The following is a list of notable Old Greshamians, former pupils of Gresham's School, an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt, Norfolk, England. Public life James Allan – British High Commissioner in Mauritius and ambassador to Mozambique Duncan Baker (born 1979) – Conservative Member of Parliament. Sir Eric Berthoud – British ambassador to Denmark and Poland Robert Brightiffe (c. 1666–1749) barrister and Member of Parliament Derek Bryan – Diplomat, sinologist, writer Erskine Childers – fourth President of Ireland Sir Stewart Crawford – diplomat Kenelm Hubert Digby (1912–2001), proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate and later Attorney General and judge in Sarawak Bernard Floud – Labour politician Sir Cecil Graves – Director-General of the BBC Thomas George Greenwell – National Conservative member of parliament Sir Christopher Heydon – 16th century member of parliament Paul Howell – Conservative Member of the European Parliament for Norfolk Robert Lymbery - Common Serjeant of London Donald Maclean – diplomat and spy 11th Earl of Northesk – parliamentarian Terence O'Brien – British ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia John Playfair Price – diplomat, a President of the Oxford Union Laurance Reed – Conservative politician Lord Reith – first Director-General of the BBC – politician Wilfrid Roberts – Liberal politician Christian Schiller – HM Inspector of Schools 11th Lord Strabolgi – Labour politician Dr Thomas Stuttaford – Conservative politician and journalist C. G. H. Simon (1914–2002), Income Tax General Commissioner Lord Simon of Glaisdale – Conservative politician and law lord Lord Simon of Wythenshawe – socialist and journalist Sir Edward Blanshard Stamp – Lord Justice of Appeal Sir William Royden Stuttaford – President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Sir Gerald Thesiger – High Court Judge Sir John Tusa – Director of BBC World Service Lord Wilson of High Wray – governor of the BBC and Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland and of Cumbria Sir Percy Wyn-Harris – governor of The Gambia Armed forces General Sir Terence Airey – soldier, GOC Hong Kong Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell – Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to George VI Peter Beck – soldier and schoolmaster General Sir Robert Bray – Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet – killed on active service in Java, 1942 Donald Cunnell – First World War fighter pilot Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion – Royal Air Force officer and British Overseas Airways Corporation executive Major-General Guy Gregson – soldier