title: List of Old Bristolians
text: # List of Old Bristolians
  
  The following are some notable "Old Bristolians", alumni of Bristol Grammar School in England.
  
  ## 17th century
  
  * Robert Huntington (c.1637–1701), Provost of Trinity College, Dublin and orientalist
  
  ## 18th century
  
  * Alexander Catcott (1725–1779), geologist and theologian
  * Sir John Coxe Hippisley (1745–1825), politician
  * William Gregor (1761–1817), mineralogist, discoverer of titanium
  * Jonathan Sewell (c.1766–1839), Chief Justice and Speaker of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, 1808–1839, and President of the Executive Council of Lower Canada, 1808–1830
  * Stephen Sewell (1770–1832), lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada
  * John Tobin (1770–1804), dramatist
  * Samuel Daniel Broughton (1787–1837), military surgeon
  * Thomas Edward Bowdich (c.1791–1824), writer and African explorer
  
  ## 19th century
  
  * Thomas William Allies (1813–1903), theologian
  * Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist
  * John Norton (1823–1904), architect
  * Robert Drew Hicks (1850–1929), classicist
  * Charles Whibley (1859–1930), journalist and author
  * Thomas Horrocks Openshaw (1856–1929), surgeon
  * William Lane (1861–1917), journalist and pioneer of the Australian labour movement
  * Leonard Whibley (1863–1941), classicist
  * Sir Llewellyn Smith (1864–1945), Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade, 1907–1919, and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government, 1919–1927
  * Leonard Raven-Hill (1867–1942), illustrator and cartoonist
  * Sir John Herbert Parsons FRS (1868–1957), ophthalmologist and physiologist
  * Robert Chambers (1802–1871), philanthropist and peace activist
  * Roland Allen (1868–1947), missionary in China
  * Cyril Bradley Rootham (1875–1938), classicist and musician
  * Frederick William Lumsden (1872–1918), Royal Marines Brigadier General, VC, CB and DSO & Three bars
  * Sir Cyril Norwood (1875–1956) classicist and Politician
  * Sir Douglas Veale (1891–1973), Registrar of the University of Oxford, 1930–1958
  
  ## 20th century
  
  * Sir Allen Lane (1902–1970), founder of Penguin Books
  * Douglas Cleverdon (1903–1987), bookseller and BBC Radio producer
  * Sir Ivor Jennings (1903–1965), Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge, 1962–1965
  * Paul Drury (1903–1987), artist
  * Oliver Franks, Baron Franks (1905–1992), philosopher, diplomat and civil servant
  * Sir Richard Sheppard (1910–1982), architect
  * Douglas Russell Feaver (1914–1987), Bishop of Peterborough
  * John Cosh (1915–2005), rheumatologist
  * Geoffrey Keen (1916–2005), actor
  * Sir John Pople (1925–2004), Mathematician, Theoretical chemist and Nobel Laureate
  * Peter Nichols (born 1927), writer
  * Peter Mathias (1928–2016), economic historian
  * Robert MacEwen (1928–2013), Scotland international rugby union player
  * Richard Lynn (born 1930), psychologist
  * Philip French (1933–2015), film critic and radio producer
  * Timothy West (born 1934), actor
  * Glen Dudbridge (1935–2017), sinologist
  * Robin Cormack (born 1935), academic
  * Julian Glover (born 1935), actor
  * David Prowse (born 1935), actor
  * Victor Watts (born 1938), academic
  * Keith Robbins (born 1940), historian and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter
  * Fred Wedlock (1942–2010), folk singer, humorist and actor.
  * T.J. Clark (born 1943), historian
  * Nick Brimble (born 1944), actor
  * Robert Lacey (born 1944), historian and biographer
  * Sir Nicholas Wright (born 1945), professor of medicine
  * Jeremy Treglown (born 1946), biographer and literary critic
  * Andrew Dalby (born 1947), food writer
  * Clive Ponting (born 1947), former civil servant and historian.
  * David Nutt (born 1951), neuropsychopharmacologist
  * Sir Andrew Cash (born 1955), Chief Executive of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  * Timothy Holroyde (born 1955), English Court of Appeal judge
  * Jeremy Sheehy (born 1956), Anglican priest and academic
  * Andy Harrison (born 1957), business executive and former CEO of The RAC, easyJet and Whitbread
  * Shaun Woodward (born 1958), politician, former Labour Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
  * Graham Tomlin (born 1958), Bishop of Kensington
  * Nick Sheppard (born 1960), guitarist
  * Jeremy Northam (born 1961), actor
  * Tim Hayward (born 1963), food writer, broadcaster and restaurateur
  * John Lennard (born 1964), academic
  * Rabinder Singh KC (born 1964), first Sikh High Court judge
  * Janet Henry (born 1969), economist, currently Global Chief Economist at HSBC
  * Richard Gould (born 1970), chief executive of Surrey County Cricket Club
  * Neil Garrett (born 1975), journalist
  * Michelle Goodman (born 1976), RAF Officer, first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
  * Shrien Dewani (born 1979), arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder
  * Simon Case (born 1978), civil servant
  * Sean Marsden (born 1980), professional rugby player
  * Mark Watson (born 1980), comedian
  * Alexander Betts (born 1980), academic
  * Chris Skidmore (born 1981), Conservative MP
  * James Kenber (born 1986), fencer
  * Michael Coady (born 1987), professional rugby league player
  * Tuppence Middleton (born 1987), actress
  * Marcus Hamblett (born 1987), musician
  * William Tavaré (born 1990), professional cricketer
  * Emily Diamond (born 1991), track and field athlete
  * Jordan Waller (born 1992), actor
  * Katie Swan (born 1999), professional tennis player
  