List of Old Derbeians
This is a list of notable Old Derbeians, former pupils and masters of Derby School (from the 12th century to 1989) and of Derby Grammar School (since 1994), in Derby, England.[1]
Notable old boys
Born in the 16th century
- Blessed Edward James (1557–1588), Roman Catholic martyr[2][3]
- John Cotton (1585–1652), New England Puritan[2][3]
Born in the 17th century
- George Sitwell (c.1600-1667), Ironmaster and High Sheriff.[2]
- John Flamsteed (1646–1719), England's first Astronomer Royal[2][3]
- Anthony Blackwall (1672–1730), classical scholar[2][3]
- Henry Cantrell (1684–1773), clergyman and religious controversialist[3][4]
- William Budworth (c. 1699-1745), schoolmaster[5]
Born in the 18th century
- Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas[2][3][6]
- Joseph Wright (1734–1797), artist[2][3][7]
- Daniel Coke (1745–1825), barrister and member of parliament[2][3][8]
- Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (1753–1839), diplomat[2][3]
- Joseph Strutt (1765–1844), cotton manufacturer and philanthropist[2][3]
- Sir William Gell (1777–1836), archaeologist[2][3]
Born in the 19th century
- Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), surgeon and artist[2][9]
- Sir Henry Howe Bemrose (1827–1911), member of parliament for Derby[2][10]
- Unwin Sowter (1839–1910) maltster, cricketer and Mayor of Derby
- John Cook Wilson (1849–1915), philosopher[2][11]
- J. M. J. Fletcher (1850–1934), historian[2]
- E. W. Hobson FRS (1856–1933), mathematician[2]
- Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor[2]
- Hon. George Frederick Earp CBE (1858–1933), member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales[12]
- John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist[2]
- Walter Weston (1860–1940), missionary and mountaineer[2][13]
- Frederic Creswell (1866–1948), mining engineer and South African Minister of Defence[14]
- Lawrence Beesley (1877–1967), RMS Titanic survivor and author[2]
- William Henry Ansell (1872–1959), architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1940 to 1943[15]
- Walter Greatorex (1877–1949), composer[2]
- Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943), ichthyologist[2]
- Sir George Simpson FRS (1878–1965), meteorologist[2]
- Geoffrey Shaw (1879–1943), composer and musician[2][16]
- Guy Wilson (1882–1917), cricketer and soldier[17]
- William George Constable (1887–1976), art historian[18][19]
- Frank Conroy (1890–1964), actor
- Sir Robert Howe (1893–1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan, 1947-1955[20]
- Robert Sterndale Bennett (1880-1963). Music Director and grandson of composer William Sterndale Bennett
- Ernest Sterndale Bennett (1884-1982) Theatre Director and member of the Order of Canada.
Born in the 20th century
- Sir Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire[21]
- George Timms (1910–1997), clergyman
- Canon Garrett Daniel Sweeney (1912–1979), Master of St Edmund's House, Cambridge[22]
- P. G. Ashmore (1916–2002), academic chemist[23][24]
- Gilbert Hodgkinson (1913–1987), cricketer
- Spencer Barrett FBA (1914–2001), classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford[25][26]
- George Bacon (1917-2011), nuclear physicist[27]
- Alexander Morrison (1927-2012), judge[28]
- John Stobart (born 1929), maritime artist[29]
- Robert William Grimley (born 1943), Dean of Bristol since 1997[30]
- Dr David Livesey (born 1944), Life Fellow and Vice-Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Secretary-General of the League of European Research Universities since 2005[31][32]
Notable masters of Derby School
- John Meade Falkner, novelist and poet[2]
- Rev. Robert de Courcy Laffan (Senior Classical Master, 1880–1884), principal of Cheltenham College, member of the International Olympic Committee[2]
- George Handel Heath-Gracie BMus (Dunelm) FRCO (Director of Music, 1938–1944), organist and conductor[33]
- Henry Judge Hose (Maths master, 1867–1874), mathematician[2][34]
See also
- Derby School
- List of Masters of Derby School
- Category:People educated at Derby School
- Derby Grammar School
References
- ↑ Main page of the Old Derbeian Society web site, accessed 27 February 2008
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 The Derby School Register, 1570-1901, ed. Benjamin Tacchella (London, 1902)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Distinguished Alumni of Derby School by James Michael John Fletcher (Derby Reporter, 1872)
- ↑ Cantrell, Henry, Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist by David L. Wykes in Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004)
- ↑ theclergydatabase accessed 28 April 2008
- ↑ Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (1709–1792), judge by James Oldham in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 4 November 2007)
- ↑ Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter by Judy Egerton in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- ↑ Coke, Daniel Parker (1745–1825), barrister and politician by Mark Pottle in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- ↑ Haden, Sir Francis Seymour [pseud. H. Dean] (1818–1910), etcher and surgeon by A. M. Hind & E. Chambers in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- ↑ BEMROSE, Sir Henry Howe in Who Was Who 1897-2006, online at xreferplus.com (accessed 18 October 2007)
- ↑ Wilson, John Cook (1849–1915), philosopher and classical scholar by H. A. Prichard & David Boucher in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- ↑ EARP, Hon. George Frederick in Who Was Who 1897-2006, online at xreferplus.com (accessed 18 October 2007)
- ↑ Weston, Walter (1860–1940), mountaineer and missionary by Peter H. Hansen in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- ↑ 'CRESWELL, Lt-Col Hon. Frederic Hugh Page', in Who Was Who 1941–1950 (London: A. & C. Black, 1980 reprint: ISBN 0-7136-2131-1)
- ↑ ‘ANSELL, William Henry’, in Who Was Who 1951–1960 (London: A. & C. Black, 1984 reprint, ISBN 0-7136-2598-8)
- ↑ Enchiridion at canamus.org, accessed 9 January 2009
- ↑ Andrew Renshaw, Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918 (2014), p. 374
- ↑ Papers of William George Constable at janus.lib.cam.ac.uk, ref. GBR/0275, accessed 14 July 2007
- ↑ Constable, William George (1887–1976), art historian and gallery director by Alec Clifton-Taylor & Rosemary Mitchell in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- ↑ Howe, Sir Robert George in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, from HOWE, Sir Robert George (accessed 23 August 2007)
- ↑ BEMROSE, Sir Max (John Maxwell) in Who Was Who 1897-2006, online at xreferplus.com (accessed 18 October 2007)
- ↑ SWEENEY, Very Rev. Canon Garrett Daniel in Who Was Who 1897-2006, online at xreferplus.com (accessed 18 October 2007)
- ↑ Who's Who 2002 (A. & C. Black, 2002)
- ↑ ASHMORE, Prof. Philip George in Who Was Who 1897-2006, online at xreferplus.com (accessed 18 October 2007)
- ↑ 'BARRETT, (William) Spencer' in Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007, online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007: BARRETT, (William) Spencer, accessed 14 August 2008
- ↑ Hollis, Adrian, Spencer Barrett, Oxford don devoted to classics and his college, obituary in The Guardian, 17 October 2001, online at guardian.co.uk, accessed 14 August 2008
- ↑ Bacon, Prof. George Edward in Who's Who 2007, from Bacon, Prof. George Edward (accessed 23 August 2007)
- ↑ MORRISON, His Honour Alexander John Henderson in Who's Who 2007, online at xreferplus.com (accessed 18 October 2007)
- ↑ Hawley, Zena, Roy takes to the stage once again to pick up an honorary doctorate in Derby Evening Telegraph dated 19 January 2008, p. 6
- ↑ Grimley, Very Rev. Robert William in Who's Who 2007, from Who's Who 2007 online (accessed 23 August 2007
- ↑ Livesey, David Anthony in Who's Who 2007, from Livesey, David Anthony (accessed 23 August 2007)
- ↑ Dr David Livesey : Vice-Master; Life Fellow at emma.cam.ac.uk (accessed 28 February 2008)
- ↑ Heath-Gracie, George Handel in Who Was Who 1897-2006 online, from Heath-Gracie, George Handel (accessed 23 August 2007)
- ↑ Henry Judge Hose (1826-1883) by K. J. Cable in Australian Dictionary of Biography online, accessed 14 July 2007
- Derby School: a Short History by George Percy Gollin
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