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A brief list of remarkable alumni, in chronological order

• Walter de Burley, philosopher, d. about 1345
• John Wycliffe, credited with first translating the Bible into English, d. 1384
• Simon Bredon, 14^th century mathematician
• William Gray, 15^th century humanist bibliophile
• Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, d.1559
• William Monson, 16^th century admiral, d.1643
• Dud Dudley, 17^th century ironmaster
• John Evelyn, 17^th century diarist
• Nathaneal Konopios, introduced coffee to England, 17^th century
• James Bradley, astronomer, d.1762
• James Stirling, mathematician, d.1770
• WH Drayton, American revolutionary, d. 1779
• Adam Smith, political economist of The Wealth of Nations fame, d. 1790
• Matthew Baillie, pathologist, d.1823
• Thomas Knight, horticulturalist, d. 1838
• Bishop JC Patteson, martyred in Melanesia 1871
• HJS Smith, mathematician and academic reformer, d. 1883
• Father TRD Byles, gave absolution to the doomed as the Titanic went down, 14 April 1912; he also perished on that day
• AW Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons, d. 1912
• Ronald Poulton, Captain of England at Rugby, killed 1915
• FS Kelly, champion oarsman and composer, killed 1916
• HD Rawnsley, founder of the National Trust, d.1920
• Nasr-ul-Mulk, Prime Minister and then Regent of Persia, d. 1927
• APW Thomas, discoverer of the liver fluke lifecycle, d. 1937
• Mohammed Mahmoud, Prime Minister of Egypt d.1941
• Adam von Trott, executed for his part in the1944 plot to kill Hitler
• Jan Hofmeyr, liberal Deputy President of South Africa, d. 1948
• WO Stapledon, science fiction writer, d. 1950
• Hugh Cairns, surgeon, d. 1952
• The Nawab of Pataudi Snr, cricketer, d.1952
• Hilaire Belloc, d. 1953
• Shogi Effendi, Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, d. 1957
• General Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, d. 1963
• CN Hinshelwood, physical chemist, President of the Royal Society and Classical Society; Nobel Laureate, d.1967
• Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada, d.1967
• JM Harlan, Judge of the Supreme Court of the USA, d. 1971
• Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi, d. 1979
• PV Danckwerts GC, thermodynamicist and bomb disposal hero, d. 1984
• King Olav of Norway, d. 1991
• Anthony Parsons, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, d. 1996
• RV Jones, physicist, genius of scientific warfare in WWII, d 1997
• CM Maclehose, Governor of Hong Kong, d. 2000
• Laurence Whistler, glass engraver, d. 2000
• Walter Crocker, centenarian Australian statesman, d. 2002

- Anna Sander