Bishop Wordsworth's School - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

See also: Category:People educated at Bishop Wordsworth's School

The "Old Wordsworthian" AGM and lunch is traditionally held after the Cathedral service and Founder's Day celebrations in July. Notable alumni include:

Military

  • Lieutenant Colonel Walter Edward Maxfield DSO, 1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, CEF
  • Colonel WST Douglas, OBE, Royal Engineers
  • Lieutenant Colonel Ian Blower MBE, Royal Corps of Signals
  • Lieutenant Colonel Tom Adlam, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Victoria Cross recipient
  • Lieutenant Colonel George Woolnough MC, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
  • Captain Chris Moon MBE, Royal Anglian Regiment
  • Lieutenant Richard Crisp, Special Air Service Regiment, executed by enemy forces during SAS/SOE Operation Bulbasket
  • Flight Sergeant F N Robertson, DFM, No 261 Sqn Hurricane fighter ace with 11th most kills of any Commonwealth pilot in World War II

Sports

  • David Egerton, England XV rugby international player
  • Richard Hill, England national rugby union team|England XV rugby international player/captain/winner RWC 2003 (flanker)
  • Richard Hill, England national rugby union team|England XV rugby international player/captain (scrum half)
  • John Shaw, England XI hockey captain and Olympian
  • Tom Heathcote, Bath Rugby Fly Half
  • Jonathan Copp (1969-1977) England and Great Britain Olympic hockey squad coach


Business

  • Colin Sharman, Lord Sharman of Redlynch, Chairman of KPMG International and Chairman of the Aegis Group since 2000

Arts

  • Ralph Fiennes, actor
  • Major Anthony Robert Klitz, Middlesex Regiment, artist
  • Hamish Milne, concert pianist and professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music
  • David Oakes, actor
  • Otto Plaschkes, movie producer
  • Andy Sheppard, jazz musician
  • Nigel Shore, principal oboist with the Komische Oper Berlin
  • Peter Thursby, sculptor

Education

  • Prof. Basil Chubb MA (Oxon), professor of Irish history at Trinity College Dublin, author, and interned during the Second World War in Stalag Luft III
  • Prof. Andrew Copp, neurobiologist
  • Prof. Andrew Hattersley, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Peninsula Medical School

Legal

  • Ken Macdonald, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, QC, former Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales and former head of the Crown Prosecution Service

Religious

  • Mervyn Alexander, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton from 1974 to 2001
  • Very. Rev Major Wilfred Frank Curtis, AKC, Royal Artillery. Eminent Anglican priest and member of the Church of England General Synod.

Other

  • Sir Cecil Chubb, Last private owner of Stonehenge
  • Andrew Harvey, BBC Newsreader
  • Anthony Hayward, journalist and author
  • Sir Frank Noyce CBE, member of the Indian Governor-General's Executive Council 1932-1937 and senior Indian civil servant.>
  • Sir Graham Smith, HM Chief Inspector of Probation from 1992 to 2001

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