St Cyprian's School - Former Pupils and Staff

Former Pupils and Staff

The school was attended, among others, by:

• Sir Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) - photographer, stage designer
• Douglas Blackwood (1909–1997) - Battle of Britain fighter pilot, publisher
• Derwent Hall Caine (1891–1971) - actor, publisher and Labour politician
• Walter John Christie (1905–1982) - British India civil servant
• Alan Clark (1928–1999) - military historian, Conservative politician and diarist
• Cyril Connolly (1903–1974) - literary critic and writer
• John Edmondson, 2nd Baron Sandford (1920–2009) - naval commander, clergyman, politician (Sandford Principle)
• John D. Eshelby (1916–1981) - scientist in micromechanics ("Eshelby's Inclusion")
• Henry R B Foote, VC (1904–1993) – Major-General; awarded the Victoria Cross for WWII service in North Africa
• Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale (1897–1974) - WWI veteran, who lost his eyesight at the Somme; Chairman of St Dunstan's Charity; MP; BBC Governor; first Life Peer
• Dyneley Hussey (1893–1972) – war poet, music critic
• Alan Hyman (born 1910) – author, journalist and screenwriter
• Alaric Jacob (1909–1995) – journalist, writer
• David Kindersley (1915–1995) - stonecutter, typeface designer
• Henry Longhurst (1909–1978) – MP, golfer, golf correspondent
• Rupert Lonsdale (1905–1999) - WWII submarine commander/POW, Anglican clergyman
• Seymour de Lotbiniere (1905–1984) - BBC Director of outside broadcasting who initiated Test Match commentary and masterminded the televising of the 1953 Coronation
• Patrick de Mare (1916–2008) - British Army psychiatrist; consultant psychotherapist who specialized in group pyschotherapy
• John Marsden (1915–2004) - British intelligence officer, Eton schoolmaster and sculler
• Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969) - naturalist, writer
• E. H. W. Meyerstein (1889–1952) - writer, scholar
• Anthony Mildmay (1909–1950) – amateur steeplechase jockey who rode in the Grand National
• Russi Mody (born 1918) - Indian businessman
• Cedric Morris (1889–1982) - artist, horticulturalist
• Jagaddipendra Narayan (1915–1970) - Maharaja of Cooch Behar
• Sir Hugh Norman-Walker (1916–1985) - Colonial Office official whose posts included Governor of the Seychelles and Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong
• Toby O'Brien (1909–1979) - public relations expert who led Britain's efforts to counter Nazi Germany's propaganda
• David Ogilvy (1911–1999) – Advertising executive - known as the "Father of Advertising"
• Sir David Ormsby-Gore, KCMG (1918–1985) - politician; British Ambassador to the USA
• George Orwell (né Eric Blair) (1903–1950) – author, journalist, Spanish Civil War loyalist
• Kenneth Payne (1912–1988) – Olympic rower
• Alec Pearce (1910–1982) – cricketer for Kent CCC, MCC and Hong Kong
• Geoffrey Pidcock (1897–1976) – World War I RAF ace
• H. Q. A. Reeves (1909–1955) – engineer (Welrod secret weapon)
• Charles Rivett-Carnac (1901–1980) – Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
• Robert de Ropp (1913–1987) – biochemist, cancer research, writer on spiritual enlightenment
• James Collingwood Tinling (1900–1983) - RAF Officer, who co-built the first jet engine
• Sir Charles Hyde Villiers (1912–1992) - Businessman; one-time Chairman of British Steel
• Sir Lashmer Whistler (1898–1963) - General in British Army at El Alamein, Normandy landings and Operation Market Garden
• John Vaughan Wilkes (1902–1986) - Warden of Radley College and clergyman
• Richard Wood, MP (1920–2002) - Conservative politician and minister
• Philip Ziegler (born 1929) - historian
• Charles Edgar Loseby - National Democratic and Labour Party MP