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9 unusual facts about Wellington College


António Borges

He was also a member of the Supervisory Boards of Novartis Venture Fund and CNP Assurances SA, the Advisory Board of Critical Links SA, and the Board of Governors of Wellington College.

Charles Hampden-Turner

He was educated at Wellington College, a military public school attended by his father, and did his national service with the same regiment his father had served in, the Suffolk Regiment.

Edgar Allison Peers

Obtaining a teacher's diploma (first class with double distinction) from Cambridge in 1913, Peers taught modern languages at Mill Hill School, Felsted School, Essex and then at Wellington College.

Harold Knox-Shaw

During his youth he earned scholarships to Wellington College in Berkshire and to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1907 ranked as Sixth Wrangler.

Klaus Dodds

He was educated at Wellington College and the University of Bristol where he completed degrees in geography and political science.

Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond

From 1991 to 2001, he was a Governor of Wellington College, from 1991 to 1995 Registrar of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, and Director of Overseas Relations from 1995 to 1997.

Peter Garthwaite

Peter and his identical twin Clive, who later became a brigadier in the Royal Artillery, were educated at Wellington College, where they caused some confusion when bowling from either end for the First XI.

Philip Hagreen

Hagreen was the only child of Henry Hagreen, the drawing master at Wellington College, Berkshire.

Victor Buller Turner

He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst before commissioning as Second Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in 1918.


Arthur F. H. Mills

Captain Mills (Wellington College, Berkshire, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst) was wounded in World War I at La Bassée and wrote a pair of books, his first, about that experience: With My Regiment: From the Aisne to La Bassée (J. B. Lippincott & Co.: Philadelphia, 1916) and Hospital Days (T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1916) under the pseudonym Platoon Commander.

Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram

Apart from his careers in the Army and at court he was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Zoological Society of London, President of Westminster Hospital and Governor of Wellington College and Haileybury.

Martin Carver

He was educated at Ladycross School, a Catholic preparatory school in Seaford, East Sussex, and then Wellington College, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

In the summer of 1914 he and his twin brother were sent to St. Aubyns Preparatory School at Rottingdean, and four years later both boys entered the Orange dormitory at Wellington College where Percy was continually referred to as Bernard Minor incorrectly throughout his time at Wellington College.

Simon Elliott

Elliott played for several clubs in the New Zealand semi-professional Central Premier League in the 1990s, and attended Wellington College prior to moving to the United States.

William Gentry

Educated at Wellington College, he was one of the limited number of New Zealand entrants in 1916 which enrolled in the Royal Military College in Duntroon, Australia.


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Robert J. Pope

He continued playing cricket for the Wellington College Old Boys and the Wellington Cricket Club where he won a 2nd XI batting trophy in 1896 (averaging 23.30 in 11 completed innings) and later for the Wairarapa Cricket Club when he was headmaster of Kaiwaiwai School.

Ross Durant

He coached footballers Tim Brown and Leo Bertos during their time at Wellington College in their respective College Football teams.