List of people educated at St John's School, Leatherhead

This is a list of Old Johnians (abbreviated OJs), former pupils of St. John's School, Leatherhead, which is a public school in Surrey, England.

Notable Old Johnians

• David Alesworth, ARBS, distinguished artist, based in Pakistan.
• Paul Boissier, Headmaster of Harrow School
• Peter Bruinvels
• Septimus Brutton, cricketer
• Sir Paul Bryan DSO MC, Conservative MP who came into politics after distinguished service in the Second World War ^[1]
• Sir Henry Calley DL DFC DSO^[2]
• John Cook, Prolific 20th-century Anglo-American composer, organist and church musician.
• Giles Dilnot, BBC Daily Politics Political Correspondent and co-presenter
• Kenneth Durham
• Peter Drury
• Basil Ede, wildlife artist specialising in avian portraiture.
• Mohamed A. El-Erian, CEO and CIO of PIMCO - a company of Allianz SE
• Ronald Goodchild Bishop of Kensington between 1964 and 1980
• Geoffrey Grigson, poet, anthologist and critic
• John Hooper Harvey, architectural and garden historian
• David Hatch
• Gavin Hewitt, Europe Editor of BBC News
• Sir Anthony Hope, author of adventure novels such as The Prisoner of Zenda
• Major General Malcolm Hunt OBE RM, CO 40 Commando RM during Op Corporate^[3]
• The Right Reverend Morris Maddocks^[4]
• Humfrey Malins CBE MP
• Christopher Matthews, internet and dating agency businessman
• Guy Michelmore
• Andrew Norriss, children's book author and TV sitcom writer.
• Peter Rothwell World War II pilot ^[5]
• Reverend Vivian Redlich, a missionary in Papua New Guinea when the Japanese invaded in 1942. The decision to remain at his post led to his beheading in August that year. The Chapel is dedicated to the martyr who attended St John's from 1916 to 1917. The island's Martyr's Memorial School was founded in 1948 as a memorial. In a new development on 2 September 2006, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that it is now believed that Vivian, instead of dying at the hands of the Japanese, may have been murdered by the tribal people he had sought refuge with.^[6]
• Lord Richard Rogers, renowned Italian-British architect.
• Victor Silvester OBE
• Nicholas Smith, actor
• Air Commodore Ian Stewart
• Simon Thomas (television presenter)
• The Venerable Ted Ward, Archdeacon of Sherborne and Chaplain of the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Park^[7]
• Upali Wijewardene, a prominent Sri Lankan business man who established Upali Group. Upali disappeared in his private Learjet in straits of Malacca creating wider speculations throughout Asia.
• Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley VC, The first Territorial Army Officer to win the VC.^[8]
• Sir Leonard Woolley
• Francis Rossi, co-founder of the English rock band, Status Quo.
• Richard Haughton, rugby player for Perpignan.
• George Kruis, rugby player for Saracens and England Saxons.
• David Balcombe, cricketer for Hampshire County Cricket Club.

References

1. "Daily Telegraph Obituary". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 2007-08-28.
2. 'CALLEY, Sir Henry (Algernon)' in Who was Who 1971–1980, A. & C. Black, London, 1989 (reprint) ISBN 0-7136-3227-5
3. "Major General Malcolm Peter John Hunt OBE". Major General Malcolm Peter John Hunt, OBE 1984, retired from the Royal Marines in 1992. He was General Secretary, Association of British Dispensing Opticians from 1995-1999. He was born on 19 November 1938 and is the son of Peter Gordon Hunt and Rachel Margaret Hunt. He was educated at St. John's School, Leatherhead and Staff College, Camberley.
4. "Obituary: Morris Maddocks". London: The Daily Telegraph. 5 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-18. The Right Reverend Morris Maddocks, who died on January 19 aged 79, was suffragan Bishop of Selby from 1972 to 1983, then adviser to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on the ministry of health and healing.
5. The Times – Register – 1 February 2011
6. "After a lifetime, the shocking truth". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2006-09-02.
7. "The Venerable Ted Ward - Obituary". London: Daily Telegraph. 2005-11-29. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
8. "THE TWO HEROES OF HILL 60". The Baldwin Project. The youngest son of Rev. G. H. Woolley, Old Riffhams, Danbury, Essex, he was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, and Queen's College, Oxford. While at the University he joined the Officers' Training Corps. He studied for Holy Orders, and is all but a curate of the Church of England, inasmuch as he was on the eve of being ordained when, at the age of twenty-three, he decided to fight for his country.