Editing Westminster School (section)

==Old Westminsters==
{{See also|List of people educated at Westminster School}}

About 900 people educated at Westminster School are in the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]''. Former pupils are known at the school as "Old Westminsters" and include the following:
*[[Richard Hakluyt]] (1553–1616), writer<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |author=Gerald Roe Crone |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/252157/Richard-Hakluyt |title=Richard Hakluyt (British geographer) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Thomas Braddock (Anglican priest)|Thomas Braddock]] (1556–1607), clergyman and translator<ref name=DNB>Stephen Wright, "Bradock, Thomas (1555/6–1607)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3193, accessed 23 June 2017]</ref>
*[[Ben Jonson]] (1573–1637), poet and dramatist<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/306058/Ben-Jonson |title=Ben Jonson (English writer) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Arthur Dee]] (1579–1651), alchemist and royal physician
*[[George Herbert]] (1593–1633), public orator and poet<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/262706/George-Herbert |title=George Herbert (British poet) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[John Dryden]] (1631–1700), poet and playwright<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/172371/John-Dryden |title=John Dryden (British author) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[John Locke]] (1632–1704), philosopher<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/345753/John-Locke |title=John Locke (English philosopher)|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Christopher Wren|Sir Christopher Wren]] (1632–1723), architect and scientist, co-founder of the [[Royal Society]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wren_christopher.shtml |title=History – Historic Figures: Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723) |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 August 2011}}</ref>
*[[Robert Hooke]] (1635–1703), scientist<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.roberthooke.org.uk/chronolo.htm |title=Chronology of Robert Hooke |publisher=Roberthooke.org.uk |access-date=30 August 2011 |archive-date=14 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414134458/http://www.roberthooke.org.uk/chronolo.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Henry Purcell]] (1659–1695), composer
*[[Joseph Thurston (poet)|Joseph Thurston]] (1704–1732), poet admired by [[Alexander Pope]]<ref>[https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-70938#odnb-9780198614128-e-70938-div1-d584298e173 ODNB. Retrieved 16 June 2020.]</ref>
*[[Charles Wesley]] (1707–1788), [[Methodist]] preacher and writer of over 6,000 hymns<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/639939/Charles-Wesley |title=Charles Wesley (English clergyman)|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet]] (1714–1788), banker and [[Lord Mayor of London]] (1757–1758)
*[[Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel]] (1725–1786), First Lord of the Admiralty
*[[Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton]] (1735–1811), Prime Minister
*[[Edward Gibbon]] (1737–1794), historian<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/233161/Edward-Gibbon |title=Edward Gibbon (British historian) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Charles O'Hara]] (1740 – 25 February 1802), British military officer in the Seven Years' War, [[American War of Independence]], and French Revolutionary War, later Governor of [[Gibraltar]]
*[[Charles Cotesworth Pinckney]] (1746–1825), ADC to [[George Washington|Washington]] 1777, defeated by [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] in 1804 in contest for [[President of the United States of America|Presidency]]
*[[Jeremy Bentham]] (1748–1832), lawyer, eccentric and philosopher<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/61103/Jeremy-Bentham |title=Jeremy Bentham (British philosopher and economist)|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Thomas Pinckney]] (1750–1828), American soldier, politician, and diplomat
*[[Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet]] (1762–1823), British soldier and principal in the [[Asgill Affair]]
*[[Robert Southey]] (1774–1843), poet, historian and biographer<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/556936/Robert-Southey |title=Robert Southey (English author)|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Matthew Lewis (writer)|Matthew Lewis]] (1775–1818), novelist and dramatist<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/338188/Matthew-Gregory-Lewis |title=Matthew Gregory Lewis (English writer) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan]] (1788–1855), lost his right arm at [[Waterloo, Belgium|Waterloo]], C-in-C in the [[Crimean War|Crimea]] who is honoured with a statue in Dean's Yard
*Rev [[George Augustus Middleton]] (c. 1791 - 1848), colonial chaplain of [[New South Wales]], Australia, and the first north of the [[Hawkesbury River]]
*[[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell]] (1792–1878), Prime Minister
*[[Augustus Short]] (11 June 1802 – 5 October 1883), the first [[Anglican]] bishop of [[Adelaide]], South Australia
* [[Harry Robert Kempe]] (1852–1935), electrical engineer, author and editor.<ref name="odnb">{{cite ODNB |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/37630|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37630 |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 }}</ref>
*[[A. A. Milne]] (1882–1956, QS), author and journalist<ref>{{acad |id=MLN900AA |name=Milne, Alan Alexander}}</ref>
*[[Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos]] (1893–1972), Cabinet [[Political minister|Minister]] during [[World War II]], chairman of the [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre Board]]
*[[Hossein Ala']] (1882–1964), former Prime Minister of Iran
*[[Adrian Boult|Sir Adrian Boult]] (1889–1983), conductor
*[[Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian]] (1889–1977) Nobel prize winner
*[[C. W. A. Scott|Charles William Anderson Scott]] (1903–1946), pioneer aviator
*[[John Gielgud|Sir John Gielgud]] (1904–2000, GG), actor and director<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/233344/Sir-John-Gielgud |title=Sir John Gielgud (British actor and director) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith]] (1909–1981), historian<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.credoreference.com/entry/chambbd/gibbs_smith_charles_harvard |title=Chambers Biographical Dictionary |year=2007 |publisher=Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd |access-date=26 May 2011}} Hosted by Credo Reference.</ref>
*[[Kim Philby]] (1912–1988), high-ranking member of [[British intelligence]], one of the [[Cambridge Five]] and [[NKVD]]/[[KGB]] [[double agent]]
*[[Norman Parkinson|Sir Norman Parkinson]] (1913–1990), portrait and fashion photographer
*[[Richard Stone]] (1913–1991), winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1111/1468-0297.00511 |volume=110 |title=Life and Work of John Richard Nicholas Stone 1913-1991 |year=2000 |journal=The Economic Journal |pages=146–165 |last1=Pesaran |first1=M. H.|issue=461 }}</ref>
*[[Roger Kidner]] (1914–2007), publisher and railway photographer<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 October 2007 |title=Obituary: RW Kidner |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/06/obituaries.guardianobituaries |access-date=1 December 2022 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Andrew Huxley|Sir Andrew Huxley]] (1917–2012), Nobel prizewinning physiologist
*[[Peter Ustinov|Sir Peter Ustinov]] (1921–2004), actor, writer, director and raconteur<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/620440/Sir-Peter-Ustinov |title=Sir Peter Ustinov (British actor, author, and director)|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[John Cole (photographer)|John Cole]] (1923–1995), fashion photographer
*[[Tony Benn]] (1925–2014), politician<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1209497.stm |work= BBC News |title=Tony Benn: End of an era |date=10 March 2001 |access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref>
*[[Peter Brook]] (1925–2022, LL 1937–1938), theatre director
*[[Nigel Lawson]] (1932–2023, WW 1945–1950), former Chancellor of the Exchequer, father of [[Nigella Lawson]]
*[[Simon Gray]] (1936–2008, WW 1949–1954), playwright and diarist<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url= http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/242639/Simon-Gray |title=Simon Gray (British dramatist) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>
*[[Jonathan Fenby]] (born 1942, LL 1956–1960), journalist, author and former Editor of ''[[The Observer]]'' and ''[[South China Morning Post]]''
*[[Martyn Poliakoff|Sir Martyn Poliakoff]] (born 1947) Professor of Chemistry and narrator of ''[[The Periodic Table of Videos]]''<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CK4WHElb4Q | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/4CK4WHElb4Q| archive-date=7 November 2021 | url-status=live|title=In the footsteps of Tizard – Periodic Table of Videos |work=The Periodic Table of Videos | date=13 March 2013|publisher=[[University of Nottingham|The University of Nottingham]] |access-date=28 May 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] (born 1948, QS 1960–1965), composer and producer<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/5760400/Shining-a-light-on-the-magic-of-the-coronation-in-Westminster-Abbey.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/5760400/Shining-a-light-on-the-magic-of-the-coronation-in-Westminster-Abbey.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |title=Shining a light on the magic of the coronation in Westminster Abbey |first=Charles |last=Moore |date=6 July 2009 |access-date=6 April 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[Stephen Poliakoff]] (born 1952, WW 1966–1970), director, playwright and television dramatist<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/nov/28/stephen-poliakoff-interview-nicholas-wroe |work=The Guardian |location=London |title=A life in drama: Stephen Poliakoff |date=28 November 2009 |access-date=6 April 2010 |first=Nicholas |last=Wroe}}</ref>
*[[Chris Huhne]] (born 1954), disgraced Liberal Democrat politician
*[[Dominic Grieve]] (born 1956), former attorney-general and pro-European politician
*[[Jon Crowcroft]] (born 1957), Professor at the University of Cambridge
*[[Shane MacGowan]] (1957-2023, AHH 1972–1973), musician
*[[Adam Boulton]] (born 1959), journalist, broadcaster and author
*[[Andrew Graham-Dixon]] (born 1960), art critic and writer
*[[Edward St Aubyn]] (born 1960), author and journalist<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/08/fiction.edwardstaubyn |title=Interview: Edward St Aubyn |last=Cooke |first=Rachel |date=8 January 2006 |website=the Guardian |language=en |access-date=16 May 2018}}</ref>
*[[Timothy Winter]] (born 1960), Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University
*[[David Heyman]] (born 1961), film producer<ref>{{Cite news |author=Interview by Michael White – 16 July 2009 00:00 EDT |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aMu4Nu.caxAM |title='Harry Potter' Producer Ignored First Rowling Book: Interview |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |date=16 July 2009 |access-date=30 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehour.com/story/471973 |title=Making Harry Potter magic – Norwalk News – The Hour – Norwalk's Newspaper |publisher=The Hour |access-date=30 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930062542/http://www.thehour.com/story/471973 |archive-date=30 September 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-ae.mo.potter17jul17,0,3585263.story |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719082814/http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/movies/bal-ae.mo.potter17jul17,0,3585263.story |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 July 2012 |title=His Wizard Connection |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=17 July 2011 |access-date=30 August 2011}}</ref>
*[[Alex Beard (arts manager)|Alexander Beard]] (born 1963), arts administrator
*[[Matt Frei]] (born 1963, RR 1978–1981), broadcaster<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/matt-frei-aiming-for-the-white-house-834276.html |work=The Independent |location=London |title=Matt Frei: Aiming for the White House |date=26 May 2008 |access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref>
*[[Ian Bostridge]] (born 1964), classical tenor
*[[Gavin Rossdale]] (born 1965), musician, songwriter, and lead singer with rock band Bush
*[[Michael Sherwood (banker)|Michael Sherwood]] (born 1965), banker
*[[Lucasta Miller]] (born 1966), writer and critic
*[[Helena Bonham Carter]] (born 1966, LL 1982–1984), actress<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio |title=Helena Bonham Carter Biography – Yahoo! Movies |publisher=Yahoo! |access-date=30 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628201600/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018966/bio |archive-date=28 June 2011 }}</ref>
*[[Jason Kouchak]] (born 1967), pianist and composer
*[[Noreena Hertz]] (born 1967, CC 1983–85), economist and campaigner
*[[Nick Clegg]] (born 1967, LL), Liberal Democrat leader, MP for Sheffield Hallam, former Deputy Prime Minister<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4748815.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090517001146/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4748815.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 May 2009 |work=[[The Times]] |location=London |title=Nick Clegg may send sons to private school |date=14 September 2008 |access-date=6 April 2010 |first=Jonathan |last=Oliver}}</ref>
*[[James Robbins (journalist)|James Robbins]] (1968–1972, GG), broadcaster
*[[Ruth Kelly]] (born 1968, DD 1984–86), cabinet minister<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6241685.stm |work= BBC News |title= Profile: Ruth Kelly |date=24 September 2008|access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref>
*[[Afshin Rattansi]] (RR 1981–83), journalist
*[[Marcel Theroux]] (born 1968), novelist and broadcaster<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/marcel-theroux--more-than-just-a-family-affair-665759.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519012336/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/marcel-theroux--more-than-just-a-family-affair-665759.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 May 2009 |work=The Independent |location=London |title=Marcel Theroux – More than just a family affair |date=16 August 2001 |access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref>
*[[Joe Cornish (filmmaker)|Joe Cornish]] (born 1968), broadcaster, director and screenwriter
*[[Adam Buxton]] (born 1969), comedian
*[[Giles Coren]] (born 1969, RR 1982–1988), journalist
*[[Lucy Walker (director)|Lucy Walker]] (born 1970), documentary film-maker<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.westminster.org.uk/about/our-history/notable-oww/|title = Notable OWW}}</ref>
*[[Louis Theroux]] (born 1970), broadcaster
*[[Jonathan Yeo]] (born 1970), artist
*[[Dido (singer)|Dido Armstrong]] (born 1971, WW, 1987–1989), British musician under the name "Dido"
*[[Polly Arnold]] (born 1972) Director of the Chemical Sciences Division at the [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]
*[[Martha Lane Fox]] (born 1973), head of Digital Public Services<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/664210.stm |work= BBC News |title=Martha my very dear |date=2 March 2000 |access-date=6 April 2010}}</ref>
*[[James Reynolds (journalist)|James Reynolds]] (born 1974), BBC News presenter
*[[Conrad Shawcross]] (born 1977), artist
*[[Pinny Grylls]] (born 1978, HH 1994–1996), documentary film-maker
*[[Benjamin Yeoh]] (born 1978), playwright
*[[Christian Coulson]] (born 1978), [[Harry Potter]] actor
*[[Simon Ambrose]] (born 1979), Chairman of the [[London Contemporary Orchestra]]
*[[Alexander Shelley]] (born 1979), conductor
*[[Anna Stothard]] (born 1983), novelist
*[[Michael Penniman]] (born 1983), musician under the name "Mika"
*[[Jack Farthing]] (born 1985), actor
*[[Grace Chatto]] (born 1985), cellist in the band [[Clean Bandit]]
*[[Alfred Enoch]] (born 1988), [[Harry Potter]] actor
*[[Alexander Guttenplan]] (born 1990), captain of winning [[University Challenge]] team 2010
*[[Jack Aitken]] (born 1995),  racing driver
*[[Blondey McCoy]] (born 1997), artist and model
[[File:Westminster School Monument.jpg|thumb|upright| A monument to commemorate former pupils who died in the [[Crimean War]], situated in the Sanctuary, next to the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey]]

===Victoria Cross holders===
Six pupils of Westminster have been awarded the [[Victoria Cross]]:
*[[Edmund Henry Lenon]] (1830–1893, at Westminster June 1851 – 1855)
*[[William George Hawtry Bankes]] (1836–1858) (at Westminster April 1850 – 1856)
*Sir [[Nevill Maskelyne Smyth]] (1868–1941, at Westminster June 1882 – 1885). He served in the [[First World War]]
*[[Arthur Martin-Leake]] (1874–1953; at Westminster June 1888 – 1891), one of only three to receive twice<ref>Westminster School Development Office, (2005), ''The Elizabethan Newsletter 2004/2005'', page 4, (Westminster School)</ref>
*[[William Hew Clark-Kennedy]] (1879–1961, at Westminster June 1893 – 1896)
*[[Richard Wakeford]] (1921–1972, at Westminster June 1934 – 1940)