Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School For Boys - Notable Former Pupils

Notable Former Pupils

• Henry William Engleheart, V.C.
• Allastair Malcolm Cluny McReady-Diarmid, recipient of the Victoria Cross (in 1917)
• Vice-Adm Sir Roy Newman KCB, President from 1996 to 2001 of the Royal Naval Association
• Sir Alec Randall CMG OBE, Ambassador to Denmark from 1947 to 1952
• James Lyall Sharp, Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2002-5
• Sir Reginald Hibbert, GCMG Chargé d'Affaires in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, 1964–66; Minister at Bonn 1972–75; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1975–76; Deputy Under-Secretary of State 1976–79; Ambassador to France 1979–82. Appointed CMG in 1966 and knighted KCMG in 1979 and GCMG in 1982.
• Sir Leslie Fielding, Vice-Chancellor from 1987 to 1992 of the University of Sussex
• Kenneth Cooper CB, Chief Executive from 1984 to 1991 of the British Library
• Tom Aggar, Paralympic gold medallist for rowing
• Aaron Liffchak, rugby union player
• Richard "Dick" Aylard, former private secretary to the Prince of Wales
• Tim Bell, advisor to Margaret Thatcher
• Sir Michael Neubert (briefly), Conservative MP from 1974 to 1997 for Romford
• Brian Coleman, Conservative local AM for Barnet and Camden since 2000, and Mayor of Barnet from 2009 to 2010
• John Biggs, Labour AM for the City and East since 2000
• Kelvin Hopkins, Labour MP for Luton North since 1997
• Cameron McVey, record producer, married to Neneh Cherry
• Lucian Grainge, Chairman and Chief Executive since 2005 of Universal Music Group International, and of Universal Music UK from 2001-5
• Bryan Biggs MBE, artist and Director of the Bluecoat Art Centre, Liverpool
• Peter Sanders CBE, Chief Executive from 1988 to 1993 of the Commission for Racial Equality (became the Equality and Human Rights Commission in 2007)
• Sir Herbert Alker Tripp CBE (aka Sir Alker Tripp) 1883-1954, Assistant Police Commissioner “B” of the Metropolitan Police 1932-47. In 1942, published Town Planning and Road Traffic which looked ahead to postwar reconstruction and pioneered the idea of motorways in Britain. In 1942, the Royal Academy invited him to join its Planning Committee working on London's post-war architectural reconstruction. Also a well-known artist and yachtsman.
• Stanley Broadbridge, General Secretary from 1977-8 of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE)
• John Rhodes, Director-General from 1988 to 1992 of West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive
• Richard Turner OBE, Chief Executive from 2001-7 of the Freight Transport Association
• Robert Smith CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 1982 to 1997 of Kingston University
• Prof Roland Dobbs, Professor of Physics from 1973 to 1990 at the University of London, and President from 1976 to 1978 of the Institute of Acoustics
• Professor Jonathan Hadgraft, Emeritus Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the School of Pharmacy, UCL; scientific adviser to Laboratorio Estudos Farmaceuticos (Lisbon); visiting professor at North West University, South Africa and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is on the scientific advisory boards of a number of pharmaceutical companies.
• Professor Emeritus Denis F R Gilson, at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Current research includes thermophysical properties of materials, order-disorder phenomena, negative thermal expansion materials, application of vibrational spectroscopy at high pressures and hydrogen storage materials.
• Prof Bryan Hibbard, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology from 1973 to 1991 at the University of Wales College of Medicine
• Prof Peter Rhodes, Professor of Ancient History from 1983 to 2005 at Durham University
• Richard A. Brealey, Professor of Finance from 1974 to 1998 at the London Business School
• Emeritus Professor J K MacLeod, Professor of Law at the University of Liverpool
• Emeritus Professor Gavin P Vinson, at the School of Biological & Chemical Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. Eminent in the field of endocrinology
• Professor Emeritus H Duthie, formerly of the Biology Faculty at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Professor D W Greig, former Professor of Law at the Australian National University, Canberra ACT; now retired
• Prof Nick Hewitt, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry since 1993 at Lancaster University
• Emeritus Professor Brian Currell, Chemistry, University of Greenwich
• Harry Creswick, university librarian
• Miles Barton Tripp 1923-2000, author of some 37 published novels, mostly in the crime/thriller genre, under the pen-name Michael Brett
• Jonathan Watts, Guardian journalist
• Benjamin Cohen, journalist and presenter of Channel 4 News
• Wilfred De'Ath, writer and broadcaster
• Edward Blishen, writer
• Darren Foreman, better known as Beardyman, UK beatboxing champion

During the Second World War the famous athletics coach Franz Stampfl taught physical education at the school until his internment in 1940 as an enemy alien. The future headmaster of Eton John Lewis briefly taught Latin in the early 1970s.