Hurstpierpoint College is an independent, co-educational, day and boarding school for pupils aged 4–18, located just to the north of the village of Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex. The College was founded in 1849 by Canon Nathaniel Woodard and is a member of the Woodard Corporation.

Notable Old Johnians

Politics

Eric Broadbridge, 2nd Baron Broadbridge, hereditary peer

Peter Broadbridge, 3rd Baron Broadbridge, Crossbench peer

Roger Casale, Labour Member of Parliament

George Johnson, Member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly

Richard Page, Conservative Member of Parliament

Sir Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St Marylebone, Conservative peer

John Greenwood Shipman, Liberal Member of Parliament

Diplomatic Service

Sir Graham Boyce , British Ambassador to Egypt, British Ambassador to Qatar and British Ambassador to Kuwait Sir Bryan Cartledge , British Ambassador to Russia, British Ambassador to Hungary and Principal of Linacre College, Oxford Sir Derek Day , British High Commissioner to Canada, British Ambassador to Ethiopia and Olympic bronze medal winning field hockey player Sir Oliver Forster , British Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Lavers, British Ambassador to Ecuador and British Ambassador to Guatemala

List of people educated at Hurstpierpoint College

Military

Sir Roy Austen-Smith , Commander British Forces Cyprus

Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce , First Sea Lord (1998–2001), Chief of Defence Staff (2001–2003), and Crossbench peer Richard Hutton Davies , army officer Sydney Dowse , POW escapee H. Dormer Legge, RAF and Army officer and philatelist Simon Pack , Royal Marines officer Alex Taylor , Director, Army Legal Services Branch.

List of people educated at Hurstpierpoint College

Media and arts

Gavin Carr, conductor

Tony Church, Shakespearean actor

Robert Coote, actor

Christopher Ellison, actor

Douglas Goldring, writer and journalist

Richard Hadfield, singer

Edward Hibbert, actor and agent

Sean Li, Hong Kong film actor

Bertram Mitford, novelist

Ronald Neame , film director

Barry Norman, film critic

Christopher Nourse, arts administrator

H. A. Saintsbury, actor and playwright

Tom Sutcliffe, opera critic

Jamie Theakston, television and radio presenter

Reginald Turner, author and member of the circle of Oscar Wilde

John Ware, BBC Panorama reporter

Patrick Wilson, composer

Michael York , actor

Sport

Ben Broster, Wales and Biarritz Olympique rugby player

Noah Cato, Newcastle Falcons rugby player

Daniel Doram, Netherlands cricketer

William Edwards, Kent cricketer

Neil Milward Forster, hockey player

George Garton, England and Sussex cricketer

William Heasman, Sussex cricketer

Matt Machan, Sussex cricketer

Charlie Matthews, Harlequins rugby player

John Neal, Sussex cricketer

Arthur Sharood, Sussex cricketer

Martin Speight, Sussex, Durham and Northumberland cricketer

Jamie Thompson, Oxford MCCU cricketer

Guy Waller, Oxford University cricketer

James Wilkes-Green, Guernsey cricketer

Religion

Walter Robert Adams, Archbishop of British Columbia and Yukon

George Daniell, Archdeacon of Southwark

Arthur Greaves, Bishop of Grimsby and Grantham

James Sunter, priest

Other

William Warwick Buckland, jurist

Cecil William Davidge, academic and author

Clive Deverall AM, businessman

Leslie Grinsell , archaeologist

Cecil Humphery-Smith , genealogist and heraldist

Edward Arthur Maund, explorer

William Alfred Pickwoad , businessman

Jack Sangster, industrialist

Bernard Sheldon, MI5 officer

Sir Basil Smallpeice, businessman

Francis Williams, headmaster of St Peter's College, Adelaide

References

Lists of people by English school affiliation

Sussex-related lists

List of people educated at Hurstpierpoint College