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12 unusual facts about Marlborough College


Brian Hone

From 1933 to 1939, Hone taught at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and was made head of the new department of English.

David Stewart-Smith

He was educated at Marlborough, King's College Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon.

Edgar Christian

He attended prep school at the Grange School, Shorncliffe Road, Folkestone and hoped to follow his brother Charles to Marlborough College; in the end he went on to Dover College which was more local, despite the fact the family moved in 1919 to Bron Dirion in North Wales.

Edward Tollemache

He was educated at Marlborough College, whereas his younger brother, James Henry Timothy Tollemache (born 1980), was educated at Eton College.

Ellis Waterhouse

His fellow student at Marlborough College was Anthony Blunt, with whom he continued a lifelong professional friendship; he went on to New College, Oxford.

Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge

Seymour's house at Marlborough was used as an inn until the 19th century, when it became Marlborough College.

John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer

Born in Ballyvourney, County Cork, Ireland, the son of the Reverend Richard B. Kirchhoffer, Rector of Ballyvourney Parish, he was educated at Marlborough College and came to Canada in 1864.

Julian Corbett

The son of a London architect and property developer, Charles Joseph Corbett, who owned among other properties Imber Court at Weston Green, Thames Ditton, where he made the family home, Julian Corbett was educated at Marlborough College (1869–73) and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1873–6), where he took a first class honours degree in law.

Keith Feiling

The son of Ernest Feiling and Joan Barbara Hawkins, Keith Grahame Feiling was educated at Marlborough College, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and Balliol College, Oxford.

Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond

Patrick Wright, the son of Herbert and Rachel Wright, was educated at Marlborough College.

Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin

He was educated at Marlborough College, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and Brasenose College, Oxford from which he received a first class bachelor's degree in 1969, and of which he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1999.

Sally Bercow

Bercow attended Marlborough College where she was a contemporary of the British Prime Minister's wife, Samantha Cameron.


A. G. Steel

After his schooldays at Marlborough College, where he played cricket superbly, he proceeded to Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Andrew Boggis

The son of Lieutenant-Colonel Allan Boggis, by his marriage to Eirene Donald, Boggis was educated at Marlborough College, New College, Oxford, where he took his degree in modern languages, and King's College, Cambridge, where he followed a teaching course leading to a PGCE.

David Nobbs

Following an education at Marlborough College and Cambridge University, Nobbs wrote for many of Britain's comedy performers over the years, including Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies.

Edmund Penning-Rowsell

During the Depression years, his father's printing business went bankrupt, his education at Marlborough was cut short.

Eric, or, Little by Little

The school is a thinly disguised cross between Farrar's own school King William's College in the Isle of Man, and Marlborough College, at which he was the master.

John Maples, Baron Maples

His father, a businessman, lived in the Wirral; he was educated at Marlborough College, before going up to Downing College, Cambridge where he read Law, and played hockey for the college and performed with the Footlights.

Philip Poole-Wilson

Poole-Wilson was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire where he was senior scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School (now a part of King's College London), University of London, where he was an exhibitioner and received the Stewart Grainger Prize.