Chairman, cause of the Beeching cuts Sir Jack Hughes, property mogul & philanthropist Mark F. Watts, lobbyist & former Labour MEP Media, television & film James Burke, science historian and TV presenter David Chater, television foreign correspondent and former Chairman of the Old Maidstonian Society Andrew Dilnot CBE (briefly), Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford since 2002, and former presenter of BBC Radio 4's More or Less James Hillier (actor) Paul Lewis, financial journalist and presenter of Money Box & Money Box Live on BBC Radio 4 Kevin Loader, film and television producer Shaun McKenna, screenwriter Stuart Miles, Blue Peter presenter from 1994 to 1999 Tom Riley, film and television actor Military Captain Ben Babington-Browne†, of 22 Engineer Regiment of the Royal Engineers, killed on 6 July 2009 after a Canadian Bell CH-146 Griffon crashed in Zabul Province, Afghanistan Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton CB, Commandant from 1874 to 1884 of RMC Sandhurst Air Vice-Marshal Philip Hedgeland† CB OBE, expert in airborne radar, Station Commander from 1966 to 1967 of RAF Stanbridge, and helped develop the H2S radar in the war at the Telecommunications Research Establishment in Malvern Air Marshal Sir Timothy Jenner CB, Station Commander of RAF Shawbury from 1987 to 1988 Air Vice-Marshal Giles Legood MBE QHC, Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch and Archdeacon for the Royal Air Force Politics & government Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges†, MP from 1812 to 1818 for Maidstone Nick Gibb (briefly), Conservative Minister of State for School Standards from 2010-2012 and 2015-2021, and MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton since 1997 Stuart Gilbert† Director of National Saving in the 1980s John Pugh, Liberal Democrat MP 2001-2017 for Southport Adam Sampson, Legal Services Ombudsman from 2009 to 2014 and Chief Executive from 2003 to 2009 of Shelter Mark F. Watts, Labour MEP from 1994 to 1999 for Kent East, then South East England from 1999 to 2004 Religion Rt Rev David John Atkinson, Bishop of Thetford from 2001 to 2009 Leo Avery† Rt Rev Bob Evens, Bishop of Crediton 2004-2012 Henry Gould† vicar of St Paul's Cathedral 1908-1913 George Harris (Unitarian)† Very Rev Robert William Pope OBE† Martin Warner (bishop) SSC, Bishop of Whitby 2010–12, Bishop of Chichester 2012-present Science & academia Peter Day†, Fullerian Professor of Chemistry from 1994 to 2008, and Director of the Royal Institution from 1991 to 1998 Frank Finn†, ornithologist Peter Heather, historian Geoffrey Hosking, Professor