Bridgnorth Endowed School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also: Category:People educated at Bridgnorth Endowed School

Former pupils are known as 'Old Bridgnorthians'.

• Ross Antony (1974-), singer.
• Dr Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808), physician and scientific writer.
• Professor Peter Bullock (1937–2008), Nobel Prize winning soil scientist.
• Rev. Robert William Eyton (1815–1881), Rector of Ryton and author of The Antiquities of Shropshire (1853–60).
• Bishop James Fraser (1818–1885), reforming Bishop of Manchester.
• Sir John Josiah Guest, 1st Baronet, MP (1785–1852), engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament.
• Sir Cedric Hardwicke, KBE (1893–1964), Hollywood and stage actor.
• Lord Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen of Lingen (1819–1905), permanent secretary of the treasury.
• Dr William Macmichael (1783–1839), physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane (1827).
• Rev. Osborne Gordon (1813–83), influential Oxford don.
• John Mason (1920–2009), Librarian of Christ Church, Oxford.
• Bishop Thomas Percy (1729–1811), Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765).
• Max Rafferty (1983-), guitarist.
• Henry John Roby, MP (1830–1915), classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament.
• Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse (1829–1921), inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester. (born Francis Henry Coldwell)
• General Sir Charles Warren GCMG, KCB, FRS (1840–1927), Metropolitan Police Commissioner during the Jack the Ripper murders.
• Cyril Washbrook, CBE (1914–1999), cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.