List Of People Educated At Westminster School
The following people were educated at Westminster School in London, and are sometimes listed with OW (Old Westminster) after their name (collectively, OWW) There are over 900 Old Westminsters listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography so these are necessarily a small sample:
All persons are British unless otherwise stated.
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