Notable Alumni

Lindsay Anderson
1923-1994

Oscar-winning, avant-garde film-maker, director of ‘If’ & Critic

Julian Asquith
1916-2011

KCMG - 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith

Christopher Charles Richard Battiscombe
1940 -

CMG - Former Ambassador to Algeria (1990-4) and Jordan (1994-7)

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
1936 - 2012

CBE - Composer

Sir William Richard Benyon
1930-2014

Former MP for Buckingham, Berkshire landowner and former High Sheriff of Berkshire

Simon Berry

Chairman of Berry Bros & Rudd, Wine & Spirit merchants, St James’s

Raymond Bonham-Carter
1929 – 2004

Leading banker, (father of Helena)

Mark Bonham-Carter
1922-1994

Liberal politician, Life Peer and grandson of Prime Minister H.H. Asquith

General Sir Robert Napier Hubert Campbell (Bobbie) Bray
1908 – 1983

GBE, KCB, DSO - British soldier, deputy Supreme Commander Europe of NATO’s Allied Command Europe from 1967 to 1970.

Richard Bridgeman
1947 -

7th Earl of Bradford

Arthur Patrick Chichester
1952 -

8th Marquess of Donegall

Major General RL Clutterbuck
1917 - 1998

CB, OBE, PhD - Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers and senior university lecturer

Douglas Cochrane
1961 -

15th Earl of Dundonald

Sir James Croft, Bt
1907 - 1941

11th Baronet

Malcolm William Mackenzie Davidson
1934 -2019

3rd Viscount Davidson

Peter Dickinson
1927 - 2015

OBE Author; OBE for services to literature

Frank Gardner
1961 -

OBE - BBC security correspondent

Sir Richard Gaskell
1936 - 2015

President of the Law Society, Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor

Vice Admiral Gray
1913 - 1998

KBE CB - WWII naval commander

Sir Michael Grylls MP
1934 - 2001

father of “Bear” Grylls

D P Heathcoat-Amory
1949 -

Formerly Paymaster-General and MP for the Somerset constituency of Wells

Michael FitzGerald Heathcoat-Amory
1941 - 2016

Former High Sheriff of Devon

Viscount Robert Jocelyn
1938 -

10th Earl of Roden. Eldest son of the 8th Earl of Roden.

Sir Osbert Lancaster
CBE (1908 – 1986)

Cartoonist

Piers de Laszlo
1958 -

Artist

Percy “Laddie” Lucas
1915 - 1998

CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC Royal Air Force WWII airman, left-handed golder, author & MP

Donald Maclean
(1913 – 1983)

British diplomat, KGB colonel and member of the Cambridge Five spy ring

Sir Laurie Magnus

Investment banker, Deputy Chairman of the National Trust and Trustee of the Barbican Centre Trust

Christopher Makins
1942 - 2006

2nd Baron Sherfield, Anglo-American diplomat, foreign policy expert, author

César Mange de Hauke
(1911 – 13)

International art collector and benefactor to the British Museum

Hon T J Manners
1935-43

Chairman of the issuing Houses Association

Jonathan Neame
1964 -

Chief Executive of Shepherd Neame

Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave
1916 – 1979

DSO, OBE, MC, TD - Soldier, Colditz escapee, barrister & MP

Francis Newall
1930 -

2nd Baron Newall, businessman, diplomat and politician

The Rt. Hon Sir Martin Nourse
1932 - 2017

Attorney General to the Duchy of Lancaster 1976-1980, Lord Justice of Appeal 1985, Acting Master of the Rolls 2000 and Deputy Chairman of the Appeal Committee of the Takeover Panel.

Robert d’Orleans
1976 -

Comte de la Marche

John Palmer
1940 - 2021

KBE - 4th Earl of Selborne, Conservative Peer, Chairman of the Foundation for Science and Technology 2006-

Matthew Parish
1971 -

Olympic rower (1996 games)
[Mandatory Credit Peter Spurrier/ Intersport Images]

Mark Shand
1951-2014

Travel writer and conservationist. Brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.

Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede
1958 -

Chairman of the GLC, Labour Chief Whip 1982-1990

John Raven
1914-1980

Classical scholar

Philip Remnant
1953 -

Chairman of the Shareholder Executive

General Sir Charles Richardson
1908-94

GCB, CBE, DSO - Played a significant role in the Battle of El Alamein. Later appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Northern Command, Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Chief Royal Engineer.

Clive Rouse
1901 – 1997

MBE - Archaeologist

Alan Roxburgh

Eton top scholar, great nephew of Stowe’s founding head

Sir Charles Saumarez-Smith
1954 -

Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts

Oliver Saxby

Queen’s Counsel

Philip John Algernon Sidney
1945 -

2nd Viscount De L’Isle MBE, Lord Lieutenant of Kent and former soldier

Lyulph Stanley
1915 - 1971

7th Baron Stanley of Alderley, 6th Baron Eddisbury and 7th Baron Sheffield

Major-General Michael Tennant

CB - Director of the Royal Artillery 1991-4, Chairman of the CCF Association

The Rt. Rev. Michael Whinney
1930 - 2017

Bishop of Southwell, great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens

Aubrey Davidson-Houston
1906 - 1995

Royal portrait artist

Prince Rostislav Rostislavovich Romanov
1985 -

Royal portrait artist

Brigadier James Hamilton-Russell
1938 -

Commander of the Royal Dragoons

Peter Collymore
1929 - 2019

distinguished UK architect and writer

Gospatrick Home
1933 - 2020

co-founder of London & Quadrant Housing Association (£35 billion national housing charity)

Commander Jim Simpson
1911 - 2002

CBE, DSC, RN - Wartime Navy Commander and Arctic explorer

The Lord Remnant

CVO Prominent in worlds of banking, insurance and oil. CVO of Royal Jubilee and Prince’s Trust. Great Officer of the Order of St John and President of YMCA England.

Rev Henry Stapleton
1932 -

MBE

Awards

Here are just a few of our awards from over the last few years.

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Outstanding response to COVID

We are delighted to announce that we have, once again, been selected as finalists in the Independent School of the Year Awards organised by the Independent School Parent magazine.

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2021 Tes Prep School of the Year

This award is for continued excellence. ‘It recognises more than academic achievement, but innovation, imagination and efforts to develop children in ways that go beyond the league tables’.

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Shortlisted- Tes Prep School of the Year, Award for Wellbeing

The wellbeing initiative is specific to ways the school has improved mental health of the children during this period. This relates to the work of the community in the daily Radio and TV programmes during lockdown.

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Shortlisted- TES Independent Schools of the Year, Award for Marketing.

This award recognises the Radio and TV as our strategy to promote the pastoral side of the school to a wider community. Sharing the ‘magic’! Marvellous.

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Finalist - TES Prep School of the Year

This award recognises the Radio and TV as our strategy to promote the pastoral side of the school to a wider community. Sharing the ‘magic’! Marvellous.

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Finalist - TES Creativity Award

This award recognises the Radio and TV as our strategy to promote the pastoral side of the school to a wider community. Sharing the ‘magic’! Marvellous.

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