The first known society of former pupils, known as
Old Blundellians (OBs), was established as early as 1725.
William Hogarth engraved the letterhead for the invitation to a dinner for former pupils of the School in 1725 and the ticket for Tiverton School Feast in 1740. Notable former pupils include: •
Robert Arundell, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados •
Vernon Bartlett, journalist and politician •
Edward Bellew, drainage inspector and winner of the
Victoria Cross •
Dominic Bess, England cricketer •
R. D. Blackmore, author of
Lorna Doone •
Richard Bowring, Master of
Selwyn College, Cambridge •
William Buckland, geologist •
William Edward Buckley, professor of Anglo-Saxon •
George Bull, theologian and bishop •
Giles Bullard, High Commissioner to the West Indies •
Charles Campion, food critic •
Bampfylde Moore Carew, rogue and imposter •
Aelred Carlyle, missionary and monk •
Frederick William Cuming, 1900 Olympic gold medal winner as part of the UK cricket team •
Charles Cornwallis Chesney, soldier and military writer •
George Tomkyns Chesney, soldier and novelist •
Ben Collins, Formula 3 racing driver and the infamous
Stig •
John Conybeare,
Bishop of Bristol and notable 18th-century theologian •
Natalie Dew, actress •
John Davis, Welsh cricketer •
Edward Dayman, hymn writer •
John Ebdon, writer •
John Eliot, English statesman •
Tristan Evans, Drummer & backing vocals for UK based band
The Vamps •
Howard Ford, Olympic athlete •
Charles Rossiter Forwood, lawyer and
Attorney General of Fiji •
Francis Fulford, Anglo-Catholic bishop of Montreal •
John Gay, philosopher •
Anthony Gifford, cricketer and educator •
Michael Gilbert, writer of mysteries and thrillers •
Douglas Gracey, Commander in Chief Pakistan Army 1948–51 •
Charles Harper, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of St. Helena 1925–1932 •
C. Brian Haselgrove mathematician best known for disproving the
Pólya conjecture in 1958 •
Thomas Hayter, bishop of Norwich 1749–61, bishop of London 1761–62 •
Abraham Hayward, man of letters •
Archibald Hill, Nobel Prize winner •
David Gordon Hines, developer of co-operatives in Tanganyika and Uganda •
Walter Hook,
Tractarian vicar of
Leeds •
Ella Hunt, actress,
dickinson,
anna and the apocalypse,
intruders •
James Jeremie, academic and churchman •
John Jeremie, governor of
Sierra Leone •
C. E. M. Joad, intellectual, broadcasting personality and fare dodger •
Philip Keun,
Special Operations Executive Captain and co-leader of the
Jade-Amicol French resistance network. •
Geoffrey Lampe, theologian and winner of the Military Cross •
Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, surgeon, primatologist and paleoanthropologist who disproved
Piltdown Man •
Robin Lloyd-Jones, Author •
Jeremy Lloyds, Test Cricket umpire •
George Malcolm, army officer •
Thomas Manton, Puritan clergyman •
John Margetson, former British Ambassador to Vietnam, the United Nations, and the Netherlands. •
Vic Marks, Somerset and England cricketer •
Professor John Marrack, DSO, MC, emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology in the
University of London •
Michael Mates, former
MP (constituency of
East Hampshire) •
Hugh Morris, England cricketer and current managing director of the
England and Wales Cricket Board •
Gordon Newton, Editor of the
Financial Times •
Christopher Ondaatje, author and donor to the
Labour Party •
William Pillar, Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Supplies •
John de la Pole, 6th Baronet •
Ben Rice, novelist •
John Rinkel, Olympic athlete •
Jack Russell, Victorian hunting parson, dog breeder •
Peter Schidlof, Austrian-British violist and co-founder of the
Amadeus Quartet •
Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset •
Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset •
Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset •
Richard Sharp, England rugby captain •
Richard Shore, cricketer •
Frederick Spring, senior army officer •
Trevor Spring, army officer •
J. C. Squire, poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor •
Donald Stokes, industrialist and peer •
Jon Swain, award-winning writer, whose memoirs were portrayed in the film
The Killing Fields •
Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury •
Clem Thomas, Wales Rugby Captain •
Georgia "Toff" Toffolo, television and media personality •
Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, English civil servant, governor of Madras •
Henry Hawkins Tremayne, creator of the
Lost Gardens of Heligan •
John Van der Kiste, author •
Walter Walker, controversial soldier and writer •
Arthur Graeme West, war poet •
John Whiteley, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1949–53 •
Cyril Wilkinson, Great Britain hockey player and Olympic Gold Medallist •
Geoffrey Willans, humorist and co-author of
Nigel Molesworth series •
Matthew Wood, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London, MP for the City of London and close friend of
Queen Caroline •
John Wyndham, author whose work included
The Day of the Triffids and
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