Marlborough College

Marlborough College is a British boarding school in the county of Wiltshire, founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, although it now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs. There are now just over 800 pupils, approximately one third of whom are girls (Marlborough was, in 1968, the first major English public school to allow girls into the sixth form, setting a trend that many other schools would follow). New pupils are admitted at the ages of 13+ ("Shell entry") and 16 (Lower Sixth).

Past pupils

• Robert Addie, actor
• John Betjeman, poet
• Anthony Blunt, art historian and traitor
• Tim Boswell, MP for Daventry
• Chris de Burgh, musician
• Rab Butler, politician
• Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, politician
• Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, former Cabinet member
• Francis Chichester, round the world yachtsman
• Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch
• Sir Charles Galton Darwin, British physicist
• Nick Drake, British folk musician
• J. Meade Falkner, author of Moonfleet
• Otis Ferry, hunt supporter and political activist, son of rock star Bryan
• Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Frank Gardner, BBC Security Correspondent
• Nigel Gresley, steam locomotive designer
• Daniel Hannan, MEP
• Anthony Hope, writer
• John Hunt, leader of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest
• Alan Lascelles, courtier
• Louis MacNeice, poet
• Ian McDonald-Smith, Olympic yachtsman
• Norris and Ross McWhirter journalists, authors, and political activists
• Mark Malloch Brown, United Nations administrator
• John Maples, MP for Stratford upon Avon
• James Mason, actor
• Ian and Kevin Maxwell, bankrupts
• Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel prize-winning biologist
• Kate Middleton, girlfriend of Prince William
• William Morris, artist and writer
• John Beverley Nichols, writer
• Michael Pennington, actor and director
• Mark Phillips, Olympic horseman and former husband of Anne, Princess Royal
• Ben Pimlott, biographer
• Siegfried Sassoon, poet
• Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Gallery
• Charles Sorley, poet
• Hallam Tennyson, Lord Tennyson, British statesman
• Sir Mark Tully, BBC India Correspondent
• Henry Maitland (Jumbo) Wilson, Field Marshal
• Evelyn Wood, Field Marshal
• Simon Woodroffe, founder of the Yo Sushi chain of restaurants