List of Old Bedford Modernians

Academia

• Sir William Augustus Tilden FRS, Chemist & Dean, Royal College of Science, London
• Professor Joseph Reynolds Green FRS, Professor of Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
• Professor William Hillhouse FLS, first Professor of Botany at the University of Birmingham
• Edward Mann Langley, founded the Mathematical Gazette, created Langley’s Adventitious Angles
• William Robert Bousfield FRS, chemist
• Professor John Holland Rose FBA, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge
• George Charles Crick FGS FRGS FZS, geologist, authority on Cephalopoda, 1st Assistant at the Natural History Museum
• Arthur John Pressland FRSE, educational theorist, linguist, schoolmaster and writer
• George James Gibbs FRAS, astronomer, engineer, inventor and public science lecturer
• Professor Richard John Durley MBE, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University
• Edward Augustine Lowe Laxton MBE, expert on fruit production
• Professor Henry Payne FRAeS M.Inst.C.E., Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne
• Jannion Steele Elliott, ornithologist
• Dr Eric Temple Bell,, mathematician who specialised in number theory and formulated the Bell series
• Sir Charles Oatley OBE, FRS FREng, pioneered the development of the scanning electron microscope
• Dr. G. C. Dunning, D.Lit, FSA, pioneering medieval archaeologist, authority on Anglo-Saxon and medieval ceramics
• Professor William Francis Grimes CBE, Professor of Archaeology, University of London
• Reverend Francis MacCarthy Willis Bund, Chaplain, Dean and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
• Dr D. C. Riddy CBE, Controller-General of the Education Branch, Control Commission for German – British Element
• F. G. Emmison MBE FSA FRHistS, archivist, author and historian
• Professor John Roach, historian
• Professor Ramsay Shearman DSc FReng FIET FRMetS FIEEE, pioneer in shortwave radio and radar
• Professor Brian Glüss FRSS, statistician, mathematician, systems engineer, author and expert on survivor guilt
• Professor John Richard Anthony Pearson FRS FIMMM MIChemE, pioneer in fluid mechanics
• Professor David John Bartholomew FBA, Professor of Statistics at the LSE
• Professor Philip Bean, Professor of Criminology at Loughborough University, former President of the British Soc. of Criminology
• Professor George Richard Pickett FRS, Professor of Low Temperature Physics at Lancaster University
• Professor Sid Gray PhD FASSA FCCA, Professor at the University of Sydney Business School
• Professor Richard Hugh Britnell FBA, Professor of History at Durham University
• Sir Peter Knight FRS, Professor of quantum optics at Imperial College London
• Professor Stephen Wildman, Professor of the History of Art at Lancaster University
• Dr. Roger Geoffrey Clarke, ornithologist, world authority on harriers and other birds of prey
• Professor Barry H.V. Topping MBCS MICE MIStructE MIMechE FIMA, authority and author on computational mechanics
• Professor John Clibbens FRSocMed, Professor of Developmental Psychology at Birmingham City University
• Professor Stephen Taylor, Professor of Finance at Lancaster University
• Professor Richard Charles Murray Janko, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan
• Professor Brian Derby FIMMM, Professor of Materials science at Manchester University
• Professor Gavin D'Costa, Professor in Catholic Theology at the University of Bristol
• Professor Nick Groom FRSA, Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter and author
• Dr Peter David Wothers MBE FRSC, chemist and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge

  Actors, directors and entertainers

• E. E. Blake, pioneering exhibitor of motion pictures and owner of cinemas
• Harrish Ingraham, Hollywood film director, writer and actor in the era of silent movies
• Gillie Potter, comedian and broadcaster
• Reginald Berkeley, playwright and screenwriter in Hollywood
• Robert Luff CBE, theatrical agent and producer
• Derek Scott, double act and music director
• David Tringham, assistant film director
• Hugh Armstrong, actor
• David Firth, actor, screenwriter, singer
• John Sessions, actor, comedian and broadcaster
• Julian Hector, Head of the BBC Natural History Unit
• Saul Nassé, producer for the BBC, CEO at Cambridge English Language Assessment
• Russell Barnes, television producer
• David Jubb, theatre director and chief executive of the Battersea Arts Centre
• Russell Howard, comedian and presenter
• Leon Parris, writer, composer, musician and actor
• Jeremy Irvine, UK and Hollywood actor
• Sope Dirisu, stage, television and film actor
• Suhani Gandhi, model and actress

  Adventurers, aviators, exiles and prisoners of war

• John Percy Farrar DSO, soldier, mountaineer, President of the Alpine Club, Member of the Mount Everest Committee
• Sir Reginald Wolseley, 10th Baronet, dubbed the elevator baronet
• Captain and Bimbashi Henry Haymes SBStJ MRCS LRCP, surgeon, an original explorer of the Bahr-el-Ghazal
• George E.M. Kelly, early aviator in the Aeronautical Division, US Signal Corps
• Captain Aeneas Lionel Acton Mackintosh, Antarctic explorer, commander of the Ross Sea party expedition
• W.A.B. Goodall, castaway, described as 'the ruler of the world's tiniest kingdom': Pulau Sarimbun, Straits of Johore
• Duncan Alexander Eliott Mackintosh, 31st Chief of Clan Chattan
• Wilfrid Thomas Reid FRAeS, aircraft designer and pioneer of the Canadian aircraft industry
• P.C.B. Newington, author of a cookbook celebrating Malaysian food, conceived while starving as a prisoner of war
• Frederick Williamson CIE, explorer, founder member of the Himalayan Club
• Captain Richard 'Dick' Howe MBE MC, Escape Officer at Colditz Castle during World War II
• Desmond 'Dizzy' de Villiers AFC, chief test pilot at de Havilland and English Electric

  Architecture, art and design

• Josiah Conder, architect who designed the Rokumeikan and other public buildings in Tokyo
• Henry John Sylvester Stannard RBA FRSA, watercolour artist
• Sydney Morgan Eveleigh, architect in Vancouver
• Major Hugh Patrick Guarin Maule DSO MC FRIBA, architect
• George Loraine Stampa, artist, contributor to Punch and other illustrated papers and magazines
• Walter Stonebridge FRIBA, Diocesan Architect for Ely, St Albans and Bedford
• Algernon Winter Rose MC, architect
• Kenneth Alexander, Hollywood photographer for United Artists and 21st Century Fox
• Robert Tor Russell CIE DSO, Chief Architect to the Government of India
• Thomas Francis Ford FRIBA, Diocesan Architect for Southwark and a translator of the New Testament
• Alexander Girard, textile designer and interior architect
• Victor Farrar RIBA PPFAS FRSA, architect
• Dennis Sharp, architect, professor, curator, historian, author and editor
• Steve Gibbons, graphic designer
• Alex Chinneck, sculptor and installation artist

  Armed forces

Air Force

• Wing Commander George Marshall Griffith, Commandant of the Royal Flying Corps in India
• Brigadier-General Percy Robert Clifford Groves CB CMG DSO, Air Strategist
• Air Vice-Marshal Robert Dickinson Oxland CB CBE, Group Commander in Bomber Command
• Air Commodore Edye Rolleston Manning CBE DSO MC, senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Air Commodore Charles Henry Elliott-Smith AFC, senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Major H.D. Harvey-Kelly DSO, Squadron Commander, Royal Flying Corps
• Captain John Ellis Langford Hunter DSC DFC, World War I flying ace
• Group Captain Robert Cecil Dawkins CBE, Station Commander at RAF Tengah and RAF Hendon
• Air Commodore I. J. Fitch, Deputy Director of Intelligence at the Air Ministry
• Wing Commander Ernest Leslie 'Johnny' Hyde DFC, senior officer in the Royal Air Force
• Squadron Leader Roland Anthony 'Tony' Lee Knight DFC, World War II flying ace

  Army

• Major-General Francis John Fowler CB DSO Commander of the Derajat Brigade
• Major-General Charles Astley Fowler CB CSI DSO, Brigade Commander at the Battle of Loos, 1915
• Brigadier-General Sir Arthur Long KBE CB CMG DSO, Director of Transport and Supplies, Macedonia and The Black Sea
• Colonel Reginald Ruston CB, commander of the Mounted infantry of the Devon Regiment
• Major R.T. Anwyl-Passingham OBE DL JP, Commander of the 72nd Punjabis, High Sheriff of Merionethshire
• Lieutenant-General Gerald Robert Poole CB CMG DSO, Commandant of the Royal Marine Artillery
• Lt.-Col. Charles Forbes Buchan CBE OStJ, Deputy Assistant Director at the War Office during WW1
• Colonel Ernest Clive Atkins CB TD DL JP, Commander of the 2/5th Leicestershire Regiment, High Sheriff of Leicestershire
• Lt.-Col. Robert Haymes DSO, first to establish an OP at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle
• Lt.-Col. C. A. Keatinge Johnson, senior officer in the First Australian Imperial Force
• Major-General Herbert William Jackson CB CSI DSO, Officer of the British Indian Army
• Major George Godfrey Massy Wheeler VC, was a recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Lt.-Col. Arthur Charles Rothery Nutt DSO, inventor of the artillery miniature range
• Lt.-Col. R. E. Power DSO, Commander of the 1st and 2nd Battallion of the Buffs
• Major-General Charles Howard Foulkes CB CMG DSO, Britain's chief adviser on gas warfare
• Brigadier-General Herbert Cecil Potter CB CMG DSO
• Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood, first Canadian born Officer to die in the Second Boer War
• Colonel Charles Temple Morris CBE, Commander of the 5th Battalion of the 1st Punjab Regiment between 1921 and 1926
• Lt.-Col. James Knox DSO&bar, Battalion Commander, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1915–18
• Brigadier-General Herbert Dobbin CBE DSO, Colonel-Commandant, Iraq Levies, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• Brigadier-General Arthur Turner CB CMG DSO, Cricketer, rugby union player and soldier
• Colonel Wilfrid Stanley Richmond CMG MICE, Deputy Director of Roads in the BEF during World War I
• Lt.-Col. Henry Cecil Prescott CMG CIE, Inspector of Police in Iraq
• Colonel Guy Sutton Bocquet CIE VD FRSA, ADC to the Viceroy of India
• Lt.-Col. Archibald Alderman Chase DSO, Commander of the 8th Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment
• Brigadier Harold Evelyn William Bell Kingsley CIE DSO, Aide-de-Camp to King George VI
• Lt.-Col. Charles HGH Harvey-Kelly DSO, Military Attache in Kabul
• Lieutenant-General Reginald Dawson Hopcraft Lough DSO OBE, Aide-de-camp to King George VI
• Lt.-Col. A.E.F. Fawcus DSO MC TD, Commander, 1/5th North Staffordshire Regiment, 1/5th Sherwood Foresters
• Lt.-Col. W. F. Jackson OBE MC&Bar TD, Signals Liaison Officer to the US Army HQ in the UK during World War II
• Major George Croxton Walker OBE MC TD
• Major Edward Crozier Creasy, senior liaison Officer during the Upper Silesia Plebiscite
• Captain Wynn Bagnall MC, Canadian Field Artillery, model for a statue by James Fraser in Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Lt.-Col. Melville Ten Broeke MC&bar, commander of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment
• Major-General L.A. Hawes CBE DSO MC DL, Commanded the transport to France of the BEF during World War I
• Brigadier W.C.V. Galwey OBE MC&bar, Senior Officer who served in World War I and World War II
• Col. F. H. Willasey Wilsey MC, Senior Liaison Officer to the Afghan delegation during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
• Brigadier Ernest Dynes CBE, Aide-de-camp to HM Queen Elizabeth II
• Brigadier Thomas Henry Scott Galletly DSO&bar MC, Commander of the 1st Brigade, Arab League
• Major-General Reginald Booth Stockdale CB CMG OBE Colonel Commandant, REME
• Lt.-Col. Edward Peter Fletcher Boughey OBE, Special Operations Executive
• Major-General Keith Burch CB CBE

  Navy

• Commander Willoughby Huddleston CMG, ADC to Lord Pentland, Governor of Madras
• Captain Thomas Oloff de Wet CBE, Principal Naval Transport Officer during the evacuation of Constantinople in 1923
• Rear Admiral Alfred Ransom CBE, senior officer in the Royal Navy
• Sir Ernest Whiteside Huddleston CIE CBE RIN, Aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India
• Captain Francis Walter Despard Twigg OBE, senior officer in the Royal Navy
• Commander Herbert Newton OBE DL, Royal Navy Commander and Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire
• Rear-Admiral Jack Kenneth Highton CB CBE, Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II
• Captain Frederick Stovin-Bradford CBE DSC&Bar, Royal Navy Commander
• Vice-Admiral Sir Ted Horlick KBE, Director General of British Ships, Chief Naval Engineer Officer

  Industry and commerce

• John Howard, industrialist, inventor of agricultural equipment and four times Mayor of Bedford
• James Howard, industrialist and inventor of agricultural equipment. MP for Bedford
• Sir Frederick Howard JP DL, industrialist
• Captain Charles Wells, founder of Charles Wells Ltd, progenitor of the Wells baronets of Felmersham
• Hon. Arthur Carter, businessman, Australian Consul to Norway, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council
• Sir George Farrar, 1st Baronet, mining magnate, politician and soldier
• Lt. Col. Henry Batten Huddleston OBE VD, Chief Agent and later a Director of the Burma Railways
• Hon. Walter Nutt OBE, managing director of The Straits Trading Company
• Sir Noel Mobbs KCVO OBE, founder of Slough Estates and High sheriff of Buckinghamshire
• E. E. Blake, Chairman of Kodak UK
• E. E. Cammack AIA FAIA FCAS, prominent actuary in the USA
• William Pickwoad OBE FRSA, prominent in South America's railway industry. Founding director of the Central Bank of Bolivia
• W. T. Godber CBE, authority on agriculture and agricultural engineering
• Sir Henry Cecil Johnson KBE, chairman of the British Railways Board
• Alastair George MacKenzie CBE MC, prominent figure in South East Asian insurance during the 1960s and 1970s
• Francis Coulson MBE, chef and hotelier
• Edward Roy Kent CBE, estate owner and agriculturalist in the Caribbean
• Lt.-Col. Ray Daniels MC, Chief Executive of the William Press Group
• Max Wideman, expert in project management
• Sir Anthony Hartwell, 6th Baronet, Master mariner and Marine surveyor
• John Quenby, Chief Executive of the RAC Motor Sports Association
• Andrew Stuart Winckler, Chief Executive of the Financial Services Authority
• Adrian Penfold OBE MRTPI FRSA, Head of Planning at British Land, adviser to the UK Government
• Graham Clive Watts OBE MCMI FRSA FRIBA, Chief Executive of the Construction Industry Council
• Richard Bradbury CBE, Chief Executive of River Island, director of Boden
• Steve Melton, Chief Executive of Circle Health Ltd
• Nick Blofeld, managing director of Epsom Downs Racecourse, Chief Executive of Bath Rugby
• Marcus Weldon, 13th President of Bell Labs
• Johnny Luk MRSA, entrepreneur and Conservative Party candidate

  Journalism

• William Fairbridge JP, founder of the Rhodesia Herald and the Bulawayo Chronicle, first mayor of Salisbury
• Leonard Dudeney, newspaper editor and parliamentary correspondent
• Albert Powtrill Ager, editor, manager and publisher of The Straits Times
• Lindsay Bashford OBE, Literary Editor of the Daily Mail
• George Matthews, leading communist and editor of the Daily Worker/Morning Star from 1959–1974
• Eric Litchfield, sports editor of The Rand Daily Mail, the Cape Times and author
• Jon Akass, Fleet Street columnist
• Sir Nicholas Lloyd, newspaper editor, News of the World and the Daily Express
• Michael Toner, leader writer at the Sunday Express and Daily Mail. Author and novelist
• Christopher Wilson, journalist and Royal biographer
• Nicholas Shaxson, author, journalist and associate fellow of Chatham House
• Ben Anderson, television reporter and writer

  Law

• William Robert Bousfield KC FRS
• Sir William Tudball. Puisne judge of the High Court of Allahabad
• Sir Sidney Abrahams KC, Chief Justice of Tanganyika and Ceylon; Privy Councillor
• Sir Clement Thornton Hallam, Solicitor to the General Post Office
• Dr James Mould QC, Queen's Counsel, Bencher of Gray's Inn and a Fellow of University College London
• Stephen John Wooler CB, HM Chief Inspector to the Crown Prosecution Service
• Nicholas Stewart QC, Queen's Counsel, Bencher of the Inner Temple, Deputy High Court Judge
• Hon. Tim Lord QC, Barrister, Queen's Counsel and Bencher of the Inner Temple

  Literature

• William Hale White, author known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford
• Neil Wynn Williams, novelist, writer and contributor of short stories and articles to periodicals and journals
• George Moreby Acklom, writer, literary editor of E.P. Dutton, father of the Hollywood actor David Manners
• Sir Henry Howarth Bashford, author of Augustus Carp, Esq. and several other satirical novels
• Eric Temple Bell,, science fiction author
• David Scott Daniell, author, playwright and regimental historian
• Christopher Fry, poet and playwright. Awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1962
• Gordon Thomas, investigative journalist and author
• John Andrews, author and antiques writer
• David Morse, author on Motown, Romanticism and the Victorian era
• Russell Ash, author
• S.I. Martin, author, historian and journalist specialising in Black British history and literature
• Stephen May, novelist, playwright and TV writer
• Toby Litt, author

  Medicine

• George Cleghorn, President of the New Zealand Medical Association
• Walter Jessop FRCS, Ophthalmic Surgeon at St Bartholomew's, President of the UK Ophthalmological Society
• Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow CB CMG OBE DSO, Honorary Surgeon to King George V
• Major-General George Francis Angelo Harris CSI FRCP, Professor at the Calcutta Medical School
• Rickard William Lloyd MRCS LRCPEd, Consulting Anaesthetist and author
• Charles Hubert Roberts FRCS FRCP, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
• Claud Alley Worth FRCS, ophthalmologist, inventor of the Worth 4 dot test and Worth's Ambyloscope, world authority on squint
• Frank Atcherley Rose FRCS, surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital
• Thomas Shephard Novis FRCS, Professor of Surgery at Grant Medical College, Bombay
• Major-General Harold Rothery Nutt FRCS, Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy of India and King George V
• Cyril Arthur Bennett Horsford FRCS, Laryngologist to the Royal College of Music
• John Wycliffe Linnell FRCP MC, Consulting Physician
• Sir Henry Howarth Bashford, Honorary Physician to King George VI
• Sir Adolphe Abrahams OBE, Olympic Medical Officer from 1912
• HLD Kirkham, Professor of Plastic Surgery Baylor University, Texas, recipient of the US Legion of Merit
• Frank Cook FRCS FRCOG, Beit Fellow, obstetric and gynaecological surgeon
• Basil Laver MS FRCS, surgeon
• Arkyl Staveley Gough OBE OStJ FRCS, surgeon
• Professor Anthony Andreasen FRSE FRCSE FICS, surgeon to the Viceroy of India
• Sir George Edward Godber, GCB, Chief Medical Officer for HM Government in England
• William Edward Lancaster CBE AM, Chief Executive of the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia
• Professor Joseph Graeme Humble CVO FRCP, Professor of Haematology at Westminster Hospital
• Professor Michael Tynan MD FRCP, Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at Guy's Hospital
• Dr Vaughan Southgate DL FRSM FLS FSB, medical parasitologist
• Dr Harry Brünjes FRSocMed, Chairman of Premier Medical Group
• Professor Mark Woodhead FRCP FERS, world authority on lung infection and pneumonia
• Dr Ian Martin Wylie FRSM, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Michael Trudgill FAsMA FRAeS, Senior Medical Officer at the RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine

  Music

• Roland Bocquet, composer, Professor of Music Theory at Dresden Conservatory
• Richard Capell OBE, music critic for the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph
• Cyril Gell ARCO LRAM FGSM, musician, conductor of the BBC Singers and former Professor at the Guildhall School of Music
• Derek Scott, composer and music director for film and television
• Gordon Langford, brass band and orchestral music composer, arranger and performer
• Paul Paviour OAM FRCO, composer, organist and conductor based in Australia
• Tim Souster, composer
• Justin Lavender, operatic tenor and professor of vocal studies at the Royal College of Music
• Paul Christison Edwards, organist and composer of music for the Anglican Church
• Nicholas Carthy, Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Professor of Music at the University of Colorado
• Michael Hext, inaugural winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition
• Max Richter, composer
• Don Broco, band
• Segun Akinola, composer and music director for film and television

  Public office

Home

• James Howard, Liberal MP
• William Robert Bousfield KC FRS, Conservative MP
• Arthur Pedley CB, senior civil servant
• Arthur Sheppard MVO, Private Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury
• Sir Archibald Dennis Flower. Chairman of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's birthplace
• Colonel John Alfred Lawrence Billingham CBE FRICS, Chief Inspector of Works, War Office
• Edmund Dene Morel, Labour MP
• Major F. R. Phipps OBE A.M. Inst. C.E. F.S.I., Senior Engineering Inspector at the Ministry of Transport, 1924 to 1927
• Sir Ralph Endersby Harwood KCB KCVO CB CBE. Financial Secretary to three Kings
• Davenport Fabian Cartwright Blunt CB, Under-Secretary at HM Treasury
• Reginald Berkeley, Liberal MP
• Sir Laurence George Gale CB OBE. Controller, Royal Ordnance Factories
• Hugh Chaplin CB, Principal Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum
• Jack Morton CMG OBE. Assistant Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Defence
• Philip Lionel Burton CBE, Head of the Civil Service Pay Research Unit between 1963 and 1971
• Arthur Jones, Conservative MP. Mayor of Bedford
• Rowland Thomas Lovell Lee, Recorder of the Crown Court
• Edgar William Boyles, Under-Secretary at the Inland Revenue
• Tony Hart CBE, leader of Kent C.C. during the development of the Channel Tunnel, Eurostar and the Dartford Bridge
• Brian Ernest Maitland Prophet OBE TD DL, Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire
• Sir Stanley John Odell, former Chairman of the National Union of Conservative Constituency Associations
• Sir Keith Speed DL, Conservative MP. Undersecretary of State for Defence
• Jeffery John Mumford Speed CBE FRSA FInstLM FRGS was Director of Fundraising at Conservative Central Office
• Rev. Canon Jeffrey James West OBE FRSA, Inspector of Historic Buildings, English Heritage
• Patrick Hall, Labour MP
• Michael Crowther, wildlife conservationist and founder of the Indianapolis Prize
• Nick Hawkins,, former Conservative MP
• Andrew Charles Gilchrist, former General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union
• Nicolas John "Nick" Gibb, Conservative MP
• Richard Fuller, Conservative MP
• Matt Cavanagh, special adviser to New Labour

  Overseas

• Sir William Morgan KCMG, Premier of South Australia
• Leonard Isitt, M.P. for the New Zealand Liberal Party and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
• Charles Frederick Gale, senior Australian civil servant, Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia
• Henry George Graves ARSM, Controller of Patents and Designs in India between 1904 and 1919
• Sir Ernest Colville Collins Wilton KCMG, President of the Commission for the Government of the Saar Basin
• Herbert George Billson CIE, Chief Conservator of Indian Forests, 1922–26
• Sir William Pell Barton KCIE. Resident in Baroda, Mysore and Hyderabad
• William McKinnell, politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada
• Hon. Walter Nutt OBE, a member of the Federal Malay States Legislative council
• John Richard Donovan Glascott CIE, Chief Engineer of the Burma Railways, Member of the Legislative Council of Burma
• Sir Robert Daniel Richmond CIE, Chief Conservator, Indian Woods and Forests
• Archie Rose CIE FRGS, diplomat, explorer and businessman in China
• John Mervyn Dallas Wrench CIE, Chief Engineer of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway
• Sir Francis Moncrieff Kerr-Jarrett, Custos Rotulorum of St James's, Jamaica
• Stanley Wyatt Smith, Consul-General of Manila and Honolulu
• Major-General Ronald Okeden Alexander CB DSO, Inspector General, Central Canada
• Charles Hawes CIE MC. Chief Engineer to the Government of Sind
• Frederick Williamson CIE, Consul-General of Kashgar
• Reginald Philip Abigail, District Commissioner of Arakan during the fall of Burma in 1942
• Bertram St. Leger Ten Broeke CIE MC, Deputy Inspector-General of the Indian Police in Bihar
• W. D. Harverson OBE ARSM MIMM, Commissioner of Mines in Kenya and Tanganyika
• Walter Ian James Wallace CMG OBE, Assistant Undersecretary of State at the Colonial Office
• Sir Arthur Mooring KCMG, British Resident in Zanzibar
• Cyril Herbert Williams CMG OBE, Provincial Commissioner of the Nyanza Province of Kenya
• Roger Tancred Robert Hawkins GLM ICD, Rhodesian politician and member of Ian Smith's cabinet after Rhodesia's UDI
• Victor Yarnell, American politician, Democratic Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania
• Colonel Ian Cook OBE, Commander of the Vanuatu Mobile Police Force
• Malcolm Geoffrey Hilson OBE, High Commissioner of Vanuatu
• Paul Reddicliffe OBE, British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia

  Religion

• The Rt. Rev. William Toll, Suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
• Canon Thomas Blyth DD, author and Commissary to the Archbishop of Ottawa and Bishops of Niagara
• The Rev. H.A. Lester MA, theologian, director of the Bishop of London's Sunday School Council
• The Rev. Arthur Raley MC, Chaplain to Royal Air Force Command during World War II
• The Ven. Thomas Dix, Archdeacon of Zanzibar
• The Ven. Robert Brown MA, Archdeacon of Bedford
• The Rev. Noel Stanton, founder of the Jesus Army
• Dr Bryan W. Ball, theologian, former President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific
• Dennis Frederick Orme, former leader of Unification Churches in England, theologian and author
• The Rt. Rev. Tony Robinson, Bishop of Wakefield

  Sport

• Sir Archibald Dennis Flower, rowed for Cambridge in the 1886 Boat Race
• Horace William Finlinson, England Rugby International
• Wardlaw Brown Thomson, England Rugby International
• William Mansfield Poole, rowed for Oxford in the 1891 Boat Race
• Arthur Jones, Captained the England cricket team. Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1900
• James Oswald Anderson, footballer for Lomas Athletic Club and Argentina, Cricketer for Hertfordshire
• Lionel Brown, Cricketer
• Charles Howard Foulkes CB CMG DSO, field hockey player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
• Arthur Jervois Turner, Cricketer and rugby union player
• Thomas Edgar Hammond, track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
• Sir Robert Daniel Richmond played cricket for Jamaica
• Andrew Ralston, amateur footballer for Spurs, Watford. FA administrator.
• Walter Martin Fitzherbert Turner, Cricketer
• Lt.-Col. Edgar Mobbs DSO, Captained the England Rugby Team and Northampton
• Arthur Cantrell, Cricketer
• Sir Sidney Abrahams KC, competed in the Long jump at the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Norman Oliver CavA, played cricket for Bedfordshire and Brazil
• Dr H.W. Evans MC, athlete, rugby player and physician
• Arthur Gilbert Bull, England Rugby International
• Frederick Charles William Newman, cricketer
• Dick Stafford, England Rugby International
• Basil Rogers, Cricketer
• Harold Lindsay Vernon Day, England Rugby International who also played first class cricket for Hampshire
• Ernest Dynes CBE, Cricketer
• Maurice Pugh OBE, Cricketer
• Sir George Edward Godber GCB, rowed for Oxford in the 1928 and 1929 Boat Races
• G.T. 'Beef' Dancer, rugby player who participated in the 1938 British Lions tour to South Africa
• Ken Richardson, athlete, silver medallist in the 1938 British Empire Games
• Ian Mantle, engineer and rally driver
• Eric Litchfield, footballer
• Gordon Brice, Cricketer and Footballer
• Tony Leadley, rowed for Cambridge in the 1953 Boat Race
• Arthur Grenfell Coomb, Cricketer
• Dickie Jeeps CBE, Captained the England Rugby Team and the British Lions
• Bob Gale, Middlesex Cricketer
• Geoff Millman, England Cricketer
• Graham Jarrett, Cricketer
• Peter David Watts, Cricketer
• Hamilton Pierre Matt Milton, swimmer at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Peter Kippax, Cricketer
• Andrew Curtis, Cricketer
• Lionel Edward Weston, England Rugby International
• Peter Knapp, rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics
• John Yallop, rower who won a Silver Medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
• Neil Keron, rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Harold James Plaskett, British Chess Champion in 1990
• Alan Fordham, Cricketer
• Neil Stanley, Cricketer
• Andrew Trott, Cricketer
• Paul Owen played cricket for Canada
• Matthew White, Cricketer
• Tim Foster MBE, rower who won a Gold Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
• David Gillard, rowed for Cambridge in the 1991, 1992 and 1993 Boat Races
• Matt Cavanagh, British national champion at Rugby Fives in 2004 and 2006
• Rod Chisholm, rower who participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
• Mark Denney, former rugby union footballer who played at centre for Bristol, Castres and Wasps
• Kelvin Locke, Cricketer
• Oliver Clayson, Cricketer
• Jamie Wade, Cricketer
• Monty Panesar, England Cricketer. Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2007
• Richard King, Cricketer
• Robin Kemp, Cricketer
• Henry Staff, professional rugby union player who plays for RFU Championship side, Bedford Blues
• Julie Rogers, participant in the 2012 Summer Paralympics and the 2016 Summer Paralympics
• Matthew Taylor, Cricketer