St Edward's School, Oxford - Alumni (OSE)

Alumni (OSE)

See also: Category:People educated at St Edward's School, Oxford

Former pupils of St. Edward's are known as OSE. The St. Edward's Society exists to maintain traditions and to promote the interests of the School, and to encourage mutual help between those who are and those who have been its members. It consists of past and present Wardens and members of the Masters' Common Room and all former pupils.

The society is run by a President and Secretary. Each year a new OSE President is elected. The OSE Society organise Special Gaudies for former pupils. Special Gaudies are held twice a year and are used as a means for former pupils to visit the school and see what has changed. The OSE Society also runs the very successful "OSE Undergraduate Evenings"; these evenings take place in notable university cities throughout the year, hosted by the Hon. Secretary.

All members of the society may wear the society tie which is blue, with a gold cup and dagger on it. Former pupils are entitled to wear the Rhubarb Tie.

Notable OSE include:

• Group Captain, Sir Douglas Bader, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar WWII pilot
• Arthur Banks, WWII pilot awarded GC
• Antony Barrington Brown, photographer and explorer
• Sir Russell Bencraft, cricketer
• Pippa Bennett-Warner, actress
• John Berger, art critic, novelist, painter, and author
• Richard Brooke, cricketer
• Nicholas Budgen, Conservative MP
• Sir Harold Burrough, British Admiral
• Sir Geoffrey Callender, naval historian
• Peter Carter-Ruck, lawyer
• Emilia Clarke, actress
• Brian Cleeve, author and broadcaster
• John Davies, businessman and cabinet minister
• Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, DSO, OBE and CBE, founder of de Havilland Aircraft Company.
• George Fenton, Oscar nominated film composer
• Anthony FitzClarence, 7th Earl of Munster
• James Forrester, England rugby union international
• Paul Gibb, England Test cricketer
• Guy Gibson VC, Dambusters hero,
• Robert Gittings CBE, poet and biographer
• Jon Goodridge, rugby player
• John Galbraith Graham, crossword compiler (Araucaria)
• Kenneth Grahame, author
• Ernest George Henham, author
• Sir Tom Hopkinson, journalist
• Noel Baring Hudson, DSO, MC Anglican Bishop
• Sir David Lewis, Lord Mayor of the City of London
• James Lockyer, Canadian lawyer and social activist
• Rob Marris Labour MP
• Norman Miscampbell, Conservative MP
• Georgia Moffett, actress
• Simon Nicholls, BBC comedy producer
• Lord (Laurence) Olivier, actor, director and producer
• Sir Derek Oulton, QC
• Hugh Padgham, record producer
• Tom Pellereau, Apprentice winner
• Sir Nicholas Pumfrey, judge
• Georgina Rylance, actress
• Lord (Michael) Sandberg, former CEO of HSBC Group
• Jon Snow, Channel 4 newscaster
• Harmeet Sooden, political activist
• Gordon Strachan (minister), unorthodox minister
• Louis Strange, DSO OBE MC DFC WW1 pilot
• Sir David Thorne (British Army officer), KBE CVO
• Sir Brian Tovey, former Director of GCHQ
• Sir Stephen Tumin, judge
• Sam Waley-Cohen, Cheltenham Gold Cup winning jockey
• William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire
• Adrian Warburton, DSO and Bar, DFC and Two Bars, highly decorated World War II British pilot
• Sir Francis James Wylie, first Warden of Rhodes House
• Teddy Wynyard, DSO, OBE cricketer and footballer