Rugby international. Arthur Butler, Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry from 1957–69, and Bishop of Connor from 1969–81 Hugh David – actor and television director Ednyfed Hudson Davies, chairman since 1991 of the Lincs FM Group, and Labour MP from 1966–70 for Conwy, and from 1979–83 for Caerphilly John Edward Daniel – academic and politician David Ffrangcon Davies – baritone Gwenan Edwards – Television presenter and journalist Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton, president of the Liberal Party from 1977–8 William R. P. George – lawyer, poet and politician James Gray – mathematician and physicist, and Cargill Professor of Applied Physics from 1920–34 at the University of Glasgow Tony Gray – rugby international and coach. George Guest – organist and choirmaster Humphrey Jones – international footballer Maurice Jones – priest and educator Harold King, chemist Reuben Levy, Persian scholar, professor of Persian at the University of Cambridge Frederick Llewellyn-Jones, Liberal MP from 1929–35 for Flintshire Dewi Llwyd – BBC journalist and broadcaster Angus McDermid – BBC journalist and broadcaster. Robert Mills-Roberts – surgeon and international footballer George Osborne Morgan – politician John Morris-Jones – scholar and poet Goronwy Owen – poet Richard Parry-Jones - engineer Daniel Parsons, professor of geology at University of Hull. David Price-White – politician, Conservative MP from 1945–50 for Caernarvon Boroughs Kiri Pritchard Mclean - Comedian and Writer Ben Roberts (1950–2021), actor, who was known for playing Chief Inspector Derek Conway in the British television series, The Bill. Eric Roberts, Bishop of St David's from 1971–82 Thomas John Thomas – international footballer Sir Hugh Corbet Vincent – rugby player once capped for Wales, unsuccessful parliamentary candidate and prominent solicitor Sir Huw Wheldon, broadcaster, managing director from 1968–75 of BBC TV, and president from 1979–85 of the Royal Television Society (RTS) Philip Bruce White, microbiologist Michael Wigston, Chief of the Air Staff John Frederick Williams, Dean of Llandaff from 1971–77 Sir Ifor Williams, Welsh scholar Carlyle Witton-Davies Welsh Cup Friars School also competed in the Welsh Cup competition during the 1870s. See also List of non-ecclesiastical and non-residential works by John Douglas Notes References Notes Bibliography Barber, H. & Lewis, H. (1901) The History of Friars School, Jarvis & Foster Clarke, M. L. (1955) The Elizabethan Statutes of Friars School, Bangor, Transactions of Caernarfonshire Historical Society, Volume 16, pp. 25–28 Davies, Gareth Alban (2007), Maurice Griffin (?–1558), Esgob Rochester, Transactions of Caernarfonshire Historical Society, 68, pp. 13–50