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Old Wykehamists are former pupils of Winchester College, so called in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. He was Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor of England. He used the wealth these positions gave him to establish both the school in 1382 and a university college, New College, Oxford, in 1379; both of them were set up to provide an education for 70 scholars. Winchester College opened in 1394. William of Wykeham provided that up to two pupils a year who could prove they were his descendants could attend the school at its expense; they were known as Consanguineus Fundatoris, "Founder's Kin". Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes records that the tradition ended in 1868, by which time fourteen members of his family had received a free education. At first only a small number of pupils other than scholars were admitted; by the 15th century the school had around 100 pupils in total, nominally the 70 scholars, 16 choirboys and the rest "commoners". Demand for places for commoners was high, and though at first restricted, numbers gradually rose. From the 1860s, ten boarding houses, each for up to sixty pupils, were added, greatly increasing the school's capacity. By 2020, the number of pupils had risen to 690.

Fourteenth century
, taught by Wykeham before the college's foundation |alt=Painting of Henry Chichely, 14th century archbishop • Henry Chichele, Archbishop of CanterburyThomas Beckington, statesman • ==Fifteenth century==
Fifteenth century
Thomas Chaundler, playwright and illustrator • John Russell, Lord Chancellor, Bishop of LincolnWilliam Horman, translator • William Grocyn, scholar • William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord KeeperHugh Inge, Archbishop of DublinRichard Pace, diplomat • Richard Risby, friar , ambassador|alt=Chiaroscuro painting of Henry Wotton, bearded, dressed in black with turned-back white cuffs and collar, seated at a desk with a silver writing box and quill pens ==Sixteenth century==
Sixteenth century
, sixteenth century traveller|alt=Chiaroscuro painting of the traveller Thomas Coryat • Henry Cole, Roman Catholic priest • Nicholas Udall, Headmaster of Eton and playwright • Henry Garnet, complicit in the Gunpowder PlotJohn White, bishop • Nicholas Harpsfield, Roman Catholic apologist • Richard Reade, Lord Chancellor of IrelandNicholas Sanders, Roman Catholic priest, missionary and historian • Christopher Johnson, physician, headmaster of Winchester and poet (in Latin) • Thomas Bilson, bishop • Thomas Stephens, Jesuit missionary and linguist • John Harmar, Warden of Winchester College, one of the translators of the Authorised Version of the Bible • John Owen, Welsh epigrammatistHenry Wotton, author and diplomat • Arthur Lake, bishop • John Davies, poet • Thomas James, librarian • Thomas Coryat, travel writer, court jester to James IHenry Marten, Judge of AdmiraltyThomas Ryves, lawyer • Richard Zouch, judge and politician • Edward Nicholas, statesman Nathaniel Fiennes, a descendant of William of Wykeham|alt=Painting of the roundhead politician Nathaniel Fiennes ==Seventeenth century==
Seventeenth century
Nathaniel Fiennes, Roundhead politician • Thomas Ken, bishop, non-juror and hymnwriterFrancis Turner, bishop and non-juror • Thomas Otway, dramatist • Thomas Browne, doctor, polymath, scholar, prose stylist • Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, politician and author • William Somervile, poet • Edward Young, poet ==Eighteenth century==
Eighteenth century
, author of Diary of a Country Parson|alt=Painting of James Woodforde, author of the Diary of a Country Parson |alt=Painting of Field Marshal John Colborne in red u;niform with sash and medals • Robert Lowth, Bishop of London, Hebraist and English grammarian • William Whitehead, Poet LaureateWilliam Collins, poet • Joseph Warton, literary critic and Headmaster of Winchester • William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, nobleman, and a noted gambler • Thomas Warton, Poet LaureateJames Eyre, judge • Charles Wolfran Cornwall, Speaker of the House of CommonsJames Woodforde, clergyman and diarist • George Isaac Huntingford, Bishop of Hereford and GloucesterThomas Burgess, author • Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime MinisterWilliam Lisle Bowles, poet who revived the sonnet • William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury • William Sturges Bourne, Tory politician, Home Secretary • Sydney Smith, essayist and satirist • Richard Mant, Church of Ireland bishop and writer • John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, Field Marshal and colonial governor • William Buckland, theologian and geologist • William Ward, record-scoring cricketer • Thomas Arnold, headmaster of RugbyWalter Farquhar Hook, Tractarian vicar of LeedsThomas Oliphant, musician and lyricist ==Nineteenth century==
Nineteenth century
, Warden of New College, caricatured by Spy, 1894|alt=Caricature of James Edwards Sewell in top hat with wing collar and stick by Spy 1800–1819William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley, Lord ChancellorGeorge Moberly, Headmaster of Winchester College, later Bishop of SalisburyWilliam Sewell, divine and author • Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of LincolnThomas Adolphus Trollope, author • James Edwards Sewell, Warden of New College, Oxford. • Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, statesman • William George Ward, prominent in the Oxford MovementWilliam Monsell, 1st Baron Emly, Liberal politician • Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of SelborneArthur Farmer, cricketer • Anthony Trollope, novelist , poet|alt=Monochrome photograph of the poet Matthew Arnold with centre parting and sideburns 1820–1839 , naturalist|alt=Engraving of the naturalist Frank Buckland at bust length with beard, coat and waistcoat, his tie-pin in shape of a fish • William Grasett Clarke, cricketer and clergyman • Matthew Arnold, poet • Frank Buckland, naturalist • Arthur Ridding, cricketer, educator and librarian • George Ridding, Headmaster of Winchester, later Bishop of SouthwellHenry Furneaux, scholar of TacitusSamuel Rawson Gardiner, historian • Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons, 1st Viscount and Earl Lyons, diplomat • Philip Lutley Sclater, lawyer, ornithologist (founder of Ibis), zoogeographer, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London for 42 years • Ford North, Judge of the High Court of Justice and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy CouncilAshley Eden, colonial administrator, member of the Council of IndiaCecil Fiennes, cricketer, descendant of William of Wykeham • Philip Reginald Egerton, founder of Bloxham SchoolArthur Faber, headmaster of Malvern CollegeWingfield Fiennes, cricketer and clergyman, descendant of William of Wykeham fought in the Anglo-Zulu War, the First Boer War and the Sudan Campaign.|alt=Engraving of Major General Sir Herbert Stewart with handlebar moustache, wearing uniform jacket decorated with applique stylised foliage with sash, braided lanyard, and medals 1840–1859 , orientalist|alt=Chiaroscuro painting of David Samuel Margoliouth with moustache in academic gown and background of leather-bound books • Herbert Stewart, soldier • Robert Campbell Moberly, theologian • Samuel Rolles Driver, biblical scholar • Thomas Hughes, footballer who won the FA Cup twice in the 1870s • William Lindsay, England footballer and three times FA Cup winner • Leonard Howell, Wanderers and England footballer • Charles Marriott, cricketer and barrister • Francis Birley, footballer who won the FA Cup three times in the 1870s • Theodore Dyke Acland, physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria • Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor, Lord President of the CouncilJohn Bain, England footballer and 1877 FA Cup Finalist • John Hewett, Lieutenant Governor of Agra and OudhPonsonby Ogle, writer and journalist • Montague John Druitt, suspected of being Jack the RipperDavid Samuel Margoliouth, orientalist • G. E. M. Skues, pioneer of fly fishing with nymphs • William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, Lord ChancellorPercival Parr, footballer and barrister 1860–1869 , Foreign Secretary, 1914|alt=Monochrome photograph of Edward Gray in wing collar • Francis J. Haverfield, historian of Roman Britain • Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary 1905–16 • Arthur Cayley Headlam, Principal of King's College London (1903–16) Bishop of Gloucester (1923–45) • Frederic G. Kenyon, classical scholar • Arthur Cobb, wicket-keeper on early tour of America • John Beresford Leathes, physiologist • Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise, cricketer and soldier • H. A. L. Fisher, historian, politician • Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, Colonial Governor and Viceroy of IndiaClaud Schuster, 1st Baron Schuster, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor 1915–1944 • General Reginald Byng Stephens, soldier • Ernest Makins, soldier, statesman and politician 1870–1879 , owner of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel , statistician, inventor of Student's t-test|alt=Photograph of William Sealy Gossett with round spectacles and moustache • Bernard Granville Baker, soldier, author, military artist • Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, poet and companion of Oscar WildeEdmund Fellowes, musicologist, clergyman • Udny Yule, statistician • Edmund Backhouse, "The Hermit of Peking" • Ewart Grogan, explorer and colonist • William Sealy Gosset, statistician with Guinness (inventor of Student's t-test) • G. H. Hardy, mathematician and mentor of RamanujanRobert Lock Graham Irving, schoolmaster, writer and mountaineer • Leopold George Wickham Legg, historian and editor of the Dictionary of National BiographyHenry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, peer • Percy Bates, shipbuilder and InklingWarren Fisher, Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, first Head of the Home Civil Service • Edward Grigg, colonial administrator and politician • Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert MuseumAlan Reynolds, cricketer and soldier • Jack White, trade union organiser, Irish republican and socialist who co-founded the Irish Citizen ArmyAlfred Eckhard Zimmern, Zionist historian and political scientist • Walter Henderson, Olympic athlete • Boyd Merriman, politician • Hugh Dowding, Battle of Britain commander • Henry Morshead, Himalayan explorer • Archibald Wavell, Field Marshal and Viceroy of IndiaAdam Fox, theologian and InklingRobert Hamilton Moberly, bishop • Charles Malan, postmaster-general of the United ProvincesClarence Bruce, peer • George Mallory, mountaineer on first three British expeditions to Mount EverestWilliam Reginald Halliday, Principal of King's College London (1928–1952) • Apsley Cherry-Garrard Member of Captain Scott's expedition of 1912 • Arthur Stanley-Clarke, soldier • Roundell Palmer, Minister of Economic WarfareBasil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern IrelandEdmund Morgan, bishop • James Tucker, judge • Christopher Dawson, Roman Catholic historian • Stafford Cripps, Labour politician • Armstrong Gibbs, composer • Charles Scott Moncrieff, translator of ProustGeoffrey Toye, composer and conductor • Arnold J. Toynbee, historian 1890–1899 , leader of the British Union of Fascists, by Glyn Warren Philpot, 1925|alt=Chiaroscuro oil painting of Oswald Mosley with small moustache, white shirt and very dark tie and jacket, handkerchief in top pocket • A. P. Herbert, humorist and law reformer • John William Fisher Beaumont, Chief Justice of the Bombay High CourtJohn Campbell, cardiologist • Olaf Caroe, writer and colonial administrator • Spencer Leeson, headmaster and bishop • Godfrey Rolles Driver, biblical scholar • Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air ForceMalcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe, barrister • George MacLeod, Very Rev Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, Moderator, Church of ScotlandEgon Pearson, statistician • Gilbert Ashton, cricketer and schoolmaster • Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader • Henry Gurney, colonial administrator, assassinated in Malaya • John Sinclair, former Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) • Edward Tennant, war poet • Ronald Tree, Conservative MP and founder of Sandy Lane, BarbadosHenry Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett, industrialist • Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, landowner, far-right writer and politician • Hubert Ashton, footballer, cricketer and politician • H. H. Price, Wykeham Professor of Logic ==Twentieth century==
Twentieth century
1900–1909 (second from left) by Lady Ottoline Morrell (died 1938)|alt=Monochrome photograph of Anthony Asquith and friends standing in a garden , Chancellor of the Exchequer, leader of the opposition|alt=Bust-length monochrome portrait photograph of Hugh Gaitskell in dark suit • Douglas Jardine, England cricketer • Cecil Harmsworth King, newspaper publisher • Claude Ashton, Essex cricketer and England footballer • E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist, author of Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the AzandeFrancis Festing, Field Marshal • Nowell Myres, archaeologist, Bodley's LibrarianGeorge D'Oyly Snow, headmaster of Ardingly College and Bishop of WhitbyCharles Bosanquet, academic • Kenneth Clark, art historian and broadcaster • Frank Ramsey, philosopher, mathematician and economist • Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, writer on Islamic history • John Snagge, Second World War BBC announcer • Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, ambassador • Colin Clark, economist and statistician • Charles Francis Christopher Hawkes, archaeologist • William Goodenough Hayter, diplomat, ambassador and Warden of New College, OxfordJohn Sparrow, literary critic and Warden of All SoulsWilliam Empson, literary critic • Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the Labour PartyRichard Crossman, Labour politician and diarist • Douglas Jay, Baron Jay, Labour politician • Evelyn Shuckburgh, diplomat • Douglas Dodds-Parker, soldier and politician 1910–1919 , naval officer, author of The Cruel Sea|alt=Photograph of bronze wall-plaque with relief sculpture of Nicholas Monsarrat and inscription , inventor of partition chromatography|alt=Monochrome portrait photograph of the chemist Richard Synge • Nicholas Monsarrat, naval officer, diplomat and author of The Cruel SeaJohn Stephenson, Lord Justice of AppealJohn Fiennes, lawyer and parliamentary draftsmanRoger Tredgold, fencer and psychiatrist • Duncan Wilson, ambassador to the USSR and Master of Corpus Christi College, CambridgeJohn Pringle, zoologist • Bruce Campbell, ornithologist, writer and broadcaster • D. G. Champernowne, economist and mathematician • Charles Madge, poet, Communist, sociologist • Paul Reilly, designer • Basil William Robinson, Asian art scholar and author • Basil Martin Wright, inventor of the Peak flow meterShaun Wylie, mathematician and Second World War Enigma and Tunny codebreaker • Robert Irving, conductor • Lord Aldington, politician and businessman • Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, government minister • Michael Carver, Baron Carver, Field Marshal and philosopher • Laurence Pumphrey, ambassador • Robert Conquest, historian specialising in Joseph Stalin's purges • Monty Woodhouse, Philhellene and politician • Julian Faber, businessman • James Joll, historian • Willie Whitelaw, politician • George Jellicoe, aka Viscount Brocas, soldier, statesman, businessman and diplomat • M. R. D. Foot, historian • Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, politician • Frank Thompson, SOE officer • Anthony Storr, psychiatrist and author • Michael Swann, molecular and cell biologist, BBC Chairman • Horace Barlow, neuroscientist • Mark Bonham Carter, publisher and politician • Tony Pawson, angler and cricketer • Paul Britten Austin, translator of Swedish literature • Peter Fowler, physicist working on elementary particles • Hugh Beach, soldier, researcher into disarmament and ethics of war • Freeman Dyson, physicist and mathematician • Bryan Thwaites, educator and mathematician • Geoffrey Warnock, philosopher and academic • Edgar Feuchtwanger, historian • James Lighthill, applied mathematician working on fluid dynamics • Michael Gow, general • Brian Trubshaw, Concorde test pilot • Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, mathematician and oceanographer • Hubert Doggart, cricketer and schoolmaster • Michael Dummett, philosopher • John Balcombe, Lord Justice of AppealJack Boles, Director-General of the National TrustGeoffrey Howe, Lord Howe of Aberavon, politician • Edgar Anstey, Civil Service psychologist to the Cuban Missile CrisisIan Macdonald, mathematician • Martin Beale, applied mathematician and statistician • Jeremy Morse, banker and university chancellor • Raymond Bonham Carter, banker • Roger Wykeham Ellis, headmaster of Rossall and Marlborough • John Lucas, philosopher • Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, politician 1930–1939 , aeronautical engineer|alt=Colour photograph of Antony Jameson in pullover, relaxed, seated in a study with many books and papers • Alasdair Milne, BBC Director General • George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Secretary of State for DefenceReginald Bosanquet, ITN newscaster • Guy Antony Jameson, aeronautical engineer • David Thouless, Nobel prizewinning physicist • Stuart Anstis, psychologist • Nicholas Mackintosh, experimental psychologist • William Donaldson, writer and satirist; creator of Henry Root • Murray Lawrence, chairman of Lloyd'sJulian Mitchell, playwright • David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, ambassador to the United Nations , controversial bishop|alt=Colour photograph of Richard Williamson in white and gold Bishop's regalia standing at an altar • Giles Radice, Labour politician • Jonathan D. Spence, historian and sinologistJohn Albery, scientist • Ian Gow, politician • Jonathan Parker, Lord Justice of AppealPaul Bergne, intelligence officer, linguist and diplomat • Peter Jay, economist, journalist and ambassador • David Miers, ambassador • Richard Storey, businessman • Christopher Miles, film director 1940–1949 , military historian|alt=Colour photograph of Antony Beevor in dark jacket, without tie, speaking at a meeting • David Brewer, broker, Lord Mayor of London • Richard Williamson, controversial bishop • Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, captain of India's cricket team • Charles Gray, lawyer and judge • Tim Brooke-Taylor, comedian • Andrew Large, banker and businessman • Patrick Moberly, ambassador • David Soskice, political economist • Patrick Minford, economist • Hew Pike, soldier • Donald A. Gillies, philosopher and historian of science and technology • Madhavrao Scindia, Indian cabinet minister • Martin Nourse, Lord Justice of AppealLord Jay of Ewelme, head of the Foreign Office • Antony Beevor, military historian • Richard Noble, designer of the ThrustSSCTimothy Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal , singer-songwriter|alt=Colour photograph of Robyn Hitchcock, playing a guitar, standing and singing into a microphone with closed eyes • Roy Dyckhoff, computer scientist and mathematician • Charles Sinclair, businessman, Warden of Winchester College 2014–2019 • David Clementi, financier, Warden of Winchester College 2008–2014 1950–1959 , ambassador|alt=Official colour portrait photograph of Richard Stagg, smiling, standing in front of elaborate stonework , Chief of the Defence StaffChristopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester, Labour peer • Tim Eggar, Conservative politician • Anthony Pawson, biochemist • Galen Strawson, philosopher • Nicholas Underhill, Lord Justice of AppealMark Ellen, music journalist and broadcaster • Robyn Hitchcock, singer-songwriter • Alan Lovell, businessman • Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, mathematician • James Mallet, evolutionary zoologist • James Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie, peer and politician • Richard Stagg, ambassador, Warden of Winchester College 2019– • Nicholas Shakespeare, novelist • Michael Hofmann, poet and translator • J.G. Sandom, author • Francis Pott, composer and pianist • John Whittingdale, Culture SecretaryJohn Campbell, economist • Seumas Milne, journalist • Jon Leyne, BBC foreign correspondent • James Bucknall, soldier • Peter Neyroud, police chief • Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff; Ad Portas, 2021 1960–1969 , film director|alt=Informal bust-length colour photograph of Joss Whedon, spectacles raised over forehead, bearded, smiling, in checked jacket • Nicholas Watson, medievalist • Stephen Cobb, Lord Justice of Appeal • Korn Chatikavanij, finance minister of Thailand • Joss Whedon, film director • Alex Ellis, ambassador • Charles Edwards, actor • Nigel Cliff, biographer 1970–1979 , Prime Minister |alt=Official colour portrait photograph of Rishi Sunak • Saif Ali Khan, actor • Simon Henderson, headmaster of Eton CollegeAlex Chalk, Justice Secretary, Lord Chancellor • Alistair Potts, world champion cox • Sam Woods, deputy governor of Bank of England, Chair of Prudential Regulation Authority 1980–1989Rishi Sunak, Prime MinisterJames Forsyth, journalist • Anthony Smith, sculptor • Ned Beauman, author • Will Sharpe, actor • George Nash, Olympic rower ==Victoria Cross and George Cross holders==
Victoria Cross and George Cross holders
VC|alt=Formal studio sepia portrait photograph of Gustavus Hamilton Blenkinsopp Coulson in military dress uniform with checked trousers, pointed black shoes, helmet in hand, other hand on hilt of sheathed sword, standing in front of stone balustrade Six Old Wykehamists have won the Victoria Cross (VC), four in the First World War, 1914–18 (of whom three were killed in action) and two prior to 1914. Also in the Second World War one Old Wykehamist won the George Cross and one the George Medal, both in military circumstances. • Victoria CrossIndian Mutiny • Lieutenant Alfred Spencer Heathcote VC (1832–1912) for his conduct during the Siege of DelhiBoer War • Lieutenant Gustavus Hamilton Blenkinsopp Coulson VC DSO (1879–1901) • First World War • Captain Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby VC, MC (1885–1915) • Second Lieutenant Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt VC, (1897–1917) • Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie VC, (1868–1915) • Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Burges VC, DSO, Croix de guerre avec Palme (1873–1946) • George CrossSecond World WarSub-Lieutenant Peter Victor Danckwerts GC (1916–1984) for gallantry defusing mines dropped on London • George MedalSecond World War • Lieutenant Geoffrey Ambrose Hodges, RNVR (military, but for gallantry not in the face of the enemy) == See also ==
Cited sources
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