•
Henry Egerton Cotton CBE, First
Chancellor, (1992-93?)
John Moores University,
Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1989–92) •
Admiral Sir Geoffrey Oliver • Sir
Stephen Hastings MC,
SAS,
SOE,
MP •
Nicholas Elliott,
MI6 Intelligence Officer notable for his involvement with the Commander
Lionel Crabb affair in the 1950s and the flight of traitor
Kim Philby to
Moscow in 1963. •
Ian Fleming author of the
James Bond novels, who attended Durnford before
Eton together with his brother
Peter. The school was next to the estate of the Bond family whose motto is 'Non sufficit orbis' ('The World Is Not Enough'). Fleming wrote to his mother at the age of seven: "My coff (sic) has grown to a whoping (sic) coff now. Don't tell Mr Pellatt cause just this morning he said that nun (sic) of us had coffs. I am afraid that I do not like school very much". The head's wife read to the pupils from popular fiction including
John Buchan adventures,
The Prisoner of Zenda and
Bulldog Drummond. •
Vice-Admiral Sir
Gerard "Ged" Mansfield RN (Edward Gerard Napier Mansfield) was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander,
Atlantic, based at
Norfolk, Virginia, from 1973 to 1974. He was a descendant of
Admiral Sir
Charles John Napier. •
Admiral of the Fleet John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885–1971) ==References==