Repton School is a co-educational private school for day and boarding pupils in Repton , Derbyshire, England. The school has around 660 pupils aged between 13 and 18, of whom 451 are boarders. Repton School taught only boys for its first 400 years; Repton started accepting girls in the sixth form early in the 1970s, and within 20 years became completely coeducational.[ 1]
The following are notable alumni of Repton School :
Harold Abrahams , 100-metre Gold Medallist, 1924 Olympics [ 2]
Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips , genocide and war crimes prosecutor[ 3]
James Airy , cricketer and soldier[ 4]
Sir Harry Altham , cricket historian, coach and administrator[ 5]
Michael Des Barres , actor and musician
James Theodore Bent (1852–1897), English explorer, archaeologist and author.
Paul Borrington , cricketer[ 6]
Walter Buckmaster , (1872–1942) Polo player (1900 summer Olympics)[ 7]
Lieutenant General Gerard Bucknall , (1894–1980) British Army officer who served in World War I and World War II and commanded XXX Corps during Operation Overlord
Sydney Carline , (1888–1929), artist.
Donald Carr , (1926–) Cricketer for Derbyshire and England[ 8]
Tom Chambers , actor and winner of Strictly Come Dancing [ 9]
Jeremy Clarkson , journalist and ex-presenter of the BBC show Top Gear . Current The Grand Tour host alongside James May and Richard Hammond
Adrian Newey , Formula One engineer
John Cornforth , architectural historian[ 10]
Jack Crawford , cricketer[ 11]
Roald Dahl , author[ 12]
Sir James Darling , Headmaster of Geelong Grammar School and chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission [ 13]
Horace Davenport , first-class cricketer
Norman Demuth , Classical music composer & writer.
Anthony Devas , artist.
George Dodsworth , first-class cricketer
Blair Dunlop , musician and actor.
James Fenton , poet
Sir Maurice Finnes , industrialist
Sir Henry Firebrace , courtier to Charles I and Charles II [ 14]
Walter Franklin , cricketer[ 15]
Sir Christopher Frayling , Rector, The Royal College of Art[ 16]
C. B. Fry , cricketer[ 17]
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Henry Gairdner (1898–1983), Governor of Western Australia and Governor of Tasmania [ 18]
Graeme Garden , comedian, member of The Goodies [ 19]
Susie Gilbert , Field Hockey Player, Commonwealth Silver Medallist
Johnny Gorman , footballer[ 20]
Francis Gould , cricketer[ 21]
Chris Gray (22 May 1942 – 14 May 2009) was an activist in the Situationist International
Anthony Gross , artist
Francis Habgood , Police Chief
Sir Stuart Hampshire , Oxford philosopher[ 22]
Jonathan Harvey , composer[ 23]
John Holmes , cricketer[ 24]
Will Hughes , footballer[ 25]
John Hutton , first-class cricketer
Richard Hutton , England Test cricketer
Christopher Isherwood , novelist and screenwriter
Stephen Jones , lead singer of the band Babybird
Jordan King , British racing driver currently competing in FIA Formula 2
Herbert Fortescue Lawford (1851–1925) tennis player, Wimbledon champion 1887[citation needed ]
Sir Desmond Lee , classical scholar
Andrew Li , Former Chief Justice of Hong Kong
Geoffrey Lumsden , actor in Dad's Army
William Lumsden , first-class cricketer
Ewen MacIntosh , actor in The Office
John Makinson , Chairman of Penguin Random House and The National Theatre
Eric Maschwitz , entertainer, writer, broadcaster
Arthur James Mason , classical scholar and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Shona McCallin , Field Hockey Player and Olympic gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Derek Mendl (1914–2001), Argentine cricketer[ 26]
Jack Mendl (1911–2001), Argentine cricketer and educator[ 26]
Charles Armytage-Moore , (1880–1960) founder partner of London Stockbrokers, Buckmaster & Moore (now Credit Suisse Group)
Alfred Morcom (1885–1952), cricketer and physician
Alan E. Munby (1870–1938), architect[ 27]
Edward Oakden , British Ambassador to UAE
Peter Oldfield , SAS commander[ 28]
Reginald Popham , cricketer and footballer
Michael Ramsey , Archbishop of Canterbury
George Rainsford , English actor
Basil Rathbone , actor most known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the Sherlock Holmes film series [ 29]
Denys Rayner , Battle of the Atlantic veteran, writer and boat designer
Nick Raynsford , Labour MP
W. A. Robotham of Rolls-Royce
Sir John Rolleston , Conservative MP
Kenneth Rose , prize-winning biographer of Lord Curzon, George V and Lord Rothschild; contributed the column Albany to the Sunday Telegraph for 36 years.
Arnold Rutherford , cricketer
John Rutherford , cricketer
Ben Sharpe Olympian, Sydney 2000
Sir John Stanley , Conservative MP
Johnny Rozsa , fashion, portrait, and celebrity photographer
Robert Sangster , racehorse owner and breeder author[ 30] [ 31]
John James Scott-Chisholme , Boer war cavalry officer
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Shaw , World War I officer and Commander-in-Chief , Ireland
Rupert Shephard , English artist
The Revd Henry Holmes Stewart (1847–1937) 1873 FA Cup winner[ 32]
Georgie Twigg , Field Hockey Player Olympic bronze medallist (London 2012)[ 33] [ 34] and Olympic gold medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Edward Upward , novelist and short story writer
Charles Warner (born 1938), cricketer
Ellie Watton , Field Hockey Player Commonwealth silver medallist (Glasgow 2014),[ 35]
Charles Watts (1905–1985), cricketer and British Army officer
Denton Welch , (1915–1948) writer and painter
John Williams (1911–1964), cricketer and solicitor
Andy Wilman , Top Gear producer (2002–2015), Top Gear (1994–2001) and The Grand Tour (2016 – present)
Jason Windsor (born 1972), businessman and cricketer
Abe Radkin international coordinator
Nicholas Wood , (1832–1892) industrialist and Conservative MP
William Wyatt (1842–1908), cricketer and clergyman
Robert J. C. Young , post-colonial theorist, cultural critic and historian
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