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Alumni

Sidcot Alumni consists of Sidcotians and SOSA (Sidcot Old Scholars Association).

Sidcotians

Sidcotians is the general term used to describe all of our current and former students and members of staff.  Being a “Sidcotian” means that you are able to keep in touch with the school, and with each other, through our secure alumni website, through Facebook, or by contacting the Development Office directly.

Learn more about Sidcotians

SOSA (Sidcot Old Scholars Association)

Sidcot Old Scholars’ Association is the original organisation for former students of Sidcot, and was set up on 27th April 1870, when a small group of recent old scholars discussed the idea over breakfast one morning at Rose Cottage, which is situated within the school grounds. Since then, SOSA has grown into a thriving Association for former pupils and associate members of Sidcot school.

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Famous and Interesting Alumni

Sidcot is a very different place and, as you might expect, our famous and notable alumni come from very diverse walks of life:

  • Stuart Armfield: 1927-1933, Artist
  • Tim Bevan: 1969-1974, Co-Owner of Working Title Films and Film Producer
  • Percy Bigland: 1867-1872, Portrait Painter
  • Nick Broomfield: 1959-1965, Documentary Film Maker
  • James Brown: 1939-1945, Oboist
  • Edward Theodore Compton: 1861-1864, Landscape Painter
  • Francis Arnold Knight: 1862-1866 (student) 1866-1873 (staff), Topographical Author
  • Frederick Knott: 1926-29, Playwright (‘Dial M for Murder’, ‘Wait until Dark’)
  • Robert Lusty: 1921-1926, Publisher and Journalist
  • Douglas Macmillan: 1897-1900, founder Macmillan Cancer Support
  • Sir George Newman: 1881-1884, First Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health
  • Stephen Peet: 1933-1938, Documentary Film Maker
  • Brian Priestman: 1938-1943, Conductor
  • John Barclay Pick: 1933-1939, Journalist and Author (The Last Valley)
  • Charles Handley-Read: 1926-1930, Architectural Historian
  • Robert Milner Shackleton FRS: 1921-1927, Professor of Geology
  • Mary Tregear: 1934-1942, Art Historian
  • Anthony Waller: 1972-1978, Film Director (Mute Witness, An American Werewolf in Paris)
  • Zoë Wanamaker: 1964-1965, American-born English actress
  • Deborah Warner: 1970-1975, Stage and Film Director
  • Vincent Watts: 1951-1958, Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1997–2002)
  • Peter Way: 1948-1954, Novelist and Journalist
  • Justin Webb: 1972-1979, Journalist and Presenter, BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme