List of Savile Club members

The Savile Club is a gentlemen's club in Mayfair, London, founded in 1868. From its earliest years the club drew a deliberately varied membership, with particular strength in literature, the arts, music and science; some 200 Fellows of the Royal Society were members between 1868 and 1923 alone. Members are known as Savilians.

Following are some the notable members of the Savile Club, drawn from the index to Garrett Anderson's history of the club and from the club's membership records. Dates are the year elected to the Savile Club.

Academia

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
John George Adami		Vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool, professor of pathology in McGill University, head of the pathological department of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
Frank Adcock		Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge
Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian		Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge; fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Churchill College, Cambridge; professor of cell physiology at the University of Cambridge
Sidney Ball	1896	Fellow of St John's College, Oxford
Frederick Banting	1932, honorary	Best Chair of Medical Research at the University of Toronto, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Percy Barnett		Superintendent of Education for the Colony of Natal and Chief Inspector of Training of Teachers in England
Frank Evers Beddard		Examiner in zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of London, lecturer in morphology at Oxford University, winner of the Linnean Medal
Vernon H. Blackman		Director of biological sciences and head of botany at Imperial College of Science and Technology
Alfred Gibbs Bourne		Director of the Indian Institute of Science, registrar and superintendent of the Government Museum, and professor of biology at Presidency College, Chennai
Gilbert Charles Bourne		Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the University of Oxford
Frederick Orpen Bower		Chair and professor in botany at the University of Glasgow
C. V. Boys		Physicist, assistant professor at the Royal College of Science, and examiner at the University of London.
A. C. Bradley	1886	Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford
C. D. Broad	1921	Lecturer in 'moral science at Cambridge University's Faculty of Philosophy
George Charles Brodrick	1868	Warden of Merton College, Oxford; historian
Alexander Crum Brown		Professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh
Gerard Baldwin Brown		Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh
E. A. Wallis Budge	1891	Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist with the British Museum
Ingram Bywater	1869	Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; Regius Professor of Greek of Christ Church, Oxford
Edward Provan Cathcart		Professor of physiological chemistry at the University of Glasgow
James Chadwick		Professor of physics at the University of Liverpool,received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron
Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie	1869	Professor of jurisprudence and political economy in Queen's College, Belfast
William Kingdon Clifford	1869	Professor of mathematics and mechanics at University College London
John Cockcroft		First master of Churchill College, Cambridge; chancellor of the Australian National University; director of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment; shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics
Sidney Colvin	1869	Slade Professor of Fine Art at Trinity College, Cambridge and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Bernard Crick		Professor of political theory at University of Sheffield and founder of the Department of Politics at Birkbeck, University of London
Heinrich Debus	1868	Professor of chemistry in at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Arthur Dendy		Professor of zoology at King's College London
James Johnston Dobbie		Head of chemistry at Bangor University
Wyndham Dunstan		Professor of chemistry and director of the Imperial Institute
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth	1871	Chair in economics at King's College London, Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University, and founding editor of The Economic Journal
John Bretland Farmer		Governor of The John Roan School and professor of botany at Imperial College London
John Ferguson		Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow
Niall Ferguson		Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University
M. R. D. Foot		Professor of modern history at Manchester University
Martin Onslow Forster		Chemist and director of the Indian Institute of Science
Gregory Foster		Provost of University College London and vice-chancellor of the University of London
Michael Foster	1868	Professor of practical physiology at University College London; chair of physiology at Trinity College, Cambridge; helped to organize the University of Cambridge Biological School
Herbert Foxwell		Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of London
Percy F. Frankland		Professor of chemistry at the University of Dundee and Mason Science College
Walter Gardiner		Fellow and botany lecturer at Clare College, Cambridge
Walter Garstang		Professor of zoology at the University of Leeds
Edmund Johnston Garwood		Yates-Goldsmid Professor of geology and mineralogy at London University
W. H. Gaskell		Physiologist at the physiological laboratory of the University of Cambridge
Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman	1958	Master of University College, Oxford
T. H. Green	1868	Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford
Joseph Gouge Greenwood	1868	Second principal of Owens College, Manchester and vice-chancellor of the Victoria University, Manchester
H. J. C. Grierson		Knight Professor of English literature at the University of Edinburgh
David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan		Head of the Botany Department at Birkbeck College and Reading University
Alfred Daniel Hall		Agricultural educator and ounder of Wye College
Basil Hammond		Historian and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Walter Noel Hartley		Chemistry professor at the Royal College of Science for Ireland
Philip Hartog		Vice-chancellor.of the University of Dhaka and academic registrar of the University of London
Gavin Henderson		Principal of Trinity College of Music and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Peter Hennessy		Attlee professor of contemporary British History at Queen Mary University of London
William Abbott Herdman		Demonstrator of zoology at the University of Edinburgh and derby chair of natural history at Liverpool University College
Dawes Hicks		Professor of moral philosophy at University College London
Cyril N. Hinshelwood	1922	Dr Lee's Professor at the University of Oxford and recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Micaiah John Muller Hill		Professor of pure mathematics at University College London
Shadworth Hodgson	1869	Philosopher and first president of the Aristotelian Society
David George Hogarth		Orientalist archaeologist; fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Frederick Gowland Hopkins	1918	Chair of biochemistry at the University of Cambridge; recipient of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
William Jack	1868	Professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow; editor of the Glasgow Herald
M. R. James	1889	Medievalist scholar; provost of King's College, Cambridge and Eton College; and vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Fleeming Jenkin	1869	Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh; inventor of the cable car or telpherage
Frederick Keeble		Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford and Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution
W. P. Ker		Professor of English literature and history at the University College of South Wales, Quain Professor at University College London, and lProfessor of Poetry at the University of Oxford
Frank Kermode		Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University; literary critic
William Henry Lang		Professor of cryptogamic botany at the University of Manchester
John Newport Langley		Professor of physiology at the University of Cambridge
Ray Lankester	1869	Invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist who held chairs at University College London and Oxford University; director of the Natural History Museum, London
Henry Lee-Warner	1868	Aassistant master in Rugby School, fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
Thomas Martin Lindsay		Professor and principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow
Archibald Liversidge		Dean of the Faculty of Science and professor of geology, chemistry and mineralogy at the University of Sydney
Norman Lockyer	1868	Professor of astronomical physics at the Royal College of Science; co-discoverer of the gas helium; and founder and first editor of Nature
Ernest MacBride		Marine biologist and professor of zoology at McGill University and Imperial College London
John William Mackail	1883	Oxford Professor of Poetry and assistant secretary of the Education Department of the Privy Council
Percy Alexander MacMahon		Mathematician; president of the London Mathematical Society
John Pentland Mahaffy	1871	Provost of Trinity College Dublin
Francis Marshall		Physiologist, fellow of Christ's College, and lecturer at University of Edinburgh and University of Cambridge
Sidney Martin		Professor of pathology att University College London and professor of clinical medicine at University College Hospital
Brander Matthews		Professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University
James Mavor	1869	Professor of political economy of the University of Toronto
William McCormick		Secretary of the Carnegie Trust and was a professor at University College, Dundee
J. M. E. McTaggart	1894	Fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College
Henry Alexander Miers		Professor of crystallography and vice chancellor at the Victoria University of Manchester
Edward Alfred Minchin		Chair of zoology at University College London and chair of protozoology at the University of London
William Mollison		Mathematician and Master of Clare College, Cambridge
Theodore Morison		Principal of Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College and Armstrong College; vice-chancellor of Durham University; and member of the Council of India
Edward W. Morley		Professor of chemistry at Western Reserve College and Cleveland Medical College
Robert Alexander Neil	1877	Senior tutor and lecturer in Sanskrit at Pembroke College, Cambridge
Walther Nernst	1912	Professor of chemistry at the University of Göttingen; recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Francis Wall Oliver		Professor of botany at University College London
William Peterson		Principal of McGill University
Walter Alison Phillips		Lecky chair of History in Trinity College Dublin
William Jackson Pope		Chair of chemistry at the Manchester Municipal School of Technology
Edward Bagnall Poulton		Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford
Reginald Punnett		Professor of biology and the first Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge; co-founder of the Journal of Genetics and creator of the Punnett square
Thomas Purdie		Professor of Cchemistry at St Andrews University
Philip Pye-Smith	1863	Vice-chancellor of the University of London; physician and medical scientist
Thomas Raleigh		Vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, chair of the Indian Universities Commission, and fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Robert Heron Rastall		Geologist, lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and co-editor-in-chief of Geological Magazine
Henry Reichel		Founder and vice-chancellor of the University of Wales; first principal of the University College of North Wales
George Croom Robertson	1871	Professor of philosophy of mind and logic at University College, London
Ernest Rutherford		Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge; recipient of the1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
George Saintsbury	1874	Professor of rhetoric and English literature at the University of Edinburgh; literary critic for the Saturday Review
Arthur Schuster	1879	Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at University of Manchester
Adam Sedgwick		Professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Imperial College London and chairman of the Geological Survey of Great Britain
Charles Gabriel Seligman		Physician, ethnologist, and professor at the London School of Economics
Napier Shaw		Assistance director of the Cavendish Laboratory; professor of meteorology at Imperial College, London
Charles Scott Sherrington		Holt Professor of physiology at the University of Liverpool; Waynflete Chair of Physiology at Magdalen College, Oxford; superintendent of the Brown Institute for Advanced Physiological and Pathological Research of the University of London; co-recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Arthur Shipley		Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge; Master of Christ's College, Cambridge
Arthur Sidgwick	1868	Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge
Henry Sidgwick	1868	Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge
Henry Simson		Co-founder of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
William Robertson Smith	1875	Chair in Hebrew at the Aberdeen Free Church College, minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Balfour Stewart	1863	Langworthy chair of physics at of physics at Owens College; director of Kew Observatory
John Alexander Stewart		Philosopher; professor and classical lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh		Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and recipient of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics
James Sully	1875	Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London
Arthur Tansley		Sherardian Professor of Botany at the University of Oxford; pioneer in the science of ecology
Charles Sanford Terry	1914	Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History and Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson		Professor of natural history at University College, Dundee; pioneer of mathematical and theoretical biology
J. J. Thomson	1883	Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge; recipient of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics
John Millar Thomson		Chemist and vice-principal of King's College London
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin		Mathematician, professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow
Richard Threlfall		Chemist and engineer who established the School of Physics at the University of Sydney
Hugh Trevor-Roper		Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford
John Tyndall		Professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain known for his study of diamagnetism
William Unwin		Chair of hydraulic and mechanical engineering at the Royal Indian Engineering College
John Venn	1869	Mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams
Augustus Desiré Waller		Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution, London
James Ward	1880	Chair of mental philosophy and logic at Trinity College, Cambridge
William Watson		Professor of physics at the Royal College of Science
Alfred North Whitehead	1911	Professor of applied mathematics at Imperial College London, dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of London
Spenser Wilkinson	1905	Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University
Alexander William Williamson	1868	Professor and chair of general chemistry at the University College, London
George MacKinnon Wrong		Professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Toronto

Art and architecture

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Michael Ayrton		Painter, printmaker, sculptor, and writer
Eustace Balfour	1876	Architect
Max Beerbohm	1899	Caricaturist, essayist, and parodist
Oswald Birley		Portrait artist
John Brett	1868	Painter
Henry Harris Brown		Portrait artist
Basil Champneys	1869	Architect
George Vicat Cole	1868	Painter
Lionel Cust		Art historian and director of the National Portrait Gallery
Frederick Thomas Dalton		Caricaturist for Vanity Fair
Henry William Banks Davis	1868	Painter of landscapes and animals
George Frampton	1898	Sculptor and leading member of the New Sculpture movement
Vaughan Grylls		Artist, photographer, director of Kent Institute of Art & Design, and co-founder of the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone & Rochester
Cecil Harcourt-Smith		Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum and Ddirector of the Victoria and Albert Museum
George Percy Jacomb-Hood	1892	Painter, etcher, and illustrator
John Lockwood Kipling		Illustrator, museum curator, and art teacher
David Low		Political cartoonist and caricaturist
Paul Oppé	1904	Deputy director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
William Orpen	1909	Draughtsman and portrait painter; war artist during World War I
John Charles Robinson		Painter, etcher, and curator of the Museum of Ornamental Art at Marlborough House and South Kensington Museum
William Rothenstein	1908	Painter, printmaker, and principal at the Royal College of Art
James Sant	1868	Principal Court Painter in Ordinary to Queen Victoria
Simeon Solomon	1868	Painter
Harold Speed		Painter
George Adolphus Storey	1868	Portrait painter, genre painter and illustrator
Hamo Thornycroft	1883	Sculptor and leading member of the New Sculpture movement
Henry Tonks	1901	Painter
John Tweed		Sculptor
Paul Waterhouse		Architect
John Reinhard Weguelin	1896	Painter and illustrator
Victor Weisz	1953	Political cartoonist
Harry Ellis Wooldridge		Chief designer for James Powell and Sons, stained glass makers
Thomas Woolner	1868	Sculptor and poet

Business

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein	1946	Chairman of Granada Group and the founder of Granada Television
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley		CEO of BP and member of the House of Lords
William Broderick Cloete		Industrialist
Erasmus Darwin IV	1909	Director of Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company; secretary of Bolckow and Vaughan; engineer with Mather & Platt
George Gibb		General manager of the North Eastern Railway, managing director of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London
Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms		President and chairman of Currys plc
Walter Leaf		Chairman of Westminster Bank; co-founder and president of the International Chamber of Commerce
Alexander MacMillan	1868	Co-founder of Macmillan Publishers
John Murray III	1868	Publisher with John Murray
George Haven Putnam		President of G. P. Putnam's Sons
Wilfrid Voynich		Antiquarian and bibliophile who operated one of the largest rare book businesses in the world

Education

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
James Bonar		Helped establish the London Ethical Society, later the London School of Ethics and Philosophy
Cyril Jackson		Inspector general schoold and head of the education department of Western Australia
John Edward King		Headmaster of Bedford School and Clifton College; high master of Manchester Grammar School
James Surtees Phillpotts	1868	Headmaster of Bedford School and the author and editor of educational books
W. H. D. Rouse		Master of Rugby School, headmaster of The Perse School, Greek and Latin translator, and founding editor of the Loeb Classical Library

Entertainment

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Michael Balcon		film producer with Ealing Studios
Colin Brazier		presenter for Sky News Today
Charles Brookfield	1877	Actor and playwright known for The Belle of Mayfair
Charlie Chaplin	1956, honorary	Actor and filmmaker
Michael Croft		Actor, playwright, and journalist
Robert Donat		Academy Award winning actor known for The Count of Monte Cristo, The 39 Steps, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Valentine Dyall		Character actor
Jimmy Edwards		Comedy actor and writer
St. John Greer Ervine	1922	Dramatist and theatre manager
Frederick Fenn		Playwright and drama critic known for The Girl in the Taxi
James Fisher		Presenter for the BBC Radio series Birds In Britain
Edward Fox		Actor who won the BAFTA Film Award for The Go-Between and A Bridge Too Far
Stephen Fry		Actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster
Val Gielgud		Writer, director and broadcaster
Laurence Gilliam		BBC radio producer
Kenneth Haigh		Actor
Gilbert Harding		Actor, disc jockey, interviewer and television presenter
Henry Irving	1875	Stage actor and manager
Joseph McGrath		Film and television director and screenwriter
John Merton		Film actor
Braham Murray		Theatre director; founding director of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester
Gareth Neame		BBC television director and producer
Ronald Neame		Filmmaker and cinematographer
Simon Oates		Actor
Roy Plomley		Radio broadcaster, producer, and writer known for the BBC Radio series Desert Island Discs
Michael Powell		Film director
Emeric Pressburger		Screenwriter, director, and producer
Ralph Richardson		Stage actor
Robert Robinson		Radio and television presenter known for Ask the Family
Bill Simpson		Film and television actor known for Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Petroc Trelawny		BBC Radio 3. classical music radio and television broadcaster
Simon Ward		Stage and film actor known for Young Winston
Huw Wheldon		BBC executive and broadcaster

Government

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
William Bankes Amery		Controller of the Export Licensing Department of the Board of Trade and head of the United Kingdom Food Mission to Australia with the Ministry of Food
Alan Barlow	1909	Principal Private Secretary to Ramsay MacDonald and under-secretary at HM Treasury
Bryan Donkin		Commissioner of prisons, director of convict prisons, and medical adviser to the Prison Commission
George William Forrest		Director of Bombay Records, assistant secretary of the Government of India, and director of the Government of India Records
Frank Heath		Director of special enquiries and reports and assistant secretary of the universities branch of the Board of Education, secretary to the department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Arthur Hirtzel		Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India
Godfrey Lushington	1868	Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office
Daniel Morris		Botanist, director of the Jamaica Botanic Department, assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Imperial Commissioner for the West Indian Agricultural Department
Frederick Needham		Commissioner in Lunacy of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency; medical superintendent of York Asylum and Barnwood House Hospital
Hodgson Pratt	1868	Under-secretary to the government of Bengal; founder of the International Arbitration and Peace Association
Richard Redmayne		Chief Inspector of Mines for the Home Office; chair in mining engineering at the University of Birmingham.

Law

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
John Winfield Bonser		Chief justice of British Ceylon
Ralph B. Cator		Judge of the H.B.M. Supreme Consular Court for the Ottoman Empire; head of the International Mixed Court of Appeals in Egypt
Charles Chadwyck-Healey		High Sheriff of Somerset, Justice of the Peace, and lawyer
James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde		Lord Justice General, Lord Advocate, and Solicitor General for Scotland
Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge	1917	Judge of the High Court of Justice and Member of Parliament
Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy	1883	Queen's Counsel, judge, Master of the Rolls, and Member of Parliament
William Rann Kennedy		Lord Justice of Appeal
Perceval Maitland Laurence		Judge president of the High Court of Griqualand; chairman of the War Losses Compensation Commission and the Transvaal Delimitation Commissions
Alexander Waldemar Lawrence		Chief assistant solicitor to the HM Treasury; justice of the peace for Somerset
Frederick Francis Liddell		First Parliamentary Counsel and King's Counsel
Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham	1893	Lord Chancellor, House of Lords, judge of the High Court of Justice (chancery division), Lord Justice of Appeal, Privy Council, and, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Walter Phillimore, 1st Baron Phillimore	1868	Lord Justice of Appeal and justice of the High Court
Alfred Chichele Plowden		Metropolitan Police magistrate of the Marlborough Street Magistrates Court
Havilland de Sausmarez		Chief judge of the British Supreme Court for China; president of the full court of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong; judge of the Supreme Consular Court for the Ottoman Empire
A. H. Simpson		Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

Literature and journalism

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Richard Adams		Novelist known for Watership Down, Maia, Shardik, and The Plague Dogs.
John Black Atkins		War correspondent for the Manchester Guardian
Thomas Spencer Baynes	1868	Editor-in-chief of Encyclopædia Britannica; essayist for Edinburgh Review and Fraser's Magazine; professor of logic and English literature at the University of St Andrews
Walter Besant	1873	Novelist
John Sutherland Black		Literary editor and contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica and Dictionary of National Biography
Algernon Blackwood	1908	Novelist and short story writer
Malcolm Bradbury		Novelist and professor of American studies at the University of East Anglia
Robert Bridges		Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Erskine Childers	1903	Novelist
Edward Clodd		Biographer and folklorist
Theodore Andrea Cook		Author, editor of the St. James Gazette and The Field, winner of the silver medal in the art competitions at the 1920 Olympic Games
James Sutherland Cotton		Author and editor of The Academy
Jonathan Davis		Columnist for The Independent and Financial Times; journalist with The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, and The Economist
Michael de la Bédoyère		Biographer, editor of the Catholic Herald, and founded the magazine Search
Maurice Druon		Novelist and "Perpetual Secretary" of the Académie Française between 1985 and 1999.
Richardson Evans		Journalist
Edward G. Fairholme		Chief secretary of the RSPCA and editor of its The Animal World; writer for The Academy, The Nineteenth Century, The Outlook, and The Sketch
James Fitzmaurice-Kelly		Writer on Spanish literature and Hispanic culture
Hamilton Fyfe		Editor of Daily Mirror and the Daily Herald
J. L. Garvin	1906	Editor of The Observer
A. D. Godley		Poet and Public Orator at the University of Oxford
William Golding		Novelist, playwright, and poet best known for Lord of the Flies; winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature
Edmund Gosse	1876	Poet, author, and critic who lectured in English literature at Cambridge University
Winston Graham		Novelist known for the Poldark series
Frederick Greenwood	1868	Journalist, founding editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and St James's Gazette
John Hadfield		Writer and publisher, best known for Love on a Branch Line
H. Rider Haggard	1887	Writer of adventure fiction romances
Alfred Egmont Hake	1879	Author and social thinker
Patrick Hamilton		Playwright and novelist, known for the plays Rope and Gas Light
Thomas Hardy		Novelist and poet
Austin Harrison		Journalist and editor of The English Review
E. S. P. Haynes		Writer
William Ernest Henley	1883	Poet, writer, critic, and editor
Henry Higgs		Historian of economic thought, assistant editor of The Economic Journal, and contributor to the Dictionary of Political Economy
Anthony Hope		Novelist and playwright known for The Prisoner of Zenda
E. W. Hornung	1913	Author and poet
Richard Holt Hutton	1868	Co-editor of the National Review and the Spectator
Henry James	1883	Novelist known for The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl
Charles Francis Keary		Novelist, historian, and scholar
Benjamin Kidd		Author of Social Evolution
Patrick Kidd		Journalist, author, and blogger specialising in sport
Rudyard Kipling	1891	Journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer known for the The Jungle Book duology
Frederick Harcourt Kitchin		Novelist and publisher of The Times Financial and Commercial Supplement
Edward Frederick Knight		Nonfiction author and war correspondent
Andrew Lang	1871	Poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology
Daniel Conner Lathbury	1868	Editor of the The Guardian; joint-editor of The Economist
John le Carré		Novelist
Robin Legge		Chief music critic of The Daily Telegraph
Charles Godfrey Leland	1879	Humorist and folklorist
Quentin Letts		Journalist and theatre critic for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and The Oldie
Eric Linklater		Poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer
Sidney Royse Lysaght		Writer and poet
Maarten Maartens		Writer
Percy Ewing Matheson	1888	Writer
A. A. Milne	1908	Writer best known for children's books about Winnie-the-Pooh
Mike Molloy		Newspaper editor, cartoonist, and writer of children's books
Robert Hope Moncrieff		Author of children's fiction and of Black's Guides
James Augustus Cotter Morison	1879	Essayist and historian
Frank Muir		Comedy writer; radio and television personality
Frederic W. H. Myers	1868	Poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research
Henry Newbolt	1902	Poet, novelist, and historian
Alfred Ollivant		Novelist, known for Owd Bob
Walter Pater	1869	Essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer
Coventry Patmore	1874	Poet and literary critic
Charles Kegan Paul	1868	Author, minister, and owner of C. Kegan Paul & Co. publishing
Stephen Potter		Writer best known for parodies of self-help books
J. B. Priestley		Novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster, and social commentator
John Pudney		Poet, journalist, and author
T. W. Rolleston		Poet, writer, and translator
Robbie Ross	1893	Journalist, art critic, and art dealer
Anthony Sampson		Nonfiction writer and publisher
Owen Seaman		Writer, journalist, and poet best known as the editor of Punch magazine
Stephen Spender		Poet, novelist, and United States Poet Laureate
C. P. Snow		Novelist
James Suckling		Wine and cigar critic
Robert Louis Stevenson	1874	Novelist, essayist, and poet known for Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped
Lytton Strachey	1909	Biographer; author of Eminent Victorians
G. S. Street		Critic, journalist and novelist
Frank Swinnerton	1922	Author of more than fifty books
John Todhunter	1879	Poet and playwright
H. M. Tomlinson		Writer, novelist, journalist, and essayist
Hugh Walpole	1911	Novelist
H. B. Marriott Watson		Novelist, journalist, playwright, and short-story writer
Henry Edward Watts	1868	Journalist and author on Spanish topics, best known for his translation of Don Quixote
Arthur Waugh		Author, literary critic, and publisher
Evelyn Waugh		Writer of novels, biographies, and travel books
H. G. Wells		Writer known for The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds
John George Wood	1868	Writer who popularised natural history; chaplain to the Boatmen's Floating Chapel at Oxford and St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
W. B. Yeats	1917	Poet, dramatist, writer, and literary critic; recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature; and senator of the Irish Free State

Medicine

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Henry Charlton Bastian	1868	Physician with the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic; professor of clinical medicine at the UCL Medical School
Arthur Bell		Physician and consultant paediatrician with Charing Cross Hospital and Belgrave Hospital for Children
Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet	1868	Pathologist for Haslar Hospital; museum curator and assistant physician of the London Hospital
Robert Walter Doyne		Ophthalmologist and founder of the Oxford Eye Hospital
Thomas Watts Eden		Obstetric physician to Charing Cross Hospital and consulting surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Hospital
George Fayad		Chairman of the ear, nose, and throat department at the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Edwin Hurry Fenwick		Urologist
Edmund Gurney	1875	Psychologist and parapsychologist
Bernard Hart	1915	Physician for psychological medicine at University College Hospital
Ernest Hart	1868	Ophthalmic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London; editor of the British Medical Journal
Henry Head		Neurologist
Frederic William Hewitt		Honorary member of staff of the King Edward VII's Hospital; anaesthetist at the London Hospital
George Makins		Surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital
Charles Martin		Director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
Henry Maudsley		Psychiatrist at the West London Hospital
Charles Mercier		Psychiatrist and leading expert on forensic psychiatry and insanity
Charles Samuel Myers		Physician who worked as a psychologist
Edmund Owen		Resident medical officer and lecturer of anatomy at St Mary's Hospital, London
Joseph Frank Payne	1868	Physician, epidemiologist, and medical historian
Henry George Plimmer		Doctor and medical researcher with Cancer Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, London; director of the cancer laboratories of Lister Institute
Marc Armand Ruffer		Pioneer of modern paleopathology; first director of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine; professor of bacteriology at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
Charles Rycroft		Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Arthur Shadwell		Physician; medical advisor to the Metropolitan Asylums Board; trustee for the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses; assistant physician at the Sussex County Hospital; and writer about public health and temperance
James Sherren		Surgeon at The London Hospital
Samuel Squire Sprigge		House surgeon at the West London Hospital; house physician with Brompton Hospital; editor of The Lancet
Cuthbert Wallace		Surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital

Military

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Freddie Spencer Chapman		British Army officer during World War II
Henry Karslake		British Army Lieutenant-General
T. E. Lawrence	1918; temporary honorary member	British Army officer, diplomat and writer known for his role in the Arab Revolt and Sinai and Palestine campaign
William Macpherson		Major General of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Vivian Dering Majendie	1868	Chief Inspector of Explosives; captain instructor and assistant superintendent at the Royal Arsenal
Aubrey Dean Paul		British Army captain in the Northumberland Fusiliers
George Pirie Thomson		Rear Admiral in the British Royal Navy; Britain's Chief Press Censor during World War II

Music

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
William Alwyn		Composer of more than 200 cinematic scores
Julian Anderson		Composer and teacher of composition
Richard Arnell		Composer of classical music
Malcolm Arnold		Composer and conductor
Martin James Bartlett		Classical pianist
Arthur Benjamin		Composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher
Arthur Bliss		Composer and conductor
Adrian Boult	1916	Conductor
Francis Chagrin		Composer
Walter Willson Cobbett		Sponsored competitions for the composition of new chamber music works, endowed the Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music, and compiled Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music
H. C. Colles	1919	Organist and music critic
Edward Joseph Dent	1905	Musicologist and music critic
Edward Elgar		Composer
Gervase Elwes		Tenor
Douglas Fox		Pianist, organist, and music teacher
H. Balfour Gardiner		Conductor
Ron Goodwin		Composer and conductor
Harry Plunket Greene		Baritone singer
Bernard Herrmann		Composer
Herbert Howells	1922	Composer, organist, and teacher
Norman Kay		Composer
Charles Harford Lloyd		Composer and organist
Andrew Lloyd Webber		Composer and impresario of musical theatre
William Lloyd Webber		Organist and composer
John Alexander Fuller Maitland		Music scholar and critic
Muir Mathieson		Conductor
Hubert Parry		Composer, teacher, and music historian
André Previn		Conductor, composer, and pianist
Roger Quilter		Composer
John Scott		Composer and jazz musician
Cecil Sharp		Composer and collector of folk songs, folk dances, and instrumental music
Arthur Somervell		Composer and educationalist
William Barclay Squire		Musicologist, head of the music department at the British Museum, and librettist
Charles Villiers Stanford		Conductor and composer
A. H. Fox Strangways		Musicologist
Virgil Thomson		Composer and music critic
William Walton		Composer

Politics

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Leo Abse		Member of Parliament
Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet	1868	Deputy Warden of the Stannaries, Member of Parliament, High Sheriff of Devon
Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet	1868	Member of Parliament, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education
Samuel Baker	1868	Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda), Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, explorer of central Africa
Arthur Balfour		Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Member of Parliament
Humphry Berkeley		Member of Parliament
Stopford Brooke		Member of Parliament
Annan Bryce		Member of Parliament and Legislative Council of Burma
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce	1868	British Ambassador to the United States, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and President of the Board of Trade
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton	1887	Viceroy and Governor-General of India; British Ambassador to France
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll	1868	Secretary of State for India, Lord Privy Seal, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
John Frederick Cheetham	1868	Member of Parliament; cotton manufacturer
Henry Cotton		Member of Parliament and president of the Indian National Congress
Harold Cox		Member of Parliament
Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton		Paymaster General
Charles Crosthwaite		Chief Commissioner of Burma
Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet	1868	Privy Council, Member of Parliament, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for East Lothian
Leonard Darwin	1871	Member of Parliament
Walter Edward Davidson		Governor of New South Wales, Governor of Newfoundland, Governor of the Seychelles
Ronald Dalzell, 12th Earl of Carnwath		Peer of Scotland
Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet	1872	Member of Parliament and President of the Local Government Board
Patrick Duncan		Governor-General of South Africa; Minister for the Interior, Education and Public Health; House of Assembly (South Africa)
H. A. L. Fisher		Member of Parliament, President of the Board of Education
William Edward Forster	1868	Chief Secretary for Ireland, Member of Parliament
Clement Freud		Member of Parliament and Lord Rector of the University of St Andrews
Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool		Governor of New Zealand and Governor-General of New Zealand
Julian Goldsmid	1868	Member of Parliament
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen	1887	First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Member of Parliament
Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham		Governor of Kenya, Member of Parliament
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava	1868	Viceroy and Governor-General of India, Governor General of Canada, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and British Ambassador to France
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava		Speaker of the Senate of Northern Ireland
William Harcourt	1869	Member of Parliament, Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the Opposition
David Hardman		Member of Parliament
Francis Capel Harrison	1896	Member of Parliament and London County Council
Thomas Hart-Davies		Member of Parliament
Jerry Hayes		Member of Parliament
James Headlam-Morley		Foreign office specialist on the British Empire Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference
A. P. Herbert	1868	Member of Parliament
Auberon Herbert	1868	Member of Parliament
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon	1868	Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Robert Herbert	1868	1st Premier of Queensland, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
James Heywood	1868	Member of Parliament; royal commissioner for the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge
Thomas Hughes	1868	Member of Parliament; author known for Tom Brown's School Days
Frederick John Jackson		Lieutenant-Governor of the East African Protectorate and Governor of Uganda
Richard Claverhouse Jebb	1868	Member of Parliament; Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge
Robert Kennard	1868	Member of Parliament, Sheriff of London and Middlesex, founder of Blaenavon Coal and Iron Company
Seymour King		Member of Parliament and first Mayor of Kensington
George Blundell Longstaff		London County Council, justice of the peace, and Poor Law guardian
Compton Mackenzie	1912	Co-founder of the National Party of Scotland; writer of fiction, biography, and histories
Bryan Magee		Member of Parliament
Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway	1871	Member of Parliament
Henry McMahon		British High Commissioner to Egypt
Edward Miall	1868	Member of Parliament, former of the British Anti-State-Church Association
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton	1868	Member of Parliament and poet
John Morley	1868	Chief Secretary for Ireland, Member of Parliament, Secretary of State for India, and Lord President of the Council
Philip Morrell		Member of Parliament
Alfred Morrison	1868	High Sheriff of Wiltshire; collector of art, autographs, and manuscripts
Walter Morrison	1868	Member of Parliament
Francis Mowatt	1868	Alderman of the London County Council; civil servant at the Head of the Treasury
Ernest Noel	1868	Member of Parliament; chairman of the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh	1868	First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and President of the Board of Trade
William Palliser	1868	Member of Parliament
Edward Reed	1868	Member of Parliament; Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy; naval architect
William Pember Reeves		High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Minister of Labour, Minister of Education, and New Zealand Parliament
George Scott Robertson		Member of Parliament; Surgeon Major with the Indian Medical Service and the Indian Foreign Office
Cecil Spring Rice		British Ambassador to the United States
Everard im Thurn		Governor of Fiji
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham		Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, President of the Board of Trade, Secretary of State for Employment, and Minister without Portfolio

Religion

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
William Colvin		Church of England priest and Dean of Killala
Mandell Creighton	1869	Church of England Bishop of London and academic
John Llewelyn Davies	1868	Honorary Chaplain to the Queen; vicar of Christ Church, Marylebone and Kirkby Lonsdale
William George Lawes		Congregationalist minister and missionary in New Guinea
Christopher Lowson		Church of England Bishop of Lincoln
Derek Pattinson		Secretary-general of the General Synod of the Church of England
Edmund Pearce		Church of England Bishop of Derby
John Tims		Archdeacon of Calgary
Richard St John Tyrwhitt	1869	Vicar of St Mary Magdalen's Church, Oxford; author about art and religion

Science and technology

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
Francis William Aston	1920	Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Mark Barr		Electrical engineer, physicist, inventor, and polymath
Francis Arthur Bather		Palaeontologist, geologist, and keeper of the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum
Horace Tabberer Brown		Chemist with Worthington Brewery
William Christie	1881	Astronomer Royal at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich
Charles Galton Darwin	1919	Physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory
Francis Darwin	1882	Botanist who worked with his father Charles Darwin
George Darwin	1870	Astronomer known for the harmonic analysis of the theory of tides
William Erasmus Darwin	1871	Subject of child development studies by Charles Darwin
Arthur Eddington	1920	Astronomer with the Royal Observatory
Ronald Fisher		Founder of quantitative genetics; created the foundations for modern statistical sciences
Lazarus Fletcher		Geologist; director and keeper of mineralogy at the Natural History Museum
Sidney Frederic Harmer		Superintendent of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology; Keeper of Zoology and director of the Natural History Museum, London
Walter Heape		Zoologist known for the first successful mammalian embryo transfer
Arthur William Hill		Botanist; director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Julian Huxley		Evolutionary biologist, secretary of the Zoological Society of London, and the first director of UNESCO
Peter Chalmers Mitchell		Zoologist, secretary of the Zoological Society of London, creator of Whipsnade Zoo
Charles Algernon Parsons	1919	Mechanical engineer and who designed the modern steam turbine; founder of C. A. Parsons and Company
Henry Harold Welch Pearson		Botanist, founder of Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Reginald Innes Pocock		Zoologist with the Natural History Museum, London and superintendent of the London Zoo
David Prain	1906	Botanist and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
George Romanes	1879	Evolutionary biologist and physiologist who invented comparative psychology
Charles Rothschild		Entomologist and founder of the UK's first nature reserve
Alexander Scott		Director of scientific research at the British Museum
Dukinfield Henry Scott		Botanist; first keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and assistant professor in biology at the Royal College of Science
Frederick Selous	1894	Explorer, professional hunter, and conservationist
Charles Michie Smith		Astronomer; founder and first director of the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
Herbert Huntingdon Smith		Naturalist and amateur conchologist who worked on the flora and fauna of Brazil
Herbert Spencer		Biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist who originated the expression "survival of the fittest"
Hermann Sprengel		Chemist who discovered the explosive nature of picric acid
Otto Stapf		Botanist and keeper of the herbarium at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Oldfield Thomas		Zoologist with the Natural History Museum, London

Sports

Name	Year	Notability	Ref.
C. B. Fry		Cricketer
Cecil Headlam		Cricketer
Tony Miles		Chess grandmaster
Charles Edmund Newton-Robinson	1910	Fencer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics

Fictional members

Fictional Savilians include Bill Haydon, the intelligence officer in John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; William French, the wine merchant in Alexander McCall Smith's The Dog Who Came in from the Cold; and Samuel Ordington-Mortimer in The Spectator.

See also

• List of London's gentlemen's clubs