Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The following people were educated at Westminster School, and are sometimes listed with OW (Old Westminster) after their name (collectively, OWW):- Robert Bruce Cotton (1570 - 1631), antiquarian Ben Jonson (1573 - 1637), poet and dramatist Charles Chauncy (1592 - 1672), President of Harvard 1654-72 George Herbert (1593 - 1633), public orator and poet John Dryden (1631 - 1700), poet and playwright John Locke (1632 - 1704), philosopher Sir Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723), architect and scientist, co-founder of the Royal Society Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703), scientist George Jeffreys, 1st Baron (1648-1689), Lord Chief Justice of the Bloody Assize, Lord Chancellor, died a prisoner in the Tower Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695), composer Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661 - 1715), creator of the Bank of England William King (1663 - 1712), poet John Carteret, 1st Earl Granville (1690 - 1763), statesman and Cabinet Minister Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (1693 - 1768), First Lord of the Treasury 1754 - 1756, Prime Minister Henry Pelham (1696 - 1754), First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1743 - 1754, Prime Minister Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788), Methodist preacher and writer of over 6,000 hymns James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715 - 1763), First Lord of the Treasury, Prime Minister for five days in 1757 Francis Lewis (1713 - 1803), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence General Thomas Gage (1721-1787), C in C North America, Governor of Massachusetts 1774 John Burgoyne (1723 - 1792), Lieutenant-General who surrendered British Army at Saratoga Richard Howe, Earl Howe (1726-1799), Admiral of the Fleet Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730 - 1782), Prime Minister Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor-General of Bengal Edward Gibbon, FRS (1737 - 1794), historian William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738 - 1809), Prime Minister Arthur Middleton (1742 - 1787), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence Charles Pinckney (1746 - 1825), ADC to Washington 1777, defeated by Jefferson in 1804 in contest for Presidency Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832), lawyer, eccentric, and philosopher Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766 - 1841), ambassador to Constantinople, bringer of the Elgin Marbles to Britain Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854), cavalry and horse artillery officer at Waterloo, where he lost a leg Robert Southey (1774 - 1843), Poet Laureate 1813 Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan (1788-1855), lost his right arm at Waterloo, C in C in the Crimea Sir James Robert George Graham (1792 - 1861), politician Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792 - 1878), Prime Minister John Nelson Darby (1800 - 1882), Irish clergyman Benjamin Hall (1802 - 1867), Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings responsible for, amongst others, the current Palace of Westminster Gilbert Abbott a Beckett (1811 - 1856), writer Charles Dodgson (1832 - 1898), author under the pen name "Lewis Carroll" George Henty (1832 - 1902), author of more than 80 popular books for boys William Knox D'Arcy (1849 - 1917), entrepreneur A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956), author and journalist Henry Tizard (1885 - 1959), scientist and inventor Sir Adrian Boult (1889 - 1984), conductor Sir John Gielgud (1904 - 2000), actor and director H. A. R. (Kim) Philby (born 1912), journalist who defected to USSR 1963 Angus Wilson (born 1913), novelist Norman Parkinson (born 1913), photographer Sir Andrew Huxley (born 1917), scientist Sir Peter Ustinov (born 1921), actor, writer and director Michael Flanders (1922 - 1975), entertainer and writer Donald Swann (1923 - 1994), entertainer and musician Tony Benn (born 1925), politician Peter Brook (born 1925), theatre director Nigel Lawson (born 1932), politician Anthony Howard (born 1934), journalist Roger Norrington (born 1934), musician Dan Topolski (born 1945), rower Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), composer and producer John Brown (born 1953), publisher Stephen Poliakoff (born 1952), playwright Imogen Stubbs (born 1961), actress Matt Frei (born 1963), television journalist Gavin Rossdale (born 1965), lead singer of the band Bush Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966), model and actress Ruth Kelly MP (born 1968), Treasury minister Joe Cornish (born 1968), comedian Adam Buxton (born 1969), comedian Louis Theroux (born 1970), television presenter Dido Armstrong (born 1971), musician under the name "Dido" Oli Bennett (1972 - 2001), financial journalist, WTC attack victim Martha Lane Fox (born 1973), e-commerce businessperson, lastminute.com founder All persons listed are thought to be or have been British unless otherwise stated. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.