Old Denstonians

Denstone College is an independent, coeducational boarding school in Denstone, Staffordshire, England. Its alumni are known as Old Denstonians (ODs). The Denstone Association looks after the College's alumni.

ODs

Peter Brinson – writer and lecturer on dance[1]
Sir Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn – Chief Manager of the HSBC Bank and member of the Hong Kong Resistance who died a prisoner of the Japanese in 1943
Nigel Grindley FRS - Emeritus Professor in Genetics, Yale University.
Peter Gerald "Spam" Hammersley CB OBE – Rear Admiral, Royal Navy[2]
Frederick George Jackson – Arctic explorer[3]
John Makepeace OBE – furniture designer[4]
Keith Mant – forensic pathologist and war crime investigator[5]
William Whitehead Watts – President of the Geological Society (1910–1912)[6]
Lieutenant General Ralph Wooddisse – British Army officer

Churchmen

Charles Copland – clergyman[7]
Philip Pasterfield – Bishop of Crediton (1974–1984)[8]
Dennis Victor – Bishop of Lebombo[9]

Politicians and lawyers

Geoffrey Cheshire FBA – barrister and jurist[10]
Warren Hawksley – Conservative Member of Parliament
Asda Jayanama – diplomat
Lord Justice Kay – Lord Justice of Appeal[11]

Sportsmen

Arthur Berry – England footballer, double Olympic gold medallist and former Chairman of Liverpool Football Club[12]
Phil Davies – rugby player
Alastair Hignell – rugby union and cricket player[13]
Harvey Hosein – English cricketer
N. F. Humphreys – 1910 British Lions player (died in World War I)[14]
Tommy Kemp – rugby union fly half for England 1931–1948
Sam Lewis – rugby union lock/flanker for Leicester Tigers
Tim Mason – cricketer
David Short – Derbyshire cricketer
Jeremy Snape – England cricketer[15]
George Stocks – Argentine cricketer
Alex Thomson (cricketer) - cricketer
Ben White – rugby union scrum half for Leicester Tigers

Writers and broadcasters

Quentin Crisp – writer and actor[16]
René Cutforth – journalist
Alex Lester – broadcaster
Petre Mais (S. P. B. Mais) – author and broadcaster
Tim Marlow – writer, broadcaster and art historian
Richard Morris – archaeologist and writer
Guy Thorne – pseudonym: Cyril Arthur Edward Justice Waggoner Ranger Gull, (1876–1923), novelist and journalist[17]

Musicians

Peter Godfrey – choral conductor

References

Robinson, Ken (2004). "Brinson, Peter Neilson (1920–1995)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 October 2009.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
"Hammersley, Rear-Adm. Peter Gerald". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press; A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 19 February 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U18815. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
Savitt, Ronald. Legacies of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–1897. Polar Record 43 (224): 55–66 (2007)
The Furniture Society – John Makepeace biography
The Guardian – Keith Mant obituary, 16 November 2000
William Whitehead Watts. 1860–1947. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 6, No. 17 (Nov. 1948), pp. 263–279
Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
Who's Who 1992 "(London, A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3514-2)
Who was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
The Times – Obituary: Professor G. C. Cheshire—Influential writer on the law, 28 October 1978
Downing Street – Privy Council Appointments Archived 2 January 2004 at the Wayback Machine, 19 May 2000
Daily Post, Liverpool FC's Javier Mascherano wants gold Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 2008-08-22, accessed 14 February 2010
University of Bristol – Honorary degrees awarded at the University today, 12 July 2004
Captain Noel Forbes Humphreys
Cricinfo – Jeremy Snape player profile
The Independent – Quentin Crisp, 2 November 1999
Philip J. Waller, Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain, 1870–1918, Oxford University Press, 2006, p.1011 ISBN 0-19-820677-1 ISBN 978-0198206774

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[Oxford-1] Robinson, Ken (2004). "Brinson, Peter Neilson (1920–1995)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 October 2009.(subscription or UK public library membership required)

[:1-2] "Hammersley, Rear-Adm. Peter Gerald". Who's Who 2020. Oxford University Press; A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 19 February 2020. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U18815. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 11 May 2020.

[3] Savitt, Ronald. Legacies of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, 1894–1897. Polar Record 43 (224): 55–66 (2007)

[4] The Furniture Society – John Makepeace biography

[5] The Guardian – Keith Mant obituary, 16 November 2000

[6] William Whitehead Watts. 1860–1947. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 6, No. 17 (Nov. 1948), pp. 263–279

[7] Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7

[8] Who's Who 1992 "(London, A & C Black ISBN 0-7136-3514-2)

[9] Who was Who 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X

[10] The Times – Obituary: Professor G. C. Cheshire—Influential writer on the law, 28 October 1978

[11] Downing Street – Privy Council Appointments Archived 2 January 2004 at the Wayback Machine, 19 May 2000

[12] Daily Post, Liverpool FC's Javier Mascherano wants gold Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, 2008-08-22, accessed 14 February 2010

[13] University of Bristol – Honorary degrees awarded at the University today, 12 July 2004

[14] Captain Noel Forbes Humphreys

[15] Cricinfo – Jeremy Snape player profile

[16] The Independent – Quentin Crisp, 2 November 1999

[17] Philip J. Waller, Writers, Readers and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain, 1870–1918, Oxford University Press, 2006, p.1011 ISBN 0-19-820677-1 ISBN 978-0198206774