List of Old Westcliffians

The following is a list of some notable Old Westcliffians, former pupils of Westcliff High School for Boys in Westcliff-on-Sea in the United Kingdom.

• Air Vice-Marshal Jack Furner CBE OBE DFC, station commander of RAF Scampton in 1968
• Eric Sams, musicologist and Shakespeare scholar^[1]
• Alan Hurst - former Labour Braintree MP (1997–2005)
• Prof Alfred Adams, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey from 1987–2008
• Benjamin Grosvenor - musician
• Sir Chris Clarke OBE, leader of Somerset County Council from 1993 to 200
• Conor Mason- musician (Nothing But Thieves)
• David Nixon - magician
• Edward Greenfield, music critic working for The Guardian from 1977–93
• Greg Beales,(born 1977) is the Director of Strategy and Planning for the Labour Party.
• James O'Donnell, organist and choirmaster of Westminster Abbey 2000-
• John Hutton (Labour MP) - Former Labour Cabinet minister, now a Lord^[2]
• Joshua Hayward - musician
• Stuart Jack, Governor of the Cayman Islands from 2005-9
• Tim Bowler, writer
• Wilko Johnson - rock musician
• Air Vice-Marshal Nigel Maddox CBE, station commander of RAF Bruggen from 1996-9
• Rt Rev Ian James Brackley, Bishop of Dorking 1996-
• Sir Alan Cook, physicist
• Bob Parr (producer) MBE MSc FRGS - Emmy Award-winning television producer, SAS soldier, intelligence analyst and singlehanded transatlantic yachtsman
• Gary Brooker, lead singer of the band Procol Harum
• Jamie Reeves - Two-time FA Vase winning semi-professional footballer and football pundit
• Geoffrey Crawley, photographic expert and journalist, and exposer of the Cottingley Fairies hoax
• Peter Bone, Conservative MP for Wellingborough
• Derek Wyatt MP – Member of Parliament for Sittingbourne & Sheppey 1997-2010. Played rugby union for Oxford University and England
• Neil Harman - chief tennis correspondent, The Times

References

1. Eric Sams, obituary, theguardian.com/news/2004/sep/22/guardianobituaries.obituaries
2. Profile: John Hutton, BBC News, 2005-11-03. Retrieved 2011-12-07.