List of old boys of The King's School, Parramatta

This is a List of Notable Old Boys of The King's School, Sydney, former students of the Anglican school, The King's School in North Parramatta, Sydney, Australia.

Business

Hugh Mosman

• Eudo Carlile Fox AM, CEO the English Electric Company Australia 1914-2012
• Lionel Lee, CEO Bing Lee 2007 - Present
• Hugh Mosman, discovered gold in Charters Towers[1]
• David Droga, Founder & Chairman of Droga5
• Paul A Hopper, Biotech entrepreneur [2]

Media, entertainment and the arts

• Bruce Beresford – Film director
• Michael Blakemore AO OBE – Freelance theatre and film director
• David Campbell – Poet[3]
• Robert Crawford – Poet
• John Marsden – Author; founder and principal of Candlebark School
• Andrew Upton – Playwright and screenwriter; husband of Cate Blanchett

Medicine and science

• James Charles Cox – Physician and oncologist
• Stephen John James Frank Davies – Adjunct Professor, Division of Science at Murdoch University; Adjunct Professor, School of Environmental Biology at Curtin University of Technology (also attended The Elms School)

Edward Pierson Ramsay

• James W. Lance – Neurologist; specialist in headache and migraine
• Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE – Ornithologist; elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union and served as President[4]
• Edward Pierson Ramsay – Zoologist; specialist in ornithology
• Greg Retallack (senior year 1969) – Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon; specialist in paleopedology and paleobotany.
• Thomas Griffith Taylor – Pioneering geographer; physiographer; weather service's official representative on the Terra Nova Expedition; foundation head of Australia's first university geography department (also attended Sydney Grammar School)[5]

Military

• Vice Admiral Sir John Gregory Crace KBE, CB – officer of the British Royal Navy (RN); commanded the Australian–United States Support Force (Task Force 44) at the Battle of the Coral Sea
• Lance-Sergeant Daniel Alexander Daley DCM – 2/3rd Anti-Tank Regiment, in North Africa and New Guinea, World War II.[6]
• Rear-Admiral Alec Doyle CBE – chief of construction, Royal Australian Navy.[7]
• Lieutenant John Steel ("Jock") Lewes – British Army officer and founding principal training officer of the British Special Air Service; killed in action, 1941.[8]
• Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE, DSO,[9] commander of the 1st Armoured Brigade during World War II.
• Major-General Sir Granville Ryrie KCMG, CB – served in both the Second Boer War and World War I.

Politics, public service and the law

Joseph Palmer Abbott

• Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott KB KCMG – Politician and solicitor; Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the district of Maitland; Elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Gunnedah, and later for Wentworth[10]
• John Anderson – MHR (Nat); Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party (1999–2005)[11]
• John Douglas Anthony AC, CH – MHR (Nat) (1957–1984); Deputy Prime Minister (1971–72) and (1975–83); Leader of the National Party (1971–84)[12]
• Mike Baird – Former Premier of NSW
• Sir Joshua Peter Bell – Pastoralist and parliamentarian
• Sir Nigel Bowen AC KBE – Politician; Member for Parramatta (Liberal); Appointed Attorney-General of Australia in the Second Holt Ministry
• Francis Stewart Boyce – Barrister, Supreme Court judge and politician (also attended Sydney Grammar School and Rugby School)[13]
• Dr Arthur Chesterfield-Evans – NSW MLC (Dem) (1998–2007)
• Russell Cooper – Premier of Queensland (Sept–Dec 1989); Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (Nat)(1983–2001)
• Alfred Cox – New Zealand politician.
• Somerset de Chair – MP, philanderer and author
• Adolph Frederick Milford Feez – Surveyor and solicitor; Two time representative for Queensland Rugby Union; Founder of the Queensland Polo and the Queensland Lawn Tennis associations[14]
• Arthur Herman Henry Milford Feez – Barrister; Senior counsel; Chancellor of the diocese of Brisbane (1897–1910)[15]
• Frederick Augustus Forbes – Store-keeper, grazier and politician; Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland[16]
• William Forster – Politician; Premier of New South Wales (1859–60); Author of poetry and prose[17]
• Sir Joseph George Long Innes – Politician, elected to the Legislative Assembly for Mudgee; Queensland District Court judge[18]
• Stewart Wolfe Jamieson – Official secretary at the Australian High Commission, Ottawa (1947–50); Officer-in-charge of the information and defence liaison branches, Canberra (1950–52); Consul-general in San Francisco, United States of America; Chargé d'affaires in Dublin; Australia's first high commissioner to Ghana[19]
• Jeremy Kinross – NSW MLA (Lib) (1992–99)
• Eric Walwyn Ormsby Martin – Solicitor; mayor of Taree; flying officer in the Royal Air Force[20]
• Sir David Maughan – Barrister; President of the Law Council of Australia[21]
• John Frederick McDougall, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council (1860-1895)[22]
• Sandy McPhie – Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Toowoomba North (1983–1989) (Nat)
• Robert Darlow Pring – Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales[23]
• Leon Ashton Punch – Former deputy premier and minister of the crown[24]
• Bernard Blomfield Riley – Barrister; Judge of the Federal Court of Bankruptcy; Judge of the Federal Court of Australia[25]
• John Randall Sharp – Former National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Gilmore and Hume; Business Executive
• The Hon. Keith Mason QC, former President of the NSW Court of Appeal

George Thorn

• Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor – Pastoralist and politician; Elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bathurst
• Angus Taylor – Australian Minister for Energy & Emissions Reduction
• George Thorn – Premier of Queensland (1876–77), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
• John Lloyd Waddy, OBE, DFC (1916–1987), a senior officer and aviator in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) who later served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and Minister of the Crown.
• Sir Charles Gregory Wade KCMG – Premier of New South Wales (1907–1910); Judge (also attended All Saints College, Bathurst)[26]
• Bret William Walker SC – Barrister; Member of the NSW Health Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel; Former President of the NSW Bar Association; Former President of the Law Council of Australia
• Sir William Charles Windeyer – Politician and judge[27]

Religion

• Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick – Anglican bishop (also attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School)[28]
• William James Gunther – Anglican clergyman[29]
• Robert Lethbridge King – Church of England clergyman; Principal of Moore Theological College[30]
• George Fairfowl Macarthur – Anglican clergyman and schoolmaster[31]
• Percival Stacy Waddy – Anglican clergyman; Cricketer; Headmaster of The King's School[32]

Royalty

• Maha Vajiralongkorn – King of Thailand

Sport

Athletics

• Nicholas Hough – winner of 110m hurdles 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.

Cricket

• Baxter Holt – Current player for Sydney Thunder and New South Wales cricket team

Soccer

• Travis Cooper – Currently playing for GHFA Spirit FC

Motor sport

• Boyd Robertson Huey Edkins – Racing driver; twice broke the speed record from Melbourne to Sydney; President of the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales[33]

Rowing

• Jack Ryrie – Australian men's eight 1912 Olympics
• Robert Waley – cox of Australian men's eight 1912 Olympics
• Robert Paver – dual Olympian, Australian men's eight 1972 and 1976 Olympics
• Sam Loch – dual Olympian, Australian men's eight 2008 and 2012 Olympics
• Matt Ryan – Australian men's four 2008 Olympics (silver medalist) and men's eight 2012 Olympics
• Nick Hudson – Australian quad scull, sliver medallist 2008 World Championships

Rugby League

• Daniel Conn [34]

Rugby Union

• Ben Batger – ACT Brumbies[35]
• Will Caldwell – NSW Waratahs[36]
• Mitchell Chapman – Queensland Reds, NSW Waratahs and ACT Brumbies[37]
• Tim Davidson – Western Force, NSW Waratahs[38]
• Daniel Halangahu – NSW Waratahs[36]
• Ben Hand – NSW Waratahs[36]
• James Hilgendorf – Western Force[39]
• Julian Huxley – ACT Brumbies, Queensland Reds and Wallabies[40]
• Nicholas Phipps – Melbourne Rebels and Wallabies
• Stirling Mortlock – ACT Brumbies and Wallabies[41]
• Dean Mumm – NSW Waratahs[36] and Wallabies
• Benn Robinson – NSW Waratahs and Wallabies[42]
• Jon White – Wallabies (1958-1965).[43]

Shooting

• Glenn Kable – Fijian sport shooter, competitor in the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics in Men's Trap. World Cup winner 2001 Korea..

See also

• List of non-government schools in New South Wales
• List of boarding schools
• Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales

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External links

• The King's School Website
• TKS Old Boys Union