General for the East India Company; Commander in the first Afghan War 1838-42; Resident at Lucknow Evan Evans (1813–1891) — Master of Pembroke College; Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford Lewis Morris (1833–1907) — Writer and poet; a founder of the University of Wales; radical Liberal Edward Treharne (1862–1904) — Pioneering Welsh rugby international and medical man John Lewis Williams (3 January 1882 – 12 July 1916). Welsh rugby international, died at Mametz Wood July 1916 (William John) Andrew Jones (1889–1971) — Colonial administrator (Chief administrator of Northern Territories, Gold Coast) Glanville Williams (1911–1997) — Professor of English Law at Cambridge Alun Lewis (1915–1944) — Poet and soldier Idwal Pugh (1918–2010) — Second Permanent Secretary at Department of the Environment; Ombudsman; Director & Chairman of banks and building societies J.M.W. Bean (1928–2012) — Medieval historian Thomas Philip Jones (1931–2000) — Deputy Secretary at Department of Energy; Chairman of the Electricity Council; Company Director Keith Rowlands (1936–2006) — Welsh rugby international; First Chief Executive Officer of the International Rugby Board Richard Grassby (born 1936) — Early modern historian Hedley Benyon (born 1936) - Former president of Rugby Canada Anthony Hopkins (born 1937) — Actor/film star Patrick Hannan (1941–2009) — Journalist, author and presenter Michael Morgan (born 1942) — Scientist William Tudor John (born 1944) — Deputy Chairman of Nationwide Building Society since 2007; Chairman of Lehman Brothers (Europe) 2000–2008 David Richard Hughes (born 1951) — Newspaper executive and chief leader writer, Daily Telegraph' External sources Principal sources: Peter Cobb, At Cowbridge Grammar School 1949–1966 (Cowbridge Record Society, 2001) Iolo Davies, A Certaine Schoole (D. Brown & Sons, Cowbridge, 1967) Richard Lewis, A Certaine Schoole Master: A Portrait of Iolo Davies (Apple Town Publishing, 2012), by an appreciative former pupil. Iolo Davies was Classics Master, boarding master, last Headmaster, and historian of the school. Extracts, mainly from (auto)biographies: Brian Ll. James & David J. Francis, Cowbridge and Llanblethian, Past and Present (Stewart Williams, Publishers, Barry, and D. Brown & Sons Ltd, Cowbridge, 1979), Chapter IV, pp. 157–65: Reminiscences by M.B. Edwards, former Deputy Headmaster, on the school in the 1920s. See also Chapter III, pp. 54–8, on the founding of the free (later grammar) school Patrick Hannan "Hannibal Lecter's Schooldays" Chapter 2 (pp. 38–52) of The Welsh Illusion (Seren 1999). The author recalls his days as a boarder 1952-59. The chapter title says a lot: he makes too much of