Chigwell School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also: Category:People educated at Chigwell School

• Eric Bailey OBE, journalist, broadcaster and colonial administrator
• George Baker OBE CBE, High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea (1974–1977)
• Peter Beckingham, Ambassador to the Philippines since 2005
• Prof Sir John Boardman (born 1927), classical archaeologist
• Sir Michael Bonallack, golfer
• Prof Percy Brandon, Professor of Electrical Engineering from 1971-84 at the University of Cambridge
• Ken Campbell, actor
• Edward Caswall, classical scholar and writer of hymns, music master at Chigwell.
• Peter Collecott CMG, Ambassador to Brazil from 2004-8
• Richard Collins FRCS, Vice-President, Royal College of Surgeons 2010
• Tim Collins, Conservative politician, MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale from 1997–2005
• William Cotton, Governor of the Bank of England, who famously set fire to the Headmaster’s garden.
• Sir Richard Dales CMG, former Ambassador to Norway from 1998–2002
• Paul Farmer (1961–68), former Headmaster of London comprehensive schools, including Dick Sheppard School; developed use of pop music in schools, including the first CSE examination in pop music
• Vice-Adm Sir Robert Gerken KCB CBE, Captain of the Fleet from 1978–81
• Sir Arthur Grimble, colonial governor
• Sir Austin Bradford Hill, pioneering medical researcher who discovered the link between smoking and cancer
• Steriker Hare, cricketer
• Sir Ian Holm, actor
• Anthony Hossack (1882–1886) England footballer of the 1890s.
• David Landsman OBE, Ambassador to Greece since 2009, and to Albania from 2001-3
• Prof David Matthews, Professor of Diabetes Medicine since 2002 at the University of Oxford
• William Penn, Quaker leader and founder of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States of America
• Sir David Pepper, Director of GCHQ from 2003-8
• Prof James B. Ramsey, Professor of Economics at New York University
• Timothy Rollinson, Director-General of the Forestry Commission since 2004, and President from 2000-2 of the Institute of Chartered Foresters
• Rt Rev Thomas Joseph Savage
• Ben Shephard, television presenter
• Horace Smith, poet
• Michael Marshall Smith, novelist
• Jordan Spence, footballer, West Ham 2010
• Rt Rev Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester since 1999
• Col Bob Stewart MP DSO
• Sir Edward Albert Stone, Chief Justice of Western Australia, 1901–06
• Michael Thomas, former Attorney General of Hong Kong
• Sir Colin Thornton-Kemsley, MP for Kincardine and Western Aberdeenshire from 1939–50 and North Angus and Mearns from 1950–64
• Colin Wilcockson, English scholar and Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke, Cambridge
• Sir Bernard Williams, philosopher and Provost of King's College, Cambridge
• Prof Nicholas Williams, scholar of the Irish and Cornish languages.
• Timothy Williams, crime novelist