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The individuals listed are classified by decade or century of birth, with a note of how each distinguished himself. Those who won military medals are listed at the foot of the page; six Old Wykehamists have won Britain's highest military award, the Victoria Cross.
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Among the Old Wykehamists listed here are four archbishops, including one of the school's earliest pupils, Henry Chichele; four field marshals; commanders of both Fighter Command and Bomber Command during the Second World War — Hugh Dowding and Charles Portal, respectively; and two Viceroys of India, Archibald Wavell and Frederic Thesiger.
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Former pupils of Winchester College are known as Old Wykehamists, in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. They include the following individuals, classified by century of birth, with a note of how each distinguished himself.
Lists of Old Wykehamists who won medals, and characters in fiction are included at the foot of the page. See also The Category for Old Wykehamists.
•Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury[lower-alpha 1]
•Thomas Beckington, statesman
•Thomas Chaundler, playwright and illustrator
•Richard Pace, diplomat
•William Horman, translator
•William Grocyn, scholar
•William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury
•Hugh Inge, Archbishop of Dublin
•Henry Cole, Roman Catholic priest
•Nicholas Udall, Headmaster of Eton and playwright
•Henry Garnett, Jesuit plotter
•John White, Bishop
•Nicholas Harpsfield, Roman Catholic apologist
•Richard Reade, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
•Nathaniel Fiennes, Roundhead politician
•Thomas Ken, bishop, non-juror and hymnwriter
•Francis Turner, bishop and non-juror
•Thomas Otway, dramatist
•Sir Thomas Browne, doctor, polymath, scholar, prose stylist
•Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and author
•Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, Hebraist and English grammarian
•William Whitehead, Poet Laureate
•William Collins, poet
•Joseph Warton, literary critic and Headmaster of Winchester
•William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, famed rake and gambler
•Thomas Warton, Poet Laureate
1800–1819
•William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, Lord Chancellor •George Moberly, Headmaster of Winchester, later Bishop of Salisbury •Richard Clarke Sewell, lawyer •William Sewell, divine and author •Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln •Thomas Adolphus Trollope, author, brother of Anthony Trollope •James Edwards Sewell, Warden of New College, Oxford. •Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, statesman •William George Ward, prominent in the Oxford Movement •Thomas Oliphant musician and lyricist •William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, Liberal politician •Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne •Henry Maister, cricketer •Anthony Trollope, author
1820–1839
•Matthew Arnold, poet •George Bruce Malleson, author •Frank Buckland, naturalist •Joseph Birley, cricketer •James Dewar, cricketer and decorated Crimean War soldier •George Ridding, Headmaster of Winchester, later Bishop of Southwell •Henry Furneaux •William Tuckwell, Christian socialist clergyman and author of Reminiscences of Oxford •Samuel Rawson Gardiner, historian •Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons, 1st Viscount and Earl Lyons, diplomat •Philip Lutley Sclater, lawyer, ornithologist (founder of Ibis), zoogeographer, Secretary of the ZSL for 42 years •Sir Ford North, Judge of the High Court of Justice and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council •Ashley Eden, Colonial Administrator •Cecil Fiennes, cricketer •George Bennett, cricketer •Philip Reginald Egerton, founder of Bloxham School •Arthur Faber, cricketer and headmaster of Malvern College •Wingfield Fiennes, cricketer
1840–1859
•John Copleston, cricketer •Herbert Stewart, soldier •Robert Campbell Moberly, theologian •Samuel Rolles Driver, Biblical scholar •Thomas Hughes, footballer who won the FA Cup twice in the 1870s •William Lindsay (1847–1923), England footballer and three times FA Cup winner •Leonard Howell (1848–1895), Wanderers and England footballer •Charles Marriott (1848–1918), cricketer and barrister •Francis Birley (1850–1910), footballer who won the FA Cup three times in the 1870s •Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, politician •Rawdon Briggs, cricketer •John Bain (1854–1929), England footballer and 1877 FA Cup Finalist •Robert Campbell Moberly, academic •David Samuel Margoliouth, orientalist •William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, Lord Chancellor •Percival Parr, footballer and barrister
1900–1909
•Douglas Jardine, cricketer[160] •John Firth, cricketer, clergyman and schoolmaster[173] •David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, politician[174] •Cecil Harmsworth King, newspaper publisher[175] •Mark Patten, Scottish cricketer •Lancelot Joynson-Hicks, 3rd Viscount Brentford, politician[176][177] •Claude Ashton, Essex cricketer and England footballer[160] •Anthony Asquith, film director[178] •E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist, author of Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande[179] •Francis Festing, Field Marshal[180] •Nowell Myres, archaeologist[181] •John Dring, Prime Minister of Bahawalpur[182] •George D'Oyly Snow, headmaster of Ardingly College and Bishop of Whitby[183] •Charles Bosanquet, Academic[184] •Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, writer[185] •John Snagge, World War II BBC announcer[186] •William Goodenough Hayter, diplomat, ambassador and Warden of New College, Oxford[187] •Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, ambassador[188] •Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes, archaeologist[181] •Charles Awdry, cricketer, British Army officer, High Sheriff of Wiltshire[189] •Gerry Fiennes, railway manager[190] •Edward Younger, 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie, Brewer[191] •John Sparrow, literary critic and Warden of All Souls[192] •William Empson, literary critic[193] •Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour Party •Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, Law Lord[194] •Richard Crossman, Labour politician and diarist[195] •Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, Labour politician[196] •Kenneth Younger, Labour MP[197] •Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator of Proust[198] •Edward Williams, army officer, cricketer[199] •Sir Basil Goulding, 3rd Baronet, sportsman and art collector[200] •Evelyn Shuckburgh, diplomat[201] •Douglas Dodds-Parker, soldier and politician[202]
1910–1919
•Patrick Brett, cricketer[203] •Nicholas Monsarrat, naval officer, diplomat and author of The Cruel Sea[204] •Thomas Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder, publisher.[205] •Sir John Stephenson, Lord Justice of Appeal[206] •Roger Tredgold, fencer and psychiatrist[207] •Ralph George Scott Bankes, barrister and Diocesan Chancellor[208] •John Darwall-Smith, cricketer[209] •Sir John Pringle, zoologist[210] •Bruce Campbell, ornithologist, writer and broadcaster[211] •Charles Madge, poet and Communist[212] •Basil William Robinson, Asian art scholar and author[213] •Gilbert White, soldier and cricketer[214] •Roger Winlaw, Cambridge University and Surrey cricketer[215] •Basil Martin Wright, inventor of the Peak flow meter[216] •Christopher Dilke, writer[217][218] •Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington, President of Trinity College, Oxford and originator of the Norrington Table[219] •Shaun Wylie, mathematician and World War II Enigma and Tunny codebreaker[220] •Robert Irving, conductor[124] •Richard Synge, Nobel prize winning biochemist[221][222] •Lord Aldington, politician and businessman[223] •Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, government minister[224] •John Grover, cricketer[225] •Kenneth Clark, art historian and broadcaster[226] •John Drennan Eggar, schoolmaster and cricketer[227] •Colin Clark, economist and statistician[228] •Archibald Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, soldier[131] •Robert Conquest, historian specialising in Joseph Stalin's purges[229] •Monty Woodhouse, Philhellene and politician[230] •Julian Faber, businessman[231] •Sir Derrick Bailey, businessman, cricketer[232] •James Joll, historian[233] •Willie Whitelaw, politician[234] •George Jellicoe, aka Viscount Brocas, soldier-statesman, businessman-diplomat[235] •M. R. D. Foot, historian[236] •Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, Conservative politician[135] •Rev George Snow, Bishop and educator[237][238]
1920–1929
•Lord Brandon, Law Lord[239] •Frank Thompson, SOE officer[240] •Anthony Storr, psychiatrist and author[241] •John Latham, artist[242] •Horace Barlow, neuroscientist[243][244] •Tony Pawson, cricketer[245] •Paul Britten Austin, translator of Swedish literature[246] •Peter Fowler, physicist working on elementary particles[247] •Hugh Beach, soldier, researcher into disarmament and ethics of war[248] •Freeman Dyson, physicist and mathematician •H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist[249] •Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher and academic[250] •Michael Carver, Baron Carver, soldier and philosopher[251] •Sir James Lighthill, applied mathematician working on fluid dynamics[252][253] •Daniel Awdry, politician[254] •Michael Gow, General[255] •D. G. Champernowne, economist and mathematician[256][257][258] •Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, mathematician and oceanographer[259] •Hubert Doggart cricketer and schoolmaster[260] •Michael Dummett, philosopher[261] •Sir John Balcombe, High Court judge[262] •Geoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon, politician[263] •Alan Hopkins, Conservative MP[264] •Ian Macdonald, mathematician[265] •Martin Beale, applied mathematician and statistician[266] •David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, politician and businessman[267] •Sir Jeremy Morse, banker and university chancellor[268] •Mark Bonham Carter, publisher and politician[269] •John Lucas, philosopher[270] •Raymond Bonham Carter, banker[271] •Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, politician[272]
Six Old Wykehamists have won the Victoria Cross (VC), four in the First World War, 1914–18 (of whom three were killed in action) and two prior to 1914. Also in the Second World War one Old Wykehamist won the George Cross in military circumstances and another Old Wykehamist won the George Medal in military circumstances.
•Victoria Cross
•Indian Mutiny
•Lieutenant Alfred Spencer Heathcote VC (1832–1912) for his conduct during the Siege of Delhi[376]
•Boer War
•Lieutenant Gustavus Hamilton Blenkinsopp Coulson VC DSO (1879–1901)[377]
Current pupils of Winchester College are known as Wykehamists, in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham; former pupils are known as Old Wykehamists, or amongst themselves as Old Woks. Fictional Old Wykehamists appear in over 50 novels, starting with Tobias Smollett 's eponymous Peregrine Pickle in 1751.
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Old Wykehamists are former pupils of Winchester College, so called in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. He was Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school and a university college, New College, Oxford, in 1382; both of them were set up to provide an education for 70 scholars. Winchester College ...
