John Carpenter Club - Prominent Old Citizens

Old Citizens of note include Liberal Prime Minister (1908–1916) Herbert Asquith, writer Kingsley Amis, the mathematician and World War II codebreaker Max Newman and theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, who predicted the Higgs boson, the so-called "God Particle". Over 140 people listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography were educated at the City of London School, and that includes only those who are already deceased. Below is a list of prominent Old Citizens. Contact the Alumni Engagement Officer if you would like to add to this list. There is also a list in the back of 'Carpenter's Children' (1995), a copy of which can be purchased at Amazon. A further list can be found in 'The City of London School' by A E Douglas-Smith, first published in 1937 with a revised and enlarged 2nd edition published in 1965. Copies of both editions can usually be purchased from one of the second-hand booksellers on Abe Books. And of course there's a list on Wikipedia!

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Name: John Altman

CLS years: 1961 - 67

Prominent British film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor

Link: Wikipedia profile

Name: Joe Alwyn

CLS: 2009

Actor ('The Favourite', 'Mary Queen of Scots')

Link: Wikipedia profile

Name: Sir Kingsley Amis

CLS years: 1934 - 41

English novelist, poet, critic and teacher

Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Michael Apted

CLS years: 1952 - 60

Film Director

Links: Internet movie database

Name: Herbert Henry Asquith

CLS years: 1864 - 70

UK Prime Minister 1908 – 1916

Links: BBC, Wikipedia profile

B

Name: Jonathan Barnes CLS: 1960 English Scholar of Ancient Philosophy Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Julian Barnes

CLS years: 1957 - 64

Author (Metroland, Flaubert’s Parrot, among others) Links: Julian Barnes

Name: David Blundy

CLS years: 1956 - 63

War correspondent, killed in El Salvador, 17 November 1989 Links: OC Chris Gooderidge video

Name: Mike Brearley OBE

CLS years: 1952 - 60

Captain of the England cricket team, 1977 - 81 Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Arthur Douglas Carey

CLS years: 1859 - 62

Commissioner of Customs for Bombay. Received RGS Founder’s Medal for extensive explorations in Xinjiang Name: Suma Chakrabati CLS: 1977 British Civil Servant who served as president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from July 2012 to July 2020 Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Sir (Stanley) Paul Chambers

CLS years: 1915 - 22 (?)

Industrialist, Chairman of ICI 1960 - 1968 Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Daniel Cohen CLS: 1988 - 1995 Entrepreneur

Name: Danny Cohen

CLS years: 1985 - 92

BBC1 Controller 2010 - 2013, BBC3 Controller 2007 -2010, Director of BBC Television 2013-2015 Name: Lord (Lawrence) Collins CLS years: 1952 - 60 Judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Robert Seymour Conway

CLS years: 1875 – 83

Professor of Latin and Indo-European Philology at Manchester University; authority on Livy and Virgil Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Jim Cousins CLS: 1962 MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central 1987 - 2010 Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Jack Crawford CLS year: 2006 NFL Football player Links: Wikipedia profile D Name: Philip Dawid CLS: 1964 Statistician Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: John Edgley CLS years:Aerospace Engineer who was a master at the school and design the Edgley Optica aircraft Name: Neil Edwards

CLS years: 1977 - 82

Scottish rugby international

Name: Ven E. W. Emery

CLS years: 1837 - 43

Archdeacon of Ely and founder of the Church Congress

Name: Henry Ettinghausen

CLS years: 1951 - 57

Professor of Spanish, Southampton University; authority on the Spanish Golden Age and Catalan studies

Name: Lewis Richard Farnell

CLS years: 1866 - 74

Rector of Exeter College, Oxford; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University; authority on Greek religion

Name: Lord Geoffrey Finsberg

CLS years: 1940 - 42

MP for Hampstead; Parliamentary Under Secretary, Department of the Environment; President, Council of Europe

Name: John Knight Foterhingham

CLS years: 1885 - 92 (?)

Renowned historian and an expert on ancient astronomy and chronology

Name: John Gross

CLS years: 1948 - 52

Eminent English literary critic, author and anthologist; Editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981; senior book editor and book critic of The New York Times from 1983 to 1989; theatre critic for The Sunday Telegraph from 1989 to 2005. Links: Obituary Name: Henry Cecil Grunwald QC OBE CLS years: 1960 - 67 President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He became a criminal barrister in 1972 and a QC in 1999.

Name: Theodore Bayley Hardy

CLS years: 1879 - 82

Vicar of Hutton Roof, Kirkby Lonsdale; became an army chaplain a the age of 52; Chaplain to the King; died of wounds shortly after armistice in 1918

Name: W.R. Hartston

CLS years: 1958 - 1965

British chess champion 1973, 1975 Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Sir Cyril Hawker

CLS years: 1913 - 18

Executive Director, Bank of England; Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank; President of MCC Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Michael Hennigan

CLS years: 1982 - 89

World under-18 chess champion

Name: Peter Higgs

CLS years: 1946 - 48

Physicist, predicted the so-called ‘ God Particle’, known as the Higgs boson particle Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

CLS years: 1871 - 76

First professor of Biochemistry at Cambridge University. Won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of vitamins. President of the Royal Society and the British Academy. Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Sir William Huggins

CLS years: 1837 - 1839

English astronomer who revolutionised observational astronomy by applying spectroscopic methods to the determination of the chemical constituents of stars and other celestial objects. Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: C.W.C. Hutton

CLS years: 1837

Sheriff of the City of London

Name: Steven Isserlis

CLS years: 1969 - 73

World renowned cellist Links: Steven Isserlis

Name: Sir Francis Jacobs KCMG, QC CLS years: Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities 1988 - 2006 Name: Tim Jackson CLS: 1983 Entrepreneur Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Lord Frank Judd

CLS years: 1945 - 53

Under-Secretary of State for the Royal Navy; MP for Portsmouth; Minister of State for Overseas Development; Director, Voluntary Services Overseas; Director-General, Oxfam Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Anthony Julius CLS years:1967 - 73 Prominent British lawyer and academic, best known for his actions on behalf of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Heather Mills Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Sir Alexander Blackie William Kennedy

CLS years: 1858 - 62

A distinguished engineer intimately associated with the development in England of electric lighting, trams and railways; Professor of Engineering at University College, London; Chairman of the Admiralty Committee on Machinery Designs; Chairman of the Committee of Gun-Sights and Range-Finders during the War. Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Skandar Keynes

CLS years: 2002 - 10

Actor (The Chronicles of Narnia film series) Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Paul Klenerman

CLS years: 1973 - 81

British fencing team (sabre), Los Angeles Olympics 1984

Name: Sir Henry Edmund Knight

CLS years: 1846 - 49

Lord Mayor of London 1882 - 83 Name: Peter Kronheimer CLS: 1981 Mathematician Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Jeremy Lawday

CLS years: 1959 - 66

British under-20 sabre champion 1966

Name: Compte Max Le Mansois-Field

CLS years: 1929 - 40

Chief Interpretator, NATO

Name: Sir Sidney Lee

CLS years: 1870 - 78

Biographer of Shakespeare and editor of his plays; founding trustee of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC CLS years: 1947 - 55 Founder member, Social Democrat Party 1981; Commissioner, Bill of Rights Commission 2011

Name: Lord Levene of Portsoken KBE

CLS years: 1951 - 60

Lord Mayor of London 1998 - 1999. Chairman of Lloyd's 2002 - 2011 Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: David Malcolm Lewis

CLS years: 1939 - 45

Professor of Ancient History, Oxford University; authority on Greek inscriptions Name: David Litman CLS: 1971 - 1975 Entrepreneur

Name: Ernest Lough

CLS years:

His recording of Mendelssohn’s O for the Wings of a Dove with the Temple Choir in 1927 made him world famous; it was the first classical record to sell (by 1962) more than a million copies Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Luke McShane CLS: 2002 Chess Grand Master Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Harry Michell

CLS years: 2003 - 10

Actor (Tom Brown’s School Days, Feather Boy)

Name: Lord (Victor) Mischon

CLS years:

Lawyer, legal advisor to Diana, Princess of Wales, during her divorce; Home Affairs spokesman in the House of Lords, 1983 – 90 and Shadow Lord Chancellor, 1990 – 92.

Links: Wikipedia Profile

Name: Neil Morisetti CLS: 1976 Royal Naval Officer Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Martin Neary

CLS years: 1948 - 58

Organist and Master of the Choristers at Winchester Cathedral and Westminster Abbey; President, Royal College of Organists. Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Max Newman

CLS years: 1908 - 15

Mathematician and World War II code breaker. Responsible for the construction of the world’s first computer at Bletchley Park. Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Denis Norden CBE

CLS years: 1933 - 40 (?)

Writer and broadcaster Links: Wikipedia profile

P Name: Sir Richard Packer CLS years: 1953 - 62 Permanent Secretary at MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) 1993 - 2000 Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Sir Harry Smith Parkes

CLS years: 1840 -

Called ‘one of the makers of New Japan’; helped to draw up the Treaty of Tientsin in China; British Minister to Japan in 1865; the first white man to have an audience with the Mikado; Minister to China in 1883; Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan in 1884. Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Howard John Stredder Pearce

CLS years: 1958 - 68

Diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands and Civil Commissioner of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) until July 2006. Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Mark Pears CLS: 1980 Businessman Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Sir William Henry Perkins

CLS years: 1851 - 53

Discovered the first synthetic dye, aniline purple or mauve Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Michael Pinto-Duschinsky CLS: 1962 Academic Links: Wikipedia profile

R Name: Arthur Rackham CLS years: 1879 - 1884 (?) Book illustrator Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: Daniel Radcliffe

CLS years: 2002 - 06

Actor (played Harry Potter in the film series) Name: John Reynolds CLS: 1979 Eton Fives Champion

Name: E. Linley Sambourne

CLS years: 1855 - 56

Chief cartoonist of Punch; his Chelsea home is preserved as a museum and headquarters of the Victorian Society Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Sir John Robert Seeley

CLS years: 1846 - 52

First Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University, 1869 (where he is commemorated by the Seeley History Library); anonymous author of the controversial Ecce Homo (1865). Name: Ronald Senator CLS years: 1938 - 1944 British composer and author Links: www.ronaldsenator.net

Name: Col. T.D. Sewell

CLS years: 1841 - 45

Grand Sword-bearer of England

Name: John Shrapnel

CLS years: 1959 - 61

Actor (appeared in Gladiator, Notting Hill, Elizabeth R, among many other movies, TV dramas and stage productions) Links: Internet movie database

Name: Professor Bernard Silverman

CLS years: 1961 - 69

Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office, UK Government Links: Wikipedia profile

Name: George Smith

CLS years: 1837 - 38

Founder of the Cornhill magazine, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Dictionary of National Biography. Friend of Darwin, Ruskin, Charlotte Bronte, Thackeray, George Eliot and Browning

Name: Edward Stanford CLS years: Founder of Stanford's Ltd, now a pair of map and book stores based in London and Bristol Links: Wikipedia profile Name: Richard Kenneth Swan CLS years: Founder of the Swan Hellenic Cruise Line 1919 - 2005

Name: John Lawrence Toole

CLS years: 1841 - 45

One of the best-known Victorian actors; later produced several plays and burlesques at ‘Toole’s’ Theatre in London

Name: Thomas Fisher Unwin

CLS years: 1859 - 63

Founded the publishing company which hears his name

Name: F.C. Wace

CLS years: 1846 - 54

Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics at St. John’s; Mayor of Cambridge Name: Sir David Walker CLS years: 1967 - 74 Master of the Household at Buckingham Palace Name: Andrew Wong CLS: 2000 Chef

Name: W.B. Young

CLS years: 1931 - 35

Scottish international rugby player