List of Old Derbeians explained

This is a list of notable Old Derbeians, former pupils and masters of Derby School (from the 12th century to 1989) and of Derby Grammar School (since 1994), in Derby, England.^[1]

Notable old boys

Born in the 16th century

• Blessed Edward James (1557–1588), Roman Catholic martyr
• John Cotton (1585–1652), New England Puritan

Born in the 17th century

• George Sitwell (c.1600-1667), Ironmaster and High Sheriff
• John Flamsteed (1646–1719), England's first Astronomer Royal
• Anthony Blackwall (1672–1730), classical scholar^[2]
• Henry Cantrell (1684–1773), clergyman and religious controversialist^{[2] [3]}
• William Budworth (c. 1699–1745), schoolmaster

Born in the 18th century

• Sir John Eardley Wilmot (1709–1792), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas^{[2] [4]}
• Joseph Wright (1734–1797), artist^{[2] [5]}
• Daniel Coke (1745–1825), barrister and member of parliament^{[2] [6]}
• Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (1753–1839), diplomat^[2]
• Joseph Strutt (1765–1844), cotton manufacturer and philanthropist^[2]
• Sir William Gell (1777–1836), archaeologist^[2]

Born in the 19th century

• Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818–1910), surgeon and artist^{[7] [8]}
• Henry Howe Bemrose (1827–1911), member of parliament for Derby^[7]
• Unwin Sowter (1839–1910), maltster, cricketer and Mayor of Derby
• John Cook Wilson (1849–1915), philosopher^{[7] [9]}
• J. M. J. Fletcher (1850–1934), historian^[7]
• Frank Styant Browne, chemist and photographer^[10]
• E. W. Hobson FRS (1856–1933), mathematician^[7]
• Richard Mansfield (1857–1907), actor^[7]
• John Atkinson Hobson (1858–1940), social theorist and economist^[7]
• Walter Weston (1860–1940), missionary and mountaineer^{[7] [11]}
• Frederic Creswell (1866–1948), mining engineer and South African Minister of Defence
• Christopher Wilson (1874-1919), composer of theatre music and author, Shakespeare and Music (1922)^[12]
• Stanley Hawley (1867-1916), pianist and composer.^[13]
• Lawrence Beesley (1877–1967), RMS Titanic survivor and author^[7]
• William Henry Ansell (1872–1959), architect, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1940 to 1943
• Walter Greatorex (1877–1949), composer^[7]
• Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943), ichthyologist^[7]
• Sir George Simpson FRS (1878–1965), meteorologist^[7]
• Geoffrey Shaw (1879–1943), composer and musician^{[7] [14]}
• Guy Wilson (1882–1917), cricketer and soldier^[15]
• William George Constable (1887–1976), art historian^{[16] [17]}
• Frank Conroy (1890–1964), actor
• Robert Howe (1893–1981), last British Governor-General of the Sudan, 1947-1955
• Ernest Sterndale Bennett (1884-1982), Theatre Director and member of the Order of Canada

Born in the 20th century

• Max Bemrose (1904–1986), Chairman of Bemrose Corporation and High Sheriff of Derbyshire
• George Timms (1910–1997), clergyman
• P. G. Ashmore (1916–2002), academic chemist
• Gilbert Hodgkinson (1913–1987), cricketer
• Spencer Barrett (1914–2001), classical scholar, Fellow and Sub-Warden of Keble College, Oxford^[18]
• George Bacon (1917-2011), nuclear physicist
• Ted Moult (1926–1986), farmer & TV personality
• Alexander Morrison (1927-2012), judge
• John Stobart (born 1929), maritime artist^[19]
• Robert Grimley (born 1943), Dean of Bristol since 1997

Notable masters of Derby School

• John Meade Falkner, novelist and poet^[7]
• Rev. Robert de Courcy Laffan (Senior Classical Master, 1880–1884), principal of Cheltenham College, member of the International Olympic Committee^[7]
• Henry Judge Hose (Maths master, 1867–1874), mathematician^{[7] [20]}

See also

• Derby School
• List of Masters of Derby School
  • Derby Grammar School

Sources

• Derby School: a Short History by George Percy Gollin

Notes and References

1. http://www.oldderbeians.org/ Main page of the Old Derbeian Society web site
2. Distinguished Alumni of Derby School by James Michael John Fletcher (Derby Reporter, 1872)
3. Cantrell, Henry, Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist by David L. Wykes in Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004)
4. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29624?_fromAuth=1 Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (1709–1792), judge
5. Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter by Judy Egerton in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
6. Coke, Daniel Parker (1745–1825), barrister and politician by Mark Pottle in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
7. The Derby School Register, 1570-1901, ed. Benjamin Tacchella (London, 1902)
8. Haden, Sir Francis Seymour [pseud. H. Dean] (1818–1910), etcher and surgeon by A. M. Hind & E. Chambers in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
9. Wilson, John Cook (1849–1915), philosopher and classical scholar by H. A. Prichard & David Boucher in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
10. " Obituary. Mr. F. Styant-Browne. Chemist for Many Years" in Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania), p. 6; "Obituary. Mr. Styant Browne. Well-Known Citizen of Launceston" Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania), p. 2.
11. Weston, Walter (1860–1940), mountaineer and missionary by Peter H. Hansen in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
12. https://books.google.com/books?id=ydxX2U5zNgwC&pg=PA311 Musical Times, May 1895, p. 311
13. Ann Featherstone & Beverley Kilby. Ilkestone As it Was (2023)
14. http://www.canamus.org/Enchiridion/Biogs/bs1.htm Enchiridion
15. Andrew Renshaw, Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918 (2014), p. 374
16. http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0275%2FConstable Papers of William George Constable
17. Constable, William George (1887–1976), art historian and gallery director by Alec Clifton-Taylor & Rosemary Mitchell in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
18. Hollis, Adrian, Spencer Barrett, Oxford don devoted to classics and his college, obituary in The Guardian, 17 October 2001, online at guardian.co.uk, accessed 14 August 2008
19. Hawley, Zena, Roy takes to the stage once again to pick up an honorary doctorate in Derby Evening Telegraph dated 19 January 2008, p. 6
20. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040483b.htm Henry Judge Hose (1826-1883)