List of Old King's Scholars

This is a list of some notable former pupils of The King's School, Canterbury, known as Old King's Scholars. The abbreviation OKS is sometimes used.

Aristocracy

• Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden
• Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
• Hubert Chesshyre
• Robert Edward Gasgoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne

Clergy

• Richard Boys
• William Grant Broughton
• David L. Edwards
• Michael Mayne
• Howard Mowll, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney

Academic

• Sir Tony Hoare, computer scientist
• Jeremy Lawrance, linguist and historian
• William Wyse

Music

• Stephen Barlow
• Simon Carrington
• Harry Christophers
• John Wesley Harding
• George Miles
• Stephen Varcoe
• Christopher Seaman
• Andrew Marriner

Explorer

• Gregory Blaxland
• John Blaxland
• Michael Foale

Writers, poets, playwrights and journalists

• Sebastian Barker
• Oz Clarke
• Michael Cordy
• David L. Edwards
• Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Dyneley Hussey
• Alaric Jacob
• Edward Lucie-Smith
• Christopher Marlowe
• W. Somerset Maugham
• Leslie Mitchell
• Michael Morpurgo
• Walter Pater
• James Hamilton-Paterson
• Anthony Price
• Shoo Rayner
• Hugh Walpole
• Alan Watts
• Tom Ward
• Thomas Wheatley

Military

• John Day (RAF officer)
• Field-Marshal Montgomery
• Bertram Arthur "Jimmy" James (RAF, (MC, Great Escapee))

Science and engineering

• Roger C. Field
• William Harvey
• Thomas Linacre
• John Tradescant the younger

Government

• Sir Patrick Walker, former Director general of MI5
• Sir Anthony Parsons
• Natascha Engel
• Tristan Garel-Jones
• George Gipps
• Charles Powell
• Jonathan Powell
• Hugh Robertson

Directors

• Michael Powell
• Carol Reed

Business

• Ian Cheshire, Chief Executive, Kingfisher

Other

• Myles Jackman, lawyer
• Arthur Luxmoore, Lord Justice of Appeal
• Richard Pleming , Headmaster of Charterhouse School
• George Sale
• Antony Worrall Thompson
• Jacquetta Wheeler
• Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia

Victoria Cross

Three Old King's Scholars have been awarded the Victoria Cross.

• Victoria Cross
  • Second Afghan War
    • Captain William John Vousden, VC, CB (1848–1902). He later achieved the rank of major general. (KS 1859-60)
  • First World War
    • Second lieutenant Alfred James Terence Fleming-Sandes, VC (1894–1961). He later achieved the rank of Major. (KS 1907-13)
  • Second World War
    • Lieutenant Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, VC (1917 to 1979). (KS 1931-35)

Sportsmen

• David Gower, England cricketer
• Bob Haines, cricketer
• Frances Houghton, Olympic rower
• Tom Ransley, Olympic rower
• Fred Scarlett, Olympic rower
• Millie Knight, Paralympic skier
• M.J. "Jim" Parsons, England Rugby Football