Chatham House Grammar School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also: Category:People educated at Chatham House Grammar School

Alumni of Chatham House are known as Old Ruymians. Chatham House has the sixth highest number of Who's Who entries for state schools.

Well known Old Ruymians include:

  • Iain Aitch - author and journalist
  • Doc Atherton - broadcaster formerly on Invicta FM (now known as Heart Kent) then KMFM Thanet and can now be heard on Academy FM
  • Allan Butler, Ambassador to Mongolia from 1984-7
  • Rear-Adm Timothy Chittenden, submariner and Director from 2000-3 of the Warship Support Agency
  • Keva Coombes, Leader (Labour) of Liverpool City Council from 1987–90, and Labour candidate for Hyndburn in 1987
  • Matt Corker - professional rugby union player for the London Wasps
  • Maj-Gen Patrick Crawford GM, Commandant from 1989-93 of the Royal Army Medical College
  • Jamie Davies - racing driver
  • Marc Gascoigne - fantasy writer
  • Prof Peter Gregory, Director since 2005 of the Scottish Crop Research Institute at Invergowrie near Dundee, and Professor of Soil Science from 1994-2005 at the University of Reading
  • Geoffrey Colin Guy CMG CVO OBE, Governor of Saint Helena from 1976–81, and Commissioner of the Turks and Caicos Islands from 1958-9 and 1959–65
  • Sir Edward Heath - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974
  • Peter Hermitage, Director from 1996-98 of National Police Training, and Chairman from 2004-6 of the Security Industry Authority
  • Stewart Jackson - Conservative MP for Peterborough
  • Sean Kerly - Olympic field hockey player
  • Prof Andrew Lawrence, Regius Professor of Astronomy since 1994 at the University of Edinburgh and Head of Physics from 2003-8
  • Lieutenant Marc Lawrence, Sea King observer of 849 Naval Air Squadron, killed on 21 March 2003 in a crash in Kuwait
  • Ali Marchant, radio DJ
  • John Marek Labour MP for Wrexham 1983 to 2001
  • Desmond Misselbrook CBE, Chairman from 1972-8 of Livingston Development Corporation
  • Frank Muir - humourist
  • Rev Dr Edward Norman, gave the BBC Reith Lecture in 1978
  • John Ovenden, Labour MP for Gravesend 1974 to 1979, and Leader of Kent County Council from 1994-7
  • Geoff Parsons - Olympic high jumper
  • Charles Robson (1859–1943), Middlesex and Hampshire wicket-keeper, and secretary (manager) of Southampton Football Club
  • Sir John Tavaré CBE, Chairman from 1986-2000 of Luxonic Lighting, and of Whitecroft Lighting from 1976–85
  • Prof Robert Tavernor, Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the London School of Economics (LSE)
  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry, Station Commander from 1968-70 of RAF El Adem (in Libya), Governor of Gibraltar from 1985-9, and targeted by the IRA on 18 September 1990 which severely injured him
  • Air Vice-Marshal Henry Thornton CBE
  • Hugh Tunnell, Ambassador to Bahrain from 1992-5
  • Nik Turner - founder of the spacerock band Hawkwind
  • Most Rev Gregory James Venables, Bishop of Argentina since 2002
  • Geoffrey Wales, wood engraver
  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Bill Wratten CBE CB - Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Strike Command during the first Gulf War, Station Commander from 1980-2 of RAF Coningsby
  • Prabhat Mathema - Medical Director of Wales Rugby national team, former Head Physio of London Wasps Rugby team and QPR Football Club

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