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List of Old Gowers

April 10, 2024

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This is a List of notable Old Gowers, former pupils of University College School. The school opened on 1 November 1830, at 16 Gower Street, which is the origin of the sobriquet "Old Gower".

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  • Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (OG 1873–74), Lord Chief Justice, Foreign Secretary (briefly), Leader of the House of Lords, solicitor and attorney general (held separately), Ambassador to the USA, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Viceroy of India.
  • Keith Usherwood Ingold, OC FRS FRSC FRSE is a British chemist.

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  • Tom Oppé (OG ?-?), paediatrician, CBE 1984–

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  • Sir Alfred Yarrow, Bart., FRS (OG 1855–58), ship building industrialist and philanthropist

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  1. ^ Sir George Scharf, "Mr. Doyne C. Bell" (obituary) in The Athenaeum, No. 3154, 7 April 1888
  2. ^ a b c Debrett's People of Today. January 2011
  3. ^ a b c Who's Who 2011
  4. ^ W. J. O'Connor, ed., British physiologists 1885–1914: a biographical dictionary (1991), p. 124
  5. ^ . Archived from the original on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  6. ^ Biographical details don't seem to mention his education below university level, but as he actively participated in UCS fundraising and applied to be a member of the corporation, he may well be an Old Gower
  7. ^ "'Carlisle, the Gateway to Scotland', LMS poster, 1924., Greiffenhagen, Maurice". SSPL Prints. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Music – Martin Lamble". BBC. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  9. ^ . Fairportconvention.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  10. ^ 'Lloyd, Dennis, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead', in Who Was Who 1991–1995 (A. & C. Black, 1996, ISBN 0-7136-4496-6
  11. ^ "David McCallum Biography". Fandango.com. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  12. ^ "Thomas Boverton Redwood". Gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  13. ^ "Admiral Sir Percy Scott". Gwpda.org. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  14. ^ Johnson 2006-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ ::The Admiralty and the Submarine Service:: 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ British Society for the History of Mathematics

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources List of Old Gowers news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources This is a List of notable Old Gowers former pupils of University College School The school opened on 1 November 1830 at 16 Gower Street which is the origin of the sobriquet Old Gower Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZA editZak Abel born 1995 English singer songwriter musician Thomas Ades OG 1988 composer The Very Rev Dr Hermann Adler OG 1852 54 Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom The Rev Canon Alfred Ainger OG 1847 49 Master of the Temple David Ainsworth Liberal Member of Parliament for Cumberland 1880 1885 and 1892 1895 Sir John Stirling Ainsworth 1st Baronet Liberal Member for Argyllshire 1903 1918 Moses Angel according to A Tradition for Freedom founder of The Jewish Chronicle Richard Arnell OG 1927 35 composer Sir Eric Ash OG electrical engineer and Rector of Imperial College 1985 93 Professor William Edward Ayrton OG 1859 64 physicistB editThe Most Rev Edward Gilpin Bagshawe OG 1836 38 Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham and later of the titular see of Selucia Walter William Rouse Ball OG mathematician and historian Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge His bequests founded the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics and Rouse Ball Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge The Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford is named after him as well Sir Roger Bannister OG 1944 46 runner and neurologist John Barrett tennis player and commentator who represented Britain in the Davis Cup Lucas Barrett OG English geologist and naturalist Sir G C T Bartley OG 1852 59 politician Tony Bastable OG 1955 television presenter and independent producer Walter Bayes painter and art critic Doyne Bell 1830 1888 antiquary 1 Robert Anning Bell OG 1876 78 painter and illustrator Nicolas Bentley illustrator Alan Blaikley OG 1948 58 songwriter Dirk Bogarde OG Junior Branch only actor Sir Chris Bonington OG 1944 52 mountaineer 2 3 Dion Boucicault OG Anglo Irish author and playwright Helped to get the first dramatic US copyright law passed in 1856 and was involved in the setting up of the UK royalty system Sir Alfred Gibbs Bourne OG 1872 76 director of the Indian Institute of Science Edgar Alfred Bowring literary translator Liberal Member of Parliament for Exeter 1868 1874 William Hardwick Bradbury OG 1843 1848 printer and publisher Sir Edward Braddon OG 1843 44 Premier of Tasmania Major General Sir John Rose Bradford 1st Baronet OG 1875 80 president of the Royal College of Physicians 4 Professor Paul Brand OG orthopaedic surgeon who helped sufferers from leprosy Emeritus Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics University of Washington international president of the Leprosy Mission Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons Leslie Bricusse English composer lyricist and playwright most prominently working in musicals and also film theme songs Simon Brodkin Comedian William Speirs Bruce OG 1885 1887 Polar scientist and oceanographer Sir George Buchanan OG 1878 85 chief medical officer for England 1879 1892 Laurence Buckman OG 1972 chairman of the British Medical Association s General Practitioners Committee 2 5 Edward Levy Lawson 1st Baron Burnham OG 1847 50 principal proprietor of The Daily Telegraph Sir Edward Henry Busk vice chancellor of London University 1905 1907 Ingram Bywater OG 1853 56 Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford UniversityC editGerald Campion actor most famous for playing Billy Bunter G S Carr OG mathematician Richard D Oyly Carte impresario who owned and built the Savoy Hotel and Savoy Theatre Bertie Carvel OG actor and singer Joseph Chamberlain OG 1850 52 Colonial Secretary leader of the Imperialist Liberals and father of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Richard Chamberlain Member of Parliament for Islington 1885 1892 Sir Arthur Charles OG 1848 54 Judge of the High Court Andre Chevrillon OG 1876 77 member of the French Academy Sir William Christie Astronomer Royal 1881 1910 6 Sir William Job Collins OG 1869 76 Member of Parliament Chairman of London County Council Surgeon two term Vice Chancellor of the University of London 1907 9 1911 12 Sir Daniel Cooper OG 1835 39 first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales Allan Corduner OG actor played Sir Arthur Sullivan in the film Topsy Turvy Gordon Corera broadcast journalist Baron Cozens Hardy OG Commander of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the First World War Joe Craig novelist Sir Frank Crisp OG 1857 59 lawyer Charles Crompton Liberal Member of Parliament for Staffordshire 1885 1886 Sir David Crouch OG Conservative politician Eric Crozier opera producerD editPaul Dacre editor of the Daily Mail William Frend De Morgan OG 1849 55 artist potter and novelist Hugh Dennis OG 1974 1980 actor and comedian Nick Denton OG internet businessman Jonathan Djanogly Member of Parliament John Dorian OG surgeon Sir Henry Doulton OG 1833 36 inventor and manufacturer of pottery winner of the Albert Medal Sir Edwin Durning Lawrence OG 1847 52 Professor at University College London who researched the Baconian theory Joseph Duveen 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank OG 1877 80 art dealer and philanthropistE editRichard Eckersley deconstructionist graphic designer Albert James Edmondson 1st Baron Sandford OG Conservative politicianF editSir George Faudel Phillips OG 1853 55 Lord Mayor of London 1896 97 Luke Brandon Field OG 1995 2006 actor Horace Field OG 1876 8 Architect Anthony Finkelstein OG 1970 1977 Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE OG 1973 1980 chief leader writer at The Times Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS OG electrical engineer Sir Walter Morley Fletcher OG 1886 91 physiologist Secretary of the Medical Research Council Senior Tutor of Trinity College Cambridge Matt Floyd broadcaster for Sky Sports Ford Madox Ford OG 1888 90 novelist editor George Forrest OG Wykeham Professor of Logic University of Oxford founder member of British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles Sir Michael Foster OG 1849 52 physiologist professor and Member of Parliament Sir Gregory Foster OG 1881 4 Vice Chancellor of the University of London the first Provost of University College London Thomas Fox cricketer and dermatologist Percy F Frankland chemist Jonathan Freedland OG newspaper journalist The GuardianG editClive Gardiner designer artist and illustrator Simon Garfield OG journalist The Observer and author Alex Garland OG 1987 novelist writer of The Beach Samuel Gee physician and paediatrician Charles Gifford OG Canadian politician Paul Gilroy OG author and Giddens Professor the London School of Economics David Ginsburg OG Member of Parliament Oliver Gledhill OG cellist Paul Gorman OG 1971 1978 writer Sir John Grandy OG GCB GCVO KBE DSO KStJ Marshal of the Royal Air Force Chief of the Air Staff 1967 to 1971 Governor of Gibraltar 1973 to 1978 Sir Alan Greengross OG Former Conservative Leader on the Greater London Council Vice Chair of the Council of University College London Joseph Gouge Greenwood OG 1835 37 Principal of Owens College and Vice Chancellor of Victoria University Maurice Greiffenhagen RA OG 1872 76 artist 7 Raymond Gubbay OG 1957 62 impresario William Court Gully 1st Viscount Selby PC QC OG 1848 49 Speaker of the House of Commons Thom Gunn OG poet Robert Gunther OG founded the Museum of the History of Science H editSir Francis Seymour Haden OG English etcher writer and surgeon Roger Leighton Hall CNZM QSO OG 1952 55 New Zealand playwright Professor W D Halliburton MD FRS OG1872 77 Professor of Physiology King s College London Laurence Halsted OG 1984 fencer Nick Harkaway novelist and commentator Numa Edward Hartog OG 1857 61 First Jewish Senior Wrangler prominent figure in the movement to remove Jewish disabilities helped to secure the passing of the Universities Tests Act in 1871 Sir Philip John Hartog KBE CIE OG 1874 80 Vice Chancellor of the University of Dacca Mark Hatton OG 1984 91 2 x Olympic Luge Racer Count Hayashi Tadasu Japanese Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the Court of St James Alexander Hill OBE MA MD MRCS FRCS OG 1870 72 Master of Downing College Cambridge Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1897 99 Principal of Southampton University College 1912 1920 Mayer Hillman OG author and Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute David Hobman CBE Founder Director of Age Concern S D Holden OG c 1886 steam locomotive engineer Frank Holl OG English painter Tom Hood OG humourist Ken Howard OG 1947 1956 songwriter composer film director and author Geoffrey Howard English cricketer and cricket administrator Dr Tristram Hunt OG 1992 historian and Labour Member of Parliament Richard Holt Hutton OG 1835 41 editor of The Spectator Leonard Huxley LL D OG 1872 77 editor of The Cornhill MagazineI editRufus Isaacs 1st Marquess of Reading OG 1873 74 Lord Chief Justice Foreign Secretary briefly Leader of the House of Lords solicitor and attorney general held separately Ambassador to the USA Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Viceroy of India Keith Usherwood Ingold OC FRS FRSC FRSE is a British chemist J editWilliam Stanley Jevons OG logician and economist Sir David Brynmor Jones PC QC MP OG 1862 69 writer of parliamentary reports Judge Jules OG dance music DJK editIan Katz OG Editor of Newsnight Paul Kaye OG 1978 81 Actor comedian best known for the renegade character Dennis Pennis Alex Kay Jelski OG journalist editor of The Athletic Brian Keith Court of Appeal judge Hong Kong High Court judge England and Wales Arthur Edwin Kennelly OG American electrical engineer Joseph Wilfred Kerman OG 1937 39 American musicologist Dairoku Kikuchi OG Japanese mathematician and Minister of EducationL editMartin Lamble OG drummer with Fairport Convention 8 9 Edmund Leighton OG artist Frederic Leighton 1st Baron Leighton OG 1839 43 artist and President of the Royal Academy Eylon Levy OG Israeli government spokesperson Cecil Arthur Lewis OG Oscar winner for adapting the screenplay of Pygmalion Geoffrey Lewis Lewis OG linguist Emeritus Professor of Turkish at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony s College Martin Lewis OG humorist producer and broadcaster Nathaniel Lindley 1st Baron Lindley PC OG 1837 45 Master of the Rolls Lord of Appeal in Ordinary Dennis Lloyd Baron Lloyd of Hampstead QC OG 1929 31 Chairman of Council 1971 79 Quain Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of London Chairman of the National Film School 1970 1988 10 M editProfessor D S MacColl OG 1873 76 Keeper of the Wallace Collection Rene MacColl 1905 1971 cricketer and journalist John Allan McNab 1948 55 president The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants 1995 6 Sir Philip Magnus MP circa 1855 60 educational reformer and Member of Parliament for London University Sir Edward Manville M Inst E E OG 1874 78 chairman of the Imperial Council of Commerce Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge OG former chairman and chief executive of British Airways Lieutenant Horace Robert Martineau OG recipient of the Victoria Cross The Rt Rev Dr John Howard Bertram Masterman DD OG Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth and author John Preston Maxwell OG missionary President of the Chinese Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology David McCallum actor and musician 11 Sir Andrew McFadyean OG senior civil servant General Secretary to the Reparation Commission 1919 Chairman of S G Warburg and Co Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs China Mieville OG author Max Minghella OG 1999 2004 actor Sir Ernest William Moir OG Civil engineer who invented the first medical airlock John Morley 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn PC OM OG 1853 54 Secretary of State for India Richard Morrison OG 1965 1972 chief culture writer The Times The Rev William Stainton Moses OG Christian Spiritualist leader and medium President of the London Spiritualist Alliance 1884 death Rodrigo Moynihan artist Alexander Muirhead OG developed the first electrocardiogram one of the developers of wireless telegraphyN editRonald Neame OG British screenwriter and director Jimmy Napes OG 1996 2003 ProducerO editTom Oppe OG paediatrician CBE 1984 P editProfessor Karl Pearson FRS OG 1866 73 founder of Department of Applied Statistics of University College London Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS mathematician Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics University of Oxford winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 2020 Sir Claude Phillips OG 1856 58 Keeper of the Wallace Collection Professor Vivian de Sola Pinto poet literary critic and historian Richard Bissell Prosser engineer and inventorQ editProfessor Peter Quilliam General Secretary of the British Pharmacology Society 1968 71 Professor of Pharmacology King s College LondonR editSir Walter Raleigh OG 1877 79 Professor of English Literature University of Oxford Sir Boverton Redwood 1st Baronet Boverton OG 1857 61 chemist and petroleum expert 12 Andrew Reid lawyer racehorse trainer and Treasurer of the UK Independence Party Daniel Roche 2011 2018 actor Henry Ling Roth 1855 1925 anthropologist active in Australia Walter Roth anthropologist after whom the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology in Georgetown Guyana was named Edward John Routh RS mathematician winner of the Adams Prize in 1877 fellow of the Royal Society also contributed to Routh Hurwitz theorem and Routh stability criterion Dick Rubenstein Major British ArmyS editThe Very Rev Michael Sadgrove OG 1959 67 Provost then Dean of Sheffield 1995 Dean of Durham 2003 2 3 Herbert Samuel 1st Viscount Samuel OG 1884 88 Leader of the Liberal Party Home Secretary and High Commissioner for Palestine Gordon Samuels AC CVO QC Governor of New South Wales 1996 2001 The Right Reverend David Say KCVO DD bishop of Rochester 1961 1988 Ben Schott OG 1987 1992 author of Schott s Miscellanies Admiral Sir Percy Scott Bart KCB OG 1865 66 instrumental in developing gunnery and other equipment for the Royal Navy 13 14 15 Will Self writer Stanley Shaldon nephrologist Sir Arthur Everett Shipley FRS OG 1877 79 Master of Christ s College Cambridge 1910 1927 Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1917 1919 Walter Sickert A RA OG 1870 71 artist and critic Professor Cedric Smith OG 1932 35 statistician and geneticist Kenneth Snowman CBE chairman of Wartski Richard Solomons chief executive of InterContinental Hotels Group Professor Edward Adolf Sonnenschein Litt D OG 1867 68 philologist professor of classics and dean of the Faculty of Arts the University of Birmingham Stephen Spender poet Marion Harry Spielmann OG 1872 66 historian of Punch editor of The Magazine of Art The Rt Rev Edward Steere OG 1842 44 Bishop of Central Africa Frederic George Stephens art critic and Nonartistic member of the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood Colonel H F Stephens OG 1877 83 railway engineer and manager Lord Wandsworth Sydney Stern 1st Baron Wandsworth OG 1857 58 MP and banker whose estate founded Lord Wandsworth College Greville Stevens English cricketer Ashes winner Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918 Desmond Surfleet Middlesex cricketer Fred Susskind OG 1902 09 South African test match cricketer The Most Rev Arthur Sweatman OG 1848 50 Archbishop of Toronto and Primate of all Canada Maj Gen Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton KBE CB DSO OG 1878 83 assistant secretary Military Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet in World War One later Chichele Professor of Military History University of Oxford David Sylvester art critic and curator James Joseph Sylvester OG 1828 professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy inaugural professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University Professor at Oxford University 16 T editSir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS OG 1899 1905 physicist and mathematician Gordon Thomson OG 1893 99 Olympic rower Francis Taylor Liberal MP for Norfolk South 1885 1898 Matthew Taylor Liberal Democrat MP 1987 present James Thomas Australian politician engineer and politician Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA OG 1863 68 artist and sculptor Captain Norman Todd airline pilot who captained the first commercial flight of a British Airways Concorde Wilfred Trotter MS FRCS OG 1888 90 pioneer in neurosurgery Dr Mark Turin OG 1981 91 linguistic anthropologistV editJohn William Van Druten OG 1911 17 playwright Sir Julius Vogel KCM G Two time Prime Minister of New Zealand Chairman of Old Boys Dining Society 1877 Ed Vulliamy journalist The Guardian amp The Observer and author 3 W editDan Wagner internet entrepreneur Sir Francis Walshe neurologist Charles Warton MP Attorney general of Western Australia Edwin Waterhouse OG 1855 57 president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England amp Wales Julian Lloyd Webber cellist Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL dramatist Ben Winston Producer Philip Wicksteed economist and clergyman Professor Robin Wilson mathematician Gresham Professor of Geometry Ben Winston television and film producer Jonathan Wittenberg Masorti Rabbi Roland De Wolfe professional poker player Y editSir Alfred Yarrow Bart FRS OG 1855 58 ship building industrialist and philanthropistZ editOliver Zangwill Professor of Psychology University of Cambridge See also editCategory People educated at University College SchoolReferences edit Sir George Scharf Mr Doyne C Bell obituary in The Athenaeum No 3154 7 April 1888 a b c Debrett s People of Today January 2011 a b c Who s Who 2011 W J O Connor ed British physiologists 1885 1914 a biographical dictionary 1991 p 124 He won GPS their big bucks the Jewish Chronicle Archived from the original on 2010 02 02 Retrieved 2011 04 13 Biographical details don t seem to mention his education below university level but as he actively participated in UCS fundraising and applied to be a member of the corporation he may well be an Old Gower Carlisle the Gateway to Scotland LMS poster 1924 Greiffenhagen Maurice SSPL Prints Retrieved 25 May 2018 Music Martin Lamble BBC Retrieved 2012 03 03 History of Fairport Fairport Convention s official website Fairportconvention com Archived from the original on 2012 03 04 Retrieved 2012 03 03 Lloyd Dennis Baron Lloyd of Hampstead in Who Was Who 1991 1995 A amp C Black 1996 ISBN 0 7136 4496 6 David McCallum Biography Fandango com Retrieved 2012 03 03 Thomas Boverton Redwood Gracesguide co uk Retrieved 25 May 2018 Admiral Sir Percy Scott Gwpda org Retrieved 25 May 2018 Johnson Archived 2006 06 27 at the Wayback Machine The Admiralty and the Submarine Service Archived 2006 06 15 at the Wayback Machine British Society for the History of Mathematics Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of Old Gowers amp oldid 1194642252, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, 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