Chemistry - List of former pupils of Westminster

The following people were educated at Westminster School, and are sometimes listed with OW (Old Westminster) after their name (collectively, OWW):

Robert Bruce Cotton (1570 – 1631), antiquarian
Ben Jonson (1573 – 1637), poet and dramatist
Charles Chauncy (1592 – 1672), President of Harvard 1654 – 72
George Herbert (1593 – 1633), public orator and poet
John Dryden (1631 – 1700), poet and playwright
John Locke (1632 – 1704), philosopher
Sir Christopher Wren (1632 – 1723), architect and scientist, co-founder of the Royal Society
Robert Hooke (1635 – 1703), scientist
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1648 – 1689), Lord Chief Justice of the Bloody Assize, Lord Chancellor, died a prisoner in the Tower
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695), composer
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661 – 1715), creator of the Bank of England
William King (1663 – 1712), poet
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville (1690 – 1763), statesman and Cabinet Minister
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693 – 1768), First Lord of the Treasury 1754 – 1756, Prime Minister
Henry Pelham (1696 – 1754), First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1743 – 1754, Prime Minister
Charles Wesley (1707 – 1788), Methodist preacher and writer of over 6,000 hymns
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715 – 1763), First Lord of the Treasury, Prime Minister for five days in 1757
Francis Lewis (1713 – 1803), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
General Thomas Gage (1721 – 1787), C in C North America, Governor of Massachusetts 1774
John Burgoyne (1723 – 1792), Lieutenant-General who surrendered British Army at Saratoga
Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726 – 1799), Admiral of the Fleet
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730 – 1782), Prime Minister
Warren Hastings (1732 – 1818), Governor-General of Bengal
Nevil Maskelyne (1732 – 1811), Astronomer Royal
John Horne Tooke (1736 – 1812), politician and philologist
Edward Gibbon, FRS (1737 – 1794), historian
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738 – 1809), Prime Minister
Arthur Middleton (1742 – 1787), signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746 – 1825), ADC to Washington 1777, defeated by Jefferson in 1804 in contest for Presidency
Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832), lawyer, eccentric, and philosopher
Thomas Pinckney (1750 – 1828), American ambassador to Great Britain
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766 – 1841), ambassador to Constantinople, bringer of the Elgin Marbles to Britain
Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768 – 1854), cavalry and horse artillery officer at Waterloo, where he lost a leg
Robert Southey (1774 – 1843), Poet Laureate 1813
Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan (1788 – 1855), lost his right arm at Waterloo, C in C in the Crimea
Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet (1792 – 1861), politician
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792 – 1878), Prime Minister
John Nelson Darby (1800 – 1882), Irish clergyman
Benjamin Hall (1802 – 1867), Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings responsible for, amongst others, the current Palace of Westminster
Gilbert Abbott a Beckett (1811 – 1856), writer
Charles Dodgson (1832 – 1898), author under the pen name "Lewis Carroll"
George Henty (1832 – 1902), author of more than 80 popular books for boys
William Knox D'Arcy (1849 – 1917), entrepreneur
A. A. Milne (1882 – 1956), author and journalist
Henry Tizard (1885 – 1959), scientist and inventor
Sir Adrian Boult (1889 – 1984), conductor
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos (1893 – 1972), Cabinet Minister during World War II, chaiman of National Theatre Board
Sir John Gielgud (1904 – 2000), actor and director
H. A. R. (Kim) Philby (b. 1912), journalist who defected to USSR 1963
Angus Wilson (b. 1913), novelist
Norman Parkinson (b. 1913), photographer
Sir Andrew Huxley (b. 1917), scientist
Sir Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004), actor, writer and director
Michael Flanders (1922 – 1975), entertainer and writer
Donald Swann (1923 – 1994), entertainer and musician
Richard Wollhein , (1923 – 2003), philosopher
Tony Benn (b. 1925), politician
Peter Brook (b. 1925), theatre director
Nigel Lawson (b. 1932), politician
Anthony Howard (b. 1934), journalist
Roger Norrington (b. 1934), musician
Peter Bottomley MP (b. 1944), politician
Dan Topolski (b. 1945), rower
Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948), composer and producer
John Brown (b. 1953), publisher
Stephen Poliakoff (b. 1952), playwright
Imogen Stubbs (b. 1961), actress
Matt Frei (b. 1963), television journalist
Gavin Rossdale (b. 1965), lead singer of the band Bush
Helena Bonham Carter (b. 1966), model and actress
Ruth Kelly MP (b. 1968), Secretary of State for Education and Skills
Joe Cornish (b. 1968), comedian
Adam Buxton (b. 1969), comedian
Louis Theroux (b. 1970), television presenter
Dido Armstrong (b. 1971), musician under the name "Dido"
Oli Bennett (1972 – 2001), financial journalist, WTC attack victim
Martha Lane Fox (b. 1973), e-commerce businessperson, lastminute.com founder
Henry Winter , football correspondent of The Daily Telegraph
Matthew Freud , MD of Freud PR

All persons listed are thought to be or have been British unless otherwise stated.