List of Old Shirburnians born in the 19th century

Sherborne is a British full boarding Public School located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset.

Founded in 705 AD by Aldhelm and, following the dissolution of the monasteries, re-founded in 1550 by King Edward VI, it is one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom and also in England.

The following are some of the notable old boys of Sherborne School who were born in the 19th century.[1]

Speaker of the House of Representatives, New Zealand Sir William Fitzherbert
QC and Conservative MP William Forsyth (barrister)


1801 to 1809

1810s
Diplomatist and intelligence officer in the Crimea Charles Robert Cattley
International lawyer Mountague Bernard
Crown Equerry in the Royal Household Colonel Sir George Ashley Maude
Designer of the Metford rifling William Ellis Metford

1820s
Anglo-Indian administrator and diplomat Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth
Professor of Greek and Latin at Johns Hopkins University Charles D'Urban Morris
  • Mountague Bernard, (1820-1882), son of Charles Bernard of Jamaica and Tibberton Court, Gloucestershire, Trinity College, Oxford, English international lawyer, one of the Royal Commission appointed to arrange Treaty with USA.
  • Charles William Dare, (d1898), son of Charles Dare of North Curry, Barrister Middle Temple, father of Admiral Sir Charles Holcombe Dare
  • Henry Douglas (bishop), (1821-1875), son of Henry Alexander Douglas, Balliol College, Oxford, third Bishop of Bombay.
  • Woodforde Ffooks MA JP, Exeter College, Oxford, Inner Temple, County Court Judge.
  • George Tottenham MA (1825-1911), son of Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham Loftus, Dean of Clogher from 1900 to 1903.
  • Charles Hathaway, BS, MRCS, MD, Inspector-General of Prisons for the Punjab, Private Secretary to John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, Viceroy of India.
  • Stephen Thomas Hawtrey, Trinity College, Cambridge, Master at Eton College, Founder and Warden of St Mark's School, Windsor.
  • Colonel Sir George Ashley Maude KCB, son of Hon and Rev J C Maude of Enniskillen, Ireland, Crown Equerry of the Royal Mews in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom 1859–1894.
  • Beverley Robinson Morris, MA and MD of Trinity College, Dublin, physician, founded a Hospital for Women and Children in Nottingham, author of British Game Birds and Wildfowl.
  • Thomas Englesby Rogers, son of F. Rogers of Yarlington, Dorset Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, Barrister Lincoln's Inn, Chancellor of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, author of A Tempest in a Teapot.
  • Brig-General William Thomas Williams, son of Thomas Williams of Kingston Russell, Dorchester, Madras Army Officer.
  • Francis Woodforde, MD, son of Francis Woodforde of Ansford, Somerset, solicitor, made a large collection of birds which was left to various museums. A cousin of the author of The Diary of a Country Parson.
  • Lt-General Cornwallis Oswald Maude, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Bombay.
  • Henry Arnould Olivier, son of Lieut-Colonel Olivier of Potterne, Wilts, Balliol College, Oxford, Chaplain of Holy Trinity, Nice, father of Herbert Arnould Olivier
  • Maj General Sir Charles Walters D'Oyly Bt, son of Sir John Hadley D'Oyly Bt of Steepleton House, Blandford, ADC to Governor General of India, succeeded to Baronetcy 1869.
  • Sir Thomas Grove, 1st Baronet JP DL, (1823-1897), son of Thomas Grove of Ferne, Wilts, MP for South Wilts, High Sheriff, created a baronet 1874.
  • Arthur Raby, (1824-1898), son of Arthur Turnour Raby of Wells, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Jeddah, Riga and Islands of the Greek Archipelago.
  • Henry Hall Houghton, son of J Houghton of Dublin, Pembroke College, Oxford, Joint Founder (with Rev J H Cardew) of the Houghton and Cardew Prizes for Divinity, Joint Founder (with Canon Hall) of the Hall and Hall-Houghton Prizes in the University of Oxford.
  • Francis Henry Lascelles, FSA LLB, eldest son of Francis Lascelles of Glandolfan, Pembrokeshire, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Barrister Inner Temple, private secretary to Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, author of Horse Warranty, The Law Relating to the Purchase, Sale, Letting and Hiring of Horses, and Law of Juvenile Offenders.
  • William Ellis Metford, (1824-1899), son of Dr William Metford of Flook House, Taunton, designed the Metford rifling used in the .303 calibre Lee–Metford and Martini–Metford service rifles in the late 19th century.
  • Lt-General James Kempt Couper, (1827-1901), son of Colonel Sir George Couper Bt of Lowndes Square, London, Officer in the Bengal Army, served in the Sutlej Campaign.
  • Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth, (1827-1886), son of Thomas Forsyth of Birchfield, Liverpool, Anglo-Indian administrator and diplomat and younger brother of William Forsyth.
  • Robert Holme, Fellow of Christ Church, Cambridge, Headmaster of Greenwich Hospital School, Headmaster of schools in Brighton and Blackheath.
  • Professor Charles D'Urban Morris, (1827-1886), son of Rear-Admiral Henry Gage Morris RN of Charmouth, Worcester College, Oxford, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Professor of Greek and Latin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, author of A Compendious Grammar of Attic Greek, An Introduction to the Latin Language and other works.
  • Major-General Robert Alexander Morse, (d1893), senior British Army officer, commanded a siege train under Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn.
  • Captain Swinburne Fitzhardinge Berkeley, (1825-1865), son of Hon Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley MP, Christchurch, Hants, resigned commission in Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia on the grounds of ill health.
  • Ramsay Hamilton Couper, (1829-1875), son of Col Sir George Couper Bt of London, Volunteer in the 2nd Berks Rifles, official of the War Office.
  • Major-General John Jago-Trelawney, JP, (1826-son of Edward Jago of Plymouth, senior British Army officer in 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot, horsebreeder.
  • Rear-Admiral Henry James Raby, VC CB (1827-1907), son of Arthur Turnour Raby of Wells, senior Royal Naval Officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • Lt-General Douglas Gordon Seafield St John Grant, son of Mr Grant of Castle Cary, Somerset, senior Indian Army Officer.
  • Dr John Hawkes, (d1904) MRCS MD, St. Andrew's University, Wix Prizeman, St Bart's Hospital, author of Tumours of the Brain and many papers.
  • Lt-General Shurlock Henning CB JP, son of W. L.Henning of Dorchester, commanded 26th (Cameronians) in Abyssinian War.
  • Colonel William Hicks Slade, son of General Sir John Slade of Bridgwater; with 6th Dragoons in Crimea, with 7th Hussars in Indian Mutiny.

1830s
academic, politician and poet Sir Lewis Morris
  • Admiral James George Mead RN, (1834-1913), son of John Mead of Weymouth, senior Royal navy officer, served in the Crimean War under Lord Lyons.
  • Major-General Thomas James Maclachlan (d1891), Army Officer, Central Indian Campaign 1857-1858.
  • John Gould Lakes,(1834-1900), son of Rev John Lakes of Sherborne, Indian Navy, engaged in suppression of the slave trade on E. coast of Africa, author of With the Governor-in-Chief on West Coast of Africa, 1870-71, and Reminiscences of Running the Blockade in 1864.
  • Major-General Walter Newman (1836-1984), son of E Newman of Yeovil, Dorset, Royal Artillery officer, served in Indian Mutiny and Egyptian War.
  • George Stickland Criswick, (1836-1916), son of Mr Criswick of Sherborne, on the permanent staff at Greenwich Observatory, in charge of the Astrographic Telescope until 1896.
  • Arthur Bevan Collier, (1832-1908), son of John Collier MP of Plymouth, artist, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1855-1899, British Institution and the Society of British Artist.
  • Sir Lewis Morris, (1833-1907), son of Lewis Edward William Morris, a Welsh academic and politician, also a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school.
  • Major-General Charles Brodie Penny, (1834-1902), son of C. Penny of Weymouth, senior British Army officer.
  • Lt-Colonel Alfred Wyndham, son of Captain Alexander Wyndham of West Lodge, Blandford, emigrated to Canada, Commanded 12th Battalion of the York Rangers in the North West Rebellion of 1885, artist.
  • Colonel Cecil Beadon (1838-1913), son of Sir Cecil Beadon, Royal Navy, Madras Cavalry, Assistant Commissioner in Punjab.
  • Lt-Colonel Sir William Algernon Kay Bt, (1837-1914), son of Sir Brook Kay Bt of Sherborne, succeeded to baronetcy 1907, gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the 68th Regiment.
  • Lt-Colonel George Tennant Carré, son of C. Carré of Paris, Army Officer, New Zealand War, Afghan War, Mahsud Waziri Exped, Egyptian War, Tel-el-kebir, Burmese Expedition.
  • Colonel Henry Albany Hammond, son of Major T. J. Hammond of Sherborne, Inspector General of Police in the Central Provinces, India, brother of Colonel Sir Arthur George Hammond VC KCB DSO.
  • Sir Charles Bradley Pritchard, (1837–1903), eldest son of Rev Charles Pritchard Professor of Astronomy, Oxford, senior administrator in India.
  • Major-General Charles Herbert Bergman, (b1838), son of John George Bergman of Sherborne, Army Officer in Bengal Infantry.
  • Fitzroy Maclean Henry Somerset, son of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Somerset and grandson of Lord Charles Somerset, Oriel College, Oxford, Lincoln's Inn Chief of Police at Hanover, Cape Province, South Africa.
  • Charles Gresford Edmondes, (1838–1893), son of Rev Thomas Edmondes of Llanblethian, Professor of Classics, archdeacon and college principal.
  • Zachary Edwards, (1838-1909), son of Rev Zachary John Edwards of Chipstable Wadham College, Oxford, Barrister Lincoln's Inn, Mayor of Lyme Regis, author of Primitiae, Avilion & Other Poems and other works.

1840s
literary scholar and poet Ernest Hartley Coleridge
  • Thomas Stevens, DD FSA, (1841-1920), son of Thomas Ogden Stevens of Salisbury, Anglican bishop, the first Bishop of Barking.
  • Colonel Sir Arthur George Hammond, VC, KCB, DSO, (1843-1919), son of Major T J Hammond of Sherborne, Dorset, Army Officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
  • Sir Nathaniel Joseph Highmore GBE KCB (1844-1924), son of Dr William Highmore of Sherborne, Dorset, Barrister Middle Temple, Solicitor for H M Customs, Secretary to War Trade Dept, author of several works on Revenue Law.
  • Walter Buckler Lethbridge, (1845-1907), son of Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge 3rd Bt, of Weymouth, Knight of the Order of Charles III of Spain, and the Medjidie.
  • Sir George Clément Bertram son of George Bertram of St Heliers, Jersey, Trinity College, Cambridge, Barrister Inner Temple, Attorney-General for Jersey, Bailiff of Jersey.
  • Arthur Noel Malan, BA MA (1946-1933), son of the Rev Dr S C Malan of Broadwindsor, Oriel College, Oxford Headmaster of Eagle House School, Wimbledon, author of educational works and tales for boys.
  • Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920), son of Rev Preb Derwent Coleridge and grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a British literary scholar and poet.
  • Thomas Ryburn Buchanan, PC FRSE (1846-1911), son of John Buchanan of Glasgow, a Scottish Liberal politician and bibliophile.
  • Alexander Monro, (1847-1916), son of H. Monro of Portland, Australia; Oriel College, Oxford, Barrister Inner Temple Inspector-General of Education, Central Provinces, India, Acting-Director of Public Instruction, Madras, Mayor of Godalming.

1850s
British colonial administrator in Africa Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Commander-in-Chief of India, Governor of Gibraltar General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro Bt
First class cricketer Sir Francis Eden Lacey
president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon
  • Brigadier-General Sir Edward Raban, CB KCB KBE (1850-1927), on staff of Lord French 1916-1917.
  • Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden KCMG KBE (1851-1934), a British colonial administrator in Africa.
  • Ernest Harrold Fenn, son of T H Fenn of Nayland, Colchester, Staff-Surgeon to George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India
  • Sir Alexander Keith Carlyon, son of Rev P Carlyon of Widdecombe, Devon, Barrister Lincoln's Inn, High Sheriff of Middlesex.
  • Sir William Henry Beaumont, son of Col Henry Beaumont of Sherborne, appointed as chairman of the Natives Land Commission (which subsequently became known as the Beaumont Commission) by Prime Minister Louis Botha.
  • Charles William Dunbar-Buller, JP DL, (d1924) son of Rev. W. Buller of Pelynt, Cornwall, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Barrister Middle Temple.
  • George Crispo-Barbaro St George, son of 4th Marquis of St. George (Marchesi di San Giorgio) of Malta, Governor of Malta Civil Prisons, Member of Council of Government, author of The Birds Of Malta: With Their Maltese, Systematic, Italian And English Names And Season.
  • Rev Dr Charles Coverdale Tancock, son of Rev 0 J Tancock of Tavistock, Devon, Exeter College, Oxford, Assistant Master at Charterhouse, Headmaster of Rossall School, Head-master of Tonbridge School, Hon Canon of Rochester.
  • John Bain, son of Joseph Bain of Sherborne, New College, Oxford, Barrister Lincoln's Inn, Master at Marlborough College, a classicist and master in charge of the Army Class, himself something of a poet.
  • Samuel Wyndham Fitzherbert, (1854-1916), son of Rev Thomas Fitzherbert of Marston Magna, Sherborne Trinity Hall, Cambridge, author of The Book of the Wild Garden, father of Sir Herbert Fitzherbert.
  • Edward Smith (1854–1909), first-class cricketer and clergyman
  • Henry Tryon, (1856-1943), Chief Government Entomologist of Queensland, Founding secretary of the Royal Society of Queensland, the Queensland fruit-fly Dacus tryoni was named after him.
  • Arthur Younghusband (1854-1931), son of Lieutenant-General Robert Romer Younghusband, British civil servant of the Raj.
  • Dr Philip Arthur Ashworth, BA MA Dr Jur (1853-1921), son of Rev John Ashworth Ashworth of Berkshire, international lawyer, Barrister, jurist, and author, editor and translator of important works on jurisprudence, constitutional law and military theory.
  • Henry Brougham Guppy, FRS FRSE FLS (1854-1926), British surgeon, geologist, botanist and photographer, awarded the Linnean Medal in 1917.
  • Henry Ashworth Ashworth, BA, (1854-1908), son of Rev John Ashworth Ashworth MA of Didcot Rectory, University College, Oxford, brother of Dr Philip Arthur Ashworth.
  • William Warry, (1854-1937), son of William Warry of Lymington, Exeter College, Oxford, interpreter in Civil Service, translator of Pekin Gazette, Adviser on Chinese Affairs to Government of Burma.
  • Lord John Henry Loftus, (1851–1925), 5th Earl of Ely, 5th Viscount Loftus, 5th Baron Loftus, son of Rev the Lord Adam Loftus of Loftus Hall, Wexford.
  • Brigadier Ralph Chaffey, CBE VD, (1856-1925), son. of Major E. Chaffey of Somterton, ADC to Governor General of New Zealand, presented VC to Henry James Nicholas's mother in 1919.
  • Charles Buller Granville Cole, (1854-1901), son of Sir Henry Cole, of South Kensington Museum, patented a new or improved secondary battery in 1882.
  • Lt-Colonel Dr William Collier, MD FRCP (1856-1935), son of H. Collier of Stapleford, Cambridge, Jesus College, Cambridge, Vice-President and Consulting Physician to Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, President of British Medical Association.
  • Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur William May, MRCS LRCP KHP KCB FRCS DL, (1854-1925), son of Rev H T May of Launceston, Surgeon Vice-Admiral RN.
  • Sir Edward William Wallington, KCVO GCVO (1854-1933), son of Colonel Sir John Wallington of Trowbridge, Oriel College, Oxford, private secretary to Governor of New South Wales (Lord Carrington); to Governors of Victoria (Lord Hopetoun and Lord Brassey); to-Governors of South Australia (Sir T. F.Buxton and Lord Tennyson), to Governor-General of Australia (Lord Linlithgow, Groom of the Bedchamber to Prince of Wales, Groom-in-Waiting to the King, Private Secretary to the Queen, Treasurer to the Queen.
  • Major Humphrey Martin Twynam, DSO, (1858-1913), Thomas Twynam, of Fair Oak, Hampshire, For very·gallant action in the Afghan War he was recommended for, but did not receive, the Victoria Cross.
  • Arthur Upcott, DD, MA (1857-1922), son of J. S. Upcott of Cullompton, an Anglican priest and educationalist.
  • Henry Whitehead DD CBE, (1853-1947), Bishop of Madras, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, author of Christ in the Indian Villages.
  • Surg-General Sir Richard William Ford, MRCS DDMS DSO KCMG (1857-1925), son of R W Ford of Portsmouth, British army surgeon.
  • Francis William Galpin FLS DLitt, (1858-1945), son of John Galpin of Dorchester, English cleric and antiquarian musicologist.
  • Henry Henn, (1858-1931), son of Professor T R Henn of Kildysart QC of co Clare, Bishop of Burnley.
  • Colonel Rolland Frederick Hart Anderson, (1859-1937), son of Major-General Anderson of Poole, Indian Army Officer, Deputy Judge Advocate-General, Secunderabad.
  • Major-General Godfrey Williams, CB KCIE DL JP, (1859-1940) son of W Addams Williams, British army officer.

1860s
  • Oswald James Cattley, (1850-1922) FRGS, businessman and explorer in the Russian Empire.
British Army officer in WWI Field Marshall Sir Claud William Jacob
Conservative MP and Governor-General of New Zealand Charles Bathurst, Viscount Bledisloe
Liberal MP, barrister, administrator, journalist, historian and writer Sir Harry Evan Auguste Cotton
  • Francis George Hall, (1860-1901), son of Lieutenant-Colonel E. Hall of Bruton, Somerset, British administrator in East Africa.
  • General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro Bt, GCB, GCSI, GCMG (1860-1929) son of Henry Monro of Portland, Australia, senior British Army officer, Commander-in-Chief of India, Governor of Gibraltar.
  • Arthur John Galpin, son of John Galpin of Dorchester and brother of Francis William Galpin, Trinity College, Oxford, Private Secretary to Marquis of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, Headmaster, King's School, Canterbury.
  • Sir Francis Eden Lacey (1859-1946), son of W C Lacey of Wareham, Barrister and First Class Cricketer.
  • Brig-General Gilbert Boys Smith, (d1937) son of Rev G E Smith of Somerton.
  • Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon, KBE PRCSE (1858-1928), son Adelaide Horne Ingham of Hamilton, Bermuda, eminent surgeon, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
  • Edward William Bastard, (1862-1901), son of Rev Henry Horlock Bastard of Taunton, English first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University and Somerset.
  • Lt-Col Henry Richard Beadon Donne, (1860-1949) CB CMG, son of B J M Donne of Torquay, British army officer and artist.
  • Lt-Col Gerard Chichester, son of Sir Arthur Chichester Bt of Youlston, Barnstaple, British army officer.
  • Brig-General Charles Pears Fendall, DSO CMG CB, (1860-1933), son of Rev C B Fendall of Windlesham, Surrey, British army officer.
  • Sir (Harrington) Verney Lovett, (1864-1945), KCSI FRHS, son of Rev R. Lovett of Torquay; Member of the Viceroy's Imperial Legislative Council, author of A History of the Indian Nationalist Movement, contributed 10 chapters to Cambridge History of India.
  • Herbert Arnould Olivier, (1861-1952), son of Rev. H. A. Olivier of Potterne, Wiltshire, and uncle to Laurence Olivier, British artist known for his portrait and landscape paintings.
  • Major-General Christopher Reginald Buckle, CB CMG (1862-), son of C R Buckle of Chichester, British army officer awarded Legion d'Honneur, Crown of Italy, Military Order of Savoy, Order of Leopold, Croix de Guerre.
  • Field Marshall Sir Claud William Jacob, GCB, GCSI, KCMG, (1863-1948), son of Major-Gereral W Jacob of Tavistock, British Indian Army officer.
  • Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS FBA (1861-1947), son of Rev Arthur Whitehead of Thanet, English mathematician and philosopher.
  • Francis John Lys, (1863–1947), son of F D Lys of Bere Regis, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
  • Brigadier General Henry Stanhope Sloman, CMG, DSO, (1861–1945), son of Major J Sloman of Taunton, senior British Army officer during the First World War.
  • Sir Hugh Corbet Vincent, son of Rev James Crawley Vincent of Upper Bangor, solicitor and rugby union player.
  • Major-General Arthur Le Grand Jacob, CB CMG CIE CBE DSO (1867-1942), son of Major-General William Jacob and brother of Field Marshall Sir Claud William Jacob, British Army officer and ADC to King George V.
  • Sir Randle Fynes Wilson Holme, (1864-1957), son of J W Holme of london, 1878, explorer, solicitor, President of the Law Society, author of English versions of Wagner's Nibelungen Ring and Parsifal.
  • Brigadier-General Ernest Douglas Money CIE CVO DSO, (1866-1952), son of Major-General R C Money of Sherborne, a senior British Indian Army officer.
  • Richard Henry Holmes a'Court, (1866-1930), son of the Hon William Leonard Holmes A'Court of Heytesbury, Wiltshire.
  • John Gilberfield Adamson, (1865-1918), son of Sir William Adamson of Highate, artist, exhibited at R.A. and Paris Salon.
  • Arthur Duncan Champion, (1865-son of Major-General James Hyde Champion of London and brother of Henry Hyde Champion, captain 21st Lancers 92, ADC to Governor of Trinidad.
  • Arthur Waugh, (1866-1943), son of Alexander Waugh MD of Midsomer Norton, Bath, publisher, the father of the authors Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh.
  • Charles Holmes a'Court, (1868-1922), son of the Hon William Leonard Holmes A'Court of Heytesbury, Wiltshire.
  • Percy Warner James Buckman, RMS, (1865-1948), son of Professor James Buckman of Bradford Abbas, Dorset, artist, studied art at the Royal Academy schools and exhibited there from 1886-193, landscape and portrait painter. He was elected to the Royal Society of Miniature Painters (RMS), Professor of Life-drawing at Goldsmiths’ College.
  • Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett, (1866-1947), son of H E Bennett of Sparkford, a reforming Dean of Chester, Anglican scholar and author.
  • Harold Edward Gorst, (1868-1950), son of the Rt Hon Sir John Eldon Gorst MP of Cambridge, and brother of Eldon Gorst, Parliamentary Correspondent and author of eleven works of fiction.
  • Lt General Edward James Stroud, CB CMG, (1867-1935), son of Rev J. Stroud of Crewkerne, British Army officer, commanded 2nd Brigade RND at Gallipoli, Military Governor of Lemnos.
  • Sir Charles Thomas Keble Prevost Bt, (1866-1939), son of Lr-Colonel Sir Charles Prevost Bt of Abbey Grange, Street, Keble College, Oxford, British Army officer in 60th Rifles, succeeded father as Fourth Baronet 1902.
  • Robert Leslie Romer, MRCS LRCP, (1865-1935), son of Rt Hon Sir Robert Romer and brother of Mark Romer, Baron Romer, doctor, surgeon and leading medical officer and author.
  • John Henry Bryant, MRCS (1867-1906), son of William Mead Bryant of Ilminster, doctor, won Beaney Prize and treasurer's gold medals for medicine and surgery, first class honours and first-class honours in forensic medicine.
  • Charles Bathurst, Viscount Bledisloe, FSA KBE PC GCMG, (1867-1958), son of Charles Bathurst of Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, Barrister, British Conservative politician and Governor-General of New Zealand.
  • Lawrence Stephenson Edward Koe, (1868-1913), son of Stephen Koe of Brighton, artist and sculptor, exhibited over twenty times at The Royal Academy.
  • Sir Harry Evan Auguste Cotton, CIE (1868-1939), son of Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, a Liberal politician, barrister, administrator, journalist, historian and writer.
  • Sir Evan Maconochie, CIE KCIE, (1868-1927), son of A. Maconochie of London, Under-Secretary to Government of India, author of Life in the Indian Civil Service.
  • Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane (1869-1960), son of William Cochrane, British Liberal Party politician.
  • Clyde Harold van Straubenzee, (1869–1934), son of Lt-Colonel Frederick van Straubenzee, doctor, actor (as Clyde Meynell) and theatrical manager of Clarke and Meynell and J. C. Williamson.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Vincent Kempenfelt Applin, DSO, OBE (1869-1957), son of Captain Vincent Jesson Applin of Chelston Manor, Torquay, British military officer and Conservative Party member of parliament.
  • Neville Lovett, CBE (1869-1951), son of Rev R Lovett of Bishop's Caundle, Bishop of Portsmouth and Bishop of Salisbury.

1870s
Philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet John Cowper Powys
Last admiral to command Home Fleet during World War II Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore
  • Charles Augustus Kincaid, CVO (1870–1954), high court judge in India and a prolific author.
  • Admiral Walter Maurice Ellerton CB (1870-1948), son of Rev John Ellerton of Barnes, Royal Navy officer, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station, ADC to King George V.
  • Arthur Ramsay, son of Sir Alexander Entwisle Ramsay Bt of Balmain.
  • The Reverend Canon Henry Spencer Stephenson (1871-1957), son of Lt-Colonel Sussex Vane Stephenson, Chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II, participating in the coronation procession of Queen Elizabeth.
  • Major Sir Frederick Henry Berryman, DL JP son of F. Berryman of Shepton Mallet, Barrister, British Army officer, Chairman of Somerset County Council.
  • John Burland Harris-Burland, (1870-1926), son of Major-General Harris-Burland of Sydenham, Honorary Secretary of Oxford Union, early science fiction author.
  • Sir Norman Alexander Leslie, OBE KBE, (1870-1945), son of J Leslie, shipowner, partner in family law firm, Ministry of Shipping.
  • John Cowper Powys, (1872-1963), son of Reverend Charles Francis Powys of Montacute, British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet.
  • Brig-General Arthur Basil Carey, DSO CMG, (1872-1961), son of William Carey of Southampton, senior British Army officer.
  • Robert Harold Ambrose Gordon Duff, (1871-1946), son of Lt-General Alexander Duff of Tunbridge Wells, Private Secretary to Walter Long, 2nd Viscount Long and Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, author of poems.
  • Brig-General Walter John Lambert, DSO, (1874-1944), son of Sir John Lambert, senior British Army officer.
  • William Enderby Lutyens, son of Captain Charles Henry Augustus Lutyens of Onslow Square and brother of Edwin Landseer Lutyens, won Mile Race for Cambridge four year in a row, holder of Inter-Varsity Mile Record, Hon. Canon of Rochester, author The Servant and Other Poems, Notes for Meditation, and other works.
  • Count Gustav Bridges Fergus Gebhardt Lebrecht Blücher-Altona, (1873- (Count), son of Count Conrad Fergus Carl Gotthardt Lebrecht, officer in the Danish Hussars.
  • Brig-General Alfred Henry Cotes James, MVO JP, (1873-1947), son of A B James of North Petherton, Merton College, Oxford, senior British Army officer.
  • Brig-General Richard Lancelot Waller, CMG, son of Major-General W. N. Waller of Sherborne, senior British Army officer.
  • Sir Edgar Joseph Holberton, (1874-1949), CBE KBE, son of J L Holberton of Staffordshire, Magdalene College, Cambridge Chairman of the Burma Chamber of Commerce .
  • John Stevens (1875–1923), cricketer
  • Everard Reginald Hays Neave, (1877-1951), son of Lt-Colonel Everard Strangways Neave of Buckinghamshire, Judge, High Court, Allahabad.
  • Captain Sir Dudley Alan Lestock Clarke-Jervoise Bt, (1876-1933), son of Sir Arthur Clarke-Jervoise Bt, Tiverton, British Army officer, succeeded as 7th Baronet.
  • Surgeon Admiral William Wallace Keir, MB ChB CMG KHS, (1876-1949), son of William Keir of Aldershot, senior Royal Navy officer and surgeon.
  • Henry Roy Dean, MD LLD DSc FRCP (1879-1961), son of Joshua Dean of Bournemouth, professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
  • Sir Philip Henry Devitt Bt, JP, (1876-1947), son of Sir Thomas L Devitt Bt of Datchet, shipowner, founder of Nautical College, Pangbourne.
  • Lt-Colonel Sir Graham Percival Heywood Bt, CB DSO JP DL, (1878-1946), son of Sir Arthur Heywood Bt of Derbyshire, British Army officer, succeeded as 4th Baronet.
  • Harold William Vazeille Temperley, OBE, FBA (1879-1939), son of Ernest Temperley, British historian, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge from 1931, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

1880s
Novelist and crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox

1890s
  • Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893-1971), novelist and crime writer who wrote under several pen-names including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts.

See also

References
  1. "The Sherborne Register 1550-1950" (PDF). Old Shirbirnian Society. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
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