List of Ampleforth College alumni

This is a list of people educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire, England.

Religion

• Anthony Ainscough (1906–1986), Prior of Ampleforth Abbey, 1961–1963
• Athanasius Allanson (1804–1876), Benedictine monk, and Abbot of Glastonbury, 1874–1876
• Thomas Burgess (1791–1854), Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, 1851–1854
• Columba Cary-Elwes (1903–1994), monastery founder, ecumenist and author
• Ambrose Griffiths (1928–2011), Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
• Abdur Raheem Green (born 1962), convert to Islam and founder of the iERA^[1]
• John Cuthbert Hedley (1837–1915), Roman Catholic Bishop of Newport, 1881–1915^[2]
• Basil, Cardinal Hume (1923–1999), Abbot of Ampleforth Abbey, 1963–1975, and Archbishop of Westminster, 1975–1999

Politics, law and business

• Don Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte (1807–1866), Prince Imperial of Mexico
• Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1916–2011), diplomat^[3]
• Richard Norton, 8th Baron Grantley (born 1956) retired banker & politician
• Sir Hugh Fraser (1918–1984), Secretary of State for Air, 1962–1964
• Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg (born 1921), Grand Duke of Luxembourg, 1964–2000
• Auberon Herbert (1922–1974), campaigner for Eastern European causes
• Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan (1928–2007), Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
• Andrew Bertie (1929–2008), first British Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller since 1258 (1988–2008)
• John George (1930–2012), HM Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms, herald and author.
• Sir Arthur David Saunders Goodall, GCMG (born 1931) retired British diplomat. High Commissioner to India 1987-1991.
• David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham (born 1932), Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords, 1973–1974
• John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute (1933–1993), Chairman, Historic Buildings Council for Scotland, 1983–1988, and National Museums of Scotland, 1985–1993
• King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (1938–1996), King of Lesotho (1966–1970, 1970–1990, 1995–96)
• Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, Scottish Peer, Landowner & Politician
• Michael Ancram, 14th Marquess of Lothian (born 1945), Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party, 2001–2005
• Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers (born 1952)]
• Sir Anthony Bamford (born 1945), Chairman, J.C.Bamford (Excavators) Ltd.
• John Burnett, Baron Burnett (born 1945), former Liberal Democrat MP for Torridge and West Devon, 1997–2001, 2001–5, Life Peer (2006–present)
• William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel (born 1947), Lord Chamberlain
• John Home Robertson (born 1948), former Labour MP and currently Member of the Scottish Parliament
• Matthew Festing (born 1949), second British Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller since 1258 (2008–present)
• Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith (born 1952), former diplomat and businessman
• Major-General Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk (1915–2002), Earl Marshal
• Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk (born 1956), Earl Marshal
• Dominic Asquith (born 1957), Ambassador to Iraq, 2006—2007, Ambassador to Egypt, 2007–present.
• King Letsie III of Lesotho (born 1963), King of Lesotho (1990–95, 1996–present)
• Paul Moore, (born 1958) whistleblower sacked from HBOS

Arts, entertainment, writing

• Herbert Railton (1857–1910), illustrator^[4]
• Roderic O'Conor (1860–1940), artist
• Harman Grisewood (1906–1997), Chief Assistant to the Director-General of the BBC, 1955–1964
• Vincent Cronin (born 1924), historical writer and biographer
• Patrick Reyntiens (born 1925), stained glass artist
• John Bunting (1927–2002) sculptor and teacher
• Mark Burns (1936–2007), actor
• Hugo Young (1938–2003), journalist
• Paul Morrissey (born 1938), film director - not so: the Paul Morrissey (born in Bradford 1939) who attended Ampleforth in the late fifties and early sixties is often confused with the director.
• Andrew Knight (born 1939), journalist, editor, and media magnate
• Michael Whitehall (born 1940) producer, agent, television personality; father of comedian Jack Whitehall
• Piers Paul Read (born 1941), writer
• Andrew Festing (born 1941), British Royal Portrait painter
• Stuart Reid (born 1942), journalist, pundit
• Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart, art historian
• Red Morris, 4th Baron Killanin (born 1947), film producer
• Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, noted because of the documentary Britain's Real Monarch
• Julian Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford (born 1949), actor and writer; Conservative peer of the House of Lords (2011–)
• Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor
• Edward Stourton (born 1957), journalist
• Martin Jennings (born 1957) sculptor
• Lu Edmonds (born 1957) musician (Public Image Ltd., The Damned, The Mekons, The Spizzles, The Waterboys, among others)
• Julian Wadham (born 1958), actor
• Rupert Everett (born 1959), actor
• Joe Simpson (born 1960), mountaineer and autobiographer
• Peter Bergen (born 1962), author, print and TV journalist, CNN, adjunct professor, Johns Hopkins University
• John Micklethwait (born 1962), editor-in-chief of The Economist
• James Honeyborne (born 1970), TV and film director
• James O'Brien (born 1972), radio presenter and journalist
• Tom Waller (born 1974), film producer
• Henry Hudson (born 1982), artist
• Guy Mankowski (born 1983), writer
• James Norton (born 1985), film, television and stage actor
• Edward Holcroft (born 1987), film, television and stage actor

Military

• Major-General Sir Freddie de Guingand (1900–1979), Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Montgomery, 1942–1945
• Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat (1911–1995), Pioneering officer of the British Army's commandos.
• Colonel Sir David Stirling (1915–1990), founder of the SAS
• Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard (1916–2007), Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 1972–1981
• Sir Ian James Fraser MC (1923-2003),director-general of the Takeover Panel and chairman of Lazards, Scots Guards 1942-46
• Michael Allmand (1923–1944), Victoria Cross recipient (posthumous). Killed In Action on 24 June 1944, in Burma.
• Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles (born 1939), soldier
• Major General Sir Sebastian Roberts (born 1954), GOC The Household Division 2003–2007
• Major-General Peter Grant Peterkin (born c.1947), Sergeant at Arms of the House of Commons
• Captain Robert Nairac (1948–1977), George Cross, intelligence officer murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnston, GCVO, MC, Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's office

Philosophy and academia

• Gabriel Turville-Petre (1908–1978), Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities, University of Oxford, 1953–1975
• Henry Wansbrough (1934), Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, 1990–2004
• Fred Halliday, (1946–2010), academic, Fellow of the British Academy, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at London School of Economics
• Philip Lawrence (1947–1995), headmaster and murder victim
• John Keay (born 1941), historian, journalist and radio presenter
• William Dalrymple (born 1965), historian
• Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford (born 1968), philosopher

Science and medicine

• John Polidori (1795–1821), physician and writer
• Thomas Cecil Gray (1913–2008), pioneered modern anaesthetic techniques
• Peter Christopher Caldwell (1927-1979), FRS, zoologist.
• Bill Inman (1929–2005), pharmacovigilance pioneer

Sport

• Edward O'Donovan Crean (born 1887), English rugby union player who was part of the first official British and Irish Lions team that toured South Africa in 1910.^[5]
• Charles Grieve (1913–2000), cricketer who played for Oxford University and Guernsey
• John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (b. 1958), a Scottish peer and former racing driver ("Johnny Dumfries")
• Lawrence Dallaglio OBE (born 1972) former captain of the English national rugby team

References

1. http://www.islamevents.com/speakers/speaker_detail.php?spid=10
2. "HEDLEY, Rt. Rev. John Cuthbert". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 815–816.
3. The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook edited by Francis Cowley Burnand, Published by Burns & Oates., 1940, page 39
4. The Ampleforth Journal, published by Ampleforth Abbey (York, England), Item notes: 14 (1908–1909), p. 233
5. The Ampleforth Journal, by Ampleforth Abbey (York, England), Page 234, Item notes: 14 (1908–1909)