Brighton College

Brighton College is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-paying secondary school) for boys and girls in Brighton, East Sussex in England.

Notable Old Brightonians

• Brooke Lambert (1834–1901), clergyman and social reformer
• General Sir Harry Prendergast (1834–1913), Victoria Cross, Indian Army soldier, and commander of the Burma Field Force 1885
• Sir Charles Elliott (1835–1911), Indian civil servant, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
• Sir Thomas Erskine Holland (1835–1926), Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, University of Oxford
• Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835–1924), architect and architectural historian, RA
• Sir Edward Poynter (1836–1919), painter, art educator and President of the Royal Academy
• Alsager Hill (1839–1906), social reformer
• Sir George Savage (1842–1921), psychiatrist
• Colonel Sir Malcolm Fox (1843–1918), army officer and proponent of physical training
• William Gill (1843–1882), soldier and explorer, Founders gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society 1879
• Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart (1843–1885), army staff officer
• Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), socialist writer and campaigner for homosexual rights
• Sir Henry Cotton (1845–1915), Indian civil servant, President of the Indian National Congress, Liberal MP
• Walford D. Selby (1845–1889), archivist and historian
• Augustus Margary (1846–1875), explorer in China
• F. B. Meyer (1847–1929), Baptist minister
• F. N. Charrington (1850–1936), philanthropist and temperance reformer
• Colonel Sir Charles Boxall (1851–1914), army officer and proponent of railway artillery
• Henry Henfrey (1852–1881), numismatist
• Cuthbert Heath (1859–1939), insurance pioneer
• Admiral Sir Herbert Heath (1861–1954), commanded 2nd cruiser squadron at Jutland, Second Sea Lord
• Sir Hubert Murray (1861–1940), Lieutenant-Governor of Papua
• Sir George Reeves-Smith (1863–1941), Managing Director of the Savoy Company
• Leonard Merrick (1864–1939), writer
• John Neville Figgis (1866–1919), Anglican church historian, theologian and political theorist
• Sir Arthur Pease (1866–1927), coal magnate
• General Sir William Peyton (1866–1931), Military Secretary to Haig 1916-18
• Sammy Woods (1867–1931), cricketer
• Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen (1870–1947), Chairman of British American Tobacco
• Air Commodore Lionel Charlton (1879–1958), Royal Air Force officer and author
• Sir Ronald Hatton (1886–1965), horticulturist
• Sir Sydney Roberts (1887–1966), Dr Johnson scholar, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Secretary of Cambridge University Press, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
• Miles Malleson (1888–1969), actor, playwright and scriptwriter
• Harold Fox (1889–1967), zoologist
• John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950), physician, and Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge
• Noel Ewart Odell (1890–1987), geologist and mountaineer
• Douglas Overall (1892–1978), surveyor and property developer
• G. B. Harrison (1894–1991), Shakespeare scholar
• Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Tuker (1894–1967), Indian Army officer and military historian
• Leonard Strong (1896–1958), writer
• John Combridge (1897–1986), mathematician and Registrar of King's College, London
• Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), philosopher, and Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford
• John Simmons (1902–1985), office systems pioneer
• Frederick Dillistone (1903–1993), Anglican priest and theologian, Dean of Liverpool
• Tom Conway (1904–1967), actor
• Francis Noel Davey (1904–1973), Anglican priest and theologian, Director of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
• George Sanders (1906–1972), actor
• Sir Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), geologist, explorer and Director of the British Antarctic Survey, FRS
• Michael Roberts (1908–1997), historian of Sweden
• Mervyn Cowie (1909–1996), founding Director of the Kenya National Parks Service
• Sir Michael Hordern (1911–1995), actor
• Anthony Dale (1912–1989), architectural historian, historian of Brighton and saviour of Regency Brighton
• Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), writer and librettist
• Ian Serraillier (1912–1994), writer, poet and editor
• John Worsley (1919–2000), artist and illustrator, World War II official war artist, and creator of Albert RN
• Duncan Hamilton (1920–1994), racing driver