List of Old Citizens
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, which includes only people dead at the time of publication, were educated at the City of London School.[1]
Notable Old Citizens
Many of those listed are cited in the Dictionary of National Biography.[1]
- Edwin Abbott Abbott – Headmaster of the school (after whom Abbot house is named), theologian and author[2]
- David Lindo Alexander – Jewish community leader[3]
- Joe Alwyn – Actor[4]
- Kingsley Amis – Writer[5]
- William Anderson – Physician, Anatomy professor and scholar of Japanese Art[6]
- Michael Apted – Actor, producer and director[7]
- Thomas Walker Arnold – Orientalist[8]
- Lord Ashby – Botanist and 5th Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast[9]
- H. H. Asquith – Prime Minister 1908–1916[10][11]
- Roy Baker – Film director
- Hugh Lewis– Antique furniture Restorer
- Julian Barnes – Novelist[12]
- Jonathan Barnes – Philosopher[12]
- Aaron Barschak – Comedian[13]
- Henry Charles Beeching– Poet
- Samuel L Bensusan– Author and expert on country matters
- David Blundy – War Correspondent, killed in El Salvador, 17 November 1989
- Salvation Army
- Mike Brearley – Cricketer, captain of the England cricket team 1977–1981 and whose father Horace Brearley taught at CLS[14]
- Clive Brooks – Member of the band Egg
- Arthur Henry Bullen – Publisher and scholar
- Kenneth Callow – Biochemist
- Mont Campbell – Member of the band Egg
- Suma Chakrabarti – Senior Civil Servant
- Lord Chalmers – Colonial governor and minister
- Sir Paul Chambers – Industrialist, Chairman of ICI[citation needed]
- Danny Cohen – New Controller of BBC One, and formerly of BBC Three[15]
- Lord Collins – Supreme Court justice
- MJ Cole – UK Garage DJ, record producer and remixer.
- Robert Seymour Conway – Classical scholar and philologist
- Jim Cousins – Labour MP
- Jack Crawford – Professional NFL Player, Oakland Raiders
- Philip Dawid – Statistician
- John Diamond – Journalist and broadcaster, & Sunday Times writer
- Edward Divers – Chemist
- Lord Evans – Royal physician
- Stewart Farrar – Author
- Henry Charles Fehr – Sculptor[16]
- John Knight Fotheringham – Historian, an expert on ancient astronomy and chronology
- Percy Gardner – Archaeologist
- Edward Garnett – Editor and writer
- Leo Genn – Stage and film actor
- Roland Glasser – Literary translator
- Israel Gollancz – Founding member of the British Academy
- Yvon John Guillermin – Film director, producer and writer.
- Theodore Bayley Hardy – Victoria Crossholder
- Sam Hield Hamer – Editor and writer
- Sir
- Peter Higgs – Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist, predicted the so-called "God Particle" known as the Higgs boson[18]
- Nobel prize winning biochemist[citation needed]
- Paul Hough – Film Director[citation needed]
- William Huggins – Astronomer[citation needed]
- Joseph Oscar Irwin – Statistician[citation needed]
- Steven Isserlis – Cellist[citation needed]
- Benedict Jacka – Novelist[19]
- Tim Jackson – Entrepreneur and author[citation needed]
- Anthony Julius – Lawyer[citation needed]
- Skandar Keynes – Film Actor[citation needed]
- Ralph Knott – Architect
- Peter B. Kronheimer – Mathematician
- James Leasor – Author[citation needed]
- Sidney Lee – Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography[20]
- Anthony Lester– Lawyer
- Peter Levene – Chairman of Lloyd's of London and Lord Mayor of London 1998 & 1999[citation needed]
- Joseph Hiam Levy – Author, economist, and prominent figure in the Personal Rights Association [citation needed]
- David M. Lewis – Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford[citation needed]
- Sir Patrick Linstead – Chemist and Rector of Imperial College London[citation needed]
- David Litman – American Entrepreneur, founder of hotels.com[citation needed]
- Ernest Lough – Boy soprano, singer, whose recording of Mendelssohn's "O for the Wings of a Dove" with the Temple Choir in 1927 made him world-famous; it had sold one million copies by 1962, the first classical record to reach this figure.[citation needed]
- Sir Wylie McKissock – Neurosurgeon[21]
- Grandmaster[citation needed]
- Princess Diana in her divorce. Home affairs spokesman in the House of Lords from 1983 to 1990 and shadow Lord Chancellor 1990–1992.[citation needed]
- Neil Morisetti – UK Climate and Energy Security Envoy
- Max Newman – Mathematician and World War II codebreaker[citation needed]
- George Newnes – Publisher and editor[citation needed]
- Denis Norden – Writer and broadcaster[citation needed]
- John Owen – Senior Civil Servant & Cabinet Office Chief Technology Officer
- Richard Packer – Senior Civil Servant
- Robert William Paul – Pioneer of cinematography[22]
- Howard John Stredder Pearce – Former Governor of the Falkland Islands and Civil Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI)[citation needed]
- Mark Pears – British billionaire, CEO of William Pears Group[23]
- at the age of 18.
- Henry Thomas Herbert Piaggio – Physicist[citation needed]
- Arthur Rackham – Illustrator[citation needed]
- Daniel Radcliffe – Actor best known for his role as Harry Potter in the Harry Potter series of film adaptations.[24]
- Gervais Rentoul – Politician and first chairman of the 1922 Committee[citation needed]
- Charles Thomson Ritchie – Chancellor of the Exchequer 1902–1903[citation needed]
- Joshua Rose– England Hockey Player and comedian
- Hebrew University[25]
- Edward Linley Sambourne – Punch cartoonist[citation needed]
- Michael Schwab – Professor of Public Health[citation needed]
- John Robert Seeley – Historian and essayist[citation needed]
- John Shrapnel – Film and stage actor
- Bernard Silverman FRS – Former Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office
- William Johnson Sollas – Geologist and anthropologist
- Colin Southgate – Businessman
- Dave Stewart– Keyboardist with the bands Uriel, Egg, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Bruford and Stewart / Gaskin.
- Edward Stanford – Mapmaker
- Alfred Sutro – Playwright
- Derek Taunt – Mathematician and cryptologist[26]
- Sir Thomas Taylor – Chemist, academic, and university administrator.
- John Lawrence Toole – Actor and theatre manager
- Thomas Fisher Unwin – Publisher
- David Walker – Master of the Household
- Alan Arthur Wells – Structural engineer, developer of Wells turbine[27]
- Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton
See also
References
- ^ a b Oxford University Press. "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1885–2004)". England: Oxford University Press online. See: Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "Abbott, Edwin Abbott (ABT857EA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Alexander, David Lindo (ALKR860DL)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Hattersley, Giles (27 September 2018). "Joe Alwyn on Fame, Romance, And His Blockbuster-Filled Year". British Vogue. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- ^ Barratt, Nick (9 June 2007). "Family detective". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- ^ "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". The Royal College of Surgeons. London. 22 January 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ Michael Apted Biography (1941–)
- ^ "Arnold, Thomas Walker (ANLT883TW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ *"University of Sydney – Profile". Archived from the original on 2 October 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2007.
- ISBN 978-1-904950-57-8. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
- ^ Spender, J. A. (1932). Life of Lord Oxford and Asquith (2 vols). Hutchinson.
- ^ a b Merritt Moseley, Understanding Julian Barnes, University of South Carolina Press (1997)
- ^ Bremner, Charles. "The Times – UK News, World News and Opinion". The Times. London.
- ^ Mike Brearley Profile – England Cricket Player
- ^ Danny Cohen named as new BBC One Controller – BBC News online (15 Oct 2010)
- ^ University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Henry Charles Fehr". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Obituary, North China Herald, 2 May 1900, p 766
- ^ Sample, Ian (29 May 2009). "Renaming the God particle". The Guardian.
- ^ "About Me". Benedict Jacka. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Gosse, Edmund William (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 954.
- ^ B.A. Bell 1996 Wylie McKissock – reminiscences of a commanding figure in British neurosurgery British Journal of Neurosurgery 10(1): 9–18.
- ^ Register of Pupils at The City of London School 1880-1900 (PDF). 23 October 2020. p. 68.
- ^ "Mark Pears". Globalrealestate.org. Archived from the original on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
- ^ Turner, Camilla (26 July 2017). Telegraph "Boys should not be told to 'man up' because they are just as sensitive as girls, leading headteacher says".
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