Notable members of the club include:
Royalty •
Edward VII of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1841–1910). •
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (1864–1892). •
George V of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1865–1936). •
Prince Frederick Duleep Singh of the Sikh Empire (1868–1926). •
Captain Bertram Brooke,
Tuan Muda of Sarawak (1876–1965). •
Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1948–). •
Princess Theodora of Liechtenstein (2004-).
Academics •
Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820–1877), architect, art historian, Secretary of the
Great Exhibition, first
Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. •
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925), English essayist, poet, author and academic, and the 28th
Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is noted for having written the words of the song "
Land of Hope and Glory". •
M. R. James (1862–1936), author, medievalist, provost of
King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). •
Walter George Headlam (1866–1908), a British classical scholar and poet, perhaps best remembered for his work on the Mimes of Herodas. He was described as "one of the leading Greek scholars of his time". •
Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871–1935), British archaeologist and first holder of the chair of classical archaeology at the University of Liverpool. •
John Samuel Budgett (1872–1904), British zoologist and embryologist. •
Sir Walter Morley Fletcher (1873–1933), Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge, physiologist and medical researcher. •
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), economist and member of the
Bloomsbury Group. •
James Bond (1900–1989), the namesake for Ian Fleming's character
James Bond, ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean. He was the sole American member of the Pitt Club. •
James Hamilton Doggart (1900–1989), leading ophthalmologist, lecturer, writer, cricketer, and a member of the
Cambridge Apostles and the
Bloomsbury Group. •
Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), spy, leading art historian and member of the
Cambridge Five. •
David Watkin (1941–2018), architectural historian and president of the University Pitt Club.
Politicians •
George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford (1818–1857), a British Conservative politician, best known for his association with Benjamin Disraeli and the Young England movement. He served briefly as under-secretary of state for foreign affairs in 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. He was president of the University Pitt Club. •
John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (1818–1906), English statesman, postmaster-general, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and poet. •
James Agar, 3rd Earl of Normanton (1818–1896), Conservative Party politician. •
Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (1818–1891), British peer and politician. •
Lord George Manners (1820–1874), British nobleman and Conservative Party politician. •
George Hay, Earl of Gifford (1822–1862), British Liberal politician. •
Horatio Nelson, 3rd Earl Nelson (1823–1913), British politician. •
Frederick Peel (1823–1906), British Liberal Party politician and railway commissioner. •
William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (1825–1895), British peer and politician. •
Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830–1913), Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, Conservative-Unionist politician and law lord. •
Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue (1854–1932), British Liberal politician. •
Alfred Lyttelton (1857–1913), politician and the first man to represent England at both football and cricket. Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1903 and 1905. •
Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley (1859–1927), aristocrat, parliamentarian and cricketer. •
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman (1864–1935), former home secretary between 1922 and 1924 and an active cricketer. •
Lancelot Lowther, 6th Earl of Lonsdale (1867–1953), British peer. •
Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire (1868–1938), British peer and politician who served as Governor-General of Canada. •
Edward Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just (1870–1941), British banker and politician. He was a named partner at
Morgan, Grenfell & Co., a director of the Bank of England (1905 to 1940) and MP for the City of London (1922–1935). •
Lord Richard Cavendish (1871–1946), British aristocrat, author, magistrate, and Liberal politician. •
Orlando Bridgeman, 5th Earl of Bradford (1873–1957), British peer, Conservative politician and soldier. •
Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton (1876–1947), British politician, Governor of Bengal,
League of Nations Commissioner. •
Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland (1876–1961), British Conservative politician and secretary of state for India. •
William Dudley Ward (1877–1946), British Liberal politician and sportsman. •
John Wodehouse, 3rd Earl of Kimberley (1883–1941), British peer, Liberal politician and a champion polo player. •
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979), statesman, naval leader, and the last
viceroy of India. He was an uncle of
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin-once-removed of
Queen Elizabeth II. •
John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel (1905–1992), member of parliament and peer. •
James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster (1907–1983), British aristocrat, soldier, and member of parliament. •
Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford (1911–1966), British peer, politician, and a Royal Air Force officer. Whilst at
Harrow School he was Inter-Public Schools Athletics Champion for the 880 yards (1929). •
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (1918–2007), British politician, diplomat, businessman and the commander of the Special Boat Service in WW2. •
Kwasi Kwarteng (1975–), British Conservative Party politician,
chancellor of the exchequer between September and October 2022.
Actors •
John Cleese (1939–), comic actor and co-founder of
Monty Python. •
Alexander Armstrong (1970–), best known as one half of the comedy duo
Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show
Pointless. •
Tom Hiddleston (1981–), recipient of several awards, including a Golden Globe Award and a Laurence Olivier Award. •
Eddie Redmayne (1982–), Academy Award for Best Actor winner (2015).
Journalists and authors •
E. F. Benson (1867–1940), novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. •
George William Lyttelton (1883–1962), British teacher and littérateur. •
David Frost (1939–2013), television host, media personality, comedian and writer, known for his interviews with
Richard Nixon. •
Andrew Roberts, Lord Roberts (1963–), historian, journalist, visiting professor at the
Department of War Studies, King's College London, visiting research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. •
Simon Sebag Montefiore (1965–), historian, television presenter and author of popular history books and novels.
Clerics •
George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman (1823–1895), a Church of England clergyman and antiquary. •
George Herbert (priest) (1825–1894), Anglican priest and Dean of Hereford. •
Reverend Frederick Gunton (d. 1893), Dean of
Magdalene College, Cambridge and president of the University Pitt Club. •
Edward Lyttelton (1855–1942), English sportsman, schoolmaster and cleric. Headmaster of
Eton College (1905–1916). England International Footballer & 1876 FA Cup finalist. •
Lionel Ford (1865–1932), Anglican priest and
Dean of York. Headmaster of
Harrow School (1910–1925). •
Alfred Newman Gilbey (1901–1998), Catholic chaplain to Cambridge University, and
protonotary apostolic. •
Justin Welby (1956–), the 105th
Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England.
Athletes •
Francis Grimston (1822–1865), amateur cricketer. •
John Goldie (barrister) (1849–1896), English rower and barrister, namesake for the second Cambridge boat
Goldie (Cambridge University Boat Club). •
Charles Gurdon (1855–1931), English rower and rugby union forward, captained an England international side. •
Kynaston Studd (1858–1944), British cricketer, businessman and
Lord Mayor of London. •
Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (1860–1938), international cricketer and President of the
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). •
Frederick I. Pitman (1863–1942), British rower. •
Stanley Muttlebury (1866–1933), 'The Mighty Muttle', English rower notable in the annals of rowing and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. •
Geoffrey Cornewall (1869–1951), British archer who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. •
Claude Goldie (1876–1956), English rower and soldier. •
Raymond Etherington-Smith (1877–1913), doctor and British Olympic rower. •
Graham Maitland (1879–1914), English rower. •
Claude Taylor (rower) (born 1880), English rower. •
Banner Johnstone (1882–1964), British Olympic rower. •
Ronald Powell (rower) (1884–1930), English rower. •
Eric Powell (rower) (1886–1933), English schoolmaster, artist and rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics. •
Edward Williams (rower) (1888–1915), British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, killed in action in the First World War. •
Harold Abrahams (1899–1978), Olympic track and field champion immortalized in the film
Chariots of Fire. •
Robert Morrison (rower) (1902–1980), British Olympic rower. •
David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (1905–1981), Olympic gold-medalist on whom the character Lord Lindsay in
Chariots of Fire is based. •
Michael Warriner (1908–1986), British Olympic rower and gold medallist (1928). Three-time boat race winner and president of
Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC). •
Anthony Bingham Mildmay, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete (1909–1950), celebrated amateur steeplechaser, who raced in the Grand National.
Other •
Rudolph Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh (1823–1892), British peer and noted Roman Catholic convert. •
Arthur Murray Goodhart (1866–1941), British composer and organist, principal of
Guildhall School of Music, Conductor of the Concerts of the
Royal Academy of Music. •
Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey (1879–1963), English nobleman. •
Roland Nelson (1881–1940), English rower, barrister and private secretary to the
First Lord of the Admiralty and the
home secretary. •
Evelyn de Rothschild (1886–1917), member of the
Rothschild family and soldier. •
John Fremantle, 4th Baron Cottesloe (1900–1994), chairman of the
Arts Council of Great Britain and the South Bank Theatre Board. •
Edric Hamilton-Russell (1904–1984), British rower and mining engineer who was director of pre-nationalisation collieries. •
Guy Burgess (1911–1963), spy, diplomat and member of the
Cambridge Five. •
Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore (1911–1994), British architect. •
Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow (1912–2013), British diplomat and colonial governor of The Bahamas. •
Christopher Mallaby (1936–2022), British diplomat closely involved in German reunification. •
Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria (1961–), British Indian entrepreneur and a university chancellor, well known for founding the global beer brand
Cobra Beer. •
Rupert Goodman (1963–), British publisher, international affairs expert and entrepreneur. •
Harry Primrose, 8th Earl of Rosebery (1967–), British aristocrat and the chairman of
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