Bootham School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also: Category:People educated at Bootham School

Former pupils and teachers of Bootham School are known as Old Scholars.

• John Bright (1811–1889), Rochdale mill owner, Anti-Corn Law League leader, President of the Board of Trade, 1868–1870, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1873–1874, 1880–1882
• Sir Joseph Pease, 1st Baronet, (1828–1903), politician and industrialist.
• John Crosfield (1832–1901), chemical manufacturer
• Frederic Seebohm (1833–1912), banker and historian
• Joseph Rowntree (1836–1925), chocolate manufacturer
• John Wigham Richardson (1837–1908), shipbuilder
• Joshua Rowntree (1844–1915), politician and social reformer
• William Dent Priestman (1847–1936), mechanical engineer
• Silvanus P. Thompson (1851–1916), Professor of Physics, University College, Bristol, 1878–1885, and Principal and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Finsbury Technical College, 1885–1916
• John Theodore Cash (1854–1936), physician, pharmacologist, Regius Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen, 1886–1919
• Edward Grubb (1854–1939), pacifist and social reformer
• Francis Oliver (1864–1951), palaeobotanist, Quain Professor of Botany, University College, London, 1890–1929, and Professor of Botany, University of Cairo, 1929–1935
• John Wilhelm Rowntree (1868–1905), chocolate manufacturer and Quaker activist
• Sir George Newman (1870–1948), Chief Medical Officer to the Board of Education, 1907–1919, and Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health, 1919–1935
• Sir Alan Pim (1871–1958), administrator in India and adviser to the Colonial Office
• James Watson Corder (1868–1953). A historian best remembered for documenting family history in Sunderland.
• Seebohm Rowntree (1871–1954), chocolate manufacturer and sociologist
• Charles Hesterman Merz (1874–1940), electrical engineer
• Egbert Morland (1874–1955), physician, medical writer, and tuberculosis specialist
• Hilary Pepler (1878–1951), printer, puppeteer and social reformer
• Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953), mathematician, physicist, psychologist, and pacifist
• Sir George Pepler (1882–1959), town planner
• Alfred Joseph Clark (1885–1941), physician, and Professor of Pharmacology, University of Cape Town, 1918–1920, Professor of Pharmacology, University College, London, 1920–1926, and Professor of Materia Medica, University of Edinburgh, 1926–1941
• Horace Alexander (1889–1989), Quaker envoy and mediator
• Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889–1982), Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, 1947–1950, Minister of Fuel and Power, 1950–1951, and Nobel Peace Laureate
• Eric Holttum (1895–1990), Director, Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1925–1949, and Professor of Botany, University of Singapore, 1949–1954
• Richard Bevan Braithwaite (1900–1990), Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1953–1967
• Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson (1902–1988), Geneticist, Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, 1937–1957, and Draper's Professor of Agriculture, University of Cambridge, 1957–1969
• Thomas Maxwell Harris (1903–1983), palaeobotanist, and Professor of Botany, University of Reading, 1934–1968
• Sir Ashley Miles (1904–1988), Professor of Bacteriology, University College Hospital, London, 1937–1952, Deputy Director, National Institute for Medical Research, 1946–1952, Director, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, 1952–1971, and Professor of Experimental Pathology, University of London, 1952–1988
• A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), historian and left-wing campaigner
• Geoffrey Nuttall (1907–2007), British Congregational minister and church historian.
• Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), Professor of Medieval History, University of Liverpool, 1945–1956, Stevenson Research Professor, University of London, 1956–1962, Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, 1970–1972, and Professor of History, Brandeis University, 1968–1970, 1972–1981
• Sir Alec Clegg (1909–1986), Chief Education Officer of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 1945–1974
• Frank Thistlethwaite (1915–2003), Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1961–1980)
• Geoffrey Appleyard (1916–1943), engineer, skier, oarsman, soldier
• Christopher Dow (1916–1998), economist, Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD, 1963–1973, and Executive Director (Economics), Bank of England, 1973–1981
• George Mosse (1918–1999), historian
• David Waller (1920–1997), actor
• Brian Rix, Baron Rix (born 1924), actor and charity worker
• Mark Lancaster (artist) (born 1938), artist and set designer
• Michael Ruse (born 1940), historian and philosopher of science
• Peter Murray-Rust (born 1941), chemist
• Richard Fell (born 1948), British High Commissioner to New Zealand, and the colonial Governor of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, 2001–2006
• Sir Stuart Rose (born 1949), Chief Executive, Marks & Spencer
• Jamie McKendrick (born 1955), poet
• Sir Michael Barber, Head of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (2001–2005); founded the U.S. Education Delivery Institute (2010); Chief Education Advisor to Pearson (2011-present)
• Robert Goodwill (born 1956) Conservative member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby, 2005–
• Sir Jeremy Heywood (born 1961) (1972–1979), Cabinet Secretary at No.10 Downing Street (1 January 2012–present)
• Benjamin Francis Leftwich (born 1989), singer-songwriter