of the vacuum tube and Fleming's left hand rule; Sir Edward Frankland (1825–1899), chemist; Sir Ronald Halstead (1927–2021) – Chairman and Chief Executive of the Beecham Group from 1984 to 1985 and Deputy Chairman of British Steel from 1986 to 1994. Frederick Crossfield Happold, headmaster and army officer awarded DSO in 1916; Lewis Henry Isaacs, architect, surveyor and Conservative MP for Walworth from 1885–92; Lauren Jeska, transgender fell runner convicted of the attempted murder of Ralph Knibbs Air Vice-Marshal George Lamb, station commander of RAF Lyneham from 1969–71; Commander Brian C. Longbottom, RN. Youngest RN Captain in WWII, and senior NATO official; Magnus Lund, England rugby international; Erik Lund, Norwegian rugby international captain; Jason McCartney, Conservative MP for Colne Valley from 2010–17, and again from 2019; Nigel Morris, co-founder and former COO of Capital One; Sir Richard Owen, naturalist; Karl Oyston, English businessman and former chairman of Blackpool Football Club; Hugh Pennington, biologist, head of the 1996 Pennington Enquiry, professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen from 1979–2003; Colin Povey, chief executive of Warwickshire County Cricket Club and former chief executive of Carlsberg; Jason Queally, gold medal-winning cyclist at the 2000 Summer Olympics; Sir Peter Ratcliffe, Nobel Prize winner for medicine 2019, Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford since 2004; Jon Richardson, stand-up comedian and comedy writer, 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, panel shows including 8 Out of 10 Cats; Kevin Roberts, CEO worldwide Saatchi & Saatchi; David Roy Shackleton Bailey, Latin scholar; Bob Shennan, BBC radio executive and controller of BBC Radio 2; William Swainson (1809-1884), second Attorney General of New Zealand; Paul Swarbrick (born 1958), Roman Catholic bishop Paul Wellings, vice-chancellor of the University of Wollongong Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum; Robert Samuel Woof, first director of the Wordsworth Trust; John Woolrich, composer, professor of music, Brunel University; Frank Wrathall, racing driver in the BTCC. See also Listed buildings in Lancaster, Lancashire References Boys' schools in Lancashire Educational institutions established in the 13th century Schools in Lancaster, Lancashire People educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School Boarding schools in Lancashire Grammar schools in Lancashire 13th-century establishments in England Sharpe and Paley buildings Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire Academies in Lancashire