Military •
Gemmell Alexander OBE, British colonial officer and co-operator •
Major General Henry Templer Alexander CB CBE DSO, Army Commander •
Lt-Colonel John William Balfour Paul, DSO, Scottish Officer of Arms •
Randle Barnett Barker, decorated British Army Officer •
Percy Bentley, one of four soldiers to be awarded the Military Cross four times •
Major General "Jock" Campbell VC DSO and Bar MC, a commander of the
7th Armoured Division and recipient of the
Victoria Cross •
Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell VC,
Royal Air Force pilot and recipient of the
Victoria Cross •
General Sir Robert Archibald Cassels, GCB GCSI DSO,
Indian Army officer •
Colonel Freddie Spencer Chapman DSO and Bar ED, naturalist, mountaineer, explorer, war hero •
Group Captain Walter Myers Churchill DSO DFC, Royal Air Force, Second World War •
Air Commodore Duncan le Geyt Pitcher CMG, CBE, DSO, RAF, Army and Royal Air Force •
Lieutenant Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones VC,
Royal Engineers Officer and recipient of the
Victoria Cross •
Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Richard Gregory KBE CB,
British Army officer •
Second Lieutenant George Ward Gunn VC MC,
Royal Horse Artillery Officer and recipient of the
Victoria Cross • Major
David F. O. Russell MC FRSE, 20th century businessman, philanthropist and noted war hero •
Major-General Jonathan David Shaw CB CBE, British Army officer and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff •
Admiral Sir Jock Slater GCB LVO DL,
First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff •
General Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea GCB KCMG DSO, British Army officer •
Wing Commander Sir Kenneth Stoddart KCVO KStJ AE JP LLD, Battle of Britain pilot •
Major General Michael Walsh CB DSO,
British Army Officer and
Chief Scout Politics and law •
Henry Aglionby Aglionby, British barrister and Whig politician •
William George Ainslie, ironmaster and MP for
North Lonsdale 1885–1892 •
Glencairn Balfour Paul CMG, British Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia •
Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill,
Senior Law Lord, former
Master of the Rolls and
Lord Chief Justice •
Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, Politician, businessman and associate of Winston Churchill •
Henry Broadley, British Conservative politician •
Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart,
OBE, Chairman of the
Local Government Association •
Bill Carritt, Communist revolutionary,
Carritt family member, college lecturer, humanitarian aid organiser, campaigner for the
Scottsboro Boys •
Noel Carritt, Communist revolutionary,
Carritt family member,
International Brigadier, head of biology at
Dr Challoner's Grammar School •
Michael Carritt, Communist revolutionary,
Carritt family member, anti-colonial spy, expert on Indian politics, philosophy lecturer at
Oxford University •
Sir John Seton Cassels, English civil servant and educationalist •
Sir Alan Chambré, English judge •
Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Author, diplomat and prominent Japanologist •
Sir Maurice Dorman, Governor-General of Sierra Leone and Colonial Governor of Malta •
Richard Bostock Dorman CBE, Diplomat and High Commissioner •
Professor Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward, Scottish lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the
Court of Justice of the European Communities •
Edward John Eyre, Explorer and Governor of Jamaica. •
Sir Russell Fairgrieve, politician •
Sir John Archibald Ford, British Ambassador to Indonesia •
Sir Michael Bowen Hanley KCB, Head of MI5 •
Baron Haskel of Higher Broughton, Labour Party politician •
Laurence Helsby, Baron Helsby, Head of British Civil Service •
H. Montgomery Hyde, author and politician •
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale,
First Lord of the Treasury and
Lord Privy Seal •
James Lupton, Baron Lupton, Conservative peer • Count Andrew McMillan, Baron of Cleghorn, philanthropist •
James MacColl, politician • Sir
Richard McCombe, Lord Justice of Appeal •
Brian McConnell, Baron McConnell,
Northern Ireland politician and member of the
House of Lords • Sir John Middleton, Governor of The Falkland Islands •
Stephen O'Brien, Conservative Party Member of Parliament •
Joseph Anthony Peacocke, Inspector-General of the Royal Ulster Constabulary •
Charles Peat, Politician and Principal Private Secretary to Winston Churchill •
Sir Francis Powell, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party Member of Parliament •
Sir Robert Rhodes James, politician and author •
Arthur Ridehalgh, Attorney General of Hong Kong •
James Hugh Robertson, Political and economic thinker and activist •
Robert Rowland, Member European Parliament South East England The Brexit Party •
Sir Michael Alexander Geddes Sachs, First English solicitor appointed as a High Court judge •
Sir Giles Shaw, Politician. wrote his memoir, 'In the Long Run' published by the Memoir Club •
Michael Shaw, Baron Shaw of Northstead, Politician •
Norman Lockhart Smith, Acting Administrator of Hong Kong • Sir
Thomas Broun Smith (1915–1988), QC FBA FRSE etc, Scots jurist and Professor of Law •
Joseph Stanley Snowden, British Liberal Party politician and barrister •
John Studholme, British pioneer of New Zealand, farmer and politician •
David Waddington, Baron Waddington, British Home Secretary, Lord Privy Seal,
Leader of the House of Lords, Governor of Bermuda. •
Robert Warnock, Circuit judge •
David Wood, Circuit judge
Business •
Montague Ainslie, Forester and businessman •
Adam Applegarth, Ex-CEO of
Northern Rock bank •
Philip Hedley Bowcock, CEO of William Hill Plc •
Christian Bjelland, Norwegian businessman and chairman of the
National Gallery of Norway •
Sir Christopher Bland, chairman of B.T. Group, businessman and former chairman of the
BBC •
John Charlesworth Dodgson-Charlesworth, colliery owner and M.P. •
Sir Roger Gifford, banker,
Alderman and
Lord Mayor of London •
Sir Mark Hudson, former chairman of the Council of the
Duchy of Lancaster •
James Lupton, Lord Lupton of Lovington, banker, trustee of the British Museum •
Sir (John) Hubert Worthington, English architect, designed Sedbergh School's memorial cloisters
The arts, literature and humanities •
Michael Adams, journalist •
John Arden, dramatist •
Greig Barr, Fellow and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford •
Sir John Christopher Malcolm Baynes, 7th Bt., author •
Simon Beaufoy, Screenwriter and 2009 Oscar winner for
Slumdog Millionaire. Wrote
The Full Monty. •
Leonard Boden, Scottish portrait painter •
Timothy Birdsall, Cartoonist •
Colin Blakely, British character actor •
JB Blanc, British film actor •
Peter Chippindale, Journalist and author •
William George Clark, English classical and Shakespearean scholar •
Henry Wilkinson Cookson, Master of
Peterhouse, Cambridge, and five times Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge •
William Craven, Master of
St. John's College, Cambridge, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge •
Ernest Crawley, English schoolmaster, sexologist, anthropologist, sports journalist and exponent of ball games •
Hugh I'Anson Fausset, Literary critic, biographer, poet and religious writer •
Arthur Foxton Ferguson, English baritone, lecturer and German translator •
Richard Fraser, (born Richard Mackie Simpson), Scottish actor •
Assheton Gorton, Production designer and Academy Award nominee •
Mark Herman, film director and screenwriter •
Tim Kevan, English writer and barrister •
Francis Llewellyn Griffith, British
Egyptologist •
Rab Bruce Lockhart, Scottish educationist and rugby union player •
Dugald Bruce Lockhart, actor •
Phillip Mason, author •
Alan Macfarlane, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
King's College, Cambridge •
Colin Matthew, historian and the first editor of the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography •
Fergus McDonell, film editor and director •
Jim Muir,
BBC Middle East correspondent •
Nigel D. Oram, public servant, military officer and anthropologist •
Barry Pain, journalist, poet and writer •
George Edwards Peacock, eminent Australian colonial artist •
Adam Rickitt, actor, singer, model and one time Conservative parliamentary candidate •
F. A. Ridley, historian and Marxist •
Simon Slater, musician and TV and film actor •
Richard Smyth, English school headmaster and cricketer. •
Sir Archibald Strong, Australian scholar and poet •
Richard Suart, Opera singer and actor •
Edward Tatham, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford •
Mark Umbers, actor - theatre and film •
Roger Vignoles, piano accompanist •
James Walker né Chalton, member of the
Royal Shakespeare Company and screen actor •
John Dawson Watson, British painter and illustrator •
James Wilby, actor •
Thomas Wilson, English cleric and eminent headmaster •
William John Woodhouse, classical scholar and author •
Tyson Yoshi, a Hong Kong singer •
Henry Watson Fowler, former teacher at the school, the writer of
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage Science and exploration •
Peter Addyman, British archaeologist •
Wilfred Eade Agar, Anglo-Australian zoologist •
Anthony Askew, Physician and book collector •
Peter Barwick, English physician and author •
George Birkbeck, doctor, academic, philanthropist and early pioneer in adult education •
Miles Bland, fellow of the Royal Society, of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and of the Royal Astronomical Society. •
Professor Sir Christopher Booth, Clinician and medical historian •
Christopher Chippindale, Stonehenge archaeologist •
John Cranke, mathematician and mentor •
John Dawson, surgeon and mathematician •
G. M. B. Dobson, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Meteorological Society •
Anthony Fothergill, Physician •
John Fothergill, Physician, plant collector, philanthropist •
Thomas Garnett, English physician and natural philosopher •
Thomas Gaskin, Clergyman and academic, now known for contributions to mathematics •
John Hammersley, British mathematician •
John Haygarth, physician who discovered the benefits of segregating/quarantining sick patients •
Thomas S. Hele, Cambridge Biochemist and Academic •
Edward Holme, English physician and supporter of learned societies •
John Hymers, English mathematician, Fellow of
the Royal Society and founder of
Hymers College •
John Walter Guerrier Lund, CBE FRS, English psychologist •
John McCormick, Emeritus Professor of Political Science •
Dr Digby McLaren, Geologist and palaeontologist • Sir Roderick McQuhae Mackenzie of Scatwell, 12th Bt., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians •
Edward Max Nicholson, Founder of the
World Wildlife Fund •
George Peacock, English mathematician •
Sir Isaac Pennington, Physician •
James Hogarth Pringle, Pioneer in surgical practice •
Adam Sedgwick, Founder of modern geology •
Edmund Sharpe, Architect and engineer •
George Sherriff OBE, Scottish explorer and plant collector •
Robert Swan OBE, Polar explorer: the first man in history to walk to both the North and South Poles •
Roger Cuthbert Wakefield, Surveyor •
Robert Willan, the father of modern dermatology •
Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth, Lepidopterist and schoolmaster •
Professor Ian Young OBE, Engineering innovator in medicine
Sport •
David Barnes, Chairman of the Professional Rugby Players' Association •
Mike Biggar, Scotland rugby union player •
Imogen Boddy, world record ultra-marathon runner •
James Botham, Wales rugby union player •
Harry Brook, England cricketer - won the
2022 T20 World Cup. Captain of the T20 and ODI teams since 2024. •
John H Bruce Lockhart, Scottish cricketer, rugby international and headmaster •
Kim Bruce-Lockhart, Scotland international squash player •
Logie Bruce Lockhart,
Scotland rugby union player and headmaster of
Gresham's School •
Will Carling OBE, England rugby union captain •
Jamie Harrison, cricketer •
George Hill,
Yorkshire County Cricket Club Cricketer •
Peter Kininmonth, Scotland rugby union captain •
Mike McCarthy Ireland rugby union international •
Mandy Mitchell-Innes, England cricketer •
James Park-Johnson, first-class cricketer •
Cameron Redpath, Scotland international rugby union player •
Ben Redshaw, rugby union player •
Matt Revis, England County Cricketer •
Bevan Rodd, England Rugby Union player •
James Rogers, first-class cricketer •
Chris Sanders, first-class cricketer •
Roger Sangwin, England Rugby player •
Angus Scott, Olympian •
Archie Scott, Scottish first-class cricketer; oldest ever living Scottish first-class cricketer •
James Simpson-Daniel England rugby union player •
Robert Skene, first-class cricketer •
John Spencer, England rugby union captain •
David Tait, rugby union •
Freddie Tait, golfer •
Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal England rugby union captain •
Abbie Ward née Scott, England rugby union player •
Gerald Lloyd Williams (1881–1936) – Rugby union half-back and member of the
1908 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia Religion •
Nicholas John Willoughby Barker, British Anglican priest •
John Barwick, Royalist churchman and Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral •
Francis Blackburne, Archdeacon •
Henry Lowther Clarke, first
Archbishop of Melbourne •
Ingram Cleasby, Dean of Chester •
Robert Dawson, Anglican bishop in Ireland in the 17th century •
John Duckett, Catholic priest and martyr •
Sir George Fleming, Bishop of Carlisle •
John Hey, English cleric and the first Norrisian Professor of Theology at Cambridge. •
Walker King,
Bishop of Rochester •
Thomas Kipling, Early churchman and academic •
John Knewstub, eminent English clergyman •
Christopher Charles Luxmoore, Bishop of
Bermuda •
William Stuart MacPherson, Dean of Lichfield •
George Mason, Bishop of The Isle of Man •
Christopher John Mayfield,
Bishop of Wolverhampton and
Bishop of Manchester •
Arnold Mathew, founder and first bishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church in the United Kingdom •
Rt. Rev. Thomas Otway, Seventeenth century Anglican bishop in Ireland •
Richard Parkinson, Canon of Manchester Cathedral, college principal, theologian and antiquarian •
Michael Peck, Dean of Lincoln •
Reginald Richard Roseveare, Anglican bishop •
Thomas Stackhouse, English theologian and controversialist •
James Wilson, Theologian and astronomer •
Tom Wright,
Bishop of Durham and a leading British
New Testament scholar. == References ==