Yardleys School

Admissions

History

Notable former pupils

Yardley Grammar School

• Harold Ball, Keeper of Palæontology from 1966–86 at the British Museum, and President from 1981-84 of the Society for the History of Natural History
• Prof Paul Harris, Professor of Screen Media since 2014 at the University of Dundee, and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
• Denny Laine, guitarist with The Moody Blues who sang Go Now in 1964...the song reached number one in the British charts in January 1965. Denny joined Paul McCartney in Wings in August 1971.
• Prof David S. Ingram OBE, botanist, and Master from 2000-07 of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
• Sir Keith O'Nions FRS, President & Rector of Imperial College London since 2010, and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence from 2000-04
• Dave Pegg, bass guitar player with Fairport Convention
• Sir Robert Richard Taylor OBE, Lord Lieutenant of the West Midlands from 1993–2007, Managing Director from 1986-94 of Birmingham Airport, and Chairman from 1987-88 of the Airport Operators Association
• Ian Walters, sculptor
• Mary Lee Woods, mathematician who married Conway Berners-Lee, and her son Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web; at Manchester under John Makepeace Bennett, she developed the Ferranti Mark 1, the world's first commercial computer.
• Mick Webley, guitarist with The Renegades 1967-1971 and later with Kim and the Cadillacs 1977-1987