- Rocco Forte
Sir Rocco Forte is a British hotelier born in Bournemouth. He went to Downside School in England as a child and went on to read modern languages at Oxford University. He is the son of Lord Forte from whom he took over as CEO of the Forte Group in 1992. In the mid-Nineties, the Forte Group was faced with a hostile takeover bid from Gerry Robinson's Granada. - Tom Bethell
Tom Bethell (born 1936) is an journalist specializing in economic issues, known for his support of the market economy, political conservatism, and unorthodox science. Born and raised in England, Bethell was educated at Downside School and the University of Oxford. He is a senior editor of the "The American Spectator", correspondent for "National Review", and member of the Hoover Institution. - John Varley
John Silvester Varley (born c.1956) is a British banker, currently Group Chief Executive of Barclays Bank. Varley attended the Catholic Downside School and has a Master's degree in history and attended London's College of Law. In 1981 he married Carolyn Thorn Pease, daughter of Sir Richard Thorn Pease, and in so doing married into the Quaker Pease family, whose bank became part of Barclays in 1902. - William Nicholson
William Nicholson (born January 12, 1948) is a BAFTA-, Oscar- and Tony-nominated British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. - Adam Zamoyski
Count Adam Zamoyski (born January 11, 1949, New York City, United States) is a historian and a member of the ancient Zamoyski family of Polish nobility. Zamoyski was born in New York City but reared in England and educated at Downside School and Queen's College in Oxford. He is Chairman of the Board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation. On June 16, 2001, in London, England, he married Emma Sergeant. - Simon Tolkien
Simon Tolkien (born 1959) is a British barrister and novelist. He is the grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien. Simon Tolkien is the eldest son of Christopher Tolkien (b. 1924). He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then Downside School. He studied modern history at Trinity College, Oxford. Since 1994, he has been a barrister in London, where he lives with his wife and their two children. - Jared Harris
Jared Harris (b. 24 August 1961, London, United Kingdom) is a British actor of Irish and Welsh descent. He is one of the three acting/directing sons of the late Irish actor Richard Harris, and his first wife, Elizabeth Rees-Williams, an actress of Welsh descent, who was also married to the late Sir Rex Harrison. Jared Harris earned a B.F.A. from Duke University. His first film appearance was in "The Rachel Papers" in 1989. More recently he played Dr. - Timothy Radcliffe
Timothy Radcliffe, OP (1945, London-) is a Catholic priest and Dominican friar of the English Province, and former Master of the Order of Preachers from 1992-2001. He is the only member of the English Province of the Dominicans to have held the office since the Order's foundation in 1216. Before Radcliffe became Master of the Dominican Order, he had been the Prior Provincial of the Dominicans in England. - Auberon Waugh
Auberon Alexander Waugh (November 17, 1939 - January 16, 2001) was a British author and journalist. - Richard Stokes
Sir Richard Rapier Stokes (1897-1957) was a British Labour Party politician who served briefly as Lord Privy Seal in 1951. Stokes was educated at Downside, the Royal Military Academy and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Artillery during World War I, winning the Military Cross and bar and the Croix de Guerre. He became chairman and managing director of the engineering firm Ransomes & Rapier Ltd. Stokes won the Ipswich seat in a 1938 by-election, … - Hugh Vyvyan
Hugh Donnithorne Vyvyan (born 8 August 1976 in Guildford) is a rugby union player who plays on at number 8 for Saracens and England. The former England fullback Jon Callard heavily influenced Hugh's early career while at Downside School, moving him from fly-half to number 8. Brother Charlie, was a number 8 for Sale Sharks, and was another big influence on his career. He also plays lock. - Rupert Allason
Rupert William Simon Allason (born 8 November, 1951) is a military historian and former politician in the United Kingdom. He was Conservative Party member of Parliament for Torbay in Devon, from 1987 to 1997. He writes books on the subject of espionage under the pen name Nigel West. - Theobald Mathew
Theobald David Mathew, Esq, MA, (7 April 1942 - 24 December 1998) was an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Theobald Mathew was the son of solicitor Robert Mathew, and great-nephew of Sir Arthur Cochrane, Clarenceux King of Arms from 1928 to 1954. He was educated at Downside and Balliol College, Oxford. Mathew was a Green Staff Officer at the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969. - James Underwood
Professor Sir James Cressee Elphinstone Underwood is a British scientist who was awarded a knighthood for services to medicine in the 2005 New Year honours list. - Peter Rawlinson Baron Rawlinson of Ewell
Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, PC, QC (26 June 1919 - 28 June 2006) was an English barrister, politician and author. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Epsom for 23 years, from 1955 to 1978, and held the offices of Solicitor General (1962-1964) and Attorney General (1970-1974). Had he been appointed Lord Chancellor, as seemed likely during the mid-1970s, … - Tremayne Rodd 3rd Baron Rennell
John Adrian Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell (28 June 1935 - 9 December 2006) was a Scottish rugby union player. He succeeded his uncle as 3rd Baron Rennell in 1978, and sat on the Conservative Party benches in the House of Lords. John Adrian Tremayne Rodd was the younger son of Gustaf Guthrie Rennell Rodd, a Commander in the Royal Navy, and his wife, the former Yvonne Mary Marling, a singing teacher and co-author of "Singing, the Physical Nature of the Vocal Organ". - Robert Walker Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe
Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe, QC, PC, (born 17 March 1938) is a British barrister and judge. The son of Ronald Robert Antony and Mary Helen Walker, was educated on the Downside School and the Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in classics and law in 1959. Walker worked as barrister in Lincoln's Inn from 1960 and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1982. From 1994 to 1997, he was High Court Judge, Chancery Division. - Murder Of John Monckton
John Victor Monckton (October 13, 1955-November 29, 2004) was a successful City financier who was murdered in his own house in November 2004, by Elliott White and Damien Hanson, whilst the latter was on probation serving half his 12 year sentence for attempted murder. Educated at Downside and Lincoln College, Oxford, he went into the City and rose to the position of Managing Director of Bonds at Legal & General Group PLC, … - Patrick Wall
Sir Patrick Henry Bligh Wall <small>KBE (1981), MC, VRD</small> (14 October 1916- 15 May 1998) was a British Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament for Haltemprice, East Yorkshire and subsequently for Beverley. He was a leading figure in the Conservative Monday Club, and a parliamentary consultant to the Western Goals Institute. - Jenico Preston 17th Viscount Gormanston
Jenico Nicholas Dudley Preston, 17th Viscount Gormanston (born 19 November,1939), is the only son of Jenico William Preston, 16th Viscount Gormanston (1914-1940) and Pamela Hanly, daughter of Captain Edward Hanly and Lady Marjorie Feilding. A Roman Catholic Anglo-Irish aristocrat, he is the Premier Viscount of Ireland. Like his forebears, Lord Gormanston attended the Benedictine academy of Downside School. - Barry England
Barry England is an English novelist and playwright. He is chiefly known for his 1969 thriller, "Figures in a Landscape", which was nominated for the inaugural Booker Prize. - Sir John Leslie 4th Baronet
Sir John Norman Ide Leslie, 4th Bt. was born on 6 December 1916. He is the eldest son of the late Sir John Randolph Shane Leslie, 3rd Bt. and Marjorie Ide. He became the fourth baronet when his father died in 1971. Educated at Downside School, he has never married or had children. - Charles Owen O'Conor
Charles Owen O'Conor (7 May 1838 - 30 June 1906) was an Irish Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The eldest son of The O'Conor Don. O'Conor was educated at Downside School in England and became a Liberal MP for Roscommon from March 1860 until defeated in 1880. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Wexford (borough) in 1883. - Sir Nicholas Mander 4th Baronet
Sir (Charles) Nicholas Mander, 4th Baronet is a British Baronet. He is the elder son of Charles Marcus Mander, 3rd baronet of The Mount, by Maria Dolores (d. 2007), née Brödermann, of Hamburg, whom he succeeded in 2006 (though the claim remains unproven). He was educated at Downside School, Trinity College, Cambridge (senior scholar), and Grenoble University. He is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. - Denis Maurice O'Conor
Denis Maurice O'Conor (1840-26 July 1883) was an Irish politician, Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The second son of The O'Conor Don, O'Conor was educated at Downside School and the University of London, gaining an MA in 1861 and LLD in 1866. A barrister, he was called to the bar at Middle Temple, 1866. He was a member of the Reform Club. O'Conor served as a Liberal (pro-Home Rule) MP for County Sligo from December 1868 until his death - Robert Berkeley
Robert George Wilmot Berkeley (23 April 1898 - 28 August 1969) was an English cricketer who played four first-class games for Worcestershire shortly after the First World War. Three of these came in friendly matches in 1919, with the other being his only County Championship appearance three years later. He did very little in any of these games, three of which his county lost by an innings. Outside cricket, he was Deputy Lieutenant for Worcestershire, … - Desmond Chute
Father Desmond Macready Chute (1895-1962) was an English artist, who became a Catholic priest in 1927. He was born in Bristol, where his father James Macready Chute ran a theatre. He was educated at Downside School, and the Slade Art School in Manchester. He was a friend of Stanley Spencer, from 1915. From 1918 became a close colleague and assistant of Eric Gill, and a founder of the Ditchling craftsmen's community, where he taught David Jones engraving. - John Hunt Baron Hunt of Tanworth
John Joseph Benedict Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth GCB (born 23 October 1919), is a British civil servant and politician. He was educated at Downside School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, then joined the Civil Service in 1946. He was Secretary of the Cabinet from 1973 to 1979. He was created a life peer with the title Baron Hunt of Tanworth, … - William Bernard Ullathorne
William Bernard Ullathorne was an English Roman Catholic bishop and missionary in Australia. - James Percy Fitzpatrick
Sir James Percy FitzPatrick (24 July 1862 - 24 January 1931) was a South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He is best known for his book Jock of the Bushveld, considered a South African classic, as well as other children's books. - Brian Cotter Baron Cotter
Brian Joseph Michael Cotter, Baron Cotter is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare, from the 1997 election until 2005. Born in London, the son of a doctor from Weston-super-Mare, he was educated at Downside School in Somerset, where at age sixteen he ran a 4½ minute mile. On leaving school he entered the British Army, serving two years National Service, spending time stationed in Germany. - Stafford Northcote 4th Earl of Iddesleigh
Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh (born 14 July 1932, died 8 July 2004) was a British member of the House of Lords. He was the only child of Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, 3rd Earl of Iddesleigh (1901-1970) and his wife Elizabeth Susan Angela Mary Lowndes, and the grandson of the Reverend John Stafford Northcote, a younger son of Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887). - Pierre Maréchal
Jean-Pierre Maréchal was an engineer and racing driver who died after his Aston Martin team car crashed in the first postwar running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race. Although often listed as French, he had British nationality. Son of the French entrepreneur, film producer and Titanic survivor of the same name, Pierre Maréchal won his first races — at Santander, Cantabria, driving hydroplanes owned by family friend Count Soriano — at the age of 13. - John Drummond 8th Earl of Perth
John David Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth (1907-2002) was a Scottish peer, banker and politician. Nephew of the sixth Earl of Perth and son of the 7th Earl, he was educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After beginning a banking career, in the Second World War he went to Paris to help Noel Coward in a propaganda office, then returned to London to work in the War Cabinet office and later at the Ministry of Production. After the war he joined Schroders. - Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet
His Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet, O.S.B. (1846–1929) was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar. Educated at Downside School, he became a monk and Prior of Downside Abbey, 1878-1885. He was a member of the Pontifical Commission to study the validity of the Anglican ordinations (1896) leading to "Apostolicae Curae", to which his historical contribution was major. He was President of the Pontifical Commission for Revision of the Vulgate, 1907. - Dennis Walters
Sir Dennis Murray Walters (born November 1928) was a British Conservative Party politician. Walters was educated at Downside School and St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He was a company director with interests in advertising, public relations and travel Walters contested Blyth in 1959 and at a 1960 by-election. He was Member of Parliament for Westbury for 28 years from 1964 until he retired in 1992. - George William Rendel
Sir George William Rendel (1889-6 May 1979) was a British diplomat. Rendel, the son of the engineer George Wightwick Rendel was educated at Downside School and at Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in Modern History in 1911. He then entered the Diplomatic Service. He was head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office, 1930-1938. In 1937 he and his wife Geraldine (1884-1965) crossed Arabia. - Dr. Bernard Trafford
- John Charles Day
John Charles Frederick Sigismund Day (June 20, 1826 - June 13, 1908) was purportedly the first Catholic judge in England to be appointed after the English Reformation. He was also known as a collector of art, including several works by James McNeill Whistler. Born at the Hague, son of Captain John Day and his wife Emilie (nee Hartsinck), Sir John Day completed his schooling at Downside, and, … - Stuart Rendel 1st Baron Rendel
Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel of Hatchlands (2 July 1834-4 June 1913) was the Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and 1894. Rendel was the son of the civil engineer James Meadows Rendel and his wife Catherine Jane Harris. He was educated at Downside School and Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in Modern History in 1911. He was the Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and his retirement in March 1894.
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