List of Old Bristolians

The following are notable Old Bristolians.

17th century

• Robert Huntington (c.1637–1701), Provost of Trinity College, Dublin and orientalist

18th century

• Alexander Catcott (1725–1779), geologist and theologian
• Sir John Coxe Hippisley (1745–1825), politician
• William Gregor (1761–1817), mineralogist, discoverer of titanium
• Jonathan Sewell (c.1766–1839), Chief Justice and Speaker of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, 1808–1839, and President of the Executive Council of Lower Canada, 1808–1830
• Stephen Sewell (1770–1832), lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada
• John Tobin (1770–1804), dramatist
• Samuel Daniel Broughton (1787–1837), military surgeon
• Thomas Edward Bowdich (c.1791–1824), writer and African explorer

19th century

• Thomas William Allies (1813–1903), theologian
• Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist
• John Norton (1823–1904), architect
• Robert Drew Hicks (1850–1929), classicist
• Charles Whibley (1859–1930), journalist and author
• Thomas Horrocks Openshaw (1856–1929), surgeon
• William Lane (1861–1917), journalist and pioneer of the Australian labour movement
• Leonard Whibley (1863–1941), classicist
• Sir Llewellyn Smith (1864–1945), Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, 1907–1919, and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government, 1919–1927
• Leonard Raven-Hill (1867–1942), illustrator and cartoonist
• Sir John Herbert Parsons FRS (1868–1957), ophthalmologist and physiologist^[1]
• Robert Chambers (1802–1871), philanthropist and peace activist
• Roland Allen (1868–1947), missionary in China
• Cyril Bradley Rootham (1875–1938), classicist and musician
• Frederick William Lumsden (1872–1918), Royal Marines Brigadier General, VC, CB and DSO & Three bars
• Sir Cyril Norwood (1875–1956) classicist and Politician
• Sir Douglas Veale (1891–1973), Registrar of the University of Oxford, 1930–1958

20th century

• Sir Allen Lane (1902–1970), founder of Penguin Books
• Douglas Cleverdon (1903–1987), bookseller and BBC Radio producer
• Sir Ivor Jennings (1903–1965), Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge, 1962–1965
• Paul Drury (1903–1987), artist
• Oliver Franks, Baron Franks (1905–1992), philosopher, diplomat and civil servant
• John Cosh (1915–2005), rheumatologist
• Sir Richard Sheppard (1910–1982), architect
• Douglas Russell Feaver (1914–1987), Bishop of Peterborough
• Geoffrey Keen (1916–2005), actor
• Sir John Pople (1925–2004), Mathematician, Theoretical chemist and Nobel Laureate
• Peter Nichols (born 1927), writer
• Timothy West (born 1934), actor
• Julian Glover (born 1935), actor
• David Prowse (born 1935), actor
• Sir Nicholas Wright, professor of medicine
• Keith Robbins (born 1940), historian
• T.J. Clark (born 1943), historian
• Robert Lacey (born 1944), historian and biographer
• Jeremy Treglown (born 1946), biographer and literary critic
• Andrew Dalby (born 1947), food writer
• Nick Brimble actor
• Clive Ponting (born 1947) Former civil servant and retired university lecturer.
• Fred Wedlock (1942 – 2010), folk singer, humorist and actor.^[2]
• Alan Hamlin (born 1951), Professor of Economics, University of Southampton; Professor of Political Theory University of Manchester
• Sir Andrew Cash (born 1955), Chief Executive of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Shaun Woodward (born 1958), politician, former Labour Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
• Jeremy Northam (born 1961), actor
• John Lennard (born 1964), academic
• Rabinder Singh QC (born 1964), first Sikh High Court judge^[3]
• Neil Garrett, journalist
• Michelle Goodman (born 1976), RAF Officer, first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
• Sean Marsden (born 1980), professional rugby player
• Mark Watson (born 1980), comedian
• Chris Hines (born 1980), Musician
• Chris Skidmore (born 1981), Conservative MP
• Michael Coady (rugby league) (born 1987), professional rugby player
• James Kenber (born 1986), international elite fencer ^[4]
• Tuppence Middleton (born 1987), actress
• Shrien Dewani, arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder
• Arron Ford and Rob Cunliffe. Paddled the coast of Panama for adventure and conservation purposes.

References

1. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
2. "Fred Wedlock". Bristol Rocks. Retrieved 6 March 2010.
3. Doughty, Steve (10 October 2011). "First Sikh High Court judge is sworn in: Lawyer is only second from ethnic minority background to be promoted". Daily Mail. London.
4. http://asia.eurosport.com/olympicgames/london-2012/2012/kenber-targets-last-16_sto2985055/story.shtml