List of Old Shirburnians born in the 19th century

Sherborne is a British full boarding Public School located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset.

Founded in 705 AD by Aldhelm and, following the dissolution of the monasteries, re-founded in 1550 by King Edward VI, it is one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom and also in England.

The following are some of the notable old boys of Sherborne School who were born in the 19th century.

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Speaker of the House of Representatives, New Zealand Sir William Fitzherbert
QC and Conservative MP William Forsyth (barrister)
Diplomatist and intelligence officer in the Crimea Charles Robert Cattley
International lawyer Mountague Bernard
Crown Equerry in the Royal Household Colonel Sir George Ashley Maude
Designer of the Metford rifling William Ellis Metford
Anglo-Indian administrator and diplomat Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth
Professor of Greek and Latin at Johns Hopkins University Charles D'Urban Morris
academic, politician and poet Sir Lewis Morris
literary scholar and poet Ernest Hartley Coleridge
British colonial administrator in Africa Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden
Commander-in-Chief of India, Governor of Gibraltar General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro Bt
First class cricketer Sir Francis Eden Lacey
president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Sir James William Beeman Hodsdon
British Army officer in WWI Field Marshall Sir Claud William Jacob
Conservative MP and Governor-General of New Zealand Charles Bathurst, Viscount Bledisloe
Liberal MP, barrister, administrator, journalist, historian and writer Sir Harry Evan Auguste Cotton
Philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet John Cowper Powys
Last admiral to command Home Fleet during World War II Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore
Novelist and crime writer Anthony Berkeley Cox