EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
London, England

Founding Date:
1572

Enrollment:
800

Official Website:
http://www.harrowschool.org.uk/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Stanley Baldwin	Head of State	3-Aug-1867	14-Dec-1947	UK Prime Minister three times
Sir Joseph Banks	Botanist	13-Feb-1743	19-Jun-1820	Accompanied James Cook
James Blunt	Musician	22-Feb-1977		Back To Bedlam
Arthur Bryant	Historian	18-Feb-1899	2-Jan-1985	Biographer of Samuel Pepys
Lord Byron	Poet	22-Jan-1788	19-Apr-1824	English romantic poet
Winston Churchill	Head of State	30-Nov-1874	24-Jan-1965	WWII Prime Minister of England
Benedict Cumberbatch	Actor	19-Jul-1976		BBC's Sherlock Holmes
Alain de Botton	Author	20-Dec-1969		The Architecture of Happiness
Aubrey de Grey	Biologist	20-Apr-1963		Researcher of regenerative medicine
Michael Denison	Actor	1-Nov-1915	22-Jul-1998	Shadowlands
John Dennis	Critic	1657	6-Jan-1734	The Usefulness of the Stage
Cary Elwes	Actor	26-Oct-1962		The Princess Bride
Ronald Fisher	Mathematician	17-Feb-1890	29-Jul-1962	Analysis of variance and covariance
Henry FitzRoy	Aristocrat	6-Apr-1978		12th Duke of Grafton
Edward Fox	Actor	13-Apr-1937		Force 10 from Navarone
Laurence Fox	Actor	1978		DS Hathaway on Inspector Lewis
L. P. Hartley	Novelist	30-Dec-1895	13-Dec-1972	The Boat
Samuel Hoare	Politician	24-Feb-1880	7-May-1959	UK Home Secretary, 1937-39
Keith Joseph	Politician	17-Jan-1918	10-Dec-1994	Conservative UK Minister, Thatcher influence
Patrick Lichfield	Photographer	25-Apr-1939	11-Nov-2005	Prominent British photographer
Eric Lubbock	Politician	29-Sep-1928	14-Feb-2016	4th Baron Avebury
Miles Mander	Actor	14-May-1888	8-Feb-1946	The Three Musketeers
Christopher Monckton	Politician	14-Feb-1952		Deputy Leader, UK Independence Party
Walter Monckton	Politician	17-Jan-1891	9-Jan-1965	UK Minister of Defence, 1955-56
John Mortimer	Playwright	21-Apr-1923	16-Jan-2009	Rumpole of the Bailey
Jawaharlal Nehru	Head of State	14-Nov-1889	27-May-1964	First Prime Minister of India
Nicky Oppenheimer	Business	8-Jun-1945		Chairman of De Beers
Lord Palmerston	Head of State	20-Oct-1784	18-Oct-1865	Twice Prime Minister of UK
Robert Peel	Head of State	5-Feb-1788	2-Jul-1850	U.K. Prime Minister
Spencer Perceval	Head of State	1-Nov-1762	11-May-1812	UK Prime Minister, 1809-12
John Profumo	Politician	30-Jan-1915	10-Mar-2006	Resigned House of Commons over an affair
Terence Rattigan	Playwright	10-Jun-1911	30-Nov-1977	Separate Tables
Lord Rayleigh	Physicist	12-Nov-1842	30-Jun-1919	Why the sky is blue
Edmund de Rothschild	Business	2-Jan-1916	17-Jan-2009	British banker
Andrew Russell	Aristocrat	30-Mar-1962		14th Duke of Bedford
Richard Brinsley Sheridan	Playwright	30-Oct-1751	7-Jul-1816	The School for Scandal
Donald Somervell	Politician	24-Aug-1889	18-Nov-1960	AG for England and Wales, 1936-45
John Addington Symonds	Critic	5-Oct-1840	19-Apr-1893	Renaissance in Italy
William Henry Fox Talbot	Inventor	11-Feb-1800	17-Sep-1877	Calotype method of photography
Mark Thatcher	Relative	15-Aug-1953		Margaret Thatcher's ne'er-do-well son
G. M. Trevelyan	Historian	16-Feb-1876	21-Jul-1962	England under Queen Anne
Anthony Trollope	Novelist	24-Apr-1815	6-Dec-1882	Barchester Towers

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