List of People Educated at Westminster School - 17th Century

17th Century

  • Jasper Mayne (1604–1672), dramatist
  • Thomas Randolph (1605–1635), poet and dramatist
  • Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), poet
  • Richard Lower (1631–1691), pioneering physician
  • John Dryden (1631–1700), poet and playwright
  • John Locke (1632–1704), philosopher
  • Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723), architect, scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society
  • Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist and co-founder of the Royal Society
  • Thomas Gale (c. 1636–1702), classical scholar and antiquarian
  • Henry Aldrich (1647–1710), philosopher
  • George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (1648–1689), Lord Chief Justice of the Bloody Assize, Lord Chancellor (also ed. by Thomas Chaloner at Shrewsbury and attended St Paul's)
  • Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724), Dean of Norwich
  • Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743), Archbishop of York
  • Henry Purcell (1659–1695), composer
  • Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), creator of the Bank of England
  • James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (1661–1734), Privy Counsellor
  • William King (1663–1712), poet
  • Matthew Prior (1664–1771), poet
  • Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), Poet Laureate 1715
  • William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (1684–1764), Cabinet Minister
  • John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690–1763), statesman and Cabinet Minister
  • Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1693–1768), First Lord of the Treasury 1754–1756, Prime Minister
  • James Bramston (1694–1744), satirist
  • John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (1694–1754), Lord Privy Seal
  • Henry Pelham (1696–1754), First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1743–1754, Prime Minister
  • John, Lord Hervey,(1696–1743), statesman and writer
  • John Dyer (1699–1748), poet

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