King William's College - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

See also: Category:People educated at King William's College

Former pupils, staff, and governors of King William's College may place the letters OKW after their name.

• Sir William Henry Bragg, OM, KBE, FRS (PRS 1935–40), Nobel Laureate in Physics 1915
• T.E. Brown, poet and writer
• David Cannan MHK, former Speaker of the House of Keys, Treasury Minister and current MHK for Michael
• Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill DSO MC, notable commando commander in the Second World War
• Andrew Corlett, the Deputy Deemster of the Isle of Man
• Joseph George Cumming, MA Cantab., geologist and archaeologist
• Thomas Wortley Drury, DD, MA Cantab., Bishop of Sodor and Man 1907–1911
• The Rev. John Ellerton, hymn writer and hymnologist. Wrote "The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended"
• The Very Reverend Frederic William Farrar, DD Cambridge, FRS, Dean of Canterbury 1895–1903
• Major Robert Johnston VC, recipient of the VC - South African War
• George Robert Stephenson Pioneer English Railroad Engineer
• Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, KCMG, Registrar General and Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong
• Sir Joseph Davidson Qualtrough CBE SHK, former Speaker of the House of Keys
• Major Henry Percival Qualtrough, MBE GM, recipient of the George Medal for carrying out bomb disposal work in the Far East
• William Henry Quilliam AKA Abdullah Quilliam, Muslim convert, born in Liverpool of a wealthy Manx family
• John C. Taylor, inventor and Chairman of Strix Ltd.
• Professor Donald Teare, British pathologist
• Sir William Arthur White, British diplomat in Eastern Europe and Turkey
• The Rev. James Maurice Wilson, theologian and astronomer