leading schools in the country academically based on the merit of its position in the national GCSE and A level examination performance tables combined with one of the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rates of any secondary school or college. GCSE & A-Level summaries over five years Old Latymerians Politics John Beckett (1894-1964), dissident politician Norman Blackwell, businessman and politician Peter Hendy, Chairman of Network Rail Alan Hunt, former British High Commissioner to Singapore John Killick, former British Ambassador to Moscow Ian Percival, former Solicitor General Joshua Rozenberg, legal affairs correspondent for the Daily Telegraph Andy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith Keith Vaz, former Labour MP for Leicester East Peter Walker, former Conservative Cabinet Minister Larry Whitty, former Labour Party General Secretary George Walden, former Conservative Party Education Minister Film and Theatre William Hinds (1887–1957), jeweller and one time owner of Hammer Productions film studios Jessie Cave, actress Lily Cole, actress and model Hugh Grant, actor Martyn Green, actor-singer, comedian Christopher Guard, actor Ophelia Lovibond, actress Imogen Poots, actress Augustus Prew, actor Toby Regbo, actor Alan Rickman, actor Mel Smith, actor, comedian, film director, producer, writer Sean Teale, actor Will Theakston, actor Alix Wilton Regan, actress Rufus Jones, actor Gordon McDougall, theatre director and academic Music Dom & Roland, drum & bass DJ/producer Ralph Hill, music critic Ils, electronic music producer and DJ Walter Legge, record producer and classical impresario Matrix Joshua Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, core members of Jungle Charlie Morgan, Tom Robinson Band and composer of theme tune to The Bill Optical, drum & bass DJ/producer and Matrix's older brother Arlo Parks, singer Jay Sean, singer Cliff Townshend, jazz musician, expelled from Latymer, father of Pete Raphael Wallfisch, cellist Sport Andy Holmes, Olympic gold medal rower Antony Hooper, cricketer Simon Hughes, cricketer Hugh Jones, London Marathon winner Dan Luger, rugby player Dominic Waldouck, rugby player Other fields Richard Jackson, Bishop of Hereford Natalie Abrahami, theatre director Heston Blumenthal, TV chef and owner of The Fat Duck Ajahn Brahm, Buddhist monk Ed Condry, Bishop of Ramsbury Thomas Haller Cooper, member of the Waffen SS's British Free Corps Jason Da Costa, Flight Simulation Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist Sir Andrew Haines – Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal Hilary Jones, GMTV in-house doctor Milton Jones, comedian Giles Milton, author and journalist Philip I. Murray, professor of Ophthalmology at the