Latin at Trinity College, Oxford James Holden (1837–1925) – locomotive engineer Frank Rutley (1842–1904) – geologist and petrographer William Robert Brooks (1844–1922) – American astronomer Henry George Smith (1852–1924) – chemist James Fletcher (1852–1908) – Canadian entomologist, botanist and writer Aubyn Trevor-Battye (1855–1922) – zoologist and writer Henry Watson Fowler (1858–1933) – lexicographer Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) – mathematician and philosopher Herbert Baker (1862–1946) – South Africa architect Baillie Scott (1865–1945) – architect Patrick Young Alexander (1867–1943) – aeronautical pioneer Frank Finn (1868–1932) – ornithologist Reginald Punnett (1875–1967) – geneticist and creator of the Punnett square William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937) – chemist and statistician Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) – novelist, traveller and gardener Henry Tizard (1885–1959) – chemist and inventor John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977) – mathematician Verena Holmes (1889–1964) – mechanical engineer and multi-field inventor Arthur Waley (1889–1966) – orientalist and sinologist Reg Balch (1894–1994) – ecologist and photographer A. J. Arkell (1898–1980) – North African scholar Stanley Hooker (1907–1984) – jet engine engineer Simone Weil (1909–1943) – French philosopher and mystic Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (1913–1985) – engineer and chairman of British Railways Maurice Lister (1914–2003) – chemist Sheila Sherlock (1918–2001) – physician and hepatologist George E. P. Box (1918–2001) – statistician John Aspinall (1926–2000) – zoo owner Peter Hemingway (1929–1995) – architect David Harvey (born 1935) – Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York Michael Pearson (1936–2017) – expert on clocks and clock-making David L. Clarke (1937–1976) – archaeologist noted for his work on processual archaeology Diarmaid MacCulloch (born 1951) – Professor of 'the History of the Church' at the University of Oxford Daniel Tammet (born 1979) – autistic savant and record pi reciter Actors Thomas Robson Brownhill (1821–1864) – theatre actor and comedian Ellen Ternan (1839–1914) – actress and mistress of Charles Dickens Francis Robert Benson (1858–1939) – actor and theatre manager Lilian Braithwaite (1873–1948) – actress and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Sydney Greenstreet (1875–1954) – actor in films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon Philip Hewland (1876–1953) – stage and film actor Victor McLaglen (1886–1956) – 1935 Academy Award winner for Best Actor Ballard Berkeley (1904–1988) – actor noted for his role as Major Gowen in TV's Fawlty Towers Margot Grahame (1911–1982) – actress in films such as The Informer and The Crimson Pirate Harry Andrews (1911–1989) – actor in films such as Superman and Watership Down Trevor