JSW Paints Vikas Kapoor, CEO of Mezocliq Jill McDonald, CEO of Costa Coffee and former CEO of Halfords Church leaders Thomas Comber, Dean of Durham John Frith, martyr and translator of the New Testament Charles Wordsworth, churchman, scholar and schoolmaster Edward Perronet, hymn-writer, itinerant Wesleyan preacher Alan Wilson (bishop), Bishop of Buckingham Clive Gregory, Bishop of Wolverhampton Journalists, writers and publishers Paul Adams, journalist Mick Audsley, film editor John Bowdler the Younger, essayist, poet and lawyer Olivia Cole (poet), journalist and poet Sarah Harrison, investigative journalist, staff member of WikiLeaks Maurice Henry Hewlett, author Charlie Higson, comedian and author Sonny Mehta, editor, former head of Alfred A Knopf Plum Sykes, author Elleston Trevor, author and playwright Military Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, field marshal and statesman Patrick Heenan, Captain in the British Indian Army who was convicted of treason and executed after spying for Japan during the Malayan campaign of World War II Martin Smith (Royal Marines officer), former Commandant General Royal Marines Charles Stickland CB, OBE, former Commandant General Royal Marines Vice Admiral Gordon McLintock (USMS), the 4th and longest serving superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy Royalty Sir Timothy Laurence, vice admiral and husband of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, grandson of King Albert II of Belgium and nephew to Philippe King of the Belgians Princess Luisa Maria of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este, granddaughter of King Albert II of Belgium and niece to Philippe King of the Belgians Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, daughter of Johannes, 11th Prince of Thurn and Taxis Sports Christina Bassadone, Olympic sailor Daniel Caprice, rugby union player Paul Downton, cricketer Tash Farrant, cricketer James Graham-Brown, cricketer Tony Roques, Rugby union player Robby Swift, windsurfer Chris Tavaré, cricketer (ex biology teacher at the school) Andy Titterrell, rugby union player Ian Walker, Olympic sailor Other Huang Ya Dong, early Chinese visitor to England C.W.R. Knight, MC, British falconer and writer Emma Slade, charity founder, Buddhist nun and writer Former staff Jonty Driver (English teacher 1964-5, Housemaster of the International Sixth Form Centre 1967-73), writer, who wrote a book about his experiences at the school Elijah Fenton, poet, biographer, translator and schoolmaster of Sevenoaks School Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath, British politician Chris Greenhalgh, writer James Higgs-Walker, cricketer and headmaster of Sevenoaks School Alan Hurd, cricketer James Jones (bishop), former Bishop of Liverpool Chris Tavaré,