List of old boys of The King's School, Parramatta

This is a List of Old Boys of The King's School, Sydney, they being notable former students – known as "Old Boys" of the Anglican school, The King's School in North Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

Media, entertainment and the arts

• Bruce Beresford - film director.
• Michael Blakemore AO OBE – Freelance Theatre and Film director^[1]
• Father Arthur Bridge, Catholic priest, philanthropist, founder of Ars Musica Australis that awards up to 80 scholarships annually to young performers^[2]
• David Campbell – Poet^[3]
• John Farquharson - Journalist^[4]
• John Marsden – Author; Founder and Principal of Candlebark School^[5]

Medicine and science

• Stephen John James Frank Davies – Adjunct Professor, Division of Science at Murdoch University; Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Biology at Curtin University of Technology (also attended The Elms School)^[6]

Edward Pierson Ramsay

• Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE – Ornithologist; Elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and served as President^[7]
• Thomas Griffith Taylor – Pioneering geographer; Physiographer; Weather Service's official representative on the Terra Nova Expedition; Foundation head of Australia's first university geography department (also attended Sydney Grammar School)^[8]

Military

• Lance-Sergeant Daniel Daley DCM – 2/3rd Anti-Tank Regiment, in North Africa and New Guinea, World War II.^[9]
• Rear-Admiral Alec Doyle CBE – chief of construction, Royal Australian Navy.^[10]
• Lieutenant John Steel ("Jock") Lewes – British Army officer and founding principal training officer of the British Special Air Service; killed in action, 1941.^[11]
• Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE, DSO,^[12] commander of the 1st Armoured Brigade during World War II.

Politics, public service and the law

Joseph Palmer Abbott

• Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott KB KCMG – Politician and solicitor; Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the district of Maitland; Elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Gunnedah, and later for Wentworth^[13]
• John Anderson – MHR (Nat); Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party (1999–2005)^[14]
• John Douglas Anthony AC, CH – MHR (Nat) (1957–1984); Deputy Prime Minister (1971–72) and (1975–83); Leader of the National Party (1971–84)^[15]
• Mike Baird - Premier of NSW
• Sir Joshua Peter Bell – Pastoralist and parliamentarian
• Sir Nigel Bowen AC KBE – Politician; Member for Parramatta (Liberal); Appointed Attorney-General of Australia in the Second Holt Ministry
• Francis Stewart Boyce – Barrister, Supreme Court judge and politician (also attended Sydney Grammar School and Rugby School)^[16]
• Dr Arthur Chesterfield-Evans – NSW MLC (Dem) (1998–2007)^[17]
• Russell Cooper – Premier of Queensland (Sept–Dec 1989); Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (Nat)(1983–2001)
• Nigel Antony Cotman S.C – Barrister; Appointed Senior Counsel NSW 1996; Former Assistant Commissioner of the ICAC^[18]
• Alfred Cox - New Zealand politician.
• Jerrold Sydney Cripps – Commissioner of the ICAC (also attended Wolaroi College)^[19]
• Somerset de Chair, MP, philanderer and author
• Adolph Frederick Milford Feez – Surveyor and solicitor; Two time representative for Queensland Rugby Union; Founder of the Queensland Polo and the Queensland Lawn Tennis associations^[20]
• Arthur Herman Henry Milford Feez – Barrister; Senior counsel; Chancellor of the diocese of Brisbane (1897–1910)^[21]
• Frederick Augustus Forbes – Store-keeper, grazier and politician; Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland^[22]
• William Forster – Politician; Premier of New South Wales (1859–60); Author of poetry and prose^[23]
• Sir Joseph George Long Innes – Politician, elected to the Legislative Assembly for Mudgee; Queensland District Court judge^[24]
• Stewart Wolfe Jamieson – Official secretary at the Australian High Commission, Ottawa (1947–50); Officer-in-charge of the information and defence liaison branches, Canberra (1950–52); Consul-general in San Francisco, United States of America; Chargé d'affaires in Dublin; Australia's first high commissioner to Ghana^[25]
• Jeremy Kinross – NSW MLA (Lib) (1992–99)
• Frank Graham Lever S.C – Barrister-at-Law; Senior Counsel NSW^[26]
• Antony Seymour Martin S.C – Barrister; Senior Counsel NSW^[27]
• Eric Walwyn Ormsby Martin – Solicitor; mayor of Taree; flying officer in the Royal Air Force^[28]
• Sir David Maughan – Barrister; President of the Law Council of Australia^[29]
• Bruce Roland McClintock S.C – Barrister NSW; Queen's Counsel WA; Senior Counsel NSW since 1996^[30]
• John Frederick McDougall, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council (1860—1895)^[31]
• Sandy McPhie – Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Toowoomba North (1983–1989) (Nat)
• James Donald Merralls AM QC – Barrister; Queen's Counsel Vic; Former Member of Council, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration; Former Chairman of the Law Council of Australia Constitutional Law Committee (also attended Melbourne Grammar School)^[32]
• Justice William Henric Nicholas QC – Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales^[33]
• Robert Darlow Pring – Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales^[34]
• Leon Ashton Punch – Former deputy premier and minister of the crown^[35]
• Bernard Blomfield Riley – Barrister; Judge of the Federal Court of Bankruptcy; Judge of the Federal Court of Australia^[36]
• John Randall Sharp – Former National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Gilmore and Hume; Business Executive^[37]

George Thorn

• Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor – Pastoralist and politician; Elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bathurst
• George Thorn – Premier of Queensland (1876–77), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
• Sir Charles Gregory Wade KCMG – Premier of New South Wales (1907–1910); Judge (also attended All Saints College, Bathurst)^[38]
• Bret William Walker SC – Barrister; Member of the NSW Health Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel; Former President of the NSW Bar Association; Former President of the Law Council of Australia^[39]
• Sir William Charles Windeyer – Politician and judge^[40]

Religion

• Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick – Anglican bishop (also attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School)^[38]
• William James Gunther – Anglican clergyman^[41]
• Robert Lethbridge King – Church of England clergyman; Principal of Moore Theological College^[42]
• George Fairfowl Macarthur – Anglican clergyman and schoolmaster^[43]
• Percival Stacy Waddy – Anglican clergyman; Cricketer; Headmaster of The King's School^[44]

Sport

Motor sport

• Boyd Robertson Huey Edkins – Racing driver; twice broke the speed record from Melbourne to Sydney; President of the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales^[45]
• Thomas Whitforth - member of Palm Beach SLSC, and member of the so-called "Budgie 9" at the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix^[46]

Rowing

• Cameron Girdlestone - 2016 Olympian.
• Sam Loch - 2008 and 2012 Olympian
• Matthew Ryan - 2008 and 2012 Olympian

Rugby League

• Daniel Conn – Gold Coast Titans^[47]

Rugby Union

• Ben Batger – ACT Brumbies^[48]
• Will Caldwell – NSW Waratahs^[49]
• Mitchell Chapman – Queensland Reds, NSW Waratahs and ACT Brumbies^[50]
• Tim Davidson – Western Force, NSW Waratahs^[51]
• Daniel Halangahu – NSW Waratahs^[49]
• Ben Hand – NSW Waratahs^[49]
• James Hilgendorf – Western Force^[52]
• Nick Phipps (rugby union)
• Julian Huxley – ACT Brumbies, Queensland Reds and Wallabies^[53]
• Stirling Mortlock – ACT Brumbies and Wallabies^[54]
• Benn Robinson – NSW Waratahs and Wallabies^[55]
• Hugh Rose – Wallabies; Former Headmaster of Toowoomba Grammar School; Grazier; Consultant; Recipient of the Centenary Medal 2003^[56]

See also

• List of non-government schools in New South Wales
• List of boarding schools
• Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales

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External links

• The King's School Website
• TKS Old Boys Union