Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys - Notable Old Boys

Notable Old Boys

See also Category:People educated at Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys

  • Martin Amis (1949-) - British novelist
  • Roger Glover Musician, Deep Purple
  • Paul Bailey, writer
  • John Balchin, General Manager from 1969-76 of Stevenage Development Corporation
  • Peter Black, Chairman from 1973-8 of the Thames Water Authority, and had a role on the development of the Thames Barrier
  • Allan Brown, organist and Professor from 1931-64 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
  • Clifford Chapman - Dean of Exeter
  • Francis Cole (1872–1959) - British zoologist
  • Thomas Drakeley CBE, Principal from 1932–55 and from 1958-61 of the Northern Polytechnic, and Director from 1948-55 of the National College of Rubber Technology
  • Prof Marcel Escudier, Harrison Professor of Mechanical Engineering from 1989-2008 at the University of Liverpool
  • Brigadier Sir Lionel Harris CBE, Engineer-in-Chief from 1954-60 of the GPO, worked on early teleprinters in the 1930s resulting of a forerunner of the telex system in 1937, and Chief of Telecommunications from 1943-5 at SHAEF
  • Prof Geoffrey Haselden, Brotherton Professor of Chemical Engineering from 1960-86 at the University of Leeds
  • Melvyn Hayes (1935-) - British actor
  • Basil Hone, cartoonist for the Peterborough column in the Daily Telegraph
  • Maj-Gen Mervyn Janes CB MBE, Colonel Commandant from 1973-81 of the Royal Artillery
  • Fred Landeg CBE, Chief Veterinary Officer from 2007-8
  • John Nichols, Director from 1976-9 of the National Maritime Institute in Feltham
  • Prof David Phillips, Professor of Comparative Education since 2000 at the University of Oxford
  • Albert Samuels, Chairman from 1958-9 of London County Council
  • E.R. Thompson OBE, the BBC's first parliamentary correspondent
  • Michael Webb OBE, Director-General from 1996-9 of the St John Ambulance in England
  • Stanley Whitehead (physicist) (1902–56) - British physicist
  • Walter Wooldridge CBE, President from 1954-5 of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

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