List of people educated at St Peter's College, Auckland


This is a list of notable former students of St Peter's College, Auckland and at its predecessor school, St Peter's School.

Introduction

"Old Boys of Distinction"

St Peter's College has honoured the following old boys as "old boys of distinction": Ronald Trubuhovich, medical doctor and pioneer of critical care medicine in Auckland; Denis George Browne tenth Catholic Bishop of Auckland and second Catholic Bishop of Hamilton ; Cyril Eastlake, rugby league player who captained New Zealand at the 1954 World Cup and also played at the 1960 World Cup; John Fitzmaurice BE MS, FIPENZ – Engineer; Lt. Col Chris Mullane ONZM, MBE, JP – Decorated soldier and advocate for veterans' affairs; and Eddie Kohlhase MNZM – world champion softballer as player and coach.

Writers, artists, All Blacks and clergy

Old boys also include writers and poets Sam Hunt, Terry Locke, David McGill, Michael Morrissey, John Trenwith, Mark Williams, and from the earlier St Peter's, William Eugene Outhwaite. Artists George Baloghy and Glen Davis also attended the school. There are eight old boys who became All Blacks including Bernie McCahill, second five-eighth and centre three-quarter and, currently, the lock, Patrick Tuipulotu. Two Catholic bishops, Edward Russell Gaines, the first Bishop Hamilton and his successor Denis George Browne attended the school, as did nearly 100 Catholic priests, deacons and religious. In the nineteenth century, Matthew Joseph Brodie, second Bishop of Christchurch received part of his education at the "Pitt St School".

Soldier/diplomat and banker

commanded New Zealand and international forces in East Timor. With the rank of Major general, he became Commander Joint Forces New Zealand in the New Zealand Defence Force and was New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia. Michael Fay, New Zealand merchant banker, chair of the campaigns for three New Zealand challenges for the America's Cup in 1987, 1988 and 1992, attended the school in the early 1960s.

Politicians

St Peter's has also produced politicians including five Members of Parliament and a Mayor of Auckland. In the 19th century, John Sheehan was Minister of Justice and Minister of Maori Affairs and Joseph Tole was Minister of Justice . Another old boy of St Peter's School, William Joseph Napier, was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the City of Auckland multi-member electorate. In recent years, Chris Carter was Member of Parliament for Te Atatū and Cabinet Minister of several portfolios, but was especially notable as Minister of Conservation. John Tamihere and Tamaki Makaurau ) was Minister of Small Business, Minister of Youth Affairs, Minister of Statistics and Minister for Land Information from August 2002 to 3 November 2004. Peter Dignan, was the fifteenth, and first New Zealand-born, Mayor of Auckland.

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