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Sheldon Amos (1835–1886), Professor of
Jurisprudence,
University College, London, 1869–1879, and
University of London, 1873–1879, and lawyer and judge in
Egypt •
Cardale Babington (1808–1895), Professor of Botany,
University of Cambridge, 1861–1895 •
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980),
anthropologist and co-founder of
cybernetics • Sir
William Blackstone (1723–1780), first
Vinerian Professor of English Law,
University of Oxford, 1758–1766, politician and judge •
Richard Lynch Cotton (1794–1880),
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford •
Edward Craig (born 1942), English academic philosopher, editor of the
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and cricketer who played one List-A and 50 first-class matches •
John Davies (1679–1732),
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge •
Edward Eastwick (1814–1883),
orientalist, diplomat and politician, Professor of
Urdu,
East India College, 1845–1857 • Sir
Alan Gardiner (1879–1963),
Egyptologist •
Herbert Giles (1845–1935),
Sinologist, Professor of
Chinese,
University of Cambridge, 1897–1932, co-inventor of
Wade–Giles transliteration system •
Geoffrey Gorer (1905–1985),
anthropologist and author •
Thomas Greaves (1612–1676), English orientalist and a contributor to the
London Polyglot •
Philip Seaforth James (1914-2001), an English Lawyer and Academic •
John Robert Kenyon (1807–1880),
Vinerian Professor of English Law (1844–1880) •
Henry Liddell (1811–1898),
Dean of
Christ Church, Oxford, 1855–1891, editor of the
Greek-English Lexicon •
Edmund Law Lushington (1811–1893),
Rector of the University of Glasgow (1884–1887) •
John Sinclair Morrison (1913–2000), Professor of Greek,
University of Durham, 1945–1950, Vice-Master of
Churchill College, Cambridge, 1960–1965, first President of
University College (later Wolfson College), Cambridge, 1965–1980, expert on Greek
triremes •
Paul Oppé (1878–1957), English art historian, critic, art collector and museum official •
Arthur Rook (1918–1991), British dermatologist and the principal author of ''
Rook's Textbook of Dermatology'' •
Kenneth Searight (1883–1957), linguist •
Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales (1900–1981), Southeast Asian studies •
Patrick Wilkinson, classical scholar •
Francis Wollaston (1762–1823),
Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy,
University of Cambridge, 1792–1813 •
Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1870–1945),
philologist and
lexicographer, first Baines Professor of English Language and Philology,
University of Liverpool, 1904–1920,
Merton Professor of English Language and Literature,
University of Oxford, 1920–1945
Education leaders •
Samuel Berdmore (1739–1802), Master of Charterhouse School, 1769–1802 •
William Lloyd Birkbeck (1806–1888),
Master of Downing College, Cambridge (1885–1888) •
Ronald Burrows (1867–1920), Principal of
King's College London (1913–1920) •
Warin Foster Bushell (1885–1974), educationalist and president of the
Mathematical Association •
Walter Empson (1856–1934), New Zealand headmaster •
Andrew Graham (born 1942), Master of
Balliol College, Oxford •
Michael Hoban (1921–2003), headmaster of
Harrow School • Sir
Cyril Jackson (educationist) (1863–1924), Inspector-General of Schools,
Western Australia, 1896–1903, Chief Inspector of Elementary Schools, 1903–1905, and Chairman of
London County Council, 1915–? •
Edmund Keene (1714–1781),
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,
Bishop of Chester and
Bishop of Ely •
John King (c. 1655–1737), Master of Charterhouse 1715–1737 •
Alexander Nowell (c. 1517–1602),
Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford (1595–1596) •
J. F. Roxburgh (1888–1954), first head master of
Stowe School, 1923–1949 •
John Russell (1787–1863), Headmaster of Charterhouse •
Augustus Saunders (1801–1878), Headmaster of Charterhouse •
Andrew Tooke (1673–1732), headmaster of Charterhouse (1728–1732),
Gresham Professor of Geometry,
Fellow of the Royal Society and translator of
Tooke's Pantheon •
George Waddington (1793–1869),
Warden of Durham University (1862–1869)
Scientists |155px •
Max Barclay (born 1970),
entomologist •
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677),
mathematician and
theologian •
Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911), British naturalist who was chief conservator of the
Madras Forest Department •
Hugh Bostock (born 1944), British neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Neurophysiology at
University College, London •
James Clark (born 1964), British computer programmer known for his
open-source software work and writing
groff •
J. Norman Collie (1859–1942),
organic chemist and
mountaineer, Professor of Organic Chemistry,
University College, London, 1902–1928 •
Charles John Cornish (1858–1906), English naturalist and author •
William Rutter Dawes (1799–1868),
astronomer •
Edward A. Guggenheim (1901–1970), English physical chemist noted for his contributions to thermodynamics •
William Hamilton (1805–1867),
geologist and politician • Sir
Henry Head (1861–1940),
neurologist •
George Hampson (1860–1936), British entomologist •
Henry Hayter (1821–1895), English-born Australian statistician •
Terence Kealey (born 1952),
biochemist •
Bernard Kettlewell (1907–1979),
lepidopterist •
Robert Heath Lock (1879–1915), English botanist and geneticist who wrote the first English textbook on genetics •
C. N. H. Lock (1894–1949), English aerodynamicist •
Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall (1871–1959), Indian-born British entomologist and authority on
Curculionidae •
Peter Nye (1921–2009), soil scientist •
Chris Perrins (born 1935), ornithologist and
Her Majesty's
Warden of the Swans •
Bruce Ponder (born 1944), English geneticist and cancer researcher • Sir
Oliver Scott (1922-2016), radiobiologist •
William Fleetwood Sheppard (1863–1936), Australian-British mathematician and statistician known for
Sheppard's correction •
James Smithson (1764–1829),
mineralogist, traveller and founder of the
Smithsonian Institution (probable Old Carthusian) •
William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828),
metallurgist,
crystallographer and
physiologist, discoverer of
palladium and
rhodium, researcher into
platinum •
James Wood-Mason (1846–1893), English zoologist who was the director of the
Indian Museum at Calcutta Engineers •
Geoffrey Binnie (1908–1989), British civil engineer • 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 •
George Thomas Clark (1809–1898),
civil engineer and
antiquary, Manager,
Dowlais Ironworks, 1855–1897 •
John Dewrance (1858–1937), British inventor and mechanical engineer • Sir
Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt FRS (1868–1951), distinguished British Naval Architect and Engineer and Director of naval Construction for the Royal Navy 1912–1924. •
Alfred Giles (1816–1895),
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1893–1894) and MP for
Southampton (1878–1880; 1883–1892) •
Francis McClean (1876–1955), British civil engineer and pioneer aviator •
Robert Sinclair (1817–1898), Locomotive Superintendent of the
Caledonian Railway (1847–1856), of the
Eastern Counties Railway (1856–1862), and of the
Great Eastern Railway (1862–1865) •
Wallace Thorneycroft (1864–1954), President of the
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George Francis Abercrombie (1896–1976), British physician who co-founded the
Royal College of General Practitioners •
Benjamin Guy Babington (1794–1866), physician and
orientalist, inventor of the
laryngoscope •
John Carr Badeley (1794–1851), English physician •
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783–1862),
surgeon and
physiologist,
Sergeant-Surgeon to
William IV and
Queen Victoria, 1832–1862 • Sir
Farquhar Buzzard (1871–1945), physician,
Regius Professor of Medicine,
University of Oxford, 1928–1943 •
Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886), first Professor of
Helminthology,
Royal Veterinary College, 1873–1886 • Sir
Thomas Gery Cullum (1741–1831), surgeon, botanist, and
Bath King of Arms, 1771–1800 •
David Dane (1923–1998), virologist •
Arthur Farre (1811–1887), English obstetric physician •
Frederic John Farre (1804–1886), English physician •
Edward Price Furber (1864–1940), British obstetrician and surgeon •
Peter Alfred Gorer (1907–1961), British immunologist and pioneer of
transplant immunology •
William Heberden the Younger (1767–1845), physician to
George III •
John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley (1905–1987), founder of the
Royal College of General Practitioners •
Henry Levett (1668–1725), chief physician, Charterhouse 1712–1725 •
Archie Norman (1912–2016), British paediatrician •
George Edward Paget (1809–1892), English physician and academic •
William Wyatt Pinching (1851–1878), surgeon and early rugby union international who represented
England in 1872. •
David Prior, Baron Prior of Brampton (born 1954), current chair of
NHS England, chairman of
University College Hospital, and MP for
North Norfolk (1997–2001) • Sir
Harold Ridley (1906–2001),
ophthalmic surgeon, inventor of the
intraocular lens implant •
W. H. C. Romanis (1889–1972), British surgeon and medical author •
William Henry Stone (1830–1891), English physician known for his studies on electro-therapy and the electrical properties of the human body •
Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1824–1871), physician and medical writer •
Hubert Maitland Turnbull (1875–1955), British pathologist •
William Watson (1744–1824), English physician, naturalist, and
Mayor of Bath (1801) •
Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962), English dermatologist
Philosophers •
David Bostock (1936-2019), philosopher •
Don Cupitt (1934–2025), philosopher of religion and Christian theologian •
Walking Stewart (1747–1822), philosopher, traveller and eccentric •
Richard Swinburne (born 1934), philosopher and Christian apologist
Historians and antiquaries •
Henry Balfour (1863–1939), British archaeologist, the first curator of the
Pitt Rivers Museum and
President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland •
James Bindley (1737–1818), English antiquary and book collector •
Rawdon Brown (1806–1883), historian in
Venice •
George Burges (1785 or 1786–1864),
classicist •
Charles Burney (1757–1817), English classical scholar who gathered the
Burney Collection of Newspapers •
Eric Christiansen (1937–2016), British medieval historian •
Peter Cowie (born 1939), film historian •
George Dennis (1814–1898),
archaeologist and diplomat •
John Ehrman (1920–2011), historian and biographer of
William Pitt the Younger •
I. H. N. Evans (1886–1957), British anthropologist, ethnographer and archaeologist • Professor
Peter Green (1924–2024), classical scholar, historian and
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature •
George Grote (1794–1871), historian and radical politician •
John Edward Jackson (1805–1891),
archivist at
Longleat • Sir
Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1841–1905),
classicist and politician, Professor of Greek,
University of Glasgow, 1875–1889, and
Regius Professor of Greek,
University of Cambridge, 1889–1905 •
T. D. Kendrick (1895–1979), British archaeologist and art historian •
G. E. R. Lloyd (born 1933), English historian • Sir
Ellis Minns (1874–1953),
archaeologist and
palaeographer,
Disney Professor of Archaeology,
University of Cambridge, 1927–1939 •
Henry Nettleship (1839–1893),
classicist, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin,
University of Oxford, 1878–1893 •
Francis Peck (1692–1743),
antiquary •
Charles Reed Peers (1868–1952), English architect and archaeologist •
Michael Prestwich (born 1943), former professor of Medieval History at the
University of Durham •
George Cecil Renouard (1780–1867),
classicist and
orientalist •
Henry Thomas Riley (1816–1878), English translator and antiquary •
Joseph Rykwert (1926–2024), English architectural historian • Sir
Richard Sorabji (born 1934), historian of ancient philosophy •
Maxwell Staniforth (1893–1985), British scholar and writer •
Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), historian and Dodge Professor of History,
Princeton University, 1963–1990 •
Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), historian of
early modern Britain and
Nazi Germany, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, later Baron Dacre of Glanton •
Simon Walker (1958–2004), British historian of late medieval England •
Robert Walpole (1781–1856), English classical scholar •
T. B. L. Webster (1905–1974), British archaeologist who studied
Greek comedy •
Daniel Wray (1701–1783), English antiquary •
Claud William Wright (1917–2010), British civil servant, palaeontologist and archaeologist ==Judges, barristers, and lawyers==