List of Old Carthusians

A list of notable Old Carthusians, who are former pupils of Charterhouse School.

Born in the 17th century

Co-founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge Isaac Barrow

• Joseph Henshaw (1603–1679), Bishop of Peterborough, 1663–1679
• Roger Williams (c. 1603–1683), religious dissenter and co-founder of Rhode Island
• Richard Crashaw (1612/3–1648), poet
• Christopher Gibbons (c. 1615–1676), organist and composer
• Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet and soldier
• Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), mathematician and theologian
• James Vernon (c. 1646–1727), Secretary of State
• Nathaniel Lee (c. 1647–1692), dramatist and poet
• Samuel Bradford (1652–1731), Bishop of Carlisle and Rochester
• John King (c. 1655–1737), Master of Charterhouse 1715-1737
• Dr. Henry Levett (1668–1725), chief physician, Charterhouse 1712-1725
• Joseph Addison (1672–1719), writer and politician
• Sir Richard Steele (c. 1672–1729), writer and politician, founder of The Tatler
• Andrew Tooke (1673–1731), Headmaster of Charterhouse
• John Davies (1679–1732), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• Martin Benson (1689–1752), Bishop of Gloucester
• Francis Peck (1692–1743), antiquary
• John Thomas (1696–1781), Bishop of Winchester
• Robert Paltock (1697–1767), writer
• John Ryder (c. 1697–1775), Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, 1743–1752, and Archbishop of Tuam, 1752–1775
• Mark Hildesley (1698–1772), Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1755–1772
• John Jortin (1698–1770), ecclesiastical historian and literary critic

Born in the 18th century

Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1805–1828 Charles Manners-Sutton

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1812–1827 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool

President of the Royal Society Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

• Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet (c. 1700–1776), judge
• John Wesley (1703–1791), founder of Methodism
• Edmund Keene (1714–1781), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Ely
• Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), first Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1758–1766, politician and judge
• William Jones of Nayland (1726–1800), controversial clergyman
• Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool (1729–1808), Secretary at War, 1778–1782, first President of the Board of Trade, 1786–1804, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1786–1803
• John Buckner (1734–1824), Bishop of Chichester
• Samuel Berdmore (1739–1802), Master of Charterhouse School, 1769–1802
• Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), surgeon, botanist, and Bath King of Arms, 1771–1800
• Sir Horatio Mann (1744–1814), politician and patron of cricket
• John Law (1745–1810), bishop
• William Cawthorne Unwin (1745–1786), clergyman
• John Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher, traveller and eccentric
• William Seward (1747–1799), anecdotist and conversationalist
• Thomas Day (1748–1789), author
• Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818), Lord Chief Justice, 1802–1818
• Charles Manners-Sutton (1755–1828), Bishop of Norwich, 1792–1805, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1805–1828
• Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757–1849), Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, 1801–1806, and Commander-in-Chief in India, 1811–1813
• John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1789–1794, and Lord Privy Seal, 1798–1827
• George Henry Law (1761–1845), Bishop of Chester, 1812–1824, and Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1824–1845
• Francis Wollaston (1762–1823), Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 1792–1813
• James Beresford (1764–1840), novelist
• Henry Majendie (1764–1830), Bishop of Chester and Bangor
• James Smithson (1764–1829), mineralogist, traveller and founder of the Smithsonian Institution (probable Old Carthusian)
• William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), metallurgist, crystallographer and physiologist, discoverer of palladium and rhodium, researcher into platinum
• William Heberden the Younger (1767–1845), physician to George III
• Henry Luttrell (1768–1851), wit and poet
• Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828), Prime Minister, 1812–1827
• Basil Montagu (1770–1851), author, barrister and Accountant-General in Bankruptcy, 1835–1846
• William Madocks (1773–1828), property developer and politician, founder of Tremadog and Porthmadog
• Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804), Royal Navy officer and rake (left after 9 days)
• James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776–1845), politician and Lord President of the Council, 1841–1845
• John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), Governor of the Bank of England
• George Cecil Renouard (1780–1867), classicist and orientalist
• Assistant Commissary-General Sir George Head (1782–1855), army commissary, Deputy Knight-Marshal to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1831–1855
• Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783–1862), surgeon and physiologist, Sergeant-Surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria, 1832–1862
• General Sir Frederick Adam (1784–1853), army officer, commander of the 3rd Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, commander in the Mediterranean, 1817–1824, Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, 1824–1832, and Governor of Madras, 1832–1837
• James Monk (1784–1856), theologian and classicist, Bishop of Gloucester, 1830–1836, and Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1836–1856
• George Burges (1785/6–1864), classicist
• William Forbes Raymond (1785–1860), Archdeacon of Northumberland
• John Thomas James (1786–1828), Bishop of Calcutta, 1826–1828, and art historian
• Sir Edward Hall Alderson (c. 1787–1857), judge
• John Fonblanque (1787–1865), barrister and legal writer
• John Fisher (1788–1832), Archdeacon of Berkshire
• John Ramsden Wollaston (1791-1856), Archdeacon of Western Australia
• Gilbert Ainslie (1793–1870), clergyman, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge^[1]
• Sir Cresswell Cresswell (1793–1863), judge and politician
• Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), painter and first Director of the National Gallery, 1855–1865
• Samuel Hinds (1793–1872), Bishop of Norwich, 1849–1857
• Sir William Hay Macnaghten (1793–1841), Chief Secretary, Indian Secret and Political Department, 1833–1841
• John Walpole Willis (1793–1877), controversial judge in Canada, British Guiana and Australia
• Benjamin Guy Babington (1794–1866), physician and orientalist, inventor of the laryngoscope
• Richard Lynch Cotton (1794–1880), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
• George Grote (1794–1871), historian and radical politician
• Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855), theological writer
• Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), commander in the Indian Mutiny
• Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875), Bishop of St David's, 1840–1874, and historian
• Frederick Henry Yates (1797–1842), actor-manager
• William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868), astronomer
• Henry Raper (1799–1859), writer on navigation

Born in the 19th century

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford Henry Liddell

Governor of Malta and Jamaica Sir Henry Storks

Governor of New Zealand, Mauritius and Hong Kong Sir George Bowen

Attorney-General, Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone

Founder of the Scout Movement Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Principal of King's College London Ronald Montagu Burrows

Chief of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd

First Secretary-General of NATO General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay

• Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie (1801–1874), Secretary at War, 1846–1852, and Secretary of State for War, 1855–1858
• Colonel Sir Proby Cautley (1802–1871), civil engineer and palaeontologist, Superintendent of the Doab Canal, India, 1831–1843, and Superintendent of Canals, North-Western Provinces, 1843–1854, architect of the Ganges Canal
• Sir Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), Solicitor-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1825–1833, Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land, 1833–1837, Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1844–1873, and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, 1875–1891
• William John Hamilton (1805–1867), geologist and politician
• John Edward Jackson (1805–1891), archivist at Longleat
• Sir George Barrow (1806–1876), civil servant
• Rawdon Brown (1806–1883), historian in Venice
• Thomas Milner Gibson (1806–1884), radical politician, President of the Board of Trade, 1859–1866
• Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), clergyman and writer
• Sir Christopher Rawlinson (1806–1888), Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca, 1847–1850, and Chief Justice of Madras, 1850–1859
• Sir Charles Trevelyan (1807–1886), Assistant Secretary to HM Treasury & responsible for famine relief during the disastrous Irish famine, 1840–1859, Governor of Madras, 1859–1860, and Minister of Finance of India, 1862–1865
• Cardale Babington (1808–1895), Professor of Botany, University of Cambridge, 1861–1895
• Charles Freshfield (1808–1891), solicitor
• John Murray (1808–1892), publisher
• Ralph Bernal Osborne (c. 1808–1882), politician, Secretary of the Admiralty, 1852–1858
• G. T. Clark (1809–1898), civil engineer and antiquary, Manager, Dowlais Ironworks, 1855–1897
• Owen Jones (1809–1874), architect, printer and designer
• William Hornby (1810–1899), Archdeacon of Lancaster
• Martin Tupper (1810–1889), poet and writer
• George Stovin Venables (1810–1888), barrister and journalist
• Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), Member of Parliament for Clitheroe
• Henry Liddell (1811–1898), Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, 1855–1891, editor of the Greek-English Lexicon
• Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Storks (1811–1874), last High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands, 1859–1863, Governor of Malta, 1864–1865, Governor of Jamaica, 1864–1866, Controller-in-Chief of the War Office, 1866–1870, and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, 1870–1874
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), novelist
• George Whitaker, (1811–1882), clergyman and first provost of Trinity College, Toronto
• Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812–1855), architect
• Sir Frederick Knight (1812–1897) Conservative MP
• Henry Lushington (1812–1855), Chief Secretary of Malta, 1847–1855
• George Samuel Fereday Smith (1812–1891), industrialist and canal manager
• William Macpherson (1812–1893), barrister and legal writer
• John Armstrong (1813–1856), first Bishop of Grahamstown, 1853–1856
• Alfred Gatty (1813–1903), clergyman and writer
• George Dennis (1814–1898), archaeologist and diplomat
• Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1814–1883), orientalist, diplomat and politician, Professor of Urdu, East India College, 1845–1857
• Kirkman Daniel Hodgson (1814–1879), Member of Parliament for Bridport and Bristol, and Governor of the Bank of England
• Henry Ray Freshfield (1814–1895), solicitor and conservationist
• William Alexander Ayton (1816–1909), clergyman, alchemist, and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
• John Ernest Bode (1816–1874), clergyman and poet
• John Leech (1817–1864), caricaturist
• Sir James Cockle (1819–1895), Chief Justice of Queensland, 1863–1879, and mathematician
• Sir George Bowen (1821–1899), Chief Secretary of the Ionian Islands, 1854–1859, first Governor of Queensland, 1859–1867, Governor of New Zealand, 1867–1873, Governor of Victoria, 1873–1879, Governor of Mauritius, 1879–1882, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1882–1885
• Greville Phillimore (1821–1884), clergyman and author
• Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), critic and poet
• Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1824–1871), physician and medical writer
• William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), traveller and diplomat
• Sir Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919), economist and banker
• Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886), first Professor of Helminthology, Royal Veterinary College, 1873–1886
• Sir Reginald Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the House of Commons, 1886–1900
• Mordaunt Roger Barnard, Rev. (1828–1906),translator and author
• Sir William Des Vœux (1834–1909), Administrator of St Lucia, 1869–1878, Governor of Fiji, 1880–1885, Governor of Newfoundland, 1886–1887, and Governor of Hong Kong, 1887–1891
• Sheldon Amos (1835–1886), Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London, 1869–1879, and University of London, 1873–1879, and lawyer and judge in Egypt
• Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer (1836–1914), Governor of Natal 1882–1885
• Henry Nettleship (1839–1893), classicist, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford, 1878–1893
• Samuel John Stone (1839–1900), clergyman and hymn writer
• Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905), classicist and politician, Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow, 1875–1889, and Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge, 1889–1905
• Albert Seymour (1841–1908), Archdeacon of Barnstaple
• Basil Champneys (1842–1935), architect and author
• Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), judge and politician, Attorney-General, 1885–1886, 1886–1892, 1895–1900, Master of the Rolls, 1900, and Lord Chief Justice, 1900–1913
• Warin Foster Bushell (1885–1974), educationalist and President of the Mathematical Association
• Charles Campbell, 2nd Baron Glenavy (1885–1963), hereditary peer
• Edward Talbot (1844–1934), first Warden of Keble College, Oxford, 1869–1888, Vicar of Leeds, 1889–1895, Bishop of Rochester, 1895–1905, first Bishop of Southwark, 1905–1911, and Bishop of Winchester, 1911–1923
• Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), Sinologist, Professor of Chinese, University of Cambridge, 1897–1932, co-inventor of Wade-Giles transliteration system
• Kenneth Augustus Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie (1845–1930), barrister and civil servant, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1880–1915, and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, 1884–1915
• Arthur Clarke (1848–1932), Archdeacon of Lancaster and Rochdale
• Edgar Gibson (1848–1924), Bishop of Gloucester
• William Wyatt "Nipper" Pinching (1851–1878), surgeon and early rugby union international who represented England in 1872.^[2]
• Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853–1937), actor-manager
• Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), soldier and founder of the Scouting Movement, commander of Mafeking garrison, 1899–1900, founder and first commander of the South African Constabulary, 1900–1902, Inspector of Cavalry, 1902–1908, General Officer Commanding Northumbrian Division, 1908–1910^[3]
• Leonard Burrows (1857–1940), Bishop of Lewes and Sheffield
• William Hayter (1858–1935), Dean of Gibraltar
• John Norman Collie (1859–1942), organic chemist and mountaineer, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University College, London, 1902–1928
• Basil Harwood (1859–1949), organist and composer
• William Foxley Norris (1859–1949), Dean of York and Westminster
• William Hurrell (1860–1952), Archdeacon of Loughborough
• Henry Southwell (1860–1937), Bishop of Lewes
• Sir Henry Head (1861–1940), neurologist
• Lionel Monckton (1861–1924), composer and songwriter
• Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861–1936), judge and politician, Solicitor-General, 1919–1922, Attorney-General, 1922, and Master of the Rolls, 1923–1935
• William "Nuts" Cobbold (1862–1922), England international footballer
• James Cropper (1862–1938), Dean of Gibraltar
• Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932), political scholar
• Cyril Francis Maude (1862–1951), actor-manager
• Andrew Amos (1863–1931), England international footballer and clergyman
• Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley (1863–1946), Member of Parliament for Leeds East and East Grinstead
• Walter Howard Frere (1863–1938), founder member of the Community of the Resurrection, Bishop of Truro, 1923–1935
• Sir Cyril Jackson (1863–1924), Inspector-General of Schools, Western Australia, 1896–1903, Chief Inspector of Elementary Schools, 1903–1905, and Chairman of London County Council, 1915–?
• Sir Reginald Neville, 1st Baronet (1863–1950), barrister and politician
• Bertram Pollock (1863–1943), Bishop of Norwich
• Sir C. Aubrey Smith (1863–1948), actor and cricketer
• Percy Melmoth Walters (1863–1936), England and Corinthian footballer
• Henry Wilson-Fox (1863–1921), Member of Parliament for Tamworth
• Brigadier Guy Hudleston Boisragon (1864–1931), Victoria Cross
• Andrew Burn (1864–1927), Dean of Salisbury
• Brien Cokayne, 1st Baron Cullen of Ashbourne (1864–1932), Governor of the Bank of England
• Charles Alfred Howell Green (1864–1944), Archdeacon of Monmouth, 1914–1921, first Bishop of Monmouth, 1921–1928, Bishop of Bangor, 1928–1944, and Archbishop of Wales, 1934–1944
• Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864–1958), art, porcelain and book collector and benefactor
• John Percival Gulich (1864–1898) illustrator, engraver and artist
• Arthur Melmoth Walters (1865–1941), England and Corinthian footballer
• Charles Wreford-Brown (1866–1951), English international football captain and cricketer
• Ronald Montagu Burrows (1867–1920), Principal of King's College London (1913–1920)
• Coningsby Disraeli (1867–1936), Member of Parliament for Altrincham
• Granville Eliot, 7th Earl of St Germans (1867–1942), hereditary peer
• Oswald Parry (1868–1936), Bishop of Guyana
• Sir Eustace Tennyson-D'Eyncourt (1868–1951), naval architect, Director of Naval Construction, 1912–1924
• Sir Henry Gollan, (1868–1949), Chief Justice of various British colonies, retired as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong
• Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr (1869–1915), hereditary peer and cricketer
• Walter Gilliat (1869–1963), England international footballer and clergyman
• Colonel James Morris Colquhoun Colvin (1870–1945), Victoria Cross
• Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans (1870–1960), hereditary peer
• Henry Fowler, 2nd Viscount Wolverhampton (1870–1943), hereditary peer
• Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1870–1945), philologist and lexicographer, first Baines Professor of English Language and Philology, University of Liverpool, 1904–1920, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 1920–1945
• Sir Farquhar Buzzard (1871–1945), physician, Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford, 1928–1943
• Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (1871–1947), Chief of Staff, Fourth Army, 1916–1918, Chief of Staff, British Army of the Rhine, 1918–1920, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, India, 1920–1925, General Officer Commanding Southern Command, Adjutant-General to the Forces, 1931–1933, and Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1933–1936
• Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll (1872–1949), hereditary peer
• Sir Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), satirist and caricaturist
• Richard Clewin Griffith (1872–1955), British chess champion (1912) and chess author
• Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944), composer
• Gilbert Oswald Smith (1872–1943), England international football captain and cricketer
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer
• Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (1874–1953), archaeologist and palaeographer, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 1927–1939
• Air Marshal Sir John Higgins (1875–1948), founder member of the Royal Flying Corps, Commander, No.2 Brigade, RFC, 1916–1918, Royal Air Force commander, British Army of the Rhine, Air Officer Commanding Northern Area, Director of Personnel, AOC Inland Area, 1922–1924, AOC Iraq, 1924–?, Air Member for Supply and Research, and AOC-in-C India, 1939–1940
• Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game (1876–1961), Director of Training and Organisation, Royal Air Force, 1919–1923, Air Officer Commanding India, 1923, Air Member for Personnel, 1923–1929, Governor of New South Wales, 1930–1935, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1935–1945
• Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950), composer
• Kelville Ernest Irving (1877–1953), musical director and composer
• Horace Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan (1878–1950), Irish peer
• William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (1879–1963), civil servant, politician, economist and social reformer, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Food, 1919, Director of the London School of Economics, 1919–1937, and Master of University College, Oxford, 1937–1944
• Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie (1879–1964), Inspector, Royal Engineers, 1933–1935, General Officer Commanding Malaya and Singapore, 1935–1939, and Governor-General of Malta, 1940–1942
• Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879–1963), Egyptologist
• Sir Patrick Hastings (1880–1952), barrister and politician, first Labour Attorney-General, 1924
• Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Leachman (1880–1920), intelligence officer and traveller
• Hampton Weekes (1880–1948), Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight
• Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom (1881–1965), architect and politician
• Colonel Sir Ronald Storrs (1881–1955), Oriental Secretary in Cairo, 1909–1915, Governor of Jerusalem, 1917–1926, Governor of Cyprus, 1926–1932, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia, 1932–1934
• Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake (1881–1964), Mayor of Maidstone, zoo keeper
• Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (1882–1974), poet and novelist
• Henry FitzHerbert (1882–1958), Archdeacon of Derby
• Wyndham Halswelle (1882–1915), sprinter who won Olympic gold in 1908 in the 400m and was killed in battle during World War One. The school refused an offer to host his Olympic medals and other trophies in 2008. They are now displayed in the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame.^[4]
• Thomas Wilson (1882–1961), Archdeacon of Worcester
• Arthur Preston (1883–1936), Bishop of Woolwich
• Kenneth Searight (1883–1957), linguist
• Lieutenant-General Edward Felix Norton (1884–1954), soldier and mountaineer, Acting Governor of Hong Kong, 1940–1941, and General Officer Commanding Western Independent District, India, 1941–1942
• Sir Eric Teichman (1884–1944), diplomat and traveller in Central Asia, Chinese Secretary in Peking, 1922–1936
• John Woodhouse (1884–1955), Bishop of Thetford
• Ben Travers (1886–1980), dramatist
• Hedley Burrows (1887–1983), Dean of Hereford
• General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887–1965), Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1938–1946, Chief of Staff to the Viceroy of India, 1947–1948, and first Secretary-General of NATO, 1952–1957
• Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887–1944), Governor of Victoria, 1926–1931, Deputy Chief Scout, 1936–1941, and Chief Scout, 1941–1944
• J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), first head master of Stowe School, 1923–1949
• Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889–1982), painter and gardener
• Arthur Stuart, 7th Earl Castle Stewart (1889–1961), Member of Parliament for Harborough
• Claud Lovat Fraser (1890–1921), artist and designer
• Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks (1890–1960), Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff
• General Sir Kenneth Anderson (1891–1959), General Officer Commanding First Army, 1942–1943, GOC Second Army, 1943–1944, GOC Eastern Command, 1944–1945, GOC-in-C East Africa, 1945–1946, and Governor of Gibraltar, 1947–1952
• Eric Archibald McNair (1894–1918), First World War Victoria Cross
• John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir (1894–1954), politician, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1936–1938, Secretary of State for Scotland, 1938–1940, and Governor of Bombay, 1943–1948
• Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965), Australian barrister, politician and judge, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs, 1941–1949, Leader of the Labor Party, 1951–1960, and Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1960–1962
• Brigadier John Hessell Tiltman (1894–1982), cryptographer, Chief Cryptographer, Bletchley Park
• Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist
• Alfred Bower (1895–1970), England footballer
• General Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge (eldest son of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, the only man to rise to the rank of Field Marshal from private), Managing Director, Dunlop, South Africa, 1935–1940, Chief Administrative Officer, Allied Forces in Italy, 1944–1945, Deputy Military Governor of the British Zone of Germany, 1945–1947, Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, 1947–1949, British Commissioner, Allied High Commission, 1949–1950, C-in-C Middle East Land Forces, 1950–1953, and Chairman of the British Transport Commission, 1953–1961
• Sir Lionel Heald (1897–1981), barrister and politician, Attorney-General, 1951–1954
• Frederick William Winterbotham (1897–1990), intelligence officer
• Harold Greville Hanbury (1898–1993), jurist, Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, 1949–1964
• Dudley Clarke (1899–1974), leading World War II deception planner and founder of the Commandos
• David Jenkins, Baron Jenkins (1899–1969), Attorney-General of the Duchy of Lancaster
• John McNeill QC (1899–unknown) Crown Advocate of the British Supreme Court for China and Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association
• Tom Rowlandson MC (1880–1916), England amateur football goalkeeper

Born in the 20th century

Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull KG, GCB DSO, DL (1907–1989)

Television presenter David Dimbleby

Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt

UKIP MP Douglas Carswell

• Maurice Herbert Dobb (1900–1976), economist
• Richard Hughes (1900–1976), novelist and dramatist
• John Samuel Tunnard (1900–1971), painter
• Horace Geoffrey "H.G." Quaritch Wales (1900–1981), Southeast Asian studies
• Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce (1901–1990), Law Lord
• Raymond Charles Robertson-Glasgow (1901–1965), cricketer and journalist
• Patrick Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 4th Baron Derwent (1901–1986), politician
• Arthur Seymour John Tessimond (1902–1962), poet
• Sir Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet (1902–1971), landowner, Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
• Major-General Orde Wingate (1903–1944), guerrilla warfare specialist, founder and commander of the Chindits
• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980), anthropologist and co-founder of cybernetics
• Ralph Etherton (1904–1987), Conservative Member of Parliament for Stretford]
• Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904–2003), film producer
• Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985), anthropologist and author
• John Pelloe (1905–1983), Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech
• Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster (1906–1975), Paymaster General
• Sir Harold Ridley (1906–2001), ophthalmic surgeon, inventor of the intraocular lens implant
• Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon (1906–1989), advocate and judge, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1957–1959, Lord of Session, 1959–1965, Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, 1965–1971, and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1971–1976
• Ronald Cartland (1907–1940), Conservative MP and rebel against Chamberlain's appeasement policies, killed near Dunkirk in 1940; portrayed in Lynne Olson's "Troublesome Young Men."
• Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke (1907–1989), author and screenwriter
• Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull (1907–1989), Commander, Blade Force, 1942, General Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division, 1944–1945, GOC 5th Infantry Division, 1945–1946, Commandant, Staff College, Camberley, 1946–1948, Director of Staff Duties, 1948–1950, Chief Army Instructor, Imperial Defence College, 1950–1952, Chief of Staff, Middle East Land Forces, 1953–1954, GOC British Troops in Egypt, 1954–1956, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1956–1958, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, 1958–1961, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1961–1965, and Chief of the Defence Staff, 1965–1967
• Terence Kealey (born 1952), biochemist
• Bernard Kettlewell (1907–1979), lepidopterist
• Richard Murdoch (1907–1990), actor and comedian
• Yashwant Rao Holkar II (1907–1990), Maharaja of Indore
• Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908–1961), cartoonist and designer
• Harry Frederick Oppenheimer (1908–2000), Chairman of De Beers
• Alexander Clifford (1909–1952), journalist and author
• William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood (1909–1989), Conservative Member of Parliament for Westmorland and government minister
• Henry Carpenter Longhurst (1909–1978), golf journalist and commentator
• Alec Pearce (1910–1982), cricketer Kent, Hong Kong and MCC.
• Geoffrey Toone (1910–2005), actor
• Jack Whittingham (1910–1972), James Bond screenwriter
• Sir John Lovegrove Waldron (1910–1975), Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, 1968–1972
• Peter Bostock (1911–1999), Archdeacon of Mombassa and Doncaster
• John Hill (1912–2007), barrister, farmer and Conservative Member of Parliament for South Norfolk
• John Lewis (typographer) (1912–1996), typographer and illustrator
• Hilary Wayment (1912–2005), author and historian of stained glass
• Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell (1913–1962), hereditary peer
• John Sinclair Morrison (1913–2000), Professor of Greek, University of Durham, 1945–1950, Vice-Master of Churchill College, Cambridge, 1960–1965, first President of University College (later Wolfson College), Cambridge, 1965–1980, expert on Greek triremes
• Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom (1913–1992), Conservative Member of Parliament for Nottingham Central
• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, later Baron Dacre of Glanton
• Patrick Trevor-Roper (1916–2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist (witness before the Wolfenden Committee)
• Ronald Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir (1917–1996), soldier, Governor of the Bank of Scotland
• Wilfrid Noyce (1917–1962), mountaineer and writer, member of the 1953 Everest Expedition
• Kent Walton (1917–2003), wrestling commentator
• Alexander Wallace Fielding (1918–1991), SOE officer and author
• Peston Padamji Ginwala (1918–2008), Indian barrister
• Ian Wallace (1919–2009), singer and broadcaster
• Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), historian and Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University, 1963–1990
• John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), Master of the Rolls
• Michael Hoban (1921–2003), headmaster of Harrow School
• W. Stanley Moss (1921–1965), SOE officer, author and traveller
• David Dane (1923–1998), virologist
• Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths (1923–2015), soldier, cricketer, barrister, judge and life peer
• Sir Anthony Caro (1924–2013), sculptor
• Professor Peter Green (born 1924), classical scholar, historian and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• Murray Irvine (1924–2005), churchman and Provost of Southwell Minster
• Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith (1924–2010), Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras South, East Grinstead and Wealden
• Kenneth Newton (1927–2010), novelist
• Gerald Francis Priestland (1927–1991), broadcaster and writer
• Simon Arthur Noël Raven (1927–2001), writer
• Oliver Popplewell (born 1927), judge
• Jim Prior, Baron Prior (born 1927), former Member of Parliament for Lowestoft and Waveney, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1970–72), Secretary of State for Employment (1979–81)
• William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (1928–2012), public servant, journalist, and editor of The Times (1967–81)
• Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne (born 1928), Labour Member of Parliament for Lincoln, founder of Democratic Labour, co-founder of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Liberal Democrat peer
• Richard Eyre (1929–2012), Dean of Exeter
• David Nightingale Hicks (1929–1998), interior designer and author
• Peter May (1929–1994), England cricket captain
• Peter Yates (1929–2011), film director
• Peter Vaughan (born 1930), churchman and former Bishop of Ramsbury
• Michael Whinney (born 1930), churchman and former Bishop of Aston and Bishop of Southwell
• Frederic Raphael (born 1931), writer
• Brian Glanville (born 1931), football writer and novelist
• John Finney (born 1932), churchman and former Bishop of Pontefract
• Anthony Trafford, Baron Trafford (1932–1989), former Member of Parliament for The Wrekin
• John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham (born 1932), former Member of Parliament for Maldon and South Colchester and Maldon and government minister
• Peter Walwyn (born 1933), racehorse trainer
• Don Cupitt (born 1934), philosopher of religion and Christian theologian
• Sir Richard Sorabji (born 1934), historian of ancient philosophy
• Sir Anthony Buzzard, 3rd Baronet (born 1935), biblical scholar and Christian theologian
• Dr Richard Godwin-Austen Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (born 1935), consultant neurologist
• Major John Gouriet (1935–2010), Conservative political campaigner and founder of The Freedom Association
• Peter Grant (1935–1995), manager of (Led Zeppelin)
• Alan Evans (born 1938), housing economist
• David Dimbleby (born 1938), TV presenter^[3]
• David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking (born 1938), hereditary peer
• Adam Raphael (born 1938), journalist
• Gillon Aitken (born 1938), publisher and literary agent
• Sir (Marsom) Henry Boyd-Carpenter, courtier
• Peter Cowie (born 1939), film historian
• Sir John Banham (born 1940), diplomat and business leader
• Hubert Chesshyre (born 1940), courtier
• Tom Bruce Jones (born 1941), Scottish forestry owner
• Graeme Dunlop (born 1942), former chairman of P&O Ferries and the UK Chamber of Shipping
• Andrew Graham (born 1942), Master of Balliol College, Oxford
• Professor Richard Collin (born 1943), Moorfields ophthalmic surgeon
• Jonathan Mance, Baron Mance (born 1943), Law Lord and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
• Michael Prestwich (born 1943), former Professor of Medieval History at the University of Durham
• Dr Robin Bidwell (born 1944), environmentalist
• Jonathan Dimbleby (born 1944), TV and radio presenter
• Jonathan King (born 1944), pop music impresario^[3]
• Peter de Savary (born 1944), entrepreneur and former chairman of Millwall F.C.
• Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes DL (born 1945), former soldier, businessman, consulting physician, and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Wimbledon
• Sir Max Hastings (born 1945), journalist, writer and broadcaster
• Tim Yeo (born 1945), former Member of Parliament (MP) for South Suffolk and former chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
• Sir Philip Bailhache (born 1946), Bailiff of Jersey, Channel Islands 1995–2009
• John Campbell (born 1947), political writer and biographer
• General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman (born 1947), Adjutant-General to the Forces, 2000–2003, Commander-in-Chief Land, 2003–2005, and Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, 2005–
• Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (born 1947), Labour peer and Treasury minister in the 2010 Coalition government
• David Walter (1948–2012), ITN and BBC correspondent, radio and television producer and later political advisor (President of the Oxford Union and winner of the Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster (born 1949), hereditary peer
• Jim Powell (born 1949), novelist
• Tony Banks (born 1950), keyboardist and founder member of Genesis
• Peter Gabriel (born 1950), singer-songwriter and founder member of Genesis^[3]
• Sir John Watson Gieve KCB (born 1950), Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
• Rivers Jobe (1950–1979), bass guitarist and member of The Anon
• Richard MacPhail (born 1950), vocalist for The Anon
• Mike Rutherford (born 1950), guitarist and founder member of Genesis; also leader of Mike + The Mechanics^[3]
• Rob Tyrell (born 1950), drummer for The Anon
• Graham Seed (born 1950), actor who played Nigel Pargetter in BBC radio programme The Archers
• Chris Stewart (born 1950), founder member of Genesis
• Maxwell Aitken, 3rd Baron Beaverbrook (born 1951), hereditary peer
• Ian Davies (born 1951), chairman of Rolls Royce Group plc
• Sir Nigel Davis (born 1951), Lord Justice of Appeal
• Anthony Phillips (born 1951), guitarist and founder member of Genesis
• Anthony Coombs (born 1952), former Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest
• Charles Burton (born 1952), economist
• Simon Russell, 3rd Baron Russell of Liverpool (born 1952), crossbench peer
• Sir Andrew Caradoc Hamilton, 10th Baronet (born 1953), mill owner
• Mike Thornton (born 1953), former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Eastleigh
• Sir James Goss Kt QC (born 1953), Justice of the High Court
• Sir Michael Briggs (judge) (born 1954), Justice of the High Court
• Axel Chaldecott (born 1954), creative director for J. Walter Thomson, Royal Dutch Shell, First Direct and Go (airline)
• Stephen Drury (born 1954), shipping lawyer at Holman Fenwick Willan
• Archie Norman (born 1954), businessman, chairman of ITV plc and former Conservative Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells
• John Peet (born 1954), journalist for The Economist
• Stephen Venables (born 1954), mountaineer and writer
• Christopher Cunliffe (born 1955), Archdeacon of Derby
• Martin Ephson (born 1956), director at Farrow & Ball, winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise (2004)
• Lachlan Mackinnon (born 1956), poet and critic
• Karl Wallinger (born 1957), rock musician
• Richard Milner, 3rd Baron Milner of Leeds, hereditary peer
• Rachel Portman (born 1960), composer
• Joseph Neill (born 1961), surgeon and soldier
• Tim Judah (born 1962), journalist and author
• Mark Garnier (born 1963), Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre Forest
• Matthew Harris (born 1965), head chef at Bibendum London
• Jeremy Hunt (born 1966), Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Surrey and Secretary of State for Health
• Maxwell Barclay (born 1970), entomologist
• Douglas Carswell (born 1971), UKIP Member of Parliament for Clacton
• Ladi Balogun (born 1972), CEO of First City Monument Bank
• Jonathan Goodwin (born 1972), businessman and former managing director of Talk Radio UK
• James Innes (born 1975), author
• Clement Power (born 1980), conductor

Fictional Old Carthusians

• Giles Wemmbley-Hogg (created 2002, born c. 1984), fictional BBC Radio 4 character
• Major Quive-Smith (created 1939, born c.1900) from Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male; a British-educated gestapo officer and the book's chief antagonist.

References

1. John Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, p. 20
2. Nipper Pinching Profile on scrum.com
3. Rebecca Camber (2012-03-25). "Charterhouse pupil 'filmed boys in shower': Teen arrested at £30,000-a-year school | Mail Online". Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
4. "Hero from a forsaken generation". Herald Scotland. 21 July 2008.