Kingswood School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also Category:People educated at Kingswood School, Bath.

Former students of Kingswood School are known as old Kingswoodians. Notable former students include:

• Archie Bronson Outfit (English Rock Band)
• Richard Cork (Art historian and broadcaster)
• George Kingston Baron-Hay CBE (Director, Australian Department of Agriculture 1936)
• Kenneth Beard (Organist)
• David Blow (Influential British Biophysicist)
• Jeremy Bray (British Labour politician, former Government Minister and Member of Parliament)
• Sir Ralph Kilner Brown OBE (High Court Judge 1970-1985, Brigadier)
• William Maclardie Bunting (Hymn Composer)
• Sir John Burnett FRSE (Former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh)
• Roger Butlin (Prominent theatre set designer)
• Professor Hugh Clegg (Influential Industrial Relations Scholar)
• Sir Kenneth Cross (Air Chief Marshall, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command)
• R.N. Currey (Poet)
• Tim Curry (English actor, singer and composer)
• Hugh Sykes Davies (English poet, novelist, communist)
• Arthur Lee Dixon (Mathematician and academic)
• Rev Joseph Horner Fletcher (Founding Principal Wesley College, Auckland and President Newington College)
• Antony Flew (Philosopher)
• Sir Richard Forster (Museum Director)
• William Ralph Boyce Gibson (Australian Philosopher)
• Andrew Grierson (Neurologist and Geneticist, University of Sheffield)
• Vice Admiral Sir Paul Haddacks (Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man).
• Emily Head (Actress)
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Sir John M. Holford (Royal Navy Medical Officer)
• Jesse Honey (BBC Mastermind Champion 2010, World Quiz Champion 2012)
• Lynton Lamb (Illustrator)
• Arthur Lucas (Headmaster Newington College and Sydney Grammar School and Professor of Mathematics University of Tasmania)
• Francis Sowerby Macaulay (Mathematician)
• Alexander MacAulay (Mathematician and Physicist)
• Rev James Egan Moulton (founding Headmaster Newington College and Tupou College and President Newington College)
• John Fletcher Moulton (politician, weapon designer, Lord Justice)
• Sir Robert William Perks, 1st Baronet, Liberal Member of Parliament
• George Perry-Smith (Restaurateur)
• Dr. Michael Pearce (Artist, Chair of California Lutheran University Art Department)
• John Piper (Artist)
• Rev Dr Charles Prescott (Founding Headmaster Wesleyan Ladies College and Headmaster and President Newington College)
• Roger Saul (Founder of the fashion brand Mulberry (company))
• Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (German Methodist Bishop)
• J.O. Urmson (Philosopher and Classicist)
• Jabez Waterhouse (Methodist Legislator in Australia)
• George Marsden Waterhouse (Premier of New Zealand 1872-1873, Premier of South Australia 1861-1863)
• Joseph Waterhouse (Methodist Minister and Missionary in Fiji)
• Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond (Politician and Broadcaster)
• Arthur Way (Scholar, Translator and Headmaster of Wesley College Melbourne)
• Thomas Ebenezer Webb (Author, Translator, Fellow of Trinity College Dublin)
• Hugh Wright (Schoolmaster and educationalist)