Farnham Grammar School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Professor Ernest Braude, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College London from 1955-6
• Frank Conduit, director of Glaxo
• Jack Coutu (born 1924 in Farnham), printmaker and sculptor
• Alfred Dryland CBE, County Engineer for Middlesex from 1920, notably for Twickenham Bridge, Chiswick Bridge, the Barnet bypass, Western Avenue, Great West Road, and the North Circular Road
• Maj-Gen Alexander Elmslie CB CBE, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) from 1964-5, and the Royal Corps of Transport from 1964-9
• Cyril Garbett (briefly), Archbishop of York from 1942–55
• Jack Gwillim, actor
• Hugh Johns, ITV football commentator
• Charles Judd CBE, Director General of the United Nations Association UK from 1945–64
• James Kendall, Professor Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1928–59, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1949–54
• David Lea, Baron Lea of Crondall OBE, trade union official
• Prof Peter Morice, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Southampton from 1958–91
• Lt-Gen Sir Harold Redman CB CBE, Governor of Gibraltar from 1955-8
• Prof Charles Rees CBE, Hofmann Professor of Organic Chemistry at Imperial College London from 1978–83, and President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 1992-4
• Sir Eric Rideal MBE (briefly), chemist, Professor of Colloid Science at the University of Cambridge from 1930–46
• Prof Roy Roberts CBE, President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers from 1989–90, former President for the Faraday Society and Society of Chemical Industry, and known for the Rideal-Walker coefficient
• George Sturt, author
• Dr Jeffrey Tate CBE (attended 1954-61), conductor (head boy in his final year) of the Hamburger Symphoniker from 2009
• Bill Wallis (attended 1948-55), actor and satirist (head boy in his final year)
• Prof David Watkin, Professor of History of Architecture from 2001-8 at the University of Cambridge
• Squadron Leader Sydney Wiltshire, awarded the George Cross
• Maj-Gen Roy Wood, Chairman of the Association for Geographic Information from 1996-7, and President of the Photogrammetric Society (now the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society) from 1993-5