musical composer and author James Arbuthnot (born 1952), politician William Waldorf Astor, Viscount Astor (born 1951), businessman, politician Reggie Oliver (born 1952) author David Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar (born 1952), Scottish historian and author Robin Drysdale (born 1952), tennis player, 1977 Australian Open quarter-finalist David Sheepshanks (born 1952) joint-acting Chairman of the Football Association Martin Taylor (born 1952), chief executive, Courtaulds Textiles, 1990–1993, and Barclays Bank, 1994–1998, and chairman, W. H. Smith Group, 1999–2003 Matthew Carr (1953–2011), artist Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (born 1953), MP for the Cotswolds Robert Harvey (born 1953), author and journalist Oliver James (born 1953), psychologist Simon Mann (born 1953), soldier and mercenary Zera Yacob Amha Selassie (born 1953) Crown Prince of Ethiopia John Sinclair, 3rd Viscount Thurso (born 1953) Liberal Democrat politician Patrick Stopford, 9th Earl of Courtown (born 1954), politician Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch (born 1954), aristocrat and landowner Peter Ramsauer (born 1954) German Cabinet Minister - Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development 2009 - John Barclay (born 1954), cricketer and cricket manager Jamie Borwick, Lord Borwick (born 1955), former chairman, Manganese Bronze Holdings Michael Chance (born 1955), counter-tenor Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara (born 1955), president, British Automobile Racing Club, founder, Goodwood Festival of Speed Francis Grier (born 1955), organist, choir conductor and composer Nicky Gumbel (born 1955), priest and religious leader Charles Shaughnessy (born 1955), Actor, 5th Baron Shaughnessy (2007– ) Robert Currey (born 1955), astrologer Bill Turnbull (1956-2022), journalist and television presenter Dominic Lawson (born 1956), Editor, The Spectator, 1990–1995, and The Sunday Telegraph, 1995– Oliver Letwin (born 1956), Shadow Home Secretary, 2001–2003, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2003–2005, and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2005– Charles Moore (born 1956), Editor, The Spectator, 1984–1990, The Sunday Telegraph, 1990–1995, and The Daily Telegraph, 1995–2003 David Goodhart, journalist, commentator, author, director of the think tank Demos Justin Welby (born 1956), Bishop of Durham, 2011–2012; 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, 2013 - George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born November 1956) aristocrat and landowner Geoffrey Adams (born 1957), diplomat Nicholas Coleridge (born 1957), Editor, Harpers and Queen, 1986–1989, and President, Condé Nast Publications, 1992– Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett (born 1954),British barrister, investment banker and philanthropy executive Pico Iyer (born 1957), author Adam Nicolson (born 1957), author Andrew Robinson (born 1957), Literary Editor, Times Higher Education Supplement, and writer Robin Birley (born 1958), businessman Richard Graham (politician)