respiratory physician and expert on treatment of Tuberculosis
  • David Emms, teacher and rugby union player
  • Peter Fisher, personal physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
  • W. D. Hamilton, devisor of Red Queen Theory
  • Norman Heatley, the man who, having been on the team of Oxford scientists which discovered penicillin, turned it into a usable medicine
  • Norman Gerald Horner, physician and medical journalist[5]
  • R. J. B. Knight, naval historian
  • Sir Arthur Marshall, aviation engineer
  • Edward Nicholson, author and head of the Bodleian library
  • Walter Fraser Oakeshott, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford
  • Jack Ogden, archaeologist and historian focusing on the development of jewellery materials and techniques
  • Carl Pantin, , professor of Zoology, Cambridge University
  • Colin Patterson, palaeontologist and reformer of the fossil record
  • Sir David Randall Pye, mechanical engineer and Provost of University College London
  • W. H. R. Rivers, Cambridge neurologist, psychologist, anthropologist and World War One psychiatrist[6]
  • Sir Anthony Seldon, historian, political commentator and educationalist (current Master of Wellington College)
  • Anthony Thorlby (1928-2013), Professor Emeritus of European Literature, University of Sussex
  • Claud Buchanan Ticehurst, ornithologist[7]
  • Ernest Basil Verney, pharmacologist and Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Thomas Dewar Weldon philosopher
  • Maurice Frank Wiles, Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Oxford and one of the leading theologians of the Church of England
  • E. T. C. Werner, diplomat and China scholar

Actors, directors, producers and screenwriters

  • Maurice Denham (1909–2002), prolific character actor, known for voicing all the animal characters in the animated feature Animal Farm and also for the part of Maigret in the 1970s radio production of that name
  • Tristan Gemmill (born 1967), actor, known for playing Adam Trueman in the BBC medical drama Casualty
  • Will Hislop, actor and comedian
  • Ronald Howard (1918–1996) actor, son of Leslie Howard
  • John Howlett (born 1942), screenwriter & film director, co-wrote the feature film If.... with fellow Tonbridge schoolmate David Sherwin
  • Adrian Rawlins (born 1958), actor, known for playing James Potter in the Harry Potter film series
  • Paul Rutman, producer and writer, including TV series Indian Summers and eight episodes of Vera
  • Dan Stevens (born 1982), actor, known for playing Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama Downton Abbey
  • David Sherwin (born 1942), screenwriter, co-wrote the feature film If.... with fellow Tonbridge schoolmate John Howlett
  • David Tomlinson (1917–2000), actor, known for playing George Banks in Mary Poppins
  • Benjamin Whitrow (born 1937), actor, known for playing Mr. Bennett in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice

Armed forces

Business

Church leaders

Politicians

Diplomats and civil servants

Entertainers and musicians

Journalists and writers

Miscellaneous

Sportsmen

References

  1. ^ Clare Hopkins, Blakiston, Herbert Edward Douglas (1862–1942), in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31917
  2. ^ "Burton, Henry (BRTN821H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "Haliburton (sometime Burton), James (HLBN805J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ "Children, John George (CHLN795JG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ "Horner, Norman Gerald (HNR899NG)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. ^ "Rivers, William Halse Rivers (RVRS893WH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  7. ^ "Ticehurt, Claud Buchanan (TCHT900CB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  8. ^ "Sir Brian Jenkins".
  9. ^ "Blackburne, Harry William (BLKN897H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  10. ^ "Philip Stanhope Dodd (DT792PS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  11. ^ "Hoare, Joseph Charles (HR870JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  12. ^ "Ridgeway, Frederick (RGWY867FE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  13. ^ "Tooth, Arthur (TT858A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  14. ^ "Wilson, Cecil (WL879C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  15. ^ "Cox, Harold (CS878H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  16. ^ "Hason, Reginald (HN858R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  17. ^ "Neville, Ralph (NVL867R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  18. ^ ‘EGERTON, Sir Walter’, in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2014); online edition by Oxford University Press, April 2014, accessed 6 May 2014 (subscription site)
  19. ^ "Rowan, Sir (Thomas) Leslie (1908–1972), civil servant and industrialist", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004)
  20. ^ "Cox, Homersham (CS839H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  21. ^ "Forster, Edward Morgan (FRSR897EM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  22. ^ "WATKINS, Arthur Thomas Levi, BA, secretary British Board of Film Censors; b. 1907; ed. Tonbridge and Christ Church, Oxford" in Kinematograph Year Book (Odhams Press, 1954), p. 101
  23. ^ "Decimus Burton, F.R.S." The Weald of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex.
  24. ^ "Player profile: William Albertini". CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  25. ^ "Aston, Randolph (ASTN888RL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  26. ^ "Dale, John William (DL866JW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  27. ^ "Hammond, John (HMNT879J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  28. ^ "OYC News".
  29. ^ "Wisden - Obituaries in 1938". ESPNcricinfo. 20 January 2006. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
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