List of Old Malvernians
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List of Old Malvernians is a list of notable alumni of Malvern College
, an independent day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire
, England that was founded in 1865. They have gained recognition in such fields as the military, politics, business, science, culture and sport. Among the most famous are spymaster James Jesus Angleton
, former head of the CIA's counter-intelligence; Aleister Crowley
, the controversial but influential occultist; actor Denholm Elliott
, sportsman R. E. Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football; and novelist C. S. Lewis
, author of The Chronicles of Narnia
. Other well known personalities include businessman Baron MacLaurin
, a former Chairman of Tesco
and Vodafone
; Jeremy Paxman
, journalist, author, and BBC
broadcaster and presenter of University Challenge; and Baron Weatherill, the former Speaker of the British House of Commons
. Old Malvernians who have become heads of state or government
include the eponymously titled Viscount Malvern
and Najib Tun Razak
, the Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2009. The former was the British Commonwealth's longest serving Prime Minister by the time he left office. Old Malvernian Nobel Prize winners include Francis William Aston
, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and James Meade
, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1977.
Malvern College
Malvern College is a coeducational independent school located on a 250 acre campus near the town centre of Malvern, Worcestershire in England. Founded on 25 January 1865, until 1992, the College was a secondary school for boys aged 13 to 18...
, an independent day and boarding school in Malvern, Worcestershire
Malvern, Worcestershire
Malvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, governed by Malvern Town Council. As of the 2001 census it has a population of 28,749, and includes the historical settlement and commercial centre of Great Malvern on the steep eastern flank of the Malvern Hills, and the former...
, England that was founded in 1865. They have gained recognition in such fields as the military, politics, business, science, culture and sport. Among the most famous are spymaster James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton was chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's counterintelligence staff from 1954 to 1975...
, former head of the CIA's counter-intelligence; Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...
, the controversial but influential occultist; actor Denholm Elliott
Denholm Elliott
Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE was an English film, television and theatre actor with over 120 film and television credits...
, sportsman R. E. Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football; and novelist C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
, author of The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages...
. Other well known personalities include businessman Baron MacLaurin
Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth
Ian Charter MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth DL, is a British businessman who has been Chairman of Vodafone and Chairman and Chief Executive of Tesco. He is a former Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board and a former Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.Ian MacLaurin was...
, a former Chairman of Tesco
Tesco
Tesco plc is a global grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues and the second-largest measured by profits...
and Vodafone
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...
; Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Dickson Paxman is a British journalist, author and television presenter. He has worked for the BBC since 1977. He is noted for a forthright and abrasive interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians...
, journalist, author, and BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
broadcaster and presenter of University Challenge; and Baron Weatherill, the former Speaker of the British House of Commons
Speaker of the British House of Commons
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is John Bercow, who was elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin...
. Old Malvernians who have become heads of state or government
Head of government
Head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled prime minister, chief minister, premier, etc...
include the eponymously titled Viscount Malvern
Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern
Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, CH, KCMG, PC was a Rhodesian politician and physician. He served as the fourth Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1933 to 1953 and remained in office as the first Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland until 1956, becoming the...
and Najib Tun Razak
Najib Tun Razak
Dato' Sri Haji Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak is the sixth, and since 2009, Prime Minister of Malaysia. He previously held the post of Deputy Prime Minister from 7 January 2004 until he succeeded Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as Prime Minister on 3 April 2009. Najib is President of the United...
, the Prime Minister of Malaysia since 2009. The former was the British Commonwealth's longest serving Prime Minister by the time he left office. Old Malvernian Nobel Prize winners include Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule...
, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and James Meade
James Meade
James Edward Meade CB, FBA was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."Meade was born in...
, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1977.
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- Lascelles AbercrombieLascelles AbercrombieLascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets"...
, (b.1881, d.1938), poet, journalist,critic - Diran AdebayoDiran AdebayoDiran Adebayo is a British novelist, cultural critic and broadcaster best known for his vivid portrayals of modern London life and his distinctive use of language.-Education and career:...
, novelist, critic - Brian AherneBrian AherneBrian Aherne was a British actor of both stage and screen, who found success in Hollywood.-Early life and stage career:...
, actor - John Anderson, 3rd Viscount WaverleyJohn Anderson, 3rd Viscount WaverleyJohn Desmond Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley is a British peer. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers in the House of Lords elected to remain after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a cross-bencher....
- James Jesus AngletonJames Jesus AngletonJames Jesus Angleton was chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's counterintelligence staff from 1954 to 1975...
, spymaster. Source of inspiration for the character Edward Wilson in the film The Good ShepherdThe Good Shepherd (film)The Good Shepherd is a 2006 spy film directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie, with an extensive supporting cast. Although it is a fictional film loosely based on real events, it is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counter-intelligence in the...
. - Michael ArlenMichael ArlenMichael Arlen , original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England...
, author, playwright - Francis William AstonFrancis William AstonFrancis William Aston was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule...
, chemist and physicist, won the Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
in Chemistry in 1922 for work on mass spectrometryHistory of mass spectrometryThe history of mass spectrometry dates back more than one hundred years and has its roots in physical and chemical studies regarding the nature of matter. The study of gas discharges in the mid 19th century led to the discovery of anode and cathode rays, which turned out to be positive ions and...
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- Ralph Alger BagnoldRalph Alger BagnoldBrigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS OBE, was the founder and first commander of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group during World War II. He is also generally considered to have been a pioneer of desert exploration, an acclaim earned for his activities during the 1930s...
, geo-morphologist, pioneering desert explorer, founder & commander of the LRDGLong Range Desert GroupThe Long Range Desert Group was a reconnaissance and raiding unit of the British Army during the Second World War. The commander of the German Afrika Corps, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, admitted that the LRDG "caused us more damage than any other British unit of equal strength".Originally called... - Charles BambridgeCharles BambridgeEdward Charles Bambridge was an English footballer who made eighteen appearances as a left winger for England between 1879 and 1887, being appointed captain twice. He was one of three brothers who played for England....
(1858–1935), EnglandEngland national football teamThe England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
international footballer and captain - Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes, British Indian administrator
- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl BeggVaryl BeggAdmiral of the Fleet Sir Varyl Cargill Begg GCB, DSO, DSC was First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy, from 1966 to 1968.-Early life:...
, First Sea LordFirst Sea LordThe First Sea Lord is the professional head of the Royal Navy and the whole Naval Service; it was formerly known as First Naval Lord. He also holds the title of Chief of Naval Staff, and is known by the abbreviations 1SL/CNS...
, Governor of Gibraltar - Prince Joachim of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
- Humphry BerkeleyHumphry BerkeleyHumphry John Berkeley was a British politician noted for his many changes of parties and his efforts to effect homosexual law reform, and both oppose, and then seem to abet, grand apartheid....
, politician, humourist - Walter Bromley-DavenportWalter Bromley-DavenportLt.-Col. Sir Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport TD DL was a British Conservative Party politician.-Early years:...
, politician - Sir Stephen BrownStephen Brown (judge)Sir Stephen Brown, GBE is a judge. He was a Lord Justice of Appeal and a President of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales.-Personal life:...
, judge - Sir Peter BuchananPeter Buchanan (Royal Navy officer)Vice Admiral Sir Peter William Buchanan KBE is a former Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.-Early Life:Born in Midhurst, West Sussex, he was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Buchanan and Gwendolen Isobel . He was educated at Malvern College.-Naval career:Buchanan was given command...
, naval officer - Tej Bunnag, eminent Thai diplomat, politician
- Cuthbert BurnupCuthbert BurnupCuthbert James "Pinky" Burnup was an amateur cricketer and footballer who gained fame through his participation in sports around the turn of the century...
, England footballer, cricketer - Claude BurtonClaude Burton (cricketer)Robert Claude Burton was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Oxford University and Yorkshire....
, cricketer - Philip Bushill-MatthewsPhilip Bushill-MatthewsPhilip Bushill-Matthews was a British politician and was a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands.-Biography:...
, politician
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- Henry CampbellHenry CampbellHenry Colville Montgomery Campbell MC KCVO PC was a Church of England clergyman and Bishop of London from 1956–1961.-Early life and career:...
, clergyman - Benedict CarpenterBenedict CarpenterBenedict Carpenter is a British sculptor and artist based in the West Midlands.He works in traditional materials such as bronze, mild steel, as well as more modern substances such as polyurethane foam, bread, rubber and spray paint....
, sculptor - Colonel Duncan Carter-Campbell of PossilDuncan Carter-Campbell of Possil, son of Major-General George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell C.B., D.S.O, was a British Army Colonel during the 1950s.-Military career:...
- George ChestertonGeorge ChestertonGeorge Herbert Chesterton is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1949 and 1966. The bulk of his appearances were for Worcestershire, whom he represented between 1950 and 1957. He was capped by the county in 1950...
, cricketer - David ChippDavid ChippDavid Allan Chipp was a British journalist and author. He was a former editor-in-chief of Reuters and the Press Association, and a founding member of the Press Complaints Commission...
, journalist, former chief editor of ReutersReutersReuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
and the Press Association - Horatio ClareHoratio ClareHoratio Clare is an author and journalist. He worked at the BBC as a producer on Front Row , Night Waves and The Verb . He has written two memoirs, 'Running for the Hills' and 'Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope' and a travel book, 'A Single Swallow'...
, writer - Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of UgandaUgandaUganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...
, UK representative to the U.N. Trusteeship CouncilUnited Nations Trusteeship CouncilThe United Nations Trusteeship Council, one of the principal organs of the United Nations, was established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security...
and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Overseas Development. - Aleister CrowleyAleister CrowleyAleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...
, occultist - Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-MillingDenis Crowley-MillingAir Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling KCB, CBE, DSO, DFC & Bar, AE was a Second World War fighter pilot and later an air officer in the Royal Air Force.-Second World War:...
, flying aceFighter AceFighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots...
in the Battle of BritainBattle of BritainThe Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
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- Arthur DayArthur DayArthur Percival Day, born 10 April 1885, at Blackheath, Kent, and died 22 January 1969, at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, was a cricketer who played for Kent during the period of the county's greatest success in the County Championship.-Career:...
, cricketer. - Samuel DaySamuel DaySamuel Hulme Day , a.k.a. Sammy Day, was a professional cricketer for Kent and an English international footballer, who played as an inside forward.-Cricket Career:Day was born in Peckham Rye, London...
, cricketer, EnglandEngland national football teamThe England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
international footballer - James DelingpoleJames DelingpoleJames Delingpole is an English columnist and novelist. A self-described libertarian conservative, he writes for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. He has published several novels and four political books, most recently Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colors [2011]...
, journalist - Sir John Dick-Lauder, 11th BaronetSir John Dick-Lauder, 11th BaronetSir John North Dalrymple Dick-Lauder of Fountainhall, 11th Baronet, born 22 July 1883 at Sultanpur Lodhi, and baptised at Christ Church, Mussoorie, India...
- K.S DigvijaysinhjiK.S DigvijaysinhjiMaharaja Jam Sri Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja was Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar from 1933 to 1947, succeeding his uncle, the famed cricketer Ranjitsinhji.-Early life:...
, (1895–1966) MaharajaMaharajaMahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king". The female equivalent title Maharani denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajamata...
Jam Sahib of Nawanagar - Monty DonMonty DonMontagu Denis Wyatt Don is a British television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture, best known for presenting the BBC television series Gardeners' World.-Early life:...
, BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture. - Sandy DuncanSandy Duncan (athlete)Kenneth Sandilands "Sandy" Duncan OBE was an English athlete who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games and in the 1938 British Empire Games. He later became one of the most distinguished and sympathetic sports officials of his generation, as the long-serving general secretary of the British...
, athlete, general secretary of the British Olympic Association
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- Frederick Eden, 6th Baron AucklandBaron AucklandBaron Auckland is a title in both the Peerage of Ireland and the Peerage of Great Britain. The first creation came in 1789 when the prominent politician and financial expert William Eden was made Baron Auckland in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1793 he was created Baron Auckland, of West Auckland in...
- Ricardo EllcockRicardo EllcockRicardo McDonald Ellcock is a Barbados-born former English cricketer who played first-class and List A cricket between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. His career was seriously hampered by injury,...
, cricketer - Sir John Ellerman, 2nd BaronetSir John Ellerman, 2nd BaronetSir John Reeves Ellerman, 2nd Baronet was an English shipowner, natural historian and philanthropist. The only son and heir of the English shipowner and investor John Ellerman, he was often said to be Britain's richest man...
, shipping magnate, natural historian and philanthropist - Denholm ElliottDenholm ElliottDenholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE was an English film, television and theatre actor with over 120 film and television credits...
, actor - William EvansWilliam Evans (English cricketer)William Henry Brereton Evans was a South African-born English all-round cricketer who played 66 times in first-class cricket in the early 20th century. He played county cricket for Worcestershire and Hampshire, as well as representing the Gentlemen against the Players, but he appeared most for...
, cricketer - Ambrose Evans-PritchardAmbrose Evans-PritchardAmbrose Evans-Pritchard is the international business editor of the Daily Telegraph.A long-time opponent of the EU's constitution and monetary union, he was the Telegraph's Europe correspondent in Brussels from 1999 to 2004....
, international business editor of the Daily Telegraph and author of The Secret Life of Bill Clinton.
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- Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Fielden, Captain of The King's Flight and of The Queen's Flight
- Sir Eustace Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 1st Baronet of Banbury, politician, colonial governor
- Sir Gerald FitzmauriceGerald FitzmauriceSir Gerald Gray Fitzmaurice GCMG, QC was a British barrister and judge.He was born on 24 October 1901, the younger son of Vice-Admiral Sir Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice and Mabel Gertrude Gray. He studied at Malvern College and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he gained a Bachelor of...
, barrister, judge - Charles Fletcher-CookeCharles Fletcher-CookeCharles Fletcher Fletcher-Cooke, QC was a British politician.Fletcher-Cooke was educated at Malvern College and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he was president of the Cambridge Union in 1936. He became a barrister and was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1938, later becoming a Queen's Counsel...
, politician - Giles FodenGiles FodenGiles Foden is an English author best known for his award-winning novel The Last King of Scotland .-Biography:Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967. His family moved to Malawi in 1971 where he was raised...
, author of The Last King of ScotlandThe Last King of ScotlandThe Last King of Scotland is an award-winning 1998 novel by journalist Giles Foden. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel is written as the memoir of a fictional Scottish doctor in Amin's employ. Giles Foden's novel received... - "FostershireFostershire"Fostershire" was a name jocularly applied to Worcestershire County Cricket Club in the early part of the 20th century, shortly after the county had achieved first-class status and admission into the English County Championship...
", the Foster brothers who played for Worcestershire County Cricket ClubWorcestershire County Cricket ClubWorcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Worcestershire...
:- Basil FosterBasil FosterBasil Samuel Foster was an English cricketer who played 34 first-class matches in the early 20th century. He was born in Malvern, Worcestershire, and died in Pield Heath, Hillingdon, Middlesex, aged 77.-Career:...
- Geoffrey FosterGeoffrey FosterGeoffrey Norman Foster was an English cricketer who played county cricket for Worcestershire and Kent, as well as appearing a number of times for Oxford University and MCC. He was one of the seven Foster brothers, all of whom played first-class cricket for Worcestershire, and he led the county on...
- Harry Foster
- Maurice FosterMaurice Foster (English cricketer)Maurice Kirshaw Foster was an English cricketer who played 170 first-class matches. The great bulk of these were for Worcestershire, which county he captained for three seasons from 1923 to 1925...
- Neville FosterNeville FosterNeville John Acland Foster was an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he was the youngest of seven brothers to play first-class cricket for Worcestershire, though his county cricket was restricted to two seasons as he spent most of his life in Malaya.-Biography:Born in Malvern, Foster...
- Reginald "Tip" Foster, the only man to have captained England at both cricket and football
- Wilfrid "Bill" FosterWilfrid FosterMajor Wilfrid Lionel Foster CBE DSO was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman who played for Worcestershire County Cricket Club in their early years in first-class cricket. He was one of the seven Foster brothers, all of whom played first-class cricket for the county...
- Basil Foster
- Sir Murray Fox, surveyor, businessman, liveryman, Lord Mayor of LondonLord Mayor of LondonThe Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of the City of London Corporation. The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and...
in 1974/75 - Major General John FullerJ.F.C. FullerMajor-General John Frederick Charles Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO was a British Army officer, military historian and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising principles of warfare...
, military historian, strategist, occultist
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- Sir Peter GibsonPeter Gibson (judge)The Rt Hon. Sir Peter Gibson is a retired British barrister and judge who served as the Intelligence Services Commissioner until January 2011...
, judge - Carl Alexander Gibson-HillCarl Alexander Gibson-HillCarl Alexander Gibson-Hill was a British medical doctor, naturalist, ornithologist and curator of Singapore’s Raffles Museum...
(1911–1963), doctor, naturalist and Director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore - Doctor GreenwoodDoctor GreenwoodDoctor Haydock Greenwood was an English footballer who played for Blackburn Rovers and made two appearances for England in 1882...
(1860–1951), Blackburn RoversBlackburn Rovers F.C.Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....
and EnglandEngland national football teamThe England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
international footballer - William Mitchell GrundyWilliam Mitchell GrundyWilliam Mitchell Grundy was an English headmaster.The son of William Grundy, dean and fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and headmaster of Malvern College, William Mitchell Grundy was educated at Malvern College and was elected Bible clerk at All Souls College, Oxford...
, English headmaster
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- Sir William Henry HadowWilliam Henry HadowSir William Henry Hadow CBE was a leading educational reformer in Great Britain and a musicologist.Hadow was born at Ebrington, Gloucester, England. He studied at Malvern College, followed by Worcester College, Oxford where he taught and became Dean...
, English educationist, musicologist - St. John Emile Clavering Hankin, Edwardian playwright
- Prince Christian of Hanover
- Prince Ernst August of HanoverPrince Ernst August of HanoverPrince Ernst August of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg is the elder son and heir apparent of Ernst August V, Prince of Hanover and his former wife Chantal Hochuli.-Life:Ernst August was...
- Air Chief Marshal Sir James Donald Innes Hardman, flying aceFlying aceA flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...
, CAF (RAAF) - Fred HargreavesFred HargreavesFrederick William Hargreaves was an English footballer who represented the England national football team. He also played first-class cricket with Lancashire....
, EnglandEngland national football teamThe England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
footballer - General Sir Charles Henry Pepys HaringtonCharles Henry Pepys HaringtonGeneral Sir Charles Henry Pepys Harington GCB, CBE, DSO, MC was an officer in the British Army. He served in the British Expeditionary Force and in Normandy in the Second World War. He was later Commander-in-Chief of the three-service Middle East Command from 1963 to 1965, based at Aden...
, Deputy Chief of the General StaffChief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)Chief of the General Staff has been the title of the professional head of the British Army since 1964. The CGS is a member of both the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Army Board... - Oliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of TasburghOliver Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of TasburghOliver Charles Harvey, 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh GCMG GCVO CB , was a British civil servant and diplomat....
(1893–1968), diplomat - Sir Peter HiltonPeter Hilton (lord-lieutenant)Colonel Sir Peter Hilton, KCVO, MC, DL, JP was a World War II veteran and hero.A son of Major-General Richard Hilton and Phyllis Hilton, he was educated at Malvern College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. He married Lady Winifred Smith in 1942 and they had two sons, Andrew and...
WWII veteran - Prince Alexander of HohenzollernPrince Alexander of HohenzollernAlexander, Hereditary Prince of Hohenzollern is a member of the Princely House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Alexander is the eldest son of Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern and Countess Alexandra Schenck von Stauffenberg., and heir to the headship of the House of...
- Errol HolmesErrol HolmesErrol Reginald Thorold Holmes, born at Calcutta on 21 August 1905 and died in London on 16 August 1960, was a cricketer who played for Oxford University, Surrey and England....
, England cricketer - Sir Peter Holmes, businessman, Chairman of Royal Dutch ShellRoyal Dutch ShellRoyal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
- Godfrey Martin Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, Prime MinisterPrime ministerA prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
of Southern RhodesiaSouthern RhodesiaSouthern Rhodesia was the name of the British colony situated north of the Limpopo River and the Union of South Africa. From its independence in 1965 until its extinction in 1980, it was known as Rhodesia...
and of Rhodesia and NyasalandFederation of Rhodesia and NyasalandThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, also known as the Central African Federation , was a semi-independent state in southern Africa that existed from 1953 to the end of 1963, comprising the former self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia and the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia,...
, once described as the longest serving Prime Minister in British Commonwealth history. - Christmas Humphries, lawyer, Buddhist author
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- Arnold JacksonArnold JacksonBrigadier-General Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson CBE DSO & Three Bars was a British athlete, British Army officer, and a barrister. He was the winner of the 1500m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in what was hailed at the time as "the greatest race ever run"...
, athlete (1500m gold medallist, 1912 Summer Olympics1912 Summer OlympicsThe 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. Twenty-eight nations and 2,407 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports...
); youngest ever British Army Brigadier-General, awarded DSODistinguished Service OrderThe Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
& Three Bars; barrister.
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- Donald Knight, England international cricketer
- Shapur KharegatShapur KharegatShapur Sorab Kharegat was an Anglo-Indian journalist, editor and former Asia Director of The EconomistKharegat was born in Bombay, at "Palm Land", the home of his maternal great-grandfather, the ship chandler magnat Kavasjee Dadabhoy Dubash , to Col. Dr. Sorabjee Merwanjee Kharegat *1900...
journalist, editor and Asia Director of The Economist
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- Rory Laing, contestant on The ApprenticeThe Apprentice (UK)The Apprentice is a British reality television series in which a group of aspiring young businessmen and women compete for the chance to win a £100,000-a-year job as an apprentice to the British business magnate Lord Sugar in series one to six...
- Sir Paul Ogden LawrencePaul Ogden LawrenceSir Paul Ogden Lawrence was an eminent barrister and judge. He was educated at Malvern College, Worcs. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1926. Sir Paul's sisters founded Roedean School....
, judge - Geoffrey LeggeGeoffrey LeggeGeoffrey Bevington Legge was an English cricketer who played in 5 Tests from 1927 to 1930...
, England cricketer - Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron EssendonBrian Lewis, 2nd Baron EssendonBrian Edmund Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon , also known as Bug, was a British motor-racing driver, company director, baronet, and peer....
shipping, motor racing - C. S. LewisC. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
, novelist, scholar, Christian apologist. Author of The Chronicles of NarniaThe Chronicles of NarniaThe Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages...
. - Warren LewisWarren LewisWarren Hamilton Lewis was an Irish British Army officer and historian, best known as the brother of the author and professor C. S. Lewis. Warren Lewis was a supply officer with the Royal Army Service Corps of the British Army during and after World War I...
(brother of C.S.Lewis), historian - Robert Foljambe, 4th Earl of LiverpoolEarl of LiverpoolEarl of Liverpool is a title that has been created twice in British history. The first time was in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1796 for Charles Jenkinson, 1st Baron Hawkesbury, a favourite of King George III...
- Lancelot Edward Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale
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- Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of KnebworthIan MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of KnebworthIan Charter MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth DL, is a British businessman who has been Chairman of Vodafone and Chairman and Chief Executive of Tesco. He is a former Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board and a former Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.Ian MacLaurin was...
, businessman, sports administrator - Neil MacLaurinNeil MacLaurinNeil Ralph Charter MacLaurin is a former English cricketer. MacLaurin was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace...
, cricketer, son of the above - Frank Mann, England cricket captain
- Ronald MansbridgeRonald MansbridgeRonald Mansbridge was a publisher, author and wit. He served for forty years as US representative for Cambridge University Press...
, publisher, author - James MeadeJames MeadeJames Edward Meade CB, FBA was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."Meade was born in...
, economist, 1977 winner of the Nobel PrizeNobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesThe Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, generally regarded as one of the...
in Economics - Brian MearsBrian MearsJoseph Brian Mears was a chairman of Chelsea Football Club. He was the son of Joe Mears, also a chairman of Chelsea, and grandson of Joseph Mears, co-founder of the club. He was born in Richmond, Surrey, and educated at Malvern College. In 1950 he emigrated to Canada where he began working life...
, chairman of Chelsea FC - Joe MearsJoe MearsJohn 'Joe' Mears was chairman of Chelsea Football Club and the Football Association.Mears was the son and nephew of Chelsea F.C. founders, Joseph and Gus Mears respectively. He was a goalkeeper for the Old Malvernians before joining the Chelsea board in 1931, in doing so becoming the youngest...
, chairman of the Football AssociationThe Football AssociationThe Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of football in England, and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. It was formed in 1863, and is the oldest national football association... - General Sir John MoggJohn Mogg (British Army officer)General Sir Herbert John Mogg GCB CBE DSO & Bar was a senior British Army officer who also held the NATO position of Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe .He has been described as a popular and affable man...
, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) - Air Chief MarshalAir Chief MarshalAir chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...
Hrushikesh Moolgavkar, 9th Chief of Staff of the Indian Air ForceIndian Air ForceThe Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict... - Raymond MortimerRaymond MortimerCharles Raymond Mortimer Bell , who wrote under the name Raymond Mortimer, was a British writer, known mostly as a critic and literary editor....
, writer, critic, literacy editor - Eric Lawrence MoxeyEric Lawrence MoxeySquadron Leader Eric Lawrence Moxey GC was a Royal Air Force officer and a British recipient of the George Cross.Acting Squadron Leader Eric Lawrence Moxey was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the courage he showed on the 27th of August 1940 in volunteering to remove two unexploded bombs...
, recipient of the George CrossGeorge CrossThe George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations... - Kenneth Muir, recipient of the Victoria CrossVictoria CrossThe Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
- Jonathan Myles-LeaJonathan Myles-LeaJonathan Myles-Lea is an English painter of country houses, historic buildings, and landscapes in a miniaturist technique, typically taking the form of aerial views. Myles-Lea also works in portraiture, creates abstract paintings and installations.-Life and career:Jonathan Myles-Lea was born in...
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- Najib Tun RazakNajib Tun RazakDato' Sri Haji Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak is the sixth, and since 2009, Prime Minister of Malaysia. He previously held the post of Deputy Prime Minister from 7 January 2004 until he succeeded Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as Prime Minister on 3 April 2009. Najib is President of the United...
, Prime Minister of Malaysia - David Nash, cricketer
- Sir Thomas Willans NusseyThomas Willans NusseySir Thomas Willans Nussey, 1st Baronet was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Pontefract from 1893 to 1910.-Family and education:...
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- Hubert ParkerHubert ParkerHubert Stanley Wyborn Parker DSO VD was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of North-East Fremantle from 1930 until 1933, and one of the three Legislative Council seats for Metropolitan-Suburban Province from 1934 until 1954...
, Australian politician, Attorney-General of Western Australia - Norman PartridgeNorman Partridge (cricketer)Norman Ernest Partridge, born at Great Barr, Birmingham, on 10 August 1900 and died at Aberystwyth on 10 March 1982, was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Warwickshire...
, cricketer - Giles PaxmanGiles PaxmanH.E. Timothy Giles Paxman, LVO is the current Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Spain.Giles Paxman was educated at Malvern College and New College, Oxford...
, diplomat - Jeremy PaxmanJeremy PaxmanJeremy Dickson Paxman is a British journalist, author and television presenter. He has worked for the BBC since 1977. He is noted for a forthright and abrasive interviewing style, particularly when interrogating politicians...
, journalist, broadcaster, author - Thelwell PikeThelwell PikeThelwell Mather Pike was an English footballer who earned one cap for the national team in 1886. Pike played club football for Cambridge University, Crusaders, Brentwood, Swifts, Thanet Wanderers and Corinthian....
(1866–1957), EnglandEngland national football teamThe England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
footballer - Mark PougatchMark PougatchMark Pougatch is a freelance radio and television broadcaster, a journalist and author who works mainly as a sports presenter for the BBC.-Early life:...
, sports presenter - Sir Ghillean PranceGhillean PranceSir Ghillean Tolmie Prance FRS VMH is a prominent British botanist and ecologist.He has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but he perhaps drew more attention in documenting the pollination ecology of Victoria amazonica...
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- Ahmed RashidAhmed RashidAhmed Rashid is a former Pakistani revolutionary, a journalist and best-selling author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.-Biography:...
, Pakistani journalist, author - Christoper Reeves, banker
- Alan S C RossAlan S C RossAlan Strode Campbell Ross was a British academic specialising in linguistics. He is best remembered as the ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage....
, linguist and ultimate source and inspiration for Nancy Mitford's 'U and non-U' forms of behaviour and language usage. - Charles Henry RidsdaleCharles Henry RidsdaleCharles Henry Ridsdale was an eminent Anglican bishop in the first half of the twentieth century.Educated at Malvern College and Trinity College, Oxford he was ordained in 1898. and began his ecclesiastical career as a Curate in Tideswell...
, Anglican Bishop - Sir Howard RobertsonHoward Robertson (architect)Sir Howard Morley Robertson MC RA was an American-born British architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1952 to 1954 and a Royal Academician....
, architect - Irwin Peter Russell, poet, translator, critic
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- Dominic SandbrookDominic SandbrookDominic Sandbrook http://dominicsandbrook.com/wordpress/about/ is a British historian. Born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, he was educated at Malvern College...
, historian, author and journalist - Wilfrid Guy SandersonWilfrid Guy SandersonThe Rt Rev Wilfrid Guy Sanderson was Anglican Bishop of Plymouth from 1962 to 1972. He was born on 17 August 1905 and educated at Malvern and Merton College, Oxford. After ordination he was a Curate at Farnborough and then Priest in charge of St Aidan’s Aldershot...
, clergyman - Dennis Sciama (SH, 39-44), astrophysicist, author of The Unity of the Universe (1959)
- Major General Logan Scott-BowdenLogan Scott-BowdenMajor General Leonard Scott-Bowden CBE DSO MC and bar was a British army officer.-Early life:Scott-Bowden was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria on 21 February 1920. He was the son of Lt.Col. Jonathan Scott-Bowden, OBE, TD, and Mary Scott-Bowden ....
- Oliver SelfridgeOliver SelfridgeOliver Gordon Selfridge , grandson of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridges' department stores, was a pioneer of artificial intelligence. He has been called the "Father of Machine Perception."...
, computer scientist - Sir Tom ShebbeareTom ShebbeareSir Tom Shebbeare, KCVO, is Director of Charities to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.Shebbeare was educated at Malvern College and the University of Exeter, of which he was made an honorary LLD in 2005....
, Director of Charities to His Royal Highness The Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms... - Roger ShortRoger ShortRoger Short MVO was a veteran British diplomat who was killed on 20 November 2003 in a truck bombing in Istanbul while serving as the British Consul-General in Turkey...
, diplomat - George Simpson-HaywardGeorge Simpson-HaywardGeorge Hayward Thomas Simpson-Hayward was an English cricketer who played in 5 Tests in 1910...
, England cricketer - Sydney Goodsir SmithSydney Goodsir SmithSydney Goodsir Smith was a Scottish poet, artist, dramatist and novelist. He wrote poetry in literary Scots often referred to as Lallans, and was a major figure of the Scottish Renaissance....
, poet, artist - Christopher Evelyn StorrsChristopher Evelyn StorrsChristopher Evelyn Storrs was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century.Storrs was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Malvern and Pembroke College, Cambridge before beginning his ordained ministry with a curacy at Leeds Parish Church. He was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1916 to...
, clergyman - Alfred StratfordAlfred StratfordAlfred Hugh Stratford was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Middlesex and represented the England national football team....
(1853–1914), EnglandEngland national football teamThe England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
footballer and three times FA CupFA CupThe Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
winner with Wanderers F.C.Wanderers F.C.Wanderers Football Club is an English amateur football club, based in London, that plays in the Surrey South Eastern Combination. Founded as Forest Football Club in 1859, the club changed its name to Wanderers in 1864.... - Lieutenant Colonel Sir George Stewart SymesGeorge Stewart SymesLieutenant Colonel Sir George Stewart Symes GCB, GCMG, DSO was a British Army officer and colonial governor.Symes served in the South African War in 1902 and in the Aden Hinterland, 1903-1904...
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- Eddy Temple-MorrisEddy Temple-MorrisThe Honourable Edward Temple-Morris is a British DJ, record producer and TV presenter.-Biography:Eddy Temple-Morris hosts XFM's specialist show The Remix. Before joining XFM, he was the main presenter on the MTV show Up for It Live, presented shows for Atlantic 252 & BBC Hereford & Worcester,...
, DJ, record producer, TV presenter - Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-MorrisPeter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-MorrisPeter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris is a British politician. He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Leominster in 1974.-Early life:...
, politician - Sir Richard Thompson, 1st BaronetSir Richard Thompson, 1st BaronetSir Richard Hilton Marler Thompson, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative politician.Thompson was educated at Malvern College and in India, Burma and Sri Lanka and worked in Calcutta and the Far East in business. In World War II, he served in the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman and became...
, politician - Meredith ThringMeredith ThringMeredith Wooldridge Thring was a British inventor, engineer, futurologist, professor and author.-Education and career:...
, inventor and writer on energy conservation - Roger TolchardRoger TolchardRoger William Tolchard is an English former cricketer, who played in four Tests and one One Day International for England in the late 1970s.-Life and career:Tolchard was a wicket-keeper...
, England cricketer - Thomas TrotterThomas TrotterThomas Trotter is a British concert organist. He is Birmingham City Organist and organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster and visiting Professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music, London....
, organist - Orville TurnquestO. Tommy TurnquestThe Honourable Orville Alton Thompson "Tiny" Turnquest is a Bahamian politician. He is the current member of Parliament for Mount Moriah and the Minister of National Security....
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- Neville WadiaNeville WadiaNeville Ness Wadia was an English businessman, philanthropist and a member of the Wadia family, an old Parsi family which, by the 1840s, was one of the leading forces in the Indian shipbuilding industry, having built over a hundred warships for the British and having established trading networks...
, Bombay industrialist and philanthropist - Fulke WalwynFulke WalwynFulke Thomas Tyndall Walwyn was a British jockey and racehorse trainer specialising mainly in National Hunt racing. He was born in Wrexham and died in Newbury.He was educated at Malvern College....
(1910–1991), racehorse jockey and trainer - Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, politician, Speaker of the British House of CommonsSpeaker of the British House of CommonsThe Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is John Bercow, who was elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin...
- Sir John Wheeler-BennettJohn Wheeler-BennettSir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett , GCVO, CMG, OBE, FBA, FRSL was a conservative English historian of German and diplomatic history, and the official biographer of King George VI.-Early career:...
, historian - Maurice WilksMaurice WilksMaurice Cary Ferdinand Wilks was an automotive and aeronautical engineer, and by the time of his death in 1963, was the chairman of the Rover Company, a British car manufacturer...
(1904–1963), motor and aeronautical engineer, developed the Land RoverLand RoverLand Rover is a British car manufacturer with its headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom which specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles. It is owned by the Indian company Tata Motors, forming part of their Jaguar Land Rover group... - Robert WilsonRobert Nichol WilsonRobert Nichol Wilson, known as R. N. Wilson, was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Wilson studied at Malvern College and served in the Royal Artillery during World War II. After the war, he became a director of a textile company and joined the Ulster Unionist Party...
, Deputy Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons - John Baker WhiteJohn Baker WhiteJohn Baker White started his career as a political activist becoming a director of a private organisation dedicated to fighting left-wing subversion. He became an amateur spy in Nazi Germany before becoming a propaganda agent during World War II. In 1945, he was elected a Conservative politician...
, politician, political writer, secret agent - Cecil WilliamsonCecil WilliamsonCecil Williamson was an influential English Neopagan Witch. He was the founder of both the Witchcraft Research Center which was a part of MI6's war against Nazi Germany, and the Museum of Witchcraft...
, neopagan Witch - Charles WittenoomCharles WittenoomCharles Horne Wittenoon , Australian politician, was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for twelve years....
, Australian politician - Lieutenant-Colonel John WoodhouseJohn Woodhouse (British Army officer)Lieutenant-Colonel John Michael Woodhouse MBE, MC was a British soldier credited with helping to reform the Special Air Service.-Early years:...
, pioneer of the SASSpecial Air ServiceSpecial Air Service or SAS is a corps of the British Army constituted on 31 May 1950. They are part of the United Kingdom Special Forces and have served as a model for the special forces of many other countries all over the world...
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