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]

Derby School

## Notable old boys

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### Born in the 16th century

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* Blessed Edward James (1557–1588), Roman Catholic martyr[2][3]
* John Cotton (1585–1652), New England Puritan[2][3]

### Born in the 17th century

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* 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

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* 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

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* Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), surgeon and artist[2][9]
* 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]
* Frank Styant Browne, chemist and photographer[12]
* E. W. Hobson FRS (1856–1933), mathematician[2]
* Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor[2]
* 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]
* Christopher Wilson (1874-1919), composer of theatre music and author, Shakespeare and Music (1922)[15]
* Stanley Hawley (1867-1916), pianist and composer.[16]
* 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[17]
* 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][18]
* Guy Wilson (1882–1917), cricketer and soldier[19]
* William George Constable (1887–1976), art historian[20][21]
* Frank Conroy (1890–1964), actor
* Robert Howe (1893–1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan, 1947-1955[22]
* Ernest Sterndale Bennett (1884-1982), Theatre Director and member of the Order of Canada

### Born in the 20th century

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* Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire[23]
* George Timms (1910–1997), clergyman
* P. G. Ashmore (1916–2002), academic chemist[24]
* Gilbert Hodgkinson (1913–1987), cricketer
* Spencer Barrett (1914–2001), classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford[25][26]
* George Bacon (1917-2011), nuclear physicist[27]
* Ted Moult (1926–1986), farmer & TV personality
* Alexander Morrison (1927-2012), judge[28]
* John Stobart (born 1929), maritime artist[29]
* Robert Grimley (born 1943), Dean of Bristol since 1997[30]

## Notable masters of Derby School

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* 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]
* Henry Judge Hose (Maths master, 1867–1874), mathematician[2][31]

## See also

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* Derby School
* List of Masters of Derby School
* Category:People educated at Derby School
* Derby Grammar School

## References

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1. ^ Main page of the Old Derbeian Society web site, accessed 27 February 2008
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa The Derby School Register, 1570-1901, ed. Benjamin Tacchella (London, 1902)
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Distinguished Alumni of Derby School by James Michael John Fletcher (Derby Reporter, 1872)
4. ^ Cantrell, Henry, Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist by David L. Wykes in Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004)
5. ^ "Budworth, William (1723–1745) (CCEd Person ID 42313)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
6. ^ Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (1709–1792), judge by James Oldham in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online (accessed 4 November 2007)
7. ^ Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter by Judy Egerton in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
8. ^ Coke, Daniel Parker (1745–1825), barrister and politician by Mark Pottle in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
9. ^ 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)
10. ^ "Bemrose, Henry Howe". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. ^ Wilson, John Cook (1849–1915), philosopher and classical scholar by H. A. Prichard & David Boucher in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
12. ^ " Obituary. Mr. F. Styant-Browne. Chemist for Many Years" in Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania), p. 6; "Obituary. Mr. Styant Browne. Well-Known Citizen of Launceston" Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania), p. 2.
13. ^ Weston, Walter (1860–1940), mountaineer and missionary by Peter H. Hansen in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
14. ^ "Creswell, Frederic Hugh Page". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
15. ^ Musical Times, May 1895, p. 311
16. ^ Ann Featherstone & Beverley Kilby. Ilkestone As it Was (2023)
17. ^ "Ansell, William Henry". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
18. ^ Enchiridion Archived 25 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine at canamus.org, accessed 9 January 2009
19. ^ Andrew Renshaw, Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918 (2014), p. 374
20. ^ Papers of William George Constable at janus.lib.cam.ac.uk, ref. GBR/0275, accessed 14 July 2007
21. ^ 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)
22. ^ "Howe, Robert George". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
23. ^ "Bemrose, Max (John Maxwell)". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
24. ^ "Ashmore, Philip George". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
25. ^ "Barrett, (William) Spencer". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
26. ^ 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
27. ^ "Bacon, George Edward". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2016 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
28. ^ "Morrison, Alexander John Henderson". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2016 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
29. ^ 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
30. ^ "Grimley, Robert William". Who's Who. Vol. 2017 (November 2016 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 6 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
31. ^ Henry Judge Hose (1826-1883) by K. J. Cable in Australian Dictionary of Biography online, accessed 14 July 2007

## Sources

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* Derby School: a Short History by George Percy Gollin