List of Old Gregorians
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An Old Gregorian (usually abbreviated OG) is a former member of Downside School, situated near Bath, Somerset, in the United Kingdom.
Alumni are so-named because the school was founded and is still run to an extent by monks from the adjoining Benedictine monastery of St Gregory the Great, which since 1814 has been established at Downside Abbey; from 1606 it had been established at Douai in Flanders (today northern France).
[edit] Notable OGs
Notable OGs include:
- Count Adam Zamoyski - historian
- Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim
- Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville - former Archbishop of Birmingham
- Auberon Waugh - journalist
- Barry England
- Brian Cotter - former Liberal Democrat M.P.
- Christopher Butler - bishop, abbot and theologian
- Gervas Douglas
- Hugh Vyvyan - Captain of Saracens Rugby
- James Miller
- Jared Harris
- John Varley - CEO of Barclays
- Luis Gordon
- Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell - Solicitor General; Attorney General
- Richard Stokes - former Lord Privy Seal
- Robert Conner - journalist
- Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe
- Rocco Forte - British hotelier and entrepreneur
- Rupert Allason - author (under the pen-name Nigel West) and former Conservative M.P.
- Simon Tolkien - author and novelist
- Tom Bethell - editor of the American Spectator
- Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell
- William Nicholson - playwright
- Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, OP - former head of the Dominican Order
