Academic
- L.A. Adamson, Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne
- R.G. Collingwood, English historian and Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford
- Richard Congreve (1818–1899), English philosopher
- Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer, author of Fowler's Modern English Usage
- R. M. Hare, English moral philosopher
- Fenton John Anthony Hort, English theologian
- F. L. Lucas, Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, scholar, critic and writer
- Edward Ellis Morris, Educationist, second Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School (1875–83), and miscellaneous writer
- Luke Pebody, British mathematician and child prodigy
- Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford)
- Henry John Stephen Smith, Irish mathematician
- Jon Stallworthy, Professor of English at the University of Oxford
- Sir Percy Sykes soldier, diplomat, writer and scholar
- Richard Henry Tawney, one of Britain's leading Christian Socialist thinkers and writers, and a prominent British economic and social historian
- Henry Wace, Principal of King's College London (1883–1897), former Dean of Canterbury
- Edmund Yorke, Legal scholar and barrister
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“If twins are believed to be less intelligent as a class than single-born children, it is not surprising that many times they are also seen as ripe for social and academic problems in school. No one knows the extent to which these kind of attitudes affect the behavior of multiples in school, and virtually nothing is known from a research point of view about social behavior of twins over the age of six or seven, because this hasn’t been studied either.”
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