Bedales School

Bedales School is a public school with a progressive ethos located in the village of Steep, near Petersfield, Hants., England. It was founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley, and was made coeducational in 1898. Its school emblem is a Tudor rose with a bee at the center. The school motto is "Work of each for weal of all".

Notable Old Bedalians

• Vice Admiral Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, (1881-1955) Victoria Cross recipient
• Battiscombe Gunn (1883–1950), Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford, 1934–1950
• Thomas Eckersley (1886–1959), theoretical physicist and electrical engineer
• Sadie Bonnell (1888–1993), World War I FANY ambulance driver, and first woman to win the Military Medal
• William Bridges-Adams (1889–1965), theatre director, and Director, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1919–1934
• Sir Laurence Collier (1890–1976), Ambassador to Norway, 1939–1950
• John Layard (1891–1974), anthropologist and psychologist
• Peter Eckersley (1892–1963), broadcasting engineer, and Chief Engineer, BBC, 1923–1929
• Allan Gwynne-Jones (1892–1982), painter
• Alix Strachey (1892–1973), translator of Sigmund Freud's works
• Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke (1893–1976), Director of Medical Services, Hong Kong, 1937–1943, and Governor of the Seychelles, 1947–1951
• Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979), painter
• Konni Zilliacus (1894–1967), writer and politician
• Grace Barnsley (1896–1975), pottery decorator
• Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood (1897–1976), landscape architect and child welfare promoter
• Roger Powell (1896–1990), bookbinder
• Douglas Hartree (1897–1958), Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Manchester, 1929–1937, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Manchester, 1937–1945, and Plummer Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Cambridge, 1946–1958
• Robin Hill (1899–1991), plant biochemist
• Joan Malleson (1899–1956), physician
• Josiah Wedgwood (1899–1968), Managing Director, Wedgwoods, 1930–1961
• Edward Barnsley (1900–1987), designer and craftsman in wood
• Malcolm MacDonald (1901–1981), Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, 1935–1939, Minister of Health, 1940–1941, High Commissioner to Canada, 1941–1946, Governor-General of Malaya, 1946–1955, High Commissioner to India, 1955–1960, Governor of Kenya, 1963–1964, and High Commissioner to Kenya, 1964–1965
• Sir John Rothenstein (1901–1992), art historian, and Director, Tate Gallery, 1938–1964
• Camilla Wedgwood (1901–1955), anthropologist
• Bertram Bulmer (1902–1983), cider manufacturer
• Rolf Gardiner (1902–1971), ecological campaigner and youth leader
• Iris Lemare (1902–1997), conductor and concert organiser
• John Wyndham (1903–1969), novelist
• Stephen Bone (1904–1958), artist, writer and broadcaster
• Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
• Raphael Salaman (1906–1993), engineer and tool collector
• George Sanders (1906–1972), actor
• Sir Frank Roberts (1907–1998), Minister Plenipotentiary to the Soviet Union, 1945–1947, Private Secretary to Ernest Bevin, 1947–1949, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1954–1957, Ambassador to NATO, 1957–1960, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1960–1962, and Ambassador to West Germany, 1963–1968
• Jocelyn Brooke (1908–1966), writer and naturalist
• John Clapham (1908–1992), musicologist
• Julian Trevelyan (1910–1988), painter and printmaker
• Tess Rothschild (1915–1996), MI5 officer and penal reformer
• Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986), lyricist
• Esmond Romilly (1918–1941), writer
• Richard Leacock (born 1921), documentary film director
• Sir Peter Wright, Director, Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet, 1977–1990, and Director, Birmingham Royal Ballet, 1990–1999
• Gervase de Peyer (born 1926), clarinettist
• Sir Michael Harris Caine (1927–1999), Chief Executive, Booker Bros. McConnell, 1975–1984, and promoter of Booker Prize
• Bruce Bernard (1928–2000), photographer and picture editor
• Michael Wishart (1928–1996), painter
• Simon Cadell (1950–1996), actor
• Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957), actor
• Amanda Craig (born 1959), novelist and journalist
• Sarah Raphael (1960–2001), painter
• Frieda Hughes (born 1960), artist
• David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (born 1961), son of Princess Margaret
• Lady Sarah Chatto (born 1964), daughter of Princess Margaret
• Sebastian Bergne (born 1966), industrial designer
• Simon Hitchens (born 1967), sculptor
• Dominic Shiach, film director
• Minnie Driver (born 1970), actress
• Nina Murdoch (born 1970), painter
• Sophie Dahl (born 1979), model
• Bill Dunster, architect
• Alexis Rowell, BBC journalist