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Out of context: Reply #16

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  • kezza_20

    some famous peeps went there as well as myself...

    * George Herbert Walker, grandfather of the U.S. president George H. W. Bush and great-grandfather of George W. Bush
    * Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving and only Catholic signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
    * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes
    * St Thomas Garnet SJ, canonized saint and protomartyr of St Omers, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
    * Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish signatory of the Irish Proclamation of Independence who played a leading part in the Easter Rising, for which he was executed
    * Sir Frederick Weld, former Prime Minister of New Zealand
    * Eduardo Lopez de RomaƱa, former President of Peru

    Alumni currently in the public eye include:

    * Iain Balshaw, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
    * Kyran Bracken, English Rugby International, British and Irish Lion and World Cup Winner
    * Bill Cash, Member of Parliament; Shadow Attorney General
    * Crispian Hollis, Bishop of Portsmouth
    * Paul Johnson, journalist, editor of the New Statesman; awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom[97]
    * Mark Thompson, Current Director General of the BBC

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