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Dame Anne Mills
Class of 1967 (GCSE)
Dame Anne Mills
Dame Anne Jane Mills is a British authority on health economics. She is Deputy Director and Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was educated at Aston Clinton Primary School, at AHS for her GCSEs, and at Oxford High School for her A Levels. She studied history and economics at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1973.She completed a postgraduate diploma in Health Service Studies at the University of Leeds in 1976. She undertook postgraduate research in health economics at the University of London, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1990. Mills' major domain of research is on ways of providing efficient and equitable health care in low- and middle-income countries. Her work began in the 1980s in Nepal on the cost-effectiveness of interventions for malaria. She is a member of the Disease Control Priorities Project. Mills has been Vice-Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 2011. She became a Foreign Associate of the Institute of Medicine in 2006, President of the International Health Economics Association in 2012 and joined the Board of Health Systems Global the same year. In the 2007 New Year Honours, Mills was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to Medicine". In the 2015 New Year Honours, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) "for services to international health". Mills was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013.
Dame Anne Mills
Dame Anne Jane Mills is a British authority on health economics. She is Deputy Director and Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She was educated at Aston Clinton Primary School, at AHS for her GCSEs, and at Oxford High School for her A Levels. She studied history and economics at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1973.Alex Ridout
Class of 2015 (GCSE)
Alex Ridout
Alex began playing the trumpet at the age of nine after also learning guitar, recorder, and piano. She studied at AHS for her GCSEs, then went to the Purcell School for Young Musicians.
At the age of 14, she got into the Junior Department of The Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship. A year later, she also got into the Junior Jazz course at The Royal Academy of Music.
Ridout won the jazz award for BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016, where she competed against her brother Tom and three other jazz musicians.
Ridout leads her own band, The Alexandra Ridout Quintet, and is also a member of The Ridouts, a family band with her brother Tom (saxophone), father Mark (guitar), Tristan Mailliot (drums), and Flo Moore (bass). She is also a full-time member in The National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
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Rowan Carroll
Class of 1989
Rowan Carroll
Rowan is a British rower. She competed in the women's eight event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was part of the quadruple sculls that won the national title rowing for the NCRA at the 1995 National Championships, she also gained a silver in the single sculls.
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Lynda Bellingham, OBE
Class of 1966
Lynda Bellingham
Lynda Bellingham
Linda was born Meredith Hughes in Montreal to a single mother and adopted at four months of age. Bellingham was educated at Aylesbury High School and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Linda was an English actress, broadcaster and author. She acted in television series such as All Creatures Great and Small, Doctor Who, Second Thoughts and Faith in the Future. She was also known for her appearances as the mother in the long-running series of "Oxo Family" British TV advertisements between 1983 and 1999, and as a panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women between 2007 and 2011.
In 2012, she presented her own cookery series called My Tasty Travels with Lynda Bellingham. The following year, she presented the ITV programme Country House Sunday.
Bellingham joined Loose Women on 10 April 2007, and continued as a regular on the show until 2011. In all, Bellingham made more than 300 appearances on the show, including a special appearance in 2014 shortly before her death. Two editions of Loose Women were dedicated to Bellingham after her death.
In 2010, Bellingham launched her book Lost and Found, a story of her life and career and toured the country for private readings. Her novel Tell Me Tomorrow was published in 2013. In 2014, Bellingham's autobiography, There's Something I'm Dying to Tell You, was issued shortly before her death. Her final story, The Boy I Love was published posthumously in November 2014.Emma Brockes
Class of 1994
Emma Brockes
Emma is a British author and a contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times who lives in New York.
The daughter of a South-African-born mother, after finishing Aylesbury High School Emma read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University graduating in 1997 with a first. At Oxford, she was editor of the student newspaper Cherwell and won the Philip Geddes prize for journalism for her work. She worked briefly as feature writer on The Scotsman, before joining The Guardian in 1997. She has been recognised by the British Press Awards three times, winning the "Young Journalist of the Year" award in 2001 and the "Feature Writer of the Year" award in 2002. She was nominated as "Interviewer of the Year" in 2006.
Brockes's first book, What Would Barbra Do?, was published in 2007. The New York Times Book Review responded: "Spirited, articulate and utterly devourable ... If I could offer [Brockes] any advice, it would be ... to write as many books on as many subjects as she can, as fast as is reasonably possible." Another book She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me appeared in 2013 and featured as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.
She is now a freelance writer, but continues to write profiles of major public figures for The Guardian, as well as contributing her own work to The New York Times and other publications.
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Claire Foy
Class of 2002
Claire Foy
Claire left AHS in 2002 after which studied drama at Liverpool John Moores University and the Oxford School of Drama, then made her screen debut in the pilot episode of the supernatural comedy series Being Human (2008). Following her professional stage debut at the Royal National Theatre, she played the title role in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit (2008) and made her film debut in the American historical fantasy drama Season of the Witch (2011). Following leading roles in the television series The Promise (2011) and Crossbones (2014), Foy received praise for portraying the ill-fated queen Anne Boleyn in the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015).
Foy rose to global prominence with her portrayal of the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 2018, she starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane and portrayed Janet Shearon, wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man. For the latter she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award, and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Early brushes with more than one medical ailment ended up influencing the rest of Foy's life. For the November 2018 issue of Vogue, Foy tells Nathan Heller that she was an awkward and insecure high-school student who had arthritis, and who kept to herself. I looked shit, I was shit at everything, and my life was going to be a disaster—that's definitely what I felt, she says. During Foy's final year of high school, a tumour (ultimately benign) was found behind one of her eyes. She underwent surgery and steroid therapy, though with steroids come all sorts of things an 18-year-old girl shouldn't have to think about, like putting on loads of weight and this thing called 'moon face,' where you gain water in your face and become almost unrecognizable. And acne, and having a massive eye with black stitches in it, she says to Heller. I didn't care, because I was alive. After recuperating, Foy saved up some funds, deferred from university in Liverpool for a year, and travelled to New York, where she stayed with a friend in a youth hostel in Harlem and toured the city by foot. When she returned, she enrolled in an acting class. The rest, as they say, is history.
from VOGUE's article'5 Things You Didn't Know About Claire Foy'
Kathryn Brown, OBE
Class of 1998
Kathryn Brown
Kathryn Brown
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Kathryn Brown awarded OBE for pivotal work on climate adaptation
Kathryn Brown appointed director for climate action at The Wildlife Trusts
Helena Rowland
Class of 2018
Helena Rowland
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From Aylesbury RFC to the Olympics - Helena Rowland scores for Team GB against New Zealand
Jo Hunter
Class of 2009
Jo Hunter
Jo Hunter (born 27 May 1991) is an English field hockey player who plays as a forward for Buckingham and the England and Great Britain national teams.She haHunter plays club hockey in the Women's England Hockey League Premier Division for Buckingham.s also played for Surbiton, Beeston, Leicester and Aylesbury HC.
Hunter made her senior international debut for England against South Africa on 4 Feb 2013.
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Charlotte Watson
Class of 2014
Lucy Sinclair
Class of 1991
Lucy Sinclair
Kan Yan Chloe Li
Class of 2013
Kan Yan Chloe Li
Read Chloe Li's Student Profile from UCL here