Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school situated in the small market town of Uppingham in Rutland, England. The school was founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester who also established Oakham School.
The first recorded Uppingham schoolboy was Henry Ferne from York, who was Chaplain to Charles I.
The book Eminent Uppinghamians by Bryan Matthews, former Second Master, was voted Most Ridiculous Book of the Year by The Sunday Times in 1986.
The Uppingham revolt: Public school pupils say they were RIGHT to stage mass mutiny over expelled schoolmates
Pupils at an elite public school have defended their mutiny over mass expulsions and say the situation is 'tense'.
The mob of angry youngsters abandoned lessons yesterday and marched into the Uppingham School quad, chanting for the headmaster, Richard Harman.
One boy, who would not be named, said: 'Everyone was really angry – we think the expelled sixth formers were wrongly accused.'
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Notable former pupils include:
- Robert Adley, Member of Parliament for Bristol North East and Christchurch.
- Jonathan Agnew, England, Leicestershire cricketer and Chief Cricket Correspondent for BBC Radio
- John Aldridge, Royal Academician
- Anthony Armstrong, author, essayist, dramatist
- Adrian Bell, author of Corduroy
- Robin Blaze, countertenor
- Brian Boobbyer, England rugby player and evangelist for Moral Re-Armament
- Thomas George Bonney, geologist
- Ernle Bradford, historian and writer
- Edward Brittain, Roland Leighton and Victor Richardson - associates of Vera Brittain whose stories are told in her autobiographyTestament of Youth.
- Everard Calthrop, railway engineer and inventor.
- Sir Donald Campbell, World Land and Water Speed record holder, killed on Coniston Water in Bluebird (West Deyne)
- Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of World Land and Water Speed records in 1920s and 1930s (West Deyne)
- William Henry Charsley, Master of Charsley's Hall, Oxford
- Lord Nigel Crisp, former Chief Executive of the NHS
- Johnny Dawes, rock climber
- Adrian Dixon, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University
- Eric Dorman-Smith, British Army officer and Irish nationalist [7]
- Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, MP PC, Health Secretary 1995-7, current Chair of the Health Select Committee
- Norman Douglas, novelist and travel writer
- Charles Dunstone and David Ross, co-founders of Carphone Warehouse[8]
- John H. Edwards (geneticist) and his brother A.W.F. Edwards (statistician)
- William Fawcett, writer on horses, hunting and racing[9]
- Ronald Firbank, novelist
- Pat Fish (Patrick Huntrods), songwriter and musician.
- James Elroy Flecker, poet and dramatist
- Nick Freeman "Mr Loophole", celebrity lawyer
- Stephen Fry, actor, comedian (Blackadder) and writer (Fircroft), expelled in 1972
- Christopher Gabbitas, Baritone for The King's Singers
- Andrew Gimson, Political Journalist (West Bank).
- Piers Gough, architect
- Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- E. W. Hornung, author
- Danny Hipkiss, professional Rugby player, Leicester Tigers and England
- Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks, soldier, Corps Commander in World War II
- George Ivatt, mechanical engineer
- Hugh Jackman, actor (former teaching assistant)
- Jack Jarvis, professional rugby player (Canterbury, New Zealand)
- Christian Jessen, doctor and television presenter (Fircroft)
- Harry Judd, musician and member of McFly (Fircroft)
- Dominic Keating, actor (West Deyne)
- Andrew Kennedy, Tenor (Winner of Rosenblatt Song Prize at Cardiff Singer of the World 2005) (Fircroft)
- Sir David Li, current Chairman and Chief Executive of the Bank of East Asia in Hong Kong
- Sir Claude Maxwell Macdonald, soldier-diplomat
- Gregor MacGregor, England, Scotland, Cambridge University, Middlesex cricketer and rugby player.
- Tim Melville-Ross, head of CBI and Institute of Directors
- Ed Minton and Alex Davies, members of rock band Elliot Minor (School House)
- Ernest John Moeran, composer
- Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, politician
- Richard Lewis Nettleship, philosopher
- C. R. W. Nevinson, Official War Artist in both World Wars
- Ernest Newton, architect, President RIBA
- Dickson Poon, businessman and non-executive Chairman of Harvey Nichols
- Peter Powell, Radio One disc jockey
- William Henry Pratt, who achieved fame under his stage name, Boris Karloff
- James Purves, cricketer
- Professor Canon Charles E. Raven Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Theologian, Intellectual, Preacher
- Canon H. D. Rawnsley, Co-founder of the National Trust
- Sam Riley, Actor
- Alan Rotherham, (left in 1881), former England rugby union international, captain of England, and inductee into the IRB Hall of Fame[10]
- Guy Rowlands, Historian
- John Schlesinger, film director
- Cecil Sharp, musician, master of English Folk-song and Dance
- Charlie Simpson, Musician in Busted (2002–2005), Fightstar (2003–Present) and as a solo artist (2011–present) (Meadhurst)
- Sir Arthur Somervell, composer
- Toby Spence, tenor
- Phil Spencer, property expert, Channel 4 television
- Ed Stafford, Explorer, walking the length of the Amazon River
- Rick Stein, chef and restaurateur (West Deyne)
- George Martin Stephen, Headmaster of St Paul's School
- John Suchet, journalist and broadcaster
- Richard Thorp, actor ('Emergency Ward 10'; 7yrs, 'Emmerdale'; 30yrs), writer.
- Robert Thorogood, actor (Cambridge Footlights), writer (Death in Paradise (TV Series 2011)) (Fircroft)
- Edward Timpson Conservative Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich
- Johnny Vaughan, TV presenter
- Anthony Way, former chorister - St Paul's Cathedral
- James Whitaker, Leicestershire and England cricketer
- Jenny Willott, Member of Parliament for Cardiff Central.
- Charles Plumpton Wilson (1859–1938), England footballer
- William Yates, former member of both British and Australian Parliaments
Uppingham School
Uppingham
Rutland LE15 9QE
Uppingham
Rutland LE15 9QE
Tel: +44 (0)1572 822216
Fax: +44 (0)1572 822332
Fax: +44 (0)1572 822332
