Newport High School, Bettws Lane

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History

Academic performance

Alumni

Newport High School for Boys

• Keith Baxter
• Cyril Bence, Labour MP from 1951 to 1970 for East Dunbartonshire
• Maj-Gen Bryan Bowen CB, Paymaster-in-Chief and Inspector of Army Pay Services from 1986 to 1989, and colonel commandant from 1990 to 1992 of the Royal Army Pay Corps
• Lt-Gen Sir Richard Bradshaw, Director General from 1977 to 1981 of the Army Medical Services, and Commandant from 1973 to 1975 of the RAMC Training Centre
• Trevor Brewer, rugby player
• David Burcher, rugby player
• Prof Graham Dixon-Lewis, FRS, professor of combustion science from 1978 to 1987 at the University of Leeds
• Gareth L Evans rugby union player
• John Evans
• Raymond Glendenning, sports commentator
• Prof Peter Gray, FRS, professor of physical chemistry from 1962 to 1988 at the University of Leeds, master from 1988 to 1996 of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and president from 1983 to 1985 of the Faraday Society
• Sir Donald Harrison, professor of laryngology and otology from 1963 to 1990 at UCL Medical School, and expert on laryngeal cancer
• Walter Martin
• Prof Robert Rowthorn, professor of economics from 1991 to 2006 at the University of Cambridge

  Newport High School for Girls

• Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn
• Alison Bielski, poet and writer.