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ALUMNI

The school boasts a whole host of alumni, some famous, some less so, yet no less impressive! Below is a list of what we have been able to put together showing such a broad range of disciplines and skills all starting their careers at KES!

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If there is anyone you think ought to be mentioned then please let us know -  

 

 King Edward VII School (1905–present)

• Andre Brooks (born 2006) - Sheffield United footballer

• Elizabeth Henstridge (born 1987) - Actress-ABC television series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Owain James (born 1986) - Published neuroscientist

• Nabil El Nayal - Fashion Designer working with River Island and Swarovski

• Tom Bell alias Toddla T (born 1985) – musician and Radio 1 DJ

• Ben Purkiss (born 1984) – footballer, Oxford United

• Tyrone Thompson (born 1981) – footballer, Torquay United

• Emily Maitlis (born 1970) – newscaster, BBC television

• Julia Bradbury (born 1970) – presenter of Watchdog

• Paul Heaton (born 1962) – leader - The Beautiful South and The Housemartins

• Carl Shutt (born 1961) – former Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United and Bradford City footballer

•  Robert Griffin (born 1960) - Royal Marine Commando; killed in action in the Falklands campaign 1982

• Joe Elliott (born 1959) – lead singer of Def Leppard

• Graham Fellows (born 1959) – comedian and actor, aka John Shuttleworth

• Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 1958) - musician, airline pilot, and broadcaster, lead vocalist of Iron Maiden

• Sir Simon Wessely (born 1956) – professor of epidemiological and liaison psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London;    Director-King's Centre for Military Health Research.

• John Rawling (born 1957) - boxing commentator on ITV since 2005, and BBC sports broadcaster

• Matthew Bannister (born 1957) – British radio administrator and broadcaster

• Michael McClelland (born 1956) - Professor, Pathology, University of California, Irvine.

• Simon Collis 1967-74 - HM Ambassador Qatar from 2005–7; to Syria 2007-2012 to Iraq 2012-14; to Saudi Arabia 2015-2020

• Martyn Ware (born 1956) - founder member of The Human League and Heaven 17

• Phil Oakey (born 1955) – singer, Human League

• Prof. Nick Kaiser (born 1954) Cosmologist; Professor of Astrophysics; Fellow of the Royal Society

• Dr David Thomson - current Bishop of Huntingdon

• Air Commodore Jon Chitty (born c. 1952), OBE RAF

• Clive Betts (born 1950) – Labour MP

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​​​​• Martin Smith (born 1949) – Car designer (Porsche, Audi, Ford)

• Peter Horbury (born 1950) - car designer, Executive Design Director of all Ford's American brands 2004-

• Prof Paul Collier CBE (born 1949) - Professor of Economics, University of Oxford since 1993; Director-Centre for the Study of  African    Economies

• Bob Davies (born 1948) – CEO of Arriva Plc until 2006

• John Ramsden (1947–2009) - Professor of History, Queen Mary College, an authority on the history of the Conservative party

• Roy Galley (born 1947) – Conservative MP for Halifax 1983–7

• Alan Wood (born 1947) – CEO of Siemens Plc

• Sir John Goulden CMG (born 1941) – diplomat and Ambassador to Turkey 1992–5

• Dave Sheasby (1940–2010) - playwright, director, dramatist and radio producer

• Rony Robinson (born 1940) – writer and broadcaster

• Ted Powell (1940–2005) - amateur footballer, coach Malawi national football team and England Under–18 side which won Euro             Championship 1993.

• Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE KStJ JP FRSA (born 1940) - Managing Director-Dartington Crystal 1986–2000; Lord Lieutenant of Devon      1998-

• Ted Wragg (1938–2005) – E C (Ted) Wragg, Professor of Education, University of Exeter

• Prof David Downes (born 1938) - Professor of Social Administration, LSE 1987–2003; Editor-British Journal of Criminology 1985–90

•  Alan Jinkinson (born 1935) - General Secretary of UNISON 1993–6

• George MacBeth (1932–1992) – Poet and author

• Prof Ian Fells CBE (born 1932) – Professor of Energy Conversion, University of Newcastle; President-Institute of Energy 1978–9; and      broadcaster

• Dick Charlesworth (1932–2008) - jazz clarinettist and bandleader

• Sir Norman Adsetts OBE (1931-2023) Knight Bachelor, OBE – Hon Life President SIG plc since 1996

• Robert "Bob" Jackson (1931-2019) - broadcaster with the BBC; the voice of football across South Yorkshire

• John Lemmon (1930–1966) – logician and philosopher

•  Peter Landin (1930–2009), computer scientist and academic, Queen Mary College, London

• John Farnsworth Wright (1929–2001) - economist and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

• Sir Michael Carlisle (born 1929) – Pro-Chancellor, University of York

• Francis Cheetham OBE (1928–2005) - museum curator

• Prof John Philipps Kenyon (1927–96) - Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor in Early Modern British History-University         of Kansas 1987–94

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• Prof Adrian Horridge (born 1927) – FRS, neurobiologist, professor at Australian National University

• Prof Raymond Ian Page (1924–2012) - Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University 1984-91, Parker        Librarian-Parker Library, Corpus Christi College

• Prof Donald Nicol (1923–2003) - Koraës Prof. Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature, King's College London          1970–88; President-Ecclesiastical History Society 1975–6

• John Gatenby Bolton (1922–1993) – British-Australian astronomer

• Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997), chemist and Cambridge academic

• Sir Robert Scholey (1921–2014) - known as 'Black Bob', deputy chairman and chief executive of British Steel 1976-86,  Chairman 1986-   1992, succeeding Sir Robert Haslam

• Sir Norman Siddall (1918–2002) – Chairman of the National Coal Board 1982–3

• Prof Deryck Allen (1918–2010) - Professor of Applied Mathematics University of Sheffield 1955–80, Pro-Vice Chancellor 1966-70;            Chairman-Joint Matriculation Board 1973–6

• Sir Peter Youens (1916–2000) – administrator in Nyasaland and Malawi, and director of Lonrho

• Gordon Nornable MC (1915–2002)  - Military Cross and Croix de Guerre 1944 fighting with the French Maquis in eastern France  

• Brigadier Sir Edgar "Bill" Williams (1912–1995) – academic and warrior

• Sir Geofroy Tory (1912–2012) - Ambassador to Ireland 1964–67

• Cecil King CMG (1912–81) - Ambassador to Lebanon 1967–70

• Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale CB (1912–2007) – civil servant

• Sir Eric Gardner Turner CBE (1911–1983) - papyrologist and classicist

• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Stanley Miles CB (1911–87)

• Prof Eric Laughton (1911–88) - Firth Professor of Latin, University of Sheffield 1952–76

• Sir Eric Gardner Turner CBE (1911–1983) - papyrologist and classicist

• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Stanley Miles CB (1911–87)

• Prof Eric Laughton (1911–88) - Firth Professor of Latin, University of Sheffield 1952–76

• Prof Ronald Graveson CBE (1911–91) - Professor of Law, King's College London 1947–74, Joint Editor-Int'l & Comparative Law Qtly         1955–61, President-Int'l Ass'n of Legal Science 1960–2

• Sir Harold Warris Thompson CBE (1908–1983) – physical chemist, Chairman of the Football Association

• Rt Rev Leslie Stradling (1908–1998) - Bishop of Johannesburg 1961–1974

• Major Lionel Wigram (1907–1944) - soldier, played a significant part in developing British infantry fighting tactics in  WW II, killed in       action in Italy

• Sir Charles Husband CBE (1908–83) - civil engineer, President-Institution of Structural Engineers 1964–5; Chairman-Ass'n Consulting      Engineers 1967–8; designed Lovell Telescope-Jodrell Bank Obs.

• Prof Albert Goodwin (1906–95) - Professor of Modern History, University of Manchester 1953–69

• Edward Linfoot (1905–82) - astronomer. Assistant Director of the Observatory, University of Cambridge 1948–70

• Frank Ellis (1905–2006) – eminent radiation oncologist

•  Geoffrey Gledhill Turner (1904–59) - GC GM

• George Butler (1904–99) - artist

•  Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899–1963) – FRS, Oxford Mathematician and Savilian Professor of Geometry

• Sir John Sterndale Bennett (1895–1969) - CMG, ambassador

• Harry Epworth Allen (1894–1958) - painter

• Hermann Glauert (1892–1934) - aerodynamicist, developed the Prandtl–Glauert transformation

• Ephraim Lipson (1888–1960) - economic historian

KES Teacher 1967-94 and

OE 1948-55
David Anderson

Simon Collis 1967-74

Wesley College (1838–1905)

• Cecil Wilson (1862–1945), pacifist Labour Party MP

• Arthur Neal (1862–1933), politician and Liberal MP

• Frank Wilson (1859–1918), Premier of Western Australia

• Leonard Cockayne FRS (1855–1934), New Zealand botanist

• Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley (1850–1937), businessman and Liberal Party politician

•  Sir Swire Smith (1842–1918), woollen manufacturer, educationalist and Liberal Party politician

• Joseph Ruston (1835–1897), engineer, manufacturer, Liberal Party politician

• Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden (1833–1912), Liberal Party politician and MP

• Samuel Danks Waddy (1830–1902), politician and MP

• Joseph Bennett (1829–1908), merchant and Liberal politician

Sheffield Collegiate School (1836–1884)

• George William Kinman (1862–1927), Headmaster of Hertford Grammar School

•  Henry Arnold Favell (1845–1896), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Sheffield

• Henry Jackson OM (1839–1921), classicist, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge

•  Sir Nathaniel Creswick (1831–1917), footballer and solicitor, co-founded Sheffield FC

• George Rolleston FRS (1829–1881), physician and zoologist, Linacre Professor of Anatomy & Physiology-Oxford

• Henry Clifton Sorby (1826–1908), microscopist and geologist

Sheffield Grammar School, later Sheffield Royal Grammar School (1604–1905)

• Walter Sugg (1860–1933), first-class cricketer

• Kenneth Kirk (1886–1954), Bishop of Oxford

• Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (1885–1934), sculptor on the theme of war, best known for his war memorials

• Ludwig Glauert (1879–1963), palaeontologist, herpetologist and museum curator

• Edward Keble Chatterton (1878–1944), prolific author on maritime and naval themes

• W. S. Senior (1876–1938), scholar, poet and member of the Church Missionary Society

• William Andrew MC (1884 – 1963), Anglican priest

• Robert Murray Gilchrist (1867–1917), novelist and author of regional interest books on the Peak District

• Sir Samuel Gillott (1838–1913), lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Melbourne

• John Roebuck FRS (1718–1794), inventor known for developing industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid

• John Balguy (1686–1748), divine and philosopher

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