List of Old Brightonians - Academic, Education & Literary

Academic, Education & Literary

• Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), socialist writer and campaigner for homosexual rights
• Robert H. Crabtree (born 1948), Organometallic Chemist, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Yale University, creator of Crabtree's catalyst
• Rodney Fox (born 1942), school teacher, Headmaster King Edward's School, Witley, Chairman of the Governors of Ryde School, Isle of Wight
• Andrew Gamble (born 1947), Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield and then University of Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy
• Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862–1934), Egyptologist and pioneer of Nubian archaeology, first Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford
• Sir Richard Jolly (born 1934), development economist, Assistant Secretary-General United Nations, Director Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex 1972–81
• Ewart Mackintosh (1893–1917), First World War poet, MC
• Michael Roberts (1908–1996), historian of Sweden, Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast, Fellow of the British Academy
• Sir Sydney Roberts (1887–1966), Dr Johnson scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Secretary of Cambridge University Press and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Chairman British Film Institute
• John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950), physician and Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge 1935–45, physician to King George V
• Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher and Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford, declined a knighthood in 1965
• Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), writer and poet
• Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky of Tilton (born 1939), Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, created a life peer (changed whip from SDP to Conservative to cross-bencher)
• Charles Stoneham (1895–?1967), big game hunter and then writer of adventure stories about Africa. The Lion's Way (1931) was filmed as King of the Jungle (1933)
• Leonard Strong (1896–1958), writer and poet, Director of Methuen Ltd
• Geraint Wiggins (born 1962), Professor of Computational Creativity, Goldsmiths, University of London