List of people educated at Dame Alice Owen's School

Dame Alice Owen's School is a partially selective secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire in southern England. The school was founded in Islington as a boys' school for 30 students in 1613, which makes the school one of the oldest in the United Kingdom. It is named after its founder, the 17th-century philanthropist Alice Owen. Over time, the boys' school expanded. A girls' school was built in 1886, and the two were merged into a mixed school in 1973; after this, the school moved to its current location gradually between 1973 and 1976.

The logo of Dame Alice Owen's School

The school consistently achieves excellent examination results and has been rated outstanding by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) in 2009.[1] Its alumni[lower-alpha 1] include actors, musicians, sportspeople, scientists and politicians.

Pupils

• Arthur Blok (1882–1974), English first administrative head of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
• Kacey Clarke, actress
• Suzanne Cox, TV presenter
• Gabrielle Jupp, Senior British Gymnastics Champion (2013)
• Paul Robinson, currently playing for AFC Wimbledon
• Fiona Wade, actress[2]
• Al Fletcher, Drummer for the metal band Die So Fluid, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Jamaican reggae superstar (2003) and for ska legends The Selector.
• Jodie Williams, sprinter for Great Britain

Grammar schools in Islington

• Owen Aaronovitch, TV actor[3]
• Joss Ackland, film actor[4]
• Tony Ball, Chairman of Kabel Deutschland and Chief Executive of BSkyB, 1999–2003
• Lawrence Blackmore Theatre Finance Consultant and Author 1948-52
• Ronald Chamberlain, Labour MP for Norwood, 1945–50
• Leslie Reginald Cox, palaeontologist
• Harold Darke, English composer and organist
• Edmund Dell, politician and businessman
• Florence Desmond, actress
• Chris Foreman, guitarist of the band Madness
• Gary Kemp, singer, songwriter, musician in new wave band Spandau Ballet and actor
• William Foyle, founder of Foyles bookshop [[
• Dame Mary Glen-Haig CBE, gold-medal-winning fencer at the 1950 and 1954 editions of the Commonwealth Games
• Prof Frederick Gugenheim Gregory, Professor of Plant Physiology, 1937–58 at Imperial College London
• Professor Sir Theodore Gregory, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
• Dame Beryl Grey CBE, Prima Ballerina, 1941–57 with the Sadler's Wells Ballet; Artistic Director, 1968–79 of the London Festival Ballet[4]
• Prof Peter Huntingford, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1974–81 at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry[5]
• Prof Peter Jupp, former Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast
• Edmond Xavier Kapp, British artist
• Alan Keith, broadcaster who presented Your Hundred Best Tunes for 44 years
• Most Rev Alan John Knight, Archbishop of the West Indies, 1950–79
• Arnold Lynch, engineer, designed Colossus computer during World War II
• Millie Miller, Labour MP, 1974–77 for Ilford North, and Leader of Camden Council, 1971–3
• David Nabarro, co-discoverer of the causes of African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) and former President of the Association of Clinical Pathologists
• Prof David Newman OBE, Professor of Political Geography and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Prof Leslie Orgel, Professor of Chemistry 1964–2007 at the University of California, San Diego and Salk Institute for Biological Studies, known for Orgel's rule
• Sir Alan Parker, film director
• Louis van Praag, fashion designer
• Denis Richards, historian
• Andrew Rothstein, Marxist historian and journalist[4]
• Rev Prof Ernest Gordon Rupp, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, 1968–77 at the University of Cambridge
• Jessica Tandy, Oscar-winning actress[6][7][4]
• Geoff Travis, founder of Rough Trade Records
• Alan Travis, erstwhile Home Affairs Editor at The Guardian
• Ronnie Waldman, television executive
• Tom Watt, actor
• Norman Goldner, HIV campaigner.

Teachers

• Alan Amos (born 1952), politician, Conservative MP for Hexham, 1987-1992 (head of the school's economics and politics department, 1976–84)[8]
• Michael Duane (1915–1997), teacher known for his progressive views on education (taught at the school 1939–40, then in 1946)[9]
• Dame Helen Metcalf (1946–2003), headteacher of Chiswick Community School, 1998-2001 (taught history at Dame Alice Owen's School, 1971–75)[10]
• Reg Tricker (1904–1990), footballer who played for Arsenal (head of sports at the school)[11][12]

References

Notes

1. Both pupils and teachers are considered to be alumni in this list.

Footnotes

1. "Dame Alice Owen's School". gov.uk. Government of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
2. Palmer, Alun (16 July 2014). "Emmerdale star Fiona Wade reveals racist bullies picked on her at school because she was on TV". Daily Mirror. London. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017. she was attending Dame Alice Owen’s School in St Albans, Herts
3. "Owen Aaronovitch". corrie.net. Archived from the original on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018. Owen was educated at the Dame Alice Owen School in Islington where he excelled at English.
4. British History Online 2008, para. 35.
5. Savage, Wendy (30 October 2000). "Peter Huntingford". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017. Secondary school at Dame Alice Owen's, Islington
6. "Jessica Tandy". The Times. London. 11 September 1994. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
7. Kalfatovic, Mary C. "Tandy, Jessica". American National Biography. Archived from the original on 17 July 2017. Retrieved 17 July 2017. Tandy attended Dame Alice Owen's Girls' School
8. "Vote2001: Candidates". British Broadcasting Company (BBC). 2001. Archived from the original on 21 April 2004. Retrieved 10 July 2017. Head of Economics & Politics Dept, Dame Alice Owen's School 1976–84
9. "Michael Duane (1915 – 1997)". Risinghill Revisited. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017. took up a teaching post at Dame Alice Owens School, Islington
10. Mabey, Christine (8 December 2003). "Dame Helen Metcalf". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. she went to Dame Alice Owen's School...to teach history
11. Davison, Alan; et al. (Dame Alice Owen's School) (18 December 2013). "Old Owenians Newsletter" (PDF). Dame Alice Owen's School. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017. Reg Tricker our sports master and former Arsenal player in the 1920s
12. Atwood, Tony (13 April 2016). "Reg Tricker: came from India, signed by Chapman, moved on to Margate". The History of Arsenal. Archived from the original on 2 June 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2017. Reg became a teacher, and was for many years Head of PT (physical training) and Sport at Dame Alice Owen’s School

Bibliography

• Temple, Philip, ed. (2008). "Rawstorne Street to the Angel". Survey of London: Volume 46, South and East Clerkenwell. London: British History Online (BHO). pp. 336–357. ISBN 9780300137279. Retrieved 28 July 2017.