- Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler, FRS (30 January 1774 - 4 December 1839), was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler, noted author. He was born at Kenilworth. He was educated at Rugby School, and in 1792 went to St John's College, Cambridge. Butler's classical career was a brilliant one. He obtained three of Sir William Browne's medals, for the Latin (1792) and Greek (1793, 1794) odes, … - Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. - Richard Ingrams
Richard Ingrams was the second editor of British satirical magazine, "Private Eye", taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963. Richard Ingrams was one of four sons. His parents were Leonard St Clair Ingrams and Victoria (née Reid). Ingrams was educated at Shrewsbury School and University College, Oxford where he read Classics. Curiously, he was the tutorial partner of a completely different figure - Robin Butler, … - Christopher Booker
Christopher John Penrice Booker (born October 7 1937) is an English journalist and editor, educated at Shrewsbury School. He was a founding editor of "Private Eye" at the height of the British Satire Boom, but he was forced out in the magazine's early days by Richard Ingrams. He has, however, remained a regular contributor and joke writer on the magazine since its inception. In the late 1960s he wrote "The Neophiliacs", … - Willie Rushton
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (18 August, 1937 in Chelsea, London - 11 December, 1996) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer. Rushton was a co-founder of "Private Eye" with his Shrewsbury School peers Christopher Booker, Paul Foot and Richard Ingrams, originally acting as the magazine's layout artist. He served as one of its cartoonists until his death. - Benjamin Hall Kennedy
Benjamin Hall Kennedy was an English scholar. He was born at Summer Hill, near Birmingham, the eldest son of Rann Kennedy (1772–1851), of a branch of the Ayrshire family which had settled in Staffordshire. Rann was a scholar and man of letters, several of whose sons rose to distinction. Benjamin was educated at Shrewsbury School, and St John's College, Cambridge. After a brilliant university career he was elected fellow and classical lecturer of St John's College in 1828. - Neville Cardus
Sir Neville Cardus (2 April 1889 - 28 February 1975) was a celebrated English journalist. He was a music and cricket writer for the "Manchester Guardian". John Frederick Neville Cardus was born in Rusholme, Manchester. In later life he was wont to be cavalier about his date of birth but in fact it was as shown above. (It was claimed in a letter in The Times in April 1988 that it was discovered after his death that he was born in April 1888. - Abraham Fraunce
Abraham Fraunce (c. 1558 - 1633), was an English poet. A native of Shropshire, he was born between 1558 and 1560. His name appears in a list of pupils of Shrewsbury School in January 1571, and he joined St John's College, Cambridge, in 1576, becoming a fellow in 1580/1. His Latin comedy, "Victoria", dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney, was probably written at Cambridge, where he remained until he had taken his M.A. degree in 1583. - Richard Todd
Richard Todd (born June 11, 1919) is a British actor. - Tim Booth
Tim Booth (born Timothy John Booth, 4 February 1960, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England) attended Shrewsbury School. He is a singer, dancer, and actor best known as the lead singer from the band, James. - Ambrose Philips
Ambrose Philips, (1674 - June 18, 1749), was an English poet. He was born in Shropshire of a Leicestershire family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1699. He seems to have lived chiefly at Cambridge until he resigned his fellowship in 1708, and his pastorals were probably written in this period. - Nick Owen
Nick Owen is an English television presenter. Born November 1, 1947 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, to father Bertie, a headmaster and Dunkirk veteran, and mother Esme, a music teacher. He attended Kingsland Grange prep school, an independent boarding school in Shrewsbury, from the ages of 7-13, then Shrewsbury School itself from the ages of 13-18. While at Kingsland Grange, Nick borrowed a Cliff Richard record from Bob Warman, … - Graham Wallas
Graham Wallas (May 31, 1858 - August 9, 1932) was an English socialist, social psychologist, educationalist, and a leader of the Fabian Society. Born in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, Wallas was educated at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. It was at Oxford that Wallas abandoned religion and converted to rationalism. He taught at Highgate School until 1885, when he resigned rather than participate in communion, … - Julian Critchley
Sir Julian Michael Gordon Critchley (8 December 1930 - 9 September 2000) was a politician in the United Kingdom, educated at Shrewsbury School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament, firstly for Rochester and Chatham from 1959 to 1964, and then for Aldershot from 1970 until his retirement at the 1997 election. He was knighted in 1995. He was a childhood friend of Michael Heseltine while they were both at Shrewsbury, … - John Stuttard
John Boothman Stuttard is the current Lord Mayor of London. Stuttard was educated at Shrewsbury School and Churchill College, Cambridge, before joining Cooper Brothers in 1967. He has been a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers since 1975. He spent five years in China as the company's executive chairman. From 1981, he spent two years on secondment to the British Cabinet Office advising the Central Policy Review Staff on nationalized industries and their privatisation. - Peter Brown
Peter Robert Lamont Brown (b. 1935) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a Protestant family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He is a fellow of All Souls', Oxford. He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton University, where he is currently the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History. In 1982, Brown was named a MacArthur Fellow. - Kyffin Williams
Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA (May 9 1918 – September 1 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey. He was born in Llangefni, Anglesey into an old landed Anglesey family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School before joining the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers as a lieutenant in 1937. After failing a British Army medical examination in 1941 (due to epilepsy), doctors advised him to become an artist, … - William Thomson
William Thomson (February 11, 1819 - December 25, 1890) was an English church leader, Archbishop of York from 1862 until his death. He was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, and educated at Shrewsbury School and at The Queen's College, Oxford, of which he became a scholar. He took his B.A. degree in 1840, and was soon afterwards made fellow of his college. He was ordained in 1842, and worked as a curate at Cuddesdon. In 1847 he was made tutor of his college, … - Anthony Chenevix-Trench
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (May 10 1919 - June 21 1979) is best known as the Headmaster of Eton College from 1964-1970. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England and at Christ Church College, Oxford. He fought in the Second World War and gained the rank of Captain in 1939 in the Royal Artillery. In 1942, he was taken prisoner in the fall of Singapore and remained a POW, working on the Burma Thailand Railway, until the end of the war.. - Cyril Alington
The Very Reverend Cyril Argentine Alington, D.D., (1872–1955), was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author. He was the headmaster of both Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He also served as chaplain to King George V and as Dean of Durham. - Fulke Greville 1st Baron Brooke
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, "de jure" 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke (3 October 1554 - 30 September 1628), known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was a minor Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman. Born at Beauchamp Court, Warwickshire, and educated at Shrewsbury School and Jesus College, Cambridge, he was a friend and contemporary of Sir Philip Sidney at Shrewsbury, … - Thomas Jones
Thomas Jones (June 23, 1756 - July 18, 1807) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick. On graduating from Shrewsbury School, Jones was admitted to St John's College, University of Cambridge on May 28, 1774, as a 'pensioner' (ie. a fee paying student, as opposed to a scholar or sizar). He was believed to be an illegitimate son of Mr Owen Owen, of Tyncoed, … - John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor
John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor was an English classical scholar. He was born at Baddegama, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), and returned to England to be educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge. From 1863 to 1867 he was librarian of the University of Cambridge, and in 1872 succeeded HAJ Munro in the professorship of Latin, which he held for 28 years. His best-known work, an edition of the thirteen Satires of Juvenal, … - Charles Thomas Newton
Sir Charles Thomas Newton (September 16, 1816 - November 28, 1894) was a British archaeologist. Newton was born at Bredwardine in Herefordshire, and educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the British Museum in 1840 as an assistant in the Antiquities Department. Antiquities, classical, Oriental and medieval, as well as ethnographical objects, were at the time included in one department, which had no classical archaeologist among its officers. - Mark Lascelles
Mark Lascelles (born 4 July 1964), is the only son of the 7th Earl of Harewood from his second marriage to the Australian violinist Patricia Tuckwell. Since his parents were not married until after his birth, he and his descendants have no claim either to the line of succession to the British throne or in remainder to the Earldom of Harewood. - Charles Evans
Robert Charles Evans M.D., DSc, Knight, (19 October 1918 - 5 December 1995), was a mountaineer, surgeon, and educator. Born in Liverpool, he was raised in Wales and became a fluent Welsh speaker. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford University, where he studied medicine, he qualified as a doctor in 1942 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corp. - George Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, PC (May 15, 1645 - April 18, 1689), also known as "The Hanging Judge", became notable during the reign of King James II, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor (and serving as Lord High Steward in certain instances). Jeffreys was born at the family estate of Acton Hall, Wrexham in Wales, the sixth son of John and Margaret Jeffreys. He was educated at Shrewsbury School; St Paul's School, London and Westminster School, … - Mark Sinker
Mark Stinker (born 7 June 1960) is a British writer (educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford). While working for the New Musical Express (1983-88) and briefly for Melody Maker (1988-89) he also wrote for The Wire from 1985. He then became its editor from 1992-94 and remained a contributor until around 2003. He is a contributing editor at the film magazine Sight and Sound, and has worked on a critical history of music and technology, … - Bob Warman
Bob Warman is a British television presenter, born in Walsall, West Midlands. Between the ages of 11 and 18, Bob attended Wrekin College in Shropshire. When he left in the 1970s, he started working for Yorkshire Television. In 1989, he hosted the Sky TV version of The Price Is Right. Bob has spent his subsequent career at ATV and Central, mostly presenting regional news programmes. He continues to this day in his role as co-anchor on Central Tonight on ITV1 Central. - Frederick Apthorp Paley
Frederick Apthorp Paley (January 14, 1815 - December 8, 1888), was an English classical scholar. Born at Easingwold in Yorkshire, he was the grandson of William Paley, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1838). His conversion to Roman Catholicism forced him to leave Cambridge in 1846, … - Charles Rann Kennedy
Charles Rann Kennedy (born 1808; died December 17, 1867 in Birmingham) was an English lawyer. The brother of Benjamin Hall Kennedy, he was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as senior classic (1831). He then became a barrister. From 1849-1856 he was professor of law at Queen's College, Birmingham. As adviser to Mrs Swinfen, the plaintiff in the celebrated will case "Swinfen v. Swinfen" (1856), … - Tim Lamb
Timothy Michael Lamb (born Hartford, Cheshire, March 24 1953) was an English County Cricketer and Cricket Administrator, the first Chief Executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (1996-2004). The younger son of the 2nd Lord Rochester, Tim Lamb was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Queen's College Oxford University (for whom he got a blue in 1973 and 1974) and played professional cricket for Middlesex (1974-77) and Northamptonshire (1978-83). - Owen Seaman
Sir Owen Seaman (September 18, 1861 - February 2, 1936) was a British writer, journalist and poet. He is best known as editor of "Punch", from 1906 to 1932. Born in Shrewsbury, he was the only son of William Mantle Seaman and Sarah Ann Balls. He distinguished himself academically both at Shrewsbury School and later Clare College, Cambridge. Following this, he worked as a schoolmaster at Rossall School (1884), professor of literature at Durham College of Science, … - Tom Macan
Thomas Townley Macan (born 1946) was educated at Shrewsbury School and Sussex University, where he was President of the Student Union. He was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the British Virgin Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea, from 14 October 2002 to 10 April 2006. - Richard Best Baron Best
Richard Stuart Best, Baron Best, OBE (b. 22 June, 1945) is a British social housing leader and member of the House of Lords. The son of late Walter Best DL and Frances Chignell, Best was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University of Nottingham. He married Ima Akpan in 1970, divorcing in 1976, then Belinda Stemp in 1978. He had two daughters and two sons with his two wives. From 1970 to 1973, Best served as Director of the British Churches Housing Trust, … - Samit Patel
Samit Rohit Patel born 30 November 1984, Leicester, England is an English cricket player who has played for the cricket teams of Nottinghamshire. Patel was educated at Eastwood Comprehensive but later on he studied at Worksop College in North Nottinghamshire where he was a member of the 1st XI cricket team for 5 seasons. Whilst at the College, Patel represented England at under 15, under 17 and under 19 levels. - William Walsham How
William Walsham How (December 13, 1823 - August 10, 1897) was an English bishop. The son of a Shrewsbury solicitor, How was educated at Shrewsbury School and Wadham College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1846, and for upwards of thirty years was actively engaged in parish work at Whittington in Shropshire and Oswestry (rural dean, 1860). He refused preferment on several occasions, but his energy and success made him well known, … - Francis Edwards
Sir Francis Edwards, 1st Baronet (28 April 1852 - 10 May 1927), commonly known as Frank Edwards, was a British Liberal Party politician. Sir Francis was the fourth son of Edward Edwards of Llangollen. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Jesus College, Oxford (graduated 1875). Married in 1880 to Catherine, daughter of David Davis of Aberdare. The marriage had issue, one daughter. Edwards served as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Radnorshire. - Harold Ackroyd
Harold Ackroyd VC, MC (18 July, 1877—11 August, 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. - Francis King
Francis Henry King (born 1923) is a British novelist and short story writer, and a poet. He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland and brought up in India. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II he was a conscientious objector, and left Oxford to work on the land. After completing his degree in 1949 he worked for the British Council; he was posted around Europe, and then in Kyoto. He resigned to write full time in 1964.
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