Former students of Kingswood School are known as old Kingswoodians. Notable former students include: •
Kenneth Beard (organist) •
David Beetham (political theorist and human rights campaigner) •
David Blow (
biophysicist) •
Jeremy Bray (Labour politician, former Government Minister and Member of Parliament) •
Archie Bronson Outfit (rock band) •
Sir Ralph Kilner Brown (High Court judge 1970–1985, Brigadier) •
William Maclardie Bunting (hymn composer) •
Sir John Burnett (Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh) •
Roger Butlin (theatre set designer) •
Laurie Canter (Golfer) •
Howard Clark (Chair of
War Resisters' International) •
Professor Hugh Clegg (industrial relations scholar) •
Richard Cork (art historian and broadcaster) •
John Colley (epidemiologist and professor of public health) • Sir
Kenneth Cross (Air Chief Marshal, Air Officer Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command) •
R.N. Currey (poet) •
Tim Curry (actor, singer and composer) •
Hugh Sykes Davies (poet, novelist, communist) •
Arthur Lee Dixon (mathematician and academic) •
Nicholas Maxted Fenn (diplomat) •
Alan Fitch (Labour politician) •
Rev Joseph Horner Fletcher (founding Principal
Wesley College, Auckland and President,
Newington College) •
Antony Flew (philosopher) • Sir
Richard Foster (museum director) •
William Ralph Boyce Gibson (Australian philosopher) •
Vice Admiral Sir
Paul Haddacks (
Lieutenant Governor of the
Isle of Man) •
Daisy Head (actress) •
Emily Head (actress) • Sir
John Holford (Royal Navy Medical Officer) •
Jesse Honey (
BBC Mastermind Champion 2010,
World Quiz Champion 2012) •
William George Horner (mathematician, headmaster) •
Lynton Lamb (Illustrator) •
Nicholas Le Prevost, actor •
David Lomax, television Journalist •
Arthur Lucas (headmaster
Newington College and
Sydney Grammar School, and Professor of Mathematics
University of Tasmania) •
Francis Sowerby Macaulay (mathematician) •
Alexander McAulay (mathematician and physicist) •
Rev James Egan Moulton (founding headmaster
Newington College and
Tupou College, and President, Newington College) •
John Fletcher Moulton (politician, weapon designer, Lord Justice) •
Sir Robert William Perks, 1st Baronet,
Liberal Member of Parliament •
George Perry-Smith (restaurateur) •
Rev Dr Charles Prescott (founding headmaster
Wesleyan Ladies College, and headmaster and President,
Newington College) •
Roger Saul (founder of the fashion brand
Mulberry) •
Gilbert Granville Sharp,
Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana (1960–1962) •
Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (German Methodist bishop) •
E.P. Thompson (Marxist historian and peace activist, author of
The Making of the English Working Class (1963), co-founder of the scholarly journals
Past and Present and
New Left Review) •
Anthony Thwaite (poet, critic, and editor of
Philip Larkin) •
Jane Tranter (former Head of Drama, Comedy and Film at the BBC) •
J.O. Urmson (philosopher and classicist) •
Phil Wang (comedian) •
Jabez Waterhouse (Methodist legislator in Australia) •
George Waterhouse (Premier of New Zealand 1872–1873, Premier of South Australia 1861–1863) •
Joseph Waterhouse (Methodist minister and missionary in Fiji) •
Arthur Way (scholar, translator, headmaster of Wesley College Melbourne) •
Thomas Ebenezer Webb (author, translator, fellow of Trinity College Dublin) ==See also==