Notable Former Pupils
See also: Category:People educated at Walthamstow Hall- Janet Kear, ornithologist
- Alice Allen was the first girl at Walthamstow Hall to gain a scholarship and went to Cardiff.
- Alice Hawker passed Senior Cambridge in Class 1 with distinctions in French and German and when she took Matriculation gained a special prize; later she was the first old scholar to take her M.B. and B.Sc. at the University of London, in preparation for work as a medical missionary in India, to which she devoted 38 years.
- Among other old scholars, Margaret Pearse obtained First Class Honours in all her Medical classes. She went on to become the Medical Superintendent of Canning Town Settlement. In 1887 another girl obtained a Scholarship to Girton.
- May Smith was the first girl to obtain the London B.A. degree.
- Jessie Hewlett dedicated her life to women and children in India and was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Silver Medal for valuable work during the famine years of 1896 and 1897.
- Dr Lillie Saville received the decoration of the Royal Red Cross in recognition of her services at the International Hospital during the siege of the Legations at Peking.
- Janine Gibson (1990 leaver) studied English Literature at St John's College, Oxford. She is currently G3 Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Media Guardian. In the past she has worked for The Independent newspaper as well as Broadcast and Televisual trade publications
- Rowan Pelling (1986 leaver) studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She worked as a columnist at GQ and The Independent on Sunday and was the Editor of The Erotic Review from 1997 - 2004. She was a Booker Prize Judge in 2004 and her work in journalism now includes TV documentaries. She is married and now has two children
- Dr Beverley J Hunt, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRCPath, MD (1974 leaver). Dr Hunt is Acting Co-Director of Pathology, Department of Haematology & Lupus Unit, Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation Trust. She is the Medical Director of 'Lifeblood' the thrombosis charity she helped set up in 2005. Her recommendations on the subject formed the basis of an All-Party Parliamentary Health Select Committee Report about the issues and challenges for the future of thrombosis research. She is also Head of Service for Laboratory Haematology and Molecular Diagnostics in the Departments of Haematology, Pathology and Rheumatology at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. She is an expert in the management of VTE (bleeding).
- Mrs Kathryn Colvin (1965 leaver)CVO, was Her Majesty's Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2001. She was Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Holy See 2001 to 2005
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