Famous LEGS

Being listed here as 'famous' does not undervalue the achievements of the rest of us.

Not in any order. Links may fail in time.

NAME	LEGS ERA	DESCRIPTION	Links
David Mannion	1960's	Editor in Chief of ITV news. Known as Wilf at school - c.1979
Simon Groom	1970's	Blue Peter Presenter? (taught English at school?)
Bill Bush	1980's?	Adviser to PM Tony Blair and also was with the BBC
James (Sutherland) Smith	1962-67	Prizewinning poet Gregory Award, 5-times winner in National Poetry Competition, 3-times winner in Times Literary Supplement Competition, 2-times winner in Cardiff International Poetry competition, 2-times winner in Bridport International Competition, 2-times winner in Exeter International competition, First prize winner in Peterloo Internation competition, numerous prizes in USA. The first and leading translator of Slovak poetry into English with eight books published in England, Canada and the USA. Took part in Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989 with post-revolution political education in universities and schools in Slovakia. At present English Language Advisor to the Serbian and Montenegrin Armed Forces (SMAF) as Manager of the Peacekeeping English Project.
Piers Smith	1964-1969	First Class honours Degree in English, a Distinction in his Masters degree and a PhD (Magna cum laudem) and is now Professor of Literature at the American University in Kuwait.
Tony Higton	1953-1962	Rev A. Higton, Chair(?) of the Methodist Council and, a few years ago, publicly opposed recognition and acceptance of gay people
John Walters	1960-57	John Walters, who was John Peel's producer and collaborator for most of his BBC DJ'ing, as well as being a BBC radio presenter himself. Died a few years ago. During his school days he used to serve in a music shop, Draycotts, which was on the canal bridge on Derby Road, Long Eaton.
Roy Webb	1957? 59?	Current Mayor of Derby (2005)	www.derby.gov.uk
Sue Campbell, CBE:	1960-1967	UK Sport's Chair
Michael Roger Winfield	1943- 1948	head-hunted by the Halle Orchestra. He played with the Bournemouth Symphony for some years and Principal Oboe with the Northern Symphonia.
Douglas ('Dougie') Squires		dancer and dance teacher that appeared on TV in the 1950s.
Sir Gordon Hobday	1927 -1934?	born 1 February 1916, Educated at Long Eaton C S S. and Nottingham University (BSc PhD LLD) Chairman of Boots from1972 to 1982, Lord Lt of Nottinghamshire 1983 - 91, Chancellor of Nottingham University.
Walter Gaze Cooper	1910?	musician conducted the Nottingham orchestra he had a daughter, Sylvia who was an artist and they lived at the large house on Tamworth Road	www.musicweb-international.com/BMSPROF.HTM
F L Attenborough	1913-15	joined the Staff for two years after first being a pupil at the school. He also married Mary Clegg - Samual Cleggs daughter. Father of Richard and David.
Douglas Houghton MP later Lord Houghton of Sowerby	1910s	One of Harold Wilson's Government Ministers from the 1960's - he came to a Speech Day in 1969 or 1970. When in the Lords he piloted the Animal Welfare Bill, which replaced the old Cruelty to Animals Act 1887, through Parliament. As far as I know, he is the only Old Scholar who has been en-elevated
Walter Beswick	1944-52	President of the British Veterinary Association in 1988/89
His Honour Keith Matthewman QC	1947 -1954	Judge at Nottingham Crown Court. Now retired and subject of a book called 'A Judge Too Far - written by Narvel Annable. It is a biography and there is a chapter on his schooldays whilst at Long Eaton Grammar School. (see the Books Section on this website).	Author's website: www.narvelannable.co.uk
Mike Hoskin	1950s	Became the founder manager of BBC Radio Cornwall - one of the most successful of all local radio stations. He now lives just outside Truro
Professor Sir Harry Godwin, FRS	b.1901	He went to Cambridge after school, stayed there, became Professor of Botany and was a leading expert on pollen counting. He is featured in the Natural History Museum, has a laboratory named after him etc. etc.
Edward Loxton Knight,	b. 1905	a local professional artist, influenced by Sam Clegg who introduced him to Japanese wood cuts.
Professor Alton of Oxford and his wife	b. 1919 d. 2003	R E "Reggie" Alton, later to become fellow and tutor in English, and bursar, at St Edmund Hall, Oxford Married in 1944 see below:
Jeannine Alton (nee Gentis )	b. 1922 d. 2007	Her obituary was in The Guardian recently and she was evidently an eminent French scholar at Oxford,and became and arts critic and an archivist. She and her future husband were the only scholars to get into Oxford at the time from the Long Eaton school.	http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2207991,00.html
T C Sharman (Tommy)		who was at the Foreign Office, an Ambassador