Summer Fields School - Notable Old Summerfieldians

Notable Old Summerfieldians

See also Category:People educated at Summer Fields School.

• Gubby Allen (1902–1989), cricketer
• Julian Amery (1919–1996), politician
• Anthony Asquith (1902–1968), film director
• Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone (1890–1954), judge
• General Sir Evelyn Barker (1894–1983)
• Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell (1884–1963), author and politician
• Prince Hassan bin Talal, the former crown prince of Jordan
• Tom Parker Bowles (1974-), writer on food
• Sir Edmund Brocklebank (1882–1949), politician
• Harold Caccia (1905–1990), diplomat
• Sir Olaf Caroe (1892–1981), colonial administrator
• Lawrence Clarke (1990- ) Olympic sprint hurdler. Came 4th in the Olympic 110m Hurdles, London 2012.
• Sir Gerard Clauson(1891–1974), civil servant and linguist
• Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke (1861–1939), politician
• Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson VC (1896–1917)
• William La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC (1891–1916)
• Clive Forster Cooper (1880–1947), paleontologist
• John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe (born 1927)
• George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope (1877–1955), politician
• Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank (1893–1961), politician
• Hugh Dalton, (1887–1962), politician
• David Faber, schoolmaster and author, formerly politician (Now Headmaster of Summer Fields)
• Dick Francis, jockey and novelist (who set one of his detective stories at Summer Fields)
• David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), landowner and father of the Mitford sisters
• Sir Selwyn Fremantle (1869–1942), colonial administrator
• Sir Fergus Graham, 5th Baronet (1893–1978), politician
• Julian Grenfell (1888–1915), poet
• Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham (1879–1955), colonial administrator
• Air Marshal Sir Reginald Harland (1920-)
• John G.W. Husted Jr., first fiancée of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Field Marshal Lord Inge, Chief of the General Staff
• David James (1919-1986), explorer, author, Member of Parliament, laird of Torosay Castle
• Homi Kharas (1954- ), economist
• Ronald Knox (1888–1957), theologian and writer
• Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey (1880–1971) Nuremberg trial judge
• Christopher Lee, actor
• Colin Hercules Mackenzie, (1898–1986) spymaster
• Sir Geoffrey Mander (1882–1962) industrialist and Liberal politician
• Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister (1894–1986)
• Sir Charles Montgomery (1876–1942) civil servant and diplomat
• Sir Roger Mynors Classical scholar (1903–1989)
• Adam Nicolson (1957- ) writer on English history, landscape and the sea
• General Sir Bernard Paget (1887–1961)
• Robert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington (1857–1918) judge
• Admiral Sir William Edward Parry (1893–1972)
• Victor Pasmore (1908–1998) artist and architect
• Geoffrey Peto (1878–1956) conservative politician
• Sir James Pitman (1901–1985) publisher
• John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud (1906–1982) civil servant and diplomat
• Arthur Rhys Davids DSO, MC with Bar, flying ace (1909–1911)
• Gavin Simonds, 1st Viscount Simonds (1881–1971) Judge
• Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie (1858–1936) Liberal politician
• George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland (1888–1963) Conservative politician
• Air Marshal Sir Bertine Sutton (1886–1946)
• Henry Usborne (1909–1996) Labour politician
• Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC, Commander of Imperial and Allied land forces in the Near East during World War II, penultimate Viceroy of India. The Summer Fields magazine once recorded that "Wavell mi. has done well in Africa".
• Sir Hubert Winthrop Young (1885–1950) soldier and diplomat