List of Old Gowers

This is a list of notable former pupils of University College School.

Prominent former pupils include (this is not a definitive list):

• James Rosenfeld, Intellectual scholar, International school of Geneva (GANJA)
• Guy Wingate, Brand Strategic and media producer.
• Richard Bissell Prosser, Engineer and inventor.
• Gordon Samuels AC CVO QC Governor of New South Wales (1996-2001).
• Ed Vulliamy, Journalist and author.
• Nick Denton, Internet businessman.
• The Rt. Hon Brer Ruthven, Viscount Ruthven of Canberra, aristocrat.
• Lord? W.H. Cozens-Hardy KC, Commander of the RNR in World War One
• Sir JRA (Bart?) Clark FRCS CB CMG
• Sir G.S. Buchanan KCB CB MD
• Major General Sir J Rose Bradford KCMG, CB, FRS, MD (OG 1875-80)
• Lieutenant Horace Robert Martineau recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and rarest British award for gallantry.
• Major General Horace Leslie Birks CB DSO (OG 1912-14).
• Air Vice-Marshal William Edward Barnes (OG 1911-14).
• Professor Henry Bassett DSc, PhD, D ès Sc (OG 1892-98), Professor of Chemistry at the University of Reading from 1912-46.
• Dr G.T. Bennett, noted anthropologist.
• Major General Henry H Stansfield.
• The Hon Sir Henry Doulton (OG 1833-36), Inventor and manufacturer of pottery. Winner of the Albert Medal.
• Major General MP Babbage (1834-40).
• Major General T.H. Sibley (1834-41).
• Major General Hutchinson (OG 1839-41), probably Charles Scrope Hutchinson, Inspector of Railways for the board of trade.
• John William Van Druten (OG 1911-17), Playwright.
• The Rev. Cannon S.C. Carpenter, Spencer Carpenter, Bachelor of Divinity (OG 1886-96), Master of the Temple, Vice-Principle of Westcott House, Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
• Alec. L. Rea (OG 1887-94), Dramatic Producer.
• The Hon Sir Walter Morley Fletcher KBE CB FRCP FRS (OG 1886-91), physiologist, Secretary of the Medical Research Council, Senior Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Wilfred Trotter MS FRCS (OG 1888-90), pioneer in neurosurgery, Hon. Surgeon to His Majesty the King.
• Ford Maddox Ford (OG 1888-90), Novelist, Editor.
• The Hon Sir Percy Simmons KBE (OG1885-90), Chairman of L.C.C.
• Dr Bernard W. Henderson (OG 1883-89), fellow of Exeter College, Cambridge, prominent classical historian.
• C.H.J. O'Neill Conroy KC, OBE (OG 1886-88), Attorney-General for Newfoundland.
• The Rt. Rev Dr. John Howard Bertram Masterman DD, Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth and author.
• Elmore W. Brewerton FRCS, (1882-6).
• Sir George Buchanan CB MD FRCP (OG 1878-85), Chief Medical Officer for England, 1879 - 1892.
• G.F. Hill CB (OG 1882-4), Director of the British Museum.
• W. McAdam Eccles MS FRCS (OG 1882-84), Prominent surgeon.
• The Hon Sir T. Gregory Foster Bart, Ph.D (OG 1881-4), Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, the first Provost of University College London.
• The Hon Sir Thomas Urwick (OG 1877-84), British Member of the Reparations Commission, Paris.
• The Hon Sir Lionel Davidson (Politician) KCSI (OG 1877-84), Leader of the House, Madras Legislative Council, Vice-President of Executive Council of Governor of Madras.
• Professor Percy Furnivall FRCS (OG 1878-83), Hunterian Professor of Pathology and surgery, Royal College of Surgeons.
• Sir William Christie (astronomer)?, Astronomer Royal in 1881-1910. Biographical details don't seem to mention his education below university level, but as he actively participated in UCS fundraising and applied to be a member of the corporation, he may well be an Old Gower.
• Walter Bayes, Artist and influential art critic, part of the Camden Town Group.
• The Rt. Hon. Albert James Edmondson, 1st Baron Sandford, Conservative politician.
• Sir Andrew McFadyean, senior civil servant, General Secretary to the Reparation Commission 1919, Chairman of S.G. Warburg and Co, Chairman of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
• Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL Honn. Litt.D, Dramatist.
• Colonel H.F. Stephens (OG 1877-83), Railway engineer and manager.
• Oliver Gledhill, Cellist, regularly broadcast on classic FM.
• Edward John Routh RS, Mathematician, winner of the Adams Prize in 1877, fellow of the Royal Society, also contributed to Routh-Hurwitz theorem and Routh stability criterion.
• The Rev William Stainton Moses, Christian Spiritualist Leader and medium, President of the London Spiritualist Alliance (1884-death).
• Professor J.P. Quilliam, Peter Quilliam, General Secretary of the British Pharmacology Society (1968-71), Professor of Pharmacology King's College London, Chairman of the BMA Board of Science, Trustee of the University of London.
• Professor William Bradshaw Tuck, Professor (Chemistry) Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1937).
• Sir Eric Ash CBE FRS FEng FIEE, Distingushed Electrical Engineer and Rector of Imperial College (1985-93).
• Philip Wicksteed, Economist and Clergyman.
• Greville Stevens, England Cricketer, Ashes winner, Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1918, at UCS scored 466 in a house match.
• Dr Geoffrey Klempner, Philosopher, Director of Studies, International Society for philosophers, author of books.
• Edmund Leighton, artist.
• Sir Brian Keith QC, Justice of the High Court.
• The Hon Apurv Bagri (OG 1972-79), Deputy Chairman of governing body of London Business School, Managing Director of Metdist Group, Board member of Dubai Financial services authority, trustee of the Royal Parks Foundation, a commissioner of the Crown Estate Paving Commission, and a trustee of Asia House, visiting Professor at Cass Business School and a member of the Governing Council of the City University, London, member of the UCS coroporation, and son of Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri.
• William Speirs Bruce (OG 1885-7?), Polar scientist and oceanographer.
• Richard Eckersley, deconstructionist graphic designer, appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 1999.
• Dr Mark Turin (OG 1981-91), linguistic anthropologist, directs the Digital Himalaya project which is jointly based at the University of Cambridge and Cornell University.
• Dion Boucicault Irish author and playwright. Helped to get the first dramatic US copyright law passed in 1856, and was involved in the setting up of the UK royalty system. The Templeman Library.
• Professor Paul Brand CBE, orthopaedic surgeon who helped thousands of sufferers of leprosy. Emeritus Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics, University of Washington, international president of the Leprosy Mission, Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons.
• Mayer Hillman, Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute. Author.
• Stephen Joseph OBE, Executive Director of Transport 2000 (1988-2005?).
• David Sylvester, art critic and curator.
• Raymond Gubbay, impresario.
• Walter William Rouse Ball, prominent Mathematician and Historian, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His bequests founded the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics and Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, both senior chairs at the University of Cambridge. The Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford is named after him as well, possibly due to another bequest.
• Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS (OG 1899-1905?), Physicist and Mathematician, part of British delegation to the Manhattan project, has been described as "one of the greatest physical scientists of the 20th century".
• James Joseph Sylvester (OG 1828), attended aged 14 at a time when the distinctions between the school and college were blurred (According to British Society for the History of Mathematics). Distinguished mathematician, amongst other things, professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, inaugural professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, Professor at Oxford University and private tutor to Florence Nightingale.
• Richard Arnell, (OG 1927-35) Composer
• G.S. Carr Mathematician.
• Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, Mathematician, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford. Winner of De Morgan Medal (See Notable Staff for De Morgan himself). Sir Roger has the honour of holding a Chair and medal named after two different people involved with the school (a pupil and a teacher). Author of popular physics books.
• Sir Michael Day OBE (OG 1946-52), Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality
• Clive A Woolf OBE, (OG 1943-46) Solicitor honoured for representing death row inmates in Caribbean (pro bono) on their appeals to the Privy Council.
• Hugh Dennis, Actor (My Hero, Have I got News for You, Mock the Week)
• Jonathan Djanogly, MP (2001-present) Shadow Solicitor General and Shadow Minister for Trade and Industry (2005-)
• Jonny Blue, (Somerset Cricket - injured knee and never got to play for England)
• Matthew Taylor (politician), MP (1987-present), Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesman (1999-2003), Chair of the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party (2003-2005)
• Sir Alan Greengross, Former Conservative Leader on the Greater London Council, Vice-Chair of the Council of University College London.
• Ben Schott, author of Schott's Miscellanies
• Prof. Paul Gilroy, Academic and writer.
• Dr Tristram Hunt, TV historian
• Thomas Adès, composer
• William Stanley Jevons, Logician & Economist
• Joe Craig, Novelist
• Alex Garland, Novelist, writer of "The Beach"
• Arthur Edwin Kennelly, American electrical engineer
• Dairoku Kikuchi, Japanese mathematician and Minister of Education
• David Katz, Music Journalist
• David McCallum, Actor
• Dick Rubenstein, Major, SAS war hero.
• Dirk Bogarde, Actor (Junior Branch only)
• G.W. Knox (OG 1856-59), President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
• Frank Holl, English painter
• Frederic George Stephens, 'Nonartistic' member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood & Art critic.
• His Excellency Count Hayashi Tadasu, Japanese Foreign Minister, and Ambassador to the Court of St James. Signed the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902.
• Ingram Bywater (OG 1853-56), Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University
• Joseph Chamberlain (OG 1850-52), Colonial Secretary, leader of the Imperialist Liberals and father of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
• Judge Jules, Dance music DJ
• Julian Lloyd Webber, Cellist
• Richard Morrison, Arts Editor of "The Times",1990-99
• Max Minghella (OG 1999-2004), Actor
• Nicolas Bentley, illustrator
• Richard Holt Hutton (OG 1835-41), Editor of "The Spectator"
• Ronald Neame, British screenwriter and director
• Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading (OG 1873-74), Lord Chief Justice, Foreign Secretary (briefly), Leader of the House of Lords, solicitor and attorney general (held separately), Ambassador to the USA, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Viceroy of India.
• Stephen Spender, Poet
• Thom Gunn, Poet
• Tom Hood, Humourist
• Martin Lewis, Film Producer, Publicist, Broadcaster
• Will Self, Writer
• Walter Sickert A.RA (OG 1870-71), Artist and critic
• 1st Viscount Samuel, Herbert Samuel (OG 1884-88), Leader of the Liberal Party, Home Secretary and High Commissioner for Palestine
• His Excellency Viscount Hayashi (OG 1867-68), Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St. James's
• Professor Karl Pearson FRS (OG 1866-73), Founder of Department of Applied Statistics of University College London which was the first statistics department in the world. He was a major contributor to the development of statistics. Contemporary and close friend of Kikuchi Dairoku.
• Professor William Edward Ayrton, FRS, (OG 1859-64), Physicist
• Sir Alfred Yarrow, Bart., FRS(OG 1855-58), Ship building industrialist and philanthropist
• Sir Angus Prevost, Bart., (OG 1847-52), Governor of the Bank of England
• Sir Chris Bonington (OG 1944-52), Mountaineer
• Sir Claude Phillips (OG 1856-58), Keeper of the Wallace Collection
• Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart., KCMG, G.C.M.G (OG 1835-39), First Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, New South Wales. He was also a member of the sub-committee of four that completed the drafting of a bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Sir Francis Seymour Haden, English etcher, writer and surgeon
• Sir Frank Crisp (OG 1857-59), Eminent Company Lawyer
• Sir George Faudel-Phillips, Bart. (OG 1853-55), Lord Mayor of London 1896-97
• Sir Henry Greenway Howse MS, FRCS (OG 1856-58), President of the Royal College of Surgeons
• Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA, (OG 1863-68), Artist and sculptor (works included the statue of Oliver Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster).
• Sir John Ambrose Fleming, Electrical engineer
• Sir Josiah Rees, (OG 1835-38), Chief Justice of Bermuda
• Sir Julius Vogel KCM.G, Two-time Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Sir Michael Foster KCB, FRS, MP (OG 1849-52), Psychologist, Professor and MP
• Sir Nathaniel Nathan (OG 1851-58), Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, 1901-1903
• Sir Philip Magnus, Bart., (OG 1854-58), English educationalist and MP
• Sir Roger Bannister (OG 1944-46), Runner and Neurologist
• The Rev. Canon Ainger, Alfred Ainger (OG 1847-49), Master of the Temple
• The Rev. Joseph Estlin Carpenter (OG 1854-60), Principal of Harris Manchester College, Oxford of Oxford University.
• The Rt. Hon. Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (OG 1839-43), Artist and President of the Royal Academy
• The Rt. Hon. Nathaniel Lindley, 1st Baron Lindley, PC, (OG 1837-45), Master of the Rolls, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• The Rt. Hon. William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby, PC, QC, (OG 1848-49), Speaker of the House of Commons
• The Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Braddon KCMG, (OG 1843-44), Premier of Tasmania
• The Rt. Hon. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, PC, OM, [ (OG 1853-54), Secretary of State for India
• The Most Rev. Arthur Sweatman (OG 1848-50), Archbishop of Toronto and Primate of all Canada
• The Most Rev. E.G. Bagshawe (OG 1836-38), Archbishop of Selucia. Might have been Edward Gilpin Bagshawe in which case he was also RC Bishop of Nottingham.
• The Rt. Rev. Edward Steere (OG 1842-44), Bishop of Central Africa.
• The Very Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler (OG 1852-54), Chief Rabbi of UK
• Sir Julius Vogel KCM.G, Julius Vogel, (Chairman of Old Boys Dining Society 1877), two time Premier of New Zealand
• Sir Barrow Ellis KCSI,(OG 1883-37), Member of Governor-General's Council and of the Council of India
• J.G. Greenwood, (OG1835-37) Principal of Owens College, Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University (UK) and possibly founded it
• Sir John Heathcote-Amory, Bart (of Tiverton)(OG 1843-45), Textile Baron, builder of Knightshayes Court
• The Rt. Hon. Lord Romilly, (OG 1843-50), There seems to be some confusion in Internet sources. He may have had something to do with the 1867 Reform Act.
• The Rt. Hon. Lord Burnham, Baron Burnham (OG 1847-50), Principal proprietor of The Daily Telegraph
• The Rt. Hon. J.W. Mellor KC, MP (OG 1844-51), Chairman of Committees, House of Commons
• Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bart. (OG 1847-52), Professor at University College London. There is to this day a Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at UCL, and the main hall at UCS is officially known as the Durning-Lawrence Hall.
• The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Charles,PC, (OG 1848-54), Judge of the High Court
• William Frend De Morgan (OG 1849-55), may or may not be William De Morgan, possibly not because his entry in the register says he was a novelist.
• Edwin Waterhouse (OG 1855-57), President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and very probably the Waterhouse in PricewaterhouseCoopers, the largest professional services firm in the world
• The Rt. Hon. Lord Wandsworth Sydney Stern, 1st Baron Wandsworth, (OG 1857-58), MP and banker, left much of his estate for the founding of an orphanage, but instead the trustees founded Lord Wandsworth College.
• Sir G.C.T. Bartley (OG 1852-59), MP
• Sir Edward Henry Busk, MA, LL.B (OG 1852-59), Vice-Chancellor of the University of London
• Augustus Pulszky LL.D (OG 1858-60), Professor of Law, University of Buda-Pesth
• Numa E. Hartog (OG 1857-61), First Jewish Senior Wrangler, prominent figure in the movement to remove Jewish disabilities. His evidence before a committee of the House of Lords helped considerably to secure the passing of the Universities Tests Act in 1871.
• Sir Boverton Redwood, 1st Baronet Boverton (OG 1857-61), Prominent chemist and petroleum expert, co-founded the B & R Redwood consulting practice. He also co-founded, and became the first President of, the Institution of Petroleum Technologists, now known as the Institute of Petroleum, in 1913. He was instrumental in persuading the Royal Navy to change from coal fired ships to oil fired ones.
• Gottfried Kinkel (OG 1859-62), Professor of Greek, University of Zurich. May be a relation of Gottfried Kinkel
• Admiral Sir Percy Scott, Bart., KCB. (OG 1865-66), Often regarded in the Royal Navy as "the father of modern gunnery". Scott was also instrumental in developing other equipment for the fleet such as the masthead flashing lamp (and possibly the masthead semaphore) and the shutter "for the emission of signs" to put on the searchlights so they could be used to send Morse Code. He was Military Commandant of Durban when martial law was declared during the Boer War. In a controversial letter to the Times he foresaw the vulnerability of battleships to new technology such as submarines. He was made Head of the anti-submarine department of the Admiralty months into the First World War. He is one of three Naval officers who (working independently) are credited with the development of depth charges. [1], [2], [3]
• Professor Edward Adolf Sonnenschein, Litt.D. (OG 1867-68), Philologist, Professor of Classics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the University of Birmingham
• Sir David Brynmor Jones, PC, QC, MP (OG 1862-69), writer of parliamentary reports.
• Sir C.A. Russell QC, (OG 1862-71), was probably Charles Russell QC who defended at least one of the three social campaigners in the famous case of Eliza Armstrong (1885): social campaigners proved the existence of under age prostitution by "buying a girl", they were then prosecuted
• Dr Alexander Hill MA, MD, FRCS (OG 1870-72), Master of Downing College, Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1897-99).
• Lt.-General Sir Robert I. Scallon KCB, KCI.E., DSO (OG 1869-73)
• Sir Wilfred Collett KCMG (OG 1870-73), Governor of British Guiana 1914-1918
• Justin H. McCarthy MP (OG 1871-73), Member of Parliament and author and possibly son of Justin McCarthy
• Lucas Barrett, English Geologist and naturalist.
• The Rt. Rev. J.E. Hine DD, MD (OG 1870-74), Bishop of Zanzibar, Archdeacon of Lincoln
• Professor F.C. Montague MA (OG 1871-74), Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Historian
• H. Clarence Bourne CMG (OG 1872-75), Colonial Secretary of Jamaica
• Sir William Job Collins KCVO, MD, MS, FRCS, MP (OG 1869-76), Member of Parliament, Chairman of L.C.C, Surgeon, two term Vice-Chancellor of the University of London (1907-9, 1911-12).
• Sir A.G. Bourne KCI.E., FRS (OG 1872-76), Director of the Indian Institute of Science
• Marion Harry Spielmann (OG 1872-66), Historian of "Punch", influential editor of 'The Magazine of Art'.
• Maurice Greiffenhagen RA (OG 1872-76), Artist
• Professor S.J. Hickson FRS (OG 1873-76), Victoria University
• Professor D.S. MacColl (OG 1873-76), Keeper of the Wallace Collection
• Sir W.S. Meyer GCIE, KCSI. (OG 1873-76), Member of the Governor-General's Council, First High Commissioner for India
• Leonard Huxley LL.D. (OG 1872-77), Editor of "The Cornhill Magazine"
• Professor W.D. Halliburton MD, FRS (OG1872-77), Professor of Physiology, King's College London
• Sir Theodore Morison KCSI, KCI.E., CBE. (OG 1874-77), Member of the Council of India, Principal of Armstrong College
• Sir E.W. Moir Bart. (OG 1875-77), Engineer
• André Chevrillon (OG 1876-77), member of the French Academy
• Sir Edward Manville M.Inst.E.E., (OG 1874-78), Chairman of the Imperial Council of Commerce
• Robert Anning Bell RA (OG 1876-78), Important painter and illustrator
• Percy Flemming MD, FRCS (OG 1872-79), Professor of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital
• Sir Arthur Everett Shipley FRS (OG 1877-79), Master of Christ's College, Cambridge 1910-1927, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1917-1919.
• Arthur Berry (OG 1877-79), Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge
• Sir Walter Raleigh (OG 1877-79), Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
• Sir Philip J Hartog KBE, CIE (OG 1874-80), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dacca
• Sir John Rose Bradford Bart., KCMG, MD, D.Sc., FRS (OG 1875-80), President of the Royal College of Physicians
• Sir W. Phené Neal (OG 1876-80), Lord Mayor of London 1930-31
• Walter Ashburner DCL (OG 1877-80), Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
• H. W. Halton (OG 1877-80), Vice-President Court of Appeal, President Mixed Tribunal, Cairo
• Sir Joseph Duveen, Bart, later Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen of Millbank (OG 1877-80), One of the most influential art dealers of all time and a philanthropist
• Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Hill, KCB, KCMG, CVO, FRCS, (OG 1871-81), Director-General of the Admiralty Medical Department, Hon. Surgeon to H.M. the King
• Sir Harry Haward (OG 1877-81), Controller of the L.C.C., Electricity Commissioner
• Maj.-Gen Sir T. Fraser KCB, CSI, CMG (OG 1876-82)
• Professor O. K. Williamson MA, MB (OG 1876-82), University of Witwatersrand
• Maj.-Gen. Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, sometimes spelled Ernst Dunlop Swinton KBE, CB, DSO (OG 1878-83), On outbreak of World War One became, Assistant Secretary (Military), Committee of Imperial Defence and War Cabinet. Directed the creation of the first successful Tank in 1916, (he is sometimes referred to as the "originator" of the tank see Landships Committee for reason), later Chichele Professor of Military History, University of Oxford.
• Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Grandy GCB GCVO KBE DSO KStJ, Chief of the Air Staff from 11 April 1967 to 31 March 1971.