List of Old Edwardians (Sheffield)

This is a list of some notable alumni of King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and its various predecessor schools, arranged roughly chronologically.

Sheffield Grammar School, later Sheffield Royal Grammar School (1604–1905)

• John Balguy (1686–1748), divine and philosopher
• John Roebuck FRS (1718–1794), inventor known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid
• Sir Samuel Gillott (1838–1913), lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
• Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and author of regional interest books about the Peak District
• William Andrew MC (1884 – 1963), Anglican priest
• W. S. Senior (1876–1938), scholar, poet and member of the Church Missionary Society
• Edward Keble Chatterton (1878–1944), prolific author on maritime and naval themes
• Ludwig Glauert (1879–1963), paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator
• Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (1885–1934), sculptor on the theme of war, best known for his war memorials
• Kenneth Kirk (1886–1954), Bishop of Oxford
• Walter Sugg (1860–1933), first-class cricketer

Sheffield Collegiate School (1836–1884)

• Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908), microscopist and geologist
• George Rolleston FRS (1829–1881), physician and zoologist, Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Oxford
• Sir Nathaniel Creswick (1831–1917), footballer and solicitor, co-founded Sheffield FC
• Henry Jackson OM (1839–1921), classicist, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge
• Henry Arnold Favell (1845–1896), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Sheffield
• George William Kinman (1862–1927), Headmaster of Hertford Grammar School

Wesley College (1838–1905)

• Joseph Bennett (1829–1908), merchant and Liberal politician
• Samuel Danks Waddy (1830–1902), politician and MP
• Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden (1833–1912), Liberal Party politician and MP
• Joseph Ruston (1835–1897), engineer, manufacturer, Liberal Party politician
• Sir Swire Smith (1842–1918), woollen manufacturer, educationalist and Liberal Party politician
• Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley (1850–1937), businessman and Liberal Party politician
• Leonard Cockayne FRS (1855–1934), New Zealand botanist
• Frank Wilson (1859–1918), Premier of Western Australia
• Arthur Neal (1862–1933), politician and Liberal MP
• Cecil Wilson (1862–1945), pacifist Labour Party MP

King Edward VII School (1905–present)

• Ephraim Lipson (1888–1960), economic historian
• Hermann Glauert (1892–1934), aerodynamicist, who developed the Prandtl–Glauert transformation
• Harry Epworth Allen (1894–1958), English painter
• Sir John Sterndale Bennett (1895–1969) KCMG, MC ambassador^[1]
• Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899–1963) – FRS, Oxford Mathematician, and Savilian Professor of Geometry
• George Butler (1904–99), artist^[2]
• Geoffrey Gledhill Turner (1904–59), GC GM^[3]
• Frank Ellis (1905–2006) – eminent radiation oncologist
• Edward Linfoot (1905–82), Astronomer. Assistant Director of the Observatory, University of Cambridge 1948–70^[4][5]
• Prof Albert Goodwin (1906–95), Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester from 1953–69^[6]
• Sir Charles Husband CBE (1908–83), civil engineer, President of the Institution of Structural Engineers from 1964–5, and Chairman of the Association of Consulting Engineers from 1967–8, and designed the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory
• Major Lionel Wigram, (1907–1944) was a British soldier, who played a significant part in developing British infantry fighting tactics in World War 2, killed in action in Italy
• Rt Rev Leslie Stradling (1908–1998), Bishop of Johannesburg 1961–1974
• Sir Harold Warris Thompson CBE (1908–1983) – English physical chemist; Chairman of the Football Association
• Prof Ronald Graveson CBE (1911–91), Professor of Law at King's College London from 1947–74, Joint Editor of The International and Comparative Law Quarterly from 1955–61, and President of the International Association of Legal Science from 1960–2 and of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (became The Society of Legal Scholars in 2002) from 1972–3^[7]
• Prof Eric Laughton (1911–88), Firth Professor of Latin at the University of Sheffield from 1952–76^[8]
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Stanley Miles CB (1911–87)
• Sir Eric Gardner Turner CBE (1911–1983), papyrologist and classicist
• Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale CB (1912–2007) – British civil servant
• Cecil King CMG (1912–81), Ambassador to Lebanon from 1967–70.
• Sir Geofroy Tory (1912–2012),^[9][10] Ambassador to Ireland from 1964–67
• Brigadier Sir Edgar "Bill" Williams (1912–1995) – academic and warrior^[11]
• Gordon Nornable MC (1915–2002) won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre in 1944 fighting with the French Maquis in eastern France.^[12]
• Sir Peter Youens (1916–2000) – British administrator in Nyasaland and Malawi, and director of Lonrho
• Prof Deryck Allen (1918–2010), Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sheffield from 1955–80, a Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Sheffield from 1966 to 1970, and Chairman of the Joint Matriculation Board from 1973–6^[13]
• Sir Norman Siddall (1918–2002) – Chairman of the National Coal Board from 1982–3^[14]
• Sir Robert Scholey (1921–2014), Bob Scholey, known as 'Black Bob', deputy chairman and chief executive of British Steel (1976-1986), Chairman of British Steel (1986-1992), succeeding Sir Robert Haslam^[15][16]
• Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997), chemist and Cambridge academic^[17]
• John Gatenby Bolton (1922–1993) – British-Australian astronomer
• Prof Donald Nicol (1923–2003), Koraës Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1970–88, and President of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 1975–6
• Prof Raymond Ian Page (1924–2012), Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University from 1984 to 1991, and Parker Librarian at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College
• Prof Adrian Horridge (born 1927) – FRS, neurobiologist, professor at Australian National University
• Prof John Philipps Kenyon (1927–96), Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor in Early Modern British History at the University of Kansas from 1987–94
• Francis Cheetham OBE (1928–2005), museum curator
• Sir Michael Carlisle (born 1929) – Pro-Chancellor, University of York
• John Farnsworth Wright (1929–2001) was a British economist and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.^[18]
• Peter Landin (1930–2009), computer scientist and academic at Queen Mary College, London^[19]
• John Lemmon (1930–1966) – logician and philosopher
• Sir Norman Adsetts OBE (born 1931) Knight Bachelor, OBE – Hon Life President SIG plc since 1996
• Dick Charlesworth (1932–2008), jazz clarinettist and bandleader
• Prof Ian Fells CBE (born 1932) – Professor of Energy Conversion at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and President of the Institute of Energy from 1978–9, and broadcaster
• George MacBeth (1932–1992) – Poet and author
• Alan Jinkinson (born 1935), General Secretary of UNISON from 1993–6
• Prof David Downes (born 1938), Professor of Social Administration at the LSE from 1987–2003, and Editor of the British Journal of Criminology from 1985–90
• Ted Wragg (1938–2005) – E C (Ted) Wragg, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter
• Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE JP (born 1940), Managing Director of Dartington Crystal from 1986–2000, and Lord Lieutenant of Devon 1998-2015
• Ted Powell (1940–2005), amateur footballer who went on to coach the Malawi national football team and the England Under–18 side which won the European Championship in 1993.^[20]
• Rony Robinson (born 1940) – writer and broadcaster
• Dave Sheasby (1940–2010), playwright, director, dramatist and radio producer
• Sir John Goulden CMG (born 1941) – diplomat and Ambassador to Turkey from 1992–5, and subsequently to NATO.
• Jeremy Thorp CMG (born 1941), diplomat, British ambassador to Colombia, 1998-2001.
• Roland Smith CMG (born 1943), diplomat, British ambassador to Ukraine, 1999-2002.
• Christopher Brealey CB (born 1943), civil servant and deputy Permanent Secretary at the DTI.
• Christopher Meakin (born 1943), journalist, economist and global director of Public Affairs at HSBC, 1984-86.
• Mark Blythe CB (born 1943), Senior Treasury Solicitor.
• Martin Hall MVO MBE (born 1944), civil servant, secretary to Ch of Exchequer 1979-84, head of the Treasury Press Office, head of PR at the London Stock Exchange.
• Peter Grimsditch (born 1944), journalist, D Mirror, D Express, devised D Star, first editor of D Sport, subsequently Director of the Oxford Business Group of Istanbul.
• Alan Wood (born 1947) – CEO of Siemens Plc
• Roy Galley (born 1947) – Conservative MP for Halifax from 1983–7
• John Ramsden (1947–2009), Professor of History at Queen Mary College, an authority on the history of the Conservative party^[21]
• Bob Davies (born 1948) – CEO of Arriva Plc until April 2006
• Prof Paul Collier CBE (born 1949), Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford since 1993, and Director since 1991 of the Centre for the Study of African Economies
• Peter Horbury (born 1950), car designer, Executive Design Director of all Ford's American brands from 2004
• Martin Smith (born 1949) – Car designer (Porsche, Audi, Ford)
• Clive Betts (born 1950) – Current Labour MP
• Air Commodore Jon Chitty (born c. 1952), OBE RAF
• Dr David Thomson, current Bishop of Huntingdon^[22]
• Phil Oakey (born 1955) – singer, Human League
• Jason Leaver (1977 - 1980).DJ, artist, radio presenter.
• Martyn Ware (born 1956), founder member of The Human League and Heaven 17^[23]
• Simon Collis (born 1956), Ambassador to Syria since 2007, and to Qatar from 2005–7. Currently the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Iraq.
• Michael McClelland (born 1956), Professor, Pathology, University of California, Irvine.
• Matthew Bannister (born 1957) – British radio administrator and broadcaster
• Nick Battle (born 1957) - musician, songwriter and author.
• John Rawling (born 1957), main boxing commentator on ITV since 2005
• Simon Wessely (born 1956) – professor of epidemiological and liaison psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research.
• Bruce Dickinson (born 1958) - professional pilot and singer in Iron Maiden.
• Graham Fellows (born 1959) – comedian and actor, aka John Shuttleworth
• Joe Elliott (born 1959) – lead singer of Def Leppard
• Carl Shutt (born 1961) – former Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United and Bradford City footballer
• Paul Heaton (born 1962) – leader, The Beautiful South and The Housemartins
• Julia Bradbury (born 1970) – presenter of Watchdog
• Emily Maitlis (born 1970) – newscaster for BBC television
• Tyrone Thompson (born 1981) – footballer with Torquay United
• Ben Purkiss (born 1984) – footballer with Oxford United
• Toddla T (born 1985) – musician and DJ^[24]
• Elizabeth Henstridge (born 1987) – Actor in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Danny Blandy (born 1988) – Drummer with Spector.
• Rory Loveless (born 1993) – Drummer with Drenge.

See also

Category:People educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield

References