Purple Rod. Jefferson Hack, journalist and magazine editor, co-founder of the magazine Dazed & Confused Lieutenant Commander Roger Hill DSO DSC, destroyer captain and author Mike Hailwood MBE GM, motorcycle racer and 12 times Isle of Man TT champion. Patrick Hawes Resident composer and music teacher at Pangbourne College Colin Hodgkinson (RAF officer), partially disabled wartime fighter pilot Sir William Garth Morrison Kt CBE DL, former naval officer, former Chief Scout and late Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian. Rodney Pattisson MBE, yachtsman and twice Olympic gold medallist. Captain John Ridgway MBE, Special Air Service and Parachute Regiment officer, writer, yachtsman, first Atlantic rower (with Chay Blyth), and founder of Ardmore Adventure School. Ken Russell, film director and producer, perhaps best known for his film The Devils. Andrew "Bart" Simpson MBE, sailor, Olympic gold and silver medallist, and Americas Cup professional, who drowned in a sailing accident off California on 9 May 2013. Colonel David Smiley LVO OBE MC and Bar, World War II special forces and intelligence officer, Special Operations Executive and MI6 agent, author, and officer commanding the mounted escort at the Queen's Coronation; often considered to be one of John le Carré`s inspirations for George Smiley in his Tinker, Tailor series of spy novels. Frederick Treves awarded the BEM and the Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea as a 17-year-old merchant seaman during World War II. Subsequently a successful actor. Very Rev Richard Shuttleworth Wingfield-Digby, Dean of Peterborough, 1966–80. Lieutenant Colonel Ewen Southby-Tailyour OBE, Royal Marines officer, author, Yachtsman of the Year 1982. Tom Spencer, former Conservative MEP who became leader of the UK Conservative MEPs, and chairman of the EU Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. He stood down in 1999. Nigel, Lord Vinson LVO, businessman and inventor, and former British Army officer. John Young CBE, former naval officer and chairman of Young's Brewery, Wandsworth. The Hon Francis (Frank) Davies, multi-award-winning record producer. Lt Cdr Mike Cumberlege DSO & Bar, RD, Greek Medal of Honour, RNR, SOE – murdered in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1945. Notes References External links Pangbourne College Website Educational institutions established in 1917 Private schools in West Berkshire District Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference International Baccalaureate schools in England Boarding schools in Berkshire Grade II* listed buildings in Berkshire Maritime colleges in the United Kingdom 1917 establishments in England