The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle offers the following account of Ceolwulf:This year went the army i.e. the Great Heathen Army from Lindsey to Repton, and there took up their winter-quarters, drove the king i.e. of Mercia, Burgred, over sea, when he had reigned about two and twenty winters, and subdued all that land.
He was educated at Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, between 1862 and 1868, and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, between 1868 and 1971 and graduated from the University of Oxford in 1872 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Alexander was educated at Repton and Hertford College, Oxford, where he was in receipt of a scholarship for descendants of Sir Francis Baring.
Today, under Headmaster Richard Merriman, the School enjoys a national reputation for excellence in sport, music and drama, while ensuring pupils achieve academically, with Scholarships awarded each year to Repton, as well as schools such as Eton and Radley.
David Hawtin (born 1943), the fourth Bishop of Repton from 1999 to 2006
Born on 28 June 1818 at New Church in Winwick, Lancashire, he was eldest son of Joseph Jones, at the time vicar of Winwick and later of Repton, Derbyshire, by his wife Elizabeth Joanna Cooper of Derby.
John Traill Christie (1899–1980), headmaster of Repton School and Westminster School, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
Crommelin-Brown's son-in-law John Eggar, another Repton master, played cricket for Derbyshire after the Second World War.
On returning to civilian life, he took up a place at Corpus Christi, graduating in 1949, and was then an assistant schoolmaster at Clifton from 1949 until being appointed headmaster of Repton in 1961.