Old Wykehamists: Who has attended the historic private school?
The £42,000-a-year Hampshire school is the alma mater of six chancellors: Henry Addington, Robert Lowe, Stafford Cripps, Hugh Gaitskell, Geoffrey Howe and Rishi Sunak.
Other senior government figures include former culture secretary John Whittingdale and former Tory minister Nick Boles.
In the world of film and TV, its alumni include Joss Whedon, the director behind the Avengers movie and the Buffy the Vampire TV series, as well as actors Hugh Dancy and Charles Edwards.
The school also taught several successful athletes including Olympic rower George Nash MBE, India s cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and George Mallory, the pioneering Everest mountaineer.