Bishop Gore School - Old Goreans

Old Goreans

See also: Category:People educated at Bishop Gore School

Notable Old Goreans have included:

  • Martin Amis, novelist and journalist
  • Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea, Labour MP for Swansea East 1974–2005
  • Gareth Armstrong, actor
  • George Bell CBE, Director of the Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Cambridge 1947–71
  • Timothy Beynon, President from 2000-4 of the British Dragonfly Society
  • Kenneth Bryn Thomas, anaesthetist
  • Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, Home Secretary 1868–73
  • Prof Sir John Cadogan CBE, Director General of Research Councils UK 1994-8, Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry 1969-79 at the University of Edinburgh, former BP executive, and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry 1982-4
  • Rt Rev Graham Chadwick, bishop and anti-apartheid campaigner
  • Ronald Cour, sculptor
  • Sir George Curtis CB, Chief Land Registrar at HM Land Registry 1947-63
  • Glyn Davies, Marxist-Leninist thinker and Socialist worker
  • David Dykes, Director of the National Museum of Wales 1986-9, and President of the British Numismatic Society 1999–2003
  • Prof Sir Sam Edwards (physicist) FRS, President of the Institute of Physics 1972-4, Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1985–90
  • Paul Ferris (author), journalist, novelist and biographer
  • Charles Fisher (poet), journalist
  • Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, physicist
  • John Ford CBE, Chief Executive of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, and the Driving Standards Agency 1993-2000
  • Dr Hywel Davies, cardiologist and author
  • Thomas George, Professor of Geology at the University of Glasgow 1947–74, President of the Geological Society of London 1968–70 and the Palaeontological Association 1962-4
  • Sir Alexander Gordon CBE, architect and President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 1971-3
  • Sir William Grove, chemist, barrister and judge
  • Rt Rev Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan
  • Prof John Howell CBE, Professor of Medicine at the University of Southampton 1969–91, and Dean of the Medical School 1978-83, and President of the British Thoracic Society 1988-9, and President of the British Medical Association 1989-90.
  • Alfred Janes, artist
  • Daniel Jones, composer
  • Ernest Jones, founder of British Psycho-Analytical Society, biographer of Sigmund Freud
  • John Jones, Professor of Economics from 1919-46 at the University of Leeds
  • Mervyn Jones, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands 2000-2
  • Peter Jones (broadcaster), BBC Sports Announcer
  • The Kardomah Gang, 1930s Swansea literary and cultural circle
  • Prof. Gail Kinman, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire
  • Timothy Knowles, Group Managing Director of HTV Group 1986-8
  • Sir Archie Lamb MBE CMG DFC, Ambassador to Kuwait 1974-7, and to Norway 1978–80
  • Mervyn Levy, artist and critic
  • Prof Patrick McGorry AO, Professor of Youth Mental Health University of Melbourne; 2010 Australian of the Year.
  • Prof Leonard Maunder OBE, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Newcastle University 1967-92
  • John Metcalf, composer
  • David Miles, chief UK economist at Morgan Stanley, author of the Miles Report for HM Treasury
  • Hugh David Morgan, philosopher, raconteur and wit
  • Sir Gwilym Morris CBE, Chief Constable of South Wales Constabulary (since 1996 known as South Wales Police) 1971-9
  • Sir Douglas Owen CB, Commissioner of HM Customs and Excise 1949–65
  • Prof Dewi Zephaniah Phillips - Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Swansea University and Claremont Graduate University California, author and minister
  • Colin Phipps, Labour MP for Dudley West 1974-9
  • Prof William Price, Wheatstone Professor of Physics at King's College London 1955-76
  • Sion Probert, actor
  • Prof Lewis Roberts CBE, President of the British Nuclear Energy Society 1985-7
  • Sir Melvyn Rosser, Chairman of HTV Group 1986–91 and
  • Dylan Thomas, poet, playwright and author
  • Prof Leslie Vaughan, Professor of Veterinary Surgery at the Royal Veterinary College 1974-91
  • Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, World War 2 war reporter, journalist, founder of HTV
  • Prof Dominic Welsh, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford 1992-2005
  • Prof. Rhys Williams, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Swansea University

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