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I would've said no-one, but after a quality 10 minutes on my old school's website I can tell you Edward Jenner, discoverer of the smallpox vaccine, went to my school.


Not as cool as a bunch of celebs, obviously, but it is posssibly the only disease to erradicated worldwide by vaccination.

We had a few: Ian McKellen, Mark Radcliffe, Ralf Little, Nigel Short (chess player) and a Nobel Prize winning chemist, Sir Harry Kroto (only I don't really know what he did).


Unfortunately, on the ladies' side, I think we can only "boast" Davinia Murphy / Taylor, of Hollyoaks and shagging it around with Kate Moss fame.

Roger Moore

Fern Britton

Kim Taylor AKA Magenta Devine (described in Wikipedia as "an independently wealthy heroin addict and publicity agent" before her move to TV under Janet Street Porter)

Rick Warden (Band of Brothers)

Greg Hands (MP)

Roger Hammond (cyclist)

Donald Stewert-Whyte AKA Abdul Waheed ("Two years after leaving was arrested in connection with the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot")

Carrie Wrote:

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> Louisiana - you went to the same school as I did!

> I never knew about Roger Moore


He was only there for a short bit, during the war I think.


So which year were you? I left in '78 (so two yrs behind Magenta and three behind Fern). Are you too young for the awful head Agnes McMaster? That dreadful woman went on to terrorise Croydon High School.


Have to say I loathed the place. Small-minded suburban defined.

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