List of notable Old Carthusians
Old Carthusians are former pupils of
Charterhouse School.
*
Joseph Henshaw (1603–1679),
Bishop of Peterborough, 1663–1679
*
Roger Williams (c.1603–1683), religious dissenter and co-founder of
Rhode Island*
Thomas Greaves (1611–1676),
orientalist
*
Richard Crashaw (1612/3–1648), poet
*
Christopher Gibbons (c.1615–1676),
organist and composer
*
Edward Williams (c.1616–?), writer on
Virginia*
Richard Lovelace (1618–1657), poet and soldier
*
Thomas Ross (c.1620–1675), courtier and librarian to
Charles II*
Francis Beale (c.1621–c.1666), writer on
chess*
Samuel Barrow (c.1625–1683), military physician and judge-advocate (may have attended Charterhouse)
*
John Collop (c.1625–?), poet
*
William Reynolds (1625–1698),
Presbyterian minister
*
John Grosnold (c.1626–1678),
General Baptist minister
*
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677),
mathematician and
theologian*
Matthew Clarke (c.1630–c.1708),
nonconformist minister
*
Francis Fullwood (c.1630–1693), anti-
nonconformist writer
*
William Durham (1639–1686), clergyman
*
Nathaniel Resbury (c.1643–1711), clergyman
*
Thomas Wagstaffe (1645–1712),
non-juring Bishop of
Ipswich*
James Vernon (c.1646–1727),
Secretary of State*
Nathaniel Lee (c.1647–1692), dramatist and poet
*
Samuel Bradford (1652–1731),
Bishop of Carlisle, 1718–1723, and
Bishop of Rochester, 1723–1731
*
Henry Levett (c.1668–1725), physician
*
Sir Erasmus-Henry Dryden (1669–1710), youngest son of
John Dryden,
Dominican priest
*
Joseph Addison (1672–1719), writer and politician
*
Sir Richard Steele (c.1672–1729), writer and politician, founder of
The Tatler*
Philip Horneck (1673/4–1728), journalist
*
Andrew Tooke (c.1673–1732), writer and Professor of
Geometry,
Gresham College, 1704–1729
*
John Davies (1679–1732), President of
Queens' College, Cambridge, 1717–1732
*
Henry Felton (1679–1740), clergyman
*
Martin Benson (1689–1752),
Bishop of Gloucester, 1735–1752
*
Francis Peck (1692–1743),
antiquary*
Philip Bearcroft (1695–1761),
antiquary and Master of Charterhouse School, 1753–1761
*
John Thomas (1696–1781),
Bishop of Winchester, 1761–1781
*
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
*
Benjamin Martyn (1698–1763), writer and agent for
Georgia*
Lewis Crusius (1701–1775),
classicist*
Daniel Wray (1701–1783),
antiquary*
John Wesley (1703–1791), founder of
Methodism*
Peter Templeman (1711–1769), physician, Keeper of the Reading Room of the
British Museum, 1758–1769, and Secretary of the
Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 1760–1769
*
Samuel Salter (c.1713–1778), Master of Charterhouse School, 1761–1778
*
Edmund Keene (1714–1781),
Bishop of Chester, 1752–1771, and
Bishop of Ely, 1771–1781
*
Francis Okely (1719–1794),
Moravian minister and translator of
mystical writings
*
Lieutenant-General Sir Adolphus Oughton (c.1719–1780),
Commander-in-Chief,
North Britain, 1778–1780, and antiquary
*
Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), first
Vinerian Professor of Common Law,
University of Oxford, 1758–1766, politician and judge
*
Sir William Ashhurst (1725–1807), judge
*
William Jones of Nayland (1726–1800), controversial clergyman
*
Thomas Hull (1728–1808), actor and dramatist
*
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
*
Francis Stone (c.1738–1813), controversial clergyman
*
Samuel Berdmore (1739–1802), Master of Charterhouse School, 1769–1802
*
James Bindley (1739–1818), book collector
*
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), surgeon, botanist, and
Bath King of Arms, 1771–1800
*
Robert Morris (1743–1793), radical
*
Sir Horace Mann (1744–1814), politician and patron of
cricket*
Sir William Watson (1744–1824), physician and naturalist
*
Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745–1816), music historian
*
John Law (1745–1810),
Bishop of Clonfert, 1782–1787,
Bishop of Killala, 1787–1795, and
Bishop of Elphin, 1795–1810
*
William Cawthorne Unwin (1745–1786), clergyman
*
William Seward (1747–1799), collector of
anecdotes
*
John Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher, traveller and eccentric
*
Thomas Day (1748–1789), author
*
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (1750–1818),
Lord Chief Justice, 1802–1818
*
Sir Henry Russell (1751–1836), Chief Justice of
Bengal, 1807–1813
*
Thomas Thornton (1751/2–1823), sportsman
*
Peter Coxe (c.1753–1844), poet
*
George Matcham (1753–1833), traveller
*
Henry William Majendie (1754–1830),
Bishop of Chester, 1800–1809, and
Bishop of Bangor, 1809–1830
*
Charles Manners-Sutton (1755–1828),
Bishop of Norwich, 1792–1805, and
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1805–1828
*
Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners of Foston (1756–1842),
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1807–1827
*
Charles Burney (1757–1817), book collector
*
Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757–1849),
Lieutenant-Governor of
Jamaica, 1801–1806, and
Commander-in-Chief in
India, 1811–1813
*
William Pilkington (1758–1848), architect
*
John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland (1759–1841),
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1789–1794, and
Lord Privy Seal, 1798–1827
*
Matthew Raine (1760–1811), Master of Charterhouse School, 1791–1811
*
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
*
Thomas Rodd (1763–1822), antiquarian bookseller
*
James Beresford (1764–1840), novelist
*
James Smithson (1764–1829),
mineralogist, traveller and founder of the
Smithsonian Institution (probable Old Carthusian)
*
Sir Samuel Toller (1764–1821), Advocate-General of
Madras Presidency, 1812–1821
*
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
*
Alexander John Scott (1768–1840),
Chaplain of
HMS Victory at the
Battle of Trafalgar*
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
*
Samuel Wix (1771–1861), author, antiquary and
theologian*
George Palmer (1772–1853), shipowner, politician and prominent supporter of the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution*
William Madocks (1773–1828), property developer and politician, founder of
Tremadog and
Porthmadog*
James Scotland (1774–1849), newspaper proprietor and editor in
Antigua and
abolitionist (expelled)
*
Henry Siddons (1774–1818), actor and dramatist, son of
Sarah Siddons*
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (c.1780–1843),
surgeon, philosopher and writer
*
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804),
Royal Navy officer and rake (left after 9 days)
*
David Montagu Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine (1776–1855),
Minister-Plenipotentiary to the
United States, 1806–1809, Minister-Plenipotentiary to
Württemberg, 1824–1828, and Minister-Plenipotentiary to
Bavaria, 1828–1843
*
James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776–1845), politician and
Lord President of the Council, 1841–1845
*
Frederick Beadon (1777–1879),
centenarian*
William Fuller Boteler (1777/8–1845), judge
*
John Adam (1779–1825), Acting
Governor-General of India, 1823
*
Major-General Sir James Carmichael-Smyth (1779–1838),
Royal Engineers officer, Governor of the
Bahamas, 1829–1833, and Governor of
British Guiana, 1833–1838
*
Horsley Palmer (1779–1858),
merchant banker
*
Henry Kaye Bonney (1780–1862),
Archdeacon of
Bedford, 1821–1845, and Archdeacon of
Lincoln, 1845–1862
*
John Higgs Hunt (1780–1859), journal editor and translator
*
Samuel March Phillipps (1780–1862), legal writer and
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for
Home Affairs, 1827–1848
*
George Cecil Renouard (1760–1867),
classicist and
orientalist
*
Lieutenant-Colonel John Squire (1780–1812),
Royal Engineers officer
*
Edward Hovell-Thurlow, 2nd Baron Thurlow (1781–1829), poet
*
Robert Walpole (1781–1856),
classicist*
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
*
John Kenyon (1784–1856), poet and patron of the arts
*
James Henry 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*
John Thomas James (1786–1828), Bishop of
Calcutta, 1826–1828, and art historian
*
John Russell (1786–1863), Master of Charterhouse School, 1811–1832
*
Sir Edward Hall Alderson (c.1787–1857), judge
*
John Fonblanque (1787–1865),
barrister and legal writer
*
John Cazenove (1788–1879),
political economist*
Redmond William Pilkington (1789–1844), architect
*
Thomas Gilbank Ackland (1791–1844), poet
*
Sir Cresswell Cresswell (1793–1863), judge and politician
*
Sir Charles Eastlake (1793–1865), painter and first Director of the
National Gallery, 1855–1865
*
Lieutenant-Colonel William Havelock (1793–1848), war hero
*
Samuel Hinds (1793–1872),
Bishop of Norwich, 1849–1857
*
Sir William Hay Macnaghten (1793–1841), Chief Secretary,
Indian Secret and Political Department, 1833–1841
*
William Thompson (1793–1854), ironmaster, financier and politician
*
George Waddington (1793–1869), traveller and ecclesiastical historian
*
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 Cotton (1794–1880),
Provost of
Worcester College, Oxford, 1839–1880
*
George Grote (1794–1871), historian and radical politician
*
John Hothersall Pinder (1794–1868), first Principal of
Wells Theological College, 1839–1865
*
William Hale Hale (1795–1870), Master of Charterhouse School and
Archdeacon of
London, 1842–1870
*
Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855),
theological writer
*
Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795–1857), commander in the
Indian Mutiny*
Sir Charles George Young (1795–1869),
Garter King of Arms, 1842–1869
*
Robert Fane (1796–1864), Commissioner in
Bankruptcy, 1823–1864
*
Connop Thirlwall (1797–1875),
Bishop of St David's, 1840–1874, and historian
*
Frederick Henry Yates (1797–1842), actor-manager
*
James Shergold Boone (1798–1859), writer
*
Philip Cazenove (1798–1880),
stockbroker*
Sir George James Turner (1798–1867), Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in
Chancery, 1853–1867
*
Sir Frederick Currie (1799–1875), Foreign Secretary of
India, 1844–1847, and
British Resident at
Lahore, 1847–1849
*
William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868),
astronomer*
Henry Raper (1799–1859), writer on
navigation*
John Scott (1799–1846), surgeon
*
George Trevor Spencer (1799–1866), Bishop of
Madras, 1837–1849
*
Edward Churton (1800–1874),
theologian and
Spanish language scholar
*
Joseph Hewlett (c.1800–1847), novelist
*
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
*
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849), dramatist and poet
*
William Godwin (1803–1832), journalist and writer, half-brother of
Mary Shelley*
Frederic Farre (1804–1886), physician
*
Woronzow Greig (1805–1865),
barrister*
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 Millner Gibson (1806–1884), radical politician,
President of the Board of Trade, 1859–1866
*
Thomas Mozley (1806–1893), clergyman and writer
*
Sir Thomas Erskine Perry (1806–1882), Judge of the Supreme Court of
Bombay, 1840–1847, Chief Justice of Bombay, 1847–1852, and politician
*
Sir Christopher Rawlinson (1806–1888),
Recorder of
Prince of Wales Island,
Singapore and
Malacca, 1847–1850, and Chief Justice of
Madras, 1850–1859
*
W. P. Roberts (1806–1871),
trade union solicitor and
Chartist*
Henry W. Torrens (1806–1852), administrator in
India and writer
*
Sir Charles Trevelyan (1807–1886), Assistant Secretary to
HM Treasury, 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
*
John Barrow (1808–1898), writer on exploration
*
Charles Freshfield (1808–1891),
solicitor*
John Allen Giles (1808–1884), translator and editor
*
John Murray (1808–1892), publisher
*
Ralph Bernal Osborne (c.1808–1882), politician,
Secretary of the Admiralty, 1852–1858
*
William Tayler (1808–1892), Commissioner of
Patna, 1855–1857
*
G. T. Clark (1809–1898),
civil engineer and
antiquary, Manager,
Dowlais Ironworks, 1855–1897
*
Owen Jones (1809–1874), architect, printer and designer
*
Sir Thomas Murdoch (1809–1891),
Chief Secretary of
Canada, 1839–1842, and Chairman of the
Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, 1847–1876
*
Sir George E. Paget (1809–1892), physician,
Regius Professor of Physic,
University of Cambridge, 1872–1892
*
Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche of Harringworth (1810–1873), traveller and
manuscript collector
*
John Leader (1810–1903), radical politician, art collector in
Florence*
Martin Tupper (1810–1889), poet and writer
*
George Stovin Venables (1810–1888),
barrister and journalist
*
Thomas Webster (1810–1875),
patent law barrister*
Arthur Farre (1811–1887),
obstetrician, Professor of Obstetric Medicine,
King's College, London, 1841–1862
*
Henry George Liddell (1811–1898),
Dean of
Christ Church, Oxford, 1855–1891, editor of the
Greek-English Lexicon*
Edmund Lushington (1811–1893),
classicist, Professor of
Greek,
University of Glasgow, 1838–1875, and
Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, 1884–1893
*
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
*
Edward Parry Thornton (1811–1893), Commissioner of
Rawalpindi, 1849–1858, and Judicial Commissioner for the
Punjab, 1858–1862
*
Richard Cromwell Carpenter (1812–1855), architect
*
Michael Edgeworth (1812–1881),
botanist*
Edward Elder (1812–1858), Master of Charterhouse School, 1853–1858
*
Sir Frederic Winn Knight (1812–1897), ironmaster and politician
*
Henry Lushington (1812–1855),
Chief Secretary of
Malta, 1847–1855
*
William Macpherson (1812–1893),
barrister and legal writer
*
Brigadier-General Sir Richmond Shakespear (1812–1861), army officer and political officer in
India*
Fereday Smith (1812–1891), General Manager,
Bridgewater Canal, 1855–1887
*
John Armstrong (1813–1856), first Bishop of
Grahamstown, 1853–1856
*
Sir Joseph Arnould (1813–1886), Judge of the Supreme Court of
Bombay, 1859–1869, and expert on
marine insurance*
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
*
Henry Freshfield (1814–1895),
solicitor*
Kirkman Hodgson (1814–1879), financier and politician,
Governor of the Bank of England, 1863–1865
*
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
*
Sir John Drummond-Hay (1816–1893), diplomat in
Morocco*
Henry Thomas Riley (1816–1878), literary scholar and translator
*
John Leech (1817–1864),
caricaturist*
Sir James Cockle (1819–1895), Chief Justice of
Queensland, 1863–1879, and
mathematician*
Sir George Ferguson 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
*
Henry Hayter (1821–1895), first Government
Statist of
Victoria, 1874–1895
*
Greville Phillimore (1821–1884), clergyman and author
*
Edward Walford (1823–1897),
biographer*
Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), critic and poet
*
Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1824–1871),
gynaecologist and
obstetrician*
William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), traveller and diplomat
*
Sir Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919),
economist and banker
*
George David Boyle (1828–1901),
Dean of
Salisbury, 1880–1901
*
Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886), first Professor of
Helminthology,
Royal Veterinary College, 1873–1886
*
Arthur Locker (1828–1893), novelist and journalist
*
Sir Reginald Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the
House of Commons, 1886–1900
*
William Douglas Parish (1833–1904),
dialectologist
*
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
*
George Edward Jelf (1834–1908), clergyman and author
*
Sheldon Amos (1835–1886), Professor of
Jurisprudence,
University College, London, 1869–1879, and
University of London, 1873–1879, and lawyer and judge in
Egypt*
Thomas Welbank Fowle (1835–1903),
theologian and writer on social issues
*
Henry Nettleship (1839–1893),
classicist*
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905),
classicist and politician
*
Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), soldier and founder of the
Scouting Movement*
William "Nuts" Cobbold (1862–1922), England international
footballer
*
Charles Wreford-Brown (1866–1951), English internationl
football captain and
cricketer
*
Sir Max Beerbohm (1872–1956),
satirist and
caricaturist*
Gilbert Oswald Smith (1872–1943), England international
football captain and
cricketer
*
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), composer
*
Colonel Arthur Hugh Bell (1878–1968), soldier and publisher
*
William Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal (1879–1963), economist and social reformer
*
Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie (1879–1964),
Governor-General of Malta, 1940–1942
*
Wyndham Halswelle (1882–1915), athlete
*
Kenneth Searight (1883–1957),
linguist*
Ben Travers (1886–1980), dramatist
*
Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson (1891–1959), World War II general
*
Sir Clavering Fison (1892–1985), Chairman and Managing Director,
Fisons*
Robert Graves (1895–1985), poet and novelist
*
Richard Hughes (1900–1976), writer
*
Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904–2003), film producer
*
Bernard Kettlewell (1907–1979),
lepidopterist*
Geoffrey Toone (1910–2005), actor
*
Kent Walton (1917–2003), wrestling commentator
*
Michael Hoban (1921–2003), headmaster of
Harrow School*
W. Stanley Moss (1921–1965), intelligence officer and writer
*
Sir Anthony Caro (born 1924), sculptor
*
Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith (born 1924), politician
*
William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (born 1928), politician and journalist
*
Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne (born 1928), politician
*
Peter May (1929–1994),
cricketer
*
Peter Yates (born 1929), film director
*
John Wakeham, Baron Wakeham (born 1932), politician
*
David Dimbleby (born 1938), TV presenter
*
Jonathan King (born 1944), pop music impresario
*
Charles Goodson-Wickes (born 1945), politician
*
Tim Yeo (born 1945), politician
*
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–
*
Tony Banks (born 1950), founder member of
Genesis*
Peter Gabriel (born 1950), founder member of
Genesis*
Mike Rutherford (born 1950), founder member of
Genesis*
Anthony Phillips (born 1951), founder member of
Genesis*
Anthony Coombs (born 1952), politician
*
Karl Wallinger (born 1957), rock musician
*
Douglas Carswell (born 1971),
MP for
Harwich
