List of Old Harrovians

As Old Harrovians is referred to the former students of the English Public School Harrow.

Famous former pupils of Harrow School are:

Members of royal families and kings

  • Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
  • King Faisal II of Iraq
  • Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
  • Prince Hassan bin Al Talal of Jordan
  • King Hussein of Jordan

Prime minister

  • Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Conservative Party
  • Sir Winston Churchill, Conservative Party
  • George Hamilton - Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Conservative Party
  • Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Preminierminister
  • Sir Robert Peel, Conservative Party
  • Spencer Perceval, Conservative Party
  • Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Conservative Party
  • Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, a Whig ( Liberal Party )

Other politicians

  • Sir John Milne Barbour, Finance Minister of Northern Ireland
  • Sir Thomas Buxton, Governor of South Australia
  • Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor of New South Wales
  • Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, Lord Chancellor
  • Robert Cunninghame Graham, co-founder of the Scottish National Party
  • Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Britain's ambassador at the United Nations ( UN)
  • Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India
  • Sir Stanley Jackson, Chairman of the Conservative Party of Great Britain
  • Robert Bulwer- Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India
  • William Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, Governor of New Zealand
  • Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, Governor General of Canada
  • John Dickson Poynder, 1st Baron Islington, Governor of New Zealand
  • John Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo, known for the Profumo affair
  • Francis Rawdon -Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, Governor-General of India
  • Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, Irish Ambassador to Portugal, Sweden, Turkey and Russia

Ecclesiastical dignitaries

  • Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster
  • Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania and the father of Field Marshal Archibald Montgomery Massingberd
  • John Ronald Angus Stroyan, Anglican Bishop of Warwick

Writers and journalists

  • Bernard Bosanquet, philosopher
  • Arthur Bryant, historian
  • George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, known as the poet Lord Byron
  • Charles Stuart Calverley, poet
  • Wilfred Rowland Childe, poet
  • Richard Curtis, screenwriter and director
  • Alain de Botton, writer
  • Julian Charles Fane, writer
  • John Galsworthy, author and Nobel Prize winner
  • Augustus Hare, writer
  • L. P. Hartley, author
  • Theodore Hook, writer
  • Gervase Jackson - Stops, art historian
  • Sir Arnold Lunn, writer
  • E. H. W. Meyer Stone writer
  • Simon Sebag - Montefiore, historian
  • Sir John Mortimer, writer
  • John Thomas Perceval, writer
  • Jason Pontin, editor
  • Bryan Procter, also known as " Barry Cornwall " friend of Keats
  • Sir Terence Rattigan, playwright
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright
  • William Sotheby, poet and translator
  • John Addington Symonds, poet and literary critic
  • G. M. Trevelyan, historian
  • R. C. Trevelyan, poet
  • Anthony Trollope, poet
  • Francis Wheen, author and journalist
  • Dornford Yates ( Cecil William Mercer ), writer

Artists

  • Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, artists
  • Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, Photographer
  • Alex Chamberlin, artist
  • Damian Elwes, artist
  • Simon Fujiwara, artists
  • Spencer Gore, artist
  • Sir Francis Grant, artist and president of the Royal Academy
  • Nicholas Hely Hutchinson, Artist
  • Eliot Hodgkin, artist
  • Jamie Lumley, Photographer
  • Victor Pasmore, artists
  • Lincoln Seligman, artists
  • Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, Photographer
  • William Fox Talbot, Photographer
  • James Donovan, Photographer

Actors and directors

Musician

  • Chris Blackwell, founder of Iceland Records
  • James Blunt
  • Mike d'Abo, vocalist of Manfred Mann
  • Simon Toulson - Clarke, Red Box
  • James Keen, lead singer of Magazine Gap
  • Dan Marshall, Grime / Hip -hop poet
  • Ian Parrott, composer
  • Sandy Wilson, composer

Scientist

Athlete

  • C. W. Alcock, founder of the FA Cup
  • Guy Butler, Olympic gold medalist
  • Spencer Gore, tennis player, the first Wimbledon champion
  • Douglas Robert Hadow, died during the first ascent of the Matterhorn
  • Patrick Francis Hadow, tennis player, Wimbledon champion
  • Sir William Hart Dyke, Racquets World Champion 1862
  • Reginald de Courtenay Welch, national football team

Entrepreneur

  • Thomas Baring of Barings Bank
  • Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, ' Governor' of the Bank of England
  • John Saunders Gilliat, ' Governor' of the Bank of England
  • Patrick Douglas Hadow, former chairman of P & O
  • Julian Metcalfe, founder of Pret a Manger
  • Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman of De Beers South African
  • Henry Yates Thompson, newspaper owner

Other former students

  • John Moore - Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, aviation pioneer
  • John Robert Godley, founder of Canterbury (New Zealand)
  • J. Bruce Ismay, director of the White Star Line
  • Richard Meinertzhagen, a British officer and ornithologist
  • Richard Gilbert Scott, architect
  • Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
  • Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher
  • Philip Vincent, motorcycle designer and producer. Founder of Vincent Motorcycles.
  • School in London
  • Landerziehungsheim
  • London Borough of Harrow
  • List ( Alumni )
Whigs (British political party) Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Randall Davidson Cardinal (Catholicism) Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher) Julian Fane (author) Simon Sebag Montefiore John Keats R. C. Trevelyan Cecil Beaton Spencer Gore (sportsman) Royal Academy of Arts Henry Fox Talbot Edward Fox (actor) Island Records Manfred Mann (musician) Red Box (band) Guy Butler (athlete) Frank Hadow Douglas Lowe (athlete) Canterbury (Region)
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