List of Old Dunelmians

A to E

• Sir Carl Douglas Aarvold, Recorder of London, England International rugby player, British and Irish Lions rugby player.
• Garath Archer, England International rugby player.
• Adil Arif, Emirati cricketer
• Alexander Armstrong, actor and comedian.
• John Askew, cricketer and England rugby union international.
• Jamie Atkinson, International Show Jumper.
• Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett, politician and journalist.
• Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby CB KCVO KCB, Surgeon-General, Mentioned in despatches five times, Distinguished Service Medal.
• Ralph Bradley pioneer of English conveyancing law.
• William Browne, Author and President of College of Physicians
• William Laurence Burn, historian and lawyer.
• Edmund Carter, Oxford University, Victoria, and Yorkshire, first class cricketer and rower.
• Hall Charlton, Newcastle Falcons RFC.
• Rod Clements, Musician, guitarist. Founder of folk-rock band Lindisfarne
• Thomas Cooke, 18th-century eccentric divine, author and playwright; published two comedies, 1722–83, and also sermons.
• Sir William Fothergill Cooke, co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, founder of the world's first public telegraph company.
• Bishop Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London. Historian. Author.
• Barry Cumberlege, cricketer and England rugby footballer.
• Dominic Cummings British political advisor and strategist
• John Robert Davison MP, QC, barrister and Liberal politician
• Christopher Beckett Denison, politician, director of GNR, Siege of Lucknow
• William Eden, first Baron Auckland, penal reformer and diplomatist.
• Thomas Renton Elliott, physician and physiologist.

  F to J

• Henry Cecil Ferens, Cricketer, gave his name to Ferens House, until 2003 a house for junior boys.
• WMW Fowler, bomber pilot and POW, culinary author.
• Henry Watson Fox, famous missionary in Masulipatam. Pupil and friend of Dr.Thomas Arnold at Rugby School. Author of Chapters on Missions in South India.
• Sir William Fox, KCMG, three times Prime Minister of New Zealand. Statesman and social reformer.
• Edward Pritchard Gee, discovered Gee's golden langur, influential in creation of Chitwan National Park.
• Michael Gough, actor.
• Bishop John Graham, Bishop of Chester. Clerk of the closet to Queen Victoria. Taught classics and mathematics as a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. Chaplain to Prince Albert.
• William Greenwell, archaeologist and librarian.
• William Hardcastle, journalist and radio broadcaster, co-founder of 'The World at One' radio programme.
• Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, succeeded The Duke of Wellington as Commander in Chief of the British Army, Governor-general of India, First Anglo-Sikh War.
• Arthur Harrison, organ builder of note, those at Durham Cathedral, Ely Cathedral and Westminster Abbey to name a few. Partner in Harrison & Harrison.
• Ian Hay MC, not an OD but a master at Durham School, humorist and author.
• William Noel Hodgson MC, war poet on the Somme, mentioned in despatches. Killed in action.
• Ian Hogg, actor.
• Thomas Jefferson Hogg, biographer and friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley.
• Noel Forbes Humphreys, MC, England and British Lions rugby footballer. Killed in action.
• James Isaacson, Newcastle Falcons RFC, Leeds RFC.
• Sir Henry Evan Murchison James, author, director general of Post Office of India. Author: The Long White Mountain; or Travels in Manchuria, 1889.

  K to O

• Graham Kerr, Scotland international rugby union player
• Sir John Grant McKenzie Laws, Lord Justice of Appeal.
• Sir Donald Limon, Clerk of the House of Commons
• Lewis Vaughan Lodge, represented the England national football team. He also played first-class cricket with Hampshire.
• Frederick Lohden OBE, England and Barbarians rugby footballer
• Sir Henry Frederick Manisty, judge
• James Mickleton, antiquary and lawyer.
• Gordon Muchall, Durham, county cricketer.
• Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, scientist and geologist who served in the Peninsular War.
• William Andrews Nesfield, landscape architect and artist.
• Henry Nettleship, influential classical scholar.
• Sir Robert Owen, High Court Judge.

  P to T

• Geoff Parling, Leicester Tigers RFC, England, British and Irish Lions.
• Richard Godfrey Parsons, Bishop of Middleton, Bishop of Southwark, Bishop of Hereford.
• Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, KCB, Admiral in Royal Navy
• Sir Geoffrey Pattie, politician
• Sir Robert Ker Porter. Painter and travel author.
• Max Pugh British film and television director.
• John Ranson England Rugby Union International
• Dean Edward Bannerman Ramsay, Author Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character. Chief founder of the Scottish Episcopalian Church Society in 1838.Vice-president Royal Society of Edinburgh.
• Dr.James Raine. Not an Old Dunelmian, but second master at Durham School. Antiquarian, historian, topographer. Principle judge of the consistory court.
• James Raine. Antiquarian, archeologist, historian.
• John D. Rayner, Rabbi Emeritus of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.
• Mike Roseberry, Middlesex and Durham, county cricketer.
• Thomas Rudd, master of Durham School, important historian and librarian of Durham cathedral and city, rector.
• John Warburton Sagar, England rugby player in 1901 season. Governor of Kordovan and Wadi Halfa in Sudan.
• Anthony Salvin, 19th-century architect who restored or extended Windsor Castle, Alnwick Castle, Warwick Castle, Rockingham Castle and the Tower of London.
• Prideaux John Selby. Botanist, ornithologist, illustrator.
• Granville Sharp, 18th-century initiator of the movement for the abolition of slavery and founder of Sierra Leone as a land for returned slaves, originator of Sharp's rule, still used as Biblical proof of Christ's divinity.
• Edward Shortt MP, Chief Secretary for Ireland and Home Secretary.
• Christopher Smart, 18th-century poet.
• Robert Spearman, philosopher, eccentric theologian, author of An Enquiry After Philosophy and Theology.
• Charlie Spedding, winner of the 1984 London Marathon and bronze medal winner at the 1984 Olympic Games.
• Michael Stephenson, Newcastle Falcons RFC, Bath RFC.
• Joseph Stevenson, English Catholic archivist and editor of historical texts.
• Nigel Stock, Bishop to the Forces, Bishop at Lambeth, Bishop for the Falkland Islands.
• Guild Master of World of Warcraft esports clan and mythic plus team World rank 52.
• Robert Smith Surtees, comedy novelist, sports editor and founder of New Sporting Magazine.
• Charles Thorp, FRS, anti-slavery campaigner, environmentalist, educationalist, Fellow of the Royal Society, first warden of the University of Durham
• Will Todd, musician and composer.
• Dr. Henry Baker Tristram, canon, naturalist, travel writer, missionary and fellow of the Royal Society. Masonic Grand Chaplain of England. Founding member of British Ornithologists' Union.
• Dr. Thomas Hutchinson Tristram, Chancellor of London for 40 years. Doctor of Law. Last member of The Society of Doctor's Commons founded in 1511.

  U to Z

• Sir Peter Vardy, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• George Walker, Mathematician, orator, preacher, abolitionist, composer, theologian
• Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole CBE, Author, collector of art
• Mike Weston, Captain of British Lions and Manager of England Rugby in the first World Cup 1987.
• Robin Weston, Derbyshire, Durham, and Middlesex, county cricketer.
• Phil Weston, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire, county cricketer.
• Bishop George Howard Wilkinson, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church formerly Bishop of Truro.
• Micky Young, Bath Rugby, England Saxons, England 7s.

  Speculative ODs

• John Balliol, King of Scotland, possibly attended Durham School before its official foundation in 1414.
• Michael Scot, alias Scotus, Scott, and Michael the wizard, 13th-century mathematician, alchemist, scientist, linguist, philosopher and a character in Dante's Inferno

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• Charles Adamson, Barbarians and British Lions rugby footballer. Killed in action! Brother-in-law to Lewis Vaughan Lodge.
• Christopher Beckett Denison, Politician
• Sir Raleigh Grey KBE CMG CVO, pioneer of Rhodesia who took part in the Jameson Raid, a great-grandson of the first Earl Grey
• John Wesley Hales, editor, man of letters
• Thomas Knaggs, 17th-century preacher
• Alan Redpath, Christian evangelist and author
• Andrew Roseberry, Glamorgan and Leicestershire, county cricketer.
• John Warburton Sagar, England international rugby union player and diplomat.
• Lord Wyfold of Accrington, formerly Colonel Sir Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge, Bart., raised to the peerage for public services in the Great War