Cowbridge Grammar School - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

See also: Category:People educated at Cowbridge Grammar School

The following old boys are listed in date order

  • Evan Seys (1604–1685) — Attorney general to Cromwell; MP for Glamorgan and Gloucester; Recorder of Gloucester; Exclusionist and Proto-Whig
  • Sir Leoline Jenkins (1625–1685) — Secretary of State to Charles II; MP for Hythe and for the University of Oxford; Judge of the High Court of the Admiralty; second founder of the school; Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
  • John Pettingall (1707/8–1781) — Antiquarian and clergyman
  • David Durell (1728–1775) — Old Testament Scholar; Principal of Hertford College, Oxford; Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
  • George Cadogan Morgan (1754–1798) — Scientific writer (notably on Electricity); republican and dissenting minister
  • Sir John Nicholl (1759–1838) — Lawyer and politician: Tory MP, Privy Councillor, King's Advocate, Dean of the Arches, Judge of the High Court of the Admiralty
  • Sir William Nott (1782–1845) — General for the East India Company; Commander in the first Afghan War 1838-42; Resident at Lucknow
  • Evan Evans (1813–1891) — Master of Pembroke College; Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
  • William Thomas (Islwyn) (1832–1878) — Methodist minister and Bard (Welsh-language poet)
  • Sir Lewis Morris (1833–1907) — Writer and poet; a founder of the University of Wales; radical Liberal
  • Edward Treharne (1862–1904) — Pioneering Welsh rugby international and medical man
  • Sir (William John) Andrew Jones (1889–1971) — Colonial administrator (Chief administrator of Northern Territories, Gold Coast)
  • Glanville Williams (1911–1997) — Professor of English Law at Cambridge
  • Alun Lewis (1915–1944) — Poet and soldier
  • Sir Idwal Pugh (1918–2010) — Second Permanent Secretary at Department of the Environment; Ombudsman; Director & Chairman of banks and building societies
  • Sir Thomas Philip Jones (1931–2000) — Deputy Secretary at Department of Energy; Chairman of the Electricity Council; Company Director
  • Keith Rowlands (1936–2006) — Welsh rugby international; First Chief Executive Officer of the International Rugby Board
  • Richard Grassby (born 1936) — Historian
  • Sir Anthony Hopkins (born 1937) — Actor/filmstar
  • Patrick Hannan (1941–2009) — Journalist, author and presenter
  • William Tudor John (born 1944) — Deputy Chairman of Nationwide Building Society since 2007; Chairman of Lehman Brothers (Europe) 2000–2008
  • David Richard Hughes (born 1951) — Newspaper executive and chief leader writer, Daily Telegraph

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