Watford Grammar School For Boys - Notable Old Fullerians

Notable Old Fullerians

Old Boys of the School are known as "Old Fullerians". In chronological order:

• Captain Alan Rice-Oxley DFC (1898–1961), RAF officer, World War One fighter ace
• Gerald Moore (1899–1987), piano accompanist
• Group Captain Leslie Bonnet (1902–1985), RAF officer, writer and originator of the Welsh Harlequin Duck
• Edgar Anstey (1907–1987), documentary film pioneer
• Douglas Noel Sargent (1907–1979), 3rd Bishop of Selsby
• Eric Robinson (1908–1974), BBC television music presenter-conductor
• Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909–2001), mathematician
• Air Vice-Marshal Robert Bateson DSO and Bar, DFC (1912–1986), RAF officer who led the raid on the Gestapo headquarters in the Hague
• Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway DSO (1914–2006), Commanding Officer of 9th Bn. Parachute Regiment, assaulted the Merville Battery on D-Day
• Peter Laslett (1915–2001), historian
• William Hurst Rees (1917–2004), leading valuation surveyor
• John David Wilson (1919- ), artist
• Air Vice-Marshal Colin Coulthard AFC and Bar (1921–2004), senior RAF officer and Air Attaché to Washington
• Reverend Canon Arthur Peacocke (1924–2006), theologian and evolutionist
• Richard Hughes (1926- ), cricketer
• Terry Scott (1927–1994), actor and comedian
• John Clark (1932– ), actor and director
• John Hardy (1935–2011), professor of physics at University of Nebraska
• A.D. (Tony) Nuttall (1937–2007), professor of English at Sussex and Oxford
• Ralph Grillo (1940- ), emeritus professor of anthropology, University of Sussex
• George Walker (1942– ), director general of the International Baccalaureate Organization
• David Crighton (1942–2000), professor of applied mathematics, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
• John Grillo (1942– ), theatre, film and television actor and playwright
• John Orr (1943–2010), Professor Emeritus, School of Social and Political Studies, Edinburgh University
• Roger Magraw (1943- ), historian of 19th- and 20th-century France, University of Warwick

• Sir Ian Prosser (1943– ), chairman of Bass plc, later Six Continents
• Sir Andrew Davis (1944– ), orchestral conductor
• Rt Revd John Hind (1945– ), Bishop of Chichester
• Knox (1945- ), musician
• Michael Rosen (1946– ), poet, writer and radio presenter, Children's Laureate
• John Taylor (1946– ), Wales and British Lions rugby player
• David Sullivan (1949– ), pornographer and former director of Birmingham City FC, current co-chairman of West Ham United F.C, joined the sixth form in the 1960s.
• Oliver Knussen (1952- ), composer and conductor
• Adrian Leaper (1953– ), orchestral conductor
• Michael Thompson (1954– ), principal horn, Philharmonia Orchestra, horn soloist, professor, Royal Academy of Music
• Michael Purton, horn soloist and principal horn (1973–86), Hallé Orchestra, record producer
• Simon Munnery, comedian and comedy writer
• Michael Calvin ( 1957 - ) sportswriter and broadcaster
• Grant Shapps (1968- ), Chairman of the Conservative Party
• Lee "Muddy" Baker (1969- ), musician
• Martin Rossiter (1970- ), ex lead singer of 90s Brit Pop band Gene
• David Pyatt (1974– ), horn soloist, BBC Young Musician of the Year, 1988
• Josh Lewsey (1976– ), England rugby player
• Duncan Hames (1977– ), MP for Chippenham (2010-)
• Laurent Barnard (1980– ) lead guitarist of rock band Gallows
• Donald Barrell (1986– ), Saracens and England sevens star
• Matthew Buckley (1987– ), actor
• James Smith (1985-), musician and lead singer of Hadouken!
• Chris Stark (1987- ), British radio personality