The year in the first column is that of ENTRY to secondary school, aged 11 (known at KES as Form 2 up to 1952, then Form 1, and more recently as Y7; guesswork often involved).
Year |
Name |
Qualifications |
Career |
B |
D |
Other |
1890 | Ludwig Glauert | Paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator (attended Sheffield Royal GS) | 1879 | 1963 | Wikipedia | |
1897 | Kenneth E. Kirk | Bishop of Oxford (attended Sheffield Royal GS) | 1886 | 1954 | Wikipedia | |
1898 | Ephraim Lipson | Economist | 1888 | 1960 | Wikipedia | |
1901 | Frank Thompson | Professor of Metallurgy, Manchester University | 1977 | Who's Who | ||
1903 | Stanley Rawson | Director General, Machine Tools, Ministry of Supply ; Vice-Chairman, John Brown & Co Ltd | 1891 | 1973 | Who's Who | |
1904 | Hermann Glauert | Principal Scientific Officer, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough | 1892 | 1934 | FRS; Who's Who, Wikipedia | |
1906 | Harry Epworth Allen | Painter | 1894 | 1958 | RBA; Who's Who, Wikipedia | |
1906 | Edwin Aris Berrisford | Oxon (Queen's) | KES 1906-10 | MC, RE; Mentioned in 55 KES Mag | ||
1906 | Arthur Lytton Sells | Professor of French, Durham University | 1895 | 1978 | Who's Who | |
1906 | John Sterndale Bennett | Deputy Commissioner-General, South East Asia | 1895 | 1969 | KCMG, (CMG), MC; Who's Who | |
1906 | W. P. Taylor | Oxon (Queen's) | 1917 | Head Prefect 1912-13; hence W P Taylor Prize for Maths | ||
1907 | Preston Benson | Journalist, Daily Chronicle, Star | 1975 | Who's Who | ||
1909 | John Gilbert Hall | 1898 | 1917 | |||
1909 | Albert Nutt | Ophthalmic Surgeon, United Sheffield Hospitals | 1898 | 1978 | Who's Who; Albert Boswell Nutt | |
1910s | ||||||
1910 | Harold Greville Smith | Oxon (Balliol) | Chemist, industrialist in Canada, philanthropist | 1902 | 1974 | |
1910 | Edward Charles Titchmarsh | Oxon (Balliol) | Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1932 to 1963 | 1899 | 1963 | |
1915 | Geoffrey Gledhill Turner | 1904 | 1959 | GC, GM, Kings Commendation for Gallantry; Wikipedia | ||
1916 | Frank Ellis | Consultant radiotherapist | 1905 | 2006 | More (May 2003) ; Wikipedia | |
1916 | Herbert Hodges | Professor of Philosophy, Reading University | 1976 | Who's Who | ||
1916 | Edward Linfoot | Mathematician and astronomer | 1905 | 1982 | Wikipedia | |
1917 | Albert Goodwin | Oxon (Jesus) | Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester from 1953–69 | 1906 | 1995 | Speechday Guest of Hon 1963 ; Who's Who; Wikipedia |
1918 | John Chesters | BSc, PhD (Sheffield) | Author (Iron & Steel; Ceramics) | 1906 | 1994 | OBE, FRS; Who's Who; Speechday Guest of Hon 1970 |
1918 | Alexander Gillies | Professor of German Language and Literature, Leeds University | 1977 | Who's Who | ||
1918 | Henry Turner | Oxon (John's) | Professor of Divinity, Durham | 1907 | 1995 | Speechday Guest of Hon 1964; Who's Who |
1918 | Lionel Wigram | Oxon (Queen's) | 1907 | 1944 | ||
1919 | Leslie Stradling | Bishop of Johannesburg 1961–1974 | 1908 | 1998 | Wikipedia | |
1920s | ||||||
1920 | Charles Husband | Civil engineer, President of the Institution of Structural Engineers from 1964–5, and Chairman of the Association of Consulting Engineers from 1967–8, and designed the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory | 1908 | 1983 | Who's Who/DNB; Wikipedia | |
1920 | Harold Warris Thompson | English physical chemist; Chairman of the Football Association | 1908 | 1983 | CBE, FRS; Wikipedia | |
1922 | Stanley Miles | RN Medical Service | 1911 | 1987 | CB; Who's Who; Wikipedia | |
1922 | Eric Gardner Turner | Papyrologist and classicist | 1911 | 1983 | CBE; Wikipedia | |
1923 | Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale CB | Cantab (Queens') | British civil servant | 1912 | 2007 | Speechday Guest of Hon 1961 ; Who's Who; Wikipedia |
1923 | Ronald Graveson | 1911 | 1991 | |||
1923 | Cecil King | Ambassador to Lebanon from 1967–70 | 1912 | 1981 | CMG; Who's Who | |
1923 | Eric Laughton | Firth Professor of Latin in the University of Sheffield | 1911 | 1988 | Brother of George L, OE 27-34, father of Roger L, above. More. | |
1923 | Malcolm Ravenhill | Flying Officer | 1912 | 1940 | ||
1923 | Geoffrey Tory | British High Commissioner to Malaysia, Malta; deputy High Commissioner to Australia; Ambassador to Ireland from 1964–67 | 1912 | 2013 | Who's Who | |
1923 | Renwick Vickers | Consultant Dermatologist in Sheffield (1937-56) and then Oxford until retirement c1970 | 1911 | 1993 | More; Speechday Guest of Hon 1962; his son R H Vickers (Winchester, Oxon) was Orthopaedic Surgeon to H M the Queen 1992-2010 | |
1923 | Derek Wilde | Vice-Chairman, Barclays Bank Ltd; Deputy Chairman, Charterhouse Group | 1993 | CBE; Who's Who | ||
1924 | Edgar "Bill" Williams | Oxon (Merton) | UN Secretariat 1946-47; Fellow, Balliol, 1945-1980; Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford | 1912 | 1995 | CB CBE DSO DL; Who's Who; Speechday Guest of Hon 1953; Wikipedia |
1926 | Alan Dawtry | Sheffield (LLB) | Town Clerk of the City of Westminster | Who's Who; Speechday Guest 1960 | ||
1926 | Roger Inman | Vice Lord-Lieutenant of South Yorkshire | OBE (mil), MBE(mil), TD; Who's Who | |||
1926 | Gordon Nornable | Won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre in 1944 fighting with the French Maquis in eastern France | 1915 | 2002 | MC; Magazine etc; KES 26-32 ; Wikipedia | |
1926 | Richard Seddon | Artist and writer; Director, Sheffield City Art Galleries; President, Royal Watercolour Society | 2003 | Who's Who | ||
1926 | Geoffrey Tingle | Cantab (Queens') | Vice-Consul in China and Japan; senior official in Hong Kong; historical novelist | |||
1927 | John Briance | HM Diplomatic Service | 1989 | CMG; Who's Who | ||
1927 | Peter Youens | Oxon | British administrator in Nyasaland and Malawi, and director of Lonrho | 1916 | 2000 | Wikipedia |
1928 | William Smith | Under-Secretary, Northern Ireland Office | CB; Who's Who | |||
1929 | Deryck Allen | Oxon (Ch Ch) | Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sheffield from 1955–80, a Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Sheffield from 1966 to 1970, and Chairman of the Joint Matriculation Board from 1973–6 | 1918 | 2010 | Who's Who; Speechday Guest 1965 |
1929 | Philip Cecil | Residentiary Canon and Treasurer of Peterborough Cathedral 1972-77 | 1977 | Who's Who | ||
1929 | Norman Siddall | Sheffield | Chairman of the National Coal Board from 1982–3; CBE; knighted 83 | 1918 | 2002 | Wikipedia |
1930s | ||||||
1930 | Peter Sylvester | BSc (Sheffield) | Formerly Consultant Psychiatrist at St Lawrence's Hospital, Caterham | 2000 | ||
1931 | Eric Bradford | Professor of Dental Surgery, Bristol University | Who's Who | |||
1931 | L. Ronald Kay | BA Sheffield 1940 | University administrator at Leeds; helped to set up UCCA, the new national computerised system of university admissions, a world first, in 1961 and led its operations until retirement in 1985 after which it expanded to form UCAS | Who's Who, OBE; Speechday guest 1967 | ||
1933 | John Gatenby Bolton | Cantab (Trinity) | First Director of the Australian National Radio Astronomy Observatory | 1922 | 1993 | FRS, CBE; Wikipedia |
1933 | Phillip Rhodes | Cantab (Clare) | Obstetric Physician and Writer of Medical History | 1922 | 2002 | FRCS FRCOG; Who's Who |
1933 | Robert Scholey | Sheffield | Bob Scholey, known as 'Black Bob', Chairman, British Steel 86-92. Kt 1987; CBE 1982 | 1921 | 2014 | Who's Who |
1933 | Peter Jaffrey Wheatley | MA Oxon (Queen's) | Structural chemist, crystallographer. Fellow of Queens' Cantab | 1921 | 1997 | Married sister of OE John Bolton (above); Wikipedia |
1934 | Donald Nicol | MA, PhD Cantab (Pembroke) | Koraës Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1970–88, and President of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 1975–6 | 1923 | 2003 | (also attended St Paul's school, London); Who's Who; Wikipedia |
1936 | Ronald Dronfield | Chief Insurance Officer for National Insurance, Department of Health and Social Security | Who's Who | |||
1936 | Derek Eagers | Under-Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry | 1998 | Who's Who | ||
1936 | Gordon Hemingway | MSc PhD | Emeritus Professor of Veterinary Animal Husbandry and Senior Research Fellow, Univ of Glasgow | |||
1936 | Raymond Page | M.A., Litt.D. (Sheffield), Dr. Philos. (Trondheim). | Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Norse Manuscripts, Cambridge | 1924 | 2012 | Who's Who |
1936 | David Tyrrell | Head, Division of Communicable Diseases, Clinical Research Centre, Harrow | Debretts | |||
1937 | Michael Farrell | Reader in Economics, Cambridge University | 1975 | Who's Who/DNB | ||
1937 | Peter Hudson | Member, Panel of Chairmen, Civil Service Selection Board | Who's Who | |||
1938 | Roy Barlow | Recorder of the Crown Court | Who's Who | |||
1938 | John Philipps Kenyon | Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor in Early Modern British History at the University of Kansas from 1987–94 | 1927 | 1996 | Who's Who, Wikipedia | |
1938 | Peter Mann | BA ( Sheffield) | Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Univ of Leeds | 2003 | ||
1939 | Dante Campailla | Solicitor, London | ||||
1939 | Malcolm Fanthom | Cantab (Trinity) | Taught maths at City Grammar | 1953 | ||
1939 | George Horn | CEGB, Head of Berkeley Nuclear Labs 1965-70 | Debretts | |||
1939 | Adrian Horridge | Cantab (Johns) | Professor of Behavioural Biology, Australian National University, Canberra | 1927 | FRS; Who's Who | |
1940s | ||||||
1940 | Francis Cheetham | Sheffield | Museum curator | 1928 | 2005 | OBE; Wikipedia |
1940 | Gordon Renton | Assistant Under-Secretary, Home Office and Department of Trade and Industry 1978-84; Chairman R&D Communications Ltd 1990- | 2000 | Who's Who | ||
1940 | Christopher Wilson | Chairman, LCE (Holdings) Ltd formerly LCE Computer Maintenance Ltd 1987- | 1997 | Who's Who | ||
1940 | John Farnsworth Wright | PhD Oxon (Queen's) | British economist and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford | 1929 | 2001 | Wikipedia |
1941 | Peter Baker | Oxon (Exeter) | QC; Circuit Judge 1983 | Who's Who | ||
1941 | Michael Carlisle | BEng CEng Hon LLD (Sheffield) | Pro-Chancellor, York University | 1929 | Who's Who; Wikipedia | |
1941 | Peter Landin | Computer scientist and academic at Queen Mary College, London | 1930 | 2009 | Wikipedia | |
1941 | John Lemmon | Logician and philosopher | 1930 | 1966 | Wikipedia | |
1941 | David Wood | Joint Managing Director, Husband & Co (consulting engineers) 1988-90 | Debretts | |||
1942 | David Law | Oxon (Brasenose) | Athlete; won 1500m at World Student games 1953 | Won Varsity X-country (1952); World record relay member | ||
1942 | Derek Page | MA, PhD Cantab | Professor of Physics at IPST, Georgia Tech USA | 1929 | Also Paprican | |
1942 | Gordon Sambrook | Sheffield | Chairman, Iron Trades Insurance 84- ? | CBE 86; Who's Who | ||
1943 | Norman Adsetts | Oxon (Queen's) | (SIG: Sheffield Insulation Group) | 1931 | KB, OBE; Wikipedia; Head prefect 3rd Term 1949/50 | |
1943 | Dick Charlesworth | Jazz clarinettist and bandleader | 1932 | 2008 | Wikipedia | |
1943 | Douglas Watson | Professor of Microbiology, Leeds University 1972-93 | Debretts | |||
1944 | Malcolm Bottomley | Medical Director, University of Bath distance learning course in sports medicine for doctors from 1992; Seoul Olympics 1988 etc | Debretts | |||
1944 | Ian Fells | Cantab (Trinity) | Professor of Energy Conversion at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, President of the Institute of Energy from 1978–9, and broadcaster | 1932 | CBE; Who's Who, Wikipedia | |
1944 | Michael Finley | Editor, Sheffield Telegraph; Governor, International Press Foundation | Who's Who | |||
1944 | John Hazel | Oxon (Queen's) | Taught Classics at City of London School | |||
1944 | Keith Jennings | MA, DPhil Oxon (Queen's) | NRC, Ottawa; Sheffield University; Professor of Chemistry, Warwick University | |||
1944 | George MacBeth | Oxon | Poet and author | 1932 | 1992 | Head prefect 1950/51; Wikipedia |
1944 | Harry Oxer | Cantab (Selwyn) | Knighthood in the order of St John, awarded in Western Australia, career in medicine and community service | |||
1944 | Philip Scowcroft | Cantab (Trinity Hall) | Solicitor; author on music and cricket | |||
1944 | Major Morley Sewell | Professor of tropical veterinary medicine, University of Edinburgh | Debretts | |||
1944 | Brian Sparkes | London | Professor of Archaeology, Southampton | |||
1945 | David Beynon | Cantab (Trinity Hall) | Chairman ICI Europe 1990-92 Director, Holliday Chemical Holdings 1992-Pres; British Plastics Fedr, 1987-8 | Debretts | ||
1945 | Michael Cornthwaite | www.windspinnerscanada.com, Canada | Article in 'Tha'll never gerrin theer' | |||
1945 | Mike Drake | Oxon (Queen's) | Worked in the Chemical industry, latterly as a consultant | School details | ||
1945 | Ivor Jones | Oxon, Cantab | Principal, Wesley House Theological College, Cambridge | Head prefect, Cricket Capt, Soccer 1st XI; organ Scholar, cellist | ||
1946 | Peter Fells | Cantab | FRCS FRCOphth; Moorfields Eye Hospital, London | Who's Who | ||
1946 | Paul Harvey | Royal College of Music | Professor of Clarinet, Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall | Various google hits | ||
1946 | Rodney Jackson | Recorder of the Crown Court | 2004 | Who's Who | ||
1946 | Roger Needham | Professor of Computer Systems, Cambridge; managing director, Microsoft Research Ltd | 1935 | 2003 | CBE, FRS; moved from KES to Doncaster Grammar School | |
1946 | Peter Unwin | Set up firm (P & M Services) manufacturing printed circuits | Photographer in KES mags | |||
1947 | Alan Coddington | BSc, PhD (London) | Biologist, UEA | |||
1947 | Frank Drake | MA, PhD Cantab (Pembroke) | Pure Maths, Leeds University | |||
1947 | Anthony Guenault | Cantab (Trinity) | Professor of Physics, Lancaster University | 1937 | ||
1947 | Alan Jinkinson | Oxon (Keble) | General Secretary of UNISON from 1993–6 | 1935 | Who's Who; Wikipedia | |
1947 | Michael Madden | Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | Who's Who | |||
1947 | Neil Smith | British Ambassador to Finland; Secretary General, Society of London Art Dealers | Who's Who | |||
1948 | David Anderson | Leicester | Head of Economics, KES 67-95 | 2008 | Prefect 54/5; soccer, tennis | |
1948 | Stuart Dowker | Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Manchester University | ||||
1948 | David Senior | Oxon (Keble) | OBE; Director of Home Affairs, London Chamber of Commerce and Industry | President of the Keble Association; Former Chairman, Crich Tramway Museum | ||
1949 | Anthony Briggs | Cantab (Trin Hall) | Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Birmingham University | |||
1949 | Stewart Cox | S R (King-)Cox | ||||
1949 | David Downes | Oxon (Keble), LSE | Professor of Social Administration at the LSE from 1987–2003, and Editor of the British Journal of Criminology from 1985–90 | 1938 | Who's Who; prefect 55/6; Wikipedia | |
1949 | Anthony Greaves | BA, PhD Nottingham | Professor of French, Calgary University | |||
1949 | Anthony Hanwell | MA, PhD Cantab (Christ's) | Founded Keymed Medical & Industrial Equipment Ltd | prefect 55/6 | ||
1949 | Andrew Pinion | Cantab (Jesus) | Colonel, Royal Artillery | 2007 | Deputy Head prefect 55/6 | |
1949 | Martyn Roebuck | Hon Professor Dept of Educational Studies, Glasgow University | prefect 55/6 | |||
1949 | Ian Strachan | RAF test pilot | ||||
1949 | Ted Wragg | Durham | Professor of Education, Exeter University | 1938 | 2005 | Who's Who; prefect 55/6; Wikipedia |
1950s | ||||||
1950 | Graham Birtwistle | BSc, PhD Sheffield | Professor of Computer Science, Leeds University, then Sheffield University | Various Google refs | ||
1950 | John Crookes | MA Oxon (Balliol) | Mathematics, Lancaster University | Various Google refs | ||
1950 | Brian Duke | MA PhD Oxon (Queen's) | Professor of Chemistry, Charles Darwin University, Australia | |||
1950 | Jim Green | BSc Sheffield | Consultant metallurgist | |||
1950 | Rod Goodfellow | BSc Birmingham | Senior Medical Officer, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd | |||
1950 | David Hardy | MA Cantab (Clare) | Classics, Athens University | 2009 | Various Google refs | |
1950 | Harry Nicholls | Leicester | Former Dean of the Faculty of Management, Aston University | |||
1950 | John Ratcliffe | Oxon (John's) | Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Manchester University, then Birmingham University | |||
1950 | David Rolfe | Architect | Debretts | |||
1950 | Ian Roxburgh | Nottingham, PhD (Cantab) | Professor of Astro-Physics, QMC, London | Who's Who | ||
1950 | John Shillito | Jazz musician | John Shillito Select Six (2003) | |||
1951 | Eric Dancer | Sheffield Hallam | Managing Director of Dartington Crystal from 1986–2000, and Lord Lieutenant of Devon 1998–2015 | 1940 | CBE; Wikipedia | |
1951 | Arthur Dunworth | Nottingham | Councillor; Lord Mayor of Sheffield, 2007 | (Dungworth at KES.) | ||
1951 | Paul Fairest | MA Cantab (T Hall) | LLB; Professor of Law, Hull University | Debretts | ||
1951 | Anthony Grant | Chairman, Wilton Investments Ltd | Debretts | |||
1951 | John Miller | MA Cantab (John's) | Sociology, Latrobe, Australia | |||
1951 | Ted Powell | Malawi national football coach; coached England U–18 side which won the European Championship in 1993 | 1940 | 2005 | Wikipedia | |
1951 | Dave Sheasby | Playwright, director, dramatist and radio producer | 1940 | 2010 | Wikipedia | |
1951 | Roger Waterhouse | Founding Vice-Chancellor, Derby University | Debretts | |||
1952 | Peter Beckett | Oxon, Hull | Professor of Applied Mathematics, Hull University | |||
1952 | John Beckman | Oxon (Jesus) | Professor of Astronomer, Canaries | |||
1952 | Victor Cocker | Chief Executive, Severn Trent Water | Who's Who (brother of Joe Cocker, the singer; both went to Lydgate Junior School) | |||
1952 | John Goulden | Oxon (Queen's) | British Ambassador to Turkey, then to NATO | 1941 | CMG; Wikipedia | |
1952 | Stephen Linstead | Oxon (Corpus) | Government Director for the West Midlands | Who's Who | ||
1952 | John McNaught | Oxon (Queen's) | Judge, Swindon | Who's Who | ||
1952 | Alan O'Shea | Oxon (Queen's) | Professor | |||
1952 | James Penderton | Consultant radiologist, St Thomas's Hospital | Debretts | |||
1952 | Peter Preece | Oxon (Queen's) | Professor of Education, Exeter University | |||
1952 | Rony Robinson | Oxon (Keble) | Playwright, author, Radio Sheffield presenter | 1940 | Editor of Cherwell, 1961; Wikipedia | |
1952 | Miles Roddis | Durham | British Council; Lonely Planet editor in Spain | |||
1952 | John Sharpe | President, Unilever Home and Personal Care, Europe | Debretts | |||
1952 | David Tomlinson | Teacher at Hinde House and Waltheof schools in Sheffield, served during the late 1960s with Sheffield schools' cross-country section when Seb Coe first rose to prominence | 1941 | 2012 | ||
1952 | Noel Worswick | Oxon (Wadham) | Lincoln College, Oxford (Classics) | |||
1953 | Geoffrey Atkinson | Metallurgist, then Lawyer | ||||
1953 | Christopher Barnes | Cantab (Corpus) | Professor of Slavic Languages, Toronto University | |||
1953 | David Bentley | UCL London | Judge (Sheffield) QC | Who's Who | ||
1953 | James Daglish | St Andrew’s | CEO of Scottish papermaker Tullis Russell | Left KES before A-levels; elder brother Nick went to Worcester Oxon | ||
1953 | Roger Laughton | Oxon (Merton) | BBC producer and senior executive, CEO of Meridian TV | Editor of Cherwell 1961; father (Eric) and uncle (George) both OES | ||
1953 | David Rodgers | Curator, William Morris Society | 1999 | Debretts | ||
1953 | Anthony Sampson | Ox (Trinity) | Visiting Professor, Nottingham University; Ningbo, China | |||
1953 | Frank Smith | FCA - RSA Robson Rhodes 1963-2000 (tax partner) | Debretts | |||
1953 | Jeremy Thorp | Oxon (Corpus) | British Ambassador to Colombia | Who's Who | ||
1953 | Martin Williams | Cantab (Selwyn) | Professor of Geographical Studies, Adelaide University | |||
1953 | David Young | Oxon (Corpus) | Deputy chairman of the John Lewis Partnership; non-executive Director of Ocado | |||
1954 | Frank Baldock | Journalist and wine writer in Canada | http://www.winexpress.ca/ | |||
1954 | Chris Ball | Chief Executive of Unigate, then of Northern Foods | ||||
1954 | Ray Battye | BA (Leeds), MA (Sheffield) | Vice Principal, Barnsley Sixth Form College | |||
1954 | Chris Brearley | Oxon (Trinity) | Deputy Permanent Secretary, Department of the Environment | CB; Who's Who | ||
1954 | Barry Cheetham | Oxon (Corpus Christi) | Steel industry | Head prefect, 1960-61 | ||
1954 | Michael Curley | Chairman, MICE Group PLC | ||||
1954 | Joe Eason | Oxon (Queen's) | Manager, Training & Education Development Corus | |||
1954 | Neil Edmonds | Consultant Radiologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London | ||||
1954 | John Loxley | Leeds | Professor of Economics, Manitoba University, Canada | |||
1954 | Richard Nosowski | Oxon (Queen's) | Headteacher, Backwell School, Somerset | OBE; Soccer blue | ||
1954 | Alan Senior | PhD (Newcastle) | Professor of Biochemistry, Rochester University, NY | |||
1954 | Roland Smith | Oxon (Keble) | British Ambassador to the Ukraine | CB; Who's Who | ||
1954 | Ian Wright | Leeds | Founder and owner of Sheffield Railwayana Auctions, UK 's expert on provenance of railway memorabilia | Previously deputy head, Myers Grove school, where Sheff Railwayana was created | ||
1955 | Keith Baxby | Newcastle | Honorary Senior Lecturer, Dundee; consultant urological surgeon | BSc, MBBS, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed) | ||
1955 | Stuart Birley | Birmingham | Principal Scientist, MoD | |||
1955 | Mark Blythe | Oxon (Univ) | Senior Treasury Solicitor | CB; Who's Who | ||
1955 | Nick Dennis | Cantab (Peterhouse) | Sen Lecturer, School of Medicine, Southampton University | |||
1955 | Anthony Dowling | Oxon (Worcs) | Nuclear Engineer, BNFL Magnox | |||
1955 | Mark Firth | Sheffield, McGill Montreal | Established own metallurgical consultancy, Calgary | |||
1955 | Drummond Gillespie | Methodist Minister, Coalville | ||||
1955 | Jim Gunson | Oxon (Univ) | Maths, Kwantlen, Canada | |||
1955 | Colin Hague | Chief Test Pilot, Westland Helicopters | ||||
1955 | Edward Haslam | Chief Executive of Lonmin plc; non-executive director of Aquarius Platinum Limited | ||||
1955 | Peter Hawksley | Leeds | Sociology Lecturer, Exeter University | Left academe to become Landlord of The Beer Engine, near Exeter, and a brewer – became the oldest brewery in Devon. | ||
1955 | Philip Hetherington | Oxon (Queen's ) | Management consultant, Corporate Consulting Group, McKinseys | Head Prefect 61-62 | ||
1955 | Michael Hill | LSE; Oxon (Wadham, Nuffield) | Professor of Sociology, Wellington, NZ, now Professor, SIngapore University | |||
1955 | Paul Johnson | Oxon (Magdalen) | Barrister in Sheffield; died in his early 30s | 1970s | ||
1955 | Joe Lucas | Oxon (St Caths) | Joined KES in 4(1) from MGS | |||
1955 | Philip Matthews | Oxon (Merton) | Highest performer at A & S level in one of the school's strongest-ever year groups, latterly food chemist; died tragically in 1969 | 1969 | ||
1955 | Chris Meakin | Oxon (Keble) | Journalist (FT, Times, Punch); economist (Director of UK Chambers of Commerce, then of the CBI); international banker (JP Morgan-Chase, HSBC) | Editor of Isis, Michaelmas 1964; Speechday Guest of Honour 1976/7; Goodchild Press | ||
1955 | Ian Taylor | Durham | Professor of Sociology, University of Durham | 2001 | http://www.dur.ac.uk/pr.office/965Obit%20Ian%20Taylor.htm | |
1955 | John Thorpe | Cantab (Jesus) | Taught maths at Bury GS, 67-97 (retd) | |||
1955 | Edward Trickett | Durham, Physics Scholar | BBC Engineering | Also won, but did not take, the Physics scholarship at Leicester University that year. Ed was the only one in the 1955 lot to win TWO university scholarships. [Chris Meakin] | ||
1955 | Ian Williams | London (King's) | GP | |||
1955 | Jeff Wood | Professor, Bristol University Veterinary School | ||||
1956 | Bernard Argent | Leicester | Iona Folk Band ( USA ) | http://IonaMusic.com, http://PotomacCelticFest.org | ||
1956 | Peter Bell | Oxon (Jesus ) | Civil Servant, Northern Ireland Office; DPhil Oxon) in Byzantine History 2006 | Head prefect 62/3 | ||
1956 | Edward Blackburn | Nottingham | Professor of Chemistry, Alberta University, Canada | |||
1956 | Jim Booth | Oxon (Keble) | Oil industry, legal executive | |||
1956 | David Cook | Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry, Newcastle | ||||
1956 | Philip Croxford | Exeter, Cantab | Statistician, Fellow, Royal Statistical Society | First cousin of C. Meakin (1955) | ||
1956 | Howard Culley | Partner in Irwin Mitchell, solicitors | Chairman of Sheffield Wednesday (2000 - 2001) | |||
1956 | Paul Goldfinch | Senior Lecturer in Computing, Strathclyde University | ||||
1956 | Peter Grimsditch | Oxon (Oriel) | Editorial Director, Oxford Business Group, based in Istanbul (2007); Journalist in Fleet Street and Middle East; Editor, the Daily Sport | News Editor, Cherwell. Michaelmas 1964 | ||
1956 | Rod Hague | Oxon | Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Newcastle | |||
1956 | Martin Hall | Oxon (Merton) | Priv Sec to Chancellor of Exchequer; Head of Treasury Press Office; then London Stock Exchange; Director-General, Finance & Leasing Ass. | MVO, MBE | ||
1956 | John Kirkman | Oxon (Keble) | Teacher at Myers Grove, Sheffield | |||
1956 | David Meredith | Oxon | Judge, Leicester | Taught Languages at KES late 60s | ||
1956 | Jim Platts | Cantab | University of Cambridge, Institute for Manufacturing | |||
1956 | Richard Shutt | Exxon Chemical Europe Inc. (Chemist) | ||||
1957 | Brad Amos | Oxon | Cambridge MRC labs | |||
1957 | Christopher Beale | Oxon | Judge, Nottingham | |||
1957 | Patrick Birks | Oxon (Balliol) | Snr. Lecturer, RMA Sandhurst | School details | ||
1957 | Dan Brewin | Head, UK Sales, British Airways | Debretts | |||
1957 | Alan Hughes | Oxon Queen's | Associate Editor, Oxford English Dictionary | |||
1957 | Geoff Searby | MA, DPhil Oxon (St Peters) | Directeur de Recherche at CNRS, Marseille | |||
1957 | Peter Turney | Bris, USA | Professor, management in USA | |||
1957 | Derek Williams | Cantab (Selwyn) | Head of music, Cambridge Uni Library 1970-89; | 2006 | http://www.canamus.org/Enchiridion/Biogs/bw2.htm; Head Pre 63/4 | |
1958 | Michael Behrend | Cantab (Christ's) | Software, Cambridgeshire | Arrived at KES in Form 4 | ||
1958 | Peter Bradley | |||||
1958 | Michael Colley | Cantab (Caius) | Consultant Pathologist, Great Western Hospital, Swindon | Prefect, tennis | ||
1958 | Robert Edwards | MA Cantab, PhD (LSE) | Canada | Arrived at KES in Form 4 | ||
1958 | John England | Durham | Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Sheffield | Prefect, soccer, cricket | ||
1958 | David Morley | Oxon (Queen's) | ||||
1958 | Glyn Pursglove | Oxon | Reader in English, Swansea | |||
1958 | David Short | Oxon (Exeter) | FSA,FCIA; retired actuary and a member of the Ontario Financial Services Tribunal and Canadian Actuarial Standards Board | |||
1958 | Paul Timperley | Sheffield | Rugby Coach in Canada | Rugby, cricket | ||
1958 | Alan Wood | Manch, MBA (Harvard) | CEO of Siemens UK plc | 1947 | Guardian Interview ; Wikipedia | |
1959 | Bill Bailey | Birmingham, MBA (Lond) | Rolls-Royce, then started publishing co, sold to PLC | Kilcascan Castle, Co Cork | ||
1959 | David Barraclough | Birmingham, Sheffield | Consultant metallurgist | Deputy head prefect 65/6, Term 3; soccer, swimming | ||
1959 | Robert Beale | MA Oxon | Journalist, Manchester Evening News | Deputy head prefect 65/6 | ||
1959 | David Broughton | Sheffield | Nuclear Engineer, BNFL (Dounreay) | |||
1959 | Chris Brown | MA, PhD (Cantab) | Psychology Lab, Sheffield University | |||
1959 | John Chapman | MA, PhD (Cantab) (Johns) | Professor of Physics, Glasgow University | Prefect | ||
1959 | David Coates | Solicitor, Leeds | ||||
1959 | Rick Crawley | BSc, PhD, Aston | Professor, Lancaster University Management School | |||
1959 | John Everatt | Durham | Durham School, Classics | Prefect, cricket captain | ||
1959 | Mark Fielding | Cantab (Selwyn) | Unilever; now Charisma (Sheffield) | Prefect, soccer, cricket; Cambridge Falcons | ||
1959 | Peter Freeman | Oxon | GP | |||
1959 | Roy Galley | Oxon | Post Office, Conservative MP for Halifax 1983-87 | 1947 | Prefect, Who's Who; Wikipedia | |
1959 | Peter Groom | Oxon | GP, Cardiff | |||
1959 | Stephen Harrison | Professor of Social Policy, Univ of Manchester | Prefect; rugby captain | |||
1959 | Tony Heathcote | Bristol | GP, Birmingham | (1958 entry but changed years after rugby injury) | ||
1959 | Steve Hoyland (Tommy) | Exeter | Regional Organiser (Yorkshire) for UNISON (public services trades union) | 1948 | Prefect, Captain of Cross Country | |
1959 | Trevor Laundy | Newcastle | NHS Consultant, Peterborough; pilot | |||
1959 | Paul Main | Cantab (Christ's) | Actuary, London | Prefect | ||
1959 | Bill Manville | MA Oxon, PhD Cantab | Software Consultant | (Arrived in Form 3) prefect | ||
1959 | Alan Morris | Sheffield | Senior Lecturer in Control Engineering, Sheffield | |||
1959 | Don Nicolson | MA Cantab, PhD Lond | Lapsed mathematician; Senior Lecturer, Pure Maths, University of Malawi | 1947 | Prefect | |
1959 | Stephen Nortcliff | Bristol | Professor of Soil Science, Reading University | Prefect | ||
1959 | Stephen Paramore | Leicester | Solicitor, Doncaster | Prefect, soccer | ||
1959 | John Pilling | Oxon | NHS Consultant, Norwich | |||
1959 | Richard Price | London | London QC | OBE; Prefect | ||
1959 | John Ramsden | MA, DPhil (Oxon) | Professor of History at Queen Mary College, an authority on the history of the Conservative party | 1947 | 2009 | Prefect; Wikipedia |
1959 | Philip Robinson | Philatelist; Member, Royal Philatelic Society | Author on Philately; more | |||
1959 | James Saunders | Leicester | London Solicitor acting for Tony Martin (Norfolk farmer) | |||
1959 | Rod Shelton | Hull | University of Central England, Birmingham | |||
1959 | John Trythall | MA Oxon | Gordonstoun School | |||
1959 | Paul Willner | MA, PhD (Oxon) | Professor of Psychology, Swansea University | (Arrived in Form 3) | ||
1959 | Michael Wosskow | Oxon (St Eds) | Solicitor, Sheffield | Prefect, soccer; soccer blue | ||
1960s | ||||||
1960 | Graham Ball | Oxon (Queen's) | NHS Finance (lapsed) | |||
1960 | Christopher Beck | Leeds; Cranfield (MBA, 1979) | Advertising; novelist (as C.J. Beck - 'Spiked', 'Sizzle') | |||
1960 | Paul Collier | Oxon (Trinity) | Professor of Economics, Director of CSAE, Professorial Fellow, St Antony's, Oxford | 1949 | CBE; Wikipedia | |
1960 | Bob Davies | Edinburgh (LL.B) | CEO of Arriva Plc until April 2006 | 1948 | Wikipedia | |
1960 | Roger Dunsford | Manchester | RAF; became Group Captain | Deputy head prefect 66/7 Tm 3; soccer, cricket | ||
1960 | Jonathan Haworth | London | Judge, Cambridge | |||
1960 | Eric Hemming | Cantab (Jesus) | Consultant specialising in healthcare management and development | Deputy head prefect 66/7; soccer, cricket | ||
1960 | Peter Holmes | MA, PhD (Cantab) (Christ's) | Reader in Economics, Sussex | |||
1960 | Peter Horner | Cantab (Sidney Sussex) | Partner, Irwin-Mitchell Solicitors | |||
1960 | Simon Kingsley | Engineering, Sheffield University, now in business | ||||
1960 | Mike Orton | MA (Cantab) MBA, Manchester | Head of Business, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College | |||
1960 | Jim Pemberton | MA, PhD (Cantab) (Trin Hall) | Professor of Economics, Reading University | |||
1960 | Rob Williams | Oxon (Univ) | Executive Director, The Law Debenture Corporation | Debretts; Head prefect 66/7; Rugby, swimming | ||
1960 | Nigel Woodcock | Manchester, London | Geology, Cambridge | Father (Howard) is OE; soccer | ||
1961 | Michael Ainsworth | Rector of St George-in-the-East in London E1 | ||||
1961 | Clive Betts | MA Cantab (Pemb) | Labour MP for Attercliffe, 1992 - date | 1950 | Who's Who; Wikipedia | |
1961 | John Crawford | Trinity College of Music, London | ||||
1961 | Rodney Falk | Professor of Clinical Cardiology, Boston University | ||||
1961 | Peter Horbury | Car designer, Executive Design Director of all Ford's American brands from 2004 | 1950 | Wikipedia | ||
1961 | Lyn Jenkins | Cantab (King's), Oxon (New) | Ophthalmic Medical Practitioner | |||
1961 | Chris Milner | Loughborough | Professor of Economics, Nottingham University | Head prefect 68/9; soccer, cricket 1st XIs for 9 years in all | ||
1961 | Michael Newman | MA Cantab (Sid Suss), PhD Lond (IC) | Research scientist at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital | d 2007 | ||
1961 | Rod Nicolson | MA, PhD (Cantab) (Johns) | Professor of Psychology, Sheffield University | Deputy head prefect 67/8 (Term 3); soccer, tennis | ||
1961 | John Pilkington | Cantab (Trin Hall) | Travel author, BBC World Service, Radio 4 | |||
1961 | Iain Robinson | MA, PhD (Oxon) (Worcs) | Professor of Molecular Neuroendocrinology, MRC | Deputy head prefect 67/8 | ||
1961 | John Scriven | Principal Lecturer, Business School, South Bank University | ||||
1961 | John Smith | Oxon (Queen's) | Languages Fellow, St Caths, Oxford | Prefect | ||
1961 | Martin Smith | Car designer (Porsche, Audi, Ford) | 1949 | Wikipedia | ||
1962 | Michael Barlow | Professor of Linguistics, Rice University, USA | More | |||
1962 | Martin Elliott | Newcastle | Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gt Ormond St Hospital, London | |||
1962 | Ian Neary | Sheffield, Sussex | Professor of Government, Essex University; now St Antony's (Oxon) | Father is Ken, OE; birth in KES mag | ||
1962 | Ken Sykes | Oxon (Queen's) | Solicitor, Leeds | |||
1963 | John Aplin | Oxon | Professor of Reproductive Biomedicine, Manchester University | |||
1963 | Rudi Lutz | Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, Sussex University | KES 63 - 65 (left after form 2) | |||
1963 | David Thomson | Oxon (Keble), Cantab (Selwyn) | Current Bishop of Huntingdon | 1952 | Wikipedia | |
1964 | Jon Chitty | Air Commodore RAF | OBE, Wikipedia | |||
1964 | Jonathan Durham Hall | QC; Judge, Cardiff Crown Court | Who's Who | |||
1964 | Gareth Hulse | Cantab | Classical Musician; eg Nash Ensemble | |||
1964 | Steve Mann | Chess player (KES Board 1 70/71) | ||||
1964 | Richard Mellowes | Deputy University Librarian, Cardiff University | ||||
1965 | Doug Black | Nottingham | GP | |||
1965 | Mark Gore | Oxon (Wadham) | Assistant Chief Education Officer, Warwickshire | Head prefect | ||
1965 | Mark Hudson | Cantab | Economist; economic advisor to Georgia | OEs Guest Speaker (2004) | ||
1965 | Peter Smith | Essex, Leeds | Senior Lecturer, Computing, City University, London | |||
1965 | Andrew Spencer | Sussex , PhD (Essex) | Professor of Linguistics, Essex University | Father is Ron, OE (left c40) | ||
1965 | Richard Taylor | Department of Clinical Biochemistry, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford | Prefect | |||
1966 | Simon Elliott | Consultant Radiologist, Newcastle University | ||||
1966 | Nigel Harrison | Nuclear engineer | ||||
1966 | Stephen Mackin | Solicitor, Ashurst Mools Crisp | Debretts | |||
1966 | David Pollard | Nottingham | Inform PR Ltd ( Sheffield) | |||
1967 | Michael Booker | Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mayday University Hospital, Croydon | Debretts | |||
1967 | Simon Collis | Cantab (Christ's) | Ambassador to Syria since 2007, and to Qatar from 2005–7 | 1956 | Wikipedia | |
1967 | Peter Kersh | |||||
1967 | Phil Oakey | Singer, Human League | 1955 | Wikipedia | ||
1967 | Chris Twelves | Professor of Cancer Therapeutics, Bradford University | ||||
1967 | Martyn Ware | Founder member of The Human League and Heaven 17 | 1956 | Wikipedia | ||
1967 | Clive Wolman | Oxon | Founder and editor-in-chief, London Financial News; editor, Mail on Sunday; personal finance editor, FT | President, Oxford Union, c1975 | ||
1968 | Andrew Aplin | E Anglia, Imperial | Professor of Environmental Geochemistry, Newcastle University | |||
1968 | Matthew Bannister | Nottingham (law) | Radio Presenter; Controller, BBC Radio 1 | 1957 | Who's Who; Wikipedia | |
1968 | Philip Bramwell | Group Legal Director, BAE Systems, previously chief counsel O2 | ||||
1968 | Paul Burkimsher | Brunel, UMIST | CERN, Switzerland | |||
1968 | Andrew McCaig | MA, PhD Cantab (Johns) | Senior Lecturer in Geology, Leeds University | |||
1968 | John Rawling | Main boxing commentator on ITV since 2005 | 1957 | Wikipedia | ||
1968 | Peter Sells | Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University | ||||
1968 | Simon Wessely | Professor, King's College School of Medicine and the Institute of Psychiatry, London | 1956 | Wikipedia | ||
1969 | Bruce Dickinson | Singer, songwriter, broadcaster and author; Samson, Iron Maiden, solo artist | Debretts | |||
1970s | ||||||
1970 | Fran Ebling | BSc (Bris), PhD (Edin) | Professor of Neuroendocrinology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Nottingham University | |||
1970 | Joe Elliott | Lead singer of Def Leppard | 1959 | Wikipedia | ||
1970 | Graham Fellows | Comedian and actor, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John | 1959 | Wikipedia | ||
1970 | David Lindsay | Consultant Cardiologist at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital | ||||
1970 | Giles Orton | Eversheds LLP | Head Prefect 76/7 | |||
1970 | Rashmin Savani | MBChB (Sheff) | Professor, Abramson Research Center Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | |||
1973 | Clare Blackburn | Stem cell research, Edinburgh University | ||||
1973 | Paul Heaton | Singer-songwriter - member of The Beautiful South and of The Housemartins | 1962 | (Left Sheffield in 76); Wikipedia | ||
1974 | Jonathan Coulthard | Cabinet maker and designer of bespoke kitchens etc | Cricket Capt | |||
1974 | David Flavell | Minister, Trinity Methodist Church, Hexham | Children's author; www.flavell.vispa.com | |||
1974 | Jay (Julian) Roland | Expert on Family History | ||||
1975 | Mark Beech | Hon Visiting Fellow, Dept of Archaeology, York University | ||||
1976 | Jonathan Blackburn | Professor of Biochemistry, Western Cape University, South Africa | ||||
1976 | Matthew Uttley | Professor of Defence Studies, King’s College London | 1965 | |||
1976 | Peter Moulson | Barrister | ||||
1976 | Stephen Peat | Missionary with SIM in Peru (Serving in Mission) | www.peats.org | |||
1977 | Ian Simmonds | Cantab (Caius) | IBM in New York | |||
1978 | Jeremy Stern | Specialist registrar in neurology, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, and Allenbrooke's Hospital | Debretts | |||
1979 | Paul Roberts | Oxon (Balliol), Cantab (Kings) | Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence, Nottingham University | |||
1980s | ||||||
1980 | Bill Smith | Architect | ||||
1981 | Julia Bradbury | Presenter of Watchdog on BBC1; own BBC TV documentary series | 1970 | Wikipedia | ||
1982 | Guy Jeremiah | BSc, MSc | www.jpenvirosystems.co.uk; www.europad.net | |||
1982 | Emily Maitlis | Cantab (Queens') | Newscaster for BBC television (eg Newsnight presenter) | Daughter of Prof Maitlis FRS ; Wikipedia | ||
1982 | Rachel Payne | MA, DPhil (Oxon) | Senior Lecturer in Japanese, University of Canterbury, NZ | |||
1983 | Robert Adamczyk | Technical Guidance for IPPC in Poland | Now with EBRD | |||
1983 | Paul Cook | Newcastle, Lancaster | BNFL | Son of Terry Cook (47-54), nephew of David (below) | ||
1983 | Alex Sutton | Lecturer in Medical Statistics, Leicester | Musician | |||
1984 | Isaac Hepworth | MA Cantab | Software: IT Director and Principal Architect, Qwest, Denver | |||
1986 | Andy Merrills | Oxon (Queen's), PhD Cantab (Trinity) | Research Fellow in Ancient History, Leicester University | |||
1988 | Jethro Soutar | Author and translator, with published books about Ronaldinho and Gael García Bernal | ||||
1989 | Tim Brown | BEng, PhD, Surrey | Communication Systems Research; www.tim.brown76.name | KES 93-95, previously Tapton | ||
1989 | James Tomlinson | BSc, PhD, Leicester | Structural Geologist, Task Geoscience, Edinburgh | |||
1990s | ||||||
1990 | Mike Cubison | Oxon (Corpus); PhD Manchester | Postdoctoral researcher, Colorado; Atmospheric Physics | Cycling, snowboarding | ||
1990 | Rachel Symes | Oxon (Queen's) | PhD at Birmingham University | Rowed in 8 for Queen's | ||
1991 | Karen Andrews | Motorsport Driver | ||||
1991 | Revd Lydia Cook | Oxon, Balliol | Minister | |||
1991 | Keith Spriggs | PhD (Nottingham) | Postdoctoral, Department of Pharmacy, Nottingham University | |||
1992 | Martin Bishop | MA, PhD Oxon | Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford | Cross-country blue | ||
1992 | Tyrone Thompson | Footballer with Torquay United | 1981 | Wikipedia | ||
1995 | Ben Purkiss | Footballer with Oxford United | 1984 | Wikipedia | ||
1996 | Toddla T (Thomas Mackenzie Bell) | Musician and DJ | 1985 | Wikipedia | ||
1999 | Sophie Mei | Manchester | Broadcaster, belly dancer, Britain's Got Talent competitor |
Niall David Baker (KES 80s) IRWIN MITCHELL
William Leslie Sumner (taught Physics + also organ KES 1920s)
Mr Peter (Perci) Clark BA(Hons) PGCE Head of R.E Buxton Community School KES 70s (?)
Andrew Wade (KES c 69) Partner, Commercial Property
Grahame Codd IRWIN MITCHELL (KES 70s)
Giles Orton EVERSHEDS (KES 70s)
Paul Gardner OSBORNE CLARKE (KES 70s)