Charterhouse School

Charterhouse School is a British public school, located in Godalming in the county of Surrey. It was founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian Monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield (see Charterhouse). Today, pupils are still referred to as Carthusians, and ex-pupils as Old Carthusians or OCs.

Famous pupils

• Joseph Addison (writer and politician)
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (founder of the scout movement)
• Tony Banks (rock musician)
• Isaac Barrow (mathematician)
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes (dramatist and poet)
• Max Beerbohm (satirist and caricaturist)
• William Beveridge (economist and social reformer)
• George Burges (classical scholar)
• Anthony Caro (sculptor)
• Richard Crashaw (poet)
• David Dimbleby (TV presenter)
• Charles Lock Eastlake (painter)
• Edward Backhouse Eastwick (Oriental expert)
• Peter Gabriel (rock musician)
• Robert Graves (poet)
• George Grote (historian)
• Wyndham Halswelle (athlete)
• Julius Charles Hare (theological writer)
• Sir Henry Havelock (British General)
• Michael Hoban (headmaster of Harrow School)
• Richard Hughes (writer)
• Richard Claverhouse Jebb (classical scholar and politician)
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (Prime Minister)
• Bernard Kettlewell (lepidopterist)
• Jonathan King (pop music impresario)
• Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough (judge)
• John Leech (caricaturist)
• Richard Lovelace (poet)
• William Hay Macnaghten (diplomat)
• James Henry Monk (theological and classical scholar)
• Thomas Mozely (clergyman and writer)
• Henry Nettleship (classical scholar)
• Francis Turner Palgrave (critic and poet)
• Anthony Phillips (rock musician)
• Mike Rutherford (rock musician)
• Kenneth Searight (linguist)
• W. C. Sellar (humorist)
• Richard Steele (writer and politician)
• Dick Taverne (Member of Parliament)
• William Makepeace Thackeray (novelist)
• Connop Thirlwall (Bishop and historian)
• Ben Travers (playwright)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (composer)
• John Wesley (founder of the Methodist church)
• Charles Wreford Brown (sportsman)