Famous People Who Worked in Reserved Occupations
The following list contains famous and notable people who worked in any reserved occupation, whether it was as a Bevin Boy or a doctor, etc.:
| Peter, Lord Archer of Sandwell | Former Member of Parliament | Represented both Rowley Regis and Tipton; and latterly for Warley West. Solicitor General for England and Wales from March 1974 to May 1979. Also chaired the Enemy Property Claims Assessment panel. |
| Sir Stanley Bailey | Police officer | Former chief constable of Northumbria Police |
| John Comer | English Actor | Comer began his career as a bevin boy until gaining engineering apprenticeship at Metropolitan-Vickers long later to become well known for his roles as Les Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared and as cafe owner Sid in the first 10 years of the longest running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 until his death in 1984. |
| John Reginald Christie | Serial killer | Was a special constable during World War II, despite having a criminal record for theft and assault. He also served in the Sherwood Foresters during World War I. |
| Walter Cronkite | Journalist | Covered the conflict as a reporter |
| Hans Carossa (1878–1956) | artist | |
| Douglas Edwards | Journalist | Worked on the home front |
| Albert Einstein | Physicist and political theorist | In the First World War worked on making flame throwers for the German Army. 'Pacifist' who also did consultancy work for the US Navy |
| (Lord) Paul Hamlyn | Founder of the Hamlyn group of publishers and Music for Pleasure (record label) | Worked as a Bevin boy at Oakdale Colliery |
| Hanns Johst (1890–1979) | artist and "Reichskultursenator" | |
| Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) | artist | |
| Leslie Howard | Actor | Shot down by German fighters over the Atlantic. |
| Dickson Mabon | Moderate UK Labour politician | On his discharge in 1948 he went to the University of Glasgow to read medicine. |
| Agnes Miegel (1879–1964) | artist | |
| Eric Morecambe | Comedian | Half of the British comedy double act Morecambe and Wise, Morecambe worked at a mine in Accrington for 11 months, which may have affected his health and led to heart attacks later in life. |
| Jock Purdon | Folk singer/poet | Purdon stayed on in the Durham coal mines after the war. "For me there's three great generals - Geronimo, Alexander the Great and Arthur Scargill". |
| Peter Alan Rayner | Numismatic Author | Rayner was conscripted into the mines during World War II. |
| Brian, Lord Rix, CBE, DL | Actor/manager, and president of Mencap | Rix volunteered to leave the RAF to join the Bevin Boy Scheme. "I have never regretted the decision," he says. |
| Peter Shaffer | Dramatist | The author of Equus and Amadeus, he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. |
| Alf Sherwood | Footballer | Went on to win 41 caps for Wales |
| Gerald Smithson | Cricketer | While serving as a Bevin Boy, Smithson was called into the Test cricket team for a tour of the West Indies. |
| Jimmy Savile | Broadcaster | Worked as a Bevin Boy |
| Jock Stein | Football manager | Managed the first British football club to win the European Cup (Celtic in 1967). He worked as a coalminer during the war. |
| Leo Szilard | Physicist | Essential to the development of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Alan Turing | Mathematician | Deveoped cryptographic theory working at Bletchley Park. Later persecuted for being homosexual. |
| Frank Whitcombe (1913–1958) | Rugby League International | Won 14 caps for Wales & 2 for Great Britain |
| Hubert James Willey | Police Officer | Served until his death in 1948. Had served in the British Army in World War I. |
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“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervour and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?”
—Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)
“Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you’ll condemn them all!”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”
—Mother Teresa (b. 1910)
“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend;
Dreading e’en fools, by flatterers besieged,
And so obliging, that he ne’er obliged;
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
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—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)