and Jacobite captain Aonghas MacNeacail, Gaelic poet Laura Marney, writer Angus Matheson (1912–1962), inaugural Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow William McIllvanney, writer Caroline Moir, writer Edwin Morgan, poet Seamus Perry, academic and writer Robert William Service, poet and writer Jane Shaw, writer J David Simons, writer Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet, writer and the first person to use the word "statistics" in the English language Tobias Smollett, writer Derick Thomson, Gaelic writer and academic Alexander Trocchi, writer John Wilson, writer Thomas Hamilton, Among the 'Glasgow School' of early nineteenth century Scottish novelists Archibald Alison, Scottish episcopalian priest and essayist Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, Scottish politician and Greek scholar Alexander Carlyle, church leader, and autobiographer. Business James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington, Chairman of Diageo Keith Cochrane, Chief Executive of Weir Group Douglas Flint, Chairman of HSBC Alexander Fleck, 1st Baron Fleck, FRS, KBE, and chairman of ICI Fred Goodwin, former Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group Hugh Grant, Chief Executive of the Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, US David MacBrayne, founder of the shipping company that later became Caledonian MacBrayne, now David MacBrayne, Ltd. James McGill, Scottish-Canadian fur-trader and philanthropist, endowed McGill University Tom McKillop, former Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group David Nish, Chief Executive of Standard Life plc Civil service Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of world's largest NGO, BRAC Mushtaq Ahmad, Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire David Bell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading, previously Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education Henry Beveridge, famous orientalist and member of Indian Civil Service joined in 1857; elected president of The Asiatic Society of Bengal (1890-91). James Bonar, civil servant, political economist and historian of economic thought John Cairncross, in 1936, scored double first (domestic & foreign service) in Civil Service exam, alleged to be one of the Cambridge Five Sir Matthew Campbell, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland Sir Oliver Franks, influential civil servant in postwar Britain Sir Bill Jeffrey, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence Paul Johnston, British diplomat Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5 Francis J. Meehan, 1924-2022, American diplomat involved in events depicted in the 2015 Steven Spielberg, film "Bridge of Spies" Sir Muir Russell, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Executive Francis Richard John Sandford, 1st Baron Sandford, instrumental in implementing the Elementary Education Act of 1870. Law Joseph Beltrami, Glasgow defence lawyer