Old Malverniansare alumni ofMalvern College,an independent day and boarding school inMalvern, Worcestershire,England that was founded in 1865. Originally a school for boys aged 9 to 18, it merged in 1992 with a private boys' primary school and an independent school for girls to become coeducational for pupils aged 3 to 18.
Many alumni have gained recognition in such fields as the military, politics, business, science, culture and sport - especiallyfirst-class cricketand the eighteencounty cricket clubs.Among the most famous Old Malvernians are spymasterJames Jesus Angleton,former head of the CIA's counter-intelligence;Aleister Crowley,the controversial but influential occultist; actorDenholm Elliott,sportsmanR. E. Foster,the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football; and novelistC. S. Lewis,author ofThe Chronicles of Narnia.Other well-known personalities include businessmanBaron MacLaurin,a former chairman ofTescoandVodafone;Jeremy Paxman,journalist, author, andBBCpresenter ofNewsnightandUniversity Challenge;andBaron Weatherill,the formerSpeaker of the House of Commons.Old Malvernians who have becomeheads of stateorgovernmentinclude the eponymously titledViscount MalvernandNajib Tun Razak,the 6th prime minister of Malaysia. The former was the British Commonwealth's longest-serving prime minister by the time he left office. Old Malvernian Nobel Prize winners includeFrancis William Aston,winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, andJames Meade,winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1977.
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- Lascelles Abercrombie,(1881–1938), poet, journalist, critic[1]
- Diran AdebayoFRSL,novelist, cultural critic and academic, tales of London and the lives of African diasporans[2]
- Brian Aherne,stage, screen, radio and television actor.Hollywood Walk of Fameand Oscar nominee.[3]
- Douglas Allday,First-class cricket cricketerfor theEuropeans cricket teamand British Army officer
- John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley[4]
- James Jesus Angleton,chief of counter-intelligence for theCIAfrom 1954 to 1974. Source of inspiration for the characterEdward Wilsonin the filmThe Good Shepherd.
- Nicholas Argenti,stockbroker, British Army officer, Royal Air Force officer, andphilatelist
- Michael Arlen,prolific essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter.
- Alban Arnold,cricketer forCambridge University Cricket ClubandHampshire County Cricket Club
- Francis William Aston,chemist and physicist, won theNobel Prizein Chemistry in 1922 for work onmass spectrometry.
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- Ralph Bagnold,geo-morphologist, pioneering desert explorer, founder and commander of theLong Range Desert Group
- James Balfour-Melville(1882–1915), British Army officer,footballerforOxford University A.F.C.,and cricketer forScotland
- Charles Bambridge(1858–1935),Englandinternational footballer and captain[5]
- Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes,British Indian administrator
- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Begg,First Sea Lord,Governor of Gibraltar[6]
- Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
- Humphry Berkeley,politician, humourist, early supporter forGay rights in the UK,andConservativeMember of Parliament.
- Wilfred Bird,playedfirst-classcricket forMiddlesex County Cricket ClubandOxford University Cricket Club
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport,British Army officer,ConservativeMember of Parliament, British Army welterweight boxing champion
- Harold Brougham,FA Cupwinner in 1880 withClapham Rovers
- Sir Stephen Brown,Lord Justice of Appeal,President of the Family Divisionof theHigh Court of Justice,Royal Navy officer
- Vice Admiral Sir Peter Buchanan,naval officer[7]
- Cuthbert Burnup,England footballer, cricketer forCambridge University,Marylebone Cricket Club,Kent,andLondoncounty cricket clubs[8]
- Claude Burton,cricketer forOxford UniversityandYorkshire County Cricket Club.[9]
- Philip Bushill-Matthews,politician, formerMember of the European Parliament[10]
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- Henry Montgomery Campbell,bishop
- Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Carter-Campbell of Possil,British Army officer
- George Chesterton,cricketer forWorcestershire County Cricket Club,cricket author, and former deputy head of Malvern College[11]
- David Chipp,journalist, former chief editor ofReutersand the Press Association
- ProfGeoffrey Duncan Chisholm,surgeon and urologist
- Peter Churchill,intelligence officer inSpecial Operations ExecutiveF Section (1940−1945)[12]
- Horatio Clare,writer of travel, memoir, nature and children's books, and BBC Radio producer
- Sir Andrew Cohen,Governor ofUganda,UK representative to theU.N. Trusteeship Counciland Permanent Secretary of theDepartment for International Development.
- Bernard Collins,cricketer
- Geoffrey Cornu,cricketer for theFree Foresters Cricket Cluband British Army officer
- George Cottrell,former politician and deputy treasurer of theUK Independence Party(UKIP), financier, andconvicted felon.
- Aleister Crowley,occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, mountaineer, and prolific author of poetry and novels
- Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling,flyingacein theBattle of Britain[13]
- Edward Cuthbertson,cricketer, stockbroker, and British Army officer
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- Arthur Day,cricketer forKent County Cricket Club,stockbroker, and British Army officer[14]
- Samuel Day,cricketer forKent County Cricket Club,footballer forCorinthian F.C.,andEngland
- James Delingpole,journalist, columnist, novellist,Bastiat Prizewinner.
- SirEdward Brandis Denham,colonial governor[15][16]
- Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th Baronet
- Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja,(1895–1966),MaharajaJam Sahib of Nawanagar
- Guy Disney,(1982—), First amputee jockey to win a horse race at a professional race-course in Britain (February 2017).[17]
- Monty Don,BBCtelevision presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture
- Ignazio Dracopoli,Anglo-French cartographer and explorer
- Nigel Draffan,cricketer forCambridge University Cricket Club
- Sandy Duncan,athlete, general secretary of the British Olympic Association (1949-1975)
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- Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronetof theProvince of Maryland,English writer on poverty and pioneering social investigator
- Ricardo Ellcock,cricketer forWorcestershireandMiddlesexcounty cricket clubs and the England team
- Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet,shipping magnate, natural historian and philanthropist[18]
- Denholm Elliott,actor with 125 film and television credits and 3 timesBAFTAaward winner.
- Lloyd Embley,journalist, editor-in-chief of theTrinity Mirrorgroup
- William Evans,cricketer forWorcestershireandHampshirecounty cricket clubs
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,international business editor ofThe Daily Telegraphand author ofThe Secret Life of Bill Clinton.
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- John Ferraby,Hand of the Causein theBahá’í Faith
- Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Fielden,pilot, Captain ofThe Queen's Flight
- Sir Eustace Fiennes, 1st Baronet of Banbury,politician, colonial governor
- SirGerald Fitzmaurice,barrister, judge
- SirCharles Fletcher-Cooke,politician andConservative MP,barrister (QC), andMember of the European Parliament
- Giles Foden,author ofThe Last King of Scotland
- "Fostershire",the Foster brothers who played forWorcestershire County Cricket Club:
- Basil Foster,Geoffrey Foster,Harry Foster,Maurice Foster,Neville Foster,Reginald "Tip" Foster,the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football,[19]andWilfrid "Bill" Foster
- Major General John F. C. Fuller,military historian, strategist, occultist
G
edit- SirAnthony Hastings George,British Consul-General in Shanghai and Boston
- Sir Peter Gibson,judge andLord Justice of Appeal
- Carl Alexander Gibson-Hill(1911–1963), doctor, naturalist and Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore[20]
- John Godwin,naval officer, commando (Operation Checkmate)
- Penrhyn Grant Jones,Assistant Judge of theBritish Supreme Court for China
- Doctor Greenwood(1860–1951),Blackburn RoversandEnglandinternational footballer[21]
- William Mitchell Grundy,English headmaster, son of Rev. W. Grundy, a former Headmaster of Malvern College.
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- SirWilliam Henry Hadow,English educationist, musicologist
- St. John Emile Clavering Hankin,Edwardian essayist and playwright
- Prince Christian of Hanover
- Prince Ernst August of Hanover
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Donald Hardman,flying ace,CAF(RAAF)
- Fred Hargreaves,footballer forBlackburn Roversand theEngland team,cricketer forLancashire County Cricket Club.[22]
- Rose Harvey(born 1992), long distance runner and in 2023 became the fifth fastest British female marathon runner of all time
- Jack Haynes(born 2001), cricketer forWorcestershire County Cricket Cluband England squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
- Josh Haynes(born 1999), cricketer forLeeds/Bradford MCC University
- General Sir Charles Harington,DeputyChief of the General Staff[23]
- George Harrison(1860–1900), cricketer forOxford University Cricket Club
- Oliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh(1893–1968), diplomat
- Peter Hatch,British Army officer, first-class cricketer for theCombined Services cricket team
- Colonel Sir Peter HiltonWWII veteran awarded theMilitary Crossand twobars
- Major General Richard HiltonDSO MC DFC, soldier, pilot, and author[24]
- Megan Hine,British survival consultant, adventurer, television presenter and writer
- Errol Holmes,cricketer forOxford University,Surrey County Cricket ClubandEngland
- SirPeter Holmes(1932-2002), businessman, managing director (1985-1993) andchief executive officer(1992-1993) ofRoyal Dutch Shell
- Owen Hughes,cricketer and officer in both theBritish Armyand theRoyal Flying Corps
- Robin Hull(1905-1960), music critic
- Travers Christmas Humphreys,barrister, judge, founder of the LondonBuddhist Societyand prolific author of books on the Buddhist tradition
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- Arnold Jackson,athlete (1500m gold medallist, 1912 Summer Olympics); youngest ever British ArmyBrigadier-General,awardedDSO& Three Bars; barrister.
- Ivan Johnson,cricketer forWorcestershire County Cricket Cluband journalist
- Donald Johnston,British Army officer and cricketer forOxford University Cricket Club
K
edit- Shapur Kharegatjournalist, editor and Asia Director ofThe Economist
- Donald Knight,first-class cricketforSurrey County Cricket Club,Oxford University Cricket ClubandEngland
- Tom Kohler-Cadmore (cricketer) for Worcestershire and Yorkshire county cricket clubs.[25]
L
edit- SirPaul Ogden Lawrence,barrister, Court of Appeal judge, andPrivy Councilmember
- Geoffrey Legge,pilot in theFleet Air ArmduringWorld War II,cricketer forKent County Cricket Cluband England team.
- Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendonshipping, motor racing
- C. S. Lewis,novelist, scholar, Author ofThe Chronicles of Narnia.
- Warren Lewis(brother of C.S.Lewis), historian
- Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale
- Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein,second in theline of succession to the Liechtensteiner throneand third in theJacobite line of successionto the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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- Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth,businessman, sports administrator
- Neil MacLaurin,son of Ian MacLaurin, and cricketer forHertfordshire County Cricket ClubandMiddlesex County Cricket Club
- Bill Maidlow,cricketer forOxford University Cricket Club
- Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern,Prime Minister ofSouthern Rhodesiaand ofRhodesia and Nyasaland,once described as the longest serving prime minister inBritish Commonwealthhistory.
- Frank Mann,cricketer forCambridge University Cricket Club,Middlesex County Cricket Club,andEngland cricket captain
- Ronald Mansbridge,publisher, author
- Eric Marx,South African cricketer, holder of a batting world record that stood for 73 years
- James Meade,economist, 1977 winner of theNobel Prizein Economics
- Brian Mears,chairman ofChelsea Football Club
- Joe Mears,chairman ofThe Football Association
- General SirJohn Mogg,Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR)[26]
- Air chief marshalHrushikesh Moolgavkar,9th Chief of Staff of theIndian Air Force[27]
- Raymond Mortimer,writer, critic, literacy editor
- Edward Moss,cricketer forOxford University Cricket Club,Berkshire County Cricket Club,and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve officer
- Eric Moxey,recipient of theGeorge Cross
- Kenneth Muir,recipient of theVictoria Cross
- Jonathan Myles-Lea,artist (landscape painter)
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- Najib Razak,6th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- David Nash,cricketer forMiddlesex County Cricket Club
- Ivor Norton,cricketer forMarylebone Cricket Club,and British Army officer
- Sir Thomas Willans Nussey,1st Baronet, barrister,Liberal Partypolitician,Member of Parliament[28]
O
edit- John Geoffrey Rowe Orchard,chartered accountant, politician,Mayorand Sheriff of Exeter[29]
- Jane Owen,British politician and diplomat
P
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- Hubert Parker,Australian politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia
- Norman Partridge,cricketer forCambridge UniversityandWarwickshire
- James Paul,Argentine cricketer
- Giles Paxman,diplomat, HM Ambassador to Spain.
- Jeremy Paxman,journalist, author, broadcaster, presenter ofUniversity Challenge,brother of Giles Paxman
- Walter Pearce(1893–1960), first-class cricketer
- Thelwell Pike(1866–1957), footballer forCambridge University,Crusaders,Brentwood Town,Swifts,Thanet WanderersandCorinthian,andEngland[30]
- James Plowden-Wardlaw,barrister andChurch of Englandpriest.
- Mark Pougatch,radio and television broadcaster, journalist, author, and presenter forITV Sport,
- SirGhillean Prance,botanist, Director of theRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kewfrom 1988 to 1999
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- Ahmed Rashid,Pakistani journalist, author
- John Rawlinson(1867–1945), cricketer forOxford University Cricket Club,and stockbroker
- Christopher Reginald Reeves,banker (Morgan, Grenfell & Co.andMerrill Lynch)
- Charles Ridsdale,Anglican Bishop
- Sir Howard Robertson,president of theRoyal Institute of British Architectsfrom 1952 to 1954 and winner of theRoyal Gold Medalfor architecture.[31]
- Alan S. C. Ross,linguist and ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage.
- Francis Routh,composer of some 85 published works, including three symphonies, chamber music, large scale solo piano and organ works and several song cycles[32]
- Irwin Peter Russell,poet, translator, critic,World War IIBritish Army officer
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- Dominic Sandbrook,historian, author and journalist
- Guy Sanderson,Bishop of Plymouth
- Dennis W. Sciama,astrophysicist, PhD supervisor to cosmologists, includingStephen Hawking,Martin ReesandDavid Deutsch;he is considered one of the fathers of moderncosmology,author ofThe Unity of the Universe(1959)[33][34]
- Major GeneralLogan Scott-Bowden,first commander of theUlster Defence Regiment,Colonel-Commandantof theRoyal Engineersfrom 1975 to 1980
- Oliver Selfridge,computer scientist and a pioneer ofartificial intelligence.
- Hugh Sells(1922–1978), cricketer forRoyal Air Force cricket team,and Royal Air Force officer
- SirTom Shebbeare,Director of Charities toCharles, Prince of Wales[35]
- Roger Short,diplomat, expert on Turkish affairs, and served as consul-general inOsloand was the BritishambassadortoBulgaria
- George Simpson-Hayward,cricketer forWorcestershire County Cricket Club(captain) where he was captain, and for theEngland cricket team
- Sydney Goodsir Smith,poet, artist, dramatist and novelist
- Thomas Stanford,Oscar winning film and television editor
- Christopher Storrs,priest, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese ofGrafton, New South Wales
- Alfred Stratford,cricketer forMarylebone Cricket ClubandMiddlesex County Cricket Club.Footballer forEnglandand three timesFA Cupwinner withWanderers F.C.[36]
- I. M. B. Stuart(1902–1969), Ireland rugby footballer, schoolmaster, and author[37]
- Lieutenant Colonel Sir Stewart Symes,colonial governor
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- Eddy Temple-Morris,DJ, record producer, TV presenter
- Baron Temple-Morris,barrister, politician,ConservativeMember of Parliament, member of theHouse of Lordsas aLabourpeer
- Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet,politician,ConservativeMember of Parliament
- Meredith Thring,inventor and writer on energy conservation[38]
- Roger Tolchard,cricketer forLeicestershire County Cricket ClubandEngland
- Thomas Trotter,concert organist. Organist ofBirmingham City,St Margaret's, Westminster,and president ofSt Albans International Organ Festival.
- Frank Tuff,cricketer forOxford Universityand theFree Foresters
- Orville Turnquest,politician (The Bahamas)
V
edit- James Vivian,Director of Music of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
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- Neville Wadia,Chairman ofBombay Dyeing
- Fulke Walwyn(1910–1991), racehorse jockey and trainer[39]
- Baron Bernard Weatherill,politician,Speaker of the House of Commons
- SirJohn Wheeler-Bennett,historian
- John Baker White,political writer, secret agent, politician, Member of Parliament forCanterbury
- Tim Whitmarsh,Classicist at Cambridge University, Fellow in Greek atCorpus Christi College, Oxford,and Professor of Ancient Literatures at the University of Oxford, Fellow of theBritish Academy
- Chris Whitty,epidemiologist andChief Medical Officer for Englandduring theCOVID-19 pandemic
- Maurice Wilks(1904–1963), motor and aeronautical engineer, businessman. Conceived and developed theLand Rover.[40]
- Cecil Williamson,screenwriter, editor and film director and influentialNeopaganandWarlock
- Robert Wilson,politician,Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
- Charles Wittenoom,Australian politician, Member of theWestern Australian Legislative Council
- Lieutenant-Colonel John Woodhouse,pioneer of theSpecial Air Serviceselection systems, and creator of the soft drinkPanda Pops
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- David Younger,British Army officer, recipient of theVictoria Cross(posthumously)[41]
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External links
edit- Malvernian SocietyArchived27 May 2014 at theWayback Machine(Old Malvernians) web page
- Malvern College web site