List of Old Derbeians
This is a list of notable Old Derbeians, former pupils and masters of Derby School and of Derby Grammar School, in Derby, England.
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Notable old boys
- Blessed Edward James, Roman Catholic martyr
- John Cotton, New England Puritan
- George Sitwell, Ironmaster and High Sheriff
- John Flamsteed, England's first Astronomer Royal
- Anthony Blackwall, classical scholar
- Henry Cantrell, clergyman and religious controversialist
- William Budworth, schoolmaster
- Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
- Joseph Wright, artist
- Daniel Coke, barrister and member of parliament
- Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens, diplomat
- Joseph Strutt, cotton manufacturer and philanthropist
- Sir William Gell, archaeologist
- Sir Francis Seymour Haden, surgeon and artist
- Henry Howe Bemrose, member of parliament for Derby
- Unwin Sowter, maltster, cricketer and Mayor of Derby
- John Cook Wilson, philosopher
- J. M. J. Fletcher, historian
- E. W. Hobson FRS, mathematician
- Richard Mansfield, actor
- John Atkinson Hobson, social theorist and economist
- Walter Weston, missionary and mountaineer
- Frederic Creswell, mining engineer and South African Minister of Defence
- Lawrence Beesley, RMS Titanic survivor and author
- William Henry Ansell, architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1940 to 1943
- Walter Greatorex, composer
- Charles Tate Regan, ichthyologist
- Sir George Simpson FRS, meteorologist
- Geoffrey Shaw, composer and musician
- Guy Wilson, cricketer and soldier
- William George Constable, art historian
- Frank Conroy, actor
- Robert Howe, last British Governor-General of the Sudan, 1947-1955
- Ernest Sterndale Bennett, Theatre Director and member of the Order of Canada
- Max Bemrose, Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire
- George Timms, clergyman
- P. G. Ashmore, academic chemist
- Gilbert Hodgkinson, cricketer
- Spencer Barrett, classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford
- George Bacon, nuclear physicist
- Ted Moult, farmer & TV personality
- Alexander Morrison, judge
- John Stobart, maritime artist
- Robert Grimley, Dean of Bristol since 1997
Notable masters of Derby School
- John Meade Falkner, novelist and poet
- Rev. Robert de Courcy Laffan, principal of Cheltenham College, member of the International Olympic Committee
- Henry Judge Hose, mathematician
