This is interesting re Shrewsbury John Peel bio gives a bit of insight into how harsh it was there.
IT amazes me how linked everyone is through parliament, entertainment, science.
This only shrewsbury If we got the famous eton allumni list out that would be even more so and then oxford and cambridge
but anyway.
taken from the DI forum
John Peel was born in 1939. Famous alumni of Shrewsbury born around that time:
- Christopher Booker (born 1937), journalist, founder of Private Eye-
- The Right Honourable The Lord Heseltine CH PC (born 1933), politician
- Richard Ingrams (born 1937), journalist, founder of Private Eye
- Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (born 1940), ex-chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Chairman of the UN Global Compact committee
- Lord Hutton (born 1931), Law Lord, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Chairman of Hutton Inquiry [too old to have been there at the same time but thought it was interesting!]
- Sir Colin Hugh Verel McColl (born 1932), Ex-Director of SIS
- Michael Palin CBE (born 1943), actor and TV presenter
- Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow (born 1942), Astronomer Royal, Master of - Trinity College, Cambridge, President of Royal Society
Other notable people are:
George Savile 1st Marquess of Halifax
Charles Darwin
Christopher Booker
Michael Heseltine
Robert Hudson - BBC broadcaster and administrator - seemed to do a lot on the royals and major sporting events, Olympics, Commonwealth games etc.
Lord Chief Justice Hutton
Mark Moody-Stuart - worked for Shell, HSBC and Accenture
Nick Owen - BBC presenter
Anthony Chenevix-Trench - Headmaster of Eton. Changed rules of corporal punishment including introducing caning in private, on bare buttocks. He resigned for his fondness of beating boys - not made public knowledge until after his death
Tim Crow - psychiatrist known for research into schizophrenia and psychosis
Brian Inglis - tv presenter interested in the paranormal and alternatives to mainstream medicine (not BBC)
Richard Ingrams - co founder of Private Eye
Stephen Paget - surgeon who researched how cancer spreads
George Jeffreys - Judge who in two days sentenced 144 people to hanging
Stephen Jessel - BBC correspondent - interestingly "He remained with the BBC as a freelance after ceasing to be a staff correspondent and broadcast after the death of Princess Diana in Paris"
Nicholas Rankin - writer and broadcaster BBC
Peter Davis - chairman for Reed international, J Sainsburys, chief exec for Prudential, chairman for Marie Curie cancer charity.
Geoffrey Lane - Judge who dealt with Great Train Robbery case, famous for quote He is also famous for his quote: "Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband -- it creeps up insidiously... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone."
Also involved in James Hanratty A6 murder case, Birmingham six, Guildford four and overturn conviction of robbery by Anthony Mycock after the BBC aired a program to say the robbery never happened.
Willie Rushton - co founder of Private Eye
Owen Seaman - Editor of Punch
Norman Skelhorn - director of public prosecutions - gave Bertie Smalls immunity from prosecution. Involved in allowing the use of torture of the IRA
Simon Dee - ITV BBC and radio DJ Dropped by ITV after interview with George Lazenby who discussed theories of the JFK assassination.
Paul Foot - investigative journalist who exposed the Eton headmaster Anthony Chenevix-Trench, tried to get a pardon for James Hanratty the A6 murderer, worked with Ian Hislop and Private Eye, took interest in the conviction of the Lockerbie Bomber, campaigned to overturn the convictions of the Birmingham six and said ?Only the working masses can change society; but they will not do that spontaneously, on their own. They can rock capitalism back onto its heels but they will only knock it out if they have the organisation, the socialist party, which can show the way to a new, socialist order of society. Such a party does not just emerge. It can only be built out of the day-to-day struggles of working people.?
Edward Foljambe also known as Edward Peter Bertram Savile Foljambe - 5th Earl of Liverpool and Tory politician
Colin McColl - head of British Secret Intelligence service
Richard Todd - Actor including Disney movies, BBC productions, signed to 20th century fox
Kyffin Williams - artist and friend of Rolf Harris
Lots and lots of bishops and priests (I was surprised by the amount)
Lots of cricketers
Lots of archaeologists
Lots of politicians, mostly Tory a handful of Liberal (not surprising to be honest)