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List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable alumni of Shrewsbury School, a leading UK independent boarding and day school in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England.

Old Salopians

A

Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer
Sir James Adams (1932-), ambassador to Tunisia (1984–1987) and Egypt (1987–1992)
John Adams, (before 1670−1738), cartographer
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65
Harold Ackroyd (1877-1917), soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy

B

Alan Barber (1905–1985), cricketer and headmaster of Ludgrove
Robert Bardsley (1890-1952), cricketer and colonial administrator
Edward Barnard (1992-), cricketer
Douglas Bartles-Smith (1937-2014), priest and Archdeacon of Southwark 1985-2004
William Henry Bateson (1812–1881), scholar and Master of St. John's College, Cambridge 1857-1881
Sir Cecil Beadon (1816–1880), administrator in India
Andrew Berry (born 1963), evolutionary biologist and historian of science
John Best (1821-1865), politician and barrister
Henry Edward James Bevan (1854–1935), Archdeacon of Middlesex
Tim Bewley, High Court judge, Hong Kong
Peter Blagg (1918-1943), cricketer and soldier
Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker (1922-2009), politician
David Blakely, murder victim. He was shot dead by Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
The Ven. Charles Blakeway (1868-1922), Archdeacon of Stafford 1911-22
Christopher Booker (1937-), journalist
Tim Booth (1960-), lead singer of the band James
Sir James Bourne, 1st Baronet (1812-1882), politician
John Breynton (1719–1799), minister and missionary in Nova Scotia^[1]
John Brockbank, (1848–1896), footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
Peter Brown (born 1935), historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Samuel Browne, (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
Donald Boumphrey (1892–1971), cricketer, educator and British Army officer
Charles Burney (1726–1814), music historian
Omar 'Ali Bolkiah (born 1986), Crown Prince of the Sultanate of Brunei
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

C

Sir Edward John Cameron , (1858–1947), British colonial administrator, Governor of Gambia 1914–1920
Sir Philip Montgomery Cambell (born 1951), Editor in Chief of Nature
George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975), historian
William George Clark (1821–1878), literary and classical scholar
William Clarke (1695–1771), antiquary
Richard Charles Cobb (1917–1996), historian and essayist
Edward Meredith Cope (1818–1873), classical scholar
Edward Corbet, (died 1658), Anglican clergyman
John Corbet (Corbett) (1609–1670), politician and judge
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton 5th Baronet (1739–1809), MP for Cheshire 1780–1796
Sir Randolph Crewe (also Crew) (bap. 1559, d. 1646), judge^[2]
Julian Critchley (1930–2000), politician
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft (1881–1947), Conservative politician
Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow (1912–2013), diplomat
Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce (1912–2000), judge

D

Charles Darwin (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
Peter Davis (born 1941), businessman, former chairman of Sainsbury's
Francis Day (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey (1896–1969), D-Day 2nd Army Commander
Hal Dixon (1928–2008), biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College, Cambridge
John Freeman Milward Dovaston, (1782–1854), naturalist and poet^[3]
Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), Greek scholar
Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden (1818–1899), Fourth Baronet of Ambrosden, Seventh Baronet of Canons-Ashby, archaeologist and antiquary^[4]

E

Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide
Alexander John Ellis (1814–1890), phonetician and mathematician
Charles Evans (1918–1995), surgeon and mountaineer
William Addams Williams Evans (1853–1919), Wales international footballer^[5]
Canon Thomas Saunders Evans, Latin scholar and poet, was schoolmaster at Rugby and Durham.

F

Frederick Fisher (born 1985), Big Brother 10 contestant
Paul Foot (1937–2004), journalist
William Orme Foster (1814–1899), ironmaster, MP for South Staffordshire 1857–1868, owner of Apley Park
Nigel Forman (1943–2017), Conservative politician, MP for Carshalton and Wallington
James Fraser (1818–1885), bishop of Manchester
Abraham Fraunce (France) (born c. 1558–1560, died 1592/3), poet and lawyer

G

David Gay (1920–2010), British Army officer awarded the Military Cross in World War II, cricketer, and educator
Arthur Herman Gilkes (1849–1922), Headmaster of Dulwich College
Geoffrey Green (1911–1990), football writer
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851–1941), administrator in India and philologist
George Gore (1675–1753), Attorney-General for Ireland
Richard Goulding, actor
Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1844–1916), historian and theologian

H

Nick Hancock (born 1962), actor and TV presenter
John Hanmer (1574–1629), bishop of St Asaph
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), politician
Thomas Emerson Headlam (1813–1875), barrister and politician
William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
Michael Heseltine (born 1933), Conservative politician, Deputy Prime Minister 1995–1997
Major Richard Henry Heslop (alias Xavier) (1907–1973), army officer and resistance organiser
Sir Thomas Hewett, (1656–1726), architect and landowner^[6]
Edward Hewetson (1902–1977) cricketer
Sir John Tomlinson Hibbert (1824–1908), politician
James Hildyard, (1809–1887), classical scholar
Sir Richard Hill, 2nd Baronet of Hawkstone, (1732–1808), Tory MP and religious revivalist
Richard Hillary (1919–1943), RAF officer and author
Hubert Ashton Holden (1822–1896), classical scholar
William Walsham How (1823–1897), bishop of Wakefield
Robert Hudson (1920–2010), BBC broadcaster and administrator
James Humphreys (1768–1830), law reformer
Sir Travers Humphreys (1867–1956), judge

I

Brian St John Inglis (1916–1993), journalist
Richard Ingrams (born 1939), journalist
Andrew Irvine (1902–1924), mountaineer

J

Jamie Catto (born 1968), economist and programmer
Frederick John Jackson, (1860–1929), Governor of Uganda (1911–1918) and naturalist
Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, (1917–1999), army officer, military historian, and Governor of Gibraltar
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), judge
Basil Jones (1822–1897), bishop of St David's
Vice Admiral Clive Carruthers Jonhnstone (born 1963), Royal Navy Officer
John Jones of Gellilyfdy (c. 1578 – c. 1658), copyist and manuscript collector
Sir Thomas Jones (1614–1692), judge and law reporter
Thomas Jones (1756–1807), college teacher

K

Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804–1889), headmaster and classical scholar
Charles Rann Kennedy (1808–1867), lawyer and classical scholar
Bryan King (1811–1895), Church of England clergyman
Francis King (1923–2011), novelist and poet

L

Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane (1918–2005), Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Sir John Langford-Holt (1916–1993), Conservative politician, MP for Shrewsbury (1945–1983)
Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine (1901–1980), politician and son of Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law
Aubrey Trevor Lawrence (1875–1930), barrister and author
Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet (1870–1934), English horticulturalist and hospital administrator
Blessed Richard Leigh (1557–1588), beatified English Catholic priest
Sir William Leighton (c. 1565–1622), poet and composer
Very Rev Herbert Mortimer Luckock (1833–1909), Dean of Lichfield
General Sir Daniel Lysons (1816–1898), army officer

M

Humphrey Mackworth (1603–1654), member of Shropshire parliamentary committee in English Civil War, governor of Shrewsbury, member of Protector's Council, MP
Thomas Mackworth (1627–1696), Parliamentarian soldier and MP
Humphrey Mackworth (born 1631), military governor of Shrewsbury under Protectorate, MP
Christopher MacLehose (born 1940), publisher
Richard Madox (1546–1583), Church of England clergyman and diarist
George Augustus Chichester May (1815–1892), judge
John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910), classicist and librarian of Cambridge University 1863–1867
Claas Mertens (born 1992), rower for the German national team^[7]
Terry Milewski (born 1949), journalist^[8]
Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet (1826–1897), lawyer and politician
Henry Whitehead Moss (1841–1917), headmaster 1866–1908
Gerard Moultrie (1829–1885), third master, chaplain, hymnographer
Douglas Muggeridge (1928–1985), Controller, BBC Radio 1 between 1968 and 1976
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1819–1885), classical scholar

N

Christopher Nevinson (1889–1946), artist
Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
Sir Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894), archaeologist
Nevil Shute Norway (1899–1960), novelist as Nevil Shute and aeronautical engineer

O

Sir Charles Oakeley, 1st Baronet (1751–1826), administrator in India
William Oakley (1873–1934), footballer for England
Mark Oakley (born 1968), Church of England priest
William Chichester O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill (1813–1883), Church of Ireland clergyman and composer
Julian Orchard (1930–1979), film and television actor
Sir Roger Ormrod (1911–1992), judge, Lord Justice of Appeal
Sir Francis Ottley (1601–1649), royalist politician and soldier, military governor of Shrewsbury
Richard Ottley (1626–1670), royalist soldier and Restoration MP
Hugh Owen (1760–1827), Church of England clergyman and antiquary
Thomas Owen (died 1598), judge

P

Thomas Ethelbert Page (1850–1936), classicist
General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget (1887–1961), army officer
Edward Francis Paget (1886–1971), archbishop of central Africa
Francis Paget (1851–1911), bishop of Oxford
Stephen Paget (1855–1926), writer and pro-vivisection campaigner
Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), classical scholar and writer
Michael Palin (born 1943), member of Monty Python comedy troupe, writer, actor and world traveller
John Parker Ravenscroft (1939–2004), DJ and journalist, known professionally as ‘John Peel’
Sir Nicholas Penny (born 1949), art historian, Director of the National Gallery
Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre (1812–1885), British Indian Army officer; 1st Commissioner of British Burma (1862–1867) and Governor of Mauritius (1874–1878)
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), poet and playwright
John Arthur Pilcher (1912–1990), diplomat, ambassador to Austria (1965–67), ambassador to Japan (1967–1972)
Graham Pollard (1903–1976), bookseller and bibliographer
Sir Thomas Powys (1649–1719), MP, Attorney General to King James II, judge, and politician

R

Henry Cecil Raikes (1838–1891), Conservative politician
Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow (born 1942), British cosmologist and astrophysicist
John Hamilton Reynolds (1794–1852), poet
George Rudé (1910–1993), British Marxist Historian
Willie Rushton (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, founder of Private Eye
Ed Reardon, fictional character

S

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695), statesman, writer, and politician
Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907–1995), music critic
Desmond Shawe-Taylor (born 1955), art historian, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
Nevil Shute (1899–1960), writer
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), poet, courtier and soldier
Air Marshall Sir Michael Simmons (born 1937), Royal Air Force Officer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
Sandy Singleton (1914–1999), cricketer
John Templeton Smith (born 1943), writer ^[9]
John Stuttard (born 1945), Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07
Martin Ferguson Smith, (born 1940), scholar and writer, classics and ancient history professor at Durham

T

John Taylor (1704–1766), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman
Oliver Thomas (1599/1600–1652), nonconformist minister and author
William Thomson, (1819–1890), Archbishop of York
Godfrey Thring (1823–1903), hymn writer
Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring (1818–1907), parliamentary draftsman
J. C. Thring, published the Cambridge rules together with Henry de Winton, which formed the basis of Association football
Richard Todd, OBE (1919–2009), actor
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (1919–1979), headmaster of Eton College and Fettes College
Sir Thomas Trevor (1586–1656), judge
James Taylor (1990-), cricketer

V

Sir William Vaughan (died 1649), royalist army officer

W

Alan Wace (1879–1957), archaeologist
Henry Wace (1853–1947), England international footballer^[10]
Henry William Rawson Wade (1918–2004), academic lawyer
Graham Wallas (1858–1932), political psychologist and educationist
John Wood Warter (1806–1878), Church of England clergyman and antiquary^[11]
John Weaver (1673–1760), dancer and choreographer
Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), novelist
Sir Edgar Whitehead (1905–1971), prime minister of Rhodesia
Charles Wicksteed (1810–1885), Unitarian minister^[12]^[13]
Sir Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), Landscape & Portrait Artist
Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet (1634–1700), lawyer and politician
Major General Dare Wilson (1919–2014), SAS officer who introduced attack helicopters to the British military
Jack Wilson (1914–1997), Olympic rower
H. de Winton, co-creator of the rules of football
Chandos Wren-Hoskyns (1812–1876), English landowner, agriculturist, politician and author
John Wylie (1854–1924), 1878 FA Cup winner and England international

Y

Colonel Sir Charles Edward Yate, 1st Baronet (1849–1940), administrator in India and politician

References

^ Thomas, C. E. (1979). "Breynton, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
^ Brief profile of Sir Randolph Crewe. Annals of Shrewsbury School.George William Fisher. pp 58.
^ Biography of John Freeman Milward Dovaaston. www.sueburton.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
^ The Sir Henry Dryden Collection Archived 4 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine. VADS. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
^ Profile of William Addams-Williams-Evans. cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
^ Sir Thomas Hewett(1656–1726) architect & landowner. www.rotherhamweb.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2010
^ "Sabrina Rowing News". Shrewsbury School. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
^ Allemang, John (1 July 2011). "Terry Milewski: an equal-opportunity offender". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 31 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ School records PH 1956-1959
^ Betts, Graham (2006). England: Player by player. Green Umbrella Publishing. p. 249. ISBN 1-905009-63-1.
^ "Reverend John Wood Warter". The Peerage. 19 October 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
^ Biography of Charles Wicksteed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
^ Charles Darwin in Western Australia – A Young Scientist's Perception of an Environment. Patrick Armstrong. University of Western Australia Press. 1905. pp 3.

[1] Thomas, C. E. (1979). "Breynton, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IV (1771–1800) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.

[2] Brief profile of Sir Randolph Crewe. Annals of Shrewsbury School.George William Fisher. pp 58.

[3] Biography of John Freeman Milward Dovaaston. www.sueburton.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

[4] The Sir Henry Dryden Collection Archived 4 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine. VADS. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

[5] Profile of William Addams-Williams-Evans. cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

[6] Sir Thomas Hewett(1656–1726) architect & landowner. www.rotherhamweb.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2010

[7] "Sabrina Rowing News". Shrewsbury School. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2018.

[8] Allemang, John (1 July 2011). "Terry Milewski: an equal-opportunity offender". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 31 October 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[9] School records PH 1956-1959

[Betts-10] Betts, Graham (2006). England: Player by player. Green Umbrella Publishing. p. 249. ISBN 1-905009-63-1.

[11] "Reverend John Wood Warter". The Peerage. 19 October 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

[12] Biography of Charles Wicksteed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

[13] Charles Darwin in Western Australia – A Young Scientist's Perception of an Environment. Patrick Armstrong. University of Western Australia Press. 1905. pp 3.

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 * [[Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker|Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCMG|PC}} (1922-2009), politician
 * [[David Blakely]], murder victim. He was shot dead by [[Ruth Ellis]], the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
+* The Ven. [[Charles Blakeway]] (1868-1922), [[Archdeacon of Stafford]] 1911-22
 * [[Christopher Booker]] (1937-), journalist
 * [[Tim Booth]] (1960-), lead singer of the band [[James (band)|James]]
 * [[Sir James Bourne, 1st Baronet]] (1812-1882), politician
-* [[John Breynton]] (1719–1799), minister and missionary in Nova
+* [[John Breynton]] (1719–1799), minister and missionary in Nova Scotia<ref>{{cite DCB |first=C. E. |last=Thomas |title=Breynton, John |volume=4 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/breynton_john_4E.html}}</ref>
-Scotia<ref>{{cite DCB |first=C. E. |last=Thomas |title=Breynton, John |volume=4 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/breynton_john_4E.html}}</ref>
 * [[John Brockbank]], (1848–1896), footballer who played for England as a forward in the first international match against Scotland.
 * [[Peter Brown (historian)|Peter Brown]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (born 1935), historian of [[Late Antiquity]], Fellow of [[All Souls College, Oxford]]