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Charterhouse School
Charterhouse, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse, is a collegiate independent boarding school in Godalming in Surrey, England.
Founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse...
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George Grote
George Grote (17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English classical historian, best known in the field for a major work, the voluminous History of Greece, still read.
He was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent. His grandfather, Andreas,...
Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is the Conservative MP for South West Surrey and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
The eldest son of Nicholas Hunt, Jeremy Hunt was raised near Godalming in Surrey in the heart of the...
Max Beerbohm
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John Wesley
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William Beveridge
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Philip Jeyaretnam
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Warin Foster Bushell
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Percy Melmoth Walters
Percy Melmoth Walters (30 September 1863 – 6 October 1936) was an English amateur footballer who played as a defender for the Old Carthusians and the Corinthians in the late nineteenth century as well as making thirteen appearances for England, five...
Herbert Cox
General Sir Herbert Vaughan Cox GCB KCMG CSI (12 July 1860 – 8 October 1923) was a British Indian Army officer.
Cox was born in Watford, the son of the Rector of Upper Chelsea. He was educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Military College,...
Alfred Bower
Alfred George "Baishe" Bower (10 November 1895 – 30 June 1970) was an English amateur footballer who played at full back. He made five appearances for England between 1923 and 1927, three times as captain. He was a member of the Corinthian amateur...
Andrew Amos
Andrew Amos (20 September 1863 – 2 October 1931) was an English amateur football player who played for Cambridge University, Old Carthusians, Corinthian and Hitchin Town, as well as making two appearances for the English national side. He...
I. H. N. Evans
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Evans was educated at...
Walter Gilliat
Walter Evelyn Gilliat (22 July 1869 – 2 January 1963) was an English amateur football player who played for Oxford University and Old Carthusians, as well as making one appearance for the English national side, when he scored three goals. He...
Jeff Linton
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Arthur Melmoth Walters
Arthur Melmoth Walters (26 January 1865 – 2 May 1941) was an English amateur footballer who played as a defender for the Old Carthusians and the Corinthians in the late nineteenth century as well as making nine appearances for England.
He and his...
Henry Pollock
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Henry Ray Freshfield
Henry Ray Freshfield (2 February 1814 – 8 February 1895) was an English lawyer and conservationist.
Freshfield was the fourth and youngest son of James William Freshfield and his wife Mary Blacket and was born at Lothbury. His father was a lawyer...
Peter James
Peter James (born 22 August 1948 in Brighton) is a British writer of crime fiction and film producer.
James is the son of Cornelia James, the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. He was educated at Charterhouse School and went on to Ravensbourne...
Peter Walwyn
Peter Tyndall Walwyn (born 1 July 1933) is a retired British racehorse trainer. He was based at stables at in the Lambourn, Berkshire, area and enjoyed his period of greatest success in the mid 1970s when he was British flat racing Champion Trainer...
John Gouriet
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David Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine
David Montagu Erskine, 2nd Baron Erskine (12 August 1776 – 19 March 1855) was a British diplomat and peer.
Erskine was the eldest son of Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine (himself a younger son of Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan) and his wife,...
Charles Macpherson Dobell
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Born in Quebec, the son of Richard Reid Dobell, an MP, and...
George Cecil Renouard
George Cecil Renouard (7 September 1780–15 February 1867) was an English classical and oriental scholar.
Renouard, born at Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 7 September 1780, was the youngest son of Peter Renouard (d. 1801) of Stamford, adjutant in the...
George Whitaker
George Whitaker (October 9, 1811–August 27, 1882) was an English-Canadian clergyman and educator.
Born into a Baptist farming family in Bratton, Wiltshire, England, he received his early education at Frome Grammar School and Charterhouse School. He...
Ronald Cartland
John Ronald Hamilton Cartland (3 January 1907 — 30 May 1940) was the British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for King's Norton, Birmingham, from 1935 until he was killed in action in 1940.
Ronald Cartland was the son of Major Bertram Cartland...
Edward Hall Alderson
Sir Edward Hall Alderson (baptised 10 September 1787 - 27 January 1857) was an English lawyer and judge whose many judgments on commercial law helped to shape the emerging British capitalism of the Victorian era.
He was a Baron of the Exchequer and...
Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll
Niall Diarmid Campbell, 10th and 3rd Duke of Argyll (16 February 1872 – 20 August 1949) was a Scottish peer and historian.
Campbell was the son of Captain Lord Archibald Campbell, second son of George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, and his wife Janey...
Anthoney Froshaug
Anthony Froshaug (1920 – 1984) was an English typographer and teacher, born in London to a Norwegian father and English mother. He attended Charterhouse School and the Central School of Arts & Crafts.
On leaving the Central in 1939 he began to...
Thomas Morland
General Sir Thomas Lethbridge Napier Morland KCMG, DSO (9 August 1865 – 21 May 1925) was a British general during the First World War.
Born the son of Thomas Morland and Helen Servante and educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military...
Edward Felix Norton
Edward Felix Norton DSO MC (21 February 1884 – 3 November 1954) was a British army officer and mountaineer.
He was educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and then joined artillery units in India and served in World...
Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt
Sir Eustace Gervais Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 2nd Baronet (19 January 1902–21 November 1971).
Tennyson-d'Eyncourt was the son of Sir Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet, and of his wife Janet (died 1909), the elder daughter of Mathew Finlay, of...
Cedric Morris
Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris, 9th Baronet (11 December 1889 - 8 February 1982) was a Welsh artist, known for his portraits, flower paintings and landscapes, and an eminent plantsman.
Morris was born in Sketty, Swansea, the son of George Lockwood...
Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners
Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, PC (24 February 1756 – 31 May 1842), was a British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1807 to 1827.
Manners-Sutton was the sixth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton, third son...
Cyril Jackson
Sir Cyril Jackson KBE, (6 February 1863 – 3 September 1924) was a British educationist, important in the development of education in Western Australia.
Jackson, eldest son of Laurence Morris Jackson, was born in England. Educated at the Charterhouse...
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford
Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (19 February 1775 – 10 March 1804) was a British peer, naval officer and wastrel, best known for bedevilling George Vancouver during and after the latter's great voyage of exploration.
Pitt was born at Boconnoc,...
Samuel Berdmore
Samuel Berdmore was an English clergyman, the fourth son of Edward Berdmore of Worcester. He died on 24 Mar 1742/3.
Educated at Charterhouse School, Samuel matriculated from Merton College, Oxford in 1693, gained his BA in 1697 and an MA from King's...
Henry Carpenter Longhurst
Henry Carpenter Longhurst (18 March 1909 – 21 July 1978) was a renowned British golf writer and commentator. During World War II, Longhurst was also a Member of Parliament (MP) for Acton in West London, England.
Born in Bedford, Longhurst was the...
John Ernest Bode
John Ernest Bode (February 13, 1816 – October 6, 1874) was an Anglican priest, educator, poet, and hymnist.
Born in London, he was the son of William Bode. Married with three children. Educated at Eton, the Charter House, and then at Christ Church,...
Edward Pearce, Baron Pearce
Edward Holroyd Pearce, Baron Pearce PC (9 February 1901 – 26 November 1990) was a British judge.
Born in Sidcup in Kent, he was educated at Charterhouse School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn and Middle Temple...
Harold Hanbury
Harold Greville Hanbury (19 June 1898 at Compton Verney House, Warwickshire – 12 March 1993 at Pinetown, Natal, South Africa) was Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1949 to 1964.
He was the only child of Basil Hanbury...
John Waldron
Sir John Lovegrove Waldron, KCVO (5 November 1909 – 24 August 1975) was a British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Berkshire Constabulary from 1954 to 1958 and Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1968 to 1972.
Born in...
Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge
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Robertson was the eldest son of...
Geoffrey Hirst
Geoffrey Audus Nicholson Hirst TD (14 December 1904 – 18 June 1984) was a British industrialist and politician who was a maverick Conservative Member of Parliament.
Hirst, from a Yorkshire military family, was educated at Charterhouse School and St...
Henry Heylyn Hayter
Henry Heylyn Hayter CMG (28 October 1821 – 23 March 1895) was an English-born Australian statistician
Hayter was the son of Henry Hayter and his wife Eliza Jane née Heylyn , and was born at Eden Vale, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at...
Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths
William Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths known as Hugh Griffiths PC, QC, MC (born 26 September 1923) is a British judge and barrister.
The son of Sir Hugh Griffiths was educated at Charterhouse School and St John's College, Cambridge. During the...
William Edward Vickers
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Rachel Portman
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Charles Freshfield
Charles Kaye Freshfield (11 March 1808-July 6, 1891) was a 19th century lawyer and Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons.
Freshfield was born in Lothbury, London the son of James William Freshfield and his wife Mary...
Benjamin Guy Babington
Benjamin Guy Babington (5 March 1794 – 8 April 1866) was an English physician and epidemiologist.
He was the son of the physician and mineralogist William Babington (1756–1833) and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Babington, was born on 5 March 1794....
John Ryder
John Ryder (c. 1697 – 1775) was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor, from 1743 to 1752, and then Archbishop of Tuam, from 1752 to his death in 1775.
He was educated at Charterhouse School.
In Glaswegian rhyming slang, the name "John...
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Sir Anthony James Allan Havelock-Allan, 4th Baronet (28 February 1904 - 11 January 2003) was a British film producer and screenwriter whose credits included This Happy Breed and Blithe Spirit.
Havelock-Allan was born at the family home of Blackwell...
Henry Knight Storks
Sir Henry Knight Storks GCMG GCB (1811 – September 6, 1874) was a British soldier and colonial governor.
Educated at Charterhouse School, he entered the Army on January 10, 1828 as an ensign of the 61st Regiment of Foot. He was promoted lieutenant...
Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson
General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, KCB, MC (December 25, 1891 – April 29, 1959) was a British Army officer in both the First and Second World Wars. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the First Army during Operation Torch, the Allied...
John Hill
John Edward Bernard Hill (13 November 1912 – 6 December 2007) was a barrister, farmer, and British Conservative Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament for South Norfolk for 19 years, from 1955 to 1974. He was also of the UK's first MEPs...
Woolf Barnato
Joel Woolf Barnato (27 September 1895 – 27 July 1948) was a British financier and racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s. He achieved three consecutive wins out of three entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
Woolf Barnato was the...
William Cobbold
William Nevill Cobbold (4 February 1862 – 8 April 1922), familiarly known as "Nuts" Cobbold, was one of the leading footballers of the Victorian era and on several occasions a member of the England national football team. As late as 1922, at the...
G.O. Smith
Gilbert Oswald Smith (born 25 November 1872 in Croydon, Surrey, died 6 December 1943 in Yaldhurst, Lymington, Hampshire), familiarly known as G. O. Smith or simply as G. O. or Jo, was a nineteenth century amateur footballer often referred to as "the...
Richard Gilliat
Richard Michael Charles Gilliat (born May 20, 1944 Ware, Hertfordshire) is a retired English cricketer.
Gilliat was educated at Charterhouse and Oxford University. He represented Oxford University and Hampshire as a left-handed batsman and leg-break...
Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell
Arthur Robert Peter Baden-Powell, 2nd Baron Baden-Powell, FRSA (Ewhurst, East Sussex, 30 October 1913 – 9 December 1962) was the son of Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, and Olave St. Clair Soames....
