union international in 1901–00 Tinsley Lindley (North 'B' & 'A' Houses 1884): Captained the England football team (1888, 1891) Frank Handford (North 'A' House 1900-01): English rugby union international who played on four occasions for his country and was part of the first official British and Irish Lions team that toured South Africa in 1910 Wilfrid Lowry (West House 1914-19): Rugby Union player for Birkenhead Park FC and England international in 1920 Charles Sutton (East House 1921-24), Anglo-Chilean cricketer Denys Witherington (West House 1933-38), cricketer Freddie Brown (North 'A' House 1925-29): Captained England cricket team fifteen times between 1949 and 1951 Alan Skinner (School House 1926-31): first-class cricket cricketer for Derbyshire County Cricket Club David Skinner, (School House 1933-38) Captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club Paul Svehlik (North 'B' House 1960-65) field hockey player who played 66 times for England and 31 times for Great Britain, including in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games . Justin Benson (East House 1981-84): first-class cricket cricketer for Leicestershire County Cricket Club and Ireland Captain Georgie Gent (formerly Stoop) (Fen House 2001-02): Tennis player Will Hooley (Barker House 2007-12): Rugby Union player for Northampton Saints, Exeter Chiefs, and Bedford Blues James Albery (West House 2009-14): Field Hockey player for England Hockey, Cambridge City Hockey Club, and Beeston Hockey Club Andy Laws (Bisseker House 2006-07, West House 2007-10) cricketer Media Eric Whelpton (North 'B' House 1909-12): Author, basis for fictional character Lord Peter Wimsey James Hilton (School House 1915-18): Author whose works include Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon Ralph Izzard (West House 1924-28): Journalist, author, British Naval Intelligence Officer, inspiration for the Ian Fleming novel Casino Royale and one of the inspirations for its protagonist James Bond Malcolm Lowry (West House, 1923–27): Author whose works include Under the Volcano. John Simon (critic): (School House 1938-39) Cultural critic for New York Magazine and other publications Sir Alastair Burnet (School House, 1942–46): Journalist and broadcaster; editor of The Economist from 1965 to 1974; long-serving ITN newscaster J. G. Ballard (North 'B' House, 1946–49): Author whose works include Empire of the Sun Christopher Hitchens (North 'B' House, 1962–66): Journalist and religious and literary critic Peter Hitchens (West House, 1965–67): Journalist and polemicist Martin Bell (East House 1952-56) British UNICEF (UNICEF UK) Ambassador, a former broadcast war reporter and former independent politician Jack Saunders (Moulton House 2004-06, West House 2006-11) Radio 1 DJ Other Richard Heffer (West House, 1959–64):