Bedford Modern School - Notable Old Bedford Modernians

Notable Old Bedford Modernians

See also: Category:People educated at Bedford Modern School
  • Francis Penrose (1817–1903), Surveyor of St Paul's Cathedral, 1852–, architect, archaeologist and astronomer
  • James Howard (1821–1889), agriculturalist and member of parliament
  • Sir William Augustus Tilden (1842–1926), Chemist & Dean, Royal College of Science, London (1905–1909)
  • John Holland Rose (1855–1942), Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval History, University of Cambridge, 1919–1933
  • Sir George Herbert Farrar (1859–1915), South African mining magnate, politician and soldier
  • W. H. D. Rouse (1863–1950), schoolmaster and classicist
  • E. D. Morel (1873–1924), journalist and activist
  • Aeneas Mackintosh (1879–1916), Antarctic explorer, commander of the Ross Sea party expedition
  • Edgar Mobbs (1882–1917), rugby union player
  • Gillie Potter (1887–1975), comedian and broadcaster
  • Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935), politician, playwright & screenwriter
  • Basil Rogers (1896–1975), cricketer
  • Sir Charles Oatley (1904–1996), Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge, 1960–1971, and developer of the first scanning electron microscope
  • Captain Dick Howe (born 1916?), Escape Officer Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle) 1942–1945
  • Peter Grimes (1905–1988), Director, London Museum, 1945–1956, and Director, Institute of Archaeology and Professor of Archaeology, University of London, 1956–1973
  • Sir Bill Johnson (1906–1988), General Manager, Eastern Region, British Railways, 1958–1962, and London Midland Region, British Railways, 1962–1967, and Chairman, British Railways Board, 1968–1971
  • Derick Emmison (1907–1995), County Archivist of Essex, 1938–1969
  • Christopher Fry (1907–2005), playwright
  • Sir Arthur Mooring (1908–1969), British Resident in Zanzibar, 1959–1963
  • George Matthews (1917–2005), leading communist and editor of the Daily Worker/Morning Star from 1959–1974
  • Ian Mantle (1920–2010), engineer and rally driver
  • Bob Gale (born 1933), Middlesex cricketer
  • Sir Keith Speed (born 1934), politician
  • Russell Ash (born 1946), author of Top 10 of Everything, etc.
  • Professor Sir Peter Knight, professor of Quantum Optics and Principal of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College.
  • Patrick Hall (born 1951), MP for Bedford and Kempston from 1997 to 2010
  • John Sessions (born 1953), comedian and broadcaster
  • Lionel Weston (born 1954), England Rugby Union scrum half
  • Dr Harry Brünjes (born 1954), Chairman of Premier Medical Group, Chairman Lancing College, former Governor BMS
  • Nick Hawkins, former MP for Blackpool South and Surrey Heath
  • Andy Gilchrist (born 1960), former head of the FBU (Fire Brigades Union)
  • Toby Litt (born 1968), novelist and short story writer
  • Tim Foster (born 1970), Olympic Gold Medallist rower
  • Ben Anderson (born 1975), television reporter and writer
  • Christian Coulson (born 1978), actor
  • Monty Panesar (born 1982), England cricketer
  • Eric Temple Bell, Mathematician and science fiction author
  • Richard Fuller, Conservative MP for Bedford and Kempston 2010 -
  • Jeremy Irvine, actor (War Horse, Now Is Good, Great Expectations, The Railway Man)
  • Toby Irvine, child actor (Great Expectations) (currently attending)
  • Dr Roger Anderson, Deputy Head of Department and Director of Studies, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Sheffield
  • Daniel and Reuben Priddy, musicians (Members of 'ManneQuin', Writers and Producers for 'Jedward')

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