List of Old King's Scholars
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This is a list of notable former pupils of The King's School, Canterbury, known as Old King's Scholars. The abbreviation OKS is sometimes used.
- Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden
- Stephen Barlow
- Gregory Blaxland
- John Blaxland
- Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
- William Grant Broughton
- Hubert Chesshyre
- Harry Christophers
- Oz Clarke
- John Day (RAF officer)
- David L. Edwards
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Roger C. Field
- Michael Foale
- George Gipps
- John Wesley Harding (singer)
- William Harvey
- Dyneley Hussey
- Alaric Jacob
- Thomas Linacre
- Edward Lucie-Smith
- Christopher Marlowe
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Michael Mayne
- Michael Morpurgo
- Walter Pater
- James Hamilton-Paterson
- Warwick Pitch (founder of Young Chelsea Bridge Club)
- Charles Powell
- Jonathan Powell (chief of staff to Tony Blair)
- Michael Powell (director)
- Carol Reed
- George Sale
- Antony Worrall Thompson
- John Tradescant the younger
- Paul Felks Turner
- Hugh Walpole
- Alan Watts
- Jacquetta Wheeler
[edit] Victoria Cross
Three Old King's Scholars have won the Victoria Cross.[2]
- Victoria Cross
- Second Afghan War
- Captain William John Vousden, VC, CB (1848 - 1902). He later achieved the rank of major general. (KS 1859-60)
- Second Afghan War
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- First World War
- Second lieutenant Alfred James Terence Fleming-Sandes, VC (1894 - 1961). He later achieved the rank of Major. (KS 1907-13)
- First World War
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- Second World War
- Lieutenant Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, VC (1917 to 1979). (KS 1931-35)
- Second World War
[edit] Sportsmen
- David Gower, England cricketer
- Frances Houghton, Olympic Rower
- Fred Scarlett, Olympic Rower
