List of Old Guildfordians (Royal Grammar School, Guildford)
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comprehensive education.[5] Initially the school educated 30 of the "poorest men's sons",[6] however numbers have since grown to approximately 900 students, 300 of whom are in the sixth form.[7]
Former pupils of the school are referred to as "Old Guildfordians" and are often referred to as "OGs" in official school correspondence.Premier of New Zealand.
Old Guildfordians
Image | Name | Leaving year | Notes | |
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George Abbot | 1578 | An English divine, who served as the 75th Archbishop of Canterbury and the fourth Chancellor of the University of Dublin. He also founded The Hospital of the Blessed Trinity, an alms house situated on the High Street in Guildford , Surrey.
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[9][10][11] | |
— | Sir Maurice Abbot | — | A British merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1638. He was an original member of the East India Company and was involved in the settling of the colony of Virginia in 1624. | [10][12] |
Robert Abbot | 1577 | An Anglican clergyman and brother of George Abbot. Robert was elected master of Balliol College, Oxford in 1609, and subsequently Bishop of Salisbury from 1615–17. | [10][11][13] | |
— | Sir John Allison | 1961 | Air Chief Marshal in the Royal Air Force, and Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State. He is invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and invested as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. | [14][15] |
— | Gareth Bennett | 1943 | academic who committed suicide in the wake of media reactions to an anonymous preface he wrote for Crockford's Clerical Directory .
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[16] |
Simon Bird | 2003 | An actor, writer and comedian, who is best known for playing Channel E4 .
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[17] | |
Jean-Jacques Burnel | 1968 | Musician, . | [18] | |
— | John Rand Capron | c.1845 | An English amateur scientist, astronomer and photographer. Though a aurora , and published many articles during his lifetime.
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[19] |
Jack Clifford | 2011 | Jack Clifford (born 12 February 1993) is a rugby union player for the Harlequins FC. He made his debut as a full England international in the Calcutta Cup match against Scotland on 6 February 2016. He is the RGS's first full England rugby international.
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[20] | |
— | Leonard Colebrook | 1896 | An English puerperal fever .
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[21][22] |
— | Henry Cotton | c.1566 | An English bishop, who became Elizabeth I and one of her personal chaplains.
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[11][23][24] |
— | William Cotton | — | An English bishop, who became Bishop of Exeter in 1598. | [10][11] |
— | John Derrick
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c.1555 | Queen's coroner for Surrey who made a legal deposition containing the first reference to cricket in the English language. | [25] |
Lt.-Gen. Sir William Thomas Furse | 1883 | Lieutenant-General in the British Army and Master-General of the Ordnance .
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[11] | |
— | Sir Stephen Gaselee | c.1780 | Judge. Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. | [26] |
Lt.-Col. Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen | 1851 | English topographer, geologist and surveyor. First explorer of the second highest mountain on Earth, K2 (formerly Mt. Godwin-Austen). | [27] | |
Sir George Grey | 1826 | Soldier, explorer, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa), and the 11th Prime Minister of New Zealand .
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[28][29] | |
Graham Gristwood | 2002 | Orienteering world relay champion in 2008. | [30] | |
— | Professor Andrew D. Hamilton | 1971 | Former Provost of Yale University, Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford. | [8][31][32] |
Admiral Sir Edward Hamilton, 1st Baronet | c.1787 | American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars .
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[26] | |
— | Professor Peter Haynes
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— | Head of Department at DAMTP University of Cambridge .
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[33] |
Robert Horne | — | A leading Protestant reformist, and one of the Marian exiles who fled to the continent during the reign of Mary I of England. He was subsequently Bishop of Winchester. | [11] | |
Terry Jones | 1961 | A Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor and film director, known for his roles in the Monty Python's Flying Circus television series, and the film Monty Python's Life of Brian. | [34][35] | |
— | Lord Mark Kerr | 1801 | Admiral in the Royal Navy. Son of the fifth Marquess of Lothian. | [11][26] |
Arthur Knight
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— | Captain of gold medalist in 1912.
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[36] | |
— | Mark Lambert | 2003 | Harlequins and England U-21 rugby union international. | [37][38]
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— | Geoff Laws | 1975 | Commonwealth Games Featherweight Weight Lifting Gold Medallist 1982. GB Olympic team 1980, 1984. | [39]
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Evelyn Lintott | — | England association football international and Lieutenant in the British Army. | [40] | |
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin | — | King William IV for criticising attempts to reduce the Navy budget.
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[41][42] | |
Sir George More | — | Courtier and Member of Parliament. | [43] | |
— | Conway Lloyd Morgan | 1869 | Comparative psychologist and philosopher, Vice-Chancellor of University of Bristol. | [44] |
Arthur Onslow | 1709 | Politician and the longest serving Speaker of the House of Commons. | [45] | |
— | John Parkhurst | c.1525 | An English Marian exile and subsequently Bishop of Norwich. | [10][46] |
— | Robert Parkhurst | c.1585 | English merchant who was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1635. | [10][47] |
— | Maurice Pryce | 1929 | Wykeham Professor of Physics | [48] |
James Purnell | 1988 | Member of the UK parliament and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. | [49][50] | |
— | John Rickman | 1785 | English government official and statistician who created the census in 1800.
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[51][52] |
— | James Edward Rogers | 1855 | Irish architect and artist | [53] |
John Russell
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— | Painter and a member of the Royal Academy .
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[54][55][56] | |
— | Philips Sales, Lord Sales
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— | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom | [57] |
Major-General Andy Salmon | 1975 | Commandant General Royal Marines from June 2009 until February 2010. | [11][58] | |
— | Mackenzie Taylor | c.1996 | A British comic, writer and director with bipolar schizoaffective disorder, who committed suicide in 2010 aged 32. | [59] |
Martin Tyler | 1964 | An English football commentator with Sky Sports who was voted as the FA Premier League "Commentator of the Decade". | [11][60][61] | |
— | James Wicks | — | Chief Justice of Kenya. | [62] |
— | Victor Willing | 1945 | A British painter, who attended the Slade School of Fine Art. His work was mainly abstract in style. | [63] |
Bob Willis | 1968 | England cricket captain, who is, as of 2024, England's fourth-highest wicket taker, behind James Anderson, Stuart Broad, and Ian Botham. Willis also worked as a Sky Sports cricket commentator with Botham. | [11][60][64] | |
— | Peter Zinovieff | c.1947 | Founder of Electronic Music Studios. | [65] |
— | Harry Grieve | 2019 | Chess International Master And Former British Chess Champion.
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[66] |
"—" indicates year of leaving is unknown.
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