Old Greshamians - Public Life

Public Life

• James Allan - British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique
• Sir Eric Berthoud - British ambassador to Denmark and Poland
• Erskine Childers - President of Ireland
• Sir Stewart Crawford - diplomat
• Kenelm Hubert Digby (1912–2001), proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate and later Attorney General and judge in Sarawak
• Bernard Floud - Labour politician
• Sir Cecil Graves - Director-General of the BBC
• Thomas George Greenwell - National Conservative member of parliament
• Sir Christopher Heydon - 16th century member of parliament
• Paul Howell - Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk
• Donald Maclean - diplomat and spy
• 11th Earl of Northesk - parliamentarian
• Terence O'Brien - British ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia
• John Playfair Price, diplomat, a President of the Oxford Union
• Laurance Reed - Conservative politician
• Lord Reith - first Director-General of the BBC, politician
• Wilfrid Roberts - Liberal politician
• Christian Schiller - HM Inspector of Schools
• 11th Lord Strabolgi - Labour politician
• Dr Thomas Stuttaford - Conservative politician and journalist
• C. G. H. Simon (1914–2002), Income Tax General Commissioner
• Lord Simon of Glaisdale - Conservative politician and law lord
• Lord Simon of Wythenshawe - socialist and journalist
• Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp - Lord Justice of Appeal
• Sir William Royden Stuttaford - President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations
• Sir Gerald Thesiger - High Court Judge
• Sir John Tusa - Director of BBC World Service
• Lord Wilson of High Wray - governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria
• Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - governor of The Gambia