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* [[John Freeman Milward Dovaston]], (1782–1854), naturalist and poet<ref>[http://www.sueburton.co.uk/dovaston/jfmdovaston/jfmdovaston.htm Biography of John Freeman Milward Dovaaston]. www.sueburton.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2010.</ref> |
* [[John Freeman Milward Dovaston]], (1782–1854), naturalist and poet<ref>[http://www.sueburton.co.uk/dovaston/jfmdovaston/jfmdovaston.htm Biography of John Freeman Milward Dovaaston]. www.sueburton.co.uk. Retrieved 23 July 2010.</ref> |
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* [[Andrew Downes (scholar)|Andrew Downes]] (c. 1549–1628), Greek scholar |
* [[Andrew Downes (scholar)|Andrew Downes]] (c. 1549–1628), Greek scholar |
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* [[Dryden baronets|Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden |
* [[Dryden baronets|Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, 4th Baronet of Ambrosden, 7th Baronet of Canons-Ashby]] (1818–1899), archaeologist and antiquary<ref>[http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/HDC.html The Sir Henry Dryden Collection] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104051530/http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/HDC.html |date=4 January 2011 }}. VADS. Retrieved 23 July 2010.</ref> |
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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 KCMG (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 VC MC (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 CMG OBE (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 KCSI (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 FRSL (1854–1935), Archdeacon of Middlesex
- Tim Bewley, High Court judge, Hong Kong
- Peter Blagg (1918-1943), cricketer and soldier
- Peter Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker 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
- 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 FBA (born 1935), historian of Late Antiquity, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
- Samuel Browne, (1574/5–1632), Church of England clergyman
- Donald Boumphrey MC (1892–1971), cricketer, educator and British Army officer
- Samuel Hawksley Burbury FRS (1831-1911), mathematician
- John Burrell (1910-1972), theatre director
- John Burrough (1873-1922), cricketer
- Charles Burney FRS (1726–1814), musician, composer, 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 KCMG, (1858–1947), British colonial administrator, Governor of Gambia 1914–1920
- Sir Philip Montgomery Cambell FRSA FInstP (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 CBE (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 CMG TD (1881–1947), Conservative politician
- Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow KCMG (1912–2013), diplomat
- Roualeyn Cumming-Bruce PC (1912–2000), judge
D
- Charles Darwin FRS FRGS FLS FZS (1809–1882), naturalist, geologist, and originator of the theory of natural selection
- Peter Davis (born 1941), businessman, former chairman of Sainsbury's
- William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane KBE FSA JP DL (1872-1953), politician and MP for Kensington South
- Francis Day CIE (1829–1889), military surgeon and ichthyologist
- Paul Edward Dehn (1912–1976), writer and film critic
- Charles Spencer-Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 2nd Baronet CBE MC TD (1916-2012), businessman and peer
- General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey GBE KCB DSO MC (1896–1969), D-Day 2nd Army Commander
- Hal Dixon (1928–2008), biochemist and Vice Provost of King's College, Cambridge
- Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet OStJ (1912-1999), Scottish businessman
- John Freeman Milward Dovaston, (1782–1854), naturalist and poet[3]
- Andrew Downes (c. 1549–1628), Greek scholar
- Sir Henry Edward Leigh Dryden, 4th Baronet of Ambrosden, 7th Baronet of Canons-Ashby (1818–1899), archaeologist and antiquary[4]
E
- Humphrey Edwards (1582–1658), politician and regicide
- Alexander John Ellis FRS (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 MC (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 KB PC of Beauchamps Court (1554–1628), courtier and author
- Sir George Abraham Grierson OM KCIE (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 GCSI PC (1814–1906), politician
- Thomas Emerson Headlam (1813–1875), barrister and politician
- William Henry Herford (1820–1908), educationist
- Michael Heseltine CH PC (born 1933), Conservative politician, Deputy Prime Minister 1995–1997
- Major Richard Henry Heslop DSO (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, KCMG CB (1860–1929), Governor of Uganda (1911–1918) and naturalist
- Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson, GBE KCB MC (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 CBE (1923–2011), novelist and poet
L
- Geoffrey Lane, Baron Lane AFC PC QC (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 PC (1901–1980), politician and son of Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law
- Aubrey Trevor Lawrence MBE KC (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 GCB (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 CBE (born 1940), publisher
- Richard Madox (1546–1583), Church of England clergyman and diarist
- George Augustus Chichester May PC QC (1815–1892), judge
- John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor FBA (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 PC QC (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 ARA (1889–1946), artist
- Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), social activist and journalist
- Sir Charles Thomas Newton KCB (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 PC (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 CH (1850–1936), classicist
- General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget GCB DSO MC (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 CBE FRGS (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 FBA FSA (born 1949), art historian, Director of the National Gallery
- Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre GCMG KCSI CB (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 GCMG (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 PC (1838–1891), Conservative politician
- Sir Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow OM FRS FREng FMedSci FRAS (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 PC DL FRS (1633–1695), statesman, writer, and politician
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor (1907–1995), music critic
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor LVO (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 KCB AFC (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 JP FCA (born 1945), Lord Mayor of the City of London 2006–07
- Martin Ferguson Smith, OBE FSA (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, FRS FRGS (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 QC FBA (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 KCMG OBE (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 CBE MC (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 JP DL (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 CSI CMG (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.
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- ^ 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.